I’m in a college football pool using my usual strategy. I pick teams by the quality of their Ed Psych program. So far, I’m beating 1/2 the guys in our pool.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

"metropolis" is not the mass noun of spiders I would ever like to encounter

I encourage every PhD student to set up an academic website, even if they don't feel like they have a lot to put on it. Why? Helps to get discovered by search engines and establish a search-friendly presence. What platforms work well for simple websites and are cheap (or better yet, free)? 👀

Looking for graduate students for next year! We have fully-funded positions open to study signed languages, cognitive/educational neuroscience, development, and educational technology! Email me for more info or see here: tinyurl.com/EdNeuro2026 Please share!!

Blown away after visiting INM-1 led by Katrin Amunts this Monday – Markus Axer and her showed us their setup of acquiring whole-brain slices (e.g. 7,000 of them to make up Bigbrain 1) – and the mesmerizing effects of polarized light on cryosectioned (raw) brain sections as can be seen in the video.

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically. Please subscribe.

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

Just said "no" to something

If, like me, you have reached a time of year where you feel more overwhelmed and behind than usual, please take a beat and take care of yourself. Eat well, exercise, get some sleep, and lean into some social interactions. We've got this!

Martin Freeman did a fairly good job of avoiding being typecast, didn't he. (I've just discovered The Responder.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_...

The psychology program at NYU Abu Dhabi has open rank open area positions in cognition-perception-cogneuro. Wonderful colleagues, excellent research infrastructure (incl MRI, MEG, EEG), close ties to NYU New York. Superfast growing part of the research world apply.interfolio.com/175417 #neuroskyence

Let the taxing of the Halloween spoils commence

Ok scientists, how many of you did this as a kid? 🙋‍♀️

There still seems to be a lot of confusion about significance testing in psych. No, p-values *don’t* become useless at large N. This flawed point also used to be framed as "too much power". But power isn't the problem – it's 1) unbalanced error rates and 2) the (lack of a) SESOI. 1/ >

Best of luck to parents tonight 🎃

Every time I see this show advertised I think it’s “Poldrack” as in @russpoldrack.org 😂

If you are on the job market this fall, listen to this! The tips here are great for everyone, not just for quant folks. I have a couple of additional comments:

Our new paper is out! It offers a tool to assess collinearity impact on contrast estimates *and* uses simulations + MID data to show how common collinearity avoidance strategies can bias results. Huge thanks to @russpoldrack.org , M Demidenko, and the ABCD folks. 🔗 direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience! We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961

ok fellow old* people, when was peak science twitter? I feel like 2012-2016 or so. Critical mass of people in my subfield, paper threads and hashtags were popular, not much nonsense, etc. * complimentary

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We need to start this trend at work

Every time my graduate(!) students talk about old research from the early 2000s, my bones dissolve into dust.

🆕 New open neuroimaging dataset released! I’m happy to share that our Naturalistic Neuroimaging Database (NNDb3T+) is now publicly available! NNDb3T+ captures rich, multimodal brain activity in a naturalistic setting with 40 participants and over 160 hours of scanning!

Amazing

The thing I "should" do (that was due Monday!!!!!) vs. all the things that would be a lot more fun to do

in a just world this dapper man will not only crack the louvre heist case but also reveal he was the true mastermind behind the louvre heist

Forgive me, Chicago, I was not aware of your game

👀 #neuroscienceoflanguage

Updating my LEGO White House

Columbia Psych is hiring *two* junior faculty in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience this year! If you work on cognition (broadly defined), submit your application materials as soon as possible (review starts Nov 1). If you have questions you can reach out to me by email! apply.interfolio.com/175428

Coming up on 1 month post-surgery, have completed 60 days of EMA, 20 sessions of MRI, 16 sessions of fNIRS, 20 sessions of EEG, not to mention blood, saliva, and a host of other data collection. It's been super fun to hang out with folks in my colleagues' labs. (Also a little exhausting!)

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Monty Python understood p-hacking

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me when the Labubus are restocked

Since I can’t work my day job, I’m back to my side gig. 7 handmade dichroic stained glass brains up for grabs tonight at 7pm EST at www.brainedglass.com

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Supposedly this is the future of academia

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

I'm so sorry to share that Friedemann Pulvermüller, brilliant neuroscientist, has passed. He gave Embodiment ideas legs and worked tirelessly on treatments for stroke victims during his storied career. His kindness and wry humor made him sparkle.

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🎉 Get ready for Black In Neuro Chapters Week 2025! 🗓 Oct 27–31 — a week of connection, community & celebration 🖤 📣 Chapter Roll Call 🤝 Community Call 🍸 Manhattan Mixer 🧠 1st-ever Chapters SURP Symposium! ✨ Register: linktr.ee/BINchapters #BlackInNeuro #BINTogether #ChaptersWeek2025

University administration: "We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible." Also university administration:

🚨Job Alert!! Please share widely!!🚨 Where: Applied Psychology, Northeastern University What: Clinical Professor (open rank), as new program director for our Master of Science in Counseling Psychology Why: We are a fun department 🎉 Please apply!!

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

me: Son, I love you so very much. You are my favorite son in the whole world. You are the best. son (age 5): Dad— me: Yes? son: 5 plus 5 is 10.