“AI scientist” is like human scientits in that it also does not really prioritize or value clear estimands: “Kosmos has a tendency to invent unorthodox quantitative metrics in its analyses that, while often statistically sound, can be conceptually obscure and difficult to interpret.”

I’ll be leading a new project uniting biomedical and social sciences to learn why neurodevelopmental conditions are rising and how to better support people. We’re hiring soon! @astridsandsor.bsky.social Hedvig Nordeng Krister Fjermestad Alexandra Havdahl Nicolai Borgen www.uio.no/english/rese...

He was here when it was still 25% furries and ppl who mistook bluesky for a new fediverse server.... "First Bluesky elder elected Mayor of NYC"

While there are obviously massive forces/lobbies trying to slow down the energy transition, with China aiming its large state guided economy on EV/solar/wind it seems all but inevitable regardless of right wing back paddling…

1/ 🚨New paper in Nature Genetics Genetic factors are associated with the educational fields people study, from arts to engineering. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... FAQ: www.thehastingscenter.org/genomic-find...

I am training an LLM to be a disagreeable fucker, so basically a psychological methods person (modded on myself before any of you get angry and think I am subtweeting you). What are the best sources of many confused methods questions?

Amsterdam ❤️

Yoinked from Reddit.

Applications for MCSA are up 64%! 50% now come from outside the EU. Trump effect? The European Research market just got a hell of a lot more crowded. EU should turn on the tap marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

My house, @dr-appie.bsky.social’s house, @dirksmit.bsky.social’s house and the BGA 2026 venue are in this shot.. if you go to the conference I’ll pull up in my own boat and we’ll do boatrides!!

Amsterdam ❤️

Last warm sunset, last swim in the sea for 4/5 months… ❤️💕

GLP-1 drug effect are showing up in health survey data… news.gallup.com/poll/696599/...

GLP-1 drug effect are showing up in health survey data… news.gallup.com/poll/696599/...

you are not going to believe it, but pringles may not even be the best gem in this paper.

Congratulations to Dr. Wouter Peyrot, recipient of the 2025 Pamela Sklar Award at #WCPG2025! His innovative work continues to advance the field of psychiatric genomics. 🧬👏

Causal inference on gene-environment interaction between predispositions and school qualities. Teally neat how the genetic effects, and school valued added effects, are idetified/exogeneous. Sign nteractions for reading but not math (though that doesnt mean the difference is significant? IDK..)

We have an open postdoc position in Social Science Genomics in Berlin! Includes gene-environment interplay within German population cohorts & experimental online survey studies to probe public perceptions of potential DNA biomarker applications 🔗 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2196134/2025...

Putting NL in the “trust in authorities” and discipline (we work least hour since the world I think) category is weird… we are to Scandinavia what Florida is to the US. Yes we appear similar superficially; but we are louder, rude, less trustful, cut in line, argue…

Aerial photograph reveals that Trump's ballroom is nearing completion.

Thanks for all the likes and encouraging DMs/emails, I’ll take it as a sign of you all being eager to review those amazing papers I’ll be editing!

More top notch rigorous scientific building blocks breaking down… www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I am "Prairie" for sure...

This is probably cope/"pathological gratitude" but one massive upside of northern fall/winter is that laggards like me who hit the road at 8am get to experience the Dutch gloomy/roudy/"gold & steel" sunrise. (Painting Ludolf Bakhuis, 1667, National Gallery in D.C.)

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

🚨 I’ll be joining Psychological Science as an Associate Editor starting next month. People at, or near, my intersection of psych genetics, clinical psych, psychological Epidemiology should consider the journal for your best work! (read the EiCs editorial on the journal policies/goals below)

I am scheduled for knee surgery in a few weeks. The contrast between the prehab / rehab that you get for knee surgery & what you get for a c-section (which is nothing) is WILD.

TOMORROW IN BRISTOL! "Have DAGs fulfilled their promise in epidemiology and health research?" 📆 22 October ⏰ 13:00 - 14:00 📍Queens Building, 1.18LT at the University of Bristol Cc @bristoltarg.bsky.social @uob-ieu.bsky.social @mendelrandom.bsky.social @garethjgriffith.bsky.social

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Some political scientist/pollster should do pre/post premiums announcement polling on the popularity of the shutdown and the popularity of the ads stance…

Eifel National Park ❤️💕

In the most tech-bro format imaginable, but an interesting “in the tent” critique of LLMs as “cognition”. Offcourse it’s not going to be to many ppls taste given its decidedly conveyed in the sf-tech tent dialect… youtu.be/lXUZvyajciY?...

Kendrick Lamar x Radiohead is truely like someone opened a wormhole and reached across 20 years of music history… insane mix..

Love Sofi-Tucker, such a great mix of electronic music, life instruments, and vocals youtu.be/OZPK2hDwzfQ?...

Hello Bluesky! We rate DAGs. Some are great. Some are... not so great. But we rate them all. Let's start with a famous powerpoint hairball a.k.a. "the Afghanisdag", presented to Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal around 2010. His own rating? 1/10 "When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war"

As the Chinese up their investment in biomedical science, Trump is slashing that in the US. Who will lead in new cures for cancer?

The LLMs appear to more often then “neutral” human raters rate left leaning sources as reliable, and right leaning sources as unreliable. A weird fold in spacetime where bluesky will widely share a paper (I assume implicitly critiqueing LLMs) that finds LLMs “biased” towards the modal bluesky user..

This sounds very interesting for a variety of researchers…

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!” Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

reposting this as its a very cool paper and essential for ppl who take causal inference in psychology seriously.

Harmonized administrative data allowed us to calculate regional motherhood earnings penalties for two (once three) very different countries. How different? None of the regional (thin lines - Nuts-2) motherhood penalties in France (abt 20%), East-Germany (abt 50%) or West-Germany (abt 70%) overlap.

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

I talked to academics who tried but all but gave up on bluesky, it’s the lack of algorithm… unless you’re here everyday, or very selectively follow, all the news you want to catch up on is a long scroll from the top… LinkedIn? If I log in now I see all the ERC grant announcements, and paper posts.

I saw a post by an AI researcher conclude smaller models (to the left) benefit more from Reinforcement Learning then larger model, to me it mostly looks like AI curriculum shld cover testing/Item Response Theory/Logistic link functions…

I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...