After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

How about starting the new year with a new Nilearn release? Sure: here is Nilearn 0.13.0 for y'all!!! New features: extract data to pandas or polars dataframes, get cluster statistics for surface analysis... More info here: neurostars.org/t/nilearn-0-...

Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Only use I have found so far in LLMs. Helped me translate the recipes on my website. remi-gau.github.io/recipe/en/oi...

Glad some people are willing to lose years of their life to listen, fact check and debunk this type of content. And also remain entertaining.

You think AI is an awesome coding tool? Have you tried reviewing a pull request that is being vibe-coded by someone not trying to engage with the problem at hand?

Episode 46: Sapiens It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.

Spent the afternoon cleaning my parents' garden, rather than cleaning someone else's mess in a codebase. #TouchGrass Encountered way more bugs, but without ever having to get rid of them. Never felt the urge to use dark mode. #vitaminD Pruned some branches, but not the git kind.

The result of a large (42 authors!) collaboration: "Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation" arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824 TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.

markets soar as investors realize that mommy didn't actually disappear, she was just hiding behind her hands

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn. And it's live RIGHT NOW! psych-ds.github.io (This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)

If 80% is the threshold, I think people should get seizures from most websites with cooking recipes.

GitHub Action now officially support the free-threaded CPython. hugovk.dev/blog/2025/fr...

If you care about computationally reproducible results but also like notebooks. You probably should ditch jupyter in favor of marimo.

Today I was told I am more useful than a LLM. Take that, chatGPT!

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

After years of research on human interaction and experimenting with novel ways to organize communities, today I unveil a brand new social media app. The key idea: your interactions are arranged in ‘bins’ along a social dimension. You post, we put it in one of these ‘bins’. The name? Histogram.

We checked how easy it is to match up people's brain maps after spatial normalisation. Turns out very! Maybe that surprising to many in the field - but my impression has long been that people are a bit in denial about deidentifying data. #neuroskyence #visionscience doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Left my hand to my niece to do as she pleases and here is what happened. Hope my fellow geeks will get all the video game reference.

Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

I for one cannot wait for the next AI winter...

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

The rest of the world calls it "changing job". We call it "leaving academia".

The alternative medicine industry has flipped the meaning of placebos. Don’t be fooled. My latest on what I'm calling the ShamWow Fallacy. www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Is anyone keeping a list?

A statistical Xmas tree... Full of stars with a cross at the top.

Sophie Smith's piece in the LRB on the rape trial, and on men in general, is chillingly, vividly brilliant. Via @helenbarrett.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"arbitrary woodland" == "random forest"

THREAD This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis 1/31

The venerable Bay Area Skeptics are hosting their latest free streaming lecture in 20 minutes, with a talk from the always insightful Massimo Pigliucci (editor of Philosophy of Pseudoscience, author of Nonsense on Stilts and many others): www.youtube.com/live/1NL_Pvs...

Unpopular opinion. To make sure you will publish the code that goes with your scientific paper: start with a PUBLIC repo from the VERY beginning.

Didier Raoult now published a 'preprint' claiming I am 'close' to Gates Foundation - citing a France Soir article as the reference. He also suggests that my poor facial recognition skills are linked to autism, with 'serious psychosocial consequences'. What a sad man. hal.science/hal-04795904/

There's a lot of papers out there on optimal stopping but I think I've read enough.

Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

Does anyone have a recommendation for an eyetracking data analysis tool in Python? Ideally something that e.g. has fixation and saccade detection algorithms, and some visualisation. It seems that there is no particularly good standard. @benediktehinger.bsky.social #VisionScience

Such a fun episode with some security horror stories.

Actually, with nilearn, from fmriprep outputs it is really fast to try different strategies for preprocessing and picking different atlases. Check https://main-educational.github.io/intro_nilearn/functional-connectivity-with-nilearn.html

Post a pic YOU took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

We could not have done this awesome revamp without the support of @incforg.bsky.social, Google Season of Docs, and our fabulous team of Tech Writer @iamdamion.bsky.social and mentors @remigau.bsky.social, @christinerogers.bsky.social, Anthony Galassi, and me! Feel free to provide feedback.

BIDS Website Revamp! ✨ Struggling to find BIDS resources? We hear you! Our new website brings (most) everything together. Check it out: bids-website.readthedocs.io Let us know what you think! (Feedback survey link is at the top of the page)

Cannot stress enough how much work was done over the last few years to make this possible !

We are pleased to announce that the newest member of the BIDS Steering Group is Franco Pestilli. Franco has been elected to a term lasting from 2025-2027, and is replacing outgoing member Ariel Rokem. #BIDS #BrainImagingDataStructure

If you believe quant research doesn't need contextualization, remember: for most fMRI public datasets on openneuro you can get results that are highly reproducible but almost uninterpretable as neither the data nor the paper describes the task properly.

In 1971, one of the most famous experiments in the history of psychology was conducted in the Stanford Psychology basement. The lesson about the study, retold in countless lectures, textbooks, and movies, seemed clear: people slip naturally into social roles. We argue this is largely a myth.

I really like the idea of interviews on "current status and future challenges in brain imaging". I do NOT like that 14 of 15 interviews are with men. Who is missing from this list? We have lots of amazing neuroimagers who aren't men. #neuroskyence www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper out! "Ten simple rules for scientific code review" journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol..., in which I detailed how to use *code review* in academic research in a didactic, effective, and enjoyable manner.

We are excited to announce the opening of the nomination period for electing two new Steering Group members! The nomination period opens today, September 3 and will close on Friday, September 20 at 11:59pm (Anywhere on Earth; UTC-12; time.is/Anywhere_on_...).