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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.
Jul 28, 2023
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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…
Dec 4, 2022
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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…
Nov 15, 2022
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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…
Nov 13, 2022
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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…
Nov 3, 2022
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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…
Nov 1, 2022
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Teaching statistics online (for the first time): Lessons learned

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Apr 3, 2021
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Editing lecture videos using Davinci Resolve

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Nov 29, 2020
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A quick and dirty workflow for creating lecture videos

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Nov 26, 2020
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Home office setup

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Oct 13, 2020
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Vacation fun: Making traditional Texas chili con carne

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Jul 23, 2020
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Talking remotely: Lessons learned so far

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Jan 24, 2020
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Computing models for a neuroimaging lab

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Dec 12, 2019
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Why I will be flying less

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Jun 27, 2019
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Productivity stack for 2019

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Dec 3, 2018
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Automated web site generation using Bookdown, CircleCI, and Github

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Nov 27, 2018
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Statistical Thinking for the 21st Century - a new intro statistics book

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Nov 20, 2018
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How can one do reproducible science with limited resources?

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Apr 17, 2018
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To Code or Not to Code (in intro statistics)?

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Mar 25, 2018
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Defaults in R can make debugging incredibly hard for beginners

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Jan 22, 2018
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The NIH should stop penalizing collaborative research

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Dec 2, 2016
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Why preregistration no longer makes me nervous

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Sep 1, 2016
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Interested in the Poldrack Lab for graduate school?

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Aug 24, 2016
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The principle of assumed error

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Aug 21, 2016
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Having my cake and eating it too?

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Jul 22, 2016
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Scam journals will literally publish crap

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
May 21, 2016
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Advice for learning to code from scratch

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
May 20, 2016
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How folksy is psychology? The linguistic history of cognitive ontologies

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Apr 18, 2016
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Reproducibility and quantitative training in psychology

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Feb 26, 2016
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Dashboard for analyses

Reproducible analysis in the MyConnectome project

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Dec 9, 2015
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Are good science and great storytelling compatible?

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Nov 1, 2015
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New course on decision making: Seeking feedback

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Aug 26, 2015
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532 days of self-examination

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Mar 16, 2014
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A discussion of causal inference on fMRI data

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Dec 19, 2013
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Crowdsourcing my next fMRI task

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
May 4, 2013
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The dimensional approach to studying mental illness

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
May 3, 2013
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On “healthy choices”

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Apr 19, 2013
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How well can we predict future criminal acts from fMRI data?

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Apr 6, 2013
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My adventures in self-quantification

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Mar 13, 2013
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Anatomy of a coding error

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Feb 20, 2013
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Is reverse inference a fallacy? A comment on Hutzler

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Jan 16, 2013
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The perils of leave-one-out crossvalidation for individual difference analyses

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Dec 16, 2012
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Obesity, health, and Gary Taubes

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
May 15, 2012
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Things I like to do in Beijing

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Apr 25, 2012
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Skeletons in the closet

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Mar 6, 2012
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Quitting cable

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Feb 9, 2012
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2011 in review

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Dec 31, 2011
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NYT Letter to the Editor: The uncut version

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Oct 4, 2011
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Signers of letter to the editor of the New York Times

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Oct 3, 2011
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NYT Op-Ed + fMRI = complete crap

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Oct 1, 2011
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My analysis of OHBM 2011 abstracts

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Jul 1, 2011
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Recent Reads

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Jun 30, 2011
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why I cut the carbs

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Apr 10, 2011
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Goals for the new year

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Jan 1, 2011
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on carbon footprints and biased judgments

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Dec 15, 2010
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My personal computing history

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Nov 21, 2010
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Becoming an academic road warrior

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Nov 13, 2010
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My Productivity Toolbox

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Nov 10, 2010
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statistical redistricting: how to save lots of time and money and get just about the same result

statistics
This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Oct 19, 2010
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My workflow for writing papers (or, why I switched to LaTeX)

This was originally posted on Blogger here.
Oct 15, 2010
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Welcome

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Oct 14, 2010
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