Each year in December, I donate 10% of my net income to charity.

My picks this year:

- **Women's Earth Alliance** https://womensearthalliance.org/, women's empowerment in climate action & adaptation

- **Coalition of Rainforest Nations** https://www.rainforestcoalition.org/ helps communities protect their rainforests, critical for carbon storage, biodiversity, and the livelihoods of indigenous communities

- **Doctors Without Borders** https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/, friends who work in humanitarian aid tell me that Doctors without borders still give medical care after all the other charities leave. See also their recent commitment to stop showing so many white doctors treating patients around the world.

- **Milieudefensie** https://milieudefensie.nl/ pushes for major campaigns and legal actions in NL to protect the environment and challenge fossil-fuel interests

- **Fossil-free NL** https://gofossilfree.org/nl/ another major player in NL, coordinating large campaigns for decarbonizing and divestment across sectors

- **Climate emergency fund** https://www.climateemergencyfund.org/ a network who support many grassroots groups such as @ScientistRebellion

- and finally, my local food bank https://voedselbankleiden.nl/; it's shameful that a rich country like NL has these at all.

Happy holidays and new year folks! ✨​

Hey 👋...I just joined neuromatch.social, so I'm re-introducing myself on mastodon-- thanks for stopping by!

I'm an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth, and I run a research lab studying the brain network dynamics that support learning and memory.

I really like computational models, deep learning, natural language processing, ed tech, open science, data science, visualization, and neuroimaging. I love coding and puzzles too 🤓​!

Wanna learn more about my lab, read our papers, download our software, take our MOOCs, watch our talks, etc.? Check out https://www.context-lab.com/

If you're a grad student, postdoc, or assistant professor, you may also want to take a look at the MIND computational summer school: http://mindsummerschool.org/

#introduction

Hello! 👋

We are now keeping you up-to-date about the latest MNE-related developments on Mastodon. 🦣

Please follow us 🐾 and spread the word! 📢

Article grand public sur les IA conversationnelles actuelles comme moteur de raisonnement et de connaissance: impressionnantes sur la forme, mais n'égalant pas l'IA à l'ancienne (IBM Waston) pour répondre à des questions

https://theconversation.com/beau-parleur-comme-une-ia-196084

Co-écrit avec Fabian Suchanek

#introduction

Hi! I'm engaged in #FAIR & #OpenScience, #OpenData, #ResearchDataManagement, #scholarlycommunication and metadata standards, and I'm here to meet others with (some of) those interests.

I have 13 years of experience in facilitating scientific collaboration and building engagement around community (meta)data standards in #neuroscience. My background is in engineering #physics (MSc), #scicomm, #neuroinformatics and #compneuro (PhD).

Based in #Sweden, #Stockholm.

How literally should you take the correspondence between DNNs and brains? According to St-Yves et al. (2022), not so much. DNNs trained with fMRI account for about as much variance if the DNN-brain mapping is explicitly hierarchical or flat. A potential explanation:

> [...] DNNs are, as a family of models, simply degenerate with respect to many of the properties that visual neuroscientists currently consider interesting and important. Indeed, it is increasingly appreciated that DNNs with widely varying architectures afford similar levels of performance in predicting brain activity.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.21.477293v1

For my first post here, I want to share this amazing course on the foundation of maths, from logic to differential geometry - which I posted on Twitter long ago. A good intro to manifolds btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=V49i_LM8B0E&list=PLPH7f_7ZlzxTi6kS4vCmv4ZKm9u8g5yic&index=1

Happy holidays everyone! All my thoughts with the foreign trainees and others who won't be able to spend time with their family this year.

Here's a little project I've spent about a day on: https://github.com/nipreps/version-schemes

It's a plugin for setuptools_scm to handle a YY.MINOR.PATCH version scheme.

Since I'm starting from scratch, I figured it'd be a good place to hold myself to best practices like type annotations and 100% code coverage, as well as a fully pyproject-based package.

New project!📢

We're excited to announce funding from CZI to create a collaborative service for cloud-native workflows in biosciences for Latin American and African communities. ✨

See this post more info:

https://2i2c.org/blog/2022/czi-global-communities-announcement/

Para leer este post en español, vea el blog de MetaDocencia:

https://www.metadocencia.org/post/infraestructura-nube/