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SUMMARY:Leadership & research integrity by Nadia Soliman
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker\n \nWith a BSc (Hons) Pharmacology (University of Liverpool)\, Nadia has returned to academia having served in both the regular and reserve of the British Army for over ten years. Since returning she has gained an MSc in Drug Discovery Skills (KCL) and MRes in Cellular and Molecular Biosciences and is in her second year of a PhD at Imperial College London. Her PhD is focused on developing automation technologies to improve the feasibility\, efficiency and accuracy of preclinical systematic reviews while addressing neurobiological questions of interest.  She has an interest in sharing her military experiences and knowledge of leadership development to engender a more positive research culture. \nAbout the talk\n \nNadia will share she has learned about leadership and leadership development from the Army.  She will then go on to discuss what we value in academia and whether our behaviours are congruent with upholding our values and demonstrate that good leadership is critical to conducting science that is reproducible\, interpretable\, open and transparent.   Lastly\, she will ask us to reflect on our roles and responsibilities and our agency to make and influence change.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/leadership-research-integrity-by-nadia-soliman/
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SUMMARY:How reliable is fMRI\, and does it actually matter? by Dr Matt Wall
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nDr Matt Wall completed his PhD in Cambridge\, then did post-doctoral positions at Royal Holloway and UCL before selling out and moving into the private sector. He currently works for Invicro\, a global imaging company that provides research services for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. His research interests have meandered around somewhat\, taking in cognitive psychology\, visual psychophysics\, pain\, psychopharmacology\, psychedelics\, addiction\, neuroendocrinology\, and methods development\, but all focussed around the use of fMRI. His current collaborative projects involve giving teenagers cannabis and showing women pornography\, as well as a number of commercial studies\, and ongoing methodological work. \nAbout the talk \nfMRI is an established workhorse method in modern cognitive neuroscience but relatively little attention has been paid to characterising its basic features\, in particular\, the closely related concepts of reliability\, replicability\, and reproducibility. I’ll discuss some recent work we’ve done examining test-retest reliability metrics on a range of different cognitive and sensory task paradigms. We’ve also examined the effects of different de-noising procedures on these reliability metrics in the same set of data\, as well as in resting-state fMRI data. There has been a great deal of discussion in recent years on improving power\, reliability\, and replicability in neuroscience\, but which of these is the most important\, and which are we actually able to change? Does reliability actually matter all that much\, and if it does\, how do we get people to care about it?
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/how-reliable-is-fmri-and-does-it-actually-matter-by-dr-matt-wall/
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SUMMARY:Reproducibility in neuroimaging: Problems and solutions by Prof Russell Poldrack
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nRussell A. Poldrack is the Albert Ray Lang Professor in the Department of Psychology and Professor (by courtesy) of Computer Science at Stanford University\, and Director of the Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience.  His research uses neuroimaging to understand the brain systems underlying decision making and executive function.  His lab is also engaged in the development of neuroinformatics tools to help improve the reproducibility and transparency of neuroscience\, including the Openneuro.org and Neurovault.org data sharing projects and the Cognitive Atlas ontology. \nAbout the talk \nThere is increasing concern regarding the reproducibility and generalisability of neuroimaging research. Prof Poldrack will outline the problem and discuss a number of important causes\, including low statistical power\, analytic flexibility\, and the lack of robust software engineering practices. He will also outline a set of community efforts that are trying to address these challenges.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/reproducibility-in-neuroimaging-problems-and-solutions-by-prof-russell-poldrack/
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