Nature Communications has published a paper which comes to the conclusion that female students should avoid female mentors, based solely on publication metrics. They can only draw this conclusion by completely ignoring the systemic bias built into our system. nature.com/articles/s4146…

For my birthday, I'm raising money for the American Indian Science And Engineering Society. Every little bit helps! facebook.com/donate/2732751…

I worked my ass off to become a fake doctor. #JosephEpstein

New opinion piece with Thomas Naselaris and Kendrick Kay, "Extensive sampling for complete models of individual brains" is out now in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences! authors.elsevier.com/c/1cSvO8MqMicP…

I am thrilled to announce that a preprint for our extensive, high-quality, high-resolution, machine learning-friendly, 7T fMRI Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD) is now available! 🥳

Getting data is one thing, analyzing data is another. The Naselaris Lab (naselarislab.net) and cvnlab are looking for a postdoc to play with NSD. Computational modeling + big data. Contact us if interested.

I love this idea. x.com/neuralreckonin…

Just posted a photo @ St Paul, Minesota instagram.com/p/COjmuVBnB8j/…

VSSers, do you lay awake at night worried that the brain doesn’t have enough retinotopic maps, that there aren’t more category-selective clusters, what is up with the thalamus? Fear Not! Danny Guest has the answers Mon. 1PM ET 2021.visionsciences.org/?p=394 cvnlab Emily J. Allen, PhD #VSS2021

Well, you know what? Wherever we are going, it is going to be amazing as long as we do it together! ✨ Thanks OHBM Open Science Special Interest Group (OS-SIG), courtois-neuromod, Brainhack, OHBM & all our wonderful community members! 💙

NSD is here. The massive 7T fMRI dataset is now freely available on Amazon S3. Published paper to come soon. Pre-print: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… More info: naturalscenesdataset.org

#JNeurosci: Using 7T fMRI and a variety of sounds, Allen et al. University of Minnesota find evidence for tuning to simple frequency but also specific tuning for pitch, shedding new light on how higher-order sound features like pitch may be represented in the brain. jneurosci.org/lookup/DOI/10.…

jneurosci.org/content/featur… Check out our featured article in the Journal of Neuroscience looking at representations of tonotopy and pitch in human auditory cortex using ultra-high field 7T fMRI 🧠🎶🌈

The Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD), in which high-resolution (7T) #fMRI responses to tens of thousands of richly annotated natural scenes were measured while participants performed a continuous recognition task New from cvnlab Emily J. Allen, PhD UMN Medical School go.nature.com/327oX6C

Had fun writing this News & Views piece for Nature Neuroscience with Tommy Botch and Caroline Robertson on the Natural Scenes Dataset, a deep and rich new high-res fMRI resource from cvnlab for studying the cognitive neuroscience of vision and memory nature.com/articles/s4159…

It's here, it's finally here! Our Natural Scenes Dataset article is out in Nature Neuroscience today!! 🖼️👀🧠 🎉

Latest lab work in Nature Neuroscience. The Natural Scenes Dataset, a deep (large-data-per-subject) 7T fMRI neuroimaging resource for vision and memory, coupled with optimized single-trial estimation methods. For people who are good with data. nature.com/articles/s4159…

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This is the start of something big...

Congratulations to Emily J. Allen, PhD for receiving an Early Career Research Grant from NIDCD aiming to develop a reliable method for defining and parcellating auditory cortex in humans using cutting-edge techniques. buff.ly/47v5eed #UMNCLA #UMNProud