Will Alexander

@PessoaBrain @rei_akaishi you don't make friends in science by falsifying each other's models

Network neuroscience, do we have a problem? It looks like it, worth a close look. And it might be affecting >3000 papers 😱 elifesciences.org/articles/79559

Voting is open for the illusion of the year contest at illusionoftheyear.com/vote/ If the Venn diagram of things you enjoy includes the overlap of illusory motion, Norwegian Expressionism, and existential dread, I encourage you to vote. youtube.com/watch?v=M7hQKn…

@ScienceMagazine @SciRobotics So you can tune a fish?

On #WorldTunaDay, learn more about the tuna-inspired #robot Tunabot. Scientists revealed in 2021 that tuning the stiffness of Tunabot’s tail is critical to achieve high swimming efficiency comparable to real tuna. scim.ag/2sc @SciRobotics

as long as we're abandoning Neuroimage: anyone interested in a new family of journals where the only criterion for publication is a letter of acceptance from an Elsevier journal?

@JamesMHyman . . . were they for or against?

Just was at a 2.5hr faculty meeting and we discussed humanism and mysticism. AMA.

@elonmusk would love to do this as soon as possible!

This is my finest work – please add to gravestone along with “invented car fart”

@toddkashdan whichever one had the song about sex and candy

Your absolutely astounding factoid of the day Which did you buy first? And if you say none deep friendship just went off the rails.

@BanBunting @toddkashdan my deepest regret is missing the 3 year span when intensely nasal vocals were the key to stardom

@toddkashdan This one came out that year too and remains vastly underrated

@JamesMHyman matched only by the hope of a *_finalFINAL.docx file

The hope of a *_start.doc file.

sometimes it's nice to sit quietly and think back on all the times you've been part of a perfect zipper merge

Another paper out showing that individuals with #spinalcordinjury have compromised #multisensoryintegration due to reduced stimulus silence and higher perceptual competition with increasing reaction times. With @modelbrains @CostantiniM75 nature.com/articles/s4159…

final twitter hot take: 'value' is a circular concept; your research program sits on a throne of lies.

@ElianaVassena @brain_apps Trust the model

@brain_apps @modelbrains I'm sure @modelbrains is also very excited to see that order effect are real :-)

Excited to this study published today. What information do you seek first, the effort or the reward? Seeking one might mean you are less motivated than the other... nature.com/articles/s4159…

The venn diagram of Twitter ads and ads you'd find in the back of 'Soldier of Fortune' magazine will eventually become a single overlapping circle.

I was skeptical at first but after seeing the 3d render I can see how these absolute specimens could come to dominate the gene pool. studyfinds.org/humans-deforme…

Like most, I'm conflicted about the change in eLife review policies. On the one hand, they will probably publish more manuscripts with questionable results. On the other hand, they will also make more money from publication fees on those manuscripts. It's a delicate balance.

@WilliamsNeuro pine

What's your favourite email client??

me: i don't have enough material on the history of cognitive neuroscience to cover a 75 minute lecture, i should add a reading. me (75 minutes later): and that's why Aristotle wasn't all wrong about the brain dissipating heat. Now, skipping ahead to the Age of Enlightenment...

New preprint. It turns out you can account for, conservatively speaking, all cognitive control effects as deriving from information reliability. psyarxiv.com/a9bmh