PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: You must cross-validate sorted plots!! E.g. peak-latency sorted colormaps of neural activity. Otherwise you WILL find "sequences" out of random noise. Don't believe me? A proof in four lines. Anyone feel like you have seen the last panel before?

**Preprint Alert** In February 2020, perhaps the last normal month for many of us, my collaborators and I were alerted to a bug in a virtual environment we had been using for almost a decade. This project is the story of what happened next. Buckle up. 🧵(1/46 - yes, really)

Very excited to share new work with AvivMezer in Science Magazine! We show that glial cells in histological slices reveal local fiber orientations in the white matter. Article: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. Code: github.com/MezerLab/Nissl…. 1/n

New preprint PsyArXiv from Chujun Lin 林楚君 & me! "Fooled by beautiful #data: #Visualization aesthetics bias trust in science, news, and social media." Across 4 studies, we show that people (mis)place more trust in more beautiful graphs. Paper: psyarxiv.com/dnr9s/ Explainer 🧵👇

1/9 Paper is out rdcu.be/cNHoL Here's some takeaways including new tidbits (good & bad!) since the preprint & even after the paper was accepted. Large sample sizes are helpful for individual-level prediction. We have known that for quite some time, but the recent...

🚨9 DAYS UNTIL APPLICATIONS CLOSE FOR 2022🚨 Join us for our second annual #gradschool recruitment & mentorship weekend for #URM & #firstgen students interested in the mind sciences in collaboration with PennMindCORE. Reply with any questions you may have about the event!

We are recruiting participants for fMRI experiments! If you are in the Penn / Philly area and want to earn up to $95, you can find more info and register here: 🔗forms.gle/d1QmsS6Vj9vXQ7…

Excited to share our Nature Rev Neurosci paper with Dela Farzanfar @hugospiers #MorrisMoscovitch: trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/40…

Come join us in Philly! The Epstein Lab Penn has postdoc openings on NIH-funded projects that use advanced fMRI methods to investigate the neural basis of cognitive maps (broadly defined), spatial navigation, and spatial/nonspatial memory in humans. Collaboration with @NoraNewcombe

One of the best things on Twitter just started again - "live tweets" from World War II, following the war in real time (from September 1, 1939). Highly recommended. x.com/RealTimeWWII

An impressive new work by the great Seth Koslov on medial parietal cortex subdivisions!

I usually don’t write political posts on Twitter, but I wanted to clarify a few things about the situation in Israel.