We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Strong case being made here by @joelbtalcott.bsky.social and his colleagues for better and more comprehensive screening in our primary schools, to help all children who may struggle to learn. 👇👇👇
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Dominic Grieve, ex Conservative Attorney General, excoriates Elon Musk for his baseless accusations against Keir Starmer.
Striking images can make scientific ideas accessible to people from all walks of life. But some such pictures do more damage than good, seeding confusion & fueling widespread misconceptions of an essential topic. To illustrate, a thread about two iconic images & (mis)understanding evolution. 1/9
Why did we think Neanderthals weren’t smart?
Our earliest studies of Neanderthals were fundamentally flawed www.vox.com/unexplainabl...
Excerpt from a letter that Charles Darwin sent to his friend Charles Lyell on October 1st 1861, confessing "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything. One lives only to make blunders..."
If you are struggling with your day, please take solace in these insightful words penned by renowned scholar Charles Darwin in 1861, perhaps the most resonant quote from his entire body of work: "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything...."
A QR code for the BIDS community survey
The 🎉 2024 BIDS Community Survey 🎉 is open until April 3. We are looking for your input on how you use BIDS and future directions for BIDS. We want to hear from users and non-users, experts and non-experts. Please share your views and share this survey widely!
Survey: bit.ly/bidssurvey2024
BIDS Website Revamp! ✨
Struggling to find BIDS resources? We hear you! Our new website brings (most) everything together. Check it out: bids-website.readthedocs.io
Let us know what you think! (Feedback survey link is at the top of the page)
Now that we’re on Bluesky, it’s a good time to bring back #badsciencedrawings – a collection of figures that prove that science is more science than art.
Before Biorender, all we had was MS Paint and a dream. But ovals, lines, and lightning bolts were all we needed
Morales-Botello et al., 2012
A tag that says epilepsy awareness
My favorite tagger in LA is the Epilepsy Awareness tagger who I'm guessing might also be the Breast Cancer Awareness tagger but if they're not the same person they should hang out
Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky
1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research
Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Really nice review by my colleague Vineet Augustine about our growing understanding of how our brain talks to our heart, and vice versa. 🫀↔️🧠
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
