My buddy Richard Olivo have often talked about how our curmudgeonly takes on the state of #neuroscience makes us feel like we're Statler and Waldorf. Now AI can let us see what that'd look like... and it is spot on!

Teaching Statistics Using Web Applets–Including esci thenewstatistics.com/itns/2026/04...

Psychologists Help Society in so Many Ways thenewstatistics.com/itns/2026/04... Portrait below of Ron Cumming, aeronautical engineer, psychologist, pioneer (with Ross Day) of human factors in Australia

This is us!! This is the sluglab!!

Recent work from our lab got a lovely write up in @thetransmitter.bsky.social today, summarizing the ongoing mystery of memory maintenance. #neuroscience www.thetransmitter.org/memory/new-s...

All the more reason to use systematic software designed to tackle this very problem, like RegCheck (regcheck.app)

1. The paper with the implausibly large effects of Omega-3 fatty acids on mental health was now retracted. A little thread on the process where @ianhussey.mmmdata.io and I was involved. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Teaching Workshop will take place July 15-19 at North Central College, just outside of Chicago. Registration is open (tinyurl.com/fun2026nc) and you can still submit a poster. Keynotes include Michell Miller and Alexxai Kravitz. #neuroscience

Up to 2008 there were over 1700 published gene/schizophrenia association studies implicating over 1000 genes. Now none of these studies are viewed as useful. -- Legge et al., 2025 What a fascinating post-mortem this would make for a meta-science project. #neuroscience #stats #metascience

BOLD is not a simple monotonic readout of local firing. Instead, it reflects the net activity of two opposing neural populations. Interpreting it may require modeling their latent composition, not just overall activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Brunch With Petra at the Museum thenewstatistics.com/itns/2026/04...

Just saw David Byrne’s Theater of the Mind and let me save anyone reading this $100: skip it. No matter how much you like the talking heads or David Byrne. The show is bad, bad, bad: treacly pablum with some neuroscience demos awkwardly mixed in. 75 minutes and $100 you won’t get back.

Simulator of the following (attentional) models: 🔎 Rescorla-Wagner 🔎 Pearce-Kaye-Hall 🔎 Mackintosh Extended 🔎 Le Pelley’s Hybrid 🔎 Rescorla-Wagner with a unified variable learning rate (integrating Mackintosh’s and Pearce and Hall’s quasi-opposing conceptualisations). github.com/cal-r/PALMS-...

esci produces lovely figures of effect sizes with CIs for most common designs. It's catching on: In March 2026, esci was downloaded over 2700 times in jamovi and another 700 times in CRAN. Still lots of rough edges-- send feature requests and feedback my way! github.com/rcalinjagema... #stats

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

Who says null results are uninteresting? Here, our lab shows that most transcriptional changes fade *before* memory expression. This is surprising, and raises lots of interesting questions about how long-term memories are maintained. #neuroskyence #stats www.eneuro.org/content/13/3...

Genuinely a thrill to see figures created with esci popping up in papers. Here's one from a meta-analysis of antibiotic residues in food in Southern Africa... something I know nothing at all about, but apparently esci came in handy. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #stats

Simine drops in for dinner! thenewstatistics.com/itns/2026/03...

More evidence that intranasal oxytocin does not reliably impact trust: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Cool work from @wviechtb.bsky.social, @leonieseidel.bsky.social, @dhernaus.bsky.social and others. #neuroskyence #stats.

doi.org/10.1111/jep.... Statistical reform spreads around the world and across disciplines: Beyond the p Value Dichotomy: Alternatives for Statistical Inference—A Critical Review

thenewstatistics.com/itns/2026/03... We want the best research methods–of course–but should also consider philosophy, ethics, global heating and health.

The eNeuro "Improving Your Neuroscience" series continues with a two-part primer on experimental design and blocking from Penelope Reynolds. These new guides will help you up your design game. #stats #neuroscience www.eneuro.org/content/13/2... www.eneuro.org/content/13/2...

Scientists created prosthetic barn-owl ears and got human participants to wear them for 3-59 days. Yes, people walked around with barn-owl ears for up to 2 months *for science*. This is the type of news I need today to restore a bit of my faith in humanity. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Sterling, 1959 updated. We still aren’t sharing science in a scientific manner. With 65 years of knowing the problem, how are we still struggling to address it?

So excited to see DaBest 2.0 is out: get bootstrapped estimation statistics for simple through complex designs, all with beautiful visualization, available in R and Python. Check it out! Pre-print describing new features for complex designs: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #stats

Looking forward to reading this retrospective on the promise and perils of organizing an RRR with in-person data collected. From: @aggieerin.bsky.social , @psforscher.bsky.social , and others. #stats doi.org/10.1111/spc3...

Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app

esci 1.0.9 is now on CRAN. No big changes, just a couple of bug fixes and some compatibility changes for statpsych 1.9. Still a great easy way to get effect sizes and fair tests for many common designs. cran.r-project.org/web/packages... #stats

thenewstatistics.com/itns/2026/01... A statistics textbook for the AI era

The Faculty for Undergraduate Teaching Workshop is back this summer, July16-19, right outside of Chicago. A great conference with great people. Registration and abstract submission are open… it is going to be great! #neuroscience www.funfaculty.org/conference_2...

Another threat to stereotype threat? An RRR (in press, AMPPS) shows the ~0 impact of stereotype threat on female math performance. Fantastic, arduous work from leads Andrea Stoevenbelt, Paulette C. Flore, and Jelte Wicherts (and DU alum @luis-a-gomez.bsky.social) #stats osf.io/preprints/ps...

Some frank talk about paper mills from @sfnjournals.bsky.social . (maybe @cbmetznancy.bsky.social ). Really hard to see how the integrity of scientific publishing will hold up against the incentives and the tools to cheat. #neuroscience www.eneuro.org/content/13/1...

Too many significance tests!! Made this little graphic for my #stats class, showing the various kinds of (N)HST and how interpreting confidence intervals can replace all of them. Made with #rstats #ggplot (duh)

Most neuroscience data is *not* normally distributed... so what should you do about it? Here's a great tutorial from @mikemalekahmadi.bsky.social focused on regression techniques for non-normal data: www.eneuro.org/content/13/1... #stats #neuroscience

Another paper I want to read, this one on the interpretation of effect sizes, with data on actual use in psychology. Seems to be another contribution to sentiment that we need to get over Cohen's d -- raw score effect sizes are usually best! doi.org/10.1057/s415...

This looks like an interesting discussion of I2 and its interpretation for meta-analysis: doi.org/10.1017/rsm....

Here's an intriguing new(ish) finding from our lab: as a memory is forgotten, transcription seems to fade more rapidly than memory expression. This is a project we completed in 2019 and finally had a chance to write about: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #neuroscience

Whoever did this, I love you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGfN...

New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

An unbiased tally of social science experiments shows less than 1/3 of hypotheses were supported. This is what our research literature *should* look like. Biggest predictor of success was sample size, but largely due to ability to detect trivial effects.

Today's a good day to register for PsychTerms, an online workshop on the teaching of statistics and methods that will be held Dec 10-11: www.psychterms.com Lots of great presentations to help pump up your teaching mojo for spring semester. #stats

Estimation is catching on! The esci module in @jamovi.bsky.social was installed over 3,000 times in November. The R package in CRAN is getting an additional 250 downloads a month. Are you estimation curious? So easy to get started with esci: rcalinjageman.github.io/esci/ #stats

We're not shocked at all the fake conference/paper inquiries we get but: I got an email from an editor at Elsevier asking me to adapt a presentation they had seen me make at SFN.... a presentation I had *not* ended up making. Why do we just shrug off routine mendacity like this? #neuroskyence

Here's a nice discussion of effect sizes in cognitive neuroscience, with real examples and an discussion of using null intervals. Lots of good advice here; if you've been interested in inference by interval, this is a great resource. #Neuroskyence #stats doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...

New analysis of statistical (mal)practice in top journals shows widespread problems in how correlations are reported and interpreted. What is the word I keep reaching for that would mean: not surprised and yet still deeply shocked? arxiv.org/abs/2511.14092 @nature.com, @natneuro.nature.com

Another CREP study out in print: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... Congrats to all the students and dedicated faculty mentors involved, like @aggieerin.bsky.social ky.social and @jorowags.bsky.social Get your students involved in CREP: www.crep-psych.org! #stats #psychology

What We’ll Never Know thenewstatistics.com/itns/2025/09... Use these to lobby your politicians, not only if you are in the U.S. Suggest further makers of videos: [email protected]

New version of vcmeta (1.5) for R now out: github.com/dgbonett/vcm.... Some new functions and a few name changes. vcmeta provides all the tools you need for variable-coefficient meta-analysis (no assumption of effect-size homogeneity; probably the best default option?). #stats