Here are some things about the brain that I find mind-blowing. Please add more! 1/n
The brain contains ~86 billion neurons and >100 trillion synapses, but it weighs only about 1400 g (3 lbs) and you can hold it in the palm of your hand. 2/n
Jan 2, 2020 • 20 tweets • 1 min read
Several years ago, my niece graduated from college and planned to pursue a career in either science or medicine. As a part of a graduation present, I gave her a sheet of paper with “Uncle Steve’s Hints for Success After College.” Here they are. Enjoy!
1. In college, you were told what you needed to do to graduate. From now on, everything in life is an elective, and you are designing your own major.
Dec 16, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
An important step toward increasing replicability of findings is to increase the reproducibility of methods. Analysis methods can easily be made reproducible by publishing data analysis scripts. But what about data collection methods? 1/n
Collecting clean and valid data requires a lot of “secret sauce” in some research areas (e.g., EEG/ERP, fMRI, eye tracking, development). However, it’s not realistic to publish 20 pages of details about data collection methods in a conventional Method section. 2/n
