Russ Poldrack’s blog – Russ Poldrack

My new blog posts can be found on my Substack: russpoldrack.substack.com. This page archives my older posts.

An update on moving from MacOS to Linux on the desktop

It’s been about eight months since I switched to Linux on the desktop - here’s an update. The TL;DR is that I am overall very happy that I made the switch.

Making the move from Mac to Linux on the desktop - finally!

I have long toyed with the idea of moving to Linux as my desktop environment. I’ve used Linux on servers for several decades, but I have never been able to make the move…

Organizing Markdown-based talks using Github

In my previous post I discussed how I had moved from Keynote to a Markdown-based workflow for presentations using Quarto. Because I usually have a number of active talks at…

Moving from Keynote to Markdown-based presentations

Those of you who know me are already aware that I tend to make life much more difficult for myself than I need to. This is the first of what I expect to be a series of blog…

Advice for getting a job as an interdisciplinary researcher

I gave a talk yesterday to the Stanford NeuroTech grad student group about the challenges of getting an academic job as an interdisciplinary researcher. Here are a few…

Reading ‘Error Tight’ by Julia Strand

Today in our lab meeting we read “Error Tight: Exercises for Lab Groups to Prevent Research Mistakes” by Julia Strand. It’s a great paper and led to some really fun…

Teaching statistics online (for the first time): Lessons learned

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Editing lecture videos using Davinci Resolve

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A quick and dirty workflow for creating lecture videos

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Home office setup

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Vacation fun: Making traditional Texas chili con carne

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Talking remotely: Lessons learned so far

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Computing models for a neuroimaging lab

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Why I will be flying less

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Productivity stack for 2019

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Automated web site generation using Bookdown, CircleCI, and Github

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Statistical Thinking for the 21st Century - a new intro statistics book

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How can one do reproducible science with limited resources?

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To Code or Not to Code (in intro statistics)?

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Defaults in R can make debugging incredibly hard for beginners

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The NIH should stop penalizing collaborative research

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Why preregistration no longer makes me nervous

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Interested in the Poldrack Lab for graduate school?

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The principle of assumed error

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Having my cake and eating it too?

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Scam journals will literally publish crap

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Advice for learning to code from scratch

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How folksy is psychology? The linguistic history of cognitive ontologies

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Reproducibility and quantitative training in psychology

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Reproducible analysis in the MyConnectome project

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Are good science and great storytelling compatible?

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New course on decision making: Seeking feedback

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532 days of self-examination

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A discussion of causal inference on fMRI data

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Crowdsourcing my next fMRI task

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The dimensional approach to studying mental illness

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On “healthy choices”

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How well can we predict future criminal acts from fMRI data?

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My adventures in self-quantification

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Anatomy of a coding error

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Is reverse inference a fallacy? A comment on Hutzler

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The perils of leave-one-out crossvalidation for individual difference analyses

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Obesity, health, and Gary Taubes

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Things I like to do in Beijing

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Skeletons in the closet

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Quitting cable

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2011 in review

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NYT Letter to the Editor: The uncut version

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Signers of letter to the editor of the New York Times

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NYT Op-Ed + fMRI = complete crap

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My analysis of OHBM 2011 abstracts

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Recent Reads

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why I cut the carbs

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Goals for the new year

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on carbon footprints and biased judgments

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My personal computing history

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Becoming an academic road warrior

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My Productivity Toolbox

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statistical redistricting: how to save lots of time and money and get just about the same result

statistics

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My workflow for writing papers (or, why I switched to LaTeX)

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Welcome

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