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

If you aren't familiar with Zenodo, it's worth learning more about. We have been using it to share data and code for a while and are in general very happy with it. In particular, the pipeline from a Github release to a Zenodo DOI for code is really slick.

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Given the changes happening to @cos.io and the OSF, I think a lot of researchers will be looking a bit more nervously at the durability of the open components of their pipelines.

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Has anyone in the #fnirs community tried this? It looks promising

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Apparently I have a small but growing following of limnologists (I had to look that up), have I been added to a list of limnology researchers without knowing it?

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I've been promoted to Associate Professor and awarded tenure! Thanks to my students, colleagues, and mentors for helping me on this journey!

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Definitely looking forward to trying this method!

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

@getcoldturkey.com i love your software & have tried it successfully myself. Have you had thoughts about a version teachers/professors could ask students to install & the timer is synchronized (everyone starts and stops at the same time) and the file gets saved to a common location?

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I was asked to give a guest lecture this morning for the Health Sciences Department on brain aging @carleton.ca. Sometimes it's really neat to speak to people outside your usual bubble (in my case, Psychology/Cognitive Science). Students across many fields are doing such cool and interesting work!

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I've changed my approach to reading & reviewing papers. Rather than reading on my computer, I read on my e-ink device (supernote) & mark them up there, then they're synchronized back to my computer, where I summarize the notes in a document. This has been much better for close reading! #academia

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Reading applications for NSERC/OGS, I think there should be a course on how to write excellent letters of recommendation. Some things shouldn't be brought up in LORs (they are actively detrimental or irrelevant). Positive points should be concrete. LORs that are too short aren't helpful. #academia

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Very cool - and useful for generating predictions/simulations based on pilot data (if you think the pilot data is representative)

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Hi #canadian researchers - please sign this petition to help ensure funding isn’t cut to tri council agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR). We’re looking at potential 15% cuts to ALL federal spending including grants win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Teaching graduate statistics is such a wonderful experience - I love being in the position where I can say here are all these cool resources, here's what you can do, here's how to do good science #academicsky #R

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Fantastic #AAIC session on Language as a Lens chaired by Dr. Marco Calabria and Dr. Boon Lead Tee. This was such an exciting session & I love the integration of new technology and tools for assessing language and its relation to dementia and cognition.

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I wonder if #AI will close academic discourse even further as people mistrust people they don’t already know. We were already being flooded with papers pre-A.I., now we need a way to verify quality in an era when the internet is being hit with a tsunami of content. #academia

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Would it be possible to have ONE sign on for all journals? It would be absolutely glorious to have a single place to submit, track your review assignments etc. Going through the dance of what's your password for Elsevier/Cambridge/Sage etc journal X, reset, login every time is getting old. #academia

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dickretired @dickretired.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The Royal Society is offering £4 million per researcher for scientists in the USA who want to move to the UK. The money offered is £30 million in all for all the Fellowships. These Faraday Fellowships are for 5 to 10 years.

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

To any international #U.S. bound students who may have had their lives upturned by recent events, please consider #Carleton, consider #Canada. I am open to applications from graduate students #academia.

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

My mac has started making an ominous clicking noise - time to make sure the Time Machine backup is current…

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Looks very cool, would also be useful for studying older adults

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Great to see some of the lab’s first #fNIRS data come through (this is HbO2 for a 2-Back -1-Back contrast)

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Saw this quotation the other day & it resonates “You need to be brave enough to be bad at something new.” I may pin this one to my office door

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Every year I get to write an annual report. Inevitably I start tackling this only grudgingly, but then, as I start to fill this out, I see the incredible work the team has accomplished over the past year which is humbling and inspiring. This year was great, I can’t wait for next year! #academia

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

grades submitted 🙂 and once again, this Excel/Google Spreadsheets formula saves me so much time: =IFS(AA2>=90, "A+", AA2>=85, "A", AA2>=80, "A-", AA2>=77, "B+", AA2>=73, "B", AA2>=70, "B-", AA2>=67, "C+", ...)

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Well done to members of the CANAL lab! Fantastic representation at Carleton’s Cognitive Science Student Conference @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social , @carletonfass.bsky.social

PhD candidate Imola MacPhee describing her hearing loss/hippocampal subfield findings

Undergraduate thesis student Kareen Weche showing her drift diffusion model of n-back performance being affected by anxiety

Method rotation student Mitch Ross showing his PLS analyses of resting state functional connectivity data in people with synaesthesia

M.Cog.Sci. Student Tyler Call presenting his findings showing that bilingualism contributes to brain network segregation

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

What a fantastic Cognitive Science Conference! I’m so inspired by the dedication and incredible productivity and passion our students have! @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

🧠 New preprint alert! @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social PhD student Salah Aziz and our fantastic team tracked hippocampal changes over time in >1,300 individuals using surface-based morphometry (SBM). Here's what we found—and why it matters for Alzheimer’s research 🧵 [1/]

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

🚨New Preprint Alert!🚨 We just dropped a new paper on medRxiv that uses machine learning to rethink how we diagnose cognitive decline — and the results are 🔥. Let’s talk about brain data, hidden clusters, and how we might catch dementia before it’s diagnosed. 🧵👇 📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I have an opening for a graduate student at @carleton.ca (Carleton University) in the Department of Cognitive Science for fall 2025. Project is a multimodal MRI study examining how Hearing Loss affects cognition in older adults - contact me with a CV if you’re interested & have relevant expertise!

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We Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 04/04/2025

Want to model smarter, not harder? In this thread, I'll share practical tips and tricks for applied #statistics and modeling with #RStats for less confusion & more clarity. #RLadies #DataScience 🧵 (1/n)

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

As Director of the Pickering Centre for Research in Human Development, I’m sharing our statement and letter to scientific societies in developmental psychology about the recent ICE abduction and detention of Rumeysa Ozturk, a developmental Ph.D. Student at Tufts. (link in the Alt text)

Full text of this letter available here:

https://pickeringcentre.org/2025/04/call-to-scholarly-societies-in-support-of-rumeysa-ozturk/

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Department of Cognitive Science, Carleton University @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

📢 Join us this Wednesday, April 2, 15:00-16:00EST to learn about "Multilingualism at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, & education" with Dr. Gigi Luk Everyone is welcome! Join on campus (DT2203) and via Zoom carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/94196446262

Multilingualism is an interactional experience between an individual and her environment through multiple languages. Research in multilingualism involves multiple disciplines. In this presentation, I will present an overview of my research program in psychology, neuroscience, and education focusing on the development and learning aspects intersecting with multilingualism. I consider development as an ambient process in response to the environment, whereas learning being an active process involving explicit instructions. These two processes were not mutually exclusive and should be considered when examining multilingualism. Finally, I will share how research in multilingualism can benefit from a transdisciplinary perspective by integrating ecologically grounded questions and laboratory-based research approaches.

Gigi Luk obtained her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from York University, Canada. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rotman Research Institute at the Baycrest Center before joining the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In January 2019, she joined the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University where she is currently a full professor. Luk’s research on the cognitive and neural consequences of multilingualism extends across the lifespan. She leads a research program that examines how diverse language experiences shape development and learning using neuroimaging methods, behavioral methods, and educational data. Her research has received funding from agencies in Canada and the U.S. She has served as associate editor for Bilingualism: Language and Cognition and is currently an associate editor for Child Development.

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

We’re not quite that good in Canada, but when I hear the “beloved 51st State” language, it makes me think - why on earth would I want to give up what we have in Canada?

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Going forward, and until the situation with #America changes, the CANAL lab will not be sending anyone to conferences in the U.S.. It’s not worth the risk

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Just in case any of my #American colleagues were wondering, here in #Canada we would really appreciate our continued independence

Canadian flag hanging from the author’s balcony

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 05/03/2025

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." - J.R.R. Tolkien

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

To people who are #republicans or #conservatives I’m interested, what would you like to see scientists researching?

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Saving this for when I have to teach this

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L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public

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Karen Campbell @karampbell.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

📣 Brock #PsychSciSky are hiring a Tenure-Track Teaching-Intensive Asst Prof to teach our 2nd year stats course and a few other stats/methods courses. Pluses: beautiful Niagara, CANADA, strong faculty union, ample TA support, collaborative colleagues. brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree...

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Assistant Professor, Probationary Tenure-Track Teaching-Intensive, Psychology

This position is part of the BUFA (Employee Group) Brock University is one of Canada’s leading comprehensive universities, a Top Employer in Hamilton-Niagara, ranked #3 as Canada’s Best Employers and ...

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I'm currently interested in recruiting a master's student for this Fall 2025 to the CANAL lab. We're about to launch an MRI project focused on the intersection of #aging, #hearing, and #cognitivereserve Please get in touch! www.canallab.ca/contact #neuroscience @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social

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CANAL Lab - Contact

We are always interested in hearing from motivated and talented prospective undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows.

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Good blog post on describing why the NIH drop in IDC would have such negative effects. It is clear, non-technical and has things that can be done by everyone www.kateringland.com/the-hidden-b...

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The Hidden Backbone of Research: How a 15% Cap on Indirect Costs Will Devastate Universities

So, if we’re serious about keeping research alive, it’s time to push back. Because 15% isn’t just a cut—it’s a death sentence for academic institutions as we know them.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 07/02/2025

I know a lot of Ontarians haven't needed to go to a hospital in the last few years, but it's bad, and this should have electoral consequences.

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