Shawn Schwartz
@shawnschwartz.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Stanford Memory Lab. Cog neuro (fMRI/EEG/pupil) of episodic memory and sustained attention lapsing. I also love teaching stats, developing R packages, and building iOS apps. shawnschwartz.com
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I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Linking student psychological orientation, engagement & learning in intro college-level data science
New work at @cogscisociety.bsky.social w/ @erikbrockbank.bsky.social @shawnschwartz.bsky.social, C.Bryan, D.Yeager, C.Dweck & @judithfan.bsky.social
poster 8/1 @ 10:30
tinyurl.com/solds-cogsci25
New work at @cogscisociety.bsky.social w/ @erikbrockbank.bsky.social @shawnschwartz.bsky.social, C.Bryan, D.Yeager, C.Dweck & @judithfan.bsky.social
poster 8/1 @ 10:30
tinyurl.com/solds-cogsci25
July 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Linking student psychological orientation, engagement & learning in intro college-level data science
New work at @cogscisociety.bsky.social w/ @erikbrockbank.bsky.social @shawnschwartz.bsky.social, C.Bryan, D.Yeager, C.Dweck & @judithfan.bsky.social
poster 8/1 @ 10:30
tinyurl.com/solds-cogsci25
New work at @cogscisociety.bsky.social w/ @erikbrockbank.bsky.social @shawnschwartz.bsky.social, C.Bryan, D.Yeager, C.Dweck & @judithfan.bsky.social
poster 8/1 @ 10:30
tinyurl.com/solds-cogsci25
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A Temporal Hierarchy of Sustained Attention Dynamics journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
June 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A Temporal Hierarchy of Sustained Attention Dynamics journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Excited to share my new lab website!
The Learning & Behavior Change Lab will launch at Rice in July 2026. I’ll be recruiting over the next year! @ricesocsci.bsky.social
www.sinclairlab-rice.com
The Learning & Behavior Change Lab will launch at Rice in July 2026. I’ll be recruiting over the next year! @ricesocsci.bsky.social
www.sinclairlab-rice.com
Sinclair Lab
The Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice University, directed by Dr. Sinclair
www.sinclairlab-rice.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Excited to share my new lab website!
The Learning & Behavior Change Lab will launch at Rice in July 2026. I’ll be recruiting over the next year! @ricesocsci.bsky.social
www.sinclairlab-rice.com
The Learning & Behavior Change Lab will launch at Rice in July 2026. I’ll be recruiting over the next year! @ricesocsci.bsky.social
www.sinclairlab-rice.com
Thanks @chelseakisil.bsky.social, totally agree! Mindfulness is such a key piece of the puzzle. Excited to see how future research from our group and the field at large might help bridge the gap between the attention economy and meaningful ways to refocus and reengage students.
Love this. This is where my passion for mindfulness comes in: how can we expect interventions to be effective if the students aren't present with us?
I think attention has been seriously understudied in the science of learning literature. Someone extremely well-versed in this attention literature could really enhance how we think about learning, self-regulated learning, etc. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
July 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Thanks @chelseakisil.bsky.social, totally agree! Mindfulness is such a key piece of the puzzle. Excited to see how future research from our group and the field at large might help bridge the gap between the attention economy and meaningful ways to refocus and reengage students.
Thanks for the kind note about our paper @jeffgreene.bsky.social ! We have some emerging work that will be out soon addressing some of the points you raised. Happy to chat more if you’re interested.
I think attention has been seriously understudied in the science of learning literature. Someone extremely well-versed in this attention literature could really enhance how we think about learning, self-regulated learning, etc. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
July 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Thanks for the kind note about our paper @jeffgreene.bsky.social ! We have some emerging work that will be out soon addressing some of the points you raised. Happy to chat more if you’re interested.
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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...
ohbm.github.io
June 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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...
It was my pleasure @silicolabs.bsky.social!! 🫡 So fun!
We were thrilled to watch our client, @shawnschwartz.bsky.social, present his project using LABO at @stanford.edu Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance!
We got to see how LABO can support research that tests boundaries of human performance. Thanks for showing us around campus! #Stanford #XRResearch
We got to see how LABO can support research that tests boundaries of human performance. Thanks for showing us around campus! #Stanford #XRResearch
June 19, 2025 at 2:31 AM
It was my pleasure @silicolabs.bsky.social!! 🫡 So fun!
I’m pleased to share our new review article, “Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory”, written with Haopei Yang (HY), Alice Xue, and Anthony Wagner, now out in Current Directions in Psychological Science. 🚀🧠 A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1177/09637214251339452
doi.org/10.1177/09637214251339452
Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory - Shawn T. Schwartz, Haopei Yang, Alice M. Xue, Anthony D. Wagner, 2025
The ability to learn from and remember experiences (episodic memory) depends on multiple neurocognitive systems. In this article, we highlight recent advances i...
doi.org
June 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I’m pleased to share our new review article, “Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory”, written with Haopei Yang (HY), Alice Xue, and Anthony Wagner, now out in Current Directions in Psychological Science. 🚀🧠 A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1177/09637214251339452
doi.org/10.1177/09637214251339452
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eyeris: A flexible, extensible, and reproducible pupillometry preprocessing framework in R https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.01.657312v1
June 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
eyeris: A flexible, extensible, and reproducible pupillometry preprocessing framework in R https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.01.657312v1
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eyeris: A flexible, extensible, and reproducible pupillometry preprocessing framework in R https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.01.657312v1
June 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
eyeris: A flexible, extensible, and reproducible pupillometry preprocessing framework in R https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.01.657312v1
Thanks for resharing!!
eyeris: A flexible, extensible, and reproducible pupillometry preprocessing framework in R https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.01.657312v1
June 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Thanks for resharing!!
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Introducing a new tool from @tsbolt.bsky.social, find-viz (FMRI Interactive Navigation and Discovery Viewer)! It’s a browser-based visualization tool built with one purpose in mind: get researchers to spend more time looking at their fMRI data 🧠 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Introducing a new tool from @tsbolt.bsky.social, find-viz (FMRI Interactive Navigation and Discovery Viewer)! It’s a browser-based visualization tool built with one purpose in mind: get researchers to spend more time looking at their fMRI data 🧠 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social
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I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.
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Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory: http://osf.io/yh3mg/
December 12, 2024 at 6:47 AM
Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory: http://osf.io/yh3mg/
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Are you tempted to orthogonalize the regressors in your fMRI model? @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social tells you why this is almost never a good idea, and is likely to wreck the interpretation of your model. mumfordbrainstats.tumblr.com/post/1337933...
Collinearity...is orthogonalization the answer? (No)
If I had a dollar for every time I read a paper purporting to have repaired a multicollinearity issue by orthogonalizing regressors... Unfortunately, once collinearity is there and the data have been...
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November 25, 2024 at 11:56 PM
Are you tempted to orthogonalize the regressors in your fMRI model? @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social tells you why this is almost never a good idea, and is likely to wreck the interpretation of your model. mumfordbrainstats.tumblr.com/post/1337933...
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Check it out! The future of Neurosynth.
We launched Neurosynth Compose: A free and open platform for neuroimaging meta-analysis. NS-Compose makes it easy to perform custom neuroimaging meta-analyses without leaving the browser.
It's live, check it out! compose.neurosynth.org
We launched Neurosynth Compose: A free and open platform for neuroimaging meta-analysis. NS-Compose makes it easy to perform custom neuroimaging meta-analyses without leaving the browser.
It's live, check it out! compose.neurosynth.org
neurosynth compose
Neurosynth-Compose App
compose.neurosynth.org
November 23, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Check it out! The future of Neurosynth.
We launched Neurosynth Compose: A free and open platform for neuroimaging meta-analysis. NS-Compose makes it easy to perform custom neuroimaging meta-analyses without leaving the browser.
It's live, check it out! compose.neurosynth.org
We launched Neurosynth Compose: A free and open platform for neuroimaging meta-analysis. NS-Compose makes it easy to perform custom neuroimaging meta-analyses without leaving the browser.
It's live, check it out! compose.neurosynth.org
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I want to draw attention to a special issue that Lila Davachi and I put together to memorialize our friend and colleague Sarah DuBrow. It’s full of papers inspired by her work and her being from a group of collaborators, friends, and fans! Thanks @bradpostle.bsky.social for helping make this happen.
November 23, 2024 at 12:14 AM
I want to draw attention to a special issue that Lila Davachi and I put together to memorialize our friend and colleague Sarah DuBrow. It’s full of papers inspired by her work and her being from a group of collaborators, friends, and fans! Thanks @bradpostle.bsky.social for helping make this happen.
is there something going on with homebrew? all os builds in my R package’s CI are passing except for macos…
Error: Failed to get R release: Failed to get R 4.4.2: Failed to install qpdf: Error: The process '/opt/homebrew/bin/brew' failed with exit code 1
Error: Failed to get R release: Failed to get R 4.4.2: Failed to install qpdf: Error: The process '/opt/homebrew/bin/brew' failed with exit code 1
November 23, 2024 at 2:45 AM
is there something going on with homebrew? all os builds in my R package’s CI are passing except for macos…
Error: Failed to get R release: Failed to get R 4.4.2: Failed to install qpdf: Error: The process '/opt/homebrew/bin/brew' failed with exit code 1
Error: Failed to get R release: Failed to get R 4.4.2: Failed to install qpdf: Error: The process '/opt/homebrew/bin/brew' failed with exit code 1
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If you are a Julia user you should be aware of this: yuri.is/not-julia/
Why I no longer recommend Julia
yuri.is
November 20, 2024 at 1:57 PM
If you are a Julia user you should be aware of this: yuri.is/not-julia/
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Sure, this sentiment isn’t new—but wow, doesn’t being here feel genuinely refreshing? It actually feels like a real community, not a feed forcing content down your throat. 💨
November 19, 2024 at 4:39 AM
Sure, this sentiment isn’t new—but wow, doesn’t being here feel genuinely refreshing? It actually feels like a real community, not a feed forcing content down your throat. 💨
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OpenNeuro is now on Bluesky!
OpenNeuro.org is now on Bluesky! Follow us for project updates and exciting new datasets.
OpenNeuro
OpenNeuro.org
November 18, 2024 at 7:13 PM
OpenNeuro is now on Bluesky!
starter packs are a fantastic feature, especially for those just beginning their migration to these bluer skies ✨
Check out the following starter packs for suggestions on who to follow:
Cognitive neuroscience: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Neural engineering & computational neuroscience: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Affective science: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Women in neuroscience: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Cognitive neuroscience: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Neural engineering & computational neuroscience: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Affective science: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Women in neuroscience: bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 19, 2024 at 4:27 AM
starter packs are a fantastic feature, especially for those just beginning their migration to these bluer skies ✨
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Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.
November 18, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.