Leon Reteig

PhD students: Are you already considering how you're gonna write your thesis? Curious about alternatives to Word? Check out the #rmarkdown PhD thesis template I made for the University of Amsterdam! 🔖Documentation: lcreteig.github.io/amsterdown 📦Package: github.com/lcreteig/amste… 1/7

Time for me as well. So long, and thanks for all the tweets! newyorker.com/news/daily-com…

@jd_wilko I recently came across this review that includes 41 RCTs (didn't know there were that many already!): jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

@bramiozo I recently got the tip to click the little star icon at the top of your feed, and select "View latest tweets". I have the impression this doesn't only organise your feed chronologically, but also shows you less tweets from people you don't actually follow (i.e. clickbait stuff)

Is it just me? Do I have an unfortunate tag/filter/activity history?

My twitter/linkedin feeds are getting polluted more and more by semi-plagiarised, boiler-plate infomercial clickbaity lists/tips of the obvious that seem to come straight from a copywriters handbook. Always to plug either some paid newsletter or just the author him/herself.

@AleksaKaurin @KMKing_Psych I think I might have been one of those... To be clear, I think it's already awesome that you're sharing data at all, which is still a rarity! And I fully understand you expect some sort of attribution, especially if the data is unique and was effortful to collect.

@KMKing_Psych Thanks so much, Kevin! I've had so many replies that seemingly "had a completely opposite" motivation than mine, although I shared the data and was just interested in ppls views. I find it so interesting that Clin Sci obviously represents a very special case in many regards

@AleksaKaurin Difficult to say when a dataset has been "fully explored"... In one case I shared data *because* they hadn't been fully explored, and I thought this was wasteful. But then I neither had time nor interest myself; obviously different if your career (or your trainees') depends on it

@AleksaKaurin Yes, I think in all cases I shared data it's because I (ideally) wanted other people to use it. Otherwise I suppose I wouldn't have shared. But I realise this is now getting less clear-cut as institutions/funders might mandate sharing.

#OpenScience question: If you post your data & analyses online, would you consider that dataset to be "publicly available", that is for free use for others to publish with the data? I was recently approached by someone, who asked me to add some info ... 1/2

@TomRhysMarshall When I was teaching an undergrad Matlab course I did exactly this exercise live with the class. Though IIRC, students were not as surprised about this behaviour as I thought they would be:). I guess it's not that it doesn't make sense; it's just dangerous if you don't know...

Happy to share my second publication! 📖 Cerebral #smallvesseldisease is a collective term for problems in the smallest blood vessels in the brain 🧠. This disease causes a wide range of symptoms and may eventually lead to dementia or Parkinson's disease. 1/3

@nathanwpyle I have this one up over my desk, along with . Very consoling:)

@charliejhadley I also made a template afterwards, to hopefully make it a little bit easier for others to do the same: github.com/lcreteig/amste…

@charliejhadley 🙋github.com/lcreteig/thesis

@IrisVanRooij @jjfahrenfort This also seems like a good schema to keep in mind when writing a peer review of a paper

Your daily reminder (including for myself) of “the best antidote [for the] tendency to caricature one’s opponent” (Dennett, 2013) from: brainpickings.org/2014/03/28/dan…

Why do arousal states differentially impact performance on easy and difficult tasks? We offer a new perspective on this by using DNNs augmented with a global gain mechanism to mimic the effects of arousal!👀 Preprint together with @SanderBohte,@HeleenASlagter & @hsteven9 👇🧵

Excited to share our preprint: "Leveraging spiking deep neural networks to understand neural mechanisms underlying selective attention" together with @DavideZambrano, @HeleenASlagter, @SanderBohte & @hsteven9 Paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Code/data:osf.io/6tpz8/ 1/N

Het was een eer om hier mijn steentje aan te mogen bijdragen!

@msmeehui @sapinker Or, if you only have 1.5 min. : youtu.be/-n5JYSl_ioA 🙃

No time to read @sapinker's book? Here's his 18 min. TED talk ted.com/talks/steven_p…

Want to feel cheerful despite all the negative news in the world? Read @sapinker's #EnlightmentNow. It shows things have been improving at an incredible rate the last few hundred years. #quantitativehistory stevenpinker.com/publications/e…

@mdneuzerling @benrjack There is a letter format: #letter" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">pagedown.rbind.io/#letter

In case you missed it, in a recent blog post @fdabl describes a Shiny app that allows you to interactively explore #COVID19 exit strategies using the model developed by @luc_coffeng scienceversuscorona.com/interactive-ex…

CNN Explainer is an interactive visualization tool for learning purposes. It runs a pre-tained CNN in the browser and lets you explore the layers and operations: poloclub.github.io/cnn-explainer/ Video: youtube.com/watch?v=udVN7f… Code: github.com/poloclub/cnn-e… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2004.15004