Being a scientist is easy today you just need to master a few things: Programming in multiple languages, advanced statistics ('AI' 🤣), experimental design and execution, writing, graphic design, web design, advertising, promotion, public speaking...

Starting the 'Open Online R Stream' in about 30 mins: wvbauer.com/doku.php/live_… We will start tackling the next book today, namely 'An Introduction to Statistical Learning' (statlearning.com). #Rstats

watching the livestream by Wolfgang Viechtbauer wvbauer.com/doku.php/live_… 'An Introduction to Statistical Learning' (statlearning.com ). #Rstats and IT IS SO GOOD!

📣"Embodied simulation and its role in cognition"📣 Vittorio Gallese on Neural Mechanisms Online Friday, 11 March. 3-5 GMT / 4-6 CET philosophyofbrains.com/2022/03/03/vit…

Video for "Biology and Its Philosophy" talk at Theory of Living Matter Group Talk provides an introduction to philosophy of science--intended for scientists and non-philosophers, with particular attention to biology, neuroscience, explanation, and causation. youtube.com/watch?v=dM9vgM…

Discussing mystical experience in a psychedelics course and Chris Letheby @chrisletheby was mentioned a few times :)

Posted my new piece, first to subscribers, 8 minutes later I get my first reaction, a two paragraph email. Noam Chomsky. How does he do that?

Half a year ago, Ben Sessa Jacob S. Aday, Ph.D. David Nutt et al. published a paper titled "Debunking the myth of Blue Mondays: No evidence of affect drop after taking clinical MDMA." (which I will refer to as "the paper") doi-org.ezproxy.leidenuniv.nl/10.1177/026988…

I made a video, it's called Earth Support. I tried to convey appropriate urgency while still being somewhat entertaining so people actually watch, which is a tight-rope walk. I even dressed up in my best t-shirt.

My latest on the reality of green energy in a world fast becoming cleansed of its wildness... theintercept.com/2022/12/03/cli…

I just subscribed to Joscha Bach joscha.substack.com/?utm_medium=we…

“The risk of the medicalised approach to suffering is that it can dissolve collective experience, dispersing our shared causes of distress into individual dysfunctions. This prevents us to experience suffering as a community, and to act to change”. Cool thoughts over here.

A few insights from Poland for our Israeli friends fighting the populist authorities for the independence of the judiciary. 🧵👇 (1/9)

“There is a reason every day to celebrate that we’re alive, that we have another day to explore whatever this gift is of being conscious, of being aware, of being aware that we are aware.” Dr. Roland Griffiths said in his extensive interview with The New York Times. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Starting at 6pm (CEST) tonight, there will be another edition of the 'Open Online R Stream' (wvbauer.com/doku.php/live_…). We will continue with the book 'Regression and Other Stories' (but I'll do a recap first due to the summer break). #RStats #statistics

Check out Mor Sasi's VSS Meeting poster tomorrow morning at Pavilion (23.427)! She will present a recently published study that tests the Priority Accumulation Framework (doi.org/10.1037/xhp000…). Not sure what it is? Another reason to drop by... #VSS2024

Visit me at the VSS Meeting morning poster session! I'll be presenting my latest study about the Priority Accumulation Framework (psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi…) Pavillion hall, poster 23.427 starting from 8:30 am - See you there! #VSS2024

Giving a talk tomorrow at the VSS Meeting - drop by to find out if there is a way to overcome attentional biases to recently selected locations. Talk Room 2 at 12:00. See you! #vss2024

It's such an honor to present my talk at this year's ASSC27 among so many other great talks. Please attend our concurrent session 😄

Attending #FENSForum2024 today? Come check out my poster 184 at this mornings poster session! I'll me presenting my work comparing between sensory-motor and sensory-sensory predictive mechanisms! Mukamelab