TMSMultiLab meeting #2: Friday 28th February 14:00 GMT (UTC+0)

[TheHandLab]

Hi everyone @TMSMultiLab/meetings

the second monthly meeting is happening in 10 days time. Here's the meeting link:

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81796905664?pwd=KI7U1z2fJmwPGyr0giCHjfrxnG3fF0.1

Topics:

a) GitHub tour - how we are using github to coordinate our work
Nick will share his screen and attempt to show you how github works...

b) Discussion on the upcoming TMS@40 Workshop
The 2-day workshop has 7 'hackathon' sessions of ~1 hour each, for 8 groups of people to work on 4 themes (https://github.com/TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab/wiki/TMS@40#themes):

• Experimental design
• Analysis
• Reproducibility / open science
• Implementation

Within each of these four sections, we need 8 separate topics (one per group per session). We will discuss and decide what they should be at the meeting.

Past and future meetings are here:
https://github.com/TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab/wiki/Meetings

Hope to see you there!

cheers,
Nick

[TheHandLab]

Hello everyone @TMSMultiLab/meetings ,

thanks to those of you who were not in Japan and could attend the second monthly TMSMultiLab meeting.

In the first part of the meeting I gave a quick tour of the github pages, and what we can do with this platform. An edited recording of the meeting should be available soon (check later if it doesn't work).

Then, we turned to the TMS@40 Workshop. February and March's meetings are focused on the workshop (in 7 weeks' time... 😬).

The main aims of the Workshop are to:

1. Reach consensus on how to use TMS in Experimental Psychology (and other studies with awake behaving human primates)
2. Populate the github pages with content, and create an active, editing github community
3. Draft a paper: "The experimental psychology of transcranial magnetic stimulation: A consensus paper"

For this workshop, to keep within the funder's remit, we need to focus on Experimental Psychology, and what Experimental Psychologists tend to be very good at: designing studies, controlling (psychological/behavioural) confounds, analysing data, and being open and reproducible (🤞). We should avoid focusing on (eg) motor cortex studies, or EMG-MEP variables, since many or most Exp Psych studies are not focussed on M1 or MEPs.

Instead: think big - how can we use TMS to answer questions in Exp Psych? @kvalyear suggested that one good way to do this would be to take a (classic?) question in Exp Psych and design a range of TMS experiments to answer components of that question. Let's revisit this idea at the next meeting.

We then discussed the first workshop Theme - Experimental Design, raising several sub-topics for consideration.

@TheHandLab stressed that the github pages are fully open for all TMSMultiLab members to edit and contribute. If you want to influence how the workshop will run (and how successful it will be, and how TMSMultiLab develops...), then you need to get started editing the github contents. The workshop will very much be 'active participation' rather than 'passive listening to professors,' so we need you to step up. Don't wait to arrive in Birmingham as you'll use up your precious networking and consensus-building time learning how to use github.

Next meeting we will cover the remaining 3 workshop themes: Analysis, Reproducibility, Implementation, and hopefully we will have a better-looking plan for how best to spend our time in Birmingham. Please prepare for the next meeting by thinking about these themes and (even better) editing the above pages.

In other news:

• TMSMultiLab has submitted its first pre-registration
• (and related to this first pre-reg), TMSMultiLab is building a new website
• Later this month we will submit the second TMSMultiLab pre-registration

(if you don't know what these three things are about, then you are likely not in one or more of the relevant Teams)

cheers for now, exciting times :-)
Nick