University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #psycjobs #psychology 1/n

Small effect sizes matter in right context. Eg lead pipes have correlation r~0.1-0.15 with IQ. Effects are small but matter across populations. Nevertheless, we eliminate lead pipes. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2136923/ /1

What drives how much we eat? A new paper from Dr. Barbara Rolls et al. highlights “The Big Three” food properties that shape consumption: 1️⃣ Portion Size 2️⃣ Energy Density 3️⃣ Variety See: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It strikes me that a good context or example for getting people to understand many key measurement principles (reference group, anchoring, sample bias, maybe even reliability and validity) is online reviews

Personality is as heritable as eye colour!

See you Edinburgh next summer!

My new book is published today, and my cats highly recommend it. www.penguin.co.uk/books/462676...

"Be open to surprises … biology will surprise you. Let the animals tell you something different about the world than what you thought."

Very informative collab by two of my favourite zines: @worksinprogress.bsky.social X @asimovpress.bsky.social

New post! A round up of the latest advances in biotech and medicine by @nikomccarty.bsky.social and me. Prime editing, curing whipworm, a new narcolepsy drug, designing protein nanoparticles, the 3D structure of E. coli's genome and more! Read it all here: www.worksinprogress.news/p/whats-new-...

We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position at CIMCyC (Granada, Spain) to work on the psychology of dis(mis)information. Apply before 26th September. Nice city, great environment ☺️ Please share! 🔃 cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati... #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #PhDJob

A simple way to help reduce obesity and stroke? Stop the shifts in our clocks twice a year www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

cool paper on transmission of ses. Seems like genetic nurture > assortative mating

Two new randomized trials testing higher dose semaglutide (Ozempic) for obesity, obesity + diabetes: some further weight loss, similar safety profile www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We came to the same conclusion with a study comparing food reward measures. All the complex implicit measuers just aren't worth it. KISS & just ask people! doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

@nilo.bsky.social

Excited to present our new tool "PEStimate", an online app for predicting risk reductions after Polygenic Embryo Screening (PES). Find the app here: polygenicembryo.shinyapps.io/pestimate/ Preprint: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Blog post: github.com/sophieehill/... TL;DR: There are a LOT of errors/inconsistencies in the results reported in this paper (estimates outside CIs, sign errors, duplicates, asymmetric CIs). Even in the abstract itself! This suggests manual editing of results tables. Which is not good... 🧵

"Social science genetics encompasses the longest causal chain in science: from DNA to human culture."

Thanks for coming over and the great overview!

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

This can't be true because academic papers are all peer-reviewed by experienced experts who would be able to easily identify these shenanigans and stop them in their tracks.

This thread is a great takedown of a recent paper published in one of the top neurology journals. More evidence to bolster my impression that there is a LOT of really weak nutrition science out there getting disproportionate amounts of (uncritical) media coverage.

A lively debate? For whom? academic.oup.com/ije/article-...

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date. We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400. Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

This is an amazing success story. We are happy to have published several papers there - it really has become the top neuroimaging journal within just two years. Kudos to all who had the courage to make it happen!

I am extremely honored and beyond excited to share that I have been awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant! 🚀.🧬 🧠 💻 Grateful for the support of my colleagues and mentors — and excited for the journey ahead!

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

We recently lost a great friend and colleague, Bob Bilder. Bob was highly influential on my career in the early 2000s at UCLA, as a collaborator on the Cognitive Atlas ontology and a driver of the idea of "cognitive phenomics". He was a wonderfully warm and creative human who we will miss deeply.

When using observational data for #causalinference, the choice isn’t between emulating or not emulating a #TargetTrial, but between reporting or not reporting the target trial that we are emulating. For those who prefer to be explicit about what they do, we have developed the TARGET Statement 👇

I'm looking for a PhD student to do some trailblazing at the frontier of personality genomics and lifespan gene-environment transactions (start Fall 2026)! If you want to work with me: psychology.msu.edu/graduatestud... (PS @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social is taking a student too, in moral psych/dev!)

⚠️ PsyArXiv is updating its policies in light of a higher volume of low quality submissions and our recent switch to a pre-moderation workflow. Read more about this change here 👉 (buff.ly/8jhqRJu ) and see our updated policies here 👉 (is.gd/paxpolicy ).

Sõjahirmu mahavõtmiseks. Eelmise nädala Ekspressi artikli ja selle jätku peale, eestlaste suurest sõjahirmust, mõtlesin, et teen lühikese lõime. Võiks päevi rääkida ehk siia saab ainult natuke kokku Lpeil (Liiga pikk,ei loe) , Kas Venemaa ründab Eestit? Ei, vastus on ei. Kindel ei, päriselt ei.

If you are interested in using functional neuroimaging and neuromodulation to improve key symptoms of depression, we are still looking for PhD students: Official ad (in German, B2 level or better is required): karriereamukb.de/jobs/doktora...

Timely LLM detection info on the start of the semester

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Alrighty, {easystats} users! 👋 Ever wonder how those neat tables magically appear in your R console, or even better, in your fancy #rstats Markdown and Quarto docs? Well, most of the objects you work with in {easystats} are basically tables, i.e. a 2D matrix with columns and rows...

This is essentially a scaled up sauna 🪨🪨💦

she slayed www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/b...

If this is turning into a battle, then the researchers’ possible counter is to normalize updating preprints and CVs with “accepted at journal x” as sufficient for getting publication credit and not pay the fees.

➡️ Deadline approaching—only one month left to send in your papers and presentation proposals for #CDSM2025! 🚨 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 🚨 📅 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹) 📥 Submission Deadline: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

What can *genetic insensitivity to opioids* teach us about endogenous opioid function in humans? Fully funded position in Oslo (PhD student or postdoc) Interested in pain, mu/kappa opioids, behavioural genetics, RCTs, or related? Apply here: 2411.webcruiter.no/Main2/Recrui... Please RT for reach

I'm often asked how human genetic data can be used to validate drug targets. In our new ‪@natcardiovascres.nature.com‬ paper, we provide an end-to-end framework for genetically validating IL-6 inhibition for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease outcomes 🧵

Art seems to interact well with behavioural genetics 🤓

Are electronic health records (EHR) more predictive of disease onset than polygenic scores? Can we transfer EHR-based prediction models between countries? Our study on these questions using 3 biobank-based studies with N>845K, is out in @natgenet.nature.com today: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I wrote about gene-gene interactions (epistasis) and the implications for heritability, trait definitions, natural selection, and therapeutic interventions. Biology is clearly full of causal interactions, so why don't we see them in the data? A 🧵:

New preprint! A Crowdsourced Megastudy of 12 Digital Single-Session Interventions for Depression in American Adults What's the best way to help someone overcome depression with just 10 minutes of their time online? We ran a trial (n=7,505) testing 12 diverse interventions. osf.io/preprints/ps...

1/10 🧵 The "loneliness epidemic" narrative has dominated headlines and policy discussions. But what does the actual research tell us? #LonelinessResearch #PublicHealth #SocialScience #EvidenceBased

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...