Reposted by Jacob BellmundMattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 15/09/2025New blog post! Ever wonder what geom_histogram is actually doing? How about geom_boxplot? In celebration of the release of #ggplot2 4.0.0 (ggplot8?), I explore the relationships between the “geoms” and “stats” offered by the core {ggplot2} functions. #rstatsblog.msbstats.infoExploring {ggplot2}’s Geoms and Stats – Stat’s What It’s All About 18135
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 19/09/2025On my way home from #positconf. It was wonderful to meet you all to talk data science and the like! #positconf2025 050
Reposted by Jacob BellmundRussell Epstein @russellepstein.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Our new paper, “A neural compass in the human brain during naturalistic human navigation” is out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! First-author @zhenganglu.bsky.social led the charge, with Josh Julian and collaborator @gkaguirre.com. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... 15616
Reposted by Jacob BellmundMartin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 23/06/2025What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results. www.nature.com/articles/s42...nature.comDimensions underlying the representational alignment of deep neural networks with humans - Nature Machine IntelligenceAn interpretability framework that compares how humans and deep neural networks process images has been presented. Their findings reveal that, unlike humans, deep neural networks focus more on visual ... 110436
Reposted by Jacob BellmundThomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 12/05/2025Mastering typefaces and fonts in #rstats has always been harder than it should. I have tried to collect much of my relevant knowledge in this deep-dive blog post so you can spend your time picking the right typeface instead of cursing at the computertidyverse.orgFonts in RTaking control of fonts and text rendering in R can be challenging. This deep-dive teaches you everything (and then some) you need to know to keep your sanity 1125581
Reposted by Jacob BellmundMartin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I promised to write about my thoughts on the status of the field of neuroAI, some of the big challenges we are facing, and the approaches we are taking to address them. This is super selective on the topic of finding a good model but in my view it affects the field as a whole. Here we go. 🧵 214146
Reposted by Jacob BellmundHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 22/11/2024So @ourworldindata.org is making it easier to reuse our data through enhanced data downloads and a chart data API ourworldindata.org/easier-to-re...ourworldindata.orgWe've made it much easier to reuse our dataAn overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API. 14914
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 27/08/2024Über 350 @rasenfunk.social Hörer*innen haben die Tabelle der Männer-Bundesliga getippt. So sieht die Verteilung der Tipps aus. Sehen wir drei Zweikämpfe in den Top 6? Danke fürs Teilen der Daten, @gnetzer.bsky.social! #rasenfunk #ggplot2 📊 0192
Reposted by Jacob BellmundWeverthon Machado @weverthon.com · 24/07/2024📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results. I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this! ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2weverthon.comReveal a ggplot incrementallyProvides functions that make it easy to reveal ggplot2 graphs incrementally. The functions take a ggplot2 object and return a list of plots showing data incrementally by panels, layers, groups, the va... 34392136
Reposted by Jacob BellmundCédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · 05/03/2024Where are all the ggplot2 folks? The ggplot feed is almost empty 😢 Let's make this the new platform for all the wonderful visualizations created with #rstats 💪 54211
Reposted by Jacob BellmundCédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · 11/02/2024I've just created a ggplot2 feed 👨💻📊👩💻 Give it a follow if you want to see relevant content related to your favorite code-first data visualization library 🙌 bsky.app/profile/did:... 13320
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 10/02/2024Our new paper is out in Nature Comms. Great work by Alex Nitsch, which shows grid-like encoding of an abstract value space! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 030
Reposted by Jacob BellmundDustin Haraden @dustinharaden.bsky.social · 15/11/2023Everyone needs to know about `easystats` in R It is so much fun to use and then share with students Teaching on regression and just used the check_model() function and look at this beautiful figure 28730
Reposted by Jacob BellmundSofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 21/12/2023Hello hello! Do you like/love the work of my team and me? Want to work on the intersection of genes, the brain, and social behavior? (in human neuroimaging). I have a PhD position available (start early 2024) shorturl.at/axDNTshorturl.atPhD Position in Cognitive Neuroscience | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Ne...PhD Position in Cognitive Neuroscience | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften 0716
Reposted by Jacob BellmundBJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 04/12/20231/n Trying out Blue Sky Would be fantastic if some former guests could retweet/whatever you call it here, so I'm not starting from scratch again @matthiasnau.bsky.social @jzberman.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social @katejj.bsky.social @erikwengstrom.bsky.social @jacobbellmund.bsky.social 21114
Reposted by Jacob BellmundMarc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 26/11/2023Mining the neuroimaging literature | #bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1133
Reposted by Jacob BellmundElliott Wimmer @elliottwimmer.bsky.social · 30/10/2023Postdoc job alert! We have an opening in our growing group. The research will focus on neuroimaging of memory and goal-directed decision-making, with decoding of representations with MEG (+ RL, mood, and computational psychiatry) @ UCL @ FIL @ Max Planck UCL Centre 13231
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 02/08/2022Some cool resources to learn about the brain for kids in the replies to this tweet 👇 https://t.co/eylVE8XDHQ 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 18/05/2022Thrilled to be at the Functional Architecture of Memory Conference @LIN_Magdeburg this week! 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 23/11/2021A structured scaffold underlies activity in the hippocampus. This preprint by Dounia Moulder & @FieteGroup looks very exciting! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…biorxiv.orgA structured scaffold underlies activity in the hippocampusPlace cells are believed to organize memory across space ... 010
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 13/10/2021The Basis of Navigation Across Species. Cody Freas & Ken Cheng review animal #navigation from large-scale migratory behaviors to local foraging. Out in @AnnualReviews www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/a… 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 30/08/2021Latest #preprint by @torgeirwaaga from the group of @MayBrittMoser & @EdvardMoser with @yoramburak: Grid-cell modules remain coordinated when neural activity is dissociated from external sensory cues www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… @KISNeurobiorxiv.orgGrid-cell modules remain coordinated when neural activity...The representation of an animal’s position in the medial ... 010
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 11/08/2021How does grid-cell firing look in flying bats? @gilyginosar et al. show a locally ordered representation of 3D space in the entorhinal cortex www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-…nature.comLocally ordered representation of 3D space in the entorhi...Recordings from the brains of freely flying bats show tha... 010
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 10/08/2021Replay in minds and machines. Cool new review by @lnnrtwttkhn, Samson Chien, @SHallMcMaster & @nico_schuck www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic…sciencedirect.comScienceDirect 010
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 14/06/2021Enjoyed reading @gershbrain's new opinion piece in @NeuroCellPress. Like the arguments for why discovery needs theory – we don't have an "innocent eye" and we use theoretical concepts when interpreting the output of "hypothesis-free" algorithms... 110
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 23/04/2021New #preprint with @lorenadeuker, @NicoleMontijn & @doellerlab! We show that the hippocampus represents temporal relations of events based on subjectively constructed time – and that it generalizes relational knowledge across episodes!... 100
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 06/04/2021What are grid-like responses doing in the orbitofrontal cortex? Curious to read Clara Raithel & Jay Gottfried's take on this psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1… 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 30/03/2021Cool to see the latest by @Mennopw's group in @elife: Local projections of layer Vb-to-Va are more prominent in lateral than in medial entorhinal cortex https://elifesciences.org/articles/… Congrats Shinya, Stefan, @NairRajeevkumar & @MaxNigro_Neuro et al.!... 100
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 17/03/2021Interesting preprint from Matt Nolan's group: Analogue representation of a spatial memory by ramp-like neural activity in retrohippocampal cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…biorxiv.orgAnalogue representation of a spatial memory by ramp-like ...When solving navigational problems, remembering that a cr... 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 15/03/2021Still making your agenda for poster session E at #CNS2021 ? Stop by at E55! Starts in just under 1h @CNSmtg twitter.com/jacobbellmund/status/13…twitter.comx.com 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 14/03/2021PSA for non-US-based attendees of #CNS2021 (via @DoKuhrt): the US are on daylight saving time as of this morning. Achievement unlocked: Time zone confusion! 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 13/03/2021Data blitzes at #CNS2021 start now. Much looking forward to a jam-packed session of cool talks! twitter.com/jacobbellmund/status/13…twitter.comx.com 100
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 13/03/2021#CNS2021 is about to start! Interested in constructive #memory, sequences and the generalization of relational knowledge? Come see my data blitz talk (session 4 beginning 11 ET today) and stop by my poster (E55, Tuesday, 4-6 ET)! 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 11/02/2021Great to see this cool project out in @NatureHumBehav: @andyheusser, Fitzpatrick & @jeremyRmanning model naturalistic experience and memories thereof as trajectories through word-embedding space www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-…nature.comGeometric models reveal behavioural and neural signatures...Heusser, Fitzpatrick and Manning use geometric models to ... 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 04/02/2021Scalable representation of time in the hippocampus. Really enjoyed reading this paper in @ScienceAdvances showing temporal scaling of time cell activity. The representation stretches/compresses when the interval length changes advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/6…... 100
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 19/01/2021Now out in @NeuroImage_EiC: Effect of Wearing a Face Mask on fMRI BOLD Contrast. Spoiler: It does not seem to affect task activation much www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic…sciencedirect.comScienceDirect 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 08/01/2021Super exciting work by @ale_bongioanni, @LennartVerhagen, Matthew Rushworth & @MKFlugge et al. out in @nature, been looking forward to seeing this! A grid coding scheme for a space of choices www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-…nature.comActivation and disruption of a neural mechanism for novel...The primate medial frontal cortex has a key role in media... 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 03/01/2021Heute geht es in "Wissenschaft im Brennpunkt" von @Dlf_Forschung um #Navigation, räumliches Denken und kognitive Karten. Stolz, dass ich dabei sein durfte, um neben Markus Knauff, @doellerlab, @WolbersLab & Nikolai Axmacher meine Arbeit vorzustellen!... 100
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 22/12/2020If rats can predict where @_AndyAlexander will move his laser pointer, you can finish that thing you need to get done before the holidays. Really like this project 👇 https://t.co/6msVZsPAHh 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 19/12/2020Hippocampal neurons construct a map of an abstract value space. Must-read preprint by @EricBKnudsen1 & Joni Wallis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…biorxiv.orgHippocampal neurons construct a map of an abstract value ...The hippocampus is thought to encode a ‘cognitive map’, a... 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 18/12/2020Preprint on hippocampal neurons that track moments in an event sequences looks interesting. Time cells? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 08/12/2020Very interesting work by @rmgrieves et al. now on biorxiv. Summary below 👇 https://t.co/hGvVgn97JA 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 03/12/2020When the "submit your review" link directly takes you to the "reset password" page of the editorial manager... Well, saved me a few clicks. 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 02/12/2020Excited to be speaking (virtually) today at my alma mater Philipps- @Uni_MR about careers in science! #academiclife 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 26/11/2020Structuring Knowledge with Cognitive Maps and Cognitive Graphs. Review by @michael_peer_, @IvaBrunec, @NoraNewcombe & @epstein_lab in @TrendsCognSci. Straight to the top of my reading list!... 100
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 25/11/2020Check out this new paper led by @JamesWardAntony! Very cool project and great thread summary! https://t.co/pmBuV2G4rg 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 24/11/2020Representations of common event structure in medial temporal lobe and frontoparietal cortex support efficient inference. Interesting new paper by @NealWMorton, @megschlichting & @preston_lab www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/11/… 000
Jacob Bellmund @jacobbellmund.bsky.social · 17/11/2020Really enjoyed reading this call for cross-species neuroscience by @HelenCBarron, Rogier Mars (@NeuroecologyLab), David Dupret, Jason Lerch & @CSampaioBaptist in @RSocPublishing. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1… 000
