Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoTamas Spisak @tspisak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Beyond pain: a brain-based biomarker predicts individual pain relief 056
Reposted by Giuseppe Gallittoantirez @antirez.bsky.social · 12/09/2026DeepSeek v4.1 Flash support is now pushed on DwarfStar "main" branch on GitHub, and this is a YouTube video (in English language) where I test both the SSD streamed and the dual MacBook m5 max 128GB setup during a coding session: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogs8...youtube.comLet's test DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 2 bit with DwarfStar (ENG)YouTube video by Salvatore Sanfilippo 1467
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoTamas Spisak @tspisak.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Reinforcement Learning from Brain Feedback! Our new preprint by @ggallitto.bsky.social introduces an open-source framework and promising pilot results for using real-time fMRI to optimize (possibly AI-generated) stimuli to elicit a target neural response: doi.org/10.64898/202... 141
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoCogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is a wrap for #CCN2026! We look forward to meet again in Edinburgh next year! 17015
Reposted by Giuseppe Gallittoantirez @antirez.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I uploaded the new (0813) Q2 quants of DeepSeek v4 PRO at the following URL. Quality tests still ongoing. huggingface.co/antirez/deep...huggingface.coDeepSeek-V4-Pro-IQ2XXS-w2Q2K-AProjQ8-SExpQ8-OutQ8-Instruct-imatrix-0813.gguf · antirez/deepseek-v4-gguf at mainWe’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. 2404
Giuseppe Gallitto @ggallitto.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Excited to share our new preprint presenting our open-source framework and methodology for real-time fMRI experiments based on reinforcement learning for adaptive stimulus generation: Reinforcement Learning via Brain Feedback (RLBF). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgReinforcement Learning via Brain Feedback for real-time fMRI-based adaptive stimulus generationTraditional fMRI studies rely on predefined task paradigms, where fixed stimulus designs limit the flexibility with which brain-stimulus relationships can be explored. Here, we introduce Reinforcement... 020
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoArmin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 23/07/2026I think this is a very bad move, and the people behind Codeberg should re-consider there stance. blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o...blog.codeberg.orgProtecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News.codeberg-design ul { padding-left: revert !important; } In Brief: Two... 15697
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoRuss Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 14/06/2026Congrats to our own @markiewicz.bsky.social for winning the OHBM Open Science Award! 26911
Giuseppe Gallitto @ggallitto.bsky.social · 14/06/2026For those of you attending #OHBM2026: If you are interested in predictive modeling and pre-registration of ML models come check out our poster! Poster times: Wednesday: 13:45–14:45 Thursday: 14:45–15:45 See also our publication: doi.org/10.1093/giga... 010
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoErwin L. Hahn Institute for MRI @elh-institute.bsky.social · 06/05/2026➡️ Join us online at 12 noon! 012
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoJonas Potthoff @jonaspotthoff.bsky.social · 28/04/2026#PostDoc #job available for 6 years at @uni-graz.at in the #clinical #psychology group. You will be working with #eyetracking, #fMRI and/or #EEG. We conduct research on, e.g., #disgust, #placebo effects, and #appetite. I'm happy to answer any questions about the job and the city of #Graz.media.tenor.coma cartoon of homer simpson and bart simpson sitting on a couch with the words join us above them .ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson and bart simpson sitting on a couch with the words join us above them . 152
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoMicah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 10/04/2026GastroPy is now out in early beta! Please to share our Python toolbox for electrogastrography and stomach-brain coupling analyses. It includes tools for cleaning, visualising, and analysing EGG data, plus fMRI stomach-brain coupling workflows. Docs, code, and preprint below. osf.io/preprints/ps... 25020
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoThe Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 08/01/2026And another publication from our A04 project! This time, Milena Pertz and colleagues investigated empathy for different pain modalities! 🤷♀️ Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jp... 162
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoSabine Begall @sabinebegall.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Ig Nobel Euro Show 2026 Save the date! April, 17th 2026, 7 pm +++ Further details follow soon Marc Abrahams and a line-up of Ig Nobel prize winners will present their research at the University of Duisburg-Essen (@unidue.bsky.social) in Essen, Germany, free admission special guest: Minkorrekt! 022
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoSanta Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 15/12/2025A new study co-authored by SFI’s Mark Newman and Max Jerdee shows that a widely used metric for evaluating algorithms (NMI) can produce biased results, impacting scientific conclusions. To address this, the authors developed an asymmetric, reduced version of the mutual information metric.santafe.eduResearchers reveal bias in a widely used measure of algorithm performanceWhen scientists test algorithms that sort or classify data they often turn to a trusted tool called Normalized Mutual Information (or NMI) to measure how well an algorithm’s output matches reality. Bu... 0153
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoUlrike Bingel @ulrikebingel.bsky.social · 21/11/2025What a week! Congrats to the whole SFB1280 team, especially our speakers Onur Güntürkün and Dagmar Timmann. Also huge thanks to Sigrid Elsenbruch who led „team translation“. Of course I am convinced that this was crucially important to secure the 3rd funding period. 061
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoEarl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Electromagnetic waves enable low-energy, parallel computation. Your brain has them. If humans can figure this out, 4 billion years of evolution could too. Programmable wave-based analog computing machine: a metastructure that designs metastructures www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neurosciencenature.comProgrammable wave-based analog computing machine: a metastructure that designs metastructures - Nature CommunicationsThis study introduces and validates a reconfigurable metastructure that uses electromagnetic waves to perform analog complex-valued mathematical computations. This device executes both stationary and ... 3447
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoThe Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 15/06/2025We now have a CRC-specific starter pack! ✨ Let me know if you are a member and would like to be added! ⤵️ 1104
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoMicah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 13/08/2025The first computational neuroscience of pain conference is coming to Aarhus! Sign up now. Awesome line up. @francescafardo.bsky.social @torwager.bsky.social @christianbuchel.bsky.social and more! 0253
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoJenelle Feather @jfeather.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Join us at #NeurIPS2025 for our Data on the Brain & Mind workshop! We aim to connect machine learning researchers and neuroscientists/cognitive scientists, with a focus on emerging datasets. More info: data-brain-mind.github.io 0177
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoEarl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Neural models for detection and classification of brain states and transitions www.nature.com/articles/s42... #neurosciencenature.comNeural models for detection and classification of brain states and transitions - Communications BiologyA deep learning self-supervised hybrid CNN-autoencoder model is used to detect brain states and transitions, like wakefulness, slow oscillations and microarousals, during the emergence from anesthesia... 0256
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoTamas Spisak @tspisak.bsky.social · 28/05/2025🚨 New paper out in GigaScience! To avoid common pitfalls in multivariate modeling: combine external validation with pre-registration — freeze your model before testing. For the pros: decide on the fly when to stop training! First-authored by the brilliant @ggallitto.bsky.social 163
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoErwin L. Hahn Institute for MRI @elh-institute.bsky.social · 16/05/2025➡️New paper out with ELH members Balint Kincses and Ulrike Bingel: "External validation of machine learning models-registered models and adaptive sample splitting". 🍾 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40366867/ 001
Giuseppe Gallitto @ggallitto.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Our new manuscript discussing pre-registration of predictive modelling studies and the importance of external validations is out now, published in GigaScience. Give a look at it here: doi.org/10.1093/giga... #machinelearning #neuroscience #neuroimaging #bioinformaticsdoi.orgExternal validation of machine learning models—registered models and adaptive sample splitting 010
Reposted by Giuseppe Gallittoscikit-learn @scikit-learn.org · 20/12/2024❄️ The Christmas release is here! ❄️ Introducing scikit-learn 1.6 with: 🟢 2 major features & 34 improvements 🔵 5 efficiency boosts & 21 enhancements 🟡 14 API changes 🔴 30 fixes 👥 160 amazing contributors youtu.be/7wiHChpwJe8youtu.bescikit-learn Version 1.6.0 Release HighlightsYouTube video by scikit-learn 16321
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoThomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 12/12/2024OHBM has confirmed that Dec 17 is a hard deadline for abstracts. 02616
Reposted by Giuseppe Gallittoscikit-learn @scikit-learn.org · 22/11/2024Please help us test the first release candidate for scikit-learn 1.6: pip install scikit-learn==1.6.0rc1 Changelog: scikit-learn.org/1.6/whats_ne... In particular, if you maintain a project with a dependency on scikit-learn, please let us know about any regression.scikit-learn.orgVersion 1.6Legend for changelogs something big that you couldn’t do before., something that you couldn’t do before., an existing feature now may not require as much computation or memory., a miscellaneous min... 23918
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoThe Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 29/11/2024We are proud of this piece related to our science communication project! 🤩 We present a teaching and learning concept addressing placebo and nocebo effects in competency-based communication training👩⚕️ The paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39415814/ The project: treatment-expectation.de/projekte-peo... 095
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoKittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024To find all Starter Packs go here: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...blueskydirectory.comAll - Bluesky DirectoryA curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform. 2991964881
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoOHBM Sustainability & Environmental Action SIG (SEA-SIG) @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Are you a neuroscientist interested in sustainability, but don't know who to follow? 🤔 You're in luck! Here's a starter pack of neuroscientists who post about climate, and researchers who work in the intersection of neuro/psych and climate change! 🌱Msg if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/E1iW12T 52212
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoRuss Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 27/11/2024Welcome @nilearn.bsky.social to Bluesky! Nilearn is an amazing package for neuroimaging analysis in Python - certainly one of the most heavily used packages in our lab. 25515
Reposted by Giuseppe Gallittolayerfmri.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social · 27/11/2024A starter pack of layer-fMRI folks here: go.bsky.app/TUWFNzg 12010
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoElvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Made a new starter pack with folks who use brain-based predictive models in their analyses! Let me know if you'd like to be added. 🧠🤖📋 go.bsky.app/BDv5bd3 267025
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoRuss Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 26/11/2024Adaptive Intelligence: leveraging insights from adaptive behavior in animals to build flexible AI systems - this looks like a fun paper by @trackingactions.bsky.social, related to a great talk she recently gave at Stanford. looking forward to reading it!arxiv.orgAdaptive Intelligence: leveraging insights from adaptive behavior in animals to build flexible AI systemsBiological intelligence is inherently adaptive -- animals continually adjust their actions based on environmental feedback. However, creating adaptive artificial intelligence (AI) remains a major chal... 1223
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoFrançois Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 26/11/2024My deep learning course at the University of Geneva is available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts. Full of examples in PyTorch. fleuret.org/dlc/ And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!) fleuret.org/lbdl/ 461253247
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoGaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Scikit-learn is on bluesky 🧡💙 07724
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoAntonino Greco @agreco.bsky.social · 17/10/2024For the Blueskyers interested in #NeuroAI 🧠🤖, I created a starter pack! Please comment on this if you are not on the list and working in this field 🙂 go.bsky.app/CscFTAr 11012050
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoAntonino Greco @agreco.bsky.social · 08/11/2024🔵 New Paper 🔵 Happy to announce that our paper linking predictive learning and representational geometry in the human 🧠 is out today in #NatureComms! with @drjuliamoser.bsky.social, Hubert Preissl and Markus Siegel 📜👉 nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54032-4nature.comPredictive learning shapes the representational geometry of the human brain - Nature CommunicationsThis study shows that the human brain aligns its neural representations to the statistical structure of sensory inputs, and that the magnitude of this representational shift correlates with the synerg... 13711
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoManlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 17/11/2024If you have the feeling that @bsky.app is different, maybe you are right. The current migration is breaking the typical rich-get-richer effect wrt other platforms #scaling Data: Twitter: 10.9M users BlueSky (Mar 2024): 4.1M users, 🙏 @andreajpg.bsky.social Mastodon: 3.8M users, 🙏 @tiago.skewed.de 1520164
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoAntonino Greco @agreco.bsky.social · 29/02/2024Ever wonder if and how the 🧠 learns task-irrelevant sensory associations between 👂-👁 stimuli? Check out our preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... with @marco-d.bsky.social , Clara Rastelli, @ggallitto.bsky.social, Christoph Braun and Andrea Cariabiorxiv.orgStatistical learning of incidental perceptual regularities induces sensory conditioned cortical responsesbioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution 011
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoAntonino Greco @agreco.bsky.social · 03/02/2024❓Question for cognitive scientists studying natural vision ❓ Do you know any algorithm for generating videos that matches some features of natural videos? I only know this from Vinken 2014 J Neurosci that scramble the phase of videos in both space and time. please comment!🙏 #NeuroAI #compneuro 145
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoUniversität Duisburg-Essen @unidue.bsky.social · 01/02/2024#NeuanderUDE: Wie funktioniert unser Gehirn? Reicht unser Wissen aus, um menschliches Verhalten vorhersagen zu können? Dr. Tamás Spisák, neuer Professor für prädiktive #Neurowissenschaften an der Med. Fakultät, entwickelt dafür Biomarker am Uniklinikum Essen. www.uni-due.de/2024-02-01-b... . 021
Reposted by Giuseppe GallittoBenjamin Cowley @benjocowley.bsky.social · 19/12/2023New work! Compact deep neural network models of visual cortex B. Cowley, P. Stan, J. Pillow*, M. Smith* tiny.cc/dmxhvz Task-driven DNN models nicely predict neural responses but have millions of params---next to impossible to explain. Do they need to be so large? 199