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René Skukies

@theneurocookies.bsky.social
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Researcher Computational cognitive science | EEG methods | regression ERP + deconvolution | interested in (naturalistic) conscious perception | outdoor enthusiast | climate & social justice activist

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René Skukies @theneurocookies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Many thanks to the #FrankfurtGarden of CuttingGardens 2026 for allowing me to present our (i.e. the S-CCS lab, headed by @benediktehinger.bsky.social) work on Unfold.jl
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
My job at the orphan crushing factory is very stressful.
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AI staff complain of mental toll over fears of threat to society
Top researchers at Aisi, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind report burnout and stress over developing powerful AI
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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🧠 EEG / ERP researchers wanted! We are testing ways to visualize uncertainty in EEG topoplots ⏱ ~15min 💻 Best on Laptop, mobile possible 🎁 2 "Muse-2" headsets will be raffled among participants. Survey: www.soscisurvey.de/uncertain_to... #EEG #ERP #Neuroscience #DataVisualization
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René Skukies @theneurocookies.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
And that's a wrap! After roughly five years of work I successfully defended my thesis. Thanks a lot to @benediktehinger.bsky.social for the amazing guidance throughout 🐙 #PhDone
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Aperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Barman et al. describe LSLAutoBIDS, an open-source #Python package that implements an automated workflow for data integration, curation, versioning, and publishing: doi.org/10.52294/001... #OpenDatasets #SpecialIssue @benediktehinger.bsky.social
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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
When recording experimental data, have you ever: 1) overwritten data? 2) changed the experiment and forgot when? 3) had a student leave the lab leaving a mess of dataset? 4) noticed how everyone has their own way to transfer data? We published a solution: LSLAutoBIDS - open science by design. 🧵
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BAMB! @bamb-school.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Come for the learning, stay for the cookies! 🍪 Applications for BAMB! 2026 are open. Join us in Barcelona! www.bambschool.org
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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
And so it begins... 3 UK universities (Essex, Sussex & Kent) have just gone public about walking away from their Elsevier Read & Publish deals, despite Jisc's recently announced agreement. Expect to see more of these over the coming months. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m... #OpenAccess
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Three major research universities opt out of new Elsevier deal
Complaints over ‘price increases’ and open access models spur UK institutions to walk away from offer from publishing giant, despite nationally negotiated agreement
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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂 looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible. science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv
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Oscar Woolnough @owoolnough.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
As we head into the new year, a reminder that if you're recruiting or looking for a job in Neuroscience (or adjacent) add #NeuroJobs to your post to appear on the NeuroJobs feed. bsky.app/profile/did:... #NeuroSkyence
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Gabriel Weindel @gweindel.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
2025 ended with a blast as the version of record of the paper was officially published by @elife.bsky.social at 19h19 on the 31st of December 🥳 doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Be prepared for some cognitive control and modelling follow-ups in 2026 and a happy new year to y'all.
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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools
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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
happy that our article about mu & alpha rhythm waveform shape in development is now finally out in the open: doi.org/10.1162/jocn... oscillation frequency changes across development (one of the most robust findings in the oscillation world). in this work, we also look at waveform shape changes.
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René Skukies @theneurocookies.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
‼️Now published in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social‼️ (with @judithschepers.bsky.social & @benediktehinger.bsky.social) Do you have RTs in your 🧠📈-data? Fixation durations? How do event-durations affect your data? And how to deal with this? doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... 🧵 ⤵ 1 / 7 🧪 #EEG #fMRI #neuroimage
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by René Skukies, Judith Schepers, and Benedikt Ehinger: Brain responses vary in duration-modeling strategies and challenges doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Andre s nilsen @turntwine.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Happy to share our latest article! Can we detect the presence vs. the absence of dreams within anesthesia? #EEG #neurosky #consci #consciousness #anesthesia www.nature.com/articles/s41... Some work suggests that we can. Our work suggests that we can't. Specifically, we find that...
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A repeated awakening study exploring the capacity of complexity measures to capture dreaming during propofol sedation - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A repeated awakening study exploring the capacity of complexity measures to capture dreaming during propofol sedation
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CuttingEEG @cuttingeeg.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🎉 Excited to share our new article in PLOS Sustainability and Transformation! Dive into CuttingGardens 2023 and let’s rethink how we gather and care for our communities, together. 🌱🌍 Next edition coming in 2026—stay tuned! 💐 journals.plos.org/sustainabili...
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Doing conferences differently: A decentralised multi-hub approach for ecological and social sustainability
Author summary Conferences are very important for career progression but at the same time they create negative ecological and social impact. For example, flying to a traditional in-person conference c...
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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
S-CCS Lab PhD Position 3+2 year 100% TVL-13 position in '26 - open topic on the intersection of combined EEG-EyeTracking, Statistical Methods, Cognitive Modelling, VR/Mobile EEG, Vision ... Apply via Max-Planck IMPRS-IS program until 2025-11-16 imprs.is.mpg.de Read: www.s-ccs.de/philosophy
Fully funded PhD position via imprs-isA mobile EEG/EyeTracking setupEEG system photographed with backlight and glowing electrodes
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René Skukies @theneurocookies.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Just in: The new and updated version of our preprint (under review in Imaging Neuroscience)! Now with major revisions, including a completely new fMRI dataset! 🧠📈 doi.org/10.1101/2024... Together with @benediktehinger.bsky.social & @judithschepers.bsky.social 🧪 #EEG #fMRI
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Brain responses vary in duration - modeling strategies and challenges
Typically, event-related brain responses are calculated invariant to the underlying event duration, even in cases where event durations observably vary: with reaction times, fixation durations, word l...
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky Interesting analysis of publication trends pre & post tenure. #Psychology mirrors natural sciences (and deviates from other social sciences, business, etc, where there are declines post-tenure) www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
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Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
TIL that one of the books removed from the Armed Forces Library because it "had DEI" in it is Ben Barres' autobiography. Remember that you can buy and should read this book because Ben was badass and an amazing scientist mitpress.mit.edu/978026253954...
The cover of the book, in greenish blueish color. The title is "The autobiography of a transgender scientist" by one of the most badass human beings that have ever existed, Ben Barres
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Jesper W. Schneider @jesper-w-schneider.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Gender disparity in funding rates in double-blind grant peer review: The case of the Villum Experiment url: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
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Gender disparity in funding rates in double-blind grant peer review: The case of the Villum Experiment
Abstract. The Villum Experiment (VEX) is one of the few funding schemes that employs a double-blind review process where applicants are blinded to reviewers, applications are highly standardised, revi...
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Ian Phillips @ianbphillips.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
5 years since our first pilot, and 25,000 participants later, I'm super happy this work with Makaela Nartker, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and Howard Egeth on inattentional blindness is now out in eLife! A little 🧵 of what we found... 1/12 elifesciences.org/articles/100...
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Sensitivity to visual features in inattentional blindness
As a group, inattentionally blind participants can successfully report the location, color, and shape of stimuli they deny noticing, and exhibit a systematic bias to report not noticing.
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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Unfold.jl workshop is live: www.youtube.com/channel/UCCl... #JuliaLang #EEG #neuroimaging
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Stuttgart Computational Cognitive Science
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Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The individual toolboxes received lots of 💗 and 💦 from their respective authors: @judithschepers.bsky.social @theneurocookies.bsky.social @vladimik.bsky.social Big round of applause 👏🏼!!
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René Skukies @theneurocookies.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Just four more days until our Unfold workshop! Interactive slots are filled, but you can still access all material and watch the talks regardless 🎉
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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 18/03/2025
"It turns out there is higher agreement between two letters written by the same referee for different candidates, than there is for two letters (written by two different referees) for the same candidate!" Plus huge gender and cultural biases. theconversation.com/bias-creeps-...
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René Skukies @theneurocookies.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Thanks to @skypeascientist.bsky.social I got to talk about the brain and computers with a wonderful class of primary school students in Namibia today!
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Sabrina Hansmann-Roth @shansmann-roth.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I am looking for a PhD candidate (3-years) and a Postdoc (2-years) studying serial effects in visual perception. Positions are funded by the Icelandic Research Fund. Join us at the Icelandic Vision Lab @icevislab.bsky.social. If you are interested, reach out to me! #VisionScience #CognitiveScience
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
In light of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s U.S. Senate confirmation hearings this week, The Transmitter has rounded up our past coverage of the false association between vaccines and autism. www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/rou...
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Roundup: The false association between vaccines and autism
In light of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s U.S. Senate confirmation hearings this week, The Transmitter has rounded up our past coverage of the false association between vaccines and autism.
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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin - right now! In cooperation with @ledbydonkeys.org
Auf der Tesla Gigafactory in Berlin steht: „Heil Tesla!“
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jeanette-mumford.bsky.social @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Setting up an fMRI model and getting hit with collinearity errors? Been there! 😢 Try removing regressors? Orthogonal regressors? Other tricks to resolve collinearity errors? Guess what—those fixes might make things worse. We explore why and propose recommendations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Yael @yaelniv.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Friends, this is urgent. Families in Gaza are starving and need our help. I have donated to and been following this soup kitchen since they started. They provide hot meals to thousands & they need funds to keep going. Please consider donating & sharing. gofund.me/aab9459d
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Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun
Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Hey scientists! Want to share your science with classrooms via video chat in 2025? Sign up for @skypeascientist.bsky.social! You can volunteer to chat with 1-5 classrooms between January and August. It's easy, it's fun, it's life-affirming. Sign up www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html 🦑 🧪
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CuttingEEG @cuttingeeg.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
🚀 Excited to share our preprint! 🌍 "Doing conferences differently: decentralising for ecological and social sustainability" highlights #CuttingGardens 2023, the multi-hub conference #CuttingEEG designed to reduce carbon emissions and enhance inclusivity in international events.
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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz... looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠
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Google Forms: Sign-in
Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).
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René Skukies @theneurocookies.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
‼️New paper‼️ (also a major s-ccs #paper, with Judith Schepers & @benediktehinger.bsky.social) Do you have RTs in your 🧠📈-data? Fixation durations? Movements? How do event-durations affect your data? And how to deal with this? 🧵 ⤵ 1 / 5 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... 🧪 #EEG #fMRI #neuroimage
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Emilie Caspar @emiliecaspar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Today, I was asked by 2 lab members if we should exclude Afro hairstyles for EEG studies It should not be an exclusion criterion for #EEG studies in #neuroscience. I've tested >200 participants with great signal quality—this exclusion is unnecessary and limits inclusivity @sfnjournals.bsky.social
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 05/12/2024
New post on the 100% Christmas Interval -- after almost 8 years, it's time that we finally talk about CIs. www.the100.ci/2024/12/05/w...
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Why you are not allowed to say that your 95% confidence interval contains the true parameter with a probability of 95%
A shibboleth is a custom, such as a choice of phrasing, that distinguishes one group of people from another. The term goes back to the Hebrew Bible, in which the inhabitants of Gilead identify members...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/12/2024
Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide, Amnesty International report finds
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Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide, Amnesty International report finds
Human rights group says Israel ‘brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell’ on strip’s 2.3m population A report from Amnesty International alleges that Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip constitutes the crime of genocide…
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Lazaro Alonso @lazarusa.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
It's been a while since I've written a post. This will be my first one here. I thought a good example might be a butterfly-like plot. Done with @makie.org (thanks @simi.bsky.social) in the @julialang.org and OrdinaryDiffEq.jl (actively being maintained by @chrisrackauckas.bsky.social
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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀 Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to? Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)! Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
We already knew scientifically what we needed to do to stop climate change. We as a species decided not to do it. All AGI can give us is vastly accelerated pollution.
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Dr. Alec Couros @courosa.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Here’s a good example of ChatGPT output that could help students better understand how it works and its limitations. #edusky #eduai
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
Anne Churchland and Felicia Davatolhagh discuss why we must address the gender gap in neuroscience citations. www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/w...
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Women are systematically under-cited in neuroscience. New tools can change that.
An omitted citation in a high-profile paper led us to examine our own practices and to help others adopt tools that promote citation diversity.
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
For those who missed it: Elon Musk, the Royal Society, and me deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
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Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...
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