Three miles of wiring inside a speck of brain tissue. Here is my story on a milestone in neuroscience. Gift link: https://nyti.ms/42BWWR7

#RStats DemoScene Update: Writing old skool demo effects and figuring out how some of them worked is a whooooole heap of fun! :)

The R version of Oxygene's STNICCC2000 demo (a 90secone pre-digested 3d anim) renders to an mp4 in 4 seconds using {nara} + {mp4encoder}

R version: https://github.com/coolbutuseless/narademos/blob/main/oxygene.R

DemoPage: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1251

@coolbutuseless ❤️

I've recently started compiling a list of data science related resources that I use or recommend frequently! 📊

Link: https://nrennie.rbind.io/data-science-resources/

#RStats #Python #DataViz #DataScience

A while back, the journal Cognitive Science asked the field for provocative proposals for the next phase of the cognitive sciences. Most of the submissions are now collected here: https://co-mind.org/progress-puzzles-preview/

@cogsci #CognitiveScience

@tomstafford Displacement activity comes close https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displacement_activity

Towards a Latin American Neuropsychiatry http://osf.io/8fkjg/

@OpenAlex (#OpenAlex) has a friendly new user interface.
https://openalex.org/

It's beautifully simple & should bring this powerful tool to more users.

Next time you have a research question, try it before #GoogleScholar or your other stand-bys. Or try both & compare.

* searches titles, abstracts, full-text
* takes keywords, #DOIs
* 7 sort orders
* 39 built-in filters, inc for OA works
* indexes 250m+ works, 250k+ sources
* Data #CC0
* Open #API
* #OpenSource

#Search

The Transmitter is officially on Mastodon! The Transmitter is a new publication for the neuroscience community that offers news and analysis of the field, written by journalists and scientists. Join us in our goal to become an essential resource for neuroscientists at all career stages, to help them stay current and to build connections. To read some of our latest stories, check out: https://bit.ly/3GHKqnC #introduction

It's the @deevybee prize 2024!

https://www.ukrn.org/2023/12/11/dorothy-bishop-prize-2024/

Have you, or someone you know, achieved or contributed something special to improve research or promote open research practices?

UKRN are seeking nominations for the Dorothy Bishop Prize, which recognises and rewards the achievements of Early Career Researchers.

Deadline: 28 January 2024

Please boost

Amazing situation happening at the moment with two unpaid uBlock Origin coders taking on YouTube https://www.404media.co/youtubes-war-on-adblockers-shows-how-google-controls-the-internet/

How weird. Two of my worlds collide. The new OpenBSD artwork is based on Louis Wain's paintings he did while he was a patient at the Bethlem Hospital.

I realise I'm talking to a niche audience here, but er, hello fellow BSD Unix / South East London mental health fans

@jslbutler @tdverstynen I loved this book!

Open data, code and pre-registration available on the GitHub archive: https://github.com/vaughanbell/pTBI_psychosis_meta-analysis

New from us, led by the brilliant King-Chi Yau:

Paediatric traumatic brain injury as a risk factor for psychosis and psychotic symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291723002878

DELIGHTED to see the BMJ @bmj_latest saying today that they will require papers to share their code.
https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1609

HUGE milestone for reproducibility, quality, and efficiency.

Here's our BMJ editorial on why code sharing matters, from 2019:

https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6365?ijkey=8ee17da43af8132af29e52b299d9d576483dc532&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha

📜 New work from us! (me, @vaughanbell, Quinton Deeley, Mitul Mehta and @mmoutou)

**D2/D3 dopamine supports the precision of mental state inferences and self-relevance of joint social outcomes**

Preprint 👇👇👇

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.02.539031v3

Data, scripts and models are free and open!

I’ve also built an interactive model for you to live simulate data (click the badge in the GitHub) 👇👇

https://github.com/josephmbarnby/Barnby_etal_2023_D2D3Modelling

Faux 1.2.1 is now out on CRAN (sorry for letting it get archived) #rstats

The biggest change is the addition of a new function rmulti() for simulating multivariate non-normal distributions using the NORTA method (normal-to-anything). I've run extensive tests, but it's still experimental, so let me know if you have any problems.

https://debruine.github.io/faux/articles/norta.html

@bengoldacre Congrats Ben!

We estimate 1 in 26 people with stroke have probable psychosis and 1 in 32 of people with probable psychosis have stroke.

All analysis code available online as a Jupyter notebook https://github.com/vaughanbell/stroke-psychosis-national-epi-analysis