Modern academic publishing part II: Sage has now blocked my (university) IP address because I have had a tab open for >4 hours since my license does not allow downloading. I now have to write my colleagues an email so that I can read papers that they are already paying an annual fee of ~100K€ for.

Who wants to join us in Oslo to study how health influences educational underperformance? We are hiring PhDs postdocs candidates for our funded project. We will follow children from birth to emerging adulthood, using behavioural genetic methods and large datasets 945000.webcruiter.no/Main/Recruit...

Works the other way around too. “If I was Jonathan Haidt, how would I destroy the next generation?”

This one surely has something on offer for every one: In this cross-sectional mediation analysis, the "effects" of soft drink consumption on depression were "mediated" by abundance of Eggerthela in the gut microbiome. This was sent to me via dm and now you all got to suffer as well.

The recording is now available so that you can confirm that I indeed have a German accent and color-match my outfits with my Zoom background. youtu.be/YL0co26ng-g?...

Results of the replication are in! Chocolate is more desirable than poop: Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78] N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability. w/ @jamiecummins.bsky.social

Our new paper is out today! 🎉 In it, we use administrative register data to document how psychiatric disorders are strongly linked to parental income, from childhood far into adulthood. Furthermore, we attempt to separate causation and selection using kinship-based models. doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...

🧵1/7 New study: How do adolescent cognitive ability and education predict adult mental disorders? 🧠📚➜🧑‍⚕️ Using Norwegian register data (N = 272,351 men) of GP diagnoses and military assessed cognitive abilities. 👇

The Causal Bandits episode with me is finally up! We talked about a hodge-podge of causal inference and methods issues. I already got one positive testimonial from my boss who listened to the first half and liked it!

Before submitting your manuscript, make sure to include some obvious errors. This gives reviewers a sense of adding some value to the process, without asking you to change anything of consequence. #academicpublishing #AcademicJournals #academicchatter #PeerReview

New preprint! We find no evidence that parental mental health influences children's academic achievement when comparing families in the Norwegian MoBa study. osf.io/preprints/ps... Quick thread 👇

Are we getting dumber or smarter? Our new study revisits the Flynn effect using Norwegian Armed Forces data. Results suggest IQ trends reflect changing test content and education, not true shifts in general intelligence. See our latest publication for details. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

I spend a lot of time teaching non-scientists basic statistical concepts 📊. Effect size is especially hard to explain—PDFs, histograms, box plots, violin plots, and so on just don’t cut it. We need a new approach. Here’s one that requires minimal prior knowledge to understand.

I can't belive how good the new O3 models are from OpenAI 😱. All the talk about AI stagnation feels completely misplaced.

Psykisk helse hos barn varierer sterkt etter foreldrenes inntekt og utdanning. Hvorfor er det sånn? I fire år har vi forsket på sosial ulikhet, psykisk helse og genetikk. Kom på Kulturhuset onsdag 20. november kl. 9, så får du høre hva vi har funnet ut! www.fhi.no/om/kurs-og-k...

Two perspectives on cocaine use among young adult in Norway. Data: www.fhi.no/contentasset...