Kevin J. Black @kjbinstl@qoto.org

Please use our 'Naturalistic Neuroimaging Database' (NNDb v2). It consists of N=86 people who did a battery of behavioural tests and watched one of 10 full-length #movies during #fMRI. It has 46,249,600,000 voxels or 6.69 days worth of data to play with. 🥳

Data: https://openneuro.org/datasets/ds002837/versions/2.0.0

It is also available on Neuroscout: https://neuroscout.org

Read the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00680-2

We are now collecting a 3T NNDb with adolescents & adults, and before/after psychedelics. DM w/ queries.

One thing I've noticed after years of exercise... I am willing to put in the effort neccesary to do the carb loading needed to win marathons... its the running part im not to keen on...

The Turing Test poisoned the minds of generations of AI enthusiasts, because its criteria is producing text that persuades observers it was written by a human.

The result? Generative AI text products designed to "appear real" rather than produce accurate or ethical outputs.

It *should* be obvious why it's problematic to create a piece of software that excels at persuasion without concern for accuracy, honesty or ethics. But apparently it's not.

New study: "Between 2018 and 2021, the excess death rate for Republican voters [from #COVID19] was 5.4 percentage points, or 76 percent higher, than that of registered Democrats. The majority of the difference, though, was concentrated after the introduction of COVID-19 #vaccines: after vaccines became available, the death rate gap between #Republicans and #Democrats widened from 1.6 percentage points to 10.4 percentage points."
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/12/02/yale-study-identifies-partisan-disparity-in-excess-covid-19-death-rates/

#ScienceMatters

If you’re a researcher, you should read this preprint. It blew my mind but not in a good way. It’ll probably give you nightmares but this kind of thing cant be ignored: psyarxiv.com/xk4yu

It highlights horrible systemic problems of racism in science via a case study of recent editorial misconduct in Perspectives on Psych Science. Hard to read and not think that some of the foundational systems in traditional science are completely rotten to the core. #openscience #academia #science

How long would it take a hacker to brute force your password?
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/t52qxa/oc_i_updated_our_famous_password_table_for_2022/

Elsevier bought SSRN and SpringerNature buys RSC
https://librarytechnology.org/pr/28173/springer-nature-completes-acquisition-of-research-square-company
Notice something?
#OpenScience

This is how long it took from Stage 1 submission to IPA for each of my Registered Reports.

It would have been easier to plan if I'd have had an idea of review speed by journal. You can now find out information on both review speed and quality at @benmeg's RR Community Feedback:
https://registeredreports.cardiff.ac.uk/feedback/home/

#RegisteredReports #OpenScience #OpenResearch
#RateTheJournal

I find it amazing how quickly academic Twitter has ceased to be. All the interesting stuff seems to be at Mastodon these days. So now that we're at it: could we maybe also just get rid of academic publishers by massively defecting to diamond open access journals?

Today we're launching Registered Reports Community Feedback - a site to better understand authors' and reviewers' experience of the Registered Reports peer review process:

https://registeredreports.cardiff.ac.uk

The broad goal is to collect data regarding how well various aspects of the Registered Reports process are implemented across academic journals.

#Metascience #RegisteredReports #RegisteredReport #PeerReview #OpenScience

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very excited about this new work! TemplateFlow is a repository for human and other brain templates and atlases, which operates under the FAIR principles.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-022-01681-2?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nmeth

This raises some grave concerns about the publishers' take-over of COPE:
https://drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2022/11/15/has-cope-membership-become-a-way-for-unprincipled-journals-to-buy-a-fake-badge-of-integrity/
Are the journals buying COPE badges to hide their malpractice?

Does anyone else experience URL verification issues on mastodon.social? None of the two links where I placed the link back seem to pan out?

In my previous work studying Parkinson's Disease (PD), I was fascinated by freezing of gait, a phenomenon where people with PD become "frozen" in place while trying to take a step during walking or turning.

Researchers in this recent paper identified that theta oscillations in the midfrontal area of the brain may be involved in these freezing of gait symptoms, contributing to our understanding the mechanisms of freezing.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/15459683221129282

#ParkinsonsDisease #PD #Neuroscience #Research #Brain #EEG #Science #Neurorehabilitation #Gait