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

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