Alt text: Me, anxiously throwing as.data.frame() in my scripts at every opportunity to avoid the edge cases where a tibble does not behave like a data.frame.

I preregister that this will be an amazing summer school - come and see for yourself ;-)

Job alert!! We're looking for a Postdoc and two RAs on a 3-year project examining the effects of smartphones on sleep and mental health in adolescents. Details below: RA: tinyurl.com/7h6zrz2k Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykmsk757 Please repost :)

At #PuG2026 in Heidelberg you can look forward to 3 keynote lectures by Simone Shamay-Tsoory („Inter-brain coupling during empathic interactions“), @mschoenauer.bsky.social („The role of reactivation in forming long-term memories“) and @micahgallen.com („Toward Causality in Interoception Research“)!

Join my lab and collaborate with excellent scientists Magdalena Schlesinger or Anette Frank at University of Heidelberg! We offer topics on replay in humans and rodents or neurobiologically inspired AI, respectively. Deadline 31st March. Apply here: www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...

How well do classifiers trained on visual activity actually transfer to non-visual reactivation? #Decoding studies often rely on training in one (visual) condition and applying it to another (e.g. rest-reactivation). However: How well does this work? Show us what makes it work and win up to 1000$!

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: "Open R, run setwd() ..."

IF YOU CAN, REPLACE TABLE() WITH TABULATE() IN YOUR #rstats CODE! data <- sample(1:3, 100, replace = TRUE) microbenchmark::microbenchmark(table(data), tabulate(data), times = 10000) I'm almost angry at how much faster this is, and why I was today years old when I learned this 🤬 1/2

"Nagel" ist German for "nail", which is why this is the first GIF to pop up, once again reminding me how lucky I was to be able to assimilate my husband's last name.

I am very proud of my Bluesky feed, which combines magic Quarto plugins with "The Life of a Showgirl" references.

preprint alert 🚨 1/ Can we accurately detect sequential replay in humans using Temporally Delayed Linear Modelling (#TDLM)? In our recent study, we could not find any replay and decided to dig deeper by running a hybrid simulation with surprising results. Link to preprint & details below 👇

It's bonkers that in academic science we spend hours obsessing over the wording of a paper, but often only one person has seen the code that produced the results! 2/N

🚀 Join Us for the Next Mannheim Open Science Meetup! 🚀 🔬 Topic: ARIADNE – A Scientific Navigator to Find Your Way Through the Research Resource Labyrinth 🎙 Speaker: Çağatay Gürsoy, Central Institute of Mental Health 📅 Date & Time: April 30, 2025, 3:00 PM 📍 Location: Register online lnkd.in/exErgJfy

This is so beautiful 😍

🧠🌱 New preprint from the IGOR Sustainability project! "There is no research on a dead planet" How can we balance neuroscience, open science, and climate responsibility? 📄 Read our position paper on OSF: osf.io/preprints/osf/rju75_v1

Now online: The Science Barometer 2024! It shows long-term trends and makes it clear what citizens think about academic freedom in Germany. Citizens were asked about scenarios that could prevent scientists from speaking freely about their research. wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/ressourcen/#... #SciComm

Check out our preprint "Sleep Links Gist Abstraction to Veridical Memory"! osf.io/preprints/ps... Summary 🧵: Sleep benefits memory and it reorganizes it. It integrates new and pre-existing memories, and extracts gist across episodes. However, extracting gist might generate false memories. 1/10

Noch ein Monat Zeit, um sich auf den WissKomm-Preis zu bewerben! Auch geplante Projekte können gefördert werden, das ist also der perfekte Boost, um mit der WissKomm erstmalig durchzustarten ;-)

Best way to find a typo in a paper is to read the draft carefully 100 times, print it, mark it up, submit it, get it accepted, have copy editors review it, read it again, finalize it, get it published, and then proudly share it will all of your close colleagues

I have a lot of these fake signal update notes in my timeline ('Hidden "invite random journalist" button moved to avoid accidental traps'). And yes, I DO get the joke and think it's funny, but I wanted to point out that the ACTUAL signal update notes are funny as well. github.com/signalapp/Si...

Ich zitiere inhaltlich eine Mitarbeiterin einer weltweit agierenden Pharmafirma auf einer Doktorand*innenveranstaltung eines lebenswissenschaftlich ausgerichteten Instituts: Werdet euch frühzeitig klar, wohin ihr wollt. Langjährige Postdocs sind für uns wenig interessant, weil fehlqualifiziert.

An old, but great read about vectorization in R. www.noamross.net/archives/201...

Quiz: What will the following #rstats code do? iris %>% ggplot(aes(x = Species, y = Sepal.Width)) + geom_jitter(width = .25) + theme_classic() Jitter the points along ... a) ... the x-axis b) ... the y-axis c) ... both the x- and y-axis 🧵 for the solution! #ggplot2 #dataviz

One week left to submit individual contributions for this year's 50th Psychology and Brain (PuG) conference in Würzburg. We look forward to receiving abstract submissions for accepted symposia as well as poster contributions www.pug2025.org

R and RStudio are tied together so tightly that some people don't know they're separate, very different things. If you teach, please tell your students the difference between a programming language and an editor. And when you write papers, report the R version, and not (only) the RStudio version!

Die Fachgruppe Biologische Psychologie und Neuropsychologie der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) e.V. und die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung (DGPA) schreiben drei Förderpreise für #Wisskomm in der Biologischen Psychologie aus! @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

Good morning 👋 this is the joint account of the Division of Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology of the German Psychological Society and the German Society of Psychophysiology. We share research results 📝, job offers 🚨 and relevant information ℹ️ about our field. 🧠

✨ Join the upcoming Mannheim Open Science Meetup✨ 🗞️ Topic: Reproducible Research Data Management with DataLad 🗣️ Speaker: Lennart Wittkuhn 📅 Date: Wed, Feb 26, 2025 ⏰ Time: 2:00 PM 📍 Location: Online, sign up here: lnkd.in/ek9YDNuB

Print this out and put it on your pinboard! Most compact and at the same time clear and intuitive figure on possible associations between predictors and outcome (or variables). (source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/..., by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @achatton.bsky.social)

Awesome postdoc opportunity Mannheim/Heidelberg! Option A: chose from the exiting projects proposed by us Option B: propose your own project --> get two years postdoc at Germany's oldest uni with some of the best neuroscience facilities in Europe! www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...

I am very late to the party, but can we talk about the absolute LEGEND patchwork by @thomasp85.com?! I have two plots, one with a hidden y axis (it's the same for both plots). But the plot area will greedily take up the space freed up by the axis, so it appears larger in cowplot's plot_grid(). 1/4

This whole thread! Timelines in grant proposals are basically never accurate, and everyone knows. And since previous proposals are the yard stick for future project duration estimates ... Putting people into time management workshops won't fix this.

📺🎤 Video Release! We teach scientists how to track, organize and share their work using #VersionControl with #Git! I was interviewed about our course concept (German only, sorry)! 🧑‍🏫 Thanks to #DDLitLab @uni-hamburg.de for production + funding! 🙏 lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v...

Been teaching my students for years that they should never use T and F, because F <- TRUE. But I like this probabilistic approach even better! You'll never know when it hits you.

Graphic design-wise, I've found {patchwork} to be the best of the plot-combining packages because it actually keeps similar elements aligned across the multiple plots! #rstats #dataviz

I'll be teaching biopsych for the first time this autumn, based on the "Neuroscience - Exploring the Brain" book by Bear, Connors, & Paradiso. Does anybody have inspo in the form of slides, memes, videos, etc. that they're using to make their lecture less dry/intense?

Honored to be giving a keynote at #useR2024! I brought R mugs across the pond for the occasion 😄

Help my colleague with this amazing, ambitious project! As #OpenScience as it gets!

Have you read our (David Morgan, @caggursoy.bsky.social , Samuel Sander, @skjerns.bsky.social , @gordonfeld.bsky.social ) paper about how reward guides retrieval decisions yet? If you haven't, maybe this short "behind the paper" blogpost is for you. communities.springernature.com/posts/memory...

📣 We are pleased to announce that the next Mannheim #OpenScience Meetup will feature Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt from LMU Munich who will be presenting and discussing "Research assessment with responsible metrics and indicators: A Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment working group". 📣

🚨BREAKING 🚨 Abstract submission for the 2024 Psychology and Brain (PuG) conference is open (registration is expected to open next week) via pug2024.de. Deadline for symposia/panel discussions: 29.2, poster: 31.3. See you in Hamburg!

In eigener Sache: Psychologie für Kinder und Jugendliche bei In-Mind. Nach dem großen Erfolg unserer Sonderausgaben für jüngere Leser*innen freuen wir uns sehr darüber, diese Rubrik in unserem Angebot verstetigen zu können. Wir freuen uns über Einreichungen! 1/x

New paper with Edgar Erdfelder, @nilspetras.bsky.social & @juli-nagel.bsky.social: Uncovering null effects in null fields: the case of homeopathy authors.elsevier.com/c/1iOd-3BcJQ... "the mixture-model estimate of the true homeopathy effect reduces to zero when considering selective publication"

Wie schön, dass ich das Buch #IchBinHanna gelesen habe und wir beim @maopenscience.bsky.social mit @amreibahr.bsky.social eine so gute Diskussion hatten. Jetzt stößt mir selbst der Weihnachtsgruß des Rektors bitter auf.

Come and join us for an interesting discussion with @amreibahr.bsky.social next week! 🤗

Ah, yes. #day3 of the #AdventOfCode2023 wants me to find neighbours in a matrix, as it does every year. I'm pretty sure there's more elegant ways to code this up, BUT my code is reasonably fast, and I'm still sticking to base R. Find all my AoC code here: github.com/einGlasRotwe... #AdventOfCode

Day 2 of the #AdventOfCode2023 in #rstats was one of these days where I spent more time formatting the input than coding up the actual solution. Is it pretty? No. But I didn't need to add much for part 2. Find all my AoC code here: github.com/einGlasRotwe... #AdventOfCode

#day1 of the #AdventofCode2023 in #rstats: As usual, AoC punished my lazy solution for part 1 in part 2. Eventually, I managed a regex that worked (not sure whether by accident, lol). Bit scared of the upcoming puzzles, if day 1 is setting the pace ... Find my code here: github.com/einGlasRotwe...

Here's my GitHub repo for this year's #AdventOfCode in #rstats. I will also post about my solutions each day (that I manage to survive). This year will be tricky, because my co-pilot this year is a three-month old who knows surprisingly little R. #AdventOfCode2023 github.com/einGlasRotwe...

Sooo ... who else is hyped for the #AdventOfCode 2023? Are the #rstats kids also here? If so, please say hi in the comments :-) #AdventOfCode2023