158 participant fMRI lifespan dataset from Cheryl Grady laboratory at OpenNeuro: openneuro.org/datasets/ds005…

Super excited to share our new work (and the first of my PhD) : "Evolving Self-Assembling Neural Networks: From Spontaneous Activity to Experience-Dependent Learning" We propose Lifelong Neural Developmental Programs for continually self-organizing artificial neural networks !

new preprint by Thibault et al examineds widespread use (and misuse) of G*power by researchers medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

#PhD, #DnD(?) & #postdoc positions in “theory and methods for non-equilibrium atomistic simulations of complex #biomolecules” – Interested in theoretical and computational #biophysics? Check out the #JobAlert & apply here ⬇️: Shares welcome! #hiring #job mpinat.mpg.de/4588467/60-23?…

If you are looking for automated reproducibility checks in your R Markdown documents, remember that there is an easy way with #reproducibleRchunks Preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya… and R package: github.com/brandmaier/rep…

From one of the last sane places on social media: my favourite facebook group called "crap bird photography" (posted by Scott Dunham)

Today John Nesselroade and I were supposed to have a fun afternoon with Brazilian coffee and cheesebread, and lots of laughter. When I was about to pick him up, he did not answer to the phone. His wife, Carolyn, did. And she shared the sad news. John has passed away. He was not

A gift from John Nesselroade (1936-2024), part of his poetry book titled "Cautionary Couplets for Assistant Professors": "Lecturing A great misfortune swallowed Jim 'Though colleagues all respected him. He'd earned a good M.S. degree And worked hard for his Ph.D. He left his

The insane irony of this is that each one of these failed multiplications requires performing trillions of successful multiplications

Pretty strong evidence of negative mental health effects of doing a PhD. Recent working paper by Eva Ranehill, Anna Sandberg, Sanna Bergvall, and Clara Fernström. Paper link: swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lun…

#AcademicChatter #AcademicX

Returning from Leipzig University. Slides of my talk "Reproducible Research in R (How to do the same thing more than once)" are available here: github.com/brandmaier/rep… - thanks so much to my wonderful host @dingding_peng

Step aside Monty Hall, Blackwell’s N=2 case for the secretary problem is way weirder.

🚨New Paper Alert🚨 We found that switching to an opt-out system for organ donation doesn't guarantee higher donation rates. More efforts are needed to boost organ donations, like public awareness and healthcare investment. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… (Public Health)

Title: Opt-out defaults do not increase organ donation rates Authored by M. Dallacker, L. Appelius, A.M. Brandmaier (Andreas M. Brandmaier), A.S. Morais, & R. Hertwig

LLMs play pictionary!

What geneticists fear the most: The Cambridge Plot.

tried getting claude to write funny tweets starting from 9 examples. it generated some okay stuff but nothing that actually made me laugh. then i tried asking it to generate tweets written from its perspective rather than a human's and actually laughed. hmm

R blows my mind. All of these were made with R by Cédric Scherer (3 is my favorite):

To be FAIR: Theory needs an update! Using existing #openscience infrastructure (GitHub, Zenodo), we Introduce FAIR theory, a digital object that can be shared, reused in analysis environments, and iteratively updated based on new findings. osf.io/preprints/psya…