Low-dimensional manifolds are all the rage in neuroscience. Evolutionary biologists have noted analogous low-d manifolds in "phenotype space". Are there similarities between these neural and evolutionary phenomena? A blog: tinyurl.com/3wafu9b5 And a tread: 1/n

I find animations useful to teach metrics to undergrads. I believe it improves understanding to see what goes on. Here is a thread with my favorite GIFs, most of them are re-makes of stuff from #EconTwitter.

How do we decide to compete or not during a group competition? In a study led by William Li in the Ziv Williams lab published today in nature we show that the dmPFC plays a fundamental role in calculating when to compete or not @MGH_RI MGH Neurosurgery nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/n

Now at @nature ! Work I co-first authored w/Scott Marek : Brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals nature.com/articles/s4158… The result of years of graduate and post-doc work, #teamscience, and learning to embrace scientific complexity. 1/x

Based on our experience teaching Neurohackademy over the years, . and I wrote a book: neuroimaging-data-science.org, intended to be a practical introduction to the intersection of neuroimaging and data science