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Benedikt Ehinger

@benediktehinger

Comp-#CogSci TT-Prof - follow.me @ @benediktehinger@scholar.social 🧠, #vision, #eyetracking, #cognition, VR/mobile #EEG, methods, design (www.thesis-art.de), teaching & supervising our lab mainly develops in #julialang

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🚨The most important graph in the world has another year of data, and it doesn't look good!🚨

NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space.

The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled!

19.02.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 773 πŸ” 507 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 61
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Significant acceleration of global warming since 2015, finds news PIK study with @rahmstorf.bsky.social
Recent warming: around ~0.35Β°C per decade.
1970–2015 average: just under 0.2Β°C per dec.
➑️Current rate is higher than in any decade since records began in 1880.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

06.03.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 150 πŸ” 97 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 13
Finding peaks with SIMD – Allen Hill

I wrote about how I use SIMD in my #julialang peak finding package Peaks.jl halleysfifthinc.github.io/posts/find-p...

02.03.2026 22:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The generalized Hierarchical Gaussian Filter

The generalized Hierarchical Gaussian Filter

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

#stats #cogpsy

04.03.2026 09:57 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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All your p-values are wrong Or they don’t mean what you think, or they are not interpretable in most situations (Wagenmakers, 2007; Kruschke, 2013). Why is that? Let’s consider how a p-value is calculated. For sim…

All your p-values are wrong

Nice blog by Guillaume Rousselet garstats.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/p...

28.02.2026 23:33 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Byztory Animated history videos focusing on the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire.

Recommendation: Byztory www.youtube.com/c/Byztory

Animated history videos In the style of Historia Civilis

You might not know it, but you do want to learn about Bzyantine!

Crazy that these videos have so little viewers. They are high quality and fun to watch!

28.02.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

These scientists could just as well live in another world. What kind of modelling do they do, if LLMs can do it. Logistics regressions...?

28.02.2026 07:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Psychopathy does not exist

Interesting speculative article. I know more or less nothing about the topic - I'd be curious about other opinions!

aeon.co/essays/psych...

28.02.2026 07:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
cool people, follow them!

cool people, follow them!

I built a bluesky labeler for neuroscience methods.

1️⃣ follow/subscribe to: @neuromethods.bsky.social
2️⃣ like the post with your favorite method
➑️ get a shiny methods label in your profile/posts. 🌟

26.02.2026 17:41 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

I see only psychophysics for you, and nothing for me xD

26.02.2026 21:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Only 2 days left to submit your proposal for #juliacon #julialang!

Consider submitting to the Biology Minisymposium if you have cool work in bioinformatics or life sciences! pretalx.com/juliacon-202...

πŸ§ͺ

26.02.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(In the screenshot at least you have more categories than when I look at your post)

26.02.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yours surely is incomplete :D cool feature! Thanks!

26.02.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Figure 1 in this paper is both informative and hillarious. The collider on self-perceived causal inference skill is too real

26.02.2026 09:50 πŸ‘ 83 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”‘ Our key finding: TUS over the frontal eye fields (FEF) excited saccadic behavior, effectively biasing eye movements towards the contralateral side within a fraction of a second. πŸ‘€ This confirms that TUS can modulate behavioral in humans in real time.

25.02.2026 14:33 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Rapid modulation of choice behavior by ultrasound on the human frontal eye fields - Nature Communications Brief ultrasound to human frontal eye fields, but not motor cortex, rapidly biases eye movement contralaterally in a perceptual choice task. The size of this effect scales with individual baseline FEF...

Ultrasound gives our brain a nudge in the right direction 🧠

πŸ‘€ Look to your left, look to your right!

We used #ultrasound to stimulate the brain and it changed human choice behavior within a fraction of a second. No surgery, no implants.

Link to paper ⬇️

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

25.02.2026 14:33 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why do children struggle to recognise objects in cluttered scenes more than adults? Our new paper looks at the development of visual acuity and crowding across childhood, and the way the visual system fine tunes our ability to see detail: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

23.02.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
Flyer for 2026 edition of the European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany.

Flyer for 2026 edition of the European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany.

The European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany, is coming back in 2026!

Deadline: 8 March 2026

www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/

20.02.2026 08:12 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think.

We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science.

Read more and sign here: www.slow-science.com

20.02.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 109 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 8

1) participants' metadata, in particular demographics, are a bigger risk for privacy 2) we have created a new metric k-global that gives you the relative importance of each variable for anonymity and 3) BIDS compliant little python package to help everyone with data curation.

21.02.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Assessing metadata privacy in neuroimaging Abstract. The ethical and legal imperative to share research data without causing harm requires careful attention to privacy risks. While mounting evidence demonstrates that data sharing benefits scie...

It's out! direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

21.02.2026 06:55 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Mental gymnastics meme.
TOP: Regression mental gymnastics. The effect is significant...even when I adjust for...everything we have measured.
BOTTOM: Causal Inference Mental Gymnastics.
unmeasured confounds could explain the effect
the sample might suffer from selection bias
differential measurement error!
SUTVA violation!

Mental gymnastics meme. TOP: Regression mental gymnastics. The effect is significant...even when I adjust for...everything we have measured. BOTTOM: Causal Inference Mental Gymnastics. unmeasured confounds could explain the effect the sample might suffer from selection bias differential measurement error! SUTVA violation!

Almost done with my next lecture, so going back now to work on some new memes

18.02.2026 11:45 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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Open-Source Award for DifferentiationInterface.jl DifferentiationInterface.jl, co-developed by BIFOLD researcher Adrian Hill, wins one of France’s Open Science Awards for making cutting-edge modeling and optimization more flexible, efficient, and ope...

πŸ†Award-winning: France's Prix Science Ouverte 2025

Switching AD backends in Julia used to mean rewriting your whole codebase. @gdalle.bsky.social @adrianhill.de got fed up β€” and built #DI instead.

News: t1p.de/58a65

@julialang.org @ecoledesponts.bsky.social #julialang @tuberlin.bsky.social

17.02.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ˜ƒFinally!!!πŸ˜ƒ >> After more than 3 yr hard work together with @matteuler.bsky.social , I am delighted to share our Meta-Analysis about ALL studies linking Intelligence to the P300 ERP >> Small but significant effect size across 49 studies‼️https://biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.13.705728v1

17.02.2026 11:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Neuroblox

Innovations and Inventions at @picowerinstitute.bsky.social Neuroblox
picower.mit.edu/innovations-...
#neuroscience

17.02.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, Pluto is incredible. Because of my python muscle-memory I've just been running julia in jupyter whenever I needed a notebook but I finally took the plunge and it's crazy how many features this thing has. #julialang

13.02.2026 21:21 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
https://lwn.net/Articles/1006117/

β€œNew horizons for Julia”:

My article about #Julialang and new directions for the language. I talk about new tooling for installation, compilation to small binaries, and more. Julia is simply the best and most fun language for #science and #engineering.

t.co/azLBxkd49C

13.02.2026 01:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces Nature - The brain can flexibly perform multiple tasks by compositionally combining task-relevant neural representations.

Thrilled that my paper is out in the @nature.com. We explored how the brain builds complex tasks by compositionally combining simpler sub-task representations. The brain flexibly performs multiple tasks by dynamically reusing neural subspaces for sensory inputs and motor actions

rdcu.be/eRVUk

11.02.2026 22:40 πŸ‘ 130 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
Colourful image from the webpage of the Royal Society. Background is a mix of images of electronic circuits and silicon wafers. Text reads: "Welcome to the Royal Society. We are the independent scientific academy of the UK, dedicated to promoting excellence in science for the benefit of humanity."

Colourful image from the webpage of the Royal Society. Background is a mix of images of electronic circuits and silicon wafers. Text reads: "Welcome to the Royal Society. We are the independent scientific academy of the UK, dedicated to promoting excellence in science for the benefit of humanity."

FOR THE RECORD: one year on, I lay out clearly how Elon Musk FRS has breached the @royalsociety.org’s code of conduct, why the Society’s failure to defend its values has been so damaging, & what they need do to recover their standing in the scientific community. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/...

11.02.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 7

Smth like that in Matlab?

beautiful.makie.org/dev/examples...

10.02.2026 23:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0