Spectacularly happy @neuromatch news: we just received an emergency license from the US Government to operate in Iran. Thanks to the community that helped make this happen! β€οΈ We can now push further towards the dream of global science without borders.
Kording Lab π¦
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Konrad kording, @Penn Prof, deep learning, brains, #causality, rigor, neuromatch.io, c4r.io, Transdisciplinary optimist, Dad, Loves outdoors, π¦
- Science is about overcoming failures. List: (1) once I got to be professor, my first 23 grant proposals we're rejected. I am very comfortable now. (2) I was mediocre at school (~B) and particularly bad at stats. Much of my lab's work is close to stats now.
- Woo hoo. I got to hold a copy of our book in my hands today! Great feeling
- Just my yearly reminder: there is a standard format behind (probably) most published papers. I highly recommend all students look at that format: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a⦠makes writing easier for my students (and myself)
- All materials from @neuromatch academy on one page now: neuromatchacademy.org/syllabus/ If you teach data science (in any subdomain) you got to look at this. Amazing work by our volunteer team.
- 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.
- Massive whitepaper just dropped on why neuroscience progress should continue to drive AI progress: arxiv.org/pdf/2210.08340β¦ Argues for an embodied turing test. Needed: real interdisciplinary people, shared platform(s), fundamental research
- Today is my birthday. π π And I want to use it as an opportunity to thank all the people who work to make neuroscience better, more fun, and more human. π β€οΈ I feel blessed to be part of this community.
GIF - Machine learning can easily produce false positives when the test set is wrongly used. Just et al in @NatureHumBehav suggested that ML can identify suicidal ideation extremely well from fMRI and we were skeptical. Today retraction and our analysis of what went wrong came out.
- I have a causality joke, but not sure it is the reason why you laugh.I have a theory joke, but not sure if it would work in practice.
- Wrote a paper don't know where to send it? Got a paper and don't know who should review it? Worried you miss related papers? All scientists should use jane for such questions: jane.biosemantics.org Been in love with it for years and only just realized not everyone knows.
- Just re-advertising "ten simple rules for structuring papers" - it helps my trainees write far better drafts. And do I wish that the papers I review followed it. #readability
- Neuroscientists: if you want to learn computational techniques apply to our online summer school: forms.gle/NaxSk6ZoirS7Uk⦠Please help reach out to the community that is not on twitter and language communities. This will be great.
- What is the biggest question you think neuroscience should answer in the next decade?



