Here’s a depressing new paper that surveys reporting practices in The Journal of Neurophysiology after it instituted new reporting guidelines for authors ​(Héroux et al., 2023)​. Why depressing? Because the updated guidelines seem to have done little to improve reporting, …

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Here’s more evidence that estimation is catching on in neuroscience, a beautiful paper in from Silveira et al. (2023) in The Journal of Neuroscience. The paper characterizes local functional circuitry in the inferior colliculus (IC), a key processing station for …

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If you want to wrap up your winter semester with an invigorating online conference on teaching research excellence, you’re in luck, as the APA’s Teaching Research Excellence conference will be held via Zoom on December 14th, 2023 from 9:00 am …

Free Online APA Conference on Teaching Research Excellence in Psychology, December 14th 2023 9:00am to 2:30pm EST Read more »

Computational reproducibility is a mouthful but the idea is simple: Use the reported data analysis to get the reported results. Haven’t we always assumed that works? Yes, but. Search for “computational reproducibility” and find recent discussions in numerous disciplines. Conclusion: …

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Yesterday I greatly enjoyed a zoom talk with the Open Science Community of Turku, Finland. Online were good folks from Finland, The Netherlands and I don’t know where else. Great questions at the end! My slides and 3 data files …

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