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Building the Basic Infrastructure That a Layperson Would Expect Systems Neuroscientists to Have Would Revolutionize the Discipline: A Vision for ONICE

Building the Basic Infrastructure That a Layperson Would Expect Systems Neuroscientists to Have Would Revolutionize the Discipline: A Vision for ONICE — Note: This was something I wrote hastily a long time ago, and my thinking has dramatically changed since this was written (read: i think most of this is wrong or at least too coy to

NSF GRFP Advice and My Annotated Proposal

NSF GRFP Advice and My Annotated Proposal — I saw this tweet from Mae with the brilliant idea to share her NSF GRFP materials & give a thread of advice: It's NSF GRFP season!I wanted to go ahead and share my (rejected) 2014

An Adversarial (re)Analysis of Zhou/Firestone 2019

An Adversarial (re)Analysis of Zhou/Firestone 2019 — This post is a reanalysis of Zhenglong Zhou and Chaz Firestone’s paper “Humans can deciper adversarial images,” so let’s get some links out of the way Paper - Zhou Z, Firestone C. Humans can deciper

Crudely converting OpenEphys to Neurodata Without Borders

Crudely converting OpenEphys to Neurodata Without Borders — Our lab is toying with the idea of moving our data to Neurodata Without Borders. Turns out it won’t be such a monumental task after all. I figured someone would have written a guide for

Correlation Isn't Connectivity

Correlation Isn't Connectivity — In a network analysis class this fall, I was unsurprised but more than a little annoyed to learn that the widespread practice of measuring “functional connectivity” by correlating voxelwise fMRI timeseries was essentially unvalidated. Of