Popularity of brain regions and networks in every available SANS (@sansmeeting.bsky.social ) program over the years. Now, animated!
Looking forward to seeing everyone next week in La Jolla for #SANS2026.
New Perspective out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We consider why neuroimaging analyses struggles to predict adolescent mental health, discuss approaches for improving prediction, and provide open-source implementations and tutorials: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Can you spot any trends? Any predictions on what the distribution for #SANS2026 will look like? Join us in San Diego to find out!
Popularity of brain regions and networks in every available SANS (@sansmeeting.bsky.social ) program over the years. Now, animated!
Looking forward to seeing everyone next week in La Jolla for #SANS2026.
We've been doing similar things with wb_view for awhile. It's fine (and looks good when you get it right), but this is so much more streamlined and contained.... I'm also a bit of an R stan at heart.
My new obsession is ggsegSchaefer for plotting stat maps of our preferred brain parcellation atlas. So easy to customize, manipulate, and make pretty (...even if my general aesthetic tastes remain questionable).
Fightin' words..
Link :: Yoshi
(...I like Ness too)
Fortunate to be a part of this! Moriah had an incredible dissertation and I was lucky to be on her dissertation committee.
Thanks, Eiko!
Coincidentally, I was reading this one yesterday and really liking it too. Nice work! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Also, after 19 years into my career, this is my very first empirical publication that is purely behavioral and has zero neuroscience... I'm officially a real psychologist!
There are lots of results to unpack, but the bottom line is: the more efficient you are in integrating positive information with the self (even compared to someone you like) the lower you scored on depression & anxiety measures and the higher your self-esteem.
Excited to finally see this one out!
Excited to share our latest paper on computational mechanisms of self-enhancement with links to mental health. We used hierarchical Bayesian drift diffusion modeling to decompose choices on a social comparison task and relate them internalizing symptoms.
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/GPFSV...
The signal-to-noise ratio there is on par with Xwitter (because of both the signal and the noise)
Yup..
At a different point in my life, this would have been shocking and disappointing. The only shocking part now is how numb I feel to this kind of news, and the disappointment is with myself for feeling that way.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...
It's ironic and 🤪cheeky🤪!!!... until it become ironic and 🫥cheeky🫥.
I’m excited to announce a special issue I am guest editing at SCAN with Johanna Jarcho and @maureenritchey.bsky.social on the intersection of memory and social cognition. Find more info here: academic.oup.com/scan/pages/c...
SPSP is crazy. So many presentations on climate change and environment, yet folks aren’t allowed to take the leftover lunches without tickets because all leftover lunches “must” be thrown away 🤔
Anyways is you see me, say hi!
#SPSP2026
This also dovetails with thoughts I have had the topic too. People are using AI tools for lots of things in academia, and that's often perfectly fine. But I think it is important to be mindful about both what you are getting and what you are giving up.
robchavez.substack.com/p/a-vibe-cod...
A nice, level-headed post about the motivations and outcomes of using technology (including LLMs) in research that you care about.
New post! "Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research," in which I try to describe some of the tensions around using GenAI/LLMs in scientific research, and why it can be so difficult to have productive conversations on the topic. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/valuing-th...
I need to make sure the decade old code/dependancies still runs... but that's not a bad idea.
Interaction effects have all kinds of problems that people have been overlooking for years.
Maybe we should finally try to publish this damn preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
❤️
Today, the RAs in my lab told me I have "girl dad energy."
I've got some practice...
My lab at UW Madison is hiring a new lab manager! I’m looking for a motivated and detail-oriented person to help run the lab’s day-to-day, including our ongoing neuroimaging and behavioral studies. This is especially well suited for graduating undergrads thinking about grad school. Link below
Are you telling me she's almost qualified for emeritus status?!!..
😉
We're getting excited... just putting the finishing touches to
**PsychoPy Studio**
This is a complete rewrite of the PsychoPy Builder/Coder app, now packaged in Electron.
Faster load, modernised UI, web-ready, independent of the Python interpreter
🎉 🚀
blog.psychopy.org/general%20bl...
1/9 New blog is live! This is part 2 of a series—last time we looked at the Dunning-Kruger effect, now we are digging in to Implicit vs Explicit attitudes and the Implicit Association Test. To start, of course we need a good meme...
haines-lab.com/post/part-2-...
