investigating electric waves in the brain,
thinking about visualization, interfaces,
art & beauty with computers.
nschawor.github.io
Natalie Schaworonkow
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very useful to see work in this direction, trying to figure out the cellular contributions to 1/f-activity.
at the moment, it's sometimes frustrating to read studies in the vein of: 'we found differences in this 1 number and it means this 1 thing', there's not enough evidence for that. 🙃
weekend project: built an LED action potential 💡
sometimes I am asked which is the best book/resource for starting out with EEG/MEG. I think my pick would be this one!
'MEG-EEG primer' academic.oup.com/book/46874
beautiful illustrations throughout & the side-by-side discussion of EEG & MEG makes a lot of sense.
intracranial EEG artifact: if an electrode is located over a blood vessel, you can occasionally see some nice rhythms. sadly, these are not neural rhythms, but reflect the pulsation of the blood vessel, which moves the electrode around slightly. can also be seen in non-invasive EEG occasionally.
Really happy for my awesome colleague Jiajie Zou! He is now leaving us for a postdoc at the MPI for Biological Cybernetics. Tübingen folks, please give him a warm welcome, aka invites for talks and such. 🙂
we have a themed bathroom on the ground floor of the institute 🙂
(designed by our fantastic graphic designer Claudia Kernberger)
the median number of authors on a research paper who are familiar with the underlying code: 1
it generally feels like that number will decrease even further, honestly a quite scary development. 😕⬇️
Mon-Thu: reformat figure legends for the 17th time and other equally exciting tasks, mild questioning of life choices.
Friday!: look at the brain in real time! 🤩🙂
Friday @ MEG lab diary entry: new high score in this head position deviation game, <0.8mm ➡️ a good day! 🟢🌟🟢
Natalie Schaworonkow
Natalie Schaworonkow
Natalie Schaworonkow
Natalie Schaworonkow
Natalie Schaworonkow
Natalie Schaworonkow
Natalie Schaworonkow
Natalie Schaworonkow
Natalie Schaworonkow
New paper that merits a read (Im totally unbiased...not). Simple, straightforward, impactful message. Prediction a la LLM is nice. Constituent-constrained prediction is nicer. @jiajiezou.bsky.social and Nai Ding show brain, behavioral, MEG, ECoG data.
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence
Does aperiodic activity index neural excitability?
Single-unit and LFP recordings during optogenetic interneuron suppression show that aperiodic activity scales with firing, but it depends on context and oscillatory power. New preprint with @juliaveit.bsky.social.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Sadly, applications to the Advanced Python summer school have dropped significantly over the past 2 years.
Plus, there'll be no external funding for the 1st time in *17 years*.
Likely all because of GenAI - but programming skills still matter🔥
Deadline May 3, please help by sharing:
aspp.school
