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SUMMARY:Wellcome Trust: Incentivising open research by Dr Ben Bleasdale & David Carr
DESCRIPTION:About the talk \nDr Ben Bleasdale and David Carr talk about various initiatives Wellcome trust are championing\, including funding for open research projects and support a culture shift in how we conduct research in a way that will protect individual researchers
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/wellcome-trust-incentivising-open-research-by-dr-ben-bleasedale-david-carr/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191112T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191112T130000
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SUMMARY:Preprints\, registered reports & Bayes by Dr Samuel Westwood
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nSamuel Westwood was awarded his PhD in Neuroscience from Aston University\, Birmingham in 2018. He joined King’s College London in 2017 as a post-doctoral research associate in the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Department and is investigating the effectiveness of combining cognitive training and non-invasive brain stimulation in improving inattention and self-control in boys with ADHD. He founded and co-organised the RIOT Science Club and the King’s Open Research Group Initiative. Sam is also the local lead for the UK Reproducibility Network. \nAbout the talk \nDr Samuel Westwood gives us a talk on preprints\, registered reports\, and Bayesian analysis and how even taking up one of these is an important step in the right direction toward reproducible research.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/preprints-registered-reports-bayes-by-dr-samuel-westwood/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191024T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191024T130000
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SUMMARY:Equivalence testing for psychological research by Anne Scheel
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nAnne studied psychology at the University of Heidelberg and psychological research methods at the University of Glasgow\, and worked in a developmental psychology lab at LMU Munich for two years. Her background is in infant research\, but since she first learned about the “replication crisis” in psychology\, she devoted more and more time to follow the discussions around ways to make research more transparent and reproducible (“open science”). Eventually this led her to switch tracks and turn to meta-science as her main research focus: In October 2017\, she started her PhD in Daniël Lakens’ project “Increasing the reliability and efficiency of psychological science” at TU Eindhoven. \nAbout the talk \nPsychological theories typically predict the presence of an effect or relationship\, which is commonly tested by setting up a null hypothesis of no effect or relationship and performing a significance test. One problem of this procedure is that researchers rarely specify the size of effects predicted by their theories. Hypotheses tested this way are difficult or impossible to falsify: A non-significant result could always be due to insufficient power and simply mean that an effect is smaller than expected (but not zero). This is why non-significant results merely represent the absence of evidence for an effect\, yet they are often misinterpreted as evidence for the absence of an effect. \nEquivalence testing can offer a solution to this problem: It allows researchers to test (and reject) the hypothesis that an effect is larger than a “smallest effect size of interest” (SESOI)\, and conclude that it is too small to care about — e.g.\, smaller than the effect predicted by a theory\, smaller than an effect that would justify the costs for a new intervention\, or simply smaller than effects that can meaningfully be studied with the resources a lab has available. The procedure has the added benefit of making hypotheses more falsifiable\, because a more precise prediction than “not zero” has to be made. \nEquivalence tests are based on a very simple technique (two one-sided tests) and have been used in medicine and biostatistics for several decades. Recently\, new software solutions have been developed to make them more accessible to psychological researchers\, providing a helpful addition to the frequentist tool kit. This talk will give an introduction to equivalence tests and how to use them in practice\, and discuss approaches to defining the smallest effect size of interest for different research questions. \n 
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/equivalence-testing-for-psychological-research-by-anne-scheel/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191017T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191017T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T190101
CREATED:20200425T125826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200426T115656Z
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SUMMARY:Pre-registered self-replication of data-driven analysis by Dr Alexandra Hendry
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nDr Alexandra Hendry is a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Experimental Psychology Department\, University of Oxford. Dr Hendry’s research centres on the development of executive functions; those skills that help us control our attention and behaviour in order to achieve goals. She completed her PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience\, King’s College London where she investigated the early development of executive functions and attentional control skills in infants with an increased likelihood of developing Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and/or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Her current work focuses on investigating executive functions from infancy into early childhood. \nAbout the talk \nDr Alexandra Hendry gives a talk on the lessons she learned from a pre-registered self-replication of data-driven analysis\, using parent-report data on multiple cohorts of infants with and without elevated likelihood of ASD.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/pre-registered-self-replication-of-data-driven-analysis-by-dr-alexandra-hendry/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190905T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190905T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T190101
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SUMMARY:Robust research: A practical guide by Dr Verena Heise
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nDr Verena Heise is based at the University of Oxford and uses advanced neuroimaging techniques\, mainly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)\, to investigate how genetics and lifestyle measures affect human brain structure and function. She is particularly interested in promoting Open and Reproducible Research and improving research methods to make the results of scientific research more robust. She is involved in several working groups to promote robust research: Reproducible Research Oxford\, which is the local node of the UK Reproducibility Network\, the Open Neuroimaging working group at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging and the advisory board for Credibility in Neuroscience at the British Neuroscience Association.  \nAbout the talk \nDr Heise talks about ways of improving research practice.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/robust-research-a-practical-guide-by-dr-verena-heise/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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CREATED:20200425T121842Z
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SUMMARY:Why results from behavioural genetics have replicated by Prof Robert Plomin
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nRobert Plomin is MRC Research Professor in Behavioural Genetics at the Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology and Neuroscience\, King’s College London. In 1994 after positions in the US at the University of Colorado and Pennsylvania State University\, he came to the Institute to help Professor Sir Michael Rutter launch the Social\, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre. The goal of the Centre is to bring together genetic and environmental strategies to understand individual differences in behavioural development\, which characterises his research.  \nIn 1995\, Professor Plomin began the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS)\, which has followed 10\,000 pairs of UK twins from infancy through early adulthood and has been continuously funded for 25 years as a programme grant from the Medical Research Council. He has published more than 800 papers and is the author of the best-selling textbook in the field as well as a dozen other books. His most recent book is Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are (Allen Lane\, October 2018; paperback by Penguin\, June 2019). Blueprint describes how the DNA revolution is transforming science\, society and the way we think about ourselves.  \nProfessor Plomin has been elected the youngest President of the international Behavior Genetics Association and has received lifetime research achievement awards from the major associations related to his field (Behavior Genetics Association\, Association of Psychological Science\, Society for Research in Child Development\, International Society for Intelligence Research)\, as well as being made Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, British Academy\, American Academy of Political and Social Science\, and Academy of Medical Sciences (UK).  \nAbout the talk \nProf Plomin talks about the replicability of findings in genetics research.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/why-results-from-behavioural-genetics-have-replicated-by-prof-robert-plomin/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190718T120000
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SUMMARY:Reproducibility in psychiatric genetics by Prof Gerome Breen
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nProf Gerome Breen is a Psychiatric Geneticist at King’s College London who works on the genetics of affective (mood) disorders\, psychosis and eating disorders. One of the most important goals for his research is to discover the biological basis of common psychiatric disorders\, which will allow better drug discovery and biomarker studies in mental health. Not only that but they can also be used to improve estimations of response to psychological treatments and to help improve clinical trial approaches. Because someone’s DNA sequence does not change after diagnosis or treatment\, genetics is often the best approach for this. Prof Breen is heavily involved in a number of international genetic consortia which are driving the field of psychiatric genetics forward at a faster pace than ever before\, with more than 500 variants for common psychiatric disorders recently discovered. \nAbout the talk \nProf Gerome Breen gives a talk on the growing pains psychiatric genetic research has gone through to deal with issues of reproducibility.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/reproducibility-in-psychiatric-genetics-by-prof-gerome-breen/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190711T120000
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CREATED:20200425T144350Z
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SUMMARY:How do I know what my theory predicts? by Prof Zoltan Dienes
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nZoltan Dienes is a Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex. His research interests are in exploring ways of changing common practice in statistical inference by using Bayesian methods. He is also interested in the distinction between conscious and unconscious mental states\, as well as hypnosis\, a way of acting which he argues is intentional but the person is strategically unaware of those intentions. \nAbout the talk \nTo get evidence for or against one’s theory relative to the null hypothesis\, one needs to know what it predicts. The amount of evidence can then be quantified by a Bayes factor. It is only when one has reasons for specifying a scale of the effect that the level of evidence can be specified for no effect. In many papers people declare the absence of an effect while having no rational grounds for doing so.  So we need to specify what scale of the effect our theory predicts. Specifying what one’s theory predicts may not come naturally\, but Prof Dienes shows ways of thinking about the problem\, some simple heuristics that are often useful\, including the room-to-move heuristic and the ratio-of-scales heuristic.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/how-do-i-know-what-my-theory-predicts-by-prof-zoltan-dienes/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190627T120000
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SUMMARY:Lessons from Daryl Bem by Prof Chris French
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nProfessor Chris French is the Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the Psychology Department at Goldsmiths\, University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a Patron of the British Humanist Association. He has published over 150 articles and chapters covering a wide range of topics. His main current area of research is the psychology of paranormal beliefs and anomalous experiences.  \nAbout the talk \nProf Chris French gives us a talk on the lesson he learned from Daryl Bem and discusses issues with standard practice in psi psychology.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/lessons-from-daryl-bem-by-prof-chris-french/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190606T120000
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CREATED:20200425T121041Z
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SUMMARY:Brain stimulation & bayesian optimisation in fMRI by Dr Ines Violante
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nDr Ines Violante is a Lecturer in Psychological Neuroscience in the School of Psychology\, at the University of Surrey. She received BSc in Biochemistry and PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Coimbra\, Portugal. Following her PhD\, Dr Violante was awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship to perform her research project at Imperial College London and University College London. Her research combines functional magnetic resonance imaging\, spectroscopy and electroencephalography to understand how brain stimulation can be used to modulate brain dynamics and behavioural performance. She is interested in how brain oscillations mediate long-range connectivity and particularly how neurostimulation could be used to improve network communication following brain injury. She is also working in the development of new methods using real-time fMRI and machine learning to optimise stimulation protocols and tailor stimulation to an individual.  \nAbout the talk \nInes will be giving a talk on the use of Bayesian optimisation in neuroimaging and non-invasive brain stimulation
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/brain-stimulation-bayesian-optimisation-in-fmri-by-dr-ines-violante/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190516T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190516T130000
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SUMMARY:Open science: Why\, what\, how... and some paranoia by Joe Barnby
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nIn his PhD\, Joe is investigating the neural mechanisms underlying information salience and belief formation with psychopharmacological methods. Joe discusses his work\, his experience with pre-registering (which is a gnarly business in neuroscience)\, and issues with reproducibility in his research field.  \nAbout the talk \nOpen Science is a progressive movement toward transparent predicting\, testing\, and reporting data. It overcomes problems recently highlighted in scientific discourse such as HARKing\, reproducibility\, and replication. There are a number of free and open access tools which can help us to achieve more transparency in the way we work. I will go over some of these tools\, how to use them\, with worked examples from my own research. At the end there is time for an open discussion and clinic where we can talk about how to implement Open Science in your own research.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/open-science-why-what-how-and-some-paranoia-by-joe-barnby/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190418T120000
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CREATED:20200425T145921Z
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SUMMARY:Some attempts to correct bad science by Dr Stuart Ritchie
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nDr Stuart Ritchie is a psychologist and science communicator known for his research in human intelligence. He has served as a lecturer in the Social\, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London since 2018. His research interests include understanding how and why people’s intellectual abilities develop and change across their lives. His forthcoming book\, Science Fictions\, is about how fraud\, bias\, error\, and hype undermine scientific research. \nAbout the talk \nDr Stuart Ritchie gives us a tour through his successful (and often unsuccessful) attempts to correct bad science.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/some-attempts-to-correct-bad-science-by-dr-stuart-ritchie/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190411T120000
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SUMMARY:The renaissance of EEG by Dr Grainne McLoughlin
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nDr Grainne McLoughlin received her PhD training and initial postdoctoral fellowship in quantitative genetics and EEG at the Social\, Developmental and Genetic Psychiatry Centre. Her further postdoctoral training in computational neuroscience took place at the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience at the University of California San Diego and the Department of Psychiatry\, University of California San Diego. Dr. McLoughlin has a faculty position at King’s College London since 2013 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2017. Her main research interests include investigation of abnormal brain function in multiple psychiatric disorders\, with a particular interest in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorders using mobile EEG. \nAbout the talk \nDr McLoughlin talks about the new developments in EEG and their uses in psychiatric research.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/the-renaissance-of-eeg-by-dr-grainne-mcloughlin/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190404T120000
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SUMMARY:Research Integrity at King's College London by Dr Natasha Awais-Dean & Annah Whyton
DESCRIPTION:About the speakers \nDr Natasha Awais-Dean and Annah Whyton are members of the Research Integrity Office at King’s College London\, which supports the promotion of good conduct in research within the King’s community. \nAbout the talk \nKing’s College London is committed to excellence in research and is a signatory to the Universities UK Concordat to Support Research Integrity\, to ensure that we meet required national standards. The Research Integrity Team promotes good conduct in research among all those engaged in research in the College\, through policies and procedures\, training\, support\, and guidance. The Research Governance Office (RGO) provides high-level support to researchers with particular focus on data protection requirements under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act (2018). The RGO also supports researchers in determining the research governance requirements for research projects.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/research-integrity-at-kings-college-london-by-dr-natasha-awais-dean-anna-whyton/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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