I have just been notified by @moderation that a toot that justifies the massacre of Israeli civilians does not violate the server's code of conduct. As a member of this cooperatively governed instance, I propose we change the https://wiki.neuromatch.io/Code_of_Conduct to include under "Unacceptable behavior": "Threats or justifications of violence against civilian populations"
Dan Handwerker
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Neuroscience & fMRI methodology researcher. Views are my own.
Nicole Rust6 thought provoking questions posed to @awaisaftab (psychiatrist) and myself (brain researcher) and we hit on so much:
The challenge of escaping reductionism. Theories of consciousness. Are mental disorders brain disorders? Why should anyone care about philosophy? Is epistemic iteration is failing? And what bits of brain research are awaiting their Copernican moment?
With nods to @summerfieldlab, @knutson_brain, @tyrell_turing, @Neurograce, @eikofried and so many more.
Read it all here (and let's discuss)!
https://awaisaftab.substack.com/p/advancing-neuroscientific-understanding
Blaise Frederick#McLeanHospital #NIDAnews #noiseassignal #fMRI #connectivity #restingstate
Check it out! Dr. Cole Korponay just uploaded a preprint of our new paper with Dr. Amy Janes. This is a really intriguing finding that seems to have been hiding in plain sight in pretty much every dataset we’ve looked at so far…
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.08.556939v1
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Don't miss this one ⤵️. A wide-ranging and provocative conversation covering disparate issues like: How do we balance accuracy versus breadth as scientists? Why should we read a book written in 1897? When is a paw a hand? And should scientists cede the term "dopamine" to the pop-psychologists?
Exactly the type of thing I love about the furry elephant.
Nicole Rust (@[email protected])
On jargon - is it useful? Is it necessary and useful for scientists to say "mnemonic" to refer to "memory" and "affect" to talk about "emotion"? In other words, given that everyone understand emotion and mood and no one really understands what "affect" is until you are really deep into things, why is the term affect useful and important at all? And should we reserve it for deep dives (as opposed to public facing websites and such)? And does anyone call themselves an "emotion researcher?" or a "mood researcher?" @PessoaBrain @[email protected]
Albert CardonaYears ago I made a brief twitter thread about it. Can easily be verified by reading the acknowledgment section of Hubel and Wiesel’s papers in the 60s. Take for example their most cited paper, from 1962 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1359523/
Here, “technical assistance” is doing a lot of work. The pattern repeats in most if not all papers. In modern times likely all these women would have been first and middle authors. The result is they were denied credit to contemporary eyes.
#neuroscience
Marc Robinson-Rechavi#WomenInSTEM Emilia Huerta-Sanchez searched for women who are the acknowledgements instead of being authors for contributions which should justify authorship. She's now starting a podcast interviewing women who have been in science for a long time. #SMBE2023
Great talks at #OHBM2023 by Bharat Biswal and Molly Bright, but also a nice contrast. Bharat spent years trying to convince people that resting state fMRI isn't all vascular and now Molly is trying to convince resting state researchers that vascular variation is important and can be neurally relevant.
Jo Etzel
I'm presenting 2 posters at #OHBM2023 on Sunday/Monday. An update on tedana software for multi-echo denoising with a major refactor & new feature ( https://github.com/ME-ICA/ohbm-2023-multiecho/blob/main/tedana/tedana_poster_OHBM2023.pdf ) and an examination of how multi-echo denoising handles slow respiratory fluctuations during a natural task paradigm ( https://fim.nimh.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2023-07/Holness_OHBM2023_Printed.pdf )
@JosetAEtzel @afni_pt I was worried about who would actually want to spend a day at #OHBM2023 talkng about quality control, but it turns out 40+ people spend the entire day in the session. Many of the presentations were based on this special issue, but the talks and discussions went help beyond. Hoping the attendees and speakers keep building on the ideas and discussions from the session. https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/33922/demonstrating-quality-control-qc-procedures-in-fmri
Demonstrating Quality Control (QC) Procedures in fMRI
Description:Quality control (QC) has long been an important part of FMRI processing, but it is typically underreported and too often underappreciated, whether for small or large, public or local datasets. This project aims to showcase examples of QC practices across institutions and to foster discussions within the field. Here, we welcome researchers and developers across the globe to describe their QC methods in detail and to show them