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Christopher Madan

@engra.me

Uni Nottingham Asst Prof in Psychology. Memory, aging, decisions, emotion, brains, PhD supervision, ttrpg, more! https://engra.me

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Can you share the syllabus or any other teaching material? I've been planning a "Psychology of Roleplay" seminar course and there's probably some overlap

24.02.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Madan Lab | An Introduction to MATLAB for Behavioral Researchers

There are a few good books and guides, my (biased) suggestion is the text I wrote for this very purpose
engra.me/books/matlab/

09.01.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Thrilled to share our paper on the formation of brain shape in human newborns, just out @natneuro.nature.com: tinyurl.com/2ty4ef43
Using #fractal analysis of #MRI data from the developing Human Connectome Project (lnkd.in/dxeHbJX6), we show that brain shape closely captures infant age and genetics ⬇️

08.01.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

There definitely are many people using it with time-series data, I know there's a literature with EEG brain activity.
For brain structure, so much of the literature is 'size' (volume/thickness/area), but glosses over what shape the volume is.

29.12.2025 21:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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About 10 years ago I came across 'fractal dimensionality' as a measure of brain structure. Studying it's utility with healthy aging, clinical populations, and across species has led to 19 papers since then. The most recent paper is now online at Nature Neuroscience!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

29.12.2025 19:39 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You can do this right now:

Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.

Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

11.12.2025 22:08 πŸ‘ 704 πŸ” 259 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 36
Image of Shax from Star Trek Lower Decks with the words "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"

Image of Shax from Star Trek Lower Decks with the words "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Well we have corollary:

12.12.2025 02:25 πŸ‘ 10367 πŸ” 2350 πŸ’¬ 161 πŸ“Œ 115
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11.12.2025 20:54 πŸ‘ 2242 πŸ” 802 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 26

Both welcome and congratulations!!

12.12.2025 06:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Three Surprises From Attempting To Replicate Recent Studies in Top Psychology Journals
Amanda Metskas
December 4, 2025
How has the replication rate of psychology studies changed in recent years? 

Are we still experiencing a β€œreplication crisis,” where only 40-60% of results replicate when the study is conducted again?

Three Surprises From Attempting To Replicate Recent Studies in Top Psychology Journals Amanda Metskas December 4, 2025 How has the replication rate of psychology studies changed in recent years? Are we still experiencing a β€œreplication crisis,” where only 40-60% of results replicate when the study is conducted again?

"Replication rates are higher than experts predicted and p-hacking is much less common than we expected!"

replications.clearerthinking.org/three-surpri...

05.12.2025 08:59 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

I've had this issue too, though a few years ago. Coauthored preprints were fine, but all single author ones were privated and had to individually be made public again.

12.11.2025 08:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!!

11.09.2025 12:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Congratulations to @engra.me on receiving the @bacn.co.uk Early Career Award. Great talk! #BACN25

11.09.2025 10:13 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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#BACN25 started off with the Early Career Award talk by Christopher Madan (@engra.me).

11.09.2025 09:15 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Watch #BACN25 today and tomorrow for the latest in UK cognitive neuroscience!
Follow @bacn.co.uk for even more after the conference.

11.09.2025 09:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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And we’re off! Jamie Ward opening @bacn.co.uk #BACN2025 in Edinburgh with prize talk by @engra.me detailing his work and service to the scientific community

11.09.2025 09:01 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm really looking forward to giving the opening talk for #BACN25!

"MemoryΒ², Methods, and Mentorship: Four facets of my research journey thus far"

Not too long left to wait!

10.09.2025 17:12 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Really happy to see this finally published. Hard work together with colleagues @engra.me and @jolienfrancken.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

05.08.2025 14:02 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Language and/or memory: How to slice the domain-cake? Historically, memory and language have been seen as separate cognitive functions and studied in isolation. To date, it remains an open question to what extent these cognitive domains are related. H...

[Review] Very interesting paper! Highly recommended! Open access ⬇️

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

20.07.2025 21:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm glad you enjoyed it!!

04.08.2025 21:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"I am satisfied with these changes. Very nice job!"

What more could you hope for in a review!

01.08.2025 17:32 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It'll be great to catch up!!

21.06.2025 04:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'd love to meet with some people during the conference! Feel free to message me if you'll be there.

20.06.2025 21:37 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's not too late to submit your abstract. Join us in Edinburgh in September!

16.06.2025 11:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations!!

28.05.2025 18:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Submit today!

30.04.2025 06:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cutting international bachelor programs threatens psychological science Β» Eiko Fried Two days ago, four Dutch universities announced discontinuing their English-speaking psychology bachelor programs (1, 2). I will briefly explain (1) how this decision came to be, (2) why this is such ...

Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government.

Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea.

eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...

17.04.2025 22:44 πŸ‘ 229 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 11
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Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained β€˜When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says

I never thought that fear of detention or deportation would have been on the list of reasons for making conferences hybrid, but this seems compelling

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

14.04.2025 06:52 πŸ‘ 214 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2

Counting down--join us in Edinburgh!

07.04.2025 16:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It will be great to see you there, and hear about your current projects!

07.04.2025 17:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0