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Drew E. Winters @drewwint.bsky.social · Nov 26

Are callous-unemotional (CU) traits purely affective, or do they also involve cognitive processes? A recent RCT finds CU traits uniquely linked to cognitive-affective interaction difficulties that also associated with antisocial behavior. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Desmond Oathes, PhD @desmondoathes.bsky.social · 14d

Next week, Wed Oct 1 at the usual time (1:30PM EST) and zoom link, we'll host Miriam Klein-Flügge @mkflugge.bsky.social speaking on "Computation, neuromodulation and mental health relationships in affective decision-making." DM me your email if not on our list for the link. Hope to see you then.

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Drew E. Winters @drewwint.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks! I submitted this grant in May of 2024. Fingers crossed that you hear something soon.

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Drew E. Winters @drewwint.bsky.social · 25d

Great news: just received the NOA for a K23 grant from NIMH!
This project will test whether brain stimulation (TMS) can target core symptoms of psychopathy, which are implicated in a substantial proportion violent acts nationwide.

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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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Thomas Nichols @nichols.bsky.social · Jun 16

Happy to see Julio Peraza's lastest posted, "NiCLIP", using a CLIP model to improve 'reverse inference' prediction of task fMRI results based on peak coordinate data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ @angielaird.bsky.social @neurozorro.bsky.social James Kent & JB Poline

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · Jun 8

🚨PSA for anyone using GPT in human subjects research🚨

A judge has ruled that OpenAI must retain ChatGPT and API data indefinitely, with few exceptions.

This might have implications for your IRB compliance and the security of your participants' data. 1/

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Reposted by Oliver L. Phillips, Tobias Kuemmerle, Éva E. Plagányi , and 1 more Oliver L. Phillips, Tobias Kuemmerle, Éva E. Plagányi, Drew B. Winters

Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · May 23

"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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SSSP @ssspsychopathy.bsky.social · May 1

The SSSP Early Career Event (online) is just one week away and a program packed with new research on psychopathy and callous-unemotional traits is waiting for you: check out the details and register to attend here: psychopathysociety.org/page/ECE2025

Early Career Event 2025 - Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy

The SSSP Early Career Event (ECE) Planning Committee is excited to announce the 2025 edition of the ECE, our biannual virtual conference dedicated to students and early career professionals in the field of psychopathy.

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Drew E. Winters @drewwint.bsky.social · Apr 24

Happy to report this work was accepted for publication in the Journal of Affective Disorders and can be found here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

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Eric W. Bridgeford, Ph.D. @ericwbridgeford.bsky.social · Mar 23

See our new preprint focused on causal thinking for data analysis in neuroscience #causal #neuroscience #neuroimaging #datascience #poldracklab with Brian Caffo, Maya Mathur, and @russpoldrack.bsky.social (1/4)

arxiv.org/abs/2503.10710

How causal perspectives can inform problems in computational neuroscience

Over the past two decades, considerable strides have been made in advancing neuroscience techniques, yet the translation of these advancements into clinically relevant insights for human mental health...

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Drew E. Winters @drewwint.bsky.social · Mar 4

New publication with @juldugre.bsky.social finds that functional brain patterns implicated in executive functioning differentiate conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits.
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https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0925-4927(25)00026-5

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Drew E. Winters @drewwint.bsky.social · Feb 26

code/output/extras: github.com/drewwint/pub...

GitHub - drewwint/pub_sssst_rct

Contribute to drewwint/pub_sssst_rct development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Drew E. Winters @drewwint.bsky.social · Feb 26

Can specific cognitive control functions differentiate CU traits from CP? Analysis of RCT data suggests CU traits associate with better performance during passive control (non-response) but worse performance during selective control. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Computational Social Science @com-soc-sci.bsky.social · Feb 26

"The seductive futility of network visualization"

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Untangling the hairball using statistical inference – Tiago P. Peixoto

Inverse Complexity Lab

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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · Feb 4

Great new review and meta analysis by @juldugre.bsky.social @drewwint.bsky.social showing that neural activity patterns differ between different types of aggressive behaviour correlates with implications for future research and potentially treatment: tinyurl.com/2ha4tn6m

The dark sides of the brain: A systematic review and meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies on trait aggression

Aggression is a worldwide issue that has significant consequences for both the victims and societies. However, aggression may vary in its underlying m…

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · Jan 21

Announcing a new week-long program for young computational neuroscience/ behavior professors to talk about rigorous science, mentoring, lab management, and networking in a stunning retreat setting. Do great science as a community and have fun doing so.

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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · Dec 22

Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS

Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · Dec 18

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆??
The debate continues. This time Niels Janssen writes a very interesting take on the issue (but I'm biased):
The thread below quotes part of the text:
#neuroscience
jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/r28fp87m...

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · Dec 18

Fellow scientists: If you are going to make broad public pronouncements based on your results, please have someone check your math first. The general population is losing faith in science, and reversals like this are a big part of the problem.

Your Black Plastic Utensils (Probably) Aren’t Killing You After All

If you recently threw out your black plastic spatula, as several news articles urged us to do, you might want to see if you can dig it back out of the trash. They were based on a study whose most dram...

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Keenan Crane @keenancrane.bsky.social · Dec 9

Entropy is one of those formulas that many of us learn, swallow whole, and even use regularly without really understanding.

(E.g., where does that “log” come from? Are there other possible formulas?)

Yet there's an intuitive & almost inevitable way to arrive at this expression.

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Drew E. Winters @drewwint.bsky.social · Dec 4

Honored and excited to meet my fellow awardees next week!

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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · Dec 3

hey -- i'm hiring a postdoc! the ad will be up shortly, but looking for someone with network neuroscience experience (very broadly). the position isn't tied to any specific project/grant, so lots of flexibility in terms of what you'd actually *do*. hmu if you might be interested/want to learn more!

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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · Dec 2

Good news everyone! A new version of graph-tool is just out! @graph-tool.skewed.de

graph-tool.skewed.de

Graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N

#networkscience

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Drew E. Winters @drewwint.bsky.social · Nov 26

Absolutely - an important context - thanks!

Drew E. Winters @drewwint.bsky.social · Nov 26

A new achievement unlocked - @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social just liked something I said about stats on BlueSky

Drew E. Winters @drewwint.bsky.social · Nov 26

Using theory-driven modeling – there is a reason for that interaction that was *hopefully* preregistered. Because the orthogonalized interaction doesn’t impact the direct effects, you can show your interaction hypothesis test but still connect with the literature by interpreting direct effects.

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Drew E. Winters @drewwint.bsky.social · Nov 26

Extras including paradigm and analysis code can be found here: t.co/W3VUrumqHM

https://github.com/drewwint/pub_dual-task_tom_cog-ctrl_rct

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Drew E. Winters @drewwint.bsky.social · Nov 26

An interaction causes residual dependence. This can be avoided with orthogonalization with the added benefit of interpreting both direct and interaction effects in one model. This is outlined in some of Todd Little’s work. If I’m not mistaken Dr. Mumford uses a related mean centering approach.

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Drew E. Winters @drewwint.bsky.social · Nov 26

good point - but when testing modulation orthogonalization is a useful tool that helps interpretation.

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