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Just an incalculable loss from which we won’t soon recover. Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory. Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”

Oh James Watson died

The rapid growth in Mendelian randomization studies. Gibran Hemani, Stefan Stender, Frank J. Wolters, Albert Hofman & George Davey Smith. European Journal of Epidemiology. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I have just spent six hours (on my birthday) writing up my results and I am still not done, welp

Feeling really sad that I had not enough time to get dressed this year (yet another year without doing Gomez and Morticia or, given what I look like, Elvira?) but keep thinking how this is maybe the only Halloween costume for late capitalism www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p-l...

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Emergency running data helping a colleague and I have been doing okay doing to Nelly Furtado, but the shuffle just got to Robyn and I don't know if I can keep going (why can't you see me is me to academia in this metaphor)

Career first: I just suggested in the peer review that the authors include a DAG

ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior. 🧪 #SciComm 🌍

This hasn’t moved much since yesterday, please help!

I donated, please go do it, too!

The election is v soon so important question. Supporters of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, is it Zohranastrians or Mamdanistas?

So now we happen to know how they feel about the machine or

Southwark, I miss your silly every day (but no shade to anyone, I also mispronounced it for a while while living there!)

Reframing tenure as a form of worker protection rather than promoting its benefits for academic freedom will help scholars win the debate around its merits, according to the author of a new book, writes Patrick Jack #academicsky https://ow.ly/ptJc50X3Lrl

Coding to Madonna also works? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Objt...

Is it just me or does Britney Spears' Blackout, her best record, undeniably, helps with dealing with code that one is struggling with?

Feeling v weird realising that I haven't coded to music in... weeks? Feeling also a bit awkward that a person in the department gave me a weird look while I (wordlessly, with headphones and mask on) bopped to the synth line www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAOR...

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TIL that Ed Miliband has a Polish mom, and I am somehow v shocked that nobody has told me

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

They cleaned subways during Covid. Now, they’ll get millions in back pay. So proud of our team in the @nyccomptroller.bsky.social’s Bureau of Labor Law who won this $3 million settlement on behalf of 450 mostly immigrant workers who risked their safety for ours. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/n...

Many progressives think Open Science is a good thing but it has an ambiguous stance re IP. Here is @kathybowrey.bsky.social's critical intellectual property scholarship's angle on Open Science on @ishtip.bsky.social youtube page. ⬇️

I am not a coffee person (it's hard in Brooklyn where no one seems to have ever roasted or bought a light roast...) but I really like James Hoffmann for his careful testing and comparisons, but this was weirdly funny and delightful www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd1O...

NYC peeps (or California peeps as I am supposed to be going to California soon): where can you buy opal apples? My local store carried them for a grand total of a month and the not amazing Amazon-owned chain pulled them also. I love my glorified golden delicious, please help!

With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵

Hey epidemiology friends, can I talk to you about mediation models in R? I am trying to use the R package mma (my models have multiple mediators and I am trying to assess contributions of each mediator within that model, not just a joint effect), but the models never converge and I get errors.

If you are a more senior academic mutual, can I please talk to you? I need some… not sure, reassurance, calmness? because I am going through my occasional quiet feeling that there is no space for me in academia (but goths are needed in academia! one goth per lab)

Strongly recommend Maria John's compelling comparative history of indigenous health activism - lessons for us all. Released now by @uncpress.bsky.social #indigenous #histstm #histmed #sts

Very happy to share our new paper now on @medrxivpreprint: “Genetic risk effects on psychiatric disorders act in sets”, a great effort led my PhD student @jolienrietkerk.bsky.social, and performed together with collaborators Andy Dahl, Jonathan Flint, Andrew Schork etc. Thread 1/n

It’s yet another day of having dreams about going into delivering a presentation unprepared. I don’t do that (I’m shy so not a very eager unprompted speaker), I also don’t have any upcoming presentations. Confusing? Does anyone want me to deliver a presentation? I promise I will practice

[1/8] *New Open-Access Long Read Resource*. We sequenced 1,019 genomes from the 1000 Genomes Project sample cohort using @nanoporetech.com long-read sequencing (LRS) to median 17x coverage. Publication at go.nature.com/4ffPb8f. @hhu.de @crg.eu @embl.org @impvienna.bsky.social

Let's say you want to include age as a predictor in your model. How do you do that? Here's an illustration of three options -- it's for a paper I'm working on (so if you feel like anything could be tweaked...).

Sad news: The dataset behind this famous chart on the decline in costs of genome sequencing has had its NIH funding cut. I loved this chart because it was the first that made me appreciate the impact of dataviz. But it also tracked progress towards an ambitious goal ($1000 genome) that succeeded.

1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

I spent the whole day being so anxious about everything but also about work. It feels so… shameful to feel bad about work of all things

Now on the @criterionchannl.bsky.social : Frantz Fanon at 100. Films inspired by the life and work of Frantz Fanon. www.criterionchannel.com/frantz-fanon...

I live in NYC, I sadly cannot vote, but Lander was the only highly recognisable politician who unprompted came in person to our postdoc strike in 2023, his campaign answers were very clear, and his campaign was generous and not driven by ego. I really hope he stays on as a high-rank official

The following thread contains 201 open access articles, books, chapters & reports written and led by First Nations’ researchers. We write our own research across all areas. The order is random and ranges across disciplines, because of course it does. #201FirstNationsArticles

@drandreahoward.bsky.social, hold my beer.. Latent class growth models are worse than useless, and we've known this for more than 20 years. (See Bauer 2007)

More new contributions to fellowships and research job applications! @minyaaa.bsky.social @morgancarterphd.bsky.social @benrlee.com and more github.com/RILAB/statem...

Attention scholars! We are seeking Bioethicists and those in bioethics-adjacent fields to provide *anonymous* interviews on the impact of executive orders on their diversity, equity and inclusion work for a special podcast. Please email [email protected] if you have a story to share!

The fact that Pulp have just released a new record is... exciting, to put it mildly?, but it is also funny to see it be a dad video mocking AI slop www.youtube.com/watch?v=-27a...

It's Pride and I have a painful headache so it is time to bring out the near-perfect Orville debut album www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VoH...

We are also raising money to support undergrads at UCSF this summer! Help me, @neuronush.bsky.social and @quexarce.bsky.social buy ice cream and pizza for our little community of undergraduate researchers! 20% of sales for the rest of the month will go towards our programs!!!

Papers are one-way conversations. Getting additional info from authors can be hard, so clear reporting from the outset is critical. In our new preprint, we (@annalschubert.bsky.social, Meike Steinhilber & @heeminkang.bsky.social) propose a set of psych reporting guidelines osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚀Publication alert! How have our conversations about #AIethics in healthcare changed? Where are they headed? Excited to share my paper in BMC #MedicalEthics: “Ethical and social considerations of applying artificial intelligence in healthcare- a two-pronged scoping review” doi.org/10.1186/s129...

Spending Memorial Day as one would expect a person from my age bracket: ordering things to organise my papers and looking at wooden furniture tagged with "MCM vtg" on eBay with a mix of "oh cute" and "I don't think this is giving mid-century modern, suspicious"