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Dan Handwerker

@danielhandwerker.bsky.social

Neuroscience & fMRI methodology researcher. Views are my own.

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Rodrigo Braga@rodbraga.bsky.social · last mo.

Please RT - We are looking for someone who wants to establish and lead a cutting-edge neuroimaging center at Northwestern, working closely with multiple labs, including my own, in neuroscience research broadly construed. If you are curious, dm me and I'm happy to answer questions

Rodrigo Braga@rodbraga.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are hiring an Associate or Full Professor to lead the neuroimaging research program at Northwestern's Center for Translational Imaging in the Department of Radiology careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/...

Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wonderful news! Journal of Research on Research is launched. "if you are a researcher who researches any aspect of research, then this is the journal and community for you." Worth reading the whole editorial for a transparent and thoughtful account of this amazing community-driven effort.

Research on Research Association@roration.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research. A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated. Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS

Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I realize I sound like old man yelling at clouds but... ...in my day WE READ ALL THE CITATIONS BEFORE WE CITED THEM. That's how you GAIN THE KNOWLEDGE TO CITE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE. Signed: Someone who literally read two whole books on the color blue just to write a single 1000 word article.

Dr. Holly Walters@manigarm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

The reactions of some researchers on Twitter finally being held responsible for not having read the very paper they submitted are... something. Mainly, they don't think they should have to check every citation or make sure the data is real and accurate. Because it's too hard, I guess.
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This gives a bunch of problems that boil down to AI is swamping peer review because people are fraudulently passing off AI text as their own scientific output. For all the weaknesses of peer review, a solution that pushes for more AI without addressing AI-facilitated fraud is fundamentally unserious

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

AI is pushing scientific publishing to the brink. For a field as sprawling as neuroscience, the crisis may also be an opportunity to finally connect findings across subfields, writes Tim Requarth. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-t...

Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just heard a term to complement p-hacking: RGB-hacking. p-hacking tweaks analyses to get results below a desired thresh & RBG-hacking tweaks the colormap & scale. + vals pop more with this colormap. Not calling out the source because I could easily find another & this can be done without ill intent.

A colorbar from -99.5 to +99.5 that goes from black->purple->green->yellow->orange->red but with uneven spacing between colors so that positive changes pop more and even positive changes close to zero pop more than negative changes close to zero.
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This makes me think of "Franchise" by Isaac Asimov, which felt like an extreme thought experiment when I first read it and now seems a bit closer to real events. www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/HON3...

Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Pure fictions are on the brink of being treated as scientific and political knowledge. If we do not pull back, our understanding of society might become artificial, too." There's a logic to simulations which excludes pretending they're substitutes for sampling from the population of interest.

Chris Baker@cibaker.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIH is hosting a two-day symposium on 'Foundations and Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience' in honor of Dr. Alex Martin, to be held at NIH (with online videocast) on April 7th-8th, 2026. Register to attend online or in-person at: bit.ly/4bYlbxw

Picture of Alex Martin, National Institute of Mental Health
Erika McEntarfer@erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

True story: it took me years to get a passport in my late 20s - at the time I did not have a single piece of identification with my name spelled correctly. All different misspellings. I eventually found a sympathetic clerk who was like 'I can see what happened here'.

Max Elliott@maxwellelliott.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I am recruiting a Postdoc to join my lab at UMN. If you or someone you know is interested in studying individual differences in brain and cognitive aging, check out the listing and my website in my bio and apply! I appreciate RTs to help get the word out as well :)

Elizabeth Weber Handwerker@elizwebhand.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Five years ago, I had a very sick child and referrals to several pediatric medical specialists and tests in a building a few blocks from the US Capitol. The kid got a diagnosis. Treatment worked. But for me, January 6, 2020 means memories of rescheduling medical appointments for a very sick child.

Alexander Huth@alexanderhuth.bsky.social · 7mo ago

So I made a little simulation where there is no actual discordance, i.e. the underlying values from which the CBF, CBV, BOLD, and T2* are measured all move in lockstep. With zero noise this gives you zero discordant voxels (nice little diagonal line).

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