Excited to share a new paper just published in Neuroepidemiology! We used 22 years of longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study to answer a surprisingly unsettled question: How fast does memory decline in older adults without dementia? 🧵👇

🧠 A major study in Nature Medicine challenges common belief about education & dementia protection: higher education didn’t slow brain ageing; it provided a higher starting point. This advantage may be established in childhood, not built through schooling itself. 👉 share-eric.eu/research-res...

Wearing in solidarity with our courageous federal workers who are trying hard to honor their oaths to The Constitution and the good people of our country.

Shingles vaccine most promising common drug to potentially prevent Alzheimer’s  news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... by @uniofexeternews.bsky.social #Alzheimers #dementia #shingles #vaccines

The Quantitative Staff Network was launched to bridge the gap between quantitative scientists and the broader scientific community. Looking for new ways to connect with your peers? Learn more: magazine.amstat.org/...

We're very excited that our next AMPHIBIAN speaker will be Dr. Alessandro De Nadai, speaking about machine learning in mental health research and interventions on 12/3 at 12:30. Register here: brown.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @rnjma.bsky.social @gemmawallace.bsky.social

WeRateDogs turns 10 years old today! A very silly idea to numerically objectify dogs has become one of the kindest and most powerful online communities ever. Thank you for joining us over the last decade. I never knew what this could be until you all showed me. Here's to many more good dogs ❤️

Multi-Year funding analysis, a 🧵 I have been trying to find a robust way of quantifying and understanding multi-year (forward funding). First, some background: Most NIH grants are for multiple years (2 to 5, typically). However, the are usually funded on an annual basis. 1/18

If only there was a good explanation as to why 🤔

There still seems to be a lot of confusion about significance testing in psych. No, p-values *don’t* become useless at large N. This flawed point also used to be framed as "too much power". But power isn't the problem – it's 1) unbalanced error rates and 2) the (lack of a) SESOI. 1/ >

Your answer cannot be biased if you never specified a question.

New Frost lab preprint from @SohnClaira: “Elevation of the mechanically-sensitive protein emerin links nuclear mechanotransduction to tau-induced cytoskeletal remodeling in neurons” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/9

This is dark. But also, this display of solidarity on the part of the pentagon press corps should be a model for dealing with the regime

When students, faculty, and our communities are united to fight for our universities, for the common good, and for our democracy, nothing can stop us! WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN! @aft @higheredlabor.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd

Brown's rejection of the compact would not have been possible without the amazing mobilization of faculty, students and staff last week! When we fight, we win!! Score this as another victory for workers and students! @aaup.org

Brown rejects the compact! President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Ugh... This study has existed for decades, providing valuable health data for all sorts of topics and publications. This is just more awful news. 🛟😷 Sociology medsky

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Join "Psychometrics" w/ @mattadiemer.bsky.social on Nov. 12-14 to learn about #psychometrics and how to to understand, detect, and remediate bias in measures. Topics include exploratory factor analyses, confirmatory factor analyses, MIMIC models, invariance & more.

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈 You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

Thank you to Stata, the October sponsor of ASA's "Practical Significance" #podcast! For 40+ years, Stata has supported researchers & analysts with powerful, reproducible statistical tools. Learn more about how Stata can power your work: www.stata.com/stata-differ... statacorp.bsky.social #STATSSKY

Congrats to @bucklr01.bsky.social on being selected as a finalist in the NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards, for her piece "Brains, biases and amyloid beta: Why the female brain deserves a closer look in Alzheimer’s research"! www.nasw.org/article/anno...

Congratulations to Rachel Buckley @bucklr01.bsky.social on being a finalist for a National Association of Science Writers @sciencewriters.org award. Read Rachel's essay, www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen... #neuroskyence

@mariacarrilloalz.bsky.social of @alzassociation.bsky.social knows the #ADRD research community helps #geronsky. We got out NOA to many of you last month right before the #shutdown. The FY2026 budget request for #NIA is $2,686.5 million. #geronsky touches everyone. To see more, read here.

🚨 Position Alert! 🚨 I am looking for a full-time Research Scientist 1 to join my lab in Albuquerque, NM at the Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addiction (CASAA). We will be studying how stress and trauma influence cannabis and substance use. 🧠🌿 (1/5)

Here is NIA. NIA made on 51% as many new R01 awards in FY25 compared with FY24. 7/n

A mentee should have had her first R01 funded 😔

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

For this who are unaware, the reason NIH now posts these data habitually on the data book site is… Jeremy Berg. He pioneered this openness as NIGMS Director.

We are creating an academic journal and *you* can shape it! Make comments and suggest changes to replicationresearch.org 's - Constitution - TOP guidelines - article types - and reviewer guidelines until September 5 and be credited as a contributor: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I know a lot of neuropsychologists—all of you should be voting for @drmlamar.bsky.social as the head of INS! Any professional society would be lucky to have her as president.

Paging Sarah Cooper

This will be the first time that I’m talking about this brand new work with @randridge.bsky.social; please join!

The radical left wants you to believe that acetaminophen is safe.

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

www.chronicle.com/article/how-... “…we need to seriously explore the risks and benefits of alternative models of scholarly communication. The commercial publishing model…exploits public science, depends on unpaid labor, and restricts access to knowledge that should be shared freely. “

Thank you @ameracadpeds.bsky.social for stepping up and filling the gap during this critical time for the health of our children

Rethinking measurement invariance causally by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci It is preferable to work with a causal definition of measurement invariance. A violation of measurement invariance is a potentially substantively interesting observation. Group differences can be thought of as descriptive results

The world is crumbling BUT new Slow Horses

#statstab #417 {pwrss} Practical Power Analysis in R Thoughts: Some useful vignettes for conducting power analyses for various designs, constraints, and data types. #poweranalysis #samplesize #r #power #guide #tutorial #sesoi #equivalence #tost #rstats cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates. For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim. “Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

In this week's special In The Wild episode, we turn our Quantitude loose on the premise that National Public Radio is liberally biased, talking about what issues we would need to have addressed in order to be able to evaluate whether or not that's a reasonable claim.

Shocking reality: 1 in 4 older hospital patients develop #delirium, yet most families have never heard the word. We need to do much better in improving public awareness of delirium.

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!

My University has decided to close the #Statistics department along with several others. The public comment form opened up today: apc.unl.edu/fall-2025-bu... Please feel free to explain how problematic it is to close a department teaching #datascience #rstats #python in this day and age.

Penn State Psychology is Hiring! Full-time Assistant Professor of Quantitative/Computational Psychology. The position is co-funded by @ssripennstate.bsky.social Questions can be sent to: [email protected]. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...