Russ Poldrack
@russpoldrack.org
Professor at Stanford. Psychology/Neuroscience/Data Science. Books include: The New Mind Readers, Handbook of fMRI Data Analysis, Hard to Break, and Statistical Thinking.
https://poldrack.github.io/
https://poldrack.github.io/
File systems, object stores, and databases - oh my! russpoldrack.substack.com/p/storing-re... The latest in my Better Code, Better Science series
Storing research data
Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 7, Part 2
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December 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
File systems, object stores, and databases - oh my! russpoldrack.substack.com/p/storing-re... The latest in my Better Code, Better Science series
"Never commit code you can’t explain." substack.com/home/post/p-... - great piece by @addyosmani.bsky.social
My LLM coding workflow going into 2026
Best practices for staying in control while coding with AI
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December 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"Never commit code you can’t explain." substack.com/home/post/p-... - great piece by @addyosmani.bsky.social
First section of a new chapter on Data Management in my Better Code, Better Science series: russpoldrack.substack.com/p/data-manag...
Data management
Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 7, Part 1
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December 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
First section of a new chapter on Data Management in my Better Code, Better Science series: russpoldrack.substack.com/p/data-manag...
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@russpoldrack.org's guidelines for AI-assisted coding can help researchers ensure the integrity of their work while accelerating progress on important scientific questions.
#neuroskyence
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#neuroskyence
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AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor
These guidelines can help researchers ensure the integrity of their work while accelerating progress on important scientific questions.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
@russpoldrack.org's guidelines for AI-assisted coding can help researchers ensure the integrity of their work while accelerating progress on important scientific questions.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...
AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i... - my latest in @thetransmitter.bsky.social
AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor
These guidelines can help researchers ensure the integrity of their work while accelerating progress on important scientific questions.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i... - my latest in @thetransmitter.bsky.social
Version control and Jupyter notebooks russpoldrack.substack.com/p/version-co... the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series.
Version control and Jupyter notebooks
Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 6, Part 7
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December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Version control and Jupyter notebooks russpoldrack.substack.com/p/version-co... the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series.
Best practices for using Jupyter notebooks russpoldrack.substack.com/p/best-pract... - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series
Best practices for using Jupyter notebooks
Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 6, Part 6
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December 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Best practices for using Jupyter notebooks russpoldrack.substack.com/p/best-pract... - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series
Reposted by Russ Poldrack
"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2
elifesciences.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2
Mixing languages using Jupyter notebooks
russpoldrack.substack.com/p/mixing-lan... - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series
russpoldrack.substack.com/p/mixing-lan... - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series
Mixing languages using Jupyter notebooks
Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 6, Part 5
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November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Mixing languages using Jupyter notebooks
russpoldrack.substack.com/p/mixing-lan... - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series
russpoldrack.substack.com/p/mixing-lan... - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series
One of the best things about AI coding tools is that I no longer have to endure frustration trying to figure out how to parse XML files and write SQL queries.
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
One of the best things about AI coding tools is that I no longer have to endure frustration trying to figure out how to parse XML files and write SQL queries.
Very cool new work from the Iglesias group at MGH: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation (also available at OpenNeuro - openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...) : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Very cool new work from the Iglesias group at MGH: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation (also available at OpenNeuro - openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...) : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is a great piece by @cbo.bsky.social on the need to rethink tenure. undark.org/2025/09/11/o...
It’s Time to Rethink the Academic Tenure Process
Opinion | To fight the war on science, higher education needs to reimagine the most important career milestone for faculty.
undark.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is a great piece by @cbo.bsky.social on the need to rethink tenure. undark.org/2025/09/11/o...
Computational notebooks - the first in a set of posts on this topic. russpoldrack.substack.com/p/computatio...
Computational notebooks
Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 6, Part 4
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November 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Computational notebooks - the first in a set of posts on this topic. russpoldrack.substack.com/p/computatio...
Project structure for scientific coding projects
- the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
- the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
Project structure for scientific coding projects
Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 6, Part 3
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November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Project structure for scientific coding projects
- the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
- the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
It's really nice when people actually use software that you create. This is an updated usage figure for the MRIQC.org Web API showing continued usage for the last 7 years, with more than half a million unique BOLD images in BIDS datasets! If you aren't already using MRIQC, check it out!
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It's really nice when people actually use software that you create. This is an updated usage figure for the MRIQC.org Web API showing continued usage for the last 7 years, with more than half a million unique BOLD images in BIDS datasets! If you aren't already using MRIQC, check it out!
Using containers for reproducible computing russpoldrack.substack.com/p/using-cont... - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series
Using containers for reproducible computing
Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 6, Part 2
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November 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Using containers for reproducible computing russpoldrack.substack.com/p/using-cont... - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series
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Our new paper is out! It offers a tool to assess collinearity impact on contrast estimates
*and*
uses simulations + MID data to show how common collinearity avoidance strategies can bias results.
Huge thanks to @russpoldrack.org , M Demidenko, and the ABCD folks.
🔗 direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
*and*
uses simulations + MID data to show how common collinearity avoidance strategies can bias results.
Huge thanks to @russpoldrack.org , M Demidenko, and the ABCD folks.
🔗 direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Unintended bias in the pursuit of collinearity solutions in fMRI analysis
Abstract. In task functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), collinearity between task regressors in time series models may impact power. When collinearity is identified after data collection, rese...
direct.mit.edu
October 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Our new paper is out! It offers a tool to assess collinearity impact on contrast estimates
*and*
uses simulations + MID data to show how common collinearity avoidance strategies can bias results.
Huge thanks to @russpoldrack.org , M Demidenko, and the ABCD folks.
🔗 direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
*and*
uses simulations + MID data to show how common collinearity avoidance strategies can bias results.
Huge thanks to @russpoldrack.org , M Demidenko, and the ABCD folks.
🔗 direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
If you use the Monetary Incentive Delay task or any task with complex events in fMRI, you should read this. We demonstrate that common modeling approaches can result in bias due to omitted variables. By @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social & the ABCD task fMRI team. direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Unintended bias in the pursuit of collinearity solutions in fMRI analysis
Abstract. In task functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), collinearity between task regressors in time series models may impact power. When collinearity is identified after data collection, rese...
direct.mit.edu
October 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If you use the Monetary Incentive Delay task or any task with complex events in fMRI, you should read this. We demonstrate that common modeling approaches can result in bias due to omitted variables. By @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social & the ABCD task fMRI team. direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science arxiv.org/abs/2510.22254 - our latest, led by @ericwbridgeford.bsky.social
Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science
While AI coding tools have demonstrated potential to accelerate software development, their use in scientific computing raises critical questions about code quality and scientific validity. In this pa...
arxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science arxiv.org/abs/2510.22254 - our latest, led by @ericwbridgeford.bsky.social
The goals of a scientific software project - the first section from a new chapter on Project Structure and Management in Better Code, Better Science. open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
The goals of a scientific software project
Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 6, Part 1
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The goals of a scientific software project - the first section from a new chapter on Project Structure and Management in Better Code, Better Science. open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
Great piece by @natolambert.bsky.social on the current state of human exhaustion in the AI world. Makes this important point:
October 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Great piece by @natolambert.bsky.social on the current state of human exhaustion in the AI world. Makes this important point:
If you are on the job market this fall, listen to this! The tips here are great for everyone, not just for quant folks. I have a couple of additional comments:
Coming tomorrow. It’s almost that time of year…
October 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
If you are on the job market this fall, listen to this! The tips here are great for everyone, not just for quant folks. I have a couple of additional comments:
OpenNeuro @openneuro.bsky.social just hit a huge milestone: 1500 datasets! Congrats to the team on making this project so successful over the last 7 years.
October 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
OpenNeuro @openneuro.bsky.social just hit a huge milestone: 1500 datasets! Congrats to the team on making this project so successful over the last 7 years.
Reposted by Russ Poldrack
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
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October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...