Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming

Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming

@thenewstats.bsky.social

Open science, estimation statistics, and random thoughts from Bob Calin-Jageman and Geoff Cumming. https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/

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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming
@thenewstats.bsky.social

Estimation statistics in the wild: here's a cool paper that models and estimates the impact of our own heartbeat on perception. @estimationstats.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/...

researchgate.net(PDF) Listening with your heart: The heartbeat shapes auditory object formation by suppressing the early neural response to soundPDF | Interoceptive sensations, arising from the body's visceral organs such as the heart, are known to impact exteroceptive sensory perception. The... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

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Nu Rho Psi
@nurhopsi.bsky.social

Receive up to $1000 from @FUNFaculty to subsidize your travel costs to SfN 2026 in Washington D.C. Applications must be submitted by a FUN faculty member in good standing. Researchers presenting undergraduate research, even if they have already graduated, are…

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Society for Neuroscience
@sfn.org

OMB's proposed rule threatens the foundation of scientific discovery. Join SfN’s Advocacy Team & legislative advisors for this members-only town hall about the rule & other recent actions that have the potential to affect the scientific enterprise. 🔗 vist.ly/584nt #neurosky

Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming
@thenewstats.bsky.social

My buddy Richard Olivo have often talked about how our curmudgeonly takes on the state of #neuroscience makes us feel like we're Statler and Waldorf. Now AI can let us see what that'd look like... and it is spot on!

Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming
@thenewstats.bsky.social

This is us!! This is the sluglab!!

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social

Memory formation needs transcription, but memory maintenance may not. A new study adds nuance to a foundational neuroscience question. #neuroskyence By @siddhantpusdekar.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/memory/new-s...

thetransmitter.orgNew work questions how long-term memories are maintainedAn experiment in sea slugs suggests transcriptional changes might fade after 24 hours.

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Jamie Cummins
@jamiecummins.bsky.social

All the more reason to use systematic software designed to tackle this very problem, like RegCheck (regcheck.app)

regcheck.appRegCheckRegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social

Journal editors - the status quo on preregistration is not working! You need to check submissions vs. preregistrations before sending articles out for review. *56%* of experiments I reviewed in last year have severe problems with non-disclosure, undocumented deviations, & more - see Claude summary ↓

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Martin Plöderl
@ploederl.bsky.social

1. The paper with the implausibly large effects of Omega-3 fatty acids on mental health was now retracted. A little thread on the process where @ianhussey.mmmdata.io and I was involved. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.comRETRACTED: The effects of Omega-3 supplementation on stress, anxiety, depression, sleep quality, and everyday memory in individuals with psychological distress: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-con...This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier policy on Article Correction, Retraction and Removal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and…
Martin Plöderl@ploederl.bsky.social

Hurray, Omega-3 ends all mental suffering! Reduction of stress, anxiety, and depression with SMD > 3! Quite a lubricated review process, too: Received 8 Sep 2025; Revised 17 Nov; and accepted on Christmas (24 Dec). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.comThe effects of Omega-3 supplementation on stress, anxiety, depression, sleep quality, and everyday memory in individuals with psychological distress: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled tri...Psychological stress, anxiety, depression, memory impairment, and poor sleep quality are prevalent issues that affect individuals' quality of life and…
Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming
@thenewstats.bsky.social

Up to 2008 there were over 1700 published gene/schizophrenia association studies implicating over 1000 genes. Now none of these studies are viewed as useful. -- Legge et al., 2025 What a fascinating post-mortem this would make for a meta-science project. #neuroscience #stats #metascience

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Earl K. Miller
@earlkmiller.bsky.social

BOLD is not a simple monotonic readout of local firing. Instead, it reflects the net activity of two opposing neural populations. Interpreting it may require modeling their latent composition, not just overall activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

nature.comBrainwide blood volume reflects opposing neural populations - NatureCombined functional ultrasound imaging and Neuropixels recording of mouse brains identify two neuronal populations with opposing arousal-related activity and distinct haemodynamic response functi...
Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming
@thenewstats.bsky.social

Just saw David Byrne’s Theater of the Mind and let me save anyone reading this $100: skip it. No matter how much you like the talking heads or David Byrne. The show is bad, bad, bad: treacly pablum with some neuroscience demos awkwardly mixed in. 75 minutes and $100 you won’t get back.

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Esther Mondragón
@e-mondragon.bsky.social

Simulator of the following (attentional) models: 🔎 Rescorla-Wagner 🔎 Pearce-Kaye-Hall 🔎 Mackintosh Extended 🔎 Le Pelley’s Hybrid 🔎 Rescorla-Wagner with a unified variable learning rate (integrating Mackintosh’s and Pearce and Hall’s quasi-opposing conceptualisations). github.com/cal-r/PALMS-...

Esther Mondragón@e-mondragon.bsky.social

New preprint and simulator of associative learning attentional models. Have fun! 👁️ arxiv.org/abs/2602.07519 cal-r.org/index.php?id... #simulation #associative_learning #attention

arxiv.orgPALMS: Pavlovian Associative Learning Models SimulatorSimulations are an indispensable step in the cycle of theory development and refinement, helping researchers formulate precise definitions, generate models, and make accurate predictions. This paper i...

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Brian Nosek
@briannosek.bsky.social

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

cos.ioSCORE | Center for Open ScienceSCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...
Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming
@thenewstats.bsky.social

Who says null results are uninteresting? Here, our lab shows that most transcriptional changes fade *before* memory expression. This is surprising, and raises lots of interesting questions about how long-term memories are maintained. #neuroskyence #stats www.eneuro.org/content/13/3...

eneuro.orgTranscriptional Changes Fade Prior to Long-Term Memory for Sensitization of the Aplysia Siphon-Withdrawal ReflexForming a long-term memory requires changes in neuronal transcription. What happens, though, as the memory is forgotten? And how does the transcriptional state relate to the maintenance and recall of ...
Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming
@thenewstats.bsky.social

Sterling, 1959 updated. We still aren’t sharing science in a scientific manner. With 65 years of knowing the problem, how are we still struggling to address it?

Ryan Briggs@ryancbriggs.net

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming
@thenewstats.bsky.social

So excited to see DaBest 2.0 is out: get bootstrapped estimation statistics for simple through complex designs, all with beautiful visualization, available in R and Python. Check it out! Pre-print describing new features for complex designs: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #stats

biorxiv.orgGetting over ANOVA: Estimation graphics for multi-group comparisonsData analysis in experimental science mainly relies on null-hypothesis significance testing, despite its well-known limitations. A powerful alternative is estimation statistics, which focuses on effect-size quantification. However, current estimation tools struggle with the complex, multi-group comparisons common in biological research. Here we introduce DABEST 2.0, an estimation framework for complex experimental designs, including shared-control, repeated-measures, two-way factorial experiments, and meta-analysis of replicates. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.
Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming
@thenewstats.bsky.social

Looking forward to reading this retrospective on the promise and perils of organizing an RRR with in-person data collected. From: @aggieerin.bsky.social , @psforscher.bsky.social , and others. #stats doi.org/10.1111/spc3...

doi.orgThe Challenges and Solutions of In‐Person Big‐Team ScienceBig-Team Science (BTS) offers a powerful framework for advancing psychological research through large-scale collaboration, yet the unique challenges of conducting in-person BTS studies remain under-e....