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Nikola Stikov
@stikov #11974
Professor at Montreal Polytechnique / NYU Abu Dhabi reinventing MRI and academic publishing. Co-founder of NeuroLibre reproducible preprints: www.neurolibre.org
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Our foundation KANTAROT and SCIENCE FOR KIDS won the 2024 best conference award from BEAM (Best Event Awards Macedonia)!!!
We presented BUKI at the Telekom MK annual kick-off event. Thank you for the invitation and the warm welcome!
Го претставивме БУКИ на kick-off настанот на Телеком. Благодариме за поканата и прекрасниот пречек!
Го претставивме БУКИ на kick-off настанот на Телеком. Благодариме за поканата и прекрасниот пречек!
Wanna fund science the right way?
STOP PROPPING UP FOR-PROFIT PUBLISHERS
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/funding-science-is-actually-a-badass
STOP PROPPING UP FOR-PROFIT PUBLISHERS
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/funding-science-is-actually-a-badass
One of my biggest regrets during my time at Stanford was that I never got to see a good concert at Frost Amphitheatre. Back then Frost was dead, now they started a festival there and they got Doechii to headline!!!
https://stanforddaily.com/2025/02/11/frost-fest-2025-headliner-revealed-doechii-takes-center-stage/
https://stanforddaily.com/2025/02/11/frost-fest-2025-headliner-revealed-doechii-takes-center-stage/
MRathon is joining forces with the MRS hackathon right before the ISMRM 2025 meeting in Hawaii! Registration is now open, register at the link below:
https://mrathon.github.io/honolulu2025/
https://mrathon.github.io/honolulu2025/
Proud of my wife Dragana!
In this podcast she explains our foundation's vision. We want children to ask questions, deal with ambiguity, and work with mentors from an early age. Most importantly, we want them to love science, because "love is the biggest magnet of them all"!
https://youtu.be/lfYaJzGaxO0
In this podcast she explains our foundation's vision. We want children to ask questions, deal with ambiguity, and work with mentors from an early age. Most importantly, we want them to love science, because "love is the biggest magnet of them all"!
https://youtu.be/lfYaJzGaxO0
Kicking off another sabbatical at NYU Abu Dhabi
Reach out if you would like to visit during the first half of 2025, exciting NeuroLibre and qMRLab developments in the works!
Reach out if you would like to visit during the first half of 2025, exciting NeuroLibre and qMRLab developments in the works!
I was recently on the Umno podcast, talking about my research and our foundation KANTAROT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZMmIseSXxg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZMmIseSXxg
БУКИ МОЖЕ ДА СПАСИ ЖИВОТ
Пишува: доц. д-р Димитар Вељановски, специјалист радиолог и супспецијалист интервентен неврорадиолог
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/buki-moze
Пишува: доц. д-р Димитар Вељановски, специјалист радиолог и супспецијалист интервентен неврорадиолог
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/buki-moze
TO MY MYSTERIOUS BENEFACTORS
I got a full ride to Stanford University thanks to the Elsie B. Ballantyne fund. The Elsie B. Ballantyne foundation was formed in 1968 and it dissolved in 1972. That is all I could find out about them online. Yet a gift they made to Stanford paid my way through college. When I started my studies, I was informed that Mr. Robert Ballantyne was elderly and had trouble seeing, so I regularly wrote him thank-you notes in large letters informing him of my progress. When he passed way, I decided to write to his wife to send my condolences. Below is a verbatim copy of that letter. I never heard back from my mysterious benefactors, but they showed me the value and the joy of giving. Our foundation KANTAROT / КАНТАРОТ is a way of paying their gift forward.
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/to-my-mysterious-benefactors
I got a full ride to Stanford University thanks to the Elsie B. Ballantyne fund. The Elsie B. Ballantyne foundation was formed in 1968 and it dissolved in 1972. That is all I could find out about them online. Yet a gift they made to Stanford paid my way through college. When I started my studies, I was informed that Mr. Robert Ballantyne was elderly and had trouble seeing, so I regularly wrote him thank-you notes in large letters informing him of my progress. When he passed way, I decided to write to his wife to send my condolences. Below is a verbatim copy of that letter. I never heard back from my mysterious benefactors, but they showed me the value and the joy of giving. Our foundation KANTAROT / КАНТАРОТ is a way of paying their gift forward.
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/to-my-mysterious-benefactors
WE NEED MORE AMATEURS IN SCIENCE!
Had a lot of fun with this NeuroLibre preprint, big thank you to Evelyn McLean, Jane Abdo, and Nadia Blostein for putting it together!
Also thanks to Aella, The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective, Slime Mold Time Mold, Roger's Bacon and Seeds of Science for their science and for the interviews
https://preprint.neurolibre.org/10.55458/neurolibre.00031/
Had a lot of fun with this NeuroLibre preprint, big thank you to Evelyn McLean, Jane Abdo, and Nadia Blostein for putting it together!
Also thanks to Aella, The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective, Slime Mold Time Mold, Roger's Bacon and Seeds of Science for their science and for the interviews
https://preprint.neurolibre.org/10.55458/neurolibre.00031/
TO PDF OR NOT TO PDF?
In September we organized NeuroLibre Day, and the most provocative lecture came from Dmitry Novikov, a professor at NYU
I am a well-known PDF hater, but Dmitry made me question my assumptions and rethink the publishing incentive structure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UASTR-BGLo
In September we organized NeuroLibre Day, and the most provocative lecture came from Dmitry Novikov, a professor at NYU
I am a well-known PDF hater, but Dmitry made me question my assumptions and rethink the publishing incentive structure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UASTR-BGLo
"Some truths keep swimming around in my memory, refusing to be forgotten and resurfacing in most unexpected times and places."
I wrote this essay 10 years ago when I was applying for faculty positions. It got me the job. It still keeps me going.
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/my-teaching-statement
I wrote this essay 10 years ago when I was applying for faculty positions. It got me the job. It still keeps me going.
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/my-teaching-statement
Instructions how to donate your voice to Buki 2.0 via the Mozilla Common Voice platform.
Macedonian speakers, help us train our open-source transcription tool
https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/mk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEfg4imGTfI
Macedonian speakers, help us train our open-source transcription tool
https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/mk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEfg4imGTfI
Mozilla Common Voice
commonvoice.mozilla.org
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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Now my wife, Dragana Stikova, knows what I do on ChatGPT all day
It’s been a busy month for our Foundation KANTAROT, and we have lots to show for it
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/libra-net-19-augmenting-our-reality
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/libra-net-19-augmenting-our-reality
I can never remember how many Gauss are in 1 Tesla (10,000) and how many satoshis are in 1 bitcoin (100,000,000).
Today I realized that bitcoin/satoshi = (Tesla/Gauss)^2 and my mnemonic needs are satisfied for the day
Today I realized that bitcoin/satoshi = (Tesla/Gauss)^2 and my mnemonic needs are satisfied for the day
There's a popular theory by Erik Hoel that we stopped producing Einsteins because we perverted the concept of tutoring and mentorship. In the past tutors were world-class scientists who expanded the horizons of their gifted students. Today tutors are pragmatic professionals who help our children score high on standardized tests.
Our Foundation is providing mentorship of the old-school kind. My wife’s essay on this topic is personable, eloquent, and inspiring
https://umno.mk/naukata-e-prijatelka/
Our Foundation is providing mentorship of the old-school kind. My wife’s essay on this topic is personable, eloquent, and inspiring
https://umno.mk/naukata-e-prijatelka/
Our vendor-neutral MRI work got an oral in the News on relaxometry session at ESMRMB 2024 (3:30pm on Thursday)
Agah Karakuzu could not get the visa to come to Barcelona, so it is up to me to live up to the title of our abstract
Agah Karakuzu could not get the visa to come to Barcelona, so it is up to me to live up to the title of our abstract
Four events and a preview
Our foundation KANTAROT is gearing up for a fun month ahead, including NeuroLibre day, European research night at Europe House Skopje, the Parlez-vous fran-sci collaboration with the Skopje French Institute, and the third Science for kids conference.
That, plus a sneak preview of a special project, at the link below
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/libra-net-18-four-events-and-a-preview
Our foundation KANTAROT is gearing up for a fun month ahead, including NeuroLibre day, European research night at Europe House Skopje, the Parlez-vous fran-sci collaboration with the Skopje French Institute, and the third Science for kids conference.
That, plus a sneak preview of a special project, at the link below
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/libra-net-18-four-events-and-a-preview
Over the last five years I have told countless students not to do a PhD. The reasons are many, including low salaries, stressful work conditions and poor prospects of becoming a professor.
I reviewed a book that made me rethink my strategy
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/it-goes-without-saying-a-review
I reviewed a book that made me rethink my strategy
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/it-goes-without-saying-a-review
Sometimes three minutes is all you get. I designed an entire graduate course around this idea.
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/grading-is-subjective-period
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/grading-is-subjective-period
My love affair with the Stanford MRSRL scanner reaches a bittersweet conclusion today, when the scanner will be celebrated before being decommissioned later this year.
I cannot be there for the celebration, so I decided to write a love letter:
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/a-love-letter-to-the-mrsrl
I cannot be there for the celebration, so I decided to write a love letter:
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/a-love-letter-to-the-mrsrl
Join us for NeuroLibre Day in Montreal on September 27!
We have a stellar list of speakers who will talk about reproducibility in publishing and registration is free
https://events.neurolibre.org/day/
We have a stellar list of speakers who will talk about reproducibility in publishing and registration is free
https://events.neurolibre.org/day/
To fix this issue we need a journal that will put article processing fees to good use:
1. Maintain an infrastructure that integrates the article, the code and the data
2. Pay the reviewer to make sure the article is reproducible
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/peer-review-is-essential-for-science-unfortunately-its-broken/
1. Maintain an infrastructure that integrates the article, the code and the data
2. Pay the reviewer to make sure the article is reproducible
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/peer-review-is-essential-for-science-unfortunately-its-broken/
For those who like going down rabbit holes, the Tracing Woodgrains backstory ends with 52 pages of notes that document the arcane subculture drama surrounding David Gerard
Well worth a substack subscription!
https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/a-young-mormon-discovers-online-rationality
Well worth a substack subscription!
https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/a-young-mormon-discovers-online-rationality
“Finally, Gerard had found the most Reliable Source of all: himself.”
A fascinating read about citation mills, Wikipedia and the internet
https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/reliable-sources-how-wikipedia-admin
A fascinating read about citation mills, Wikipedia and the internet
https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/reliable-sources-how-wikipedia-admin
It was a pleasure to discuss #ismrm24 on Peter Bandettini's NeuroSalience podcast
My highlight was Andrew Webb's stellar Lauterbur lecture that made a clear distinction between hype and reality in low-field MRI, whereas Sean Deoni's tried to blur that line with his meandering (and pandering) Ernst lecture
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ohbm/episodes/Neurosalience-S4E20-with-Polimeni-J---Huber-L---Stikov-N---Vizioli-L---Yacoub-E----OHBM-vs-ISMRM-e2kqdbq
My highlight was Andrew Webb's stellar Lauterbur lecture that made a clear distinction between hype and reality in low-field MRI, whereas Sean Deoni's tried to blur that line with his meandering (and pandering) Ernst lecture
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ohbm/episodes/Neurosalience-S4E20-with-Polimeni-J---Huber-L---Stikov-N---Vizioli-L---Yacoub-E----OHBM-vs-ISMRM-e2kqdbq
Last day of my 2024 sabbatical and I discover that my Erdős number has dropped to 3
Off to Montreal to buy Alan Evans a beer!
Off to Montreal to buy Alan Evans a beer!
Our Foundation KANTAROT announced an award for best science reporting by an elementary school student in Macedonia.
The award honors my father's legacy and hopes to promote science journalism in Macedonian
https://naukazadeca.mk/kolegastikov
The award honors my father's legacy and hopes to promote science journalism in Macedonian
https://naukazadeca.mk/kolegastikov
What a pleasant surprise!
Our 2015 paper on the accuracy of T1 mapping won the Michael S. Patterson Publication Impact Prize by the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists
Congrats to co-authors Mathieu Boudreau, Ives Levesque, Christine Lucas Tardif, Joëlle Barral, and Bruce Pike
Our 2015 paper on the accuracy of T1 mapping won the Michael S. Patterson Publication Impact Prize by the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists
Congrats to co-authors Mathieu Boudreau, Ives Levesque, Christine Lucas Tardif, Joëlle Barral, and Bruce Pike
Can anybody tell me more about this drink? I had it in the Just Meat izakaya in Tokyo, tastes like sour sake
Wrapped up my Japan sabbatical with a productive visit and a memorable kaiseki dinner with Kei Yamada and his team in Kyoto
Off to Singapore for #ismrm24 #ismrm2024
Off to Singapore for #ismrm24 #ismrm2024
Promoted to full professor!
Honored, humbled and happy to continue doing science my way
Honored, humbled and happy to continue doing science my way
Continuing my 2024 sabbatical with two months at Juntendo University in Tokyo
I am honored to open today's symposium on vendor neutrality featuring presentations from five MRI vendors (Siemens, GE, Philips, Canon and Fuji)
I am honored to open today's symposium on vendor neutrality featuring presentations from five MRI vendors (Siemens, GE, Philips, Canon and Fuji)
Announcing a call for
NeuroLibre.org reproducible preprints related to bio-imaging. If you have an idea for a reproducible publication, our team will help you build it
Apply by March 1, or just help us spread the word!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fNv4_y30S_imCuVx_9gVWy3ETKuFYjsqzhqThrPJ9Fk/edit
NeuroLibre.org reproducible preprints related to bio-imaging. If you have an idea for a reproducible publication, our team will help you build it
Apply by March 1, or just help us spread the word!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fNv4_y30S_imCuVx_9gVWy3ETKuFYjsqzhqThrPJ9Fk/edit
Appel de contribution notebooks NeuroLibre / Call for NeuroLibre notebooks
NeuroLibre a reçu du financement du Réseau de Bio-imagerie du Québec (RBIQ) pour aider les scientifiques québécois à préparer des prépublications NeuroLibre reproductibles (PNR). Ce financement servira à rémunérer un développeur de l’organisme NeuroLibre qui consacrera jusqu'à 10 heures pour travailler avec les membres du RBIQ afin de convertir leurs codes d’analyse et données en une prépublication reproductible. Cliquez sur le lien ci-dessous pour en savoir plus sur la platforme NeuroLibre: https://conp.ca/fr/quest-ce-que-neurolibre/ Nous invitons tous les membres du RBIQ qui souhaitent soumettre à NeuroLibre à remplir ce questionnaire de soumission avant le 1er mars. Nous ne pouvons pas garantir la sélection de chaque soumission. Cependant, nous nous engageons à répondre promptement et à travailler rapidement avec les auteurs des projets choisis. Les projets seront évalués en fonction de l'importance scientifique et de la compatibilité d’être converti en un PNR. --- NeuroLibre received funding from the Quebec Bioimaging Network to help Quebec scientists with the preparation of NeuroLibre Reproducible Preprints (NRPs). The funding will be used to pay for the salary of a NeuroLibre developer, who will dedicate up to 10 hours to work with QBIN members to convert their data and code into a reproducible publication. Click on the link below to read more about NeuroLibre: https://conp.ca/about-neurolibre/ We are inviting all QBIN members who are interested in contributing to NeuroLibre to fill out this submission questionnaire before March 1. We cannot guarantee that each submission will be selected, but we will do our best to respond quickly and work quickly with the authors of the chosen submissions. Submissions will be evaluated according to i) scientific importance and ii) NRP compatibility.
docs.google.com
Announcing #MRathon 2024, a hackathon for increasing MRI accessibility!
Join us for socializing (May 2) and hacking (May 3) in the beautiful Jackie Chan house at the Singapore University of Technology and Design
Share this post to help us spread the word
https://mrathon.github.io/singapore2024/
Join us for socializing (May 2) and hacking (May 3) in the beautiful Jackie Chan house at the Singapore University of Technology and Design
Share this post to help us spread the word
https://mrathon.github.io/singapore2024/
Being right in science is more important than being funded. History proves that over and over.
“The upfront cost of creating a beautiful video or piece of music will fall further along with the marginal cost of spreading it, while the substitutability of copies will increase.“
Maxwell Tabarrok interpolates the future and shows how outdated copyright laws are.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-140206389
Maxwell Tabarrok interpolates the future and shows how outdated copyright laws are.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-140206389
It was a pleasure to present at the recent Incentivizing Open (ICOR) community meeting. Below are some remarks I made about the NeuroLibre reproducible preprints
https://incentivizingopen.org/2024/02/activating-open-research/
https://incentivizingopen.org/2024/02/activating-open-research/
“The c^2-index of a scientist is the largest number n such that there exists n papers that each cite the
scientist at least n times"
Looks like this is a good way to spot citation manipulations, as proposed by Yasir Zaki, Talal Rahwan and colleagues:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607
scientist at least n times"
Looks like this is a good way to spot citation manipulations, as proposed by Yasir Zaki, Talal Rahwan and colleagues:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607
What is NeuroLibre?
We wrote a quick introduction to our reproducible preprint server
https://conp.ca/about-neurolibre/
We wrote a quick introduction to our reproducible preprint server
https://conp.ca/about-neurolibre/
