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Gabriel Weindel
@gweindel.bsky.social
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Psychologist studying human reaction times ( #MentalChronometry) with mathematical models of cognition & electrophysiology ( #EEG, #EMG, #MEG), fanboy of Franciscus Donders.

Postdoc (he/him) @ the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
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Gabriel Weindel @gweindel.bsky.social · Jun 26
In this new preprint, in review @elife.bsky.social, we show what processing steps make up the reaction time using single trial #EEG modelling in a contrast #decision task.

In this 🧵 I'm telling the story behind it as I think it is quite interesting and I can't write it like this in the paper...
biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jun 25
Decision-making components and times revealed by the single-trial electro-encephalogram https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.661505v1
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lauraabusta.bsky.social
Hello friends! In 2025 I wrote 5 grants and aiming to keep it up in the new year! Anyone willing to share a Dutch Research Council VENI FULL proposal example with me? (especially a successful one from recent years?) #neuroskyence #cogsci #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #Psychiatry #Netherlands #VENI 🙏🙏🙏
a cartoon cat is laying on top of a laptop .
Alt: pusheen the a cartoon cat is typing on a laptop.
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January 3, 2026 at 12:14 PM
gweindel.bsky.social
I'll be presenting this poster on the 14th of January at the Alpine Brain Imaging Conference in Champéry 🇨🇭🧠. Come by if you're around (if not too bad there will be plenty of snow ⛷️)!
January 6, 2026 at 2:53 PM
gweindel.bsky.social
Feeling previous-postdoc-home sick now
rogierk.bsky.social rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · 1d
Utrecht in snowy weather
A wintery scene of a small angel made of snow with a church in the backyard A snowy canal with a watery sunrise
January 5, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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colinwhoy.bsky.social
Really beautiful + elegant study: theory, psychophysics, and careful behavioral modeling lead to super clean dissection of #EEG topographies during perceptual decision making.

Crazy variance makes sense when you have the framework and predictors to explain it!
elifesciences.org/articles/108...
January 2, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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lilweb.bsky.social
🚀 Deadline for this is this Sunday! 🏃‍♀️
lilweb.bsky.social Lilian Weber @lilweb.bsky.social · 19d
🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social.

If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here:
tinyurl.com/coxijobs

Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️
January 2, 2026 at 9:40 AM
gweindel.bsky.social
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.
January 1, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social
Hi everyone,
If you like @scikit-learn.org, how about upvoting my request to add it to the LinuxFoundation insight board:
github.com/linuxfoundat...
Thanks 🧡💙
Add scikit-learn · linuxfoundation insights · Discussion #1506
We'd like to request enrolling scikit-learn into LFX Insights. The GitHub org is https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn. Scikit-learn is the most used machine learning library: download numbe...
github.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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nschawor.bsky.social
📆 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...
various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools
docs.google.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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lilweb.bsky.social
🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social.

If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here:
tinyurl.com/coxijobs

Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️
December 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Seven-parameter drift-diffusion pdfs and cdfs now in Stan
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/11/s...
Seven-parameter drift-diffusion pdfs and cdfs now in Stan | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
December 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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lnalborczyk.bsky.social
If you analyse time-resolved data (M/EEG, iEEG, pupillometry, force recordings…) and feel limited by cluster-based permutation tests (CBPTs); especially when trying to determine when an effect starts or ends; you may want to try our new R package: lnalborczyk.github.io/neurogam/
#rstats #brms #EEG
Modelling time-resolved electrophysiological data with Bayesian generalised additive multilevel models
Providing utility functions for fitting Bayesian generalised additive multilevel models (BGAMMs) to time-resolved data (e.g., M/EEG, pupillometry, mouse-tracking, etc) and identifying clusters.
lnalborczyk.github.io
December 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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tomrhysmarshall.bsky.social
Passionate about women's mental health?

Interested in brain stimulation?

Excited by cutting edge neurotech?

Come do a PhD with me!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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a woman says we have to work together in front of a wentworth sign
ALT: a woman says we have to work together in front of a wentworth sign
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December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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rmcelreath.bsky.social
I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.

I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.
December 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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benediktehinger.bsky.social
I'll probably need a week or so to fully digest this paper.

Amazing work by Mohr, Geuzebroek and @spk3lly.bsky.social on disentangling contributions of V1,V2,V3 to ERPs+SSVEPs

Beautiful illustrations throughout!

doi.org/10.1162/imag...
December 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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mvugt.bsky.social
The Groningen Spring school on Cognitive Modeling is back! Join us from March 30th-April 2nd, 2026! www.ai.rug.nl/springschool/
Groningen Spring School in Cognitive Modeling
www.ai.rug.nl
December 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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cstrauch.bsky.social
Synesthetes claim sensory experiences, such as seeing color when reading or hearing a (black) number. 
But how genuine are these reports and sensations? We introduce a rather direct measure of synesthetic perception: Synesthetes’ pupils respond to evoked color as if it was real color #vision! 👁️🎨🧪
November 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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maciekszul.bsky.social
It's out out. Saying that your favourite signal is an oscillation is not enough, it would be good to quantify to what extent.
imagingneurosci.bsky.social Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Nov 12
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Siqi Zhang, James J. Bonaiuto, et al:

Multi-scale parameterization of neural rhythmicity with lagged Hilbert autocoherence

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
November 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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thatmariia.bsky.social
Delayed post about… delays paper🙃

We derive & simulate a macro linear model driven by long-range axon ✨delays✨ (so very few params) and show it captures key resting EEG features (incl. alpha & coherence)

With R Srinivasan, PL Nunez & the amazing @nunezanalyzed.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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imagingneurosci.bsky.social
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...
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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matti.vuorre.com
Everyone involved in scientific publishing should take a look at these papers.

>"The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science; we need [...] to re-communalise publishing to serve science not the market."
hansonmark.bsky.social Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Nov 11
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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danfeuerriegel.bsky.social
Interested in how we make preference-driven decisions, and how this is implemented in the brain?

We report that neural correlates of evidence accumulation (CPP, Mu/Beta) are also observed during value-based decisions.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Led by @laurencf.bsky.social (Lauren Fong)

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Tracing the neural trajectories of evidence accumulation and motor preparation processes during voluntary decisions
Voluntary decisions have previously been described by where they arise in the brain and how actions corresponding to one's choice are prepared. However, the processes by which these internally guided ...
www.biorxiv.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
gweindel.bsky.social
I uploaded the lecture I gave on hidden multivariate pattern methods in M/EEG at the #practicalMEEG2025 conference (wonderfully organized by @cuttingeeg.bsky.social).

youtu.be/MgrqA7jMSBw

It's just an introduction but maybe some will find it useful :)
HMP lecture #practicalMEEG2025
YouTube video by Gabriel Weindel
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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python.org
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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matti.vuorre.com
🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉

powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com

- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
Screenshot of https://powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com/
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
gweindel.bsky.social
And it is now updated on biorXiv, and I would say the results are absolutely stunning thanks to the reviewers' suggestions!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

P.-S. The process at eLife is really top notch
October 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM