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Nick Davis
@njdavis.bsky.social
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Psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist. Fond of brain stimulation (TMS, tDCS).
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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 3d
I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)
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Nick Davis @njdavis.bsky.social · 1d
I follow this account mainly to marvel at the sort of stuff that gets through ethics committees at other institutions.
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PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · 1d
White people may dance worse under stereotype threat
White people may dance worse under stereotype threat
When White people are reminded of stereotypes about their rhythm, their performance suffers, a new study finds. Published in The Journal of Social Psychology, the research sheds light on how stereotypes may shape behavior beyond traditionally studied groups.
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TCD School of Psychology @tcdpsychology.bsky.social · 2d
A global expert panel – including Prof Sven Vanneste – developed RATES, a checklist for reporting transcranial electrical stimulation #tES studies (including tDCS, tACS, tRNS). Sven Vanneste

Please read the full consensus in Nature Protocols: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-025-01259-0
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Padraig Spillane @padraig-spillane.bsky.social · 5d
Preprint is up for the first of my PhD studies on the menstrual cycle and its effects on cortical excitability and neuroplasticty. Feedback welcome!

@paul-ansdell.bsky.social @nuneurofunc.bsky.social @elisanedelec.bsky.social @stuart-goodall.bsky.social

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Menstrual cycle phase alters corticospinal excitability and spike-timing-dependent plasticity in healthy females
The known fluctuations in ovarian hormone concentrations across the eumenorrheic menstrual cycle contribute to modulations in cortical excitability and inhibition. However, how such changes affect spi...
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Nick Davis @njdavis.bsky.social · 3d
This was super-interesting to be part of, and it's great to see it out!
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Nick Davis @njdavis.bsky.social · 3d
How can we make sure that studies using transcranial electric stimulation (tDCS, tACS, etc.) are interpretable and reproducible? This new work is a consensus stement about what information is needed when reporting tES studies: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Report Approval for Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (RATES): expert recommendation based on a Delphi consensus study - Nature Protocols
An expert recommendation is presented for the design and evaluation of research studies using transcranial electrical stimulation, resulting in the selection of a 66-point checklist aimed at improving the quality of transcranial electrical stimulation studies.
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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 3d
It’s happened again
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Nick Davis @njdavis.bsky.social · 6d
Oh no - are they taking this away from us? I was excited about the idea of it being still out there!
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Nick Davis @njdavis.bsky.social · 6d
Awful, shocking incident in Manchester today 😢
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Manchester Metropolitan University @manmetuni.bsky.social · 6d
The thoughts of everyone at Manchester Metropolitan University are with all those affected by the horrific events at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue this morning (Thursday 2nd October).
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Richard J. Binney @rjbinney.bsky.social · 7d
Reminder: we have a call for papers for a new virtual special issue in Cortex on Concept Knowledge.

Our opening editorial, plus further information and guidance for authors can be found here:

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Nick Davis @njdavis.bsky.social · 9d
I have just become aware of Lovely Professional University, in Punjab, India. What a brilliant name.
www.lpu.in
Lovely Professional University is India's Best Private University
LPU ranks 31st among all top government and private universities in India according to the NIRF Rankings 2025. LPU offers the best diploma, undergraduate, and postgraduate courses in management, engin...
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TMSMultiLab @tmsmultilab.bsky.social · 9d
#TMS users, this needs your attention!

EMG data are often collected in TMS experiments. BIDS can help us to annotate and share that data.

Take a look!
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BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) @bidsstandard.bsky.social · 9d
We are pleased to announce that BIDS Extension Proposal 42 - Electromyogrpahy is open for community review!

github.com/bids-standar...

The review period is open from September 29 - October 10.
#bids #neuroimaging #electromyography #emg
Community Review: BEP042 - Electromyography (EMG) · bids-standard bids-specification · Discussion #2219
We are pleased to announce the community review period for BIDS Extension Proposal (BEP) 042! BEP042 extends the BIDS standard to include electromyography recordings. The draft specification may be...
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Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 14d
The Biological Psychiatry family of journals is now officially on Bluesky!

Follow us for the latest research in psychiatric neuroscience, cognitive neuroimaging, and global open science from our three leading journals.
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Nick Davis @njdavis.bsky.social · 14d
I feel that body organs should be hot-swappable, like computer devices. Just pop to John Lewis for a new liver or lung (promotion: free spleen with every major organ!). Wishing you well x
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Nick Davis @njdavis.bsky.social · 14d
I saw @behrenstimb.bsky.social talk about this work at @bacn.co.uk a couple of weeks ago, and it blew my mind. Absolutely lovely work.
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Kris Jensen @kristorpjensen.bsky.social · 15d
I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!

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Nick Davis @njdavis.bsky.social · 14d
Oh! That sounds rough. Hope things get better soon.
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Nick Davis @njdavis.bsky.social · 15d
Hey Janet! I'm not sure what EPR is, but if you tag me or #neuroskyence in anything related to scanning squishy things like brains, I'd be happy to repost!
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Janet Lovett @spinlovett.bsky.social · 15d
Please head over to Magnetic Resonance, lots of papers of interest and this one is open for discussion: mr.copernicus.org/preprints/mr... Thanks!
Optimized shaped pulses for 2D-SIFTER
Abstract. Fast and accurate arbitrary waveform generators (AWG) for generating shaped pulses in EPR have been commercially available for over a decade now. However, while the use of chirp pulses as in...
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Nick Davis @njdavis.bsky.social · 15d
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Nick Davis @njdavis.bsky.social · 15d
Keep asking this question until you get a demonstration that p-hacking is real.
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Maximilian Lueckel @mlueckel.bsky.social · 15d
Introducing FASTANS - Fast Targeted Functional Network Stimulation

🐍 Python implementation of the TANS approach (Lynch et al.).
🎯 Optimizes TMS coil placements for precise, personalized network targeting within minutes! 🚀

Code, instructions, and example data: github.com/mlueckel/FAS...
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Nick Davis @njdavis.bsky.social · 15d
No indeed. But large language models are set up with an architecture ready for training. Our brains also have pathways and layers at birth. In either case (presumably) training is made more efficient because of the existing substrate.
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Nick Davis @njdavis.bsky.social · 16d
If you like that, you'll love this. The Isis is the part of the Thames that Oxford rowers row on. This site has been predicting the flaow and "flag level" (safety indicator) on that section for decades. There's graffiti on a bridge reflecting this: "ANU IS GOD"
eodg.atm.ox.ac.uk/user/dudhia/...
Isis Level
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Nick Davis @njdavis.bsky.social · 16d
This is a very powerful effect - I have a very strong percept of a handgun next to the face on the right.
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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 19d
New findings from my lab in Nature Communications suggest that racial stereotypes can lead the brain's perceptual system to temporarily "see" weapons where they don't exist.

Led by: @dongwonoh.bsky.social

Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nick Davis @njdavis.bsky.social · 16d
(PS - Hi Dick! Hope you're doing well!)
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