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Thread: Allow me a *potentially controversial* soapbox for a moment. I just attended @DaniSBassett’s amazing virtual talk at #UConnBIRC about her excellent new paper on quantifying citation bias (btw this is an absolute must read: doi.org/10.1101/2020.0…). 1/
Her team elegantly shows how neuroscience papers w/ a female first and/or last author are systematically undercited, primarily driven by papers w/ male first & last authors. Not explained by subfield, impact, historical underrepresentation of women in science, etc. 2/
She made a concerted point that this is a group effect, and that **not all** men in science do this. She specifically highlighted one male scientist who showed the opposite trend of that expected. Kudos, sir! 3/
#UConnBIRC speaker @KimberlyGNoble talks about poverty and neurocognitive development. Fab talk! Thanks to those from over 18 institutions who registered/viewed the live stream. Recordings to follow - stay tuned @ birc.uconn.edu/events/speaker… past/future talks up here, too. 1/# 
2/# @KimberlyGNoble’s theoretical model. Much more to be learned about the mechanism and pathways, but ... 1) language exposure ➡️language. 2) family stress ➡️memory, cognition and emotion regulation. With emerging 🧠 evidence.
3/# @KimberlyGNoble shows no #SES disparities in brain function @ birth- measured by resting state EEG, but interestingly the brain still predicts outcome. (Note: doesn’t mean the causes are all after birth!).
