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Professor at Stanford. Psychology/Neuroscience/Data Science. Books include: The New Mind Readers, Handbook of fMRI Data Analysis, Hard to Break, and Statistical Thinking. https://poldrack.github.io/
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Engaging article about ADHD and the risks of pathologizing the tail of a normally distributed behavior that then justifies the widespread use of methamphetamines in kids. Particularly impressed by investigators questioning decades of their own work (not easy to do). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/m...

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Congrats to @mdubova.bsky.social on her new job at Berkeley!

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Very powerful indeed.

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Well worth reading. The obvious point here is that some presented "woke" as an existential risk to speech and academic freedom, and some people warned about govt censorship as a bigger threat. The former were not just wrong but paved the way for govt censorship. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

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As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us all safe and healthy

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If you ever reach a position where are in charge of meetings, watch this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsCh...

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This has to be the most intensively studied single mouse in the history of the species. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Rome Workshop on Veridical Data Science on June 20 (Friday), 2025. www.integreat.no/events/publi... - great opportunity to learn more about this important topic!

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Really important work!

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Tell Congress to protect crucial medical research funding #saveNIHresearch ucal.us/saveNIHresearch @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

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@psychmag.bsky.social asked me some questions about my book. #philsci, #psychology, #hps, #metascience

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11 of about 55 PIs terminated at NINDS yesterday, with downstream effects for all of us in terms of the lost research into neurological disease and stroke. 1/ www.wired.com/story/doctor...

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This is an utterly amazing paper.

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FYI, if you want to be prepared to apply for the next ABCD Study data release, prepare for these new NIST security requirements 🧠: @ohbmofficial.bsky.social abcdstudy.org/scientists/d...

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I'd like to see a revival of panache and artistry in scientific prose style. Since we have to read so many papers, they should be fun and beautiful. I would also argue that this serves the goal of communication: readers will be more likely to remember a striking phrase or image.

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I'm a member of the NIMH BSC. The members who were fired are outstanding scientists, which is why they were appointed to the BSC in the first place. Their firing for unspecified reasons is unconscionable.

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My OpEd in @elife.bsky.social “It feels as if we are trying to fight a series of attacks on science with one arm tied behind our back and our lips half sewn shut.” “Yet we are not beaten, and some of us are downright energized.” elifesciences.org/articles/106...

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‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the Crown Jewel of American Science www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h... #NIH #chaos #fail

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Check out this new paper from @ericwbridgeford.bsky.social that lays out how causal thinking is essential for generalizable statistical inferences, in the context of neuroscience.

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Cool new work from @patrickbissett.bsky.social on the sharing of control between humans and machines. tl;dr: it makes us worse.

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New preprint (osf.io/preprints/ps...) evaluating how shared control environments, like partially automated cars, influence human cognitive control. In short, response inhibition was impaired in multiple ways when subjects were told that an AI will usually stop for them, but infrequently it doesn’t.

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Anita S. Jwa, Martin Norgaard, and Russell A. Poldrack: Can I have your data? Recommendations and practical tips for sharing neuroimaging data upon a direct personal request doi.org/10.1162/imag...

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Claude 3.7 has things to say about MATLAB:

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Amazing story

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New piece! goodscience.substack.com/p/whats-goin...

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Wonderful news! Thanks to NIH for listening to us and @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social for leading us in this effort.

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I feel like one of the best habits I have developed is always looking at the to: field before I hit "send" on an email. This has saved me on many occasions from making an ass of myself.

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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I am very thankful that 1) I grew up in a time when vaccines were universally recognized as the medical miracle that they are, and 2) my mother saved my childhood vaccine card so I have a record

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The devil is in the details, TDRL edition. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40016003/. I worry a lot that as researchers rely more heavily on AI systems to summarize work, the importance of these kinds of details will increasingly get lost in the gloss.

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In @elife.bsky.social: An image-computable model of speeded decision-making doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

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I just got access to Claude Code (docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agen...) and so far it looks pretty amazing after trying it out on a couple of repos. Looking forward to kicking its tires a bit more, and interested to hear thoughts from others.

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

Dear manager: 1. I walked through the valley of the shadow of death 2. I took a look at my life and realized there's nothing left 3. I've been blastin' and laughin' so long 4. Even my momma thinks that my mind is gone 5. Been spending most our lives living in a gangsta's paradise

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This is a great discussion of how to rethink programming education in the age of AI coding assistants with @will-sentance.bsky.social

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Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

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In the "words no longer mean what they say" category, this from Hulu today:

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"I've spent over five decades as a scientist in academia and the federal government," Harold Varmus, the former director of the N.I.H., writes in a guest essay. "Never before have I seen my profession so politicized as it is now under the Trump administration."

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My heart goes out to the folks at NIH and other agencies who are losing their jobs today.

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