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As I'm sitting in the Donders Institute Open Science session, eLife - the journal abolishes accept/reject. Very exciting decision, looking forward to seeing its consequences unfold. Highly recommend reading the editorial by Michael Eisen: doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

The response to the eLife - the journal announcement has me thinking about why people are so scared about the end of journals. I'm wondering if it's because it's one of the few consequential endorsements we get in our careers? 🧵

I have extremely fond memories of my time in Mark Stokes's lab. Alumni got together and wrote about the example set by Mark. Thanks to Dr Alex Pike and MaryAnn Noonan for the initiative, and to postlelab for setting up the JoCN Special Focus of which this is part. (PDF in thread)

Please enjoy our new paper in eLife - the journal and this descriptive haiku: 𝙎𝙞𝙢𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙭 𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙤𝙥 doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… 🧵

Nothing is moving, rotating, expanding, or contracting here 🫢 Can't stop being amazed by our visual system.

A new preprint! Ever used pwelch, or signal.welch? 1960s stats for spectra are widely used today though statistical methods have greatly advanced. We modernise this with the GLM-spectrum... OHBA @OxfordWIN Oxford Psychiatry The Centre for Human Brain Health School of Psychology, University of Birmingham biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Read this, today (it will only take a few minutes). Enjoy!

1/n Gratifying to see this published MARK STOKES: A SPECIAL FOCUS IN APPRECIATION OF AN EXTRAORDINARY CAREER "Get Stoke(s)d! Introduction to the Special Focus" Bradley R. Postle J Cogn Neurosci December 2022, Vol.35, 1-3. doi: 10.1162/jocn_e_01938

Interested in doing a PhD at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, and machine learning? Check out this exciting opportunity in my new lab Uni of Birmingham, jointly supervised with Brain Squirrel, examining how the brain uses prior knowledge to guide new learning.

Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (>50 Hz) works brilliantly for assessing neuronal excitability in the human visual system - what are the optimal papers (stimulus size, frequency, eccentricity?) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The amazing MSc-thesis (!) work of @PiusKern now out in eLife!

The world has lost a beautiful soul. Thank you and goodbye Mark Mark Stokes

Scientists spend too much time taking “professional selfies”. A paper from PNAS describes what it takes to be a scientist today. Key points (that I always emphasize myself): #AcademicTwitter Academic Chatter™ #research

This thread on the new Bing chatbot has me going back and forth between laughing out loud, feeling sad and eery, and in awe: reddit.com/r/bing/comment… Don't miss the comment about Bing thinking it can receive email!

Come work with me at the Donders! ✨Fully funded PhD position✨ open on active vision, rapid invisible frequency tagging, and computational modelling of naturalistic stimuli. More details and apply (deadline 4 July): ru.nl/en/working-at/… (Feel free to spread the word.)

I recently published a commentary "The hippocampus and implicit memory (by any other name)" - have a look either doi.org/10.1080/175889… or at the identical preprint doi.org/10.31234/osf.i… (Note I'm not on Twitter that often anymore, so may not see replies immediately.)

Regular reminder. As an academic, student, postdoc, or professor, you accept less pay and more stress. It is only worth doing if what you do truly matters. Do that high-risk project. Because the boring project does not justify the downsides of academia. For the love of ideas.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Eelke Spaak, Floortje G. Bouwkamp, and Floris P. de Lange: Perceptual foundation and extension to phase tagging for rapid invisible frequency tagging (RIFT) doi.org/10.1162/imag_a…

🧵Join us for a short tour of how a large-scale MEG dataset collected during active vision made us question it all. New work with Carmen Amme Philip Sulewski Eelke Spaak 🦋 @EelkeSpaak.bsky.social Martin Hebart Peter König biorxiv.org/content/10.110…