The vocabulary of systems neuroscience may appear daunting to many. Here's a short dictionary of common terms. BTW if you use them in your papers and grants you will have greater success

New Paper w/Melissa G Wolf - Dynamic fit cutoffs now support any covariance structure model (e.g., bifactor, hierarchical, & mediation models). Also supports categorical and non-normal outcomes. Use the DDDFI function in dynamic package on GitHub doi.org/10.1080/107055…

while tragic, I hope this incident ultimately leads to a new understanding of automobile psychology

If you haven't played around with the Dynamic Fit cut-off app from Melissa G Wolf & Dan McNeish, it seems pretty neat! cran.r-project.org/web/packages/d…

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Richard C. Reynolds, Paul A. Taylor, et al: Processing, evaluating, and understanding FMRI data with afni_proc.py doi.org/10.1162/imag_a…

Hi everyone! Vince Calhoun, Kent Kiehl and I are teaching our 3-day #fMRI course live online January 8 - 10, 2025! #SPM, #ICA, path analysis, #DataScience. We have been doing this course for over 20 years, and we always love talking methods, meeting new colleagues, and

I feel seen.

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:

Do you work w/ task fMRI data? Have you had concerns about modeling decisions & statistical validity of your estimates? Check out this preprint spearheaded by THE Jeanette Mumford , in collaboration with some ABCD colleagues! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Can’t believe our new Nature Communications paper is out! ✨🧠🤰 We tracked a cohort of 179 women before, during, and post-pregnancy, revealing a U-shaped trajectory in the mother’s brain structure linked to steroid hormone fluctuations and maternal attachment. #ParentalBrain 🧵👇

OpenNeuro GLMs: Takes OpenNeuro fMRI data from pre-preprocessed derivatives to run-, subject-, group- and session-level task results in 5⃣steps. Proof of concept, 30+ dataset specs & 50 task fMRI data analyzed. Complete reproducibility & dynamic reports. github.com/demidenm/openn…

Alert! ... for the child development world! Yes, you - Flux Society The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive. Check here: docs.hbcdstudy.org and here: nbdc-datahub.org Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

The preprint "Your Bran on Chatgpt" has gotten tons of attention. Being on a 14hr flight, I read the 100+ paper & wrote a post. TL;DR: claims are unsubstantiated. Let me know where you agree / disagree. residualinsights.com/all-hype-no-bi…

Are you working on issues of replication and reproducibility of methodological research in psychology? Consider submitting a proposal to my call for papers, happy to chat about your ideas or answer any questions! psychologicalscience.org/publications/a…

1/2 Press release Leiden University about our upcoming JoPACS paper led by Björn Siepe, showing that the overlap of similar constructs assessed via wearable vs EMA data is surprisingly low (n~850, 3 months). universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/0…

How 2025 has felt in academia.

Updates to PyReliMRI package. Some courtesy of helpful user feedback. Whole-brain test-retest reliability calculations with PyReliMRI got 3.5x faster in v2.2! Before, 13.2 minutes runtime with 4 CPUs. Now, 3.5 minutes with 4 CPUs github.com/demidenm/PyRel…

The workflow to analyze secondary task fMRI data off of OpenNeuro.org has been expanded to: 58 datasets & 105 task illustrations. Download, transform & analyze in 5-steps. LMK if you have thoughts. github.com/demidenm/openn…