Richard E. Daws

Looking for a data-driven way to define ROIs from #fMRI activation maps? Why not try our Fusion-WS toolbox!? @e_soreq, the brain's behind the operation, @ProfHampshire and I have just made our first public release at github.com/Fusion-WS/Fusi…. Thanks for the 🧠 vid, @leechbrain!

Post Office scandal is instructive example of power and class in UK. CEO = returns CBE 😱 PO minister & director of public prosecutions = knights of the realm and lead political parties Innocent victims = prosecuted, neither compensated or exonerated 🤔

I've signed an open letter urging an end to the forced swim test in animal research. To force animals to swim for their lives for 20 minutes is ethically unacceptable and scientifically debatable. Many institutions have already stopped using it, and it's time for a wider change. The forced swim test often does more harm than good. I've discussed the ethical issues around such animal experiments in my book "Animal Liberation Now." Join this important cause. The deadline to sign the letter is December 13th. Your support can help end this practice. secure.peta.org.uk/page/133741/pe…

Today’s decision on HS2 is the wrong one. It will help to fuel the views of those who argue that we can no longer think or act for the long-term as a country; that we are heading in the wrong direction. HS2 was about investing for the long-term, bringing the country together, ensuring a more balanced economy and delivering the Northern Powerhouse. We achieved historic, cross-party support, with extensive buy-in from city and local authority leaders across the Midlands and North of England. Today’s announcement throws away fifteen years of cross-party consensus, sustained over six administrations, and will make it much harder to build consensus for any future long-term projects. All across the world, we see transformative, long-term infrastructure projects completed or underway. They show countries on the rise, building for future generations, thinking big and getting things done. I regret this decision and in years to come I suspect many will look back at today’s announcement and wonder how this once-in-a-generation opportunity was lost.

Twitter is closing its doors to hobby bots like this one. They tell us a week before this happens. There's been a lot of measured, well-mannered commentary from other makers of Twitter bots. I thought I'd share my uncensored thoughts instead. Fuck this. 1/?

We leap into DARC - announcing our most recent portfolio company Novai. exsightventures.com/blog/novai-r4w…

After many years of discussion, we are pleased to announce an investment in Novai. We look forward to working with Dr. Cordeiro and the team at Novai to advance this important technology.

I just learned that the first formula for calculating the n-th decimal digit of pi (without calculating all the preceding digits) has been found by Simon Plouffe in 2022 😲

🆓 🚨New view on mental health - Share it!🚨 authors.elsevier.com/a/1gLz56T90t4TZ Link ⬆️ - Free to read for 50 days! I'll summarise the paper below ⬇️ & please share it❤️ Gist = we get scared & hurt & then stuck. Can't help it. But there's a solution 🧵1/7 #psychedelics #mentalhealth

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How do we remember what was where? New paper with @Neurosharp @neurognosia @So_Dautricourt @pertzov in @SfNJournals explores transient misbinding during a period of post-traumatic amnesia (#PTA) following traumatic brain injury (#TBI) jneurosci.org/content/early/…

Congratulations to the winning startups in the #Biotech_Startup Program, 1st edition. Special thanks to all partners, judges, entrepreneurs, and everyone who contributed to the success of the program. #Dammam_Valley

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and deputy Angela Rayner cleared of breaking lockdown rules over Durham 'beergate' meeting bbc.in/3nPzH0I

I just heard that my brilliant student @helenhllai got awarded the @ImperialBrains presidential fellowship to work with me on some population-level models to improve the lives of people living with dementia in the @UKDRI well done - the papers are coming...

@e_soreq and I would love to hear feedback from you! Happy flood-filling! 🌊🧠

Fusion-WS uses the classic watershed by flood fill algorithm to transform smooth statistical spaces into discrete ROIs. Watershed is an elegant, but naive, deterministic approach that doesn't assume spatial gaussianity or require predefined k-clusters!

Looking for a data-driven way to define ROIs from #fMRI activation maps? Why not try our Fusion-WS toolbox!? @e_soreq, the brain's behind the operation, @ProfHampshire and I have just made our first public release at github.com/Fusion-WS/Fusi…. Thanks for the 🧠 vid, @leechbrain!

Really pleased with this proof that psychedelics work differently from SSRIs @DrugScience

Scrolling bbc news, then, “oh what’s this?!” 😀 - Psychedelic frees up depressed brain, study shows bbc.co.uk/news/health-61…