Starting now "ABC Seminar: Human Neocortical Neurosolver" by prof. Stephanie R. Jones aalto.fi/en/events/abc-… @abc_aalto The challenge for SRJ is to connect macroscale human EEG/MEG signals to cellular and circuit level electrophysiology. "To bridge the gap is to use computational modelling"

Last week I’ve met some curious 9th graders who had many questions about the brain. Are you a neuroscientist? Answer to one of the questions in the thread below and tag it with #ScientistsInSchool. 9th graders will read your answer! Please RT. @aivoAALTO @aina_puce @AnnikaHulten

https://twitter.com/eglerean/status/1072624493024174080

Write also the question to your tweet to make it self contained. Ping also to @LNummenmaa @JSuvilehto @OnervaKorhonen @minnahuoti @SatuSaalasti

This is important. Yes, re-identification of de-identified brain MRIs is possible, but it is considered to be a crime under GDPR, implemented as “data protection” laws in EU (each country made their own laws and legal consequences).

https://twitter.com/SasaKivisaari/status/1037239593068912641

Pseudo-anonymisation assumes that it is “highly unlikely” to re-identify the data. This means that for those cases in which it becomes trivial to reidentify a subject (eg rare case study subject), special care is needed and it should be the ethical committee with the researcher..

Finally out "Maps of Subjective Feelings" with @aivoAALTO @LNummenmaa and J. Hietanen. pnas.org/content/early/… 1/7 In this study we run three web experiment asking how we perceive 100 common feelings by assessing them i) over 5 dimensional scales, ii) similarity between them iii) how they map on the body and iv) collected similar terms from @neurosynth 2/7

As somebody pointed out already, pyramid schemes are everywhere outside academia. I’d love to work as a (data) scientist for a non-profit NGO, but as soon as profits are involved I start to question the ethic of my work. 1/n

https://twitter.com/Psychologician/status/1026509588382670853

Academia is still one of the most ethical options (if done with integrity and transparency) as I feel I am putting my skills for the benefit of society, even if basic scientific research cannot be directly translated into applications. 2/n

I’m a Matlab “guru” (or so they say) since 1999, but I’ve decided to switch to Python as the future for me can only be there. Here’s a nice book to do the switch enthought.com/white-paper-ma… 1/n

https://twitter.com/gallantlab/status/1014680265711501312

Don’t get me wrong, I love Matlab. I’ve done anything with Matlab from signal processing toolboxes to art installations (!). 2/n

"Cortical Cartography: Characterising the peaks and valleys of the cerebral cortex" talk by @cMadan has just started at @AaltoUniversity @abc_aalto brainscience.aalto.fi/en/current/eve… Excellent educative talk based on measures from structural MRI and their correlations with for example age. See ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27103141

Brainhack Global 18 in Finland has just started with prof. Em Riitta Hari @aivoAALTO talking about the unsolved questions in neuroscience #bhg18 #bhg18fi "how good are your data?" often theory comes before data (e.g. physics) and many labs do same experiment and results are combined #bhg18 #bhg18fi

Soon starting Em. Prof. Riita Hari (Aalto University) @aivoAALTO :
"How to react fast with a slow brain".

Live stream at this link: connect.funet.fi/neuroscience/
Live tweeting under #brainandmind hashtag. I once again have high expectations from this talk!