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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

KEY POINTS
• The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based
claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Am.not triggered by spiders appearing randomly on the screen during a talk. But I am triggered when their figures do not use the right color map. #ohbm2026

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I think I will start believing in AI when it can fix printer problems.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

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WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried

If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

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nilearn.bsky.social @nilearn.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

How about starting the new year with a new Nilearn release? Sure: here is Nilearn 0.13.0 for y'all!!! New features: extract data to pandas or polars dataframes, get cluster statistics for surface analysis... More info here: neurostars.org/t/nilearn-0-...

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Nilearn 0.13.0 is out

Hello y’all and happy new year !!! We have just released Nilearn 0.13.0! 🚀 This is a major release with some new features and a LOT of deprecations: Support for sklearn set_output to extract data ...

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex - Nature Neuroscience

Using quantitative brain imaging, the authors show opposite fMRI BOLD signal to metabolic activity due to variable oxygen extraction across the human cortex. This questions the canonical interpretatio...

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Only use I have found so far in LLMs. Helped me translate the recipes on my website. remi-gau.github.io/recipe/en/oi...

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Remi Gau - Oignons caramélisés

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Glad some people are willing to lose years of their life to listen, fact check and debunk this type of content. And also remain entertaining.

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

You think AI is an awesome coding tool? Have you tried reviewing a pull request that is being vibe-coded by someone not trying to engage with the problem at hand?

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If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Episode 46: Sapiens It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.

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Sapiens

Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Spent the afternoon cleaning my parents' garden, rather than cleaning someone else's mess in a codebase. #TouchGrass Encountered way more bugs, but without ever having to get rid of them. Never felt the urge to use dark mode. #vitaminD Pruned some branches, but not the git kind.

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The result of a large (42 authors!) collaboration: "Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation" arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824 TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/04/2025

markets soar as investors realize that mommy didn't actually disappear, she was just hiding behind her hands

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/04/2025

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn. And it's live RIGHT NOW! psych-ds.github.io (This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)

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Psych-DS

A specification for psychological datasets. JSON metadata, predictable directory structure, and machine-readable specifications for tabular datasets.

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

If 80% is the threshold, I think people should get seizures from most websites with cooking recipes.

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Donghee Na @corona10.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

GitHub Action now officially support the free-threaded CPython. hugovk.dev/blog/2025/fr...

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Free-threaded Python on GitHub Actions

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

If you care about computationally reproducible results but also like notebooks. You probably should ditch jupyter in favor of marimo.

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Today I was told I am more useful than a LLM. Take that, chatGPT!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

After years of research on human interaction and experimenting with novel ways to organize communities, today I unveil a brand new social media app. The key idea: your interactions are arranged in ‘bins’ along a social dimension. You post, we put it in one of these ‘bins’. The name? Histogram.

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Sam Schwarzkopf @sampendu.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

We checked how easy it is to match up people's brain maps after spatial normalisation. Turns out very! Maybe that surprising to many in the field - but my impression has long been that people are a bit in denial about deidentifying data. #neuroskyence #visionscience doi.org/10.1101/2024...

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Retinotopic mapping data permit accurate matching of participants across different datasets

Public sharing of neuroimaging data is becoming increasingly common for the advancement and validation of scientific research. However, this sharing poses challenges regarding privacy and data safety,...

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Left my hand to my niece to do as she pleases and here is what happened. Hope my fellow geeks will get all the video game reference.

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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.

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The Collapse of Ego Depletion

Science's Biggest Self-Control Failure

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 29/01/2025

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I for one cannot wait for the next AI winter...

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The rest of the world calls it "changing job". We call it "leaving academia".

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Jonny Coates @jacoates.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Is anyone keeping a list?

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

A statistical Xmas tree... Full of stars with a cross at the top.

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

"arbitrary woodland" == "random forest"

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 19/12/2024

THREAD This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis 1/31

Adam Curtis Title Card: We Too Are Trapped In A System. Text over a background of a large office building

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The venerable Bay Area Skeptics are hosting their latest free streaming lecture in 20 minutes, with a talk from the always insightful Massimo Pigliucci (editor of Philosophy of Pseudoscience, author of Nonsense on Stilts and many others): www.youtube.com/live/1NL_Pvs...

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YouTube

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Unpopular opinion. To make sure you will publish the code that goes with your scientific paper: start with a PUBLIC repo from the VERY beginning.

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Didier Raoult now published a 'preprint' claiming I am 'close' to Gates Foundation - citing a France Soir article as the reference. He also suggests that my poor facial recognition skills are linked to autism, with 'serious psychosocial consequences'. What a sad man. hal.science/hal-04795904/

$Highlighted text from the article: "This platform has been widely used by Elisabeth Bik, a biologist with a scientific background who has a self-proclaimed "fraud hunter" whose funding for this activity is totally obscure and is close to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (9). She recently confessed in an interview (10) , she was a victim of face blindness also call prosopagnosia, a condition link to autism in 36% of cases (11) and which may have serious psychosocial consequences. She said his brain has the uncanny ability to spot retouched or doctored images in a fraction of a second. She explains that his neurons, by a strange mechanism, launch themselves in search of repetitive patterns, replicated angles, points or similar lines scattered throughout the pages. She manages to spot copy-paste even when an academic has taken care to flip the original image or edit it in Photoshop (10). "Before, I thought everyone was like me...". “I only recently realized that I had some kind of special ability. ». This donation will push her to flush out scientific fraud using the PubPeer platform."$

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

There's a lot of papers out there on optimal stopping but I think I've read enough.

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Thorn-Seshold Lab @thornsesholdlab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

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Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Does anyone have a recommendation for an eyetracking data analysis tool in Python? Ideally something that e.g. has fixation and saccade detection algorithms, and some visualisation. It seems that there is no particularly good standard. @benediktehinger.bsky.social #VisionScience

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Such a fun episode with some security horror stories.

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🌙 Lune Bellec @lune-bellec.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Actually, with nilearn, from fmriprep outputs it is really fast to try different strategies for preprocessing and picking different atlases. Check main-educational.github.io/intro_ni…

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Post a pic YOU took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

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Eric Earl @ericearl.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

We could not have done this awesome revamp without the support of @incforg.bsky.social, Google Season of Docs, and our fabulous team of Tech Writer @iamdamion.bsky.social and mentors @remigau.bsky.social, @christinerogers.bsky.social, Anthony Galassi, and me! Feel free to provide feedback.

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BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) @bidsstandard.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

BIDS Website Revamp! ✨ Struggling to find BIDS resources? We hear you! Our new website brings (most) everything together. Check it out: bids-website.readthedocs.io Let us know what you think! (Feedback survey link is at the top of the page)

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BIDS

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Cannot stress enough how much work was done over the last few years to make this possible !

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BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) @bidsstandard.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

We are pleased to announce that the newest member of the BIDS Steering Group is Franco Pestilli. Franco has been elected to a term lasting from 2025-2027, and is replacing outgoing member Ariel Rokem. #BIDS #BrainImagingDataStructure

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Pestilli Lab

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Remi Gau @remigau.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

If you believe quant research doesn't need contextualization, remember: for most fMRI public datasets on openneuro you can get results that are highly reproducible but almost uninterpretable as neither the data nor the paper describes the task properly.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

In 1971, one of the most famous experiments in the history of psychology was conducted in the Stanford Psychology basement. The lesson about the study, retold in countless lectures, textbooks, and movies, seemed clear: people slip naturally into social roles. We argue this is largely a myth.

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Debunking Common Psychology Myths #2: The Stanford Prison Experiment

Issue 136: Shining a light on evidence that was left out of the findings from the Stanford Prison Experiment.

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