🍄 Our new living systematic review and meta-analysis on MDMA for PTSD is now live on medRxiv. Here's what we found and how we built upon our open science infrastructure to support it 🧵 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Out-of-sample machine learning prediction accuracy underestimates the true maximum achievable predictive accuracy (MAPA) for brain phenotype associations. @mntj21.bsky.social used double ML to improve estimates for ML accuracy. w/ @edwardhkennedy.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hello all of you #ABCD and #HBCD data users! Did you know we recently deployed the NBDC Sandbox? Jupyter, R-Studio, or open your own linux environment. Compute in place, No Download. A 'SAFE' Cluster environment. Go check it out! nbdc.lassoinformatics.com/sandbox

A US Citizen was pulled out of her car by ICE after they ran into her making a U-turn after kidnapping someone else. She is a paralegal and was going to work. Humans should not be treated this way by their government. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... youtu.be/0euW_3vqKZw?...

Do you want to report effect sizes for any brain-behavior association? Do you want to include spatial confidence intervals for effect sizes? This paper, by Xinyu Zhang has the methods and software you need! with @aarona-b.bsky.social @neilwoodward.bsky.social and others :)

@kaidikang.bsky.social , why do you look so much tallker than me in this photo?

Interested in obtaining an MS or PhD degree in biostatistics? Vanderbilt is hosting a virtual info session with director of recruitment Simon Vandekar (@vandyatvandy.bsky.social) on Thursday 10/9, 6pm Central. vanderbilt.zoom.us/meeting/regi... (Pictured: MS students Seth Young and Zongyue Teng)

If you're a boardgame nerd, check out my brother's game on Kickstarter! It's awesome! Order in Chaos: The Strategic Game of Kingdom Razing on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/jer...

Probably, Tylenol is not a primary cause of autism. www.coalitionofautismscientists.org

"Asked for comment, the State Department said it would be introducing the department’s foreign assistance successor to USAID, to be called America First, this week." It's hard to think of a dumber name for a foreign assistance program. apnews.com/article/obam...

1. Our new @JAMAPsych publication shows that provoking symptoms before administering TMS for OCD and nicotine dependence may enhance clinical response. Read more here & tweetorial below: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Co-authors include intern Ishaan Gadiyar, @kaidikang.bsky.social (PhD biostat 2025 @vanderbilt.edu) @vandyatvandy.bsky.social & @heatherwardmd.bsky.social VUMC News feature: news.vumc.org/2025/06/06/n... #MentalHealth

11 MILLION PEOPLE!! 💥💥💥 Are we nearing the magic 3.5%?? Never forget….WE hold the power. #nokings

So grateful to Metro Police for keeping folks safe at the North Kings protest! www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

🇺🇸 Still going strong 🇺🇸 www.npr.org/2025/04/01/n...

Cory Booker has held the Senate floor for 17 hours and 21 minutes. The record of 24 hours and 18 minutes is held by segregationist Strom Thurmond, who spent that time protesting the Civil Rights Act of 1957. I am pretty sure Booker would not mind changing that history.

Cory Booker is a true patriot

Some 1,900 leading researchers accused the Trump administration in an open letter on Monday of conducting a “wholesale assault on U.S. science” that could set back research by decades and that threatens the health and safety of Americans.

Check out the RESI package for effect sizes! Details and examples in our new JSS paper 👇

Easily add effect sizes and confidence intervals with the RESI R package. Now official with a publication in JSS. doi.org/10.18637/jss... Check out the website (statimagcoll.github.io/RESI/) to report bugs or request model types. @mntj21.bsky.social - first author, with @kaidikang.bsky.social

@kaidikang.bsky.social defense is fast approaching 😃

Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

Almost all grant-review meetings remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health, preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. https://go.nature.com/418B5Pm

The incompetence of the trump administration is moving too fast for our legal system to keep up... Many exceptional and essential people fired due to being in probationary period at NIH. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Many institutions are being overly proactive in shuttering DEI programs beyond the requirements of Exec Orders related to DEI. These actions are costly and detrimental to progress in reducing health disparities that are known to exist by statistical evidence. vanderbilthustler.com/2025/02/17/l...

The SfN site automates the process of writing your reps—you can also edit the message to add specific concerns about the indirects cap using the template below: fromthescienceclass.substack.com/p/biomedical... (H/t bsky.app/profile/scie... )

Latest from the Nature Podcast 🔊 Kids’ real-world arithmetic skills don’t transfer to the classroom https://go.nature.com/3CEuiEV

Now's the time to invest in coffee with these ridiculous tariffs going up. I recommend this delicious Columbian grown and natural anaerobic processed bean by Bryan Alvear from Black and White tinyurl.com/yc86nneu

It's been a little while since @kaidikang.bsky.social's paper came out, so this is way overdue, but I wanted to highlight my favorite findings from his paper (tinyurl.com/2u789j9w)... @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social @aarona-b.bsky.social @drdamienfair.bsky.social @meharpist.bsky.social @nature.com

You can read our full Comment at the link above or here for a pre-proof version: singlesp.github.io/papers/natmh... s/o to the amazing sypres team: Brooke Sevchik, @vandyatvandy.bsky.social, Eric Strain, Sandeep Nayak, Bob Dworkin, @jcobbscott.bsky.social, & @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social

The grad application deadline for Vanderbilt Biostatistics is Jan 1st! Our faculty are national experts in EHR, real-world, ordinal, longitudinal, survival, imaging, and genomic data, causal inference, prediction, semiparametrics... you get it! Apply to join us! www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Coverage of Kang et al. in News Medical www.news-medical.net/news/2024112... (@kaidikang.bsky.social @vandyatvandy.bsky.social) #bwas #imaging #VUMCbiostatistics #NeuroSky #MedSky

Vanderbilt PhD candidate Kaidi Kang @kaidikang.bsky.social is 1st author of a new paper in Nature, with associate profs Simon Vandekar (PhD @dbei-upenn.bsky.social) & Ran Tao (PhD @uncchapelhill.bsky.social), PhD candidates Jiangmei Xiong & Megan Jones... (1/2) news.vumc.org/2024/11/27/n...

Design your BWAS studies to optimize power! It was awesome working with Kaidi and international collaborators on this project