So excited to share the launch of a multi-disciplinary journal dedicated to replications and other meta research!🚀 It has been super interesting to be involved in this project and I can't wait for the first submissions! replicationresearch.org #openscience #neuroscience #metaresearch

What causal role do brain changes play in depression? New EKFS-funded 4-year study will tackle this question leveraging a unique longitudinal MRI datasets – up to 9 scans per patient across 16 years! #Neuroimaging #Depression #Causality @traplabms.bsky.social @ekfstiftung.bsky.social

🔍 Have we solved the replication crisis? Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit. 📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET 💻 Online (contact us for the link) #OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky [1/3]

Can brain organoids become conscious? A new paper argues it’s unlikely with today’s tech, but urges ethical debate as research advances. www.cell.com/patterns/ful... #neuroscience #organoids #consciousness #bioethics

Excited about the next chapter📖

The overlapping genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders and cortical brain structure https://www.newsbeep.com/ie/35167/ Hyman, S. E. Can neuroscience be integrated into the DSM-V? Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 8, 725–732 (2007). Article  PubMed …

How does the brain decide? 🧠 Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc. After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up. rdcu.be/eGUrv

🧠 The #MICrONS project just released the most detailed brain map ever—82K neurons, 523M synapses, all open for exploration. Dive in thanks to #BossDB: github.com/aplbrain/bos... #Neuroscience #OpenScience #Connectomics #3DThursday #syGlass @alleninstitute.bsky.social @jhuapl.bsky.social

NEW Journal Article: "The Economic Impact of Open #Science: A Scoping Review" https://www.infodocket.com/2025/09/17/journal-article-the-economic-impact-of-open-science-a-scoping-review/ #OpenScience #os #oa #oss #ofd

📣 Attending #ICON2025? Don’t miss this symposium today at 13:45! Featuring @alinakoppold.bsky.social who will present an ongoing IGOR project: "From Raw to Refined: How Data Transformations Shape Effect Sizes and Reliability" #openscience #neuroskyence

Inter-individual variability of neurotransmitter receptor and transporter density in the human brain | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What prevents suicide in #bipolar disorder? Lithium, then to a lesser degree valproate, but not antipsychotics (unless as augmentation), concludes new cohort study of 44,694 from Korea: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40930182 Evidence grade: Low (4/10) chrisaikenmd.com/ebm/ #psychiatry

Strategies for effective coding agent usage - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series russpoldrack.substack.com/p/strategies...

🚨 New paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We combined data from 3 studies (including an SSRI RCT) to explore how endocannabinoids relate to anxiety & treatment response in kids + teens. Team science w/ Jeanne Barcelona, Jeffrey Strawn & more! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @wsuthinklab.bsky.social

Happy to share our recent work attempting to better understand the impact of early life maternal separation on locus coeruleus function. Super proud of first author (the now Dr.) Chayla Vazquez. She brought this idea when she joined in… March 2020… and she carried it through these rough few years!

Just a friendly reminder to check who owns the preprint servers that you are using and to choose a non-commercial one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

🧠Out now @natcomms.nature.com ! Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵

Looking for a 3-year 100% postdoc position at the intersection of mental health, neuroimaging and biological markers? Come join our team: short.sg/j/59191808

🧠 #DecisionMaking isn’t confined to single hubs but distributed across the #brain, incl. #sensory, #motor & #reward areas. Data of >600,000 neurons, 279 regions, 139 mice 🐭 across 12 labs 💪 from this extraordinary study show how #cognitive processes emerge from #brainwide #dynamics. #Neuroscience 🧪

At the FORRT Replication Hub, our mission is to support researchers who want to replicate previous findings. We have now published a big new component with which we want to fulfill this mission: An open access handbook for reproduction and replication studies: forrt.org/replication_...

New preprint...and this one is truly EPIC 🚨. Using a large group of patients with depression and healthy controls (N>800), we show differences in the functional segregation of insular subnetworks. And we can use it to classify! Led by @glassybrain.bsky.social #neuroskyence 🩺 osf.io/preprints/ps...

The lateral prefrontal cortex 🧠— which we think of as critical for goal driven behavior + is a target for psychiatric treatments— is fundamentally different in individuals relative to the group averages we’ve often studied. 👇see preprint and thread, led by Zach Ladwig #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

🧠 Help shape a new MRI analysis toolbox for transparent, reproducible & replicable voxel-wise analyses! 📝 5–10 min anonymous survey on community needs/features: trap-survey.uni-muenster.de/index.php/93... Please share!🔄 #Neuroimaging #OpenScience #Replicability #Neuroscience @traplabms.bsky.social

🚀Making Replications Count Hackathon - in-person🚀 3 days. 2 open tools. 1 goal: make replication studies impossible to ignore 📅22–24 Oct 2025 | Münster, Germany ✈️Travel & accommodation covered (UKRI-funded) Find out more below 👇 #OpenScience #Metascience #Replication #Hackathon #CodingForScience

🧪 98% researchers value publishing null/negative results—yet <20% actually submit them. 🗑️ ~€26B wasted in Europe from duplicating unpublished null data 📢 Editors: make space for null results. Make it visible. Science needs it. #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #NullResults

"Experts cannot unambiguously decide if a failure to attain the same results evidences a failure to replicate the original results or a violation of the ceteris paribus assumption between the original and its direct replication." Open Access: doi.org/10.1007/s108...

New paper from me at Cognition and Emotion! "Deep neural network models of emotion understanding" I discuss how deep nets can be used as cognitive models of emotion perception, prediction, and regulation: doi.org/10.1080/0269... (h/t @ltjaql.bsky.social for the illustrations!)

🧠🥬 Your gut really does talk to your brain A new study links stronger stomach–brain synchrony to worse mental health. Anxiety, depression, and stress all showed ties to this gut-brain rhythm. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... #Gut #SciComm 🧪

Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)

Job opening. Highly recommended!

Truly exceptional project! I am so happy and thankful for the opportunity to work with this exciting dataset and wonderful team!

📢 Publication alert! Check out our new study by Anna Kraus (&many more) on brain structural correlates of an impending initial major depressive episode published in @npp-journal.bsky.social 🧠 #MDD #GrayMatter @trr393.bsky.social @smeinert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Highly recommended talk by Brian Nosek on the current publication system and how it hampers scientific progress. The talk contains innovative ideas about evaluating alternative paths to review and publish research

First sessions smashed & we are thrilled for the upcoming days! But first: get together & networking! 🚀 @dpk-kongress.bsky.social @luisa-al.bsky.social

TraP goes DPK! 🚀 We’re thrilled to present the results of our research at @dpk-kongress.bsky.social! Excited to contribute to the field and connect with fellow researchers! #DPK #TranslationalPsychiatry @smeinert.bsky.social @luisa-al.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de