Reading the structured abstract alone should set off a half dozen statistical alarms in any scientists head. The fact that this found its way into Science makes me wonder how we drive home those stats 101 lessons and make them intuitive. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hey Gang, Everyone "knows" of the sample size VS phenotype quality debate in GWAS, the field consensus is sample size rules. Does anyone know any papers that explicitly go into this? ( @caina89.bsky.social or @sashagusevposts.bsky.social or @ewanbirney.bsky.social)

amazing work!

🧠 Parents and siblings shape children’s environments— but families also share genes 🧬 Because genes influence behaviour, environments are partly shaped by genetics too To separate genetic from environmental influences, we need genetic data from both parents and siblings 🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s105...

Love that discussion! 👇🏼

Show me Trump answering negative question well? That's why he get played, hes an amateur compared to KGB gargoyle

netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️

Most published personality profiles are super similar! @kerliilv.bsky.social clustered 162 NEO PI personality-phenotype profiles. 70% of profiles belong to just 3 clusters , and 89% belong to just 5 😱! Check out the thread for more! 👇 @alaindagher.bsky.social @renemottus.bsky.social

New paper: "Alcohol consumption and risk of cancer: a Mendelian randomization analysis of four biobanks and consortium data" out at BMC Medicine: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Lots of interesting findings! Brief thread:

1/11 New @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social led by @ESSGNetwork PhD student @qiyuanpeng.bsky.social : Parental influence on children’s educational achievement using Trio-GCTA. doi.org/10.64898/202...

1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers. Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +) Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders. I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...

#WCPG2026 may seem far off, but planning is already well underway for our annual gathering next year in Scotland. Next year, we're trading the sunshine of #WCPG2025 for the warmth of Scottish hospitality in Glasgow, from 30th September – 3rd October 2026.

Seems like a good time to remind my fellow Europeans that there are alternatives to US oligarch technology european-alternatives.eu

It's oyster season! If you're interested in what makes a good oyster, here's a thread on what makes an oyster delicious, and how you can generally tell by looking. My husband and I farmed oysters in the beautiful waters off Cape Cod for 15 years, so we learned a lot. Here's our farm. 🧵

Despite Prepublication Peer Review being a core part of science, training materials for it are sparse. This open source guide is very valuable for ECRs! ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

For those submitting a symposium to the ECP22 (deadline soon!): I added details to the submission instructions. www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission

Excited for this mini-conference tomorrow, focusing on social engagement and self-regulation as two sources of psychological well-being and resilience. The event will be held in English. 10AM-11.30PM CET 9AM-12.30PM GMT Registration and information are here: estwell.ut.ee/en/event/the...

Blog post: A Missing Heritability Update. Three legs and other problems. I follow up on the recent excellent post on the subject by @sashagusevposts.bsky.social. ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/missing-he...

New blog post! Let's say you have two measures meant to capture the same confounder. They're highly correlated. Can you still proceed with your regression analysis? (I admit, the title is a bit of a spoiler) www.the100.ci/2025/10/13/i...

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Kaksikud on vahvad jah. Mul üks neist kõrvapõletikus, pidi vereproovi andma ja kisa sellest taevani. Teine kaksik on suur vereproovi andmise entusiast ja oli väga pettunud, et tema seekord ei saanud anda 🥲.

Reminder: The submission deadline for ECP22 is December 7th. www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission

Semaglutide versus caloric restriction-induced weight loss: insights into effects on skeletal muscle mass and function "[suggests] loss of muscle function and mass during treatment is not unique to GLP-1RA pharmacology but rather reflects the biology of caloric restriction…" x.com/agingdoc1/st...

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

Would love to see this happening! "When an investigator (or group of investigators) is funded, they would have to agree that the funders’ platform will be the sole means of data dissemination and publication."

New paper with @statsepi.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social in which we show there's really no evidence for a link between the gut microbiome and autism www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Ilmselt lugesite Tuuli Jõesaare artiklit, kuidas konstellöör ⚠️Ada Kesonen on koolipsühholoogide esindusisik ja kuidas ametiau ei maksa punast pennigi. 🤡 ❗Pärispsühholoog Kenn Konstabel pani FB 🌟täismahus üles ka loo juurde antud kommentaari. Lugege 👇 ja mõelge, miks uhhuu presidendi roosiaias käib.

Nice one, from @drg.bsky.social and @jamesheathers.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I never understood why these companies are even taken seriously. Polygenic scores explain ~7% of IQ variance. Even under luxurious assumptions, you could maybe say something like "your kid will have an IQ between 72 and 128 with 95% probability". What's useful about this?

First time on Bsky and first big announcement! I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature. Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

Yes, if all EU / NIH / Wellcome funds would announce that their research must be in certain Diamond open access journals, eg Open Research Europe, then the whole problem would go away

Happy birthday, Emil du Bois-Reymond!

The rapid growth in Mendelian randomization studies. Gibran Hemani, Stefan Stender, Frank J. Wolters, Albert Hofman & George Davey Smith. European Journal of Epidemiology. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

For the last 50 years, we've designed cars to be safe... For the 50th-percentile male. Well, that's actually not 100% correct. According to Stanford's report**, we introduced "female" crash test dummies in the 1960s, but... 1/ #CausalSky #ScienceSky #MLSky #EpiSky #StatSky #AISky

We love a good 'association as as fluid' metaphor, but this guy takes it to the next level. 12/10 for the reminder that conditioning on a collider doesn't just mess with your identification; it can also flood your basement.

The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Authority at the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Authority is looking for an applied statistician with expertise in Bayesian statistics or causal inference statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/03/t...

Lovely interview! We always preprint our analyses coming from @estbiobank.bsky.social, and personality X job satisfaction is no exception! @renemottus.bsky.social

Whoever wins the #worldseries tonight is going to make a legion of fans for life The psychology of fans &identification with teams is fascinating Like goslings, boys imprint on the team that wins when they are young. A championship leads them to identify with a team for life, especially boys 8-12

Which way does causality flow?💦

Fantastic opportunity at The Hospital for Sick Children. Please repost. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

We currently have multiple job openings (post-doc/assistant prof/associate prof) listed on our website, see thread below if you don't want to miss out! bga.org/content.aspx...

📢 Two weeks left to apply for a (2-year) research fellowship @iast.fr A fantastic opportunity to work full-time on your own research, in an interdisciplinary environment, and in a lovely city in the South of France. Deadline: November 15, 2025 How to apply: www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Can apple cider vinegar make you lose weight? Probably not. My piece this week takes a look at a fascinating example of unreliable science, forensic metascience, and seriously problematic data. gidmk.substack.com/p/apple-cide...

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

So sad that my causal inference lecture & seminar is done for this year 😅

When researchers bring up confounders without ever having declared the actual analysis goal

@kerliilv.bsky.social võtab ülihästi ja ülikiirelt meie uurimisküsimused kokku! @estbiobank.bsky.social ut.ee/et/uudis/kol...