Christopher Madan
@engra.me
Uni Nottingham Asst Prof in Psychology. Memory, aging, decisions, emotion, brains, PhD supervision, ttrpg, more! https://engra.me
1/ Can AI help researchers check whether published social science results actually reproduce? In our new PNAS paper, we tested this directly in the AI Replication Games: 288 researchers, 103 teams, and real replication packages from quantitative social science.
After nearly a decade at the University of Nottingham, I’ll be moving on this summer. As of July, I’ll be returning to Canada to take up a position at MacEwan University in Edmonton.
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 ⬇️
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...
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.
We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:
"Replication rates are higher than experts predicted and p-hacking is much less common than we expected!" replications.clearerthinking.org/three-surpri...
Watch #BACN25 today and tomorrow for the latest in UK cognitive neuroscience! Follow @bacn.co.uk for even more after the conference.
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
I'm really looking forward to giving the opening talk for #BACN25! "Memory², Methods, and Mentorship: Four facets of my research journey thus far" Not too long left to wait!
British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience@bacn.co.uk · 11mo agoSee you tomorrow at #BACN25!!
Really happy to see this finally published. Hard work together with colleagues @engra.me and @jolienfrancken.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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[Review] Very interesting paper! Highly recommended! Open access ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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...
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"I am satisfied with these changes. Very nice job!" What more could you hope for in a review!
I'd love to meet with some people during the conference! Feel free to message me if you'll be there.
The Experimental Psychology Society@exppsychsoc.bsky.social · last yr.In July, we will be travelling to Dundee for our joint scientific meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, which will include many prize talks, symposia, posters and much, much more! For full information, please visit: eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
It's not too late to submit your abstract. Join us in Edinburgh in September!
British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience@bacn.co.uk · last yr.Preliminary program is up! Lots of exciting research. It's not too late to join us and present! Late-breaking poster deadline is 11 July. www.bacn.co.uk/conferences
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...
Cutting international bachelor programs threatens psychological science » 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 ...
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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...
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says
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Save the date!! #BACN2025 11-12 September 2025, Edinburgh www.bacn.co.uk/conferences Submit talk and poster abstracts by 30 April 2025.
It's official!! In recognition of my contributions to higher education--including research methods training, application of learning sciences to other fields, and post-PhD career guidance resource development--I have been awarded Senior Fellow from Advance HE (SFHEA).
Furthermore, both human and AI-assisted teams significantly outperformed AI-led approaches in proposing and implementing comprehensive robustness checks. There was a 25 percentage points difference in proposing robustness checks and a 32 pp difference in implementation.
New research alert! Our study investigates the effectiveness of human-only, AI-assisted, and AI-led teams in assessing the reproducibility of quantitative social science research. We've got some surprising findings!
This book now available *open access* through Springer Neuromethods: link.springer.com/book/10.1007.... @brainalien.bsky.social and I extend heartfelt thanks to all contributing authors for their exceptional work, w/ special gratitude to Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social for an inspiring foreword
Methods for Analyzing Large Neuroimaging Datasets
This Open Access volume explores advancements in methodologies, efficient code management, and scalable data processing of neuroimaging datasets.
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Straight off we see the impact of changes to student visas, in particular restricting dependents. Student visas are limited terms though, meaning including them in overall stats tends to skew them, but makes an easy "win" for a government looking to reduce immigration. 2/ www.gov.uk/government/s...
Summary of latest statistics
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Long thread of initial reflections on today's immigration statistics as I read through them. First off, it would be great if people could remember they are from June, that means that, not matter your political persuasions, they are down to the previous government. 1/ www.gov.uk/government/s...
Immigration system statistics, year ending September 2024
Quarterly statistics on people coming to UK, extensions of stay, total in asylum system, irregular migration, citizenship, EUSS, asylum, detentions and returns.
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