27 new videos on research methods and statistics are now live on my YouTube channel! 🧵 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

🚨Preprint Alert 🧠 Our new preprint „Menarche onset is an inflection point for mental health and brain development“ is now online! 👉 Preprint available here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

PubPeer Comments here, including comments by @ioanaacristea.bsky.social @ianhussey.mmmdata.io @gidmk.bsky.social pubpeer.com/publications...

Perimenopausal folks! Please get blood work done to check and see if you have any nutritional deficiencies I just found out that I am vitamin D deficient, and that would explain a lot of the symptoms that I currently have This is particularly important because this deficiency leads to osteoporosis

If you're still dichotomising continuous variables, stop. Dichotomising your exposure &/or outcome wastes power. Dichotomising confounders introduces residual confounding. If a variable has non-linear effects, use splines! If you want 'clinically relevant' threshold effects, use marginalisation.

We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

Nice clear presentation of commonplace meta-analysis failure mode: Pooling coefficients that mean different things, because original models had different adjustment sets. A coefficient gets its meaning from the whole model, not just from the predictor variable it multiplies.

He is dod nu. Wer giwt uns nu 'ne Beer?

Studie liefert Hinweise, dass Long Covid-Forschung, gemessen an Krankheitslast, unterfinanziert ist. Ebenso wird herausgearbeitet, dass das auch für ME/CFS gilt - und dass unterdotierte Forschung vermehrt Erkrankungen mit Frauen-Dominanz betrifft www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Today, the SCORE program releases its primary results! 865 researchers examined research credibility across the social and behavioral sciences, publishing three papers in Nature + five preprints. 📑 Explore the papers: www.nature.com/colle... ℹ️ Read more about SCORE: www.cos.io/score

For reproducibility, we could obtain data for only 24% of 600 papers. Of the 143 papers assessed, we precisely reproduced 54%, approximately reproduced 74%. We were much more likely to succeed if authors shared data and code, versus just data or if we had to reconstruct data from original sources.

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Are you aware of any shared synthetic neuroimaging datasets? Let me know.

Precision reward/affect fMRI study out now in HBM! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @dvsmith.bsky.social @olinotom.bsky.social @coopersharp.bsky.social and @shenghanwang.bsky.social Intensively sampled task + rest fMRI data with behavioral manipulation openly available on OpenNeuro! (1/2)

Our latest work looking at the neuroanatomical basis of impulsivity in youth is out now in Molecular Psychiatry!

For decades, females were basically ignored in addiction neuroscience. Then, thanks to the NIH SABV mandates almost exactly 10 years ago, researchers started including females, and things got intriguing, some evidence suggested the estrous cycle may influence the motivation to take cocaine.

"Our results cannot be treated as evidence of causality, but also you should act as if they do". Ah, science.

Running my first ever GWAS 🙌

Ich liege am 9. Mai in #Leipzig.

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Working hypothesis: If you're doing research and don't occasionally have a small existential crisis, either you've been blessed to work in an exceptional field (do tell which one it is!), or maybe you're being a bit naive.

A new data-sharing policy proposed by the NIH would result in “substantial harm to scientific progress,” a neuroimaging consortium says. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/data-sharing...

"Neighborhood street connectivity and hippocampus volume in older adults" Impressive study linking hippocampal volume in later life and street connectivity: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Still not using DeepPrep? It’s been downloaded 15k+ times (7k on DockerHub alone) in just 5 months after launch — helping labs speed through fMRI preprocessing 10x faster than conventional pipelines. see doc: deepprep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Are you interested in detecting brain changes in individuals with higher precision over shorter intervals? Check out our new paper in Nature Communications. With Randy Buckner, @jingnandu.bsky.social, and others. Link - doi.org/10.1038/s414...

NIH is requesting comments on a new draft policy that may require human brain imaging data (and other data) from nih-funded research to only be shared via controlled access, & only with certain countries. I suggest neuroimagers read closely & submit comments by 3/18. osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form...

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Transdiagnostic latent factor models of psychopathology are widely assumed to improve brain-behaviour associations. So we decided to test this directly and found that they don't. A short 🧵 Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/10

We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record." Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...

🧪 #episky #SciComm This should be the take home message “My personal advice… do not waste your money on nutritional supplements. There are huge commercial interests in their consumption and a lack of clinical evidence.” 🙏 Dr Pilar Guallar Castillón www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our first batch of MBE posters today! Many insightful discussions 💬 and food for thought 💭 #MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody 📸 @flxklotz.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social & Mascha Dagen Missed it? Check the PDFs here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/mbb-sympo...

[Admin] Liebe alle, auch diese Woche macht @realscientists.de ‬ macht eine kleine Pause. In der Zwischenzeit suchen wir weiterhin neue Wissenschaftler*innen, die eine Woche lang unseren Account übernehmen möchten. Wenn ihr Interesse habt, meldet euch unter: [email protected].

📣 The OHBM Women Faculty SIG is seeking nominations for 2 Communications Officers (1 postdoctoral fellow and 1 faculty member) to work synergistically towards the WF-SIG’s mission of supporting women in OHBM. 🗓 Deadline: March 13, 2026 🔗 Apply here: forms.gle/2AdQ9ouRy1kQ...

Can you recommend papers in epidemiology/biomedicine that do causal inference on observational data and thoroughly and explicitly discuss their underlying causal model and assumptions ? @dingdingpeng.the100.ci #episky

OSPARK Bootcamp #1 starts today! Before the bootcamp we shared short outreach resources on short-form videos, finding your niche, scriptwriting and editing. Watch them here: buff.ly/CZQYrTB Missed this round? The next edition comes to Munich (June–July): buff.ly/5J9Send

BRO 🫠 Wild stuff from @retractionwatch.com 🧪 "A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction" retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...

Ulrich Dirnagel giving a Tour de force through research waste in biomedical research - dark traits, unethical pro-organisational behaviour and fraud - now come the fixes 🤞though hard to get at the roots @idiv-research.bsky.social

Great workshop on causal inference and DAGs with @dingdingpeng.the100.ci - learning so much and hopefully will apply this soon in a next project @idiv-research.bsky.social

In 2 Wochen ist es so weit! Steht der Termin 19.-22.3. schon im Kalender?

Fascinating talk by Sheena Bartscheler on the open science movement from a sociologist perspective - shedding light on central involvement of political actors and problematic communal Story telling 👀 @idiv-research.bsky.social

[Admin] Liebe alle, @realscientists.de macht eine kleine Pause. In der Zwischenzeit suchen wir immer neue Wissenschaftler*innen, die eine Woche lang unseren Account übernehmen möchten. Wenn ihr Interesse habt, meldet euch unter: [email protected].

Anthropic hat aus aktuellem Anlass eine Möglichkeit bereitgestellt, den ChatGPT Verlauf etc mitzunehmen 😎 claude.com/import-memory

Don't forget, just 2 weeks until abstracts are due!

Thumbnail is emptiness, and emptiness is thumbnail. Here's a link to the video tho, in case anybody is wondering what they're apologizing for 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-6...

CAUSAL GRAPHS ➡️ HAPPINESS. 😍 Agree? & Work in/around Berlin? 🐻 Sign up for the 2026 Applied Causal Graphs Workshop! 🌟 Deadline Feb 28th ⬇️ applied-causal-graphs.de This 3rd edition is hosted by the great folks at Uni Potsdam 💡

If you have #LongCOVID, you might want to skip this book - written by a neurologist, whose book, The Age of Diagnosis, "ostensibly makes the case for Long Covid being a (predominantly) psychosomatic condition": @drelke.bsky.social bjgplife.com/suzanne-osul...

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

I've built a new tool! You can upload your pre-analysis plan or registered report, pre-submission to a registry or journal, and it will screen it for completeness, clarity, and consistency. 1/ 🧵

Improvements to methods should lead to more robust evidence and more rapid advances in knowledge. In their Perspective, Marcus Munafò & @mendelrandom.bsky.social look at why this hasn't been the case and what can be done about it #AcademicSky 🧪