Jonathan Wirsich

A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

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New publishing models will only work if authors embrace them Complaints about the broken academic publishing system have been around for years and are getting louder. A common theme is that with the r...

Here's a quick blogpost about alternative publishing models. You can bring a horse to water, and indeed wave the bucket temptingly under its nose, but it is likely to gallop off elsewhere. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-...
@ec.europa.eu @wellcometrust.bsky.social

No statement on the code availability... sharing the statistical maps of the group analysis is not restricted by privacy laws in Europe? It's the year 2025, this should be enforced more consistently by the editors

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Alice Giubergia, Denis Peruzzo, et al:

Multi-echo versus single-echo EPI sequences for task-fMRI: A comparative study

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Brain Surfaces of 70 primate species

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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

In February 2024, I wrote Scientific Reports about a published meta-analysis claiming that mindfulness interventions affect neural plasticity, 'cementing the neuropsychological basis of mindfulness-based interventions'.

The paper was retracted yesterday—here a little summary of the process.🧵

New layer-fMRI preprint by Clauner et al.

Interleaved EEG and layer-fMRI is used to investigate feature-specific and unspecific correlates of alpha and gamma oscillations in superficial and deeper layers.

doi.org/10.1101/2024...

img/hdr analyze format ;)

I'm so happy someone finally compared fMRI to EEG correlations across datasets and fields strengths!
The study confirms that alpha power correlates negatively with the visual and dorsal attention networks and positively with the default mode network.

Computerspielemuseum Berlin: Homepage Our museum opened the world's first permanent exhibition on digital interactive entertainment culture in Berlin in 1997. Since then, we have accompanied the development of the medium in over 40 nation...

I quite enjoyed www.computerspielemuseum.de/en/43-Homepa...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Marta Xavier, Patrícia Figueiredo, et al:

Consistency of resting-state correlations between fMRI networks and EEG band power

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Embrace the multi-hub! eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

Preserve the Open Science Room at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

At #OHBM2025 the Open Science Room has been squeezed and next year is at risk of being dramatically reduced/cut. If you like the OSR please consider signing/sharing this petition! chng.it/yjs4Bnyf9s
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmossig.bsky.social

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.

If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

I agree that it might be tricky to always share human data for ethical reason, but I am not sure that 'patent protected' should be an excuse to provide incomplete evidence in an open journal: aren't there already enough other scientific outlets that provide this kind of service?

Frank, Galinsky, Krigolson, Tapert, Bickel, Martinez: Imaging of brain electric field networks with spatially resolved EEG. eLife. 2025 Jun 5 doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

They show: for visual stimulation, from 61 EEG electrodes, the electric field networks in the brain at 1mm resolution.
REALLY !!??

Screenshot of the original tweet announcing our move, with 5K likes and 2M views.

On this day 2y ago we announced our move away from the huge profits that NeuroImage makes for Elsevier.

Things at Imaging Neuroscience have progressed fantastically thanks to the support for this move by the brain imaging community and @mitpress.bsky.social. 565 papers published already!

Autonomic physiological coupling of the global fMRI signal Nature Neuroscience - The brain and body are necessarily connected. Here the authors show that brain blood flow and electrical activity are coupled with systemic physiological changes in the body.

First post on an exciting new manuscript online today @natneuro.nature.com - in collab with @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Catie Chang. We take a fresh look at the physiological dynamics associated with the global signal 🧠 ...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Read here:
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Growing evidence that careful experimental design of ADC-fMRI yields functional information distinct from BOLD prompts the question of residual vascular sources.
We thus analyzed the ADC- and BOLD-fMRI responses to non-neuronal vascular fluctuations. 🥁
Led by I. de Riedmatten & A. Spencer
#FIREPATH

This new layer-fMRI manuscript combines layer-fMRI with the high temporal resolution of EEG.
This study shows how laminar specific information arrives at different onset times.
By Carricarte et al.,
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IMO one of the solution to the reproducibility crisis in science is to stop taking scientific articles too seriously. What matters is code, data, open protocols, pre-registration. Certainly not fact the article was endorsed by a publisher, especially predatory ones like Nature Publishing Co

Yet another reason why open science initiatives are better options for universities. Right @richardgold.bsky.social ?

Thanks for coming to Granada and giving two amazing presentations 😊.

So, I just need to make sure my next board game is Turing complete to get around these tariffs, right?

Open source is draining.

One's todo-list is open to world.

People seldom realize the cost of what they get for free.

Unpleasant comments do happen.

Cost of maintenance is not understood.
opensource.com/article/17/2...

POST-DOC CALL!
2-year post-doctoral position to work in Marseille on any topic in the field of language, communication and the brain.
Deadline May, 20, 2025
www.ilcb.fr/ilcb-postdoc...

Looking for a PhD/Postdoc in Switzerland? English speaking lab, good pay, incredible scenery.

There's lots of funding calls for projects related to my work on the meta-science of measurement, error detection and trustworthiness assessment. Reach out if you're interested in writing a grant together.

We are hiring! Come work in sunny Marseille!
NeuroSchool PhD contracts in neuroscience are available at Aix Marseille University, France:

I submitted one project (#11) for the call for international PhDs:
"Investigating Music Listening in Human and Non-Human Primates."

Hope you'll forgive a quick thread as I take over as the new EiC of @elife.bsky.social

SPM 25: open source neuroimaging analysis software Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) is an integrated set of methods for testing hypotheses about the brain's structure and function, using data from imaging devices. These methods are implemented in ...

🚨🚨New SPM version alert! 🚨🚨

Introducing SPM 25.01, plus a more modern, open ethos to its development.

Some more information about whats changes can be found here - arxiv.org/abs/2501.12081

Stable release - www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/software/
GitHub developer version - github.com/spm/spm