@fraukeb.bsky.social
PostDoc at MPI CBS Leipzig & University of Bordeaux Interested in healthy (vascular) brain aging - MRI - post Covid - Open Science **** mostly private opinion posts here **** #FCKAFD
Plakat: Rechte Orte in Leipzig? - Mitten in der Stadt! Antifaschistische Fahrradtour am 17. Oktober um 16 Uhr ab Universitätsstraße ladenschluss.noblogs.org
17. Oktober: Antifaschistische Fahrradtour – Rechte Orte in #Leipzig? – Mitten in der Stadt!
Um 16 Uhr vor dem Seminargebäude (Universitätsstraße):
ladenschluss.noblogs.org/2025/09/12/a...
Poster showing a pink/red octopus with a cute face. The background is a white and blue water cartoon-like graphic. The text reads: Would you walk away from Omelas? An Ursula Le Guin Themed Creative Writing Workshop, 11th October, 4 pm, online. In this workshop, led by science fiction writer, poet, and philosophy lecturer Dr Rachel Handley, you will be invited to explore Le Guin's short stories and related themes. There will be opportunities to respond to writing prompts based on Le Guin's and other's work throughout the workshop. The workshop will be very interactive, and writers at all levels are very welcome to attend. You'll also have the chance to read out what you've written during the workshop.
I'm delighted to say that I will be running an online Ursula Le Guin themed creative writing workshop for @octocon.bsky.social on 11th October, 4 pm.
Get ready for some philosophical fiction!
You must be a member to join. Not a member yet? You can still sign-up here: 2025.octocon.com/join-us/
Exactly!
30.09.2025 04:52 — 👍 30 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Causal inference interest group, supported by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies Seminar series 20th October 2025, 3pm BST (UTC+1) "Making rigorous causal inference more mainstream" Julia Rohrer, Leipzig University Sign up to attend at tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRohrer
Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈
You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...
Neuroscience lecture by Dr. Chris Zimmerman on Body-Brain interactions in learning
Excited to hear the latest science updates from @czimmerman.bsky.social on Monday, 1-2 pm CST. You can join us too—either on Zoom or in person! bit.ly/3VOJrcy
05.10.2025 14:25 — 👍 33 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2Falls jemand noch nach einer Impfmöglichkeit sucht: Schaut mal unter lange-nacht-des-impfens.de! Am 08. Oktober gibt es Impfungen gegen Influenza und/oder COVID in zahlreichen Apotheken, ohne Termin.
05.10.2025 14:45 — 👍 29 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 0☝️🥹 was @geschom.bsky.social sagt
02.10.2025 17:58 — 👍 78 🔁 30 💬 3 📌 0People kept buying incandescent light bulbs, even though LED lights were better for the environment and cheaper in the long run. But incandescent light were cheap in the short term. In the end, the EU had to ban incandescent lights.
The adoption of Open Science works same.
We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
Ein gesunder Ernährungsstil könnte die menschliche und die planetare Gesundheit erheblich verbessern. Und nein, Harald, du müsstest nicht mal komplett auf Fleisch verzichten
www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima...
Die Wahrheit ist doch: selbst mit gut geteilter Sorgearbeit sind Kinder ein Vollzeitprojekt für zwei Jahrzehnte.
28.09.2025 08:43 — 👍 68 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 1Check out this new Max Planck graduate school, for talented students interested in applying ML/AI tools to one of a wide variety of scientific fields. Deadline this October 31st!
02.10.2025 19:09 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Elucidating some common biases in randomized controlled trials using directed acyclic graphs Although the ideal randomized clinical trial is the gold standard for causal inference, real randomized trials often suffer from imperfections that may hamper causal effect estimation. Stating the estimand of interest can help reduce confusion about what is being estimated, but it is often difficult to determine what is and is not identifiable given a trial’s specific imperfections. We demonstrate how directed acyclic graphs can be used to elucidate the consequences of common imperfections, such as noncompliance, unblinding, and drop-out, for the identification of the intention-to-treat effect, the total treatment effect and the physiological treatment effect. We assert that the physiological treatment effect is not identifiable outside a trial with perfect compliance and no dropout, where blinding is perfectly maintained
Table 1 showing the Identifiability of target estimands depending on whether there is blinding, full compliance, and no drop-out
An example DAG from the paper. Fig. 4: A blinded trial with noncompliance. U are unobserved confounders, Z is treatment assignment, C is compliance, X is the realized treatment, S is the subject's physical and mental health status, Xself and Xcln are the treatment that the participant and the clinician believed the participant received, Y is the outcome.
Just finished reading this *excellent* article by Gabriel et al. which discusses which effects can be identified in randomized controlled trials. With DAGs!>
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🧠 Join Our Team! 🧠
2 PhD candidates and 1 Study Nurse positions ope as part of our new RCT within the LeiCeM Excellence Cluster.
- PhD (deadline:15/10): tinyurl.com/35e5tbhy
- PhD within the IMPRIS-CONI (deadline:02/11): tinyurl.com/y9yt4akf
- Study Nurse (deadline:15/10): tinyurl.com/4zztjmj9
#Throwback 🧪
REVIEW | Feeding gut microbes to nourish the brain: unravelling the diet–microbiota–gut–brain axis
@elizschneider.bsky.social
@jfcryan.bsky.social et al
Slide with 3-way pointing spiderman meme: age, period, and cohort pointing at each other "A new approach to the age-period-cohort problem"
Symposium abstract: Personality research pursues an exceptionally wide variety of research questions using diverse designs and analysis approaches. But more breadth can also mean more inferential problems. In this symposium, six speakers will highlight such inferential problems across different designs and spell out productive ways forward, with a particular focus on the importance of conceptual clarity and causal thinking. First, personality research often relies on online data collection which necessitates dealing with careless responding – Taym Alsalti will discuss how excluding participants may sometimes actively do more harm than good. Second, hypotheses about congruence (e.g., between the personalities of romantic partners) are often evaluated with the help of profile correlations – Ruben Arslan will discuss how distinctive profile correlations are still confounded with trait levels, despite the ostensible “control” they provide. Third, sometimes, personality researchers conduct within-subject experiments – Florian Scharf highlights how neglecting temporal trends can lead to erroneous conclusions in such data. Fourth, more often, personality research relies on observational data – Laura Botzet showcases how one can attempt to draw causal inferences based on such data in a principled manner. Fifth, personality researchers often draw inferences about personality development – Julia Rohrer will make the case that that’s also causal inference based on observational data, and present an approach for how to do so transparently. Lastly, Lena Roemer will present findings from applying this approach to the Big Five personality traits, highlighting how previous studies may have mistakenly overlooked period effects.
Looking forward to our symposium tomorrow at 9am. If you're attending #DPPD25, be there or be square! @roemerle.bsky.social @laura-j-botzet.bsky.social
23.09.2025 12:07 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The Pink Book of #MarginalEffects (aka Model to Meaning) ships next week and I've got a backlog of Zoolander memes.
Hope you're hungry for some spam in your timeline.
#RStats #PyData
So, what’s realistic in psych? A lot of high quality data may be needed and researcher may want to pause before applying ML
30.09.2025 11:56 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
RDM Weekly Issue 15 is out! 📬
- Data Tracking in Neurodivergent Samples Guide from @jcbullen.bsky.social and colleagues
- Science as Amateur Software Development from @rmcelreath.bsky.social
- Project Management from @manybabies.org
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
“Our findings suggest that structural income inequality is associated with neurobiological differences, even after accounting for absolute income and poverty. These brain differences, in turn, help explain links to adverse mental health outcomes.”
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A long-awaited consensus statement on inflammation and heart disease
"We have thus entered an era when the evidence linking inflammation with ASCVD is no longer exploratory but is
compelling and clinically actionable."
@jaccjournals.bsky.social open-access
www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...
The gut-brain connection
Glia cells mediate cytokine signalling between the gut and the brain, linking sleep to inflammation in the gut.
I am sickened that journals are still letting authors compute change from baseline in parallel group studies. hbiostat.org/bbr/change
27.09.2025 12:05 — 👍 18 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 2Simulations are fun! Especially with the right tools😉.
@willenjoy.bsky.social and I (with support from Mina Jamshidi) made a toolbox for simulating EEG/MEG data
meegsim.readthedocs.io
I put together a quick simulation using it for this short clip. Took me 10 minutes (no, really!)
#brainmovies
"A Gentle Introduction to Open Science"
I love this post by Steffi LaZerte on @ropensci.org. Gentle indeed, and pragmatic.
ropensci.org/blog/2025/09...
Data is available upon request … but only in the form of one hundred non sequential 3.5” floppy disks containing a segmented zip file, inside of which are confusingly named files that can only be opened using the 1996 application StatView for Apple Mackintosh. Enclose a cashiers check for postage.
26.09.2025 17:46 — 👍 44 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 3We're looking for examples of #RegisteredReports with a publicly available Stage 1 manuscript and #OpenData that use one of the following statistical tests! If you know of one, please link it below! (See next post for list of tests)
25.09.2025 17:52 — 👍 3 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Interested in the link between cardiovascular and mental health or, in other “words” the ❤️ and 🧠 through brain-body states? A new paper by our speaker and fellow Arno Villringer with @michaelgaebler.com and Vadim Nikulin sheds more light on these interactions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
25.09.2025 15:09 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
🚀 Job Opportunity!
Are you passionate about neuroscience, women’s health, and large-scale neuroimaging studies?
I am hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join the @erc.europa.eu project #MappingPerimenopause!
karriere.charite.de/en/job-vacan...
Some researchers don't discuss their future research plans for fear of being scooped.
Not me. I drop bad ideas for unscrupulous people to 'steal'.
- What are the neural correlates of Open Science practices?
- What is the role of habits in learning a new skill through repetitive practice?
