Ethan Knights

Why do older adults show less lateralised motor cortex activity? Is it compensation for age-related decline? Our new early access paper #JNeurosci @SfNJournals suggests not - jneurosci.org/content/early/… - Walkthrough thread below

@LeahBanellis Experiencing this is a rite of passage in the academic's journey from Matlab/R to Python!

So who knew that making a copy of a variable in python (‘a = b’) means both will change even if not explicitly referring to it (‘a+1’ will also do the same to b!!) 🙄

@profgeraintrees Enjoying the irony that this is covered by the #nature portfolio who exploit authors by ~2-3x the cost of publishing in #neuroimage - " The APC to publish Gold Open Access in Nature is €9,750 / $11,690 / £8,490 "

Editors quit top neuroscience journal to protest against open-access charges nature.com/articles/d4158…

The Government’s pay offer for council and school workers in England, Wales and N.Ireland isn’t enough to keep staff from the front line to the breadline – which is why we’re asking you to vote yes for strike action when the ballot opens #PayUp2023

One for you - @DrGBuckingham. Applied optical illusions: msn.com/en-gb/news/ukn…

@DrMowinckels Love the API approach @DrMowinckels!

@johancarlin Nice - Improving documentation one step at a time.

RT @culurciello@sigmoid.social Holy moly this thingy is sick! @culurciello/109354876312195702" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sigmoid.social/@culurciello/1…

@psychopy @github. Anything other than toying with real raw code is a compromise.

Help us prep for #SIPS2022 ! How do you make your experiments shareable and reusable? When trying to use others shared experiments/materials what have you found useful and helpful? #OpenScience #Science #Research

@TheOriginOfNerd @JupiterJepsen TIL what boba is

@JupiterJepsen The American sweet shop in town now does boba if that helps?

Great way to end a week - this paper has now been accepted in Scientific Reports!

Lifespanning brain reference charts from over 100k individuals! Big team neuroscience effort that included @mrccbu’s Cam-CAN and CALM cohorts: ow.ly/Ih5C50ICBHA

@StephanieRossit @agwarman 🤣 teeth-selective ROIs?

@ethanknights @agwarman typical tool grasping

6 months went fast - Here's the original walkthrough thread for those interested in #ageing, #motorcontrol & #openscience who might've missed it: twitter.com/ethanknights/s…

@DrGBuckingham @StephanieRossit Feeling honoured - cheers!

Just pasting last year's paper from @ethanknights and @StephanieRossit into the section on tool use in today's motor control lecture jneurosci.org/content/41/24/…

@SfNJournals Excited #ECR - our #neuoscience project is out of early access: Evidence against age-related motor compensation in #openscience fMRI datasets. Walkthrough thread for jneurosci.org/content/41/45/… 👇 twitter.com/ethanknights/s…

#JNeurosci: @ethanknights et al. suggest that less lateralized motor cortex activity in older adults is not compensatory for age-related decline in the dominant hemisphere, but instead reflects inefficient processing or reduced interhemispheric inhibition. jneurosci.org/lookup/DOI/10.…

@DrGBuckingham youtube? (if you like the livin' on the edge)

The downside of doing VR research is that now all of my ppt presentations are about 300mb due to cool videos

@RFVSMSci thanks @RFVSMSci !

Great Ethan.

The #Lifebrain team are finally meeting after 2 years of only online meetings. We are having a hybrid consortium meeting, as many are still not able to travel, but we are thrilled to be in Oslo and to have in person contact.

Huge thanks to @J_A_Quent for brms advice and the funding support from @mrccbu @The_MRC & @LifebrainEU

Conclusion: Motor Cortex HAROLD doesn't appear to reflect compensation (perhaps instead it reflects neural inefficiency or motor disinhibition).

Why do older adults show less lateralised motor cortex activity? Is it compensation for age-related decline? Our new early access paper #JNeurosci @SfNJournals suggests not - jneurosci.org/content/early/… - Walkthrough thread below