It's been a couple of years now since I finished my PhD at the @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social ... and looking back at the experience, I think most of the things I learned had little to do with neuroscience. I list a few of them in my latest blog post at celefthe.com/blog/2026/a-...

What is sample size in neuroscience? And what happens when we get it wrong? Our article in @MolecularAutism explores the prevalence of pseudoreplication, a form of statistical error which occurs when we get this wrong, in the FXS and NDD literature. edin.ac/3ZYkpdI 🧵

Better statistical reporting does not lead to statistical rigour: lessons from two decades of pseudoreplication in mouse-model studies of neurological disorders - Molecular Autism

Background Accurately determining the sample size (“N”) of a dataset is a key consideration for experimental design. Misidentification of sample size can lead to pseudoreplication, a process of artifi...

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