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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🎲 A tweet from one of my colleagues at the Centre for Human Brain Health @thechbh.bsky.social, way back in 2022 was puzzled by behaviour in MATLAB randperm(10) always gave the ‘random’ permutation of the numbers 1-10

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Famously from Anatol Rapoport. ehudlamm.com/lifehacks.pdf

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🚀 Have a MATLAB powered research idea with potential industry impact? MathWorks is offering up to $20k USD (funds can be disbursed world-wide)… through their latest bi-annual Call for Research Proposals.

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

❗️Our next workshop will be on October 1st, 10 am CET on Visualising High-dimensional Data with R by @visnut.bsky.social Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵

Two-panel figure. Panel a is a flow diagram tracking 1,611 empirical psychology articles from publication year (545 in 2015, 552 in 2020, 514 in 2025) to repository-link type: 785 link an OSF project, 85 link another platform, and 741 link no repository. Of those with an OSF link, download counts were retrieved for 670 and not retrieved for 115. Panel b is a line chart of the share of empirical papers linking OSF across 2015, 2020 and 2025. The overall rate, shown as a dashed black line, rises from 9% to 57% to 82%. All four journals rise steeply and end close together: Psychological Science 92%, JESP 89%, JML 83%, Cognition 76%, with Psychological Science highest throughout.

Three-panel figure. Panel a: ridgeline plot of downloads per file by material type on a log scale, with the percentage never downloaded labelled for each — archive 16% of 545 files, documents 20% of 2,970, code 12% of 3,471, other 17% of 1,646, data 21% of 10,051, media 35% of 2,120, images 35% of 4,102. Most files cluster between 1 and 10 downloads, with long right tails past 100. Panel b: ridgeline plot of downloads per paper by journal, log scale, with dashed median lines; Psychological Science is highest, then JESP, JML and Cognition. Panel c: stacked bars showing, for documents, data and code separately, the share of papers by download band (0, 1–10, 11–100, more than 100) in 2015, 2020 and 2025. The share exceeding 100 downloads falls sharply over time in all three types, from roughly two-thirds in 2015 to a quarter or less in 2025, as the 1–10 band grows.

Four-panel figure. Panel a: statistical languages detected among 333 papers with retrievable code — R 88%, SPSS 12%, Stata 4%, SAS 1%. Panel b: code red flags among those 333 papers — 34% hard-code an absolute path, 40% reference a missing file — above documentation among 672 OSF-linked papers — 21% have a README, 30% are documented by README, description or wiki. Panel c: among 562 Elsevier papers with no repository link, 44% (245) host at least one journal supplementary file but only 14% (77) host data, code or an archive. Panel d: composition of those 448 hosted files — documents 52%, data 21%, media 9%, other 7%, archive 6%, code 3%, images 1%. The code panels are green, the journal-supplement panels blue.

Coefficient plot (download predictors)

Dot-and-whisker plot of three standardised predictors of OSF download volume, each with a 95% confidence interval. Repository size (number of files) has the largest effect at about 0.76, citations about 0.38, and altmetric attention about 0.12. All three intervals sit entirely above zero, so each predicts more downloads, with repository size roughly twice the effect of citations and six times that of attention. X-axis: standardised effect, −0.2 to 1.0.

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A decade ago, a “weird” kitten was found on a road near a Bolivian forest. Too small to be a housecat, he had a scrunched-up face, short round ears, long whiskers, & a coat of leopard-like spots. DNA analysis now reveals him as the very first of a newly discovered species & I think I'm in love. 😻🧬🧪👇

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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

2026 Cutting Gardens Conference, a cutting edge M/EEG methods conference ... but you don't need to fly anywhere! cuttingeeg.org/cuttinggarde...

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Birmingham | CuttingGardens2026

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

MathWorks is running a short survey on how people use some newer scientific/engineering file formats in MATLAB - HDF5, NetCDF, Zarr… the latter two are new to me! If you use these in your research, 5 mins of your time will help shape where MATLAB goes next

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Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"findings indicate a trend toward reduced motor preparatory benefit from predictability in autism"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "results focus attention on reduced spontaneous predictive motor preparation as a possible sensorimotor contribution to autism's more visible manifestations"?

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Reduced Motor Preparation and Altered EEG Signatures of Prediction in Autistic Adults

During EEG recording, autistic and non-autistic adults were presented with auditory sequences where tones cued the probability of a subsequent imperative target. The autistic group showed less effect...

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I learned MATLAB on the job as a research assistant in 1998. No training, no Stack Overflow... just me and the massive brick of a manual! If you are new to MATLAB this term, or just need to brush up... you can have it far easier than I did. 😸

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Institute for Research Software @softwaresaved.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

⬡ Today, we become the Institute for Research Software. For 15 years, we've worked as the Software Sustainability Institute to make research software more sustainable and properly recognised.

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This week I'm mostly paddling down the River Spey 🚣‍♂️ Having never kayaked before, obviously the first thing I did was Google "MATLAB kayak". Surely MATLAB is the perfect tool for me to learn the perfect stroke? 😺

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My fourth MATLAB toolbox! 🚀 ‘monotonicity’ All of these spiral out of procrastinating the write-up of my pre-reg (at the now sadly EOL'd OSF Projects workspace 😿)

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Protzko @protzko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We use correlation (r) a lot. We use it for test-retest reliability Prediction/memory accuracy Trait stability, But we should not. In a new simulation study, we show r is upwardly biased & doesn't tell you what you want. We show you what does (Table 2). osf.io/preprints/ps... #psych #stats

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Mathematics in the age of AI by Terence Tao An essay on how the mathematical community might respond to the arrival of AI tools that are capable of performing research-level mathematical tasks. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16753

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Mathematics in the age of AI

An essay, based on a public lecture delivered at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, on how the mathematical community might respond to the arrival of artificial intelligence tools that...

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app

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RegCheck

RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.

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Anouk Bouma @anoukbouma.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Preprint!📢 We examined reporting- and open science practices in simulation studies in psychology with a questionnaire Importantly, we asked ‘why?’ Why were results omitted? Why weren’t MCSEs reported? Also: how do researchers evaluate simulation studies in their field? doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 19/08/2026

Did you check out our Reproducibility 2026 conference program yet? 👀 We have three great sessions packed with keynotes, journal clubs, and opportunities to connect and discuss reproducibility. Here are some highlights from the program:

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I've been messing with LLMs and MATLAB quite a bit recently 🧪 I've been using Claude since summer 2024, the excellent MATLAB MCP since November 2025.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

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Which Data Repository Should You Use?

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/08/2026

On this point, there's a lot of cool things to say, one is: Guest, O. & Martin, A. E. (2026). A Metatheory of Classical and Modern Connectionism. Psychological Review. doi.org/10.1037/rev0... PDF: repository.ubn.ru.nl/handle/2066/...

We propose connectionism has a survival strategy honed by decades
of proverbial summers and winters; engineered high and low funding
periods (Boden, 2006; Dreyfus, 1965; Haigh, 2023; Lighthill,
1972; McCorduck, 2004; Olazaran, 1996). We will analyze such
historical narratives, but first we will examine how the metatheorical
calculus of M-connectionism is—perhaps unexpectedly given its
problematic structure—robust and transmissible. Before that, we
explain the uptake and deployment of the more mainstream calculus
of C-connectionism.

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Sarah Everett @goddammitsarah.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

happy national lefthanders day, legally I think I qualify as a witch because I'm a left-handed redhead born on october 13th. also because of the hexing

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Steven R. Shaw, PhD @shawpsych.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Listening to Led Zeppelin a lot lately. Classic. As noted by others, the big four themes: lost a woman, need a woman, got a woman, hobbits.

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 11/08/2026

Many of you will have seen the recent post about changes at OSF. If you'd like to learn more about how to use other services (particularly Zenodo) to share data and code, see my book chapter on resource sharing. bettercode-book.org/book-sharing...

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12 Sharing Research Objects – Better Code, Better Science

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

One of the more striking Reddit visualisations I see constantly is the one with the snaking, overlapping tendrils moving from left to right. Often someone’s dismal experience online dating, or the analysis of the myriad ways schoolchildren misspell camouflage: www.thrillist.com/news/nation/...

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This Chart of 9th Graders Misspelling One Word Will Make You Question Everything

Spelling's hard.

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There's the old joke about the drunk searching for lost keys, under a lamppost, not because that's where they dropped them, but because that's where the light is… 🔦

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Peter's Law of Chatbot Accuracy*: "everything you read that's produced by an LLM is absolutely true, except for the rare output about which you happen have expert knowledge". *Remixed from Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy, where the exact same rules apply!

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My third MATLAB toolbox! 🚀 mantel

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Excited to see this paper on learning about how to learn out in eLIFE, spearheaded by Jonas Simoens and the team from Ghent incl @sebraem.bsky.social @pieterverbeke.bsky.social and Tom Verguts)

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Andrew Kinsey @andrewkinsey.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is a great article. Well worth reading.

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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 21/07/2026

The UK Metascience Unit has launched the ‘National AI in Research’ Survey. We're looking for researchers across all disciplines and career stages to share their views on the use of AI in research. The survey will be published and used to inform national policy on AI in research.

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National AI in Research Survey

Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.

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Barbara Pomiechowska @bpomie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Hi #CogSci2026 folks! Anyone into #compositionality #geometry and/or babies' minds? Karthika, an amazing PhD student from the lab is presenting some cool preliminary results. We use geometry as a case study for compositionality and program induction in babies. Do stop by her (virtual) flash talk!

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My second MATLAB toolbox! 🚀 concordance

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Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Thanks to Kshipra Guranandan, my notebook on how to design efficient fMRI experiments (for activity, connectivity and pattern analysis) is now available in Python as a Jupyter notebook (as well as previous Matlab): github.com/RikHenson/fM...

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GitHub - RikHenson/fMRIefficiency

Contribute to RikHenson/fMRIefficiency development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

me: *sends email to self* gmail: *alert* me: ooh

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I won't show you all the demographic back and forth, but I'll show you just how easy it is to make an AI-administered survey good, even with the stupid AI tone ("honest" lol), you can dramatically improve LLM output with a good harness Here are inventory instructions: github.com/DrCatHicks/i...

1. The regimen and setting — this one matters most.
Is this EV on its own, or EV plus pembrolizumab (often written "EV+P")? Pembrolizumab is an immunotherapy that adds a whole separate category of possible reactions, so knowing this reshapes the search. And roughly what setting — advanced/metastatic, or something else you were told?
2. Where they are in the course.
When did treatment start, and which cycle are they on now (or how many infusions so far)? Some of the most serious reactions cluster in the early cycles; others (like nerve symptoms) build up cumulatively over time. Timing changes what's most likely right now.
3. Baseline health that maps onto EV's specific known risks. Any of these that apply:

Blood sugar — any diabetes, pre-diabetes, or higher body weight? (EV can push blood sugar dangerously high, and this risk is concentrated in certain people.)
Nerves — any numbness, tingling, or weakness before starting treatment, from any cause?
Skin — any pre-existing skin conditions, or a history of bad drug rashes?

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My first MATLAB toolbox! *fractalnoise* We posted previously about fftnoise - when you want thousands of noisy twins of a given Power Spectral Density. bsky.app/profile/dagm...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

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Assistant Professor in Metascience

Personal type: Scientific staff

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 14/07/2026

"The journal is a seventeenth-century technology asked to do four modern jobs at once: disseminate results, certify their quality, allocate scholarly attention, and confer career credit. It does none of them well." arxiv.org/abs/2607.05454

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Publishing Without Journals: An Open, Forkable Archive with Attributed Review

The journal is a seventeenth-century technology asked to do four modern jobs at once: disseminate results, certify their quality, allocate scholarly attention, and confer career credit. It does none o...

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Benjamin Philip @benjaminphilip.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Interested in neural mechanisms of drawing, hand control, lateralization, or nerve injury? Our @openneuro.bsky.social dataset has n=71 (25 with nerve injury) drawing during fMRI, with each hand, plus 30 Hz performance data! #Neuroskyence #neurorehabilitation 🧠🧪 openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...

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OpenNeuro

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Nick Fisher @nef.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Jon Harvey, the man beneath the bin, is a Classicist who made a series about the application of Ancient Greek democracy to the present. He knows a thing or two about a thing or two. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

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BBC Sounds - Could an Ancient Athenian Fix Britain? - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of Could an Ancient Athenian Fix Britain? on BBC Sounds.

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Explore @thetransmitter.bsky.social 's newest tool, Neuro Funding Finder. Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages, powered by @scientifyresearch.org. #neuroskyence thetransmitter.org/neuroscience...

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Neuroscience Grants Funding Finder

Discover grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research at all career stages.

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Dagmar Fraser @dagmarfraser.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

One new MATLAB feature I wish I'd noticed a few days earlier 😺 External Languages → Python uk.mathworks.com/help/matlab/...

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

“move from preprint to peer-reviewed publication leaves the central claims of most abstracts intact, indicating preprints are a reliable source…papers that were never posted as preprints were retracted at roughly twice the rate of those that were…” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Tracking claim changes from preprint to publication across 72,644 biomedical studies using large language models

Preprints now disseminate a large share of biomedical research before peer review. Because they have not yet passed peer review, some scientists regard preprint claims as unverified or potentially unr...

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Neuro Funding Finder helps you find grants, fellowships and funding opportunities for neuroscience research. Filter results by location, career stage and grant type to streamline your search. Explore now: thetransmitter.org/neuroscience... #neuroskyence

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