Frauke Beyer

NIH is requesting comments on a new draft policy that may require human brain imaging data (and other data) from nih-funded research to only be shared via controlled access, & only with certain countries. I suggest neuroimagers read closely & submit comments by 3/18.

osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form...

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Transdiagnostic latent factor models of psychopathology are widely assumed to improve brain-behaviour associations. So we decided to test this directly and found that they don't. A short 🧵

Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record."
Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...

Taking multivitamin daily could help to slow biological ageing, study suggests Researchers working to unpick whether daily multivitamin results in people staying healthier as they age

🧪 #episky #SciComm

This should be the take home message

“My personal advice… do not waste your money on nutritional supplements. There are huge commercial interests in their consumption and a lack of clinical evidence.”

🙏 Dr Pilar Guallar Castillón
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our first batch of MBE posters today! Many insightful discussions 💬 and food for thought 💭 #MBBS2026 #MindBrainBody

📸 @flxklotz.bsky.social @agatapatyczek.bsky.social @el-rei.bsky.social & Mascha Dagen

Missed it? Check the PDFs here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/mbb-sympo...

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📣 The OHBM Women Faculty SIG is seeking nominations for 2 Communications Officers (1 postdoctoral fellow and 1 faculty member) to work synergistically towards the WF-SIG’s mission of supporting women in OHBM.

🗓 Deadline: March 13, 2026
🔗 Apply here: forms.gle/2AdQ9ouRy1kQ...

Can you recommend papers in epidemiology/biomedicine that do causal inference on observational data and thoroughly and explicitly discuss their underlying causal model and assumptions ? @dingdingpeng.the100.ci #episky

OSPARK Bootcamp #1 starts today!
Before the bootcamp we shared short outreach resources on short-form videos, finding your niche, scriptwriting and editing.
Watch them here:
buff.ly/CZQYrTB
Missed this round? The next edition comes to Munich (June–July):
buff.ly/5J9Send

A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional. Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal…

BRO 🫠

Wild stuff from @retractionwatch.com 🧪

"A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction" retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...

Now came the optimistic note :)

Slide showing that scientists will be scientists without professional development (in contrast to nurses and soccer players)

Ulrich Dirnagel giving a Tour de force through research waste in biomedical research - dark traits, unethical pro-organisational behaviour and fraud - now come the fixes 🤞though hard to get at the roots @idiv-research.bsky.social

A shared screen on zoom showing a slide about the causal effect of caffeine on miscarriages

Great workshop on causal inference and DAGs with @dingdingpeng.the100.ci - learning so much and hopefully will apply this soon in a next project @idiv-research.bsky.social

In 2 Wochen ist es so weit! Steht der Termin 19.-22.3. schon im Kalender?

Speaker right to a slide saying reflections and implications of open science

Fascinating talk by Sheena Bartscheler on the open science movement from a sociologist perspective - shedding light on central involvement of political actors and problematic communal Story telling 👀 @idiv-research.bsky.social

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Anthropic hat aus aktuellem Anlass eine Möglichkeit bereitgestellt, den ChatGPT Verlauf etc mitzunehmen 😎 claude.com/import-memory

Don't forget, just 2 weeks until abstracts are due!

Thumbnail is emptiness, and emptiness is thumbnail.

Here's a link to the video tho, in case anybody is wondering what they're apologizing for 😂

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-6...

CAUSAL GRAPHS ➡️ HAPPINESS. 😍 Agree?
& Work in/around Berlin? 🐻
Sign up for the 2026 Applied Causal Graphs Workshop! 🌟
Deadline Feb 28th ⬇️
applied-causal-graphs.de
This 3rd edition is hosted by the great folks at Uni Potsdam 💡

Suzanne O’Sullivan’s new book ‘The Age of Diagnosis’ and her curious characterisation of Long Covid as a psychosomatic condition – BJGP Life

If you have #LongCOVID, you might want to skip this book - written by a neurologist, whose book, The Age of Diagnosis, "ostensibly makes the case for Long Covid being a (predominantly) psychosomatic condition":

@drelke.bsky.social

bjgplife.com/suzanne-osul...

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

I've built a new tool!

You can upload your pre-analysis plan or registered report, pre-submission to a registry or journal, and it will screen it for completeness, clarity, and consistency. 1/ 🧵

Is scientific reform an unwinnable arms race? Methodological improvements should, in theory, mean more robust evidence and inference, and more rapid advances in knowledge. However, these methods are often subsequently used in the pursuit of…

Improvements to methods should lead to more robust evidence and more rapid advances in knowledge. In their Perspective, Marcus Munafò & @mendelrandom.bsky.social look at why this hasn't been the case and what can be done about it #AcademicSky 🧪

As part of the Come2Data project, @scadsai.bsky.social, in collaboration with IMISE (@unileipzig.bsky.social) and EKFZ (@tudresden.bsky.social), is hosting a three-day training school on data science and AI for medicine in Leipzig.

Registration:
👉 events.scads.ai/e/ai4medicin...

Niemand:

Norddeutschland:

Bestattungen Jürgensen
Schlüsseldienst Petersen
Malermeister Hansen
Bäckerei Jacobsen
Juwelier Henningsen

@cbsopenscience.bsky.social great opportunity to connect over open science in Leipzig coming up!

Promovierende leisten einen wesentlichen Anteil an der universitären Forschung. Damit treffen solche Kürzungen nicht nur Menschen an einem kritischen Punkt ihrer Karriere, sie bedrohen auch eine Kernaufgabe der Universität!