1/ Can AI help researchers check whether published social science results actually reproduce? In our new PNAS paper, we tested this directly in the AI Replication Games: 288 researchers, 103 teams, and real replication packages from quantitative social science.

After nearly a decade at the University of Nottingham, I’ll be moving on this summer. As of July, I’ll be returning to Canada to take up a position at MacEwan University in Edmonton.

Thrilled to share our paper on the formation of brain shape in human newborns, just out @natneuro.nature.com: tinyurl.com/2ty4ef43 Using #fractal analysis of #MRI data from the developing Human Connectome Project (lnkd.in/dxeHbJX6), we show that brain shape closely captures infant age and genetics ⬇️

About 10 years ago I came across 'fractal dimensionality' as a measure of brain structure. Studying it's utility with healthy aging, clinical populations, and across species has led to 19 papers since then. The most recent paper is now online at Nature Neuroscience! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:

"Replication rates are higher than experts predicted and p-hacking is much less common than we expected!" replications.clearerthinking.org/three-surpri...

Congratulations to @engra.me on receiving the @bacn.co.uk Early Career Award. Great talk! #BACN25

#BACN25 started off with the Early Career Award talk by Christopher Madan (@engra.me).

Watch #BACN25 today and tomorrow for the latest in UK cognitive neuroscience! Follow @bacn.co.uk for even more after the conference.

And we’re off! Jamie Ward opening @bacn.co.uk #BACN2025 in Edinburgh with prize talk by @engra.me detailing his work and service to the scientific community

I'm really looking forward to giving the opening talk for #BACN25! "Memory², Methods, and Mentorship: Four facets of my research journey thus far" Not too long left to wait!

Really happy to see this finally published. Hard work together with colleagues @engra.me and @jolienfrancken.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

[Review] Very interesting paper! Highly recommended! Open access ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"I am satisfied with these changes. Very nice job!" What more could you hope for in a review!

I'd love to meet with some people during the conference! Feel free to message me if you'll be there.

It's not too late to submit your abstract. Join us in Edinburgh in September!

Submit today!

Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government. Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea. eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...

I never thought that fear of detention or deportation would have been on the list of reasons for making conferences hybrid, but this seems compelling www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Counting down--join us in Edinburgh!

Save the date!! #BACN2025 11-12 September 2025, Edinburgh www.bacn.co.uk/conferences Submit talk and poster abstracts by 30 April 2025.

It's official!! In recognition of my contributions to higher education--including research methods training, application of learning sciences to other fields, and post-PhD career guidance resource development--I have been awarded Senior Fellow from Advance HE (SFHEA).

Furthermore, both human and AI-assisted teams significantly outperformed AI-led approaches in proposing and implementing comprehensive robustness checks. There was a 25 percentage points difference in proposing robustness checks and a 32 pp difference in implementation.

New research alert! Our study investigates the effectiveness of human-only, AI-assisted, and AI-led teams in assessing the reproducibility of quantitative social science research. We've got some surprising findings!

This book now available *open access* through Springer Neuromethods: link.springer.com/book/10.1007.... @brainalien.bsky.social and I extend heartfelt thanks to all contributing authors for their exceptional work, w/ special gratitude to Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social for an inspiring foreword

Straight off we see the impact of changes to student visas, in particular restricting dependents. Student visas are limited terms though, meaning including them in overall stats tends to skew them, but makes an easy "win" for a government looking to reduce immigration. 2/ www.gov.uk/government/s...

Long thread of initial reflections on today's immigration statistics as I read through them. First off, it would be great if people could remember they are from June, that means that, not matter your political persuasions, they are down to the previous government. 1/ www.gov.uk/government/s...

“Ablation” was originally introduced into AI with the correct sense (removing a component). But in the last 5 years, its meaning has expanded to “sensitivity study”. As a reviewer, I insist on the correct usage.

I love that my last paper on Google Scholar is the chapter "I’m not a researcher anymore, I’ll be a scientist forever" that I wrote for Chris Madan (@engra.me) book : Academia and the World Beyond, vol 2. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Looks like a good conclusion of my researcher's life!

I will be honest: with Mastodon, what put me off with a lot of UNSAID expectations. It felt like you cannot just write something like here: - What server you’re on matters (each one has own rules) - Adding filters to posts were (sometimes) important (eg if writing about politics or Twitter)

I've made this pretty poster of my books, so far, for an upcoming event. Maybe one looks relevant to you? :)

@drsumeracki.bsky.social it's nice to see you here! :)

I'm so excited about this!! I'm really looking forward to giving the prize talk and sharing more about my journey here! See you at #BACN2025!!

'Rejected' from being on a funding advisory committee... Email looks like all the grant ones :/. "We received a very large number of excellent applications [...] we are unfortunately unable to provide specific feedback on your application."

The Secret of Monkey Island (1990)

Canada’s main population centers in the Great Lakes sit along a perfect line. This is a no brainer. tiny suggestion: Connect it to Detroit

3 themes: "University life directly contradicts university mental health awareness efforts; (2) University mental health awareness efforts are perceived as disingenuous and inadequate; and (3) Students don't want awareness – they want accessible help and supportive communities." Same, students

This kind of speech is incredibly dangerous. This is not a fun exaggeration or just triggering the wokes. It is the kind of speech that historically precedes mass human rights violations.

It's lecturing time! If you're new to this world, a few bits of advice. 1. Give them breaks. Let them watch the occasional video. They won't feel cheated 2. No hot takes, sexy banter, or spicy political views 3. Presenter view probably doesn't work gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com/2019/01/26/l...

after years of hearing colleagues & processing their arguments, i remain unconvinced that paid peer review is a solution to any of the problems w the publishing system & the publishers. i do believe it would in fact generate new problems & inequities though. for profit publishers *are* the problem.

This is cool and a great feel-good cleanse for your TL.

The judge in Gino v. Harvard & Data Colada just dismissed all claims against the Data Colada defendants. Only the contract-related claims against Harvard were not dismissed. Here's the opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Poster is up for #BACN24 on "Collaborative imagination synchronizes representations of the future and fosters social connection in the present" Paper is already published! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Right now at #BACN24: Early Career Award talk by @thepsychologist.bsky.social

Apparently a well used food additive can be applied to (non-human, so far) skin and make it transparent, allowing for the organs within to be visible?? This seems straight out of sci-fi www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The conference is next week!! www.bacn.co.uk/conferences Final Program is now up. See you in London

I've made this pretty poster of my books, so far, for an upcoming event. Maybe one looks relevant to you? :)