Senior UX Researcher @ Indeed. Cognitive scientist, Johns Hopkins, Ph.D., Harvard Post-Doc. Opinions expressed are my own. He/him.
Joined May 2011
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16 Sep 2020
Itโs finally out! Check out our new paper in #PNAS re: the use of hierarchically structured priors in visual motion perception (MOT future trajectory prediction) @BillScientific @gershbrain @jdrugowitsch
16 Sep 2020
I am excited to share our new paper with @Hrag_P, @gershbrain and @jdrugowitsch studying the use of hierarchically structured priors in human visual motion perception: pnas.org/content/early/2020/โฆ 1/
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13 Jul 2023
I have aphantasia, meaning that I can't form mental images at will. Nor, in my case, sounds, smells, flavors, tactile sensations, or emotions.
When I close my eyes, I enter a blank world.
In this thread I'll try to express what that is like for those who don't have aphantasia.
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28 Jun 2023
Introducing BrainGPT.org, a large language model (LLM) to assist neuroscience research. BrainGPT is trained on the vast neuroscience literature and can be used to optimize study design, detect anomalous results, and evaluate models against broad data patterns. (1/3)
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19 Dec 2022
Happy holidays! Introducing RTutor.ai, an AI-powered app that lets you chat with your data in English! RTutor uses Davinci (#ChatGPTโs sibling) to turn requests into R code, which is executed & results are shown instantly, available as a HTML report in seconds. 1/8
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12 Nov 2022
I recently came across data on who we spend our time with over the course of our lives.
The insights are simultaneously inspiring and depressing.
Here are 6 graphs everyone needs to see:
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28 Jun 2022
๐ฃ WHAT *NOT* TO DO IN RESPONSE TO THE OVERTURNING OF ROE V. WADE: A GUIDE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN CANADA ๐ฃ
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11 Mar 2022
From logical reasoning to mental simulation, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) possess an incredible capacity for computation. To fully harness this capacity, we developed a programming language for RNNs arxiv.org/abs/2203.05032. Here is a game of pong programmed inside of an RNN.
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11 Feb 2022
I had the privilege to be on a zoom call with Francis Collins (Outgoing NIH director) today. I asked him why NIH didnโt give full backing to open non-profit publishing. He replied this would likely lead to NIH funding cuts due to commercial journalsโ lobbying power in US govt.
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23 Jan 2022
NIH funded research will be REQUIRED to have open data.
23 Jan 2022
1) On January 25th 2023 a new data sharing policy from NIH kicks in which basically requires raw data from NIH-funded studies to be shared. Data is defined as:
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22 Jan 2022
It's officially published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology! An RNA-Based Theory of Natural Universal Computation.
free-access link for next 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1eSX4โฆ
In it, I raise a theoretical challenge that I believe is overlooked in neuroscience and biology...๐
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2 Oct 2021
Our paper Adversarial Feature Desensitization finally got accepted at #NeurIPS2021! (after 2 rejections including from NeurIPS2020). It was a long journey getting it out and Iโm very thankful to all my incredible collaborators and the reviewers who helped shaping up the paper.
9 Jun 2020
Many high-level features learned by neural networks are highly input-sensitive. We show that stabilizing the learned embedding against worst-case perturbations substantially improves the classification robustness. Joint work with @irinarish and @tyrell_turing. tweeprint here:
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27 Sep 2021
I wrote this succinct guide to R: r-guide.steveharoz.com
It's intended as a companion to analysis and visualization books (e.g., r4ds.had.co.nz) that don't cover the basics.
It's example-oriented and best for people who can already program but don't know #rstats.
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30 Sep 2021
This is the COOLEST paper Iโve read in a while. Conducted by @gcaedwards @BattelliLorella. WOW! The implications for theory, application, and understanding of lateralized processing is just ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
nature.com/articles/s41598-0โฆ
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13 Sep 2021
Staff scientist position open at NIH. Itโs a permanent position to do neuroscience, to mentor trainees, plan, conduct, and disseminate original neurophysiological, neuroanatomical, and behavioral in vision. Great resources and colleagues! DM me. Pls RT
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Ontario now has 6 days of data showing cases and hospitalization by vaccine status โย so far showing a consistent result.
This data needs a pop. adjustment, at minimum, so here's that.
(It also very much needs age data, which would most likely widen the pop. adjusted gap.)
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22 Jul 2021
This is literally the opportunity of a lifetime to work with such an accomplished PI.
Pls RT: We're hiring a #postdoc for our fMRI( behavior) studies of brain #plasticity in blindness & handlessness
#fMRI & coding experience required.
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#hiring #neuroscience #postdocjobs #compneuro #AcademicChatter #academictwitter #phdfriend #phdcareers
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