Happy to be a part of Anya Topiwala's new work, using Mendelian Randomisation with @ukbiobank.bsky.social & Million Veteran Program, finding that even modest alcohol consumption increases risk of dementia. ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 – 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 Special issue of 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨, supported by @amstatnews.bsky.social ASA Sections on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR) and Statistics in Epidemiology (SIE) Submission details: tinyurl.com/47enwhwz

Epic work led by Habib Ganjgahi is out in Nature Medicine... data-driven clustering of MS finds 3 distinct states, early/mild, active, advanced, w/ transition to the advanced state only occuring through the active state... replicated twice! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Really nice study, and extends some of the ideas developed in this paper pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32673043/

For me, this work is a classic @ohbmofficial.bsky.social story: In 2023 I wasn't working with @bttyeo.bsky.social but I overheard him at his poster pointing to some accuracy curves saying "I don't why they have this particular shape". That kicked off the collab that led to these results.

1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements... doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Wasn't aware of tinyplot... an overlay package to make base R graphics easier to use. While I use ggplot2 for some tasks there are many situations where I prefer base R plotting, and this tool will be super helpful in those seetings.

Looking forward to presenting our team's research on AI for EHR at The Big Data Institute at Oxford on July 10th at 2 pm! Thanks to Sumeeta and Prof @nichols.bsky.social for organising. Link: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/590...

Excited to share our latest preprint: "Neurosynth Compose: A Web-Based Platform for Flexible and Reproducible Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis" Here, we cover the why, what, and how of the next generation Neurosynth ecosystem for reproducible neuroimaging meta-analysis. osf.io/preprints/os...

Almost recovered from #OHBM2025... has anyone else found the E-posters nearly imposible to find. They are here, discoverable through the app and the browser-link-out button ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/inde...

Public service announcement: Don’t forget to upload your #OHBM2025 poster PDF, at ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/

The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025

Interested in practical tips for assessing collinearity and why common fixes might not help? Come to the #OHBM2025 oral session Friday at 11:30AM (P2)! I’ll share simulation results and @demidenko.bsky.social will present real data. Also, check out my poster Thursday (1051)!

Is anyone else at #OHBM2024 educational courses maddened by the lack of time per-course schedule? In the app, the individual talks are listed *alphabetically* by talk title, all with the same start time. Same thing for symposia...

Useful #OHBM2024 deep link - Table listing all posters with stand-by times & categories gmpartners365-my.sharepoint.com/:x:/g/person...

At #OHBM2025 the Open Science Room has been squeezed and next year is at risk of being dramatically reduced/cut. If you like the OSR please consider signing/sharing this petition! chng.it/yjs4Bnyf9s @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmossig.bsky.social

Looking forward to #OHBM2025 in Brisbane next week! My lab is recruiting a postdoc & neuroimaging analyst/developer to support our NIH funded work in fMRI-based Alzheimer's biomarker development (NIA R01AG083919). Email or DM if you want to meet up in Brisbane! www.statmindlab.com/join-us

Happy to see Julio Peraza's lastest posted, "NiCLIP", using a CLIP model to improve 'reverse inference' prediction of task fMRI results based on peak coordinate data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ @angielaird.bsky.social @neurozorro.bsky.social James Kent & JB Poline

Happy to see my first first-author paper in Imaging Neuroscience (along with @fmrib-karla.bsky.social and @nichols.bsky.social): Characterising ongoing brain aging and baseline effects from cross-sectional data doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Registration Open! FSL Course 2025 will be held fully online, 15th – 26th September. Details & registration info here: open.win.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou... The course covers lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis.

🤔 You’d like to share your research code but not sure how to…? 🔓*Very* excited to finally share this work led by @nicolasrougier.bsky.social in which we propose a practical set of guidelines for opening code. inria.hal.science/hal-04930405...

Looks like a very useful tool...

Voets et al. outline best practice recommendations from the OHBM Working Group on clinical language fMRI mapping: doi.org/10.52294/001... @cyrilrpernet.bsky.social @lindadouw.bsky.social @nichols.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Great index of data, oriented towards statisticians: statsupai.org/datasets.html Current has 8 domains: Electronic Health Records (EHR) Genomics Imaging Microbiome & Metagenomics Clinical Trial Biobank Spatial Transcriptomics Proteomics

Check it out! The future of Neurosynth. We launched Neurosynth Compose: A free and open platform for neuroimaging meta-analysis. NS-Compose makes it easy to perform custom neuroimaging meta-analyses without leaving the browser. It's live, check it out! compose.neurosynth.org

Data sharing is great! but the model needs upgrading. Studies like ABCD abcdstudy.org show us the way -- extra challenges? preserving all outputs for even better understanding and re- resuage

🚨 Brain Age vs Direct Models in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) 🚨 A thread 🧵 1/ Brain age is a powerful indicator of general brain health, trained on massive datasets. But does this translate to better prediction for specific outcomes, like AD? Preprint by @twktan.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1101/2024...

New post doc position! Come to Oxford and join a multidisciplinary research team focused on studying multi-organ health through large-scale population health studies. You'll use multi-organ data to advance our understanding of multimorbidity: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

10(!) 3yr post-doc/assistant prof jobs at the Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed, a Denmark-Oxford center led by Naomi Wray. Develop new stat/comp tools & software for key questions in common complex diseases. Jobs in Aarhus, Copenhagen or Oxford. smartbiomed.dk/join-the-cen...

Thanks to all the speakers and attendees at the Neuroimaging Statistics Workshop, a satellite to OHBM 2024 in Seoul. Our program has been updated with slides from most talks in case you couldn't attend. Look out for NSW 2025 in Brisbane! sites.google.com/view/neuroim...

SMARTbiomed Oxford-Aarhus-Copenhagen collaboration smartbiomed.dk about to launch led by Naomi Wray. Lots of positions! Great opportunity to join Oxford Big Data Institute bdi.ox.ac.uk Jobs 173031-3 at jobs.ox.ac.uk Methods-focussed in groups Holmes, Visscher, Evans,etc, Denmark ads soon.

Public Service Annoucement: If you get emails from travelhosting.co.uk delete or mark spam! This is a known scam, where they scrape public conference program listings and then contact speakers offering to arrange travel uk.trustpilot.com/review/trave...

Was helping a student learn about UMAP & t-SNE and stumbled upon the amazing "Understanding UMAP" pair-code.github.io/understandin... by Andy Coenen, Adam Pearce. Not new (2019) but stuffed with interactive graphics that help explain how these two methods work, incl. impact of tuning parameters

Come to Neuroimaging Statistics at @OHBM, June 20-21! The Keith Worsley lecture will be given by Michael I. Miller, keynote lecture by Paul M. Thompson, and many other talks from the interface of statistics and neuroimaging. Registration free but required sites.google.com/view/neuroim...

Mark your calendars for "Challenges in Neuroimaging Data Analysis” at @IMSI_Institute August 26-30, 2024 in Chicago. A fantastic line up of statisticians and neuroimaging experts will make for a stimulating week: www.imsi.institute/activities/c...

Great opportunity in a new senior post between Cardiovascular Medicine and the Big Data Institute at Oxford, "Associate Professorship of Cardiovascular Imaging using Machine Learning at Population Scale". For more info see my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

The strain on scientific publishing 📄: We've got issues. Scientists overwhelmed, editors overworked, constant special issue invites, mass article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!? See: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884 A 🧵1/n #AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #PhDAdvice #PhDChat