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megan peters 🧠
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thank you to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for working with me to share my thoughts & this piece with you all! ... 8/8
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megan peters 🧠@meganakpeters.bsky.social |
1382 followers 931 following 211 posts
associate prof, uc irvine cogsci: perception+confidence+consciousness, fMRI+models+ML+AI interested also in meta-science, education reform, phil of sci prez+co-founder, neuromatch fellow, CIFAR brain mind & consciousness she/her. views mine.
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megan peters 🧠
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thank you to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for working with me to share my thoughts & this piece with you all! ... 8/8
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megan peters 🧠
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my CALL TO ACTION for you: talk w/ your groups about how to fix this - *without* leaving ECRs behind - in this sorely needed cultural shift towards new credit assignment practices & heuristics. ... 7/n
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megan peters 🧠
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i am hopeful we can collectively come up with something better than co-first/co-last, CRediT tickboxes & author contribution statements nobody reads, or Consortium et al.! ... 6/n
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megan peters 🧠
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we need a new system that is: easy to use, correctly collates & categorizes contributions, & IMPORTANTLY scratches the "first author, last author" heuristic itch so people can be appropriately credited -- in hiring/promotion, in collective perception, & in culture. ...5/n
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megan peters 🧠
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d) the CRediT system works great for bibliometrics, but not sociocultural factors - API accessible, but not easily human readable e) nobody reads author contribution statements! ...4/n
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megan peters 🧠
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a) co-first/co-last doesn't cut it (people still fight over who is 'really' first!) b) Consortium et al. obscures individual contributions c) long author lists dilute "traditional" credit for everybody (& are excluded from some metrics!) ...3/n
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megan peters 🧠
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doing what we have been, but many newer authorship/credit assignment practices still fail to get credit assignment right. this is a huge problem, one which which also disproportionately affects trainees & younger independent scientists (ECRs). specifically: ... 2/n
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megan peters 🧠
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it's out! here i discuss a huge social & cultural challenge of consortium science in modern, "big neuroscience": who gets credit, how much, & what kind in big collaborative science outputs? we're at a cultural crossroads. the path forward isn't clear. we can't keep ...1/n
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megan peters 🧠
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nothing like unintentionally planning a work trip to end up exactly in the path of a total solar eclipse... at a random Ontario truck stop halfway btwn Detroit & London. shoutout to the #NSF lady at DCA for gifting me eclipse glasses since i forgot mine!
truly spectacular.
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megan peters 🧠
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so apparently there's an eclipse today. coincidentally, i planned to fly from DC to Detroit and land an hour before the totality is due to hit the area for entirely non-eclipse reasons... and then forgot my eclipse glasses. but the nice woman from the NSF at my gate had a whole stack! thanks NSF!
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Daniel Yon
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At @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social , we’re recruiting two new permanent Lecturers. We’re especially interested in recruiting in cognitive neuroscience and/or computational modelling 🧠
If you’d like to know about life & science at Birkbeck - please get in touch! 🧠🟦
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
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megan peters 🧠
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of course. and also every tall piece of furniture is strapped to the wall, and all the fragile knickknacks stuck down with earthquake putty, because we've definitely all personally learned that lesson the hard way.
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megan peters 🧠
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all y'all new yorkers need to chill about this earthquake. 4.8? we sleep thru those out west 😎
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Gregg D Caruso
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New updated SEP entry on The Neuroscience of Consciousness by Wayne Wu and Jorge Morales (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons...
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CogCompNeuro
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🚨Submissions for #CCN2024 are now open at ccneuro.org 🚨
We welcome submissions for 2-page papers (deadline: 12 April) and Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), Keynote+Tutorials, and (new this year!) Community Events (deadline: 5 April).
Stay tuned: registration will open in early April!
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Liz Chrastil
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🚨 I'm looking for postdocs! More info and apply here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF08916 We are looking for: 1) individual differences in navigational (and other cognitive) abilities, multimodal imaging; 2) aging & the role of sex hormones; 3) spatial & non-spatial cognitive graphs
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Steve Fleming
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📢 The abstract deadline for the Perceptual Metacognition Satellite has been extended to April 11th!
Still time to submit!
sites.google.com/view/asscmet...
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megan peters 🧠
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despite hakwan's self-deprication, i think this is going to be a great meeting! (disclaimer: i co-organize it so i might be biased. but i still think it'll be great 😎)
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Neuromatch
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Have you heard about Climatematch Academy: Comp Tools for #ClimateScience? It's a globally inclusive course that trains students on cutting-edge techniques to access and analyze open-source modeled and observational climate data.
Apply to be a student or TA: neuromatch.io/climate-scie...
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megan peters 🧠
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neuromatch is here on bluesky!! follow for all things computational neuroscience, deep learning, climate science, neuroAI, open science, and education reform 😊
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
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megan peters 🧠
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so pleased to have been part of the team working on this! please let us know what you think!
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Nicole Rust
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Brain and mind researchers of all types: I hope you'll join this conversation at Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (August 6-9, Boston).
I'm envisioning a community-centered conversation unlike any I've seen before; because it's unusual, I unpack it here:
www.nicolerust.com/grandplan
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megan peters 🧠
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I dearly would love to come to this but it overlaps with something else! Is it possible it will be recorded?
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Kobe Desender
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PhD and Post-Doc positions in my Lab!
We are currently recruiting (i) a Marie-Curie "CODE" PhD student to work on confidence and reinforcement learning, (ii) a Post-Doc to work on metacognitive insight into latent cognitive parameters. Deadline 31 March, pls RT!
Apply: desenderlab.com/job-openings/
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megan peters 🧠
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and then we get to talk about what/how/why questions, modeling/analysis goals, and the focus on selecting the toolkit that is appropriate for your questions rather than just applying deep learning to everything :)
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megan peters 🧠
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(6) *record scratch* that last study was a dead salmon. so let's talk about how you need to ask good questions and know the literature/theory before you blindly interpret 'significant results' as meaningful using neuroimaging.
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megan peters 🧠
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(5) LOOK there are different activations for different viewing conditions in animals! ANIMALS ARE CONSCIOUS LIKE US ...
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(4) OOH, can we exploit this to see whether the same findings hold across species and tell whether ANIMALS are processing social situations the same as people do, and so might have similar conscious experience? (didn't tell them what the animal was)
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(3) ooh, can we exploit these findings to tell whether someone who *appears* in a vegetative state is ACTUALLY in a coma vs conscious but can't move?
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megan peters 🧠
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i showed them some impactful, classic univariate fMRI analyses focusing on the questions being asked, following this trajectory: (1) are faces vs places represented in different places in the brain? (2) how about mental imagery of motor planning?
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megan peters 🧠
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yes please! thank you ashley!!
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Carl T. Bergstrom
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Science can be really fun.
Baseball fans will delight in a new preprint from @kordinglab.bsky.social, "Bayesball: Bayesian Integration in Professional Baseball Batters", in which the authors look at trajectories of over 1 million contacted MLB pitches....
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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megan peters 🧠
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i would love to see this model and would gladly contribute to a survey collecting data to make it happen!
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megan peters 🧠
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the 3rd annual ASSC Perceptual Metacognition Satellite is happening! July 1st 2024 (day before @theASSC @ASSC27tokyo) at Waseda University in Tokyo 🥳🥳
registration is free but places are limited; abstract deadline for short talks is March 28th!
sites.google.com/view/asscmet...
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megan peters 🧠
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linking to That Site to help promote this: neuromatch is hiring a research assistant professor!!
twitter.com/neuromatch/s...
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megan peters 🧠
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time under review: 7 months allowed time to revise: 4 weeks time under review: 4 months (optional: repeat the cycle several more times) ... accepted time to do print proofs: YOU MUST HAVE THESE BACK TO US IN 72 HOURS OR THE WORLD WILL END and then they send you "polite reminders" daily. why.
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Daniel Yon
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Are you sure? Would you like another look?
Here we find a double dissociation between the kinds of uncertainty that control information seeking & those that shape subjective feelings of confidence.
w/ Georgie Edwards-Lowe, Elisa La Chiusa & Helen Olawole-Scott
Link: t.co/bC7j2bEQ83
#neuroskyence
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Anna Schapiro
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We are recruiting a full-time research assistant to begin this summer! Please apply / share with anyone who may be interested! wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...
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megan peters 🧠
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my inbox only has 419 unread... basically the same right?
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Nora Bradford
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My first for
@quantamagazine.bsky.social
!! The default mode network has been a hot topic over the last ~20 years, but the conversation has changed quite a bit since the early days.
Thanks @hanner.bsky.social + @johnrennie.bsky.social for the edits!
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Marcelo Mattar
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Come join us! Wei Ji Ma and I are recruiting a postdoc to study human planning in chess using a massive dataset of online chess matches. The postdoc will join both of our labs, as well as an NSF-funded collaboration with Tom Griffith's lab at Princeton.
Apply at: apply.interfolio.com/139253
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megan peters 🧠
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👇👇👇
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Eitan Schechtman
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If you're a tenured #AD researcher (or study another neurodegenerative disease), come join us at UCI! Our department is super collegial and friendly, and southern California is just the best!
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megan peters 🧠
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yes the GPTs training themselves also seems problematic for all sorts of reasons!
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megan peters 🧠
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well this is terrifying.
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megan peters 🧠
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yes 100%! but if we had more time, maybe there would be more space for deep thinking too 😎 at least this is my fantasy/wish
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megan peters 🧠
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also important to note of course that i do not ONLY work and sleep. sometimes i wish i could sustain that but i think the reality is my brain (and family/friends) would rebel.
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megan peters 🧠
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when i was younger, i used to be afraid i'd eventually run out of ideas, wouldn't be creative enough to sustain a research program. problem is now i have way, way too many questions. it's really too bad humans need to sleep. we could do so much more cool stuff if we didn't need to sleep.
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megan peters 🧠
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unfortunately everything about American politics is just depressing right now. but your study is great!
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Lauren N. Ross
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Excited to share a new paper w Dani Bassett on "Causation in neuroscience: keeping mechanism meaningful" in Nature Reviews Neuroscience
We explore different meanings of mechanism in the field, the challenges this presents & how to move forward. 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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