Jan Lause
@janlause.bsky.social
data science postdoc in Tübingen 🧬🖥️🧠 scRNA data analysis, UMAP/tSNE & retina neuroscience | science journalism on AI & sustainability 🤖❤️🌍 | easily sidetracked by small plot details & cool birds 📈🔍🦜
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Jan Lause
@janlause.bsky.social
· Feb 18
I just defended my PhD on single-cell normalization and visualization methods in neuroscience! 🧑🎓 🖥️ 🧬 🧠
Thanks a lot to @hippopedoid.bsky.social, @philipp.hertie.ai and everyone in the lab for supporting me ❤️
Now looking forward to my postdoc on what Amacrine cells are computing in the retina 👀
Thanks a lot to @hippopedoid.bsky.social, @philipp.hertie.ai and everyone in the lab for supporting me ❤️
Now looking forward to my postdoc on what Amacrine cells are computing in the retina 👀
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The history of social psychology in a nutshell.
Unintentional poetry from the lab notebooks of Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics 1923
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The history of social psychology in a nutshell.
Someone found that for some SpringerNature journals, citation counts are off for the first article in each volume, causing random articles to be cited A LOT (see attached)
Can someone turn this into a quasi-experiment to study what effect citations have on careers - independent of study quality?
Can someone turn this into a quasi-experiment to study what effect citations have on careers - independent of study quality?
November 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Someone found that for some SpringerNature journals, citation counts are off for the first article in each volume, causing random articles to be cited A LOT (see attached)
Can someone turn this into a quasi-experiment to study what effect citations have on careers - independent of study quality?
Can someone turn this into a quasi-experiment to study what effect citations have on careers - independent of study quality?
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That image is from 1961 and an idealization. Here is an actual trajectory of fixational eye movements. The dots are 2 ms apart. If a midget ganglion cell, with single-cone receptive field, fires at 100 Hz, then every spike reports about a different cone. How can we ever read anything?
November 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
That image is from 1961 and an idealization. Here is an actual trajectory of fixational eye movements. The dots are 2 ms apart. If a midget ganglion cell, with single-cone receptive field, fires at 100 Hz, then every spike reports about a different cone. How can we ever read anything?
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Pop-up AI defacing your article critical of AI captures a lot of what it feels like to work in this space.
@lmesseri.bsky.social
@lmesseri.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Pop-up AI defacing your article critical of AI captures a lot of what it feels like to work in this space.
@lmesseri.bsky.social
@lmesseri.bsky.social
Interesting review of q.e.d, an LLM system that automatically reviews scientific papers and gives feedback
Just tried q.e.d. by @odedrechavi.bsky.social et al. with a few papers including by myself & others where I knew a claim within was flawed based on a misunderstanding of the signal.
1) it was impressive. I see what the hype is about.
2) it hallucinated.
www.qedscience.com
Overly long #SciPub🧵 1/n
1) it was impressive. I see what the hype is about.
2) it hallucinated.
www.qedscience.com
Overly long #SciPub🧵 1/n
q.e.d Science
Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation
www.qedscience.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Interesting review of q.e.d, an LLM system that automatically reviews scientific papers and gives feedback
very much this -- viele Firmen stampfen gerade ihre LLM-basierten "KI"-Projekte wieder ein, wahrscheinlich weil viele auf den Hype aufspringen wollten. Folge: LLM-KI wird zu schnell eingefuehrt, unueberlegt und fuer den falschen Usecase. --> Geld weg, echte Potentiale bleiben ungenutzt.
Ich kann nur sagen, dass mich das als KI-Forscher auch gar nicht so arg überrascht. Die unreflektierte Einführung von insb. Sprachmodellen führt i.d.R. zu Ergebnissen, die nur oberflächlich überzeugen aber sehr rasch an den realen Erfordernissen der Praxis scheitern.
„Trotz des Einsatzes von zweistelligen Milliardensummen wurden in gerade einmal 5 Prozent der untersuchten Fälle nennenswerte Einnahmen oder Ersparnisse erzielt. Der überwältigende Rest der Firmen scheiterte mit seinen Projekten dagegen und stellte diese teils sogar ganz ein.“
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
very much this -- viele Firmen stampfen gerade ihre LLM-basierten "KI"-Projekte wieder ein, wahrscheinlich weil viele auf den Hype aufspringen wollten. Folge: LLM-KI wird zu schnell eingefuehrt, unueberlegt und fuer den falschen Usecase. --> Geld weg, echte Potentiale bleiben ungenutzt.
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It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
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This is your periodical reminder that the projected warming due to climate change practically always refers to the year 2100. The full temperature increase will likely be higher.
At #COP30, people will claim something like we avoided a truly apocalyptic amount of warming. This is probably not true.
At #COP30, people will claim something like we avoided a truly apocalyptic amount of warming. This is probably not true.
November 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is your periodical reminder that the projected warming due to climate change practically always refers to the year 2100. The full temperature increase will likely be higher.
At #COP30, people will claim something like we avoided a truly apocalyptic amount of warming. This is probably not true.
At #COP30, people will claim something like we avoided a truly apocalyptic amount of warming. This is probably not true.
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From Dec 4-6, our friends from @rhetai.bsky.social will be holding "Transformativ" in Heilbronn, a conference about how AI transforms our society. It will bring together a variety of speakers from different disciplines, ranging from science communication and art. 1/2
November 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
From Dec 4-6, our friends from @rhetai.bsky.social will be holding "Transformativ" in Heilbronn, a conference about how AI transforms our society. It will bring together a variety of speakers from different disciplines, ranging from science communication and art. 1/2
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Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
Want to work on ethical implications of using ML/AI in science?
Tuebingen & the ML4Science cluster are a great place to work :)
Tuebingen & the ML4Science cluster are a great place to work :)
We are looking for several postdoctoral researchers to join our Norms & Practices Lab! This is an exciting opportunity for scholars of #philosophy, #law, #culturalanthropology, and (qualitative) #socialscience: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2... 1/2
November 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Want to work on ethical implications of using ML/AI in science?
Tuebingen & the ML4Science cluster are a great place to work :)
Tuebingen & the ML4Science cluster are a great place to work :)
Good (long) Sunday read about how the “AGI narrative” works — spoiler:
“It’s not utopia or hell—it’s OpenAI and its peers making a whole lot more money.”
Here are a few more quotes/important points I likes to read:
“It’s not utopia or hell—it’s OpenAI and its peers making a whole lot more money.”
Here are a few more quotes/important points I likes to read:
I had a long conversation with MIT Tech Review’s @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social about AGI; it fed into this very good read on the rise of AGI orthodoxy
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...
www.technologyreview.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Good (long) Sunday read about how the “AGI narrative” works — spoiler:
“It’s not utopia or hell—it’s OpenAI and its peers making a whole lot more money.”
Here are a few more quotes/important points I likes to read:
“It’s not utopia or hell—it’s OpenAI and its peers making a whole lot more money.”
Here are a few more quotes/important points I likes to read:
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Interesting thread/discussion on clustering things:
I regularly get derailed when someone tries to benchmark clustering methods, trying the find the "best" one or the one that agrees with "ground truth".
Which clustering of the below animals is the best or the true one? By row, or by column?
Which clustering of the below animals is the best or the true one? By row, or by column?
October 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Interesting thread/discussion on clustering things:
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Die auf EU-Ebene geplante #Chatkontrolle verletzt das Recht auf #Privatsphäre und schreckt Menschen davon ab, ihre #Kommunikationsgrundrechte wahrzunehmen. Die Bundesregierung muss deshalb bei ihrem Nein zur Chatkontrolle bleiben!
Deutsches Ja zu Chatkontrolle? CCC & Co. warnen vor Grundrechtsgefährdung
Vor der entscheidenden Abstimmung im EU-Rat appellieren NGOs an die Bundesregierung, bei ihrem Nein zur Chatkontrolle zu bleiben. Sonst drohe eine Katastrophe.
www.heise.de
October 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Die auf EU-Ebene geplante #Chatkontrolle verletzt das Recht auf #Privatsphäre und schreckt Menschen davon ab, ihre #Kommunikationsgrundrechte wahrzunehmen. Die Bundesregierung muss deshalb bei ihrem Nein zur Chatkontrolle bleiben!
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In a digital world, talking to sensitive sources is nearly impossible without encryption. The EU’s #ChatControl plan is an attack on accountability journalism - and a gift to surveillance
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 4, 2025 at 7:06 AM
In a digital world, talking to sensitive sources is nearly impossible without encryption. The EU’s #ChatControl plan is an attack on accountability journalism - and a gift to surveillance
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✨ Meet our speakers! ✨
Among our speakers this year at #SNS2025 we have Simone Ebert (@simoneebert.bsky.social) & Jan Lause (@janlause.bsky.social), from Hertie AI Institute, University of Tübingen
Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...
#neuroskyscience
Among our speakers this year at #SNS2025 we have Simone Ebert (@simoneebert.bsky.social) & Jan Lause (@janlause.bsky.social), from Hertie AI Institute, University of Tübingen
Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...
#neuroskyscience
September 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
✨ Meet our speakers! ✨
Among our speakers this year at #SNS2025 we have Simone Ebert (@simoneebert.bsky.social) & Jan Lause (@janlause.bsky.social), from Hertie AI Institute, University of Tübingen
Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...
#neuroskyscience
Among our speakers this year at #SNS2025 we have Simone Ebert (@simoneebert.bsky.social) & Jan Lause (@janlause.bsky.social), from Hertie AI Institute, University of Tübingen
Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...
#neuroskyscience
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Die Zeit lässt ja aktuell die Frage diskutieren, ob links Schuld ist an AfD und der aktuellen CDU/CSU. Statt Selbstverantwortung der Wähler*innen oder gar (mediale) Selbstkritik der vermeintlich erfolgreichen Erinnerungskultur gehts also um Schuldzuweisung. Man kennts ja nicht anders. 1/
August 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Die Zeit lässt ja aktuell die Frage diskutieren, ob links Schuld ist an AfD und der aktuellen CDU/CSU. Statt Selbstverantwortung der Wähler*innen oder gar (mediale) Selbstkritik der vermeintlich erfolgreichen Erinnerungskultur gehts also um Schuldzuweisung. Man kennts ja nicht anders. 1/
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It's still possible to register - join us in tuebingen for this very exciting lineup!
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
🔵 Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium 2025 is here! 🔵
#SNS2025 brings together leading international researchers in system neuroscience 🧠
Join us for plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣
registration is open here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/
#SNS2025 brings together leading international researchers in system neuroscience 🧠
Join us for plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣
registration is open here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/
August 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It's still possible to register - join us in tuebingen for this very exciting lineup!
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
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🚨Come work with us in charming Tübingen and become a member of our growing Freigeist group! We offer a 2-year postdoc position on the communicative plasticity in wild and captive bonobos, fully funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je
Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)
bit.ly
February 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🚨Come work with us in charming Tübingen and become a member of our growing Freigeist group! We offer a 2-year postdoc position on the communicative plasticity in wild and captive bonobos, fully funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je
I just defended my PhD on single-cell normalization and visualization methods in neuroscience! 🧑🎓 🖥️ 🧬 🧠
Thanks a lot to @hippopedoid.bsky.social, @philipp.hertie.ai and everyone in the lab for supporting me ❤️
Now looking forward to my postdoc on what Amacrine cells are computing in the retina 👀
Thanks a lot to @hippopedoid.bsky.social, @philipp.hertie.ai and everyone in the lab for supporting me ❤️
Now looking forward to my postdoc on what Amacrine cells are computing in the retina 👀
February 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I just defended my PhD on single-cell normalization and visualization methods in neuroscience! 🧑🎓 🖥️ 🧬 🧠
Thanks a lot to @hippopedoid.bsky.social, @philipp.hertie.ai and everyone in the lab for supporting me ❤️
Now looking forward to my postdoc on what Amacrine cells are computing in the retina 👀
Thanks a lot to @hippopedoid.bsky.social, @philipp.hertie.ai and everyone in the lab for supporting me ❤️
Now looking forward to my postdoc on what Amacrine cells are computing in the retina 👀
Great Friday read about cell type evolution in the brain! 🧠 🧬 🖥️ #neuroskyence
Three fantastic @science.org papers on convergent development & evolution of neurons + their connections in the bird &
mammalian pallia, by @kaessmannlab.bsky.social @steinaerts.bsky.social & Fernando García-Moreno.
Expertly synthesised by @giacomogattoni.bsky.social & Maria Antonietta Tosches 🧪🧠
mammalian pallia, by @kaessmannlab.bsky.social @steinaerts.bsky.social & Fernando García-Moreno.
Expertly synthesised by @giacomogattoni.bsky.social & Maria Antonietta Tosches 🧪🧠
Constrained roads to complex brains
Neural development and brain circuit evolution converged in birds and mammals
www.science.org
February 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Great Friday read about cell type evolution in the brain! 🧠 🧬 🖥️ #neuroskyence
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Reposted by Jan Lause
Hello, Bluesky! ☀️
We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.
Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.
We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.
Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.
February 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Hello, Bluesky! ☀️
We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.
Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.
We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.
Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.