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Matt Wall (@mattwall.bsky.social)
@m_wall
Psychologist & fMRI-nerd @Invicro & @ImperialMed. 🧠 + psychedelics, cannabis, sex hormones. Instrument botherer. The secret is to bang the rocks together, guys
London - UK
Joined June 2010
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    *Ahem* What I did on my lockdown (part 1). I taught myself the basics of audio production, & recorded a silly song about my favourite imaging modality. I humbly present "The MRI song" in the hope it's a brief distraction from the general hideousness.
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    Just got the sweetest, very apologetic email from a student asking me for a copy of a paper because she can't afford the publisher's fee to buy a copy. 😢 NEVER PAY THE PUBLISHERS. Email the authors instead - we LOVE it.
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    About once a year I do a two-hour teaching session on fMRI for beginners, for new students. Bit of theory, then a demo of some analysis. Haven't done it this year (obvs) but occurred to me I could do it online and open it out to... well... everyone. Would anyone be interested?
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    Replying to @Mantia
    Psychologist = Scientist who studies the mind. Psychiatrist = Doctor who treats mental disorders. Neuroscientist = Scientist who stidies the brain. Neurologist = Doctor who treats disorders of the nervous system.
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    I just do small-batch, artisanal, hand-crafted, fMRI studies. None of this mass-produced, high-throughput, massive N stuff. Traditional methods, with real organic type I errors, like the fMRI your Grandma used to do.
    GIF
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    Just found out this exists - Playmobil MRI scanner! Though I have questions. Are those tools titanium? Why is the radiographer wearing a watch? Why are they holding what looks like an x-ray? Also, why is the patient smiling - that's not normal either.
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    Not wordle. Just my latest set of fMRI results. 🤣 ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ ⬛️⬛️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬛️⬛️ ⬛️⬜️⬜️⬜️🟧⬜️⬛️ ⬛️⬛️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬛️ ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬜️⬛️⬛️
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    "Our power analysis showed that we needed exactly the number of subjects that we'd already budgeted for."
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    A colleague sent me this - she is seething, and rightly so. I am too. Arrant fucking nonsense, and extremely sexist. linkedin.com/learning/leade… (Need to log-in to LinkedIn to see it unfortunately, but I'll put some 'highlights' below.)
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    I do all my fMRI analyses in powerpoint.
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    Finally had to renew my passport and got one of the shit black ones that don't work properly anymore. 😢 Also, they're definitely black, not blue. Stupid brexiters couldn't even get that right. #BrexitDisaster
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