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Simon Vandekar

@vandyatvandy.bsky.social

Biostatistician with neuroimaging data. Loves dogs, mushrooms, data.

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Brooke Sevchik@bsevchik.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🍄 Our new living systematic review and meta-analysis on MDMA for PTSD is now live on medRxiv. Here's what we found and how we built upon our open science infrastructure to support it 🧵 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

A living systematic review, meta-analysis, and open data resource of trials of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD

3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) has emerged as a potential treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), generating considerable enthusiasm in the field. However, rapidly changing evid...

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Simon Vandekar@vandyatvandy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Do you want to report effect sizes for any brain-behavior association? Do you want to include spatial confidence intervals for effect sizes? This paper, by Xinyu Zhang has the methods and software you need! with @aarona-b.bsky.social @neilwoodward.bsky.social and others :)

Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Xinyu Zhang, Simon Vandekar, et al: Semiparametric confidence sets for cross-sectional and longitudinal neuroimaging doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Simon Vandekar@vandyatvandy.bsky.social · last yr.

"Asked for comment, the State Department said it would be introducing the department’s foreign assistance successor to USAID, to be called America First, this week." It's hard to think of a dumber name for a foreign assistance program. apnews.com/article/obam...

Bush, Obama — and singer Bono — fault Trump's gutting of USAID on agency's last day

Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush have delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration in an emotional video farewell with staffers of the U.S.

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Hunter Walker@hunterw.bsky.social · last yr.

Cory Booker has held the Senate floor for 17 hours and 21 minutes. The record of 24 hours and 18 minutes is held by segregationist Strom Thurmond, who spent that time protesting the Civil Rights Act of 1957. I am pretty sure Booker would not mind changing that history.

Simon Vandekar@vandyatvandy.bsky.social · last yr.

Easily add effect sizes and confidence intervals with the RESI R package. Now official with a publication in JSS. doi.org/10.18637/jss... Check out the website (statimagcoll.github.io/RESI/) to report bugs or request model types. @mntj21.bsky.social - first author, with @kaidikang.bsky.social

RESI: An R Package for Robust Effect Sizes by Megan Jones, Kaidi Kang, Simon Vandekar

<p>Effect size indices are useful parameters that quantify the strength of association and are unaffected by sample size. There are many available effect size parameters and estimators, but it is diff...

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Nature@nature.com · last yr.

Almost all grant-review meetings remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health, preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. https://go.nature.com/418B5Pm

Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order

Nature - The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

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Stephanie Noble@sneuroble.bsky.social · last yr.

The SfN site automates the process of writing your reps—you can also edit the message to add specific concerns about the indirects cap using the template below: fromthescienceclass.substack.com/p/biomedical... (H/t bsky.app/profile/scie... )

Biomedical Research Under Threat: Urge Congress to Act Now!

A Friday evening plea from a concerned scientist

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NNancy Kanwisher@nancykanwisher.bsky.social · last yr.

If you are a neuroscientist, please use SFN's site to write to your reps about the importance of funding for science (they have letters ready to go, you can just use theirs or write/edit as you see fit): www.sfn.org/advocacy/adv...

Simon Vandekar@vandyatvandy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Now's the time to invest in coffee with these ridiculous tariffs going up. I recommend this delicious Columbian grown and natural anaerobic processed bean by Bryan Alvear from Black and White tinyurl.com/yc86nneu

Brayan Alvear Juicy Cherry | Colombia | Black & White Coffee Roasters

Reminiscent of some of our favorite Coca-Cola products, like Cherry Coke and Vanilla Coke, the flavors in this coffee are intense - but also here for a good time. Spiced like sweet cinnamon and fruity...

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