The neuroscience of why bad habits are so hard to break—and how evidence-based strategies can help us change our behavior more effectively

Nature - High variability in pipelines for neuroimaging analysis.

Nature - Recent PhD graduate Lucy A. Taylor shares the advice she and her colleagues wish they had received.

What can authors and reviewers do to keep common statistical mistakes out of the literature?

It has been 70 years since Donald Hebb published his formalized theory of synaptic adaptation during learning. Hebb's seminal work foreshadowed some of the great neuroscientific discoveries of the...

Friston is short listed for a Nobel Prize, is one of the most cited scientists in human history with over 260,000 academic citations, and invented all of the mathematics behind the fMRI scan. As one...

Clear writing is the key to success in science.

Here’s how we used the hundreds of thousands of publicly accessible repos on GitHub to learn more about the current state of data science.

Take a deep, slow breath, and throw away that bucket list for good.

automatic generation of CV. Contribute to poldrack/autoCV development by creating an account on GitHub.

The ability to regulate behavior in service of long-term goals is a widely studied psychological construct known as self-regulation. This wide inte...

Private funding isn't enough to offset the president's proposed budget cuts, they say.

Nature - Devices that can record and change brain activity will create privacy issues that challenge existing human-rights legislation, say researchers.

For over a decade, three tenured professors “leered at, groped, sexted, intoxicated and even raped” students, according to the complaint.

Nature Human Behaviour - Mumford et al. examine how response time differences can lead to confounds in functional MRI analyses, and they propose a new time-series model to account for response time...

Nature - Instead of arguing about whether results hold up, let’s push to provide enough information for others to repeat the experiments, says Philip Stark.

Familiar categories of mental functions such as perception, memory and attention reflect our experience of ourselves, but they are misleading about how the brain works. More revealing approaches are…

Open data has two principal uses: (i) to reproduce original findings and (ii) to allow researchers to ask new questions with existing data. The latter enables discoveries by allowing a more diverse...

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Many authors start with the figures when writing a paper, but it is easier to tell a good story if you start with the Introduction and Results, and leave the figures to later.

A meta-package that installs and loads a set of packages from easystats ecosystem in a single step. This collection of packages provide a unifying and consistent framework for statistical modeling,...

Notebooks to introduce R users to Python. Contribute to poldrack/PythonForRUsers development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) is a community-driven standard for the organization of data and metadata from a growing range of neuroscience modalities. This paper is meant as a history...

Nature Communications - Scientific progress relies on integrating and building on existing knowledge. Here, the authors propose improving cumulative science by developing data-driven ontologies,...