https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDpMr8ygAKc About the speaker Dr 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 ofContinue reading "The renaissance of EEG by Dr Grainne McLoughlin"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U6CCoktmgE About the speaker Dr 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 acrossContinue reading "Some attempts to correct bad science by Dr Stuart Ritchie"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyl6y3ZqDVw About the speaker In 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. About the talk Open Science is a progressive movement towardContinue reading "Open science: Why, what, how… and some paranoia by Joe Barnby"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYH-poNXov4 About the speaker Dr 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 researchContinue reading "Brain stimulation & bayesian optimisation in fMRI by Dr Ines Violante"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Df3_ygqDSo About the speaker Professor 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 articlesContinue reading "Lessons from Daryl Bem by Prof Chris French"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhvfgJC2ZWY About the speaker Zoltan 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 ofContinue reading "How do I know what my theory predicts? by Prof Zoltan Dienes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWe9bnnU89A About the speaker Prof 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 biomarkerContinue reading "Reproducibility in psychiatric genetics by Prof Gerome Breen"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyT1lATMx4M About the speaker Robert 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, GeneticContinue reading "Why results from behavioural genetics have replicated by Prof Robert Plomin"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2CxXPVnqw0 About the speaker Dr 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 resultsContinue reading "Robust research: A practical guide by Dr Verena Heise"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQI218wKDWw About the speaker Dr 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, PsychologyContinue reading "Pre-registered self-replication of data-driven analysis by Dr Alexandra Hendry"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9pzORPTXFU About the speaker Anne 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 andContinue reading "Equivalence testing for psychological research by Anne Scheel"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVzg0A5j4fY About the speaker Samuel 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-controlContinue reading "Preprints, registered reports & Bayes by Dr Samuel Westwood"