Rik Henson
@rhens.bsky.social
Father, husband, academic, cognitive neuroscientist, atheist, europhile, Arsenal fan. Posts are personal views.
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Want to help make replications easier to find, share, and credit? Join us in Germany for a hackathon to do just that. Applications now open ⬇️
🚀 Making Replications Count Hackathon - in-person 🚀
3 days. 4 open tools. 1 goal: make replication studies impossible to ignore.
📆 4-6 May 2026 | Münster, Germany
✈️ Travel & accommodation covered (UKRI-funded)
Apply by 16 March ➡️ indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco2
🧵👇 What we will build?
3 days. 4 open tools. 1 goal: make replication studies impossible to ignore.
📆 4-6 May 2026 | Münster, Germany
✈️ Travel & accommodation covered (UKRI-funded)
Apply by 16 March ➡️ indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco2
🧵👇 What we will build?
Making Replication Count: Spring Hackathon
Join us for a three-day-hackathon to create a Zotero plug-in and a preprint bot to boost the visibility of replication studies! Background In the social, behavioral, and cognitive sciences, replicatio...
indico.uni-muenster.de
January 26, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Want to help make replications easier to find, share, and credit? Join us in Germany for a hackathon to do just that. Applications now open ⬇️
Brilliant!
January 24, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Brilliant!
Trains are good for reminiscing. I forgot to congratulate @adamjcurtis.bsky.social for passing his PhD viva with no corrections. Only downside is that as his external, I felt both old and odd, examining an “academic grandchild” (via @aidanhorner.bsky.social)…
January 20, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Trains are good for reminiscing. I forgot to congratulate @adamjcurtis.bsky.social for passing his PhD viva with no corrections. Only downside is that as his external, I felt both old and odd, examining an “academic grandchild” (via @aidanhorner.bsky.social)…
WiFi speed on Eurostar: 30 Mbps download and 5 upload…
WiFi speed on DB ICE train: 100 Mbps download and upload…
WiFi speed on DB ICE train: 100 Mbps download and upload…
January 20, 2026 at 1:34 PM
WiFi speed on Eurostar: 30 Mbps download and 5 upload…
WiFi speed on DB ICE train: 100 Mbps download and upload…
WiFi speed on DB ICE train: 100 Mbps download and upload…
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"Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the planet." www.nature.com/articles/d41... Check out the WikiJournal of Science, created to address this.
January 19, 2026 at 9:26 PM
"Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the planet." www.nature.com/articles/d41... Check out the WikiJournal of Science, created to address this.
Over the years, I have written a few Jupyter/Rmd/Matlab notebooks that attempt to teach some statistical concepts, particularly in neuroimaging. You can find them here: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h..., though I will say a bit more about each one in a number of posts over next few days.
People
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Over the years, I have written a few Jupyter/Rmd/Matlab notebooks that attempt to teach some statistical concepts, particularly in neuroimaging. You can find them here: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h..., though I will say a bit more about each one in a number of posts over next few days.
A journal that supports a society, and run by brilliant colleagues like Kate!
Dr Kate Baker @kbgenesbrains.bsky.social tells us why you should publish your neuroscience work with Brain and Neuroscience Advances
✔️ Open access
✔️ Peer reviewed
✔️ Multiple article types
✔️ 50% APC discount for BNA members
Find out more www.bna.org.uk/publications...
✔️ Open access
✔️ Peer reviewed
✔️ Multiple article types
✔️ 50% APC discount for BNA members
Find out more www.bna.org.uk/publications...
January 16, 2026 at 11:28 PM
A journal that supports a society, and run by brilliant colleagues like Kate!
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You still have two weeks to register for COGNESTIC, 14-25 September 2026. We provide training in state-of-the-art methods for neuroimaging analysis and great opportunities for professional networking, especially for early-career researchers. For more info:
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...
January 15, 2026 at 9:41 AM
You still have two weeks to register for COGNESTIC, 14-25 September 2026. We provide training in state-of-the-art methods for neuroimaging analysis and great opportunities for professional networking, especially for early-career researchers. For more info:
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...
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An international research effort combining brain imaging and memory testing from thousands of adults is offering a clearer picture of how age-related brain changes affect memory. @andersfjell.bsky.social Learn More in Nature Communications @natureportfolio.nature.com 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 14, 2026 at 6:54 PM
An international research effort combining brain imaging and memory testing from thousands of adults is offering a clearer picture of how age-related brain changes affect memory. @andersfjell.bsky.social Learn More in Nature Communications @natureportfolio.nature.com 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Another step closer to the edge of chaos in the US… hope the BBC can survive here…
Another institution capriciously demolished. Another sad day in America.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
January 6, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Another step closer to the edge of chaos in the US… hope the BBC can survive here…
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The link below give you some idea of our legacy in building the conversation around brain connectivity. Hope to see you in Nimes, June 2026!
www.brain-connectivity-workshop.org/bsw/zwei/bcw
www.brain-connectivity-workshop.org/bsw/zwei/bcw
Brain Connectivity Workshop
Founded in 2002, the Brain Connectivity Workshop (BCW) is an annual international meeting for in-depth discussions of all aspects of brain connectivity research
www.brain-connectivity-workshop.org
January 5, 2026 at 10:31 PM
The link below give you some idea of our legacy in building the conversation around brain connectivity. Hope to see you in Nimes, June 2026!
www.brain-connectivity-workshop.org/bsw/zwei/bcw
www.brain-connectivity-workshop.org/bsw/zwei/bcw
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If you're attending the Cogn Neuroscience meeting in Vancouver (March 7-10), we're offering a pre-meeting workshop on March 6, featuring TheVirtualBrain. We'll cover everything from theory to the guts of the code with worked examples to apply to your own data.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-virtua...
www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-virtua...
The Virtual Brain Node: Personalized Simulations for Cognitive Neuroscience
Learn how to build and analyze personalized brain network models using TheVirtualBrain simulation software
www.eventbrite.ca
January 6, 2026 at 1:52 AM
If you're attending the Cogn Neuroscience meeting in Vancouver (March 7-10), we're offering a pre-meeting workshop on March 6, featuring TheVirtualBrain. We'll cover everything from theory to the guts of the code with worked examples to apply to your own data.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-virtua...
www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-virtua...
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The UK will celebrate net emigration and depopulation come 2027.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
December 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The UK will celebrate net emigration and depopulation come 2027.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
And by 2028 it will start to realise, with an ageing society and low growth, what a really silly thing it has done.
The right will go "pro-natalist", the centre-left will be completely stuck.
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The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
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This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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We love to fetishize "top" researchers and give them special big pots of money. But we get far more science by spreading money among all researchers (closer to the NSERC DG model). This old post is magically relevant again... scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/w...
December 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We love to fetishize "top" researchers and give them special big pots of money. But we get far more science by spreading money among all researchers (closer to the NSERC DG model). This old post is magically relevant again... scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/w...
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Curious about how smartphones shape children’s development?
We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for 3(+2) years for a cutting-edge randomized controlled trial conducted in collaboration with @orbenamy.bsky.social and her team.
iwm-tuebingen.de/en/career/jo...
We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for 3(+2) years for a cutting-edge randomized controlled trial conducted in collaboration with @orbenamy.bsky.social and her team.
iwm-tuebingen.de/en/career/jo...
IWM Tübingen
Post-Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d)
iwm-tuebingen.de
December 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Curious about how smartphones shape children’s development?
We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for 3(+2) years for a cutting-edge randomized controlled trial conducted in collaboration with @orbenamy.bsky.social and her team.
iwm-tuebingen.de/en/career/jo...
We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for 3(+2) years for a cutting-edge randomized controlled trial conducted in collaboration with @orbenamy.bsky.social and her team.
iwm-tuebingen.de/en/career/jo...
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The BNA Scholars Programme is building a diverse future for neuroscience.
Mentoring, training, funding & a thriving community of 35 Scholars and alumni.
📅 Apply by 4th Jan - no membership required.
www.bna.org.uk/policy-advoc...
Mentoring, training, funding & a thriving community of 35 Scholars and alumni.
📅 Apply by 4th Jan - no membership required.
www.bna.org.uk/policy-advoc...
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
www.bna.org.uk
December 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The BNA Scholars Programme is building a diverse future for neuroscience.
Mentoring, training, funding & a thriving community of 35 Scholars and alumni.
📅 Apply by 4th Jan - no membership required.
www.bna.org.uk/policy-advoc...
Mentoring, training, funding & a thriving community of 35 Scholars and alumni.
📅 Apply by 4th Jan - no membership required.
www.bna.org.uk/policy-advoc...
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BOOM! Now over 90,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 and get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
BOOM! Now over 90,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 and get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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Why do some people lose memory faster with age? A mega-analysis of 13 longitudinal datasets (3,700+ adults, 10,000+ MRIs) shows that memory decline tracks brain atrophy, especially in the hippocampus, and that these links strengthen with age, but not APOE status: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Why do some people lose memory faster with age? A mega-analysis of 13 longitudinal datasets (3,700+ adults, 10,000+ MRIs) shows that memory decline tracks brain atrophy, especially in the hippocampus, and that these links strengthen with age, but not APOE status: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
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Patients who took a daily semaglutide pill for 2yrs did not demonstrate a significant difference from those given placebo on a commonly used Alzheimer’s disease (CDR-SB) rating scale despite improving AD- biomarkers. Betting on MOA is > than chance.
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endpoints.news/novo-nordisk...
Novo Nordisk's semaglutide misses in closely-watched Alzheimer’s trials
Novo Nordisk's semaglutide fails in two late-stage Alzheimer's trials, causing 9% stock drop. Drug didn't delay disease progression despite improving biomarkers.
endpoints.news
November 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Patients who took a daily semaglutide pill for 2yrs did not demonstrate a significant difference from those given placebo on a commonly used Alzheimer’s disease (CDR-SB) rating scale despite improving AD- biomarkers. Betting on MOA is > than chance.
endpoints.news/novo-nordisk...
endpoints.news/novo-nordisk...
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We are excited to announce #COGNESTIC 2026 @mrccbu.bsky.social in Cambridge, between 14-25 Sep 2026. Our 2-week summer school provides training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and great opportunities for professional networking:
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
We are excited to announce #COGNESTIC 2026 @mrccbu.bsky.social in Cambridge, between 14-25 Sep 2026. Our 2-week summer school provides training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and great opportunities for professional networking:
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...