Bronson Harry
@bronsonharry.bsky.social
Ex-neuro, turned strat intel for gov integrity. Tsundoku aficionado. Dad of 1+2. rstats, face perception, vision, and cortical organisation.
Learning data science informed strat intel and open gov.
https://mstdn.social/@bronsonharry
Learning data science informed strat intel and open gov.
https://mstdn.social/@bronsonharry
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The EU has published a world-first risk landscape report under the #DSA.
It flags systemic risks on big platforms — from illegal content to generative AI— and tracks how platforms are addressing them.
More transparency. More accountability.
A safer online space for all.
link.europa.eu/NKM4yd
It flags systemic risks on big platforms — from illegal content to generative AI— and tracks how platforms are addressing them.
More transparency. More accountability.
A safer online space for all.
link.europa.eu/NKM4yd
November 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The EU has published a world-first risk landscape report under the #DSA.
It flags systemic risks on big platforms — from illegal content to generative AI— and tracks how platforms are addressing them.
More transparency. More accountability.
A safer online space for all.
link.europa.eu/NKM4yd
It flags systemic risks on big platforms — from illegal content to generative AI— and tracks how platforms are addressing them.
More transparency. More accountability.
A safer online space for all.
link.europa.eu/NKM4yd
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The Guardian: Experts hail 'remarkable' success of electronic implant in restoring sight www.theguardian.com/science/2025... retinal implant, PRIMA, Pixium Vision, Science Corporation, #AMD
Experts hail ‘remarkable’ success of electronic implant in restoring sight
Sight of 84% of people with form of age-related macular degeneration restored after being fitted with device
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The Guardian: Experts hail 'remarkable' success of electronic implant in restoring sight www.theguardian.com/science/2025... retinal implant, PRIMA, Pixium Vision, Science Corporation, #AMD
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Exploring the McGurk Effect in Cochlear-Implant Users: A Systematic Review brill.com/view/journal... Systematic review carried out using the McGurk paradigm to understand the speech perception mechanism in CI-fitted individuals
brill.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Exploring the McGurk Effect in Cochlear-Implant Users: A Systematic Review brill.com/view/journal... Systematic review carried out using the McGurk paradigm to understand the speech perception mechanism in CI-fitted individuals
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Macaque IT neurons may shift from low to high spatial frequencies over time, supporting a coarse-to-fine view of vision. Evidence is incomplete, but the study offers clues to how spatial frequency links to category signals in object recognition.
buff.ly/Lv3CQmq
buff.ly/Lv3CQmq
September 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Macaque IT neurons may shift from low to high spatial frequencies over time, supporting a coarse-to-fine view of vision. Evidence is incomplete, but the study offers clues to how spatial frequency links to category signals in object recognition.
buff.ly/Lv3CQmq
buff.ly/Lv3CQmq
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Really interesting work! As you didn't ask them to imagine while reading, your results suggest to me they generated spontaneous visual representation and, together with the contrast fixation dur/subj experience, they seem in line with our spontaneous imagery condition in www.cell.com/current-biol...
Sensory representations in primary visual cortex are not sufficient for subjective imagery
Cabbai et al. test whether sensory representations in primary visual cortex (V1) can
be dissociated from subjective mental imagery. They find that V1 representations can
occur without subjective exper...
www.cell.com
April 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Really interesting work! As you didn't ask them to imagine while reading, your results suggest to me they generated spontaneous visual representation and, together with the contrast fixation dur/subj experience, they seem in line with our spontaneous imagery condition in www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Pretty stoked to learn about {medley} by @jbryer.bsky.social !!! 🎶
Basically, divides your dataset into subsets by patterns of missingness, and fits separate models on each. SO MUCH BETTER than imputation!!!
(he says he doesn't use bsky but I'm tagging him for cred anyways 😆)
Basically, divides your dataset into subsets by patterns of missingness, and fits separate models on each. SO MUCH BETTER than imputation!!!
(he says he doesn't use bsky but I'm tagging him for cred anyways 😆)
August 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Pretty stoked to learn about {medley} by @jbryer.bsky.social !!! 🎶
Basically, divides your dataset into subsets by patterns of missingness, and fits separate models on each. SO MUCH BETTER than imputation!!!
(he says he doesn't use bsky but I'm tagging him for cred anyways 😆)
Basically, divides your dataset into subsets by patterns of missingness, and fits separate models on each. SO MUCH BETTER than imputation!!!
(he says he doesn't use bsky but I'm tagging him for cred anyways 😆)
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Technical writing is hard bcs "writing is thinking" but we often should tell our story not in the order we worked. Solution? I wrote a quick post on how @quarto.org 's embed shortcodes can reframe technical writing as reproducible evidence curation
www.emilyriederer.com/post/quarto-...
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www.emilyriederer.com/post/quarto-...
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How Quarto embed fixes data science storytelling | Emily Riederer
Literate programming excels at capturing our stream of conscience. Our stream of conscience does not excel at explaining the impact of our work. Notebooks enable some of data scientists’ worst tendenc...
www.emilyriederer.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Technical writing is hard bcs "writing is thinking" but we often should tell our story not in the order we worked. Solution? I wrote a quick post on how @quarto.org 's embed shortcodes can reframe technical writing as reproducible evidence curation
www.emilyriederer.com/post/quarto-...
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www.emilyriederer.com/post/quarto-...
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I've recently started compiling a list of data science related resources that I use or recommend frequently! 📊
Link: nrennie.rbind.io/data-science...
#RStats #Python #DataViz #DataScience
Link: nrennie.rbind.io/data-science...
#RStats #Python #DataViz #DataScience
October 18, 2024 at 1:58 PM
I've recently started compiling a list of data science related resources that I use or recommend frequently! 📊
Link: nrennie.rbind.io/data-science...
#RStats #Python #DataViz #DataScience
Link: nrennie.rbind.io/data-science...
#RStats #Python #DataViz #DataScience
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Announcing sfhotspot, an #RStats package to make it as easy as possible to identify and map concentrations of crime (or concentrations of any other points in space).
Introduction: lesscrime.info/post/sfhotsp...
Package website: pkgs.lesscrime.info/sfhotspot/
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Introduction: lesscrime.info/post/sfhotsp...
Package website: pkgs.lesscrime.info/sfhotspot/
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August 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Announcing sfhotspot, an #RStats package to make it as easy as possible to identify and map concentrations of crime (or concentrations of any other points in space).
Introduction: lesscrime.info/post/sfhotsp...
Package website: pkgs.lesscrime.info/sfhotspot/
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Introduction: lesscrime.info/post/sfhotsp...
Package website: pkgs.lesscrime.info/sfhotspot/
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New lab preprint, led by @tlmnhut.bsky.social. We show that certain topographic CNNs offer computational advantages, including greater weight matrix robustness, better handling of OOD noisy data, and higher entropy of unit activation.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.00043
arxiv.org/abs/2508.00043
Improved Robustness and Functional Localization in Topographic CNNs Through Weight Similarity
Topographic neural networks are computational models that can simulate the spatial and functional organization of the brain. Topographic constraints in neural networks can be implemented in multiple w...
arxiv.org
August 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
New lab preprint, led by @tlmnhut.bsky.social. We show that certain topographic CNNs offer computational advantages, including greater weight matrix robustness, better handling of OOD noisy data, and higher entropy of unit activation.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.00043
arxiv.org/abs/2508.00043
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Registrations for the annual #WOMBAT2025 workshop are open! 🎉
Register before August 31 to get the early bird discount!
🔗 Registration & Info: wombat2025.numbat.space
#DataScience #OpenSource #BusinessAnalytics #DataDrivenDecisions #RStats
Register before August 31 to get the early bird discount!
🔗 Registration & Info: wombat2025.numbat.space
#DataScience #OpenSource #BusinessAnalytics #DataDrivenDecisions #RStats
August 7, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Registrations for the annual #WOMBAT2025 workshop are open! 🎉
Register before August 31 to get the early bird discount!
🔗 Registration & Info: wombat2025.numbat.space
#DataScience #OpenSource #BusinessAnalytics #DataDrivenDecisions #RStats
Register before August 31 to get the early bird discount!
🔗 Registration & Info: wombat2025.numbat.space
#DataScience #OpenSource #BusinessAnalytics #DataDrivenDecisions #RStats
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Shout out to @meanwhileina.bsky.social. His blog post was exactly what I needed to brush up on different factor-variable coding schemes used in regression models: michael-franke.github.io/Bayesian-Reg...
Bayesian Regression: Theory & Practice - A tutorial on contrast coding for (Bayesian) regression
michael-franke.github.io
July 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Shout out to @meanwhileina.bsky.social. His blog post was exactly what I needed to brush up on different factor-variable coding schemes used in regression models: michael-franke.github.io/Bayesian-Reg...
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Today is my annual reminder that read_csv() is vectorized and you can just pass a vector of file paths and it will read and append the datasets.
No need to use map or for loops to read in multiple files.
#rstats
No need to use map or for loops to read in multiple files.
#rstats
August 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Today is my annual reminder that read_csv() is vectorized and you can just pass a vector of file paths and it will read and append the datasets.
No need to use map or for loops to read in multiple files.
#rstats
No need to use map or for loops to read in multiple files.
#rstats
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Mapping cerebral blood perfusion and its links to multi-scale brain organization across the human lifespan journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Mapping cerebral blood perfusion and its links to multi-scale brain organization across the human lifespan
How does cerebral blood perfusion map onto micro-, meso- and macro-scale brain structure? Using arterial spin labeling data from the Human Connectome Project, this study provides a detailed characteri...
journals.plos.org
August 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Mapping cerebral blood perfusion and its links to multi-scale brain organization across the human lifespan journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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pointblank, assertr, validate, and dataquieR are the ones that come to mind.
This is a great overview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d1c...
This is a great overview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d1c...
Caterina Constantinescu - Data Validation in R: From Principles to Tools and Packages [Remote]
YouTube video by Lander Analytics
www.youtube.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
pointblank, assertr, validate, and dataquieR are the ones that come to mind.
This is a great overview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d1c...
This is a great overview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d1c...
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What makes visual processing in the brain so powerful and flexible? Very excited to share our new work where we started from SOTA models that accurately predict dynamic brain activity during hours of video watching, and investigated core computations underlying visual perception
July 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
What makes visual processing in the brain so powerful and flexible? Very excited to share our new work where we started from SOTA models that accurately predict dynamic brain activity during hours of video watching, and investigated core computations underlying visual perception
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𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 “Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures,” by Fernando Rosas @frosas.bsky.social 𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑙. in 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑁𝑒𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
#neuroskyence
Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
As scientists, we want solid answers, but we also want to answer questions that matter. Yet, the brain’s complexity forces trade-offs between these desiderata, bringing about two distinct research app...
www.nature.com
August 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 “Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures,” by Fernando Rosas @frosas.bsky.social 𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑙. in 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑁𝑒𝑢𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
#neuroskyence
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New presentation just posted at today's @user-conf.bsky.social virtual conference: Plot Twist: Adding Interactivity to the Elegance of ggplot2 with ggiraph
By @tanyashapiro.bsky.social & @cedricscherer.com
Video www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDj...
#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #user2025
By @tanyashapiro.bsky.social & @cedricscherer.com
Video www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDj...
#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #user2025
Plot Twist: Adding Interactivity to the Elegance of ggplot2 with ggiraph
YouTube video by useR! Conference
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August 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
New presentation just posted at today's @user-conf.bsky.social virtual conference: Plot Twist: Adding Interactivity to the Elegance of ggplot2 with ggiraph
By @tanyashapiro.bsky.social & @cedricscherer.com
Video www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDj...
#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #user2025
By @tanyashapiro.bsky.social & @cedricscherer.com
Video www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDj...
#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #user2025
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Seven Cognitive Filters of the Mind: A Phenomenological-Cognitive Framework for Understanding Consciousness and Agency: https://osf.io/4ne2z
August 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Seven Cognitive Filters of the Mind: A Phenomenological-Cognitive Framework for Understanding Consciousness and Agency: https://osf.io/4ne2z
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A tale of three types of internal object representations in the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668040v1
August 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A tale of three types of internal object representations in the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668040v1
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Entorhinal cortex signals dimensions of past experience that can be generalised in a novel environment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668096v1
August 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Entorhinal cortex signals dimensions of past experience that can be generalised in a novel environment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668096v1
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Integrating multiple sensory modalities during dyadic interactions drives self-other differentiation at the behavioral and electrocortical level https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668120v1
August 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Integrating multiple sensory modalities during dyadic interactions drives self-other differentiation at the behavioral and electrocortical level https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668120v1
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Network dynamics for sensory prioritization: Functional connectivity related to individual sensory weighting of vision versus proprioception during upper limb control https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667932v1
August 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Network dynamics for sensory prioritization: Functional connectivity related to individual sensory weighting of vision versus proprioception during upper limb control https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667932v1
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UseR 2025: Transforming Public Health Data Management: From Individual Use to Scalable Workflows with R www.youtube.com/watch?v=82yM... #rstats
Transforming Public Health Data Management: From Individual Use to Scalable Workflows with R
The Health Information and Statistics Office within the Ministry of Health of Buenos Aires, Argentina, faced some key and unexpected challenges in its first year as an organization. As a small,…
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August 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
UseR 2025: Transforming Public Health Data Management: From Individual Use to Scalable Workflows with R www.youtube.com/watch?v=82yM... #rstats
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UseR 2025: Thinking Inside the {box}: A Structured Approach for Full-Stack App Development www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuEA... #Rstats
Thinking Inside the {box}: A Structured Approach for Full-Stack App Development - Samuel Calderon
As Shiny applications scale, maintaining clean structure, managing dependencies, and ensuring long-term maintainability become increasingly challenging. The {box} package modernizes R’s approach to…
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August 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
UseR 2025: Thinking Inside the {box}: A Structured Approach for Full-Stack App Development www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuEA... #Rstats