Double whammy just out with RCC's @djsmith90.bsky.social Longitudinal projects and causal inference! Religion and trauma: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Climate change concern and mental health: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

I am devastated because our cat Trasno is critically ill and needs urgent treatment to survive, but it’s financially overwhelming. If we’ve ever made you smile or feel supported, please consider sharing or contributing: gofundme.com/f/help-save-... Thank you from the heart, Alba

The world may be a burning shit-storm, but we're trying to do our little bit to make science slightly better - Our new Registered Report on climate concern and mental health was just recommended/accepted at @pci-regreports.bsky.social doi.org/10.24072/pci...

📣 New paper by myself @djsmith90.bsky.social and colleagues published today in @royalsociety.org Proc B 📣 Grandmothers are often seen as key carers, but this isn’t always the case. We explore why in Agta forgers reflecting on the implications of demography for evolution of grandmothering 👵🌍

AnthroTools 2.0 is live! Nine new functions that propagate, plot, and summarize uncertainty around item and cultural salience values. @djsmith90.bsky.social @bgpurzycki.bsky.social @rcc-au.bsky.social

Can religious beliefs shape peoples' attitudes and behaviours regarding climate change? We explored this using data from a large-scale UK cohort study (ALSPAC) In short: Perhaps, but it's complicated. Answer depends on generation, religiosity measure and climate question doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Are you into free-list methods and want to incorporate uncertainty into your group-level estimates (eg Smith's S)? Of course you do! Then @bgpurzycki.bsky.social and I have a new preprint for your delectation! doi.org/10.31219/osf...

No clear co-causal evidence of religion and mental health! Hot off the digital press from RCC's @djsmith90.bsky.social! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

New blog post! Sometimes, when reviewing a manuscript, it's really unclear to me what precisely the authors are trying to do -- which makes it hard to evaluate the work properly. So, here's some advice for how to ensure that readers don't get lost. www.the100.ci/2025/02/17/r...

1/ 🧵 New preprint out today 🤩 With @djsmith90.bsky.social and co we have done deep-dive into grandmothering in the Agta to unpick the role of demography in shaping the role of grandmothers in direct childcare 👇🧪🏺 #Grandmothering #demography #BioAnth #EvPsych

📢 The final CCE seminar of 2024 is coming up soon with @djsmith90.bsky.social leading us into the 🎄 festive 🎄season with a presentation on *Religion and mental health: a causal Christmas carol* 🎅 📆 18th Dec 2024 - 12:45 in person start with food, 13:00 online talk start 🔓Open to all

Did not expect my first inclusion in a starter pack to be "people named Dan Smith with PhDs"! 😅 Still, at least you now know where to find us!

I found @djsmith90.bsky.social's figure about ethical publishing so helpful for students I added it to my guide to academic reading/writing/publishing (osf.io/p37zj)

New blog post I cobbled together for the Bristol Reproducibility Network Ethical Academic Publishing: How to Make Academic Publishing Fairer, More Open and Less Wasteful openresearchbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/09/23/e...

Tak! Excited to start working with all the wonderful @rcc-au.bsky.social folk in Aarhus too! 🙂

We all know that – alongside global warming, Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin and other evils – selection bias is one of the largest threats to humanity* But how bad exactly is selection bias? This is what we aimed to explore in our recent paper: doi.org/10.1080/2153... *Perhaps a slight exaggeration…

📢📢📢💫 CCE's seminar series is kicking off in November with some amazing speakers lined up 💫📢📢📢 These are 🔓 open to all - in person and online - joining information shared closer to the date 📅 ⏲️ Talks are scheduled between 12:30 - 14:00 @Bruneluni

Interested in causality, DAGs and human evolution? If so, then why not join the Evolutionary Human Science journal webinar on 'Causal Inference from Evolutionary Human Sciences'? Join us October 3rd 2PM BST | 3PM CEST More info here: cambridge-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

New paper out! "Ten simple rules for scientific code review" journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol..., in which I detailed how to use *code review* in academic research in a didactic, effective, and enjoyable manner.

New blog post! If you're a substantive researcher, you mainly do statistics to answer substantive questions. So let's stop putting the statistical model first. www.the100.ci/2024/08/27/l...

Researchers should stop paying to publish their papers. Tom Morgan and I wrote a short piece about it. (1) osf.io/preprints/os...

Job alert! 9m fixed-term teaching role (cover for a colleague) in Human Behavioural Ecology within the Biological Anthropology team at UCL Anthropology: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Teaching focused role but research time is included as the role spans over the summer when there's no teaching 🙂

Recently took part in Carbon Literacy training & my action to try and reduce carbon emissions was to share recipes encouraging plant-based foods (as lower impact vs meat/dairy). Thought I'd share here in case of interest Gnocchi w/ tomato sauce - Enjoy! 😋 danmajor-smith.netlify.app/2024/05/20/c...

Here's a short blog post I wrote on 'Using Synthetic Datasets to Promote Research Reproducibility and Transparency' for the Bristol Reprpducibility Network openresearchbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/05/10/u... TL;DR: Share your data! (But if you can't, share synthetic data) 😀

Wiley closing 19 journals and retracting ELEVEN THOUSAND academic publications for being fake archive.ph/ouZUd (Wall Street Journal)

JAMA introduces a new framework for drawing causal inferences from observational data. Including a call for adopting explicit causal language. This is a key moment in the embrace of contemporary causal inference methods within health science! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #EpiSky #CausalSky

Gave a talk on 'Ethical Academic Publishing' earlier, so thought I'd share the slides in case of interest to anyone: osf.io/urpx5 Basically, the system is f**ked, so we need to publish more ethically (e.g. support Diamond OA & not-for-profit journals) This slide is a summary of my current thinking

New blog post! Have you (like me!) wondered what the ATT means and how it's different from average treatment effects? I use #rstats to explore why we care about the ATE, ATT, and ATU + how to calculate them with observational data! #polisky #episky #econsky www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/03...

As director of CESAB, I'm incredibly proud to share the latest article of our postdocs today in Ecology Letters. 👏 They call for a more ethical academic publishing landscape but also ask to not let only the Early Career Researchers pay the price of this paradigm shift ! doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🧪🌍

Interested in hearing how synthetic datasets can help promote open science and reproducibility? Then come see me waffle on about this at an online ReproducibiliTea talk on the 21st March 🙂 Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/using-synt... @reproducibilitea.bsky.social

Say hello to our delicious new foster kitten Tinks! She's six weeks old and was found under a bush in a park (her mum was a feral, we think) 😥 But she's super lovely and playful and ruddy adorable 😍

Delighted to share our new paper detailing how to create synthetic data to help promote open-science practices (specifically within longitudinal population-based studies) using #ALSPAC as an example wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-5... /1

Great to be a very very very (very) small part of this fab paper! Congrats @abbeyepage.bsky.social, @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @err-ring.bsky.social 😊

If we could all avoid producing, reviewing, and reading these papers ever again, we would divert a substantial amount of talent toward productive research.

Anthropology helps us understand other people and other cultures. Worth saving, don’t you think? www.change.org/p/save-anthr...

For my first post on this site, here's a scrumptious photo of our foster cat Bella - Enjoy! 😊