Our institute is hiring 1. an assistant professor (with TT) for Social Psychology (focus: environmental psychology) ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo... 2. an assistant lecturer (with TT) for Experimental Personality Psychology ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

School psychology scholars: we have a job opening. We are Canadian and very nice humans. You can contact me for more info. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about... 🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples? We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...

198 effect sizes in ego depletion resesrch showed an effect size of d=0.62. Preregistered large replications (including some by original authors) yielded an effect size of 0. No one has been able to offer any other explanation for this huge research waste than massive p-hacking.

Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/

The Big 5 test is about twice as accurate as the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator for predicting life outcomes, placing the usefulness of the MBTI test halfway between science and astrology. Any psychologist will tell you, the Meyers-Briggs is mostly bullshit. powerofusnewsletter.com/p/why-are-we...

A particular moment in my favourite Radiohead song always gives me goosebumps every time I play it. Turns out susceptibility to such “chills” (induced by music, poetry, art) varies between people & that genetic differences play a part. Check out our new paper, led by @giacomobignardi.bsky.social. 👇🧪

Great to be involved in this publication: "Phenome-wide study on alcohol consumption provides genetic evidence for a causal association with multiple diseases and biomarkers" led by Nigussie Kassaw - doi.org/10.1016/j.nu....

Very interesting perspective article by @caina89.bsky.social et al on genetic studies in psychiatry. The authors argue that studies increasingly rely on "shallow" phenotyping (self-reported), leading to biases in estimation of genetic relationships between disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In case you missed these, here's a compilation (for a few giggles to end the week). 1. Instagram post by NYUmed comms (oops). bsky.app/profile/andr...

I'm hiring #PROMENTA @uio.no: Researcher (PhD) in post-pandemic youth mental health (#NordForsk consortium SISU/PRISM). #MoBa #genetics + registry data -> gene-environment interactions. Please share! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... @ki.se @haskolinn.bsky.social @thlorg.bsky.social

Another Claude project: a static site that pulls in GWAS SNP data from ensemble, multiple public biobanks, open targets, gtex, eqtl catalog, and OMIM. sashagusev.github.io/gwas_lookup/

Looking forward to this year's Behavior Genetics Association (BGA) conference, in my hometown of Amsterdam! Deadline for abstracts is next week, February 16th: bga.org/content.aspx...

Me and @aysuo.bsky.social talk to @sjoerdalten.bsky.social about economics and genetics. And we get some book recommendations. Neat!

Mendelian Randomization is powerful but often debated. We benchmarked it against the "ground truth" of human metabolic pathways to see how often it gets it right. 🧬 Result: MR is robust! It matches known metabolism in 43% of cases and identifies valid drug targets. www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...

Latest output from the GEMINI (genetics of multiple long-term conditions) team 🧬 We used genetics to subtract the effect of obesity, revealing multiple conditions that 1) share obesity as a common cause or 2) share other causes 🌟 strong implications for intervention 🥼 Paper doi.org/10.1038/s438...

Top download from APA Journals in 2025 examines occupational differences in #personality traits, drawing on Big Five domains and personality nuances. Full article + interactive tool to explore the results ➡️ https://bit.ly/3NMyk3h @katlinanni.bsky.social @ukuvainik.bsky.social @renemottus.bsky.social

New paperAlert! We show that generative AI can quantitatively assess personality from brief, open-ended text—with surprising accuracy. 🧠✨ Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... Postprint (pending mod approval): osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/10

The skinny on intermittent fasting "the better the study , the less it finds" gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/w...

I reviewed an earlier version of this paper. I think it's interesting, because you can tell by reading it that evolutionary psychology still lacks a loyal opposition and a healthy error culture. It's a defensive paper, targeted at people who believe evolution stops at the neck, YouTubers, _others_

📝 The PsychGen Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Mental Health is hosting a two-day, in-person workshop for early-career researchers on family-based genomic analyses. The workshop takes place in Oslo, Norway, on 9-10 April 2026 and registration is now open: shorturl.at/etXCN

Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉 We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)

How come heritable factors like "ever-drinking, ever-smoking and current-smoking, and four clusters for diet and physical activity derived from questionnaire data" are interpreted as environmental factors? I'd say this is a massive GxG scan /1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I tried 1) preprint link in abstract. Professionally edited journals removed it. Scientist-edited journals kept it but some removed them later. Safe bet is green open access. 2) I hide journal titles in my talks, using author-year-title format. 3) that would reduce my review load quite a bit🥲

First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement. In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99. At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.

Come work with us! Tallinn Uni is hiring a second lecturer in DH&AI. Estonian proficiency not required, foreign applicants welcome, required phd can be in progress (expected to be completed), competitive salary+benefits, nice working environment close to the sea candidate.recrur.com/public/jobad...

New preprint out: "Machine-Assisted Grading of Nationwide School-Leaving Essay Exams with LLMs and Statistical NLP" arxiv.org/abs/2601.16314 We test LLMs on graduation essays written in a low-resource language (EST), using official rubrics &benchmarking data directly from the national exam gov body.

ten percent of the Swiss population: Medical meta data update: www.linkedin.com/posts/swiss-...

1. Each Soc Sci discipline thinks they're more scientific than others... 2. ... exception being Anth 3. Soc. think that only Psych is more scientific than them. 4. Poli Sci thinks both Psych and Econ are more scientific 5. Psych has v. high opinion of itself 6. Econ has v. low opinion of others

@clydefrancks.bsky.social found what is potentially (likey?!) the first fully hallucinated GWAS paper, of “left handedness”… the Manhattan plot has the wrong number of chromosomes, and genes labels with one wrong chromosome placed in a second wrong chromosome… wild…

A very comprehensive review of the genetics of personlity led by @tedmond.bsky.social This is a great onramp for those who haven't checked into psychiatric genetics or bahviour genetics in a while. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

So cool to see life-coure gwases and new MR insights coming out!

This is a really fun story - thanks to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for telling it so well!

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

Sõna üles! Ise ajan Tartus igapäevaselt asju rattaga. Mõnikord ka autoga. Talvel rendirattaga. Mh on tänu minule autodel rohkem ruumi sõita ja parkida.

I started reading up on the whole "loneliness pandemic" narrative because this seems like a literature where the age-period-cohort problem may be relevant (or maybe it isn't?). Here's data from Australia (HILDA), average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" (SD of ca. 1.8).>

Peer Review is broken because a generation of Editors were trained that peer review is sacrosanct. Thus we have Editors who are clerks, sending and re-sending manuscripts to reviewers until they are happy. That's not the job. Be an Editor, not a clerk. Use your skill and judgement. Make decisions.

Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version? I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/ It all started a few years ago... 🧵

My first ever interaction in R was in 2013 when I spent 2h trying to read in Excel file directly to R. Eventually saved as .csv and read it in in 5 min.

Seeing one of my favorite projects replicated in another big biobank from another country is an excellent start of the year! Thank you @iakuznetsov.bsky.social and colleagues (@ukuvainik.bsky.social!) at @estbiobank.bsky.social! The original @nathumbehav.nature.com paper: rdcu.be/eX5ID Thread 👇🏾

@dr-appie.bsky.social showed how migration affects genetic population structure in UK. @iakuznetsov.bsky.social has replicated the same effect in Estonia! Even within siblings! 👬 See thread for more 👇

I saw this chart in the wild a few days ago and it's been on my mind because the longer I look at it, the more confused I become by it. 📊 I'm fairly sure it's AI generated for a few reasons... A #DataViz thread 🧵

Hea reportaaž tapvate robodroonide tõusust sõjaväljal. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/m...

I probably won't have time to make a video out of this. But the materials are available online, and should be pretty self-explanatory. Hope this is useful to some people. privefl.github.io/statgen-cour...

Wierd form of propganda war and honestly slightly Western condencion going on in Wikipedia. Loads of 🇪🇪 famous people including @kajakallas.bsky.social and World Champion Värnik have had their birth place changed to SSR, legalizing Soviet occupation, in recent months. All from 🇷🇺 IPs

Glad to see the conversation continues to grow and data speak to the enormous class bias that is built into bans on standardized testing, which end up only exacerbating them more. x.com/garrytan/sta...

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Wait. Wait WHAT. You can accidentally turn your lasagna into a three volt battery that melts aluminum. WHAT.