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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · Sep 8

Sometimes, I think research is the process of removing, for example, 121 characters of 23 words from some text of it fits some size limit, while still retaining its meaning. Superfluous words, I CAST THEE OUT!

EDIT: Research is the process of editing text to fit size limits, but retaining meaning.

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · Aug 15

a man is standing in front of a blackboard with the words `` it 's colin '' on it .

ALT: a man is standing in front of a blackboard with the words `` it 's colin '' on it .

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · Aug 15

Omg this. Please. Less ABB.

Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 15

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · Aug 7

I had the experience recently of reviewing a paper that was clearly AI nonsense. The abstract didn't quite hang right, I skip to the methods, sort of nonsense, the results didn't make any sense for the data and was just tables.

It got past the editors at a reputable journal...

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · Jul 21

Just reviewed a paper on psilocybin, I think was AI generated. I can't believe the editor sent out.

Methods very brief and point form, used several non clinical samples but not clear what they were actually used for, results was 4 tables of "statistics" and virtually zero text.

Wooooow.

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · Jul 2

I was a little less on the way home. Probably around 24.

:00 on the way there, because I landed so early in the morning and I was heading to a space north of Brisbane, I think I was 34 hours! But I got a nice little public bus tour of Australia north of Brisbane, and to see a few pretty towns :)

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · Jun 29

The longest day. I think today will be 38 hours for me? I can't even keep track, but it sure will be nice to be home.... In 6 hours...

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Yona Lunsky @yonalunsky.bsky.social · Jun 26

In this month's blog for the H-CARDD newsletter I focused on community - how to build it, and maintain it and accessibility considerations tinyurl.com/BlogJune2025

Community - June 26, 2025 | Notion

Community

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · Jun 27

Having sat on CIHR and NIH committees, so many worthy and wonderful grants don't make the cut because funding is so tight.

Wishing you more luck on the next try!

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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · Jun 26

After many (many) years of work with Dr. Chantal Percival we have open-science published an "edited book" Cognitive
Modes Detectable with Task-Based fMRI. Results on a total of 28 tasks are reported.

Percival C. M., & Woodward, T. S. (Eds.) (2025).
osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · Jun 24

The Open Science Room has been an exciting space at the OHBM Meeting for many years, but its future is threatened. Please sign this petition to signal your support for preserving a dedicated space for the OSR at future meetings. ohbm.github.io/osr2025/peti...

OSR Petition

We are launching a petition to request that OHBM preserves the Open Science Room (OSR) as a dedicated space during the annual meeting for the Open Science community. Although Open Science is a well-ac...

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · Jun 4

Hot take: we should not be training these LLMs to pretend to be human beings. It's the weirdest and craziest thing and gives all the wrong impressions and ideas of what they are.

They do not have feelings and stuff does not "really stick with them".

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · Jun 3

If you want to make the news impactful, don't tell people about the amount of funding. Few will cry for largest institutions that lose money.

Talk about the number of clinical trials shut down, the number of patients no longer receiving cutting edge treatment. Jobs lost, people harmed..

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · May 28

Def issues there. But I think a lot of what people describe as failures to replicate was just not finding "exactly" the same thing, because the samples were always a little bit different.

And because I don't think we all use our brains exactly the same way all the time. Getting better.

Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · May 28

In neuroscience, and neuroimaging in particular, I think the "replication crisis" stems from the fact that we often identify group results that are specific to the group being studied; two "non replicating" results can both be true. Just not universally true.

Brains are complicated.

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · May 26

Over the past few years, one of the biggest obstacles to me performing research has turned out to be lawyers. Even the simplest agreements seem to take a year.

We are doing the same thing over and over again, and they continuously insist to reinvent the wheel. It's wild. It's a Mel Brooks movie.

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · May 22

I've sat on NIH. Committees twice. It's basically free labor ($400 for about 50 hours of work). And the bar to get a findable score is INCREDIBLY high. The review is so intensly rigorous.

"So called" experts indeed. As opposed to who?

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CONP_PCNO @conp-pcno.bsky.social · May 20

Great news for #OpenScience in Montreal! @BrainCanada is investing in six incredible platforms to drive innovation (t.ly/Aqfbz), including the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (‪@conp-pcno.bsky.social‬)! This funding will accelerate brain research and collaboration. #Neuroscience #BrainResearch

Driving Open Science Innovation

Brain Canada’s flagship Platform Support Grants program supports interdisciplinary collaboration and enhance Canada’s technical and research capabilities.

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · May 21

On a lovely vacation in Turks and Caicos. Dog rescue here let's "volunteers" (basically anyone) take puppies for walks! Wish I had pics. Best marketing ever. Take ab adorbs puppy for a walk to the beach! So God darned cute, good for visitors and dogs! They take donations
www.potcakeplace.com/info

Potcake Place K9 Rescue - Info

Find us Potcake Place K9 Rescue is located at 40 Saltmills Plaza, Grace Bay, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands. Adoption Center Operating Hours: Monday - Friday : 10am - 4pm Satur...

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · May 17

Most of the most exciting funded projects I have been involved with were Multi site collaborative studies.

Most of the most exciting stuff I see coming up is the same.

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · May 17

Yup.

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · May 17

Agree. It's good to have a moment to sit back and see our progress. It's hard to notice it as it's flying by

:)

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · May 12

So important to see work focusing on sex specific differences!

Very nice. Good example of what people can do with animal research that could translate into human research.

:)

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · May 5

The Empire Strikes Back, Back.

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