Next was an amazing talk by Russell Poldrack on reproducibility in cognitive neuroscience at the UW eScience Institute. Poldrack combines incisive statistical commentary with devastating analyses and experiments demonstrating the extremely brittle nature of neuroscience results, moving on to suggest approaches to improve the field. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haNjW58rbWM (4/7) #statistics #neuroscience #science
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Next was an incredible talk by Anita Chan on eugenics in Big Tech at the UCSD Design Lab. Chan convincingly demonstrates the connection from the eugenics and anti-immigration movements to today and approaches to resist. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Sxm3AJmZg (5/7) #ethics
Next was an excellent talk by @caterinagratton on "precision" in fMRI at the UW eScience Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2TbMfJrwi4 (6/7) #neuroscience
Last was "American Judaism: A History" by Jonathan Sarna. As a disclaimer, I'm an American Jew, so this book was deeply personal for me. That being said, this book is a deep, focused work of scholarship on the evolution of Judaism from the colonial period to the early 21st century that provides profound insight on the causes of the modern fault lines of modern American Jewish religious life. Highly recommend
Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/8078190/s/a-religion-focused-accessible-history#anchor-8078190 (7/7) #history#Judaism
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