I am just learning of this 2015 retraction, adding to my "science as amateur software engineering" files. Seems they classified missing values as obs outcome of interest (divorce). Classified 32% of sample divorced, rather than true 5%. retractionwatch.com/2015/07/21/t...

**How do we make long-lasting emotional memories** Looks very interesting. #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Nature Scientific Reports is the third most cited journal in the world smdh

This is another example of why I think default priors are generally inappropriate for professional work. They're still great for teaching, though.

I wrote something about publication bias at statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/14/t...

Many brain imaging “biomarkers” for autism have been proposed. Most aim for balanced accuracy (matching sensivity/specificity) on datasets where cases and controls are split 50/50. 1/🧵

If you read my thread, make sure to read the retracted paper’s last author’s response. As I highlighted on pubpeer & my thread, authors have been very responsive, transparent & collegial all the way through. I was surprised myself seeing a retraction as I had asked for a correction.

🚨 Big News! Our research has been featured in The New York Times @nytimes.com! 🥳 This engagement highlights the real-world impact of science beyond academia and its role in shaping conversations on AI & mental health. 🔗 Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/science/chatgpt-digital-therapists-anxiety.html

Tenured-research position opened here in Paris : A great opportunity to leverage the full potential of the new 11.7T MRI scanner at Neurospin @inserm.fr @cea.fr @unicog.bsky.social 🧠🟦 / 🧠🤖 / 🧠🩺 #AcademicSky

my team at MidJourney is looking to hire an experienced full-stack (but with emphasis on the frontend) developer to work on various personality-related projects. if you're interested, or know someone else who is, DM me a resume and/or a link to some of your previous work!

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨 1/ Can early brain connectivity predict who will develop PTSD after trauma? 🧠🔍 Check out our new study, published today in JAMA Network Open! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @orduek.bsky.social @ifatlevy.bsky.social @harpaz-rotem.bsky.social 🧠🧵👇

🚀 Just 5 days since publication, our paper is already the #1 trending article on @natureportfolio.nature.com npj Digital Medicine! 🥳 🤖 Check out how we induced anxiety in Chat-GPT using traumatic narratives - then calmed it down with mindfulness & meditation: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📝

🚨New Paper Alert! Our latest research in npj Digital Medicine explores two unusual questions: 1⃣ Can Chat-GPT experience state anxiety?💥🤖 2⃣ If so, can we reduce it? 📉 A thread on how we "took Chat-GPT to therapy" 🧵👇 Full text available here: rdcu.be/ebZ9v

Here are some cool animations I made a couple years ago for teaching DAG-based causal inference Confounding!

Week 6 in my Bayes stats course, we finally arrive at multilevel models. For those who know the basics, there is also a BONUS lesson on group confounding and Mundlak Machines, incl a latent Bayesian variety. Lecture link set to start of BONUS content: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwVq...

Interesting point - disorders allow many combinations of symptoms, but many combinations of symptoms don't tend to show up at all: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Since it is inefficient to attempt to educate every reviewer individually, I am yeeting into your feed this clear paper from Gelman, Hill, and Yajima on how Bayesians can do even better than correcting for multiple comparisons. arxiv.org/abs/0907.2478

New large study (n ~ 6 million) in @JAMApsych tracking mental disorder trends in Denmark showing increases in mood disorders in recent birth cohorts tinyurl.com/c5nyfd8k

Causal methods peeps. Can you point me to a good intro reading on DAGs? Something more easily digestible than Pearl's primary papers but more technical than the kinds of 30,000-ft summaries you get from a Google search.

Anscombe's quartet illustrates how datasets can have nearly identical descrptv stats but different distributions @lucystats.bsky.social proposed the "Causal Quartet" datasets all with the same statistical summaries & dataviz but different true causal effects livefreeordichotomize.com/posts/2023-0...

Very excited about this new preprint in which we solve one of the main issues in network psychometrics: estimating symptom networks in clinically severe populations. This solution is now available in the bootnet, IsingFit, IsingSampler and psychonetrics #Rstats packages! osf.io/xq8ur/

The Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science is looking for 4 Editorial Fellows (EFs) for the 2024 calendar year. EFs are a PAID mentored position intended to give individuals from underrepresented backgrounds frontline editorial experience. Ad attached www.apa.org/pubs/journal... 1/3

We are hiring at the University of Michigan Depression Denter. The goal is clear. Move the needle on improving mental health. But the task is hard. So we are building a multidisciplinary team. Positions are open at all ranks and in any relevant discipline. depressioncenter.org/about/facult...

🚨 Paging social psychologists! Actually (checks notes) paging ALL psychologists! We (Florida) are hiring for a TT asst prof in QUANT psych! Area open; if you’re doing cool rigorous quant-focused work…we want to hear from you. Deadline: 10/15 Job ad: psych.ufl.edu/wp-content/u... [Cross-post]

UAB is hiring in Neuroimaging! uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/19319 UAB has amazing resources, a vibrant neuro community, and a great city – come join us! Please re-post #neuroskyence #SfN2023 #Neuroimaging @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social #CogSci #CogPsyc #AcademicSky #VisionScience #neurojobs #academicjobs

>4500 codes distributed! Please spread the word amongst clinicians, scientists, researchers, technicians, academics, and other scholars who would like to join: forms.gle/f3k65vC1JwgY... 🩺 🧪

Ooh I just discovered a new feature in blue sky mobile app - include posts from your feeds in the main feed! It works great so you don’t have to check your feeds specifically.

I'm hiring an Open Science Rigor & Reproducibility Software Developer at Stanford! Great mix of work developing best practices, coding, and independence to propose new initiatives. careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/open-sc... Hybrid & remote eligible within the United States. #stats #academicsky

"Past, Present, and Future of Software for Bayesian Inference" - An interesting overview of what, exactly, building software to do Bayesian inference means If you use Stan, JAGS, PyMC, NumPyro, etc, you might be interested. www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/rese...

I whipped up a basic Shiny app (using the PubMedWordCloud R package) to generate word cloud summaries of any researcher based on their abstracts in PubMed. Here's mine! The app is available here: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/pu...

Just in time to say #HiSciSky, here is an interview with me about our recent work looking at the effects of being born (yes!) on brain development, that was just published this morning: www.washington.edu/news/2023/09...

NOA in hand, we are ready to launch research in the NeuroPRISM lab! 🚀 Appreciate @noahghola.bsky.social NGNResearch taking the time to profile this NIMH R00-funded project. We are hiring a fully-funded postdoc—reach out if interested and spread the word! news.northeastern.edu/research/arc...

Hi All! Happy to (finally) join BlueSky. I'm an Assistant Prof. at Ben-Gurion University in the Epi department. I'm a clinical psychologist and working on both RCTs and Epi stuff, mostly related to exposure to stress (changes in brain mechanism, symptoms etc.) #HiSciSky