Look forward to US zoom meetings until January 2029

Brilliant panel on the education of mental health professional and the role of intersectionality, as part of Oslo Pride, with PROMENTA's Sam Fluit, Jacob Evje and @ziadaayorech.bsky.social, chaired by @nastjaontheroad.bsky.social. My highlights 👇

🧵 THREAD: New wine on socioeconomic status! Joakim Coleman Ebeltoft shipped a new tap in @NatureComms - a large study on the genetic and environmental factors behind socioeconomic status in Norway 🇳🇴 1/11 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Our paper "Positive Sexual Aging: A Novel Concept and Bi-Country Development of a Brief Measure" Stulhofer et al is out in Archives of Sexual Behavior link.springer.com/article/10.1... @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social @justinlehmiller.bsky.social

1/13 New preprint out! We developed methods to test a key assumption in family-based genetic studies: that siblings don’t genetically influence each other’s traits. Spoiler: mostly they don’t, but there’s a twist with ADHD ratings at age 3 👶 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Issue 4 of #JSexResearch is now online @tiff-marcan.bsky.social @drlaurawidman.bsky.social @liksamchan.bsky.social @maritarantino.bsky.social @stinenyg.bsky.social @stephaniebward.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/hjsr20/6... @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social @sexsciencesociety.bsky.social

Today is an international masturbation day! Still a taboo topic and not nearly enough research out there - but NRK is spotlighting our new study today 🤩 go give it a read (in Norwegian) here: www.nrk.no/trondelag/fo... #nrk #norge #forskning #research #sexuality

Really important thread. Politicians keep pretending apps & tech can magically make people better, healthier, happier. Too many credulous journalists keep lapping it up. Trial participants keep saying meh, no thanks.

Excited to share our new article in the Journal of Sex Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social on how masturbation habits change from young adulthood to midlife. We found some interesting patterns. Read more: doi.org/10.1080/0022... #JSexResearch #Sexuality #Research #AcademicSky

New preprint! We find no evidence that parental mental health influences children's academic achievement when comparing families in the Norwegian MoBa study. osf.io/preprints/ps... Quick thread 👇

English version of the documentary about power abuse in the Max Planck Society can be found here. 144.000 views already, more than 800 comments. Share it to make colleagues aware of what happens in German academia & the MPG! #IchBinHanna #PowerAbuse

From the editors of leading sexual and gender-related science journals: S̳t̳a̳t̳e̳m̳e̳n̳t̳ ̳o̳n̳ ̳t̳h̳e̳ ̳I̳m̳p̳o̳r̳t̳a̳n̳c̳e̳ ̳o̳f̳ ̳S̳e̳x̳u̳a̳l̳i̳t̳y̳ ̳a̳n̳d̳ ̳G̳e̳n̳d̳e̳r̳ ̳R̳e̳s̳e̳a̳r̳c̳h̳ ̳ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How popular are cosmetic surgeries nowadays? A new study from Ingela Kvalem @dr-ilk.bsky.social and Bodis lab at @uio.no surveyed 3000 Norwegian women and found that one in six had one or more cosmetic surgeries. Breast surgery is the most common one. Read more here: tidsskriftet.no/en/2025/01/o...

Dissertation by Dr Rachel Los not only includes acknowledgements, but also .. anti-acknowledgements. delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a...

Well this is... disappointing. The Royal Society's mission is "to promote excellence in science for the benefit of humanity" so the message here is what? It doesn't care about the mission? Once in the club you're in for life no matter what?* *These are personal not employer views obvs

If professors had actual brainwashing power, we wouldn't see gender and racial bias in student evals.

Har du glemt alt det sinnsyke som skjedde med Senterpartiet i forskningsminister-stolen? Her er en gjennomgang. Det er nesten ikke til å tro når man ser tilbake på det. Nå trenger vi noen som kjemper forskningens sak, for det vil også være Norges konkurransekraft og fortrinn.

There are currently three open faculty positions (all levels) in my department (Psychology) Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...

Among world’s top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-w...

🙆‍♀️ Wow, recent data on academic gender gaps in EU's report: - although women obtain more bachelor's degrees - fewer women obtain a doctorate - 1/3 of EU researchers are women - 16% of authorship teams are gender balanced - lower overall funding success for women Way to go!

Literally cannot wait to share this ✨new publication✨ with y’all. doi.org/10.1016/j.bo... Tl;dr. White working-class women’s body image is rooted in appearance norms, rather than appearance ideals (they are conceptually different). Super important to consider intersectionality of class x gender

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a reminder to not close your eyes and turn away from what is happening in the US right now. Fascism is an assault on scientific integrity, knowledge, and innovation. www.chron.com/news/space/a...

Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.

A new approach to academic publishing: just pour right-wing money into your own vanity journal. “Peer reviewers” paid $500 per review but are not allowed to advise against publishing the article. Wonder who’s on the editorial board… www.importantcontext.news/p/a-new-acad...

"Polio: An American Story" describes how indirect costs became a thing. The precursor to the March of Dimes wanted to give a Harvard professor a grant to study polio. Harvard turned it down b/c they'd lose money by accepting the grant. The foundation offered to pay indirect costs and they accepted

I cannot fathom the effect of this cut on overheads. It's going to be brutal. Given the benefits funding brings (www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...) this seems like a wild act of self harm.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

*** JOB ALERT *** Tenured Associate Professor position in Developmental Psychology at the University of Oslo. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Deadline: March 3rd, 2025. Please reach out in DM for details and repost widely! #openscience experience a plus! #DevSci #devpsy

Report: Everything Slightly Worse Than Yesterday theonion.com/report-...

Want to get out of Dodge? Do a postdoc @uio.no! You will be using the MoBa study and registers to study intergenerational transmission and GxE for #MentalHealth and #education using @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social and @pgcgenetics.bsky.social approaches. Please share! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

See here for the health psychology researchers starter pack #1: go.bsky.app/9Xfk7Wo

It's time for the health psychology researchers starter pack #2 - let me know if you're not yet on #1 and would like to be added. go.bsky.app/zEDDL2

There is a strong social expectation that women should remove their body hair. I did a small interview with TV2 about the hairless norm and hair removal in Norway. www.tv2.no/nyheter/inne...

New PhD position in mental health of LGBTQ+ youth available at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo. The project will look into mental health, health behaviors and social challenges among Norwegian sexual minority youth using large-scale nationwide data. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

With @karenmsikar.bsky.social, the health psychology starter pack is now full. See here for 150 health psychology researchers: go.bsky.app/9Xfk7Wo Is there need for number #2?

oops... confirming my decision not to submit to MDPI or Frontiers journals anymore... #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

Worth a read for those outside HE to get a flavour of the mess that ChatGPT etc are causing the whole sector www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Superb explainer on whether and when bird flu will become a pandemic. TL;DR: possibly, and if so, soon. #medsky #academicsky 🧪

May you all find an unclaimed ball of platinum that can help fund your position 🙏

POLIO?! that was not on my 'worst case scenario' bingo card www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

Not a good uptrend

Global Collaboration Opportunity: If you are (or know someone) from a country often missed in research, and are interested in a global study on mental health like this one, please write to me! We have many team members in Europe and English-speaking countries, but would love to involve many more!

This is why we should be open about our salaries. The taboo around talking about money hurts us as workers.

Standing Desk Celebrates 4th Year At Lowest Possible Setting

For those joining BlueSky recently, you may be interested in joining this Behavioural Science starter pack - just let me know if you would like to be added - see go.bsky.app/CzLwTyZ

After I just added @masharemskar.bsky.social, there are 10 more placed available on the first Health Psychology starter pack. Anyone missing? Please let me know! go.bsky.app/9Xfk7Wo

"Under my leadership, we have instituted an assessment program where we assess how we assess what we already assessed, using learning outcomes that include all of the buzzwords someone in admin told us were important."

Earlier this year, I received news that fake peer reviews were allegedly being submitted impersonating me and approximately six others I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again www.science.org/content/arti...

"Author order was determined by a tarot reading." 🤌🤌🤌