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Perimenopausal folks! Please get blood work done to check and see if you have any nutritional deficiencies

I just found out that I am vitamin D deficient, and that would explain a lot of the symptoms that I currently have

This is particularly important because this deficiency leads to osteoporosis

If you're still dichotomising continuous variables, stop.

Dichotomising your exposure &/or outcome wastes power.

Dichotomising confounders introduces residual confounding.

If a variable has non-linear effects, use splines!

If you want 'clinically relevant' threshold effects, use marginalisation.

Postdoc In Meta-science Personal type: Scientific staff

We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

Nice clear presentation of commonplace meta-analysis failure mode: Pooling coefficients that mean different things, because original models had different adjustment sets. A coefficient gets its meaning from the whole model, not just from the predictor variable it multiplies.

He is dod nu. Wer giwt uns nu 'ne Beer?

Long COVID disability burden in US adults - Communications Medicine Bonuck et al. quantified the disability burden of Long COVID in U.S. adults using years lived with disability and compared its NIH funding to that of 68 other conditions by sex predominance. Long COVI...

Studie liefert Hinweise, dass Long Covid-Forschung, gemessen an Krankheitslast, unterfinanziert ist.

Ebenso wird herausgearbeitet, dass das auch für ME/CFS gilt - und dass unterdotierte Forschung vermehrt Erkrankungen mit Frauen-Dominanz betrifft

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Reliable research in the social and behavioural and sciences Sweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences.

Today, the SCORE program releases its primary results! 865 researchers examined research credibility across the social and behavioral sciences, publishing three papers in Nature + five preprints.

📑 Explore the papers: www.nature.com/colle...
ℹ️ Read more about SCORE: www.cos.io/score

Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences - Nature A study of reproducibility in a stratified random sample of 600 papers published from 2009 to 2018 in 62 journals spanning the social and behavioural sciences finds higher reproducibility among more&n...

For reproducibility, we could obtain data for only 24% of 600 papers. Of the 143 papers assessed, we precisely reproduced 54%, approximately reproduced 74%. We were much more likely to succeed if authors shared data and code, versus just data or if we had to reconstruct data from original sources.

Unterschreiben und teilen!

Are you aware of any shared synthetic neuroimaging datasets? Let me know.

Precision reward/affect fMRI study out now in HBM! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@dvsmith.bsky.social @olinotom.bsky.social @coopersharp.bsky.social and @shenghanwang.bsky.social

Intensively sampled task + rest fMRI data with behavioral manipulation openly available on OpenNeuro!
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Neuroanatomy reflects individual variability in impulsivity in youth - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Neuroanatomy reflects individual variability in impulsivity in youth

Our latest work looking at the neuroanatomical basis of impulsivity in youth is out now in Molecular Psychiatry!

For decades, females were basically ignored in addiction neuroscience. Then, thanks to the NIH SABV mandates almost exactly 10 years ago, researchers started including females, and things got intriguing, some evidence suggested the estrous cycle may influence the motivation to take cocaine.

"Our results cannot be treated as evidence of causality, but also you should act as if they do".

Ah, science.

Running my first ever GWAS 🙌

Ich liege am 9. Mai in #Leipzig.

Data Organization in Spreadsheets Karl W. Broman & Kara H. Woo Pages 2-10 | Received 01 Jun 2017, Accepted author version posted online: 29 Sep 2017, Published online: 24 Apr 2018 1. Introduction 2. Be Consistent 3. Choose Good Names for Things 4. Write Dates as YYYY-MM-DD 5. No Empty Cells 6. Put Just One Thing in a Cell 7. Make it a Rectangle 8. Create a Data Dictionary 9. No Calculations in the Raw Data Files 10. Do Not Use Font Color or Highlighting as Data 11. Make Backups 12. Use Data Validation to Avoid Errors 13. Save the Data in Plain Text Files ABSTRACT Spreadsheets are widely used software tools for data entry, storage, analysis, and visualization. Focusing on the data entry and storage aspects, this article offers practical recommendations for organizing spreadsheet data to reduce errors and ease later analyses. The basic principles are: be consistent, write dates like YYYY-MM-DD, do not leave any cells empty, put just one thing in a cell, organize the data as a single rectangle (with subjects as rows and variables as columns, and with a single header row), create a data dictionary, do not include calculations in the raw data files, do not use font color or highlighting as data, choose good names for things, make backups, use data validation to avoid data entry errors, and save the data in plain text files.

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Working hypothesis: If you're doing research and don't occasionally have a small existential crisis, either you've been blessed to work in an exceptional field (do tell which one it is!), or maybe you're being a bit naive.

Neuroscientists challenge NIH’s proposed data-access policy The changes would restrict the sharing of human neuroimaging, transcriptomic and genetic data.

A new data-sharing policy proposed by the NIH would result in “substantial harm to scientific progress,” a neuroimaging consortium says.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/data-sharing...

"Neighborhood street connectivity and hippocampus volume in older adults"

Impressive study linking hippocampal volume in later life and street connectivity:

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Still not using DeepPrep? It’s been downloaded 15k+ times (7k on DockerHub alone) in just 5 months after launch — helping labs speed through fMRI preprocessing 10x faster than conventional pipelines.
see doc: deepprep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Are you interested in detecting brain changes in individuals with higher precision over shorter intervals?

Check out our new paper in Nature Communications. With Randy Buckner, @jingnandu.bsky.social, and others.

Link - doi.org/10.1038/s414...

NIH is requesting comments on a new draft policy that may require human brain imaging data (and other data) from nih-funded research to only be shared via controlled access, & only with certain countries. I suggest neuroimagers read closely & submit comments by 3/18.

osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form...

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Transdiagnostic latent factor models of psychopathology are widely assumed to improve brain-behaviour associations. So we decided to test this directly and found that they don't. A short 🧵

Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record."
Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...

Taking multivitamin daily could help to slow biological ageing, study suggests Researchers working to unpick whether daily multivitamin results in people staying healthier as they age

🧪 #episky #SciComm

This should be the take home message

“My personal advice… do not waste your money on nutritional supplements. There are huge commercial interests in their consumption and a lack of clinical evidence.”

🙏 Dr Pilar Guallar Castillón
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our first batch of MBE posters today! Many insightful discussions 💬 and food for thought 💭 #MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody

📸 @flxklotz.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social & Mascha Dagen

Missed it? Check the PDFs here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/mbb-sympo...

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📣 The OHBM Women Faculty SIG is seeking nominations for 2 Communications Officers (1 postdoctoral fellow and 1 faculty member) to work synergistically towards the WF-SIG’s mission of supporting women in OHBM.

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