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SUMMARY:Open science for early career researchers by Alexandra Lautarescu
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nAlexandra Lautarescu is a PhD student based in the Department of Perinatal Imaging and Health at St Thomas’ Hospital. She earned a BSc(Hons) in Psychology from University of Exeter in 2011\, followed by an MPhil in Medical Sciences (Psychiatry) from the University of Cambridge. Her current research focuses on maternal mental health during pregnancy and its relationship with fetal and neonatal brain development\, as part of the developing Human Connectome Project. She is a co-founder of the Postdocalypse Podcast and a Graduate Teaching Assistant on the BSc Psychology programme at King’s College London. \nAbout the talk \nAlexandra Lautarescu gives a talk on how early career researchers can implement open science practices in their workflow\, ensuring that reproducibility and transparency are embedded in the research process.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/open-science-for-early-career-researchers-by-alexandra-lautarescu/
LOCATION:St Thomas’ Hospital\, Westminster Bridge Road\, London\, SE1 7EH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The unconscious mind by Prof David Shanks
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nDavid Shanks is Professor of Psychology and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Brain Sciences at University College London (UCL)\, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Previously he was Head of Psychology at UCL from 2003-17. His research falls across a number of topics in experimental cognitive psychology\, including learning\, memory\, judgment and decision-making\, and he is the author (with Newell and Lagnado) of Straight choices: The psychology of decision making (2nd ed.\, 2015). A number of his early replication studies in the field of ‘social priming’ led to an enduring interest in and contribution to debates about research transparency. \nAbout the talk \nProfessor Shanks talks about the important role in the reproducibility crisis played by the unchallenged\, pervasive and probably false conception of the unconscious mind which dominates much thinking in psychology and neuroscience.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/the-unconscious-mind-by-prof-david-shanks/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Is there a reproducibility crisis in science? 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 will give a talk on whether there is a reproducibility crisis in science\, focusing on its causes: perverse incentives and questionable research practices.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/is-there-a-reproducibility-crisis-in-science-by-dr-samuel-westwood/
LOCATION:St Thomas’ Hospital\, Westminster Bridge Road\, London\, SE1 7EH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The 7 plagues of neuroimaging studies by Prof Henning Tiemeier
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nHenning Tiemeier is a Professor of Social and Behavioural Science and the Sumner and Esther Feldberg Chair of Maternal and Child Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Prof Tiemeier received both his medical and sociological degree from the University of Bonn\, Germany\, and his PhD from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam\, Netherlands. Henning has published extensively on the aetiology of child developmental problems with a particular focus on prenatal exposures. Most of his research was performed in population-based cohort studies and his work often takes a neurodevelopmental approach. He is a principal investigator of the Generation R Study\, a large pre-birth cohort in Rotterdam\, that enrolled nearly 10\,000 mothers and their children. \nAbout the talk \nProf Tiemeier talks about some of the issues in neuroimaging research.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/the-7-plagues-of-neuroimaging-studies-by-prof-henning-tiemeier/
LOCATION:St Thomas’ Hospital\, Westminster Bridge Road\, London\, SE1 7EH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:F1000 by Dr Chris Murawski
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nDr Chris Murawski is the EMEA Business Development Manager of F1000. F1000 provides a suite of services to support researchers in discovering literature\, and in writing and communication of their own work. F1000Prime helps with literature discovery; F1000Workspace makes it easier to write and share articles; F1000Research provides an author-driven approach to the publication of research results in an immediate and transparent way. F1000 also works with funders and research institutions to ensure their grantees can publish the outputs of their funding in more rapid and open ways. Chris will talk about the services and aims of F1000\, highlighting the importance of open science\, problems with impact factors\, finding and managing relevant subject literature and group projects. \nAbout the talk \nDr Chris Murawski is giving a talk on F1000 which provides services for researchers to discover new research\, work and collaborate smarter\, publish faster and without barriers.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/f1000-by-dr-chris-murawski/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:An MRI scanner for one and all by Prof Steven Williams
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nSteven Williams is the Head of Neuroimaging Department and Professor of Imaging Sciences. He has a strong interest in the translation of brain imaging techniques from the bench to the clinic. Steven is the Founder\, Director and Head of the Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences based at the Institute of Psychiatry and Maudsley Hospital\, King’s College London. \nAbout the talk \nThe talk will cover recent approaches to MRI scanning the most challenging patient cohorts who are claustrophobic\, intolerant to noise\, can’t lie still or able to move to the scanner in some of the most challenging environments.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/an-mri-scanner-for-one-and-all-by-prof-steven-williams/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Perverse incentives in diagnosis: neurodevelopmental disorders by Dr Max Davie
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nMax Davie is a consultant community paediatrician\, working in Lambeth as part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Trust Community services. He has a special interest in the assessment and diagnosis of neurodevelopmental conditions in school-age children\, and in the mental health of paediatric patients more generally. He is past convenor of the Paediatric Mental Health Association\, and current mental health officer for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Max is the Clinical Lead for Information Sharing Matters\, a free and digital education programme designed for social and healthcare professionals about information sharing in early years.  \nAbout the talk \nDr Max Davie’s talk will focus on how diagnosis is a cornerstone of medical practice but can be misused\, deliberately or otherwise.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/perverse-incentives-in-diagnosis-neurodevelopmental-disorders-by-dr-max-davie/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:R Markdown: Make your computer do your work for you by Dr Ewan Carr
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nDr Ewan Carr joined King’s College London’s Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics in 2017. Prior to this role\, Ewan was based in Epidemiology and Public Health Department at University College London. Ewan holds an MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics and a PhD in Social Statistics from Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research\, University of Manchester. His research interests are in applying novel statistical techniques to longitudinal and routine clinical datasets to better understand heterogeneous treatment effects and to unpick interactions between mental and physical health. Currently\, Ewan works on projects related to the Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) theme of Bioinformatics and Statistics. This involves a wide range of analytical methods\, including latent variable techniques (CFA\, LCA)\, multilevel modelling\, time series SEM\, survival analysis\, and more recently\, machine learning and topological data analysis. He is a keen user of R and Python and has many years of experience with Mplus and Stata. Ewan has taught on a wide range of statistical techniques. At present\, he lectures on courses in R\, statistical programming\, statistical modelling\, research methods for multilevel data and support delivery of other modules within the department.  \nAbout the talk \nR Markdown is one of the most powerful software tools going. Word processing\, blogging\, powerpoint-style presentations\, conferences posters are just a handful of examples of what it can do. Unfortunate\, its power and versatility are matched by the calories needed to get to master it. An add-on to R Studio\, a workable overlay to R\, R Markdown runs on R coding language\, and so inherits many of the fiddly\, maddening\, incomprehensible characteristics of any coding language.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/r-markdown-make-your-computer-do-your-work-for-you-by-dr-ewan-carr/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Exploring published research results without the data by Dr Nick Brown
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nDr Nick Brown was recently awarded his PhD at the University of Groningen\, Netherlands for his work investigating social claims from positive psychology. He is\, however\, better known as a ‘data thug’\, detecting anomalies in reported statistics along with Dr James Heathers (check out James’ awesome podcast\, Everything Hertz). Drs Brown and Heathers won the SIPS Mission Award for their work on SPRITE\, GRIM\, and their application in error detection in published research. Dr Brown also keeps a regular blog\, where he writes about his exploits in error detection and insightful commentaries on statistical analyses and their pitfalls.  \nAbout the talk  \nA goal of the open science movement is for almost every published empirical articles to be accompanied by the relevant data set and analysis code. However\, that outcome is not likely to be achieved in the immediate future (and it does not address the issue of data availability for older work). In the meantime\, researchers who wish to critically examine the numerical and statistical results of published articles often have difficulty obtaining the data on which the results are based. The original authors might fail to answer the sharing request or even explicitly refuse to share their data. Perhaps the data no longer exist at all (a fate that will\, of course\, befall the authors too one day). In this talk\, Dr Brown will describe a number of techniques that allow the curious reader to identify possible anomalies in reported statistics without having access to the data\, and show how these techniques have been applied to reveal some problems in influential research. Only a minimal level of statistical knowledge is assumed.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/157/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Bullied into Bad Science by Dr Stephen Eglen
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \n Dr Stephen Eglen is currently a Reader in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge\, in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. His undergraduate degree was in Cognitive Science\, Psychology and Computer Science (Nottingham)\, followed by a doctorate in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (Sussex). His research interests focus on understanding the development of the nervous system: How do neurons form connections with each other into structured networks? He works primarily on analyzing and modelling of neuronal activity and development in the visual system. Recent work has applied these techniques to understanding networks derived from human stem cells and for neurotoxicity testing. \nAbout the talk \nDr Stephen Eglen talks about the Bullied into Bad Science campaign\, an initiative by early career researchers (ECRs) for ECRs who aim for a fairer\, more open and ethical research and publication environment. Founded by behavioural ecologist Dr Corina Logan\, the initiative aims to help ECRs who have “felt pressured into taking professional actions that are against your ethics”\, and it features a petition in the form of an open letter as well as an 8-point program of actions that institutions could adopt if they want to support their ECRs. You can learn more and sign the petition here.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/bullied-into-bad-science-by-dr-stephen-eglen/
LOCATION:Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)\, 16 De Crespigny Park\, London\, London\, SE5 8AF\, United Kingdom
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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DTSTAMP:20260403T210929
CREATED:20200425T131358Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190418T130000
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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
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190411T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T210929
CREATED:20200425T124757Z
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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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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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