Analysis of >11,000 pediatric MRI scans suggests that suboptimal image quality may introduce bias in cortical thickness and area estimates in over half the cases 🤔🧐 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scientists at MGH are redefining what’s possible in brain research. 🧠 The new Connectome 2.0 #MRI scanner reveals microscopic brain structures in living humans—at a level of detail never before achievable. www.nih.gov/news-events/... #neuroskyence 🧪

Our School of Health Sciences HES-SO Valais-Wallis in Sion, Switzerland, is looking for a new head of the research institute. More info here - www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42.... Pls Reshare #medsky #neuroskyence

Job alert 🚨 another fully PhD position in Maastricht, this time with a more computational neuro focus, in the lab of Michelle Moerel @mmoerel.bsky.social and under my co-supervision. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Thanks to the efforts of @paulmatusz.bsky.social @striemamit.bsky.social @micahmurray.bsky.social and many others (not on Bluesky), we'll make things work www.artificialvision.com/literature.htm

My Phd student Noah is recruiting Trans* and Non-Binary folks to participate in a survey study on well-being (uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...). Check it out if relevant and of interest to you, and appreciate any signal boosting in your networks!

Does anyone know of a cognitive neuroscience (or adjacent) travel grant for researchers based in the Netherlands, but presenting data from a previous position (e.g., PhD work)? Looking for options to support conference travel! Any leads appreciated 🧠

Six years ago, we published a (thus far underappreciated) study where we showed how scientific communities may generate a literature populated by irreproducible results or may converge on many perfectly reproducible yet false findings *in the absence of QRPs*, challenging popular narratives.

When Alternative Analyses of the Same Data Come to Different Conclusions journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Tutorial introducing DeclareDesign by a worked example. DeclareDesign can be used to compare different approaches to analysing intervention trial data - >the impact of analytic choices! 👏

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

$95 b return on a $37 b investment. Federally funded research is a good return - even without, you know, remarkably effective new treatments for cancer, curing genetic disorders, making progress and improving the lives of those with neurodegenerative disease, etc. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

NEW: This is brilliant from Trudeau. "Today, the US launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner & ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying, murderous dictator. Make that makes sense." 💥

For those keeping track, we are now at 2 weeks with no new R01s funded. Still only 18 new ("01") grants are fellowships/Ks, a few admin supplements, one R35, and one R03. Same 2-week period in 2024: 143 new grants were awarded and 41 R01s. Devastating.

The National Academies remained silent about the destruction of American science. They did nothing for the scientists comprising their membership They calculated that they would be spared if they didn't make themselves a target. They will not be spared. www.foxnews.com/politics/str...

TIL the voucher program incentivising drug development for rare pediatric diseases wasn’t extended in December. It's considered a highly successful incentive for the development of lifesaving treatments for rare diseases, which are otherwise neglected.

a great lil code from David for the flagged words in NSF grant applications.

Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

#neurojobs #neuroimaging #neuroskyence 🧠 NEUROIMAGING POST-DOC 🧠 Do you have (or will have in a year) a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience or Neuroimaging? Do you want to live in gorgeous Norwich? Then apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13... Join the SIGHT project: www.uea.ac.uk/about/school...

The 50501 Movement—or 50 states, 50 protests, one day—is garnering support throughout social media over its plan to stage demonstrations across the nation to "fight Fascism" on February 5. You can find your state location for protesting tomorrow here: www.newsweek.com/50-states-an...

Unlike OpenAI, Deepseek is open AI.

Dayum @zotero.org , zero chill.. we stan. #neuroskyence #medsky

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

I flagged how we are using partial randomisation to allocate our small grants. We check if an application meets a quality threshold (around half of applications might) and then we allocate the funding at random between all those that meet the threshold. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I was pleased to speak today at this symposium on the role a national academy can play in improving research culture. I spoke about several things we are doing at @britishacademy.bsky.social but just to pick out a few www.kcl.ac.uk/events/kings...

#EEG #neuroscience #psychSciSky

In our latest preprint we’ve used EEG imaging to provide more direct evidence that “blind see w/ sounds” in sensory substitution devices (SSDs)-we’ve shown that IT cx is activated within the first wave of activity when blind hear sounds rep’ing learnt faces vs. same sounds scrambled #neuroskyence 🧠📈

The brain dynamics of congenitally blind people seeing faces with sound www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @striemamit.bsky.social @micahmurray.bsky.social et al.; "The blind do indeed 'see' with SSDs." [SSDs = sensory substitution devices] #neuroscience

Add #neuroskyence, 🧠📈, or 🧠🟦 to your post for it to appear in this feed.

Beyond Increasing Sample Sizes: Optimizing Effect Sizes in Neuroimaging Research on Individual Differences doi.org/10.1162/jocn... new in @jocn.bsky.social

Ten simple rules for good model-sharing practices doi.org/10.1371/jour...

A group of over 60 German universities have left Twitter/X. These include the major Berlin universities: nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/01/10/h...

Silicon Valley has a sociopath problem that hasn’t yet been fully explored.

I could not put this down. Then immediately shared it with my female friends, at least one of whom already knew it. And then we realized: we write them, we read them. When for something to ever change, men should be reading and listening. The good guys, as the article shows.

Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to - not publish - have outstanding publication records - introduce more novel scientific concepts - less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards. www.nber.org/papers/w33289

New paper out this week - again finding no evidence to support panic over smartphones & teens’ wellbeing. “Our findings contribute to the growing counter-narrative that technology use does not have as large of an impact on adolescents’ mental health and well-being as the public is concerned about.”

Thank you @natureportfolio.bsky.social for making my review of the Anxious Generation open access for parents, policy-makers, and the public. The story told in this book runs counter science and is leading to poor policy decisions that will ultimately fail our kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Allez-y !

Middle childhood is a time of major biological change (puberty) and contextual change (elementary to middle school)--could this be an important timepoint for understanding important changes in the individual and perhaps an intervention point? Find out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/SSWWK7...

Superficial views of reproducibility & OS practices, & “careering” on them is such a pet peeve of mine. “Meaningful replications need to be based on deeper theoretical understanding & stronger empirical foundations” 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Reproducible science <= Good, well-dev’d theory 🧠 🧪 #PsychSciSky #devpsy

If anyone could spare 3 minutes to do a very quick informal survey on friendship, I’d be most grateful! Looking for people over 30. Thank you westminsterpsych.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Brain Activity: Unifying networks of a rhythm Combining electrophysiological, anatomical and functional brain maps reveals networks of beta neural activity that align with dopamine uptake. elifesciences.org/articles/104... #neuroscience

Have you wanted to submit a preprint to PsyArXiv but weren't sure what to do? @matti.vuorre.com walks you through the process and links to relevant support articles in this new blog post blog.psyarxiv.com/2024/12/02/p... #openResearch #preprints #openScience #psychology #psychSciSky

There is no brain microbiome. An example of where the actual, broadly defined * peer review has * worked *. 🧠 🧪

Yes!! Now Bluesky data is on BioRxiv Altmetric

Interested in coming to work with us at @durhampsych.bsky.social ?? Leverhulme ECR Fellowship scheme opens soon - get in touch with your Durham mentor in the next week or so please! :-)

@ Young researchers : I BEG of you - create your own research page, where you cadd your contact details like email at which you can be reached. This way people can more easily fiind you to offer you opportunities. Share widely pls. 🧠🧪 #psychology #education #devpsych #cognitivepsych #devsci

#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀 Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to? Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)! Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9

Probably no medical intervention has saved as many lives as vaccines. Cost/Benefit is unrivaled. #VaccinesSaveLives #ImpfenSchuetzt

Would you like to see @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social add a share to blue sky button?! I know I would! Share this post to let @richardsever.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social and others at bioarxiv know!

There are many ways to create strong, reproducible science. Focusing on developing a good theory is one, if not the most important, such way. (I am myself still on my journey towards achieving this goal, but oh do I try, for the past ca. 15 years..).