Alexander Mark Weber

Text is king - by Adam Mastroianni - Experimental History read on, queen

www.experimental-history.com/p/text-is-king

Is reading dying? Some interesting thoughts in here

On Apple M3, a Linux KDE plasma desktop under Fedora Asahi Remix is now WORKING! Super excited to share this update and happy to answer any questions! Co-credits to noopwafel and Shiz. :)

GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers GPTZero's analysis 4841 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025 show there are at least 100 with confirmed hallucinations

" a submission tsunami fueled by generative AI, paper mills, and publication pressure has strained these conferences' review pipelines to the breaking point"

gptzero.me/news/neurips/

Original post: mastodon.online/@parismarx/1...

Well this paper seems to have a rosier idea
Without considering all the bad (slop) ones

As AI systems advance, they will
challenge our fundamental assumptions about research quality, scholarly communication, and the nature of intellectual labor.

gwern.net/doc/science/...

#science #academia #publishing #llm

I am! It's going to be 4 parts
Starting with this paper, then three papers about alternatives to BOLD

Prof. Lucina Uddin from UCLA discusses her views on brain networks as studied with functional MRI YouTube video by Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆?
@lucinauddin.bsky.social explains many of the challenges and controversies! Great discussion too.
Check out the latest Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon.
youtu.be/pP5swFPR0Ns

New maps of brain folds from 26 carnivoran species show how differences in behaviour and ecology appear in their anatomy.
buff.ly/IQvBHbh

40 percent of MRI signals misinterpreted - TUM Interpretation of numerous MRI data may be incorrect: blood flow is not a reliable indicator of brain activity.

Blood flow ≠ oxygen consumption

www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

It feels like the average time is 3-6 months

Damn these are excellent

From the GradSchool community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the GradSchool community

Some really good tips here. Wish I had learned number 3 earlier, or ever for that matter 🥲

www.reddit.com/r/GradSchool...

Hi Kathryn,

I sent you an email but haven't heard from you... Its been 10 days

Does anyone know how to access the #Altmetric API now? They require an API key, which, when i applied for one they denies me. Very annoying, as I had a python script that pulled the Altmetric data and autopopulated my CV. Now I have to do this manually

Thanks!

A recent study led by Drs. @weberam2.bsky.social and Ruth Grunau explores an innovative way to measure how preterm infants’ brains use oxygen, using advanced MRI technology that is both safe and noninvasive.

Learn more about the work from UBC and @bcchresearch.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/46HAZ5m

Markov Chains Are the Original Language Models Back in my day, we used math for autocomplete.

Very cool explanation of Markov Chains and how LLMs are just fancier versions of an old idea
elijahpotter.dev/articles/mar...

These Ant Queens Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch Into Another Species Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning males

WILD

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

I am giving a talk next week about how to use your computer in a more efficient way: #homerowmods, copy/paste with #copyq, screenshots with #flameshot, #wezterm, #tmux, #zsh, #vim, #neovim, #windowtilingmanager, #bat, #eza, #fzf, #rg, #fd, #zoxide, #yazi or #vifm, #lazygit
Any other ideas?

Big news! I was on a podcast for @bcchresearch.bsky.social
This was research in #preterm #brains, #oxygenation measured with #arterialspinlabelling and #qsm, and looking at ventilation methods.

Read more about the study here: bsky.app/profile/webe...

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New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!

N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!

🧵below

Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds | Science | AAAS Sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake papers

Publish or perish incentivises researchers to publish more, where scientific fraud has now become its own industry

www.science.org/content/arti...

My work is being highlighted by BCCHR Communications, but I don't use Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn:

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Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them Survey finds that fear of reputational harm and a lack of support and publication platforms are among respondents’ key concerns.

Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature

go.nature.com/450KElr

I believe at this time we can afford more nuance and precision than this. Most null results are uninformative because most experiments are uninformative because we use NHST to replace the scientific process. We can't keep avoiding the root problem forever. Also the focus on efficiency is jarring.

Schizophrenia Is the Price We Pay for Minds Poised Near the Edge of a Cliff Cliff-edged fitness functions and the evolution of schizophrenia

Interesting theory re #schizophrenia
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/schizophre...

Schizophrenia Is the Price We Pay for Minds Poised Near the Edge of a Cliff Cliff-edged fitness functions and the evolution of schizophrenia

Interesting theory re #schizophrenia
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/schizophre...

In Defense of ‘Silly’ Science Basic research and the value of curiosity.

Basic science is essential. "Most drugs don’t begin with research intended to make that drug. In fact, the results of their study showed that 80% of the medicines on their list led back to a discovery from basic research without any intention of creating a new drug" www.chronicle.com/article/in-d...