Tiziana Metitieri @timetit@qoto.org

#neuroscience #neuroanatomy #prefrontal
Hakwan Lau and I have a new paper on how to understand the brain, and prefrontal cortex in particular. The paper summarises one of the arguments in my new book Understanding The Prefrontal Cortex (2021, OUP).

Apologies for posting this twice, now with hashtags

You can view it online by clicking on the link below.

rdcu.be/cZbZg

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Toots by @mattjhodgkinson

V interesting podcast featuring Erika Cheung, Theranos whistleblower, who took a strong stance on the importance of not discarding inconvenient outliers.
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/a-slight-change-of-plans/a-theranos-whistleblower

This week:
📌 November 23 @ 3pm CET: #ReproCoffee ☕️ is back and will host a free virtual discussion on the paper by Szollosi et al. (2020) "Is preregistration worthwhile?"
👉 Book your place at this link: https://www.itrn.org/initiatives/reprocoffee?fbclid=IwAR3O37TSb7elf2Sq4JJR2bgVROIRLFEEdGiDBbJ4yseean6_AJ_aNnma6tk

📌 November 24 @ 3pm CET: The 1st Online Seminar on #OpenScience #osos for the 2022/23 series will be held on Thursday!

with Valentina Pasquale, IIT, Italy
talking about The transformative Potential of Open Science

👉 Book a place using the link at https://www.itrn.org/initiatives/onlineseminars?fbclid=IwAR2sK0JFx0BYuup8B3-i6x2_KRKZFLrEgvBrTAs-yqdNK7rSgNczAiPcERo

Feel free to spread the word with anyone potentially interested.
Looking forward to (virtually) meeting you!

This seems like an appropriate first comic for mastodon.

*Psychology Repository Update*

https://kaitclark.github.io/mastodon-psychology/

We've just crossed the 500 mark and now have 502 people on the Psychologists on Mastodon list!

Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far. With so many new people having joined, you may want to review the updated list and see if you want to follow the new people.

To be added complete this form: https://go.uwe.ac.uk/psychmastodon

I update the list on at least a weekly basis. You can also let me know directly if you need your details updated.

Mastodon headline, 1903

Just downloaded my Twitter archive again and converted it to Markdown, including high-res images this time. I suggest you do the same if you want a backup of your data that is independent of Twitter’s servers and free from obfuscated t.co links.

Here’s a quick how-to:
https://matthiasott.com/notes/converting-your-twitter-archive-to-markdown

A research team tested the reliability of the dot-probe task across 36 versions in 9,000 people.

“Conclusions: The emotional dot probe task is not an adequately reliable measure of individual differences in attentional bias to threat. We identified no parameters that produced attentional bias scores that had adequate reliability to justify inclusion in research studies that seek to quantify differences between people, including individuals with elevated anxiety.”

https://psyarxiv.com/58z4n/

📌 The 1st Online Seminar on Open Science #osos for the 2022/23 series will be held on Thursday, November 24th.

Who: Valentina Pasquale (IIT, Genova, Italy)
What: The transformative Potential of Open Science
When: Thursday, November 24th at 15:00 CET
Where: Online - book a place using the link at https://www.itrn.org/initiatives/onlineseminars
📯 Feel free to spread the word with anyone potentially interested.
💻 Looking forward to (virtually) meeting you!
#OpenScience #ReproducibilityN

🥁 #ITRN has signed the 🇪🇺 Agreement on Reforming #ResearchAssessment and will join #CoARA to be actively engaged in the implementation of the reform
➡️ coara.eu
#ReformingRA

Proudly sharing our new steering committee from February 2023. Meet new members Dario Mangione, Ezia Rizzi & Claudia Mazzuca.
We are excited for the new year and for the impactful work to come!
w/ @CarloMiniussi @massimo006 @v_iacovella @zogmaister @timetit & Davide Crepaldi

#OpenScience #Reproducibility

Among many other toxic behaviors, Musk is indifferent to sexism and racism. Employees described blatant sexual harassment and retaliation for reporting it. Similarly Black workers were fired for complaining about being called racial slurs.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-11-14/elon-musk-toxic-boss-timeline

Please don't use #Fedified! 🙏

This is what it says about itself:

"(Fedified) is *the* way to make sure that you're following the account managed by the same person you used to follow on Twitter."

It wants to be a central authority. This is dangerous, and opposite to what the Fediverse stands for.

People become dependent on a central authority, then it gets bought out by billionaires.

You can already verify your account on here without using any centralised lists:

https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-advanced-tips/#HowDoIVerifyMyAccount