Benjamin Zimmerman

Neuroscientist interested in how the universe works and how people work.

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

NUNM is highlighting a recently MRF-funded grant of mine - now underway. I'm quite excited for the opportunity to investigate the biological mechanisms of natural products that may be useful for preventing cognitive decline in aging.

https://t.co/pbhK5NEvq3

[Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory - U of I @CNL_Illinois]

🚨👀🚨Check out our new preprint, showing that stiffening of brain arteries precedes, and contributes to, losses in white matter integrity and fluid intelligence 🧠🫀lead by @DannyBovvie

https://t.co/2dtjTp0FsT

[Anusha Mishra @Mishra_CBF_Lab]

Pls RT!
We are hiring RAs & postdocs to study pericyte function and neurovascular coupling mechanisms in physiology & dementia pathology.
*Funded positions!
*Join a fantastic team!
*Live in beautiful Portland, OR!
https://t.co/sCzyFpNTBn
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DM/email for info.

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

Huge advance in fMRI applications! Can we somehow adapt this to finally know what dogs are thinking about and reach the pinnacle of science?

[Alexander Huth @alex_ander]

In the latest paper from my lab, @jerryptang showed that we can decode language that a person is hearing (or even just thinking) from fMRI responses. https://t.co/GUCDtiaXlR

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

This template generator is particularly nice.

[Sidhant Chopra @SidChop]

🏗️Template generator🏗️: https://t.co/koZcNlswqT
We also provide a jumping-off point for beginners to get their hands dirty! You can use drop-down menus to generate R & Python code templates & learn how to do code-based brain viz!
We'll continue to optimize this.

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

Very cool tool selection helper for neuroimaging visualization.

[Sidhant Chopra @SidChop]

🧠Neuroimaging peeps🧠 our field is blessed with beautiful visualizations. Our preprint provides 3 tools to help move toward code-based & replicable visualization:
📗practical guide (why should I?)
📦package selector (which one?)
🏗️code template generator (how do I start?)
👇🧵

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

Here is a Medium article about how learning about the somewhat esoteric art of image transformation in MRI analysis has mapped onto how I think about personality and self. https://t.co/xgHQE3dBZc

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

@benmontet Awesome, Ben!

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

@bhammerslag Lol, awesome! The E(x) is 4.774 for 7 pairs of socks. I don't know how to find the closed form for E(x) if you have more socks than me, though.

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

Suppose you have 7 pairs of well-mixed, distinct socks in the dryer, such that each sock has one unique match. This is a PSA that the expected value of the random variable X representing the necessary number of draws to find one matching pair is disturbingly high.

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

@bhammerslag Neither. I am drawing two socks and hoping for a match. Then when it isn't a match, I draw a third sock and hope it matches either of the earlier two, then the fourth sock can match any of the earlier three. Etc.

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

@marc_lepage @MelMitchell1 Test tweet 1: x is good.
Results: x value up 3%

Test tweet 2: y is bad.
Results: y value down 10%

Yeah, I think I'll buy that.

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

@ArkadyMartine Very well deserved! Good luck! I'm rooting for you!

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

So, when I learned "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" on the piano, I forgot how to play all my other Christmas songs for many months. Now that I have forgotten Hippopotamus, all the other songs spontaneously returned to my fingers without review. Can memory peeps explain?

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

@jaspar Wait...this is real

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

The rate should slow down a bit as I approach the water temp, but it seems like there is also some physiology at play. Does anyone know of work on this relationship? I would like to know how superior my cooling powers are from my bald head.

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

I took the temp of my bath today, and it was 115 deg. F (46 C). I think this is really hot, but my European friends at the climbing gym assure me that it's "kind of hot." Apparently "hot hot" starts at 120 F (49 C).

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

Sitting in this bath gives me fever pretty quickly, but my body temp never goes about 103 F (39.4 C). It seems like my body temp increases rapidly, but then the rate slows down. But this could just be psychological time dilation as it becomes challenging.

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

@benmontet @JontiHorner Even though no one likes this tweet except someone who didn't understand it, I will accept responsibility for changes in the right direction. https://t.co/0AmbnxJ7c0

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

What if we shifted time so that the Sun stayed up later in the evening for the winter. We could call it "daylight savings".

[Benjamin Zimmerman @BrainImmortal]

@russpoldrack I've had the opposite problem with students apparently having heard about voodoo correlations and dead salmon but thinking that the field didn't do anything about it.