Dani Beck, PhD

The fictional horrors I grew up on are now dreams I long for.

Like please Judgement day come soon, bring your terminators and destroy humanity.

Day after tomorrow? Bring it on.

AI, Aliens, even a zombie-fucking-apocalypse, come ruin us please.

Can the USA and Israel please stop destroying the world.

None of us can focus on our jobs and private lives.

We just want to live in peace and silence ffs.

As long as the elite own media, they can control the opinions of just enough of the population to keep them in power, and keep the majority fighting among themselves about issues they construct to blind us from the real problems.

I learned this when I watched the movie Antz as an 8 year old.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Listen to you pretty much every day in the car on the way to-from work. Love the content! Thanks for all the work you do, the balanced opinions, and the rational thoughts during a nervy season! from Norway

A part of Akinola Davies Jr's speech the BBC decided not to air

Symptom-specific links between internalizing problems and functional connectivity in adolescents: a network analysis - European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Previous fMRI studies have documented links between internalizing problems in youth and brain functional connectivity of the default (DN), frontoparietal (FP), and salience (SA) networks. Characterize...

Very excited to share that our paper “Symptom-specific links between internalizing problems and functional connectivity in adolescents: a network analysis” has been published in European Child & Adolescence Psychiatry doi.org/10.1007/s007...

Preach! No more side quests.

I love the smell of peer review discourse in the morning

I recently reviewed a paper where the corresponding author was SO blunt, bordering rude, & started every sentence like they hated me instead of "thank you my king for the comment", and I was like FAIR, I'm here to comment on the science, and don't have a micropenis ego that can't handle this tone.

And why do we need to have this weird power play in which the authors need to completely lay down flat and humbly thank their reviewer for an awful idea and irrelevant comment as to avoid offending thy lord highness.

If a comment is not constructive, we shouldn't fear a rejection for disagreeing.

Yes! That is a fantastic idea.

Maybe we need peer reviewers that review peer reviewers for their conduct in peer review.

There are many ways to Rome.

I don't understand researchers that respect their peers so little that they can't accept that the authors they're reviewing have a preference for how they'd like to conduct research. If it's *not wrong*, and has no gaps, you don't need to comment.

Peer review is not there for you to tell experts in the field how you'd prefer the style of the paper to be, or what method or analysis you have a clear bias for.

Your job is to check for correctness, spot errors or gaps, protect the integrity of the scientific method, not piss on others.

Cutting down the manuscript word-count to fit the journal requirements🤦🏽

EU plan to share data with US border force sparks surveillance fears Washington is demanding access to sensitive data as ICE heightens fears in Europe.

Is the EU stupid?

Linking obesity with white matter microstructure highlights the importance of brainstem tracts and sex differences Gurholt et al. report associations between obesity and regional white matter phenotypes across commonly used diffusion magnetic resonance imaging metrics,

Linking obesity with white matter microstructure highlights the importance of brainstem tracts and sex differences academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

Research Assistant, Radiology in Calgary, AB, Ca... Research Assistant, Radiology in Calgary, AB, Ca...

We are hiring a research assistant in Calgary to help lead our ongoing @pregnancystudy.bsky.social study! Come join a great team studying child brain development, learning, behaviour, and environment. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1729274...

Linking obesity with white matter microstructure highlights the importance of brainstem tracts and sex differences Gurholt et al. report associations between obesity and regional white matter phenotypes across commonly used diffusion magnetic resonance imaging metrics,

I am excited to share that the author version of our accepted manuscript, Linking obesity with white matter microstructure highlights the importance of brainstem tracts and sex differences, is available at Brain Communications! academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

Maybe as I am writing my thoughts live here, I think I have come to the conclusion that if I ever have a lab with my own students I'd like them to experience MRI data collection + force them to go to FS & FSL courses before ever touching tabulated data.

Can't say I really feel like I neuroimager anymore, I'm more of a brain-imaging researcher.

Most of the PhD's I now know don't have any experience with non-tabulated data. It's probably not good for their training as neuroscientists.

Having access to tabulated MRI data the past 4 years has made me a worse neuroimager than when I did my PhD and actually scanned people, converted DICOM->nifti files, preprocessed and manually QC'd data, used knowledge from FreeSurfer and FSL courses to build my pipelines.

Pravesh is just the best!

Health, cognition, family, and employment among men (HOMME) - Department of Psychology The project will examine men’s family, work, health and cognition in Norway particularly during the life period most characterized by family transitions and work experiences.

New PostDoc opportunity at HOMME🎓
www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/...

We offer a 3 or 4 year Postdoctoral opportunity in the HOMME project in Oslo - www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

the photo is giving nordic noir 👌

Avslørte KI-juks i akademia Daniel Quintana oppdaget en falsk artikkel i sitt eget navn. Nå advarer professoren om at KI er på full fart inn i forskningen.

I recently spoke with Klassekampen about AI slop in scientific publishing. It’s critical for science that we avoid the uncritical adoption of AI and LLMs

klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...

Concerning numbers.

archive.ph/ZavpU

without the pay wall

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

#ABCD

sad times

Highly recommend the book "Superior" by Angela Saini for an excellent history lesson on this subject.