Rich Jones

Excited to share a new paper just published in Neuroepidemiology! We used 22 years of longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study to answer a surprisingly unsettled question: How fast does memory decline in older adults without dementia? 🧵👇

🧠 A major study in Nature Medicine challenges common belief about education & dementia protection: higher education didn’t slow brain ageing; it provided a higher starting point. This advantage may be established in childhood, not built through schooling itself.

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Wearing in solidarity with our courageous federal workers who are trying hard to honor their oaths to The Constitution and the good people of our country.

Shingles vaccine most promising common drug to potentially prevent Alzheimer’s  - research A new study has identified three existing medications that could be repurposed to treat or prevent Alzheimer’s disease.  The research funded by Alzheimer’s Society and led by the University of Exeter,...

Shingles vaccine most promising common drug to potentially prevent Alzheimer’s  news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... by @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

#Alzheimers #dementia #shingles #vaccines

The Quantitative Staff Network was launched to bridge the gap between quantitative scientists and the broader scientific community. Looking for new ways to connect with your peers? Learn more: magazine.amstat.org/...

We're very excited that our next AMPHIBIAN speaker will be Dr. Alessandro De Nadai, speaking about machine learning in mental health research and interventions on 12/3 at 12:30. Register here: brown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@rnjma.bsky.social @gemmawallace.bsky.social

WeRateDogs turns 10 years old today! A very silly idea to numerically objectify dogs has become one of the kindest and most powerful online communities ever. Thank you for joining us over the last decade. I never knew what this could be until you all showed me. Here's to many more good dogs ❤️

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Multi-Year funding analysis, a 🧵

I have been trying to find a robust way of quantifying and understanding multi-year (forward funding).

First, some background:

Most NIH grants are for multiple years (2 to 5, typically).

However, the are usually funded on an annual basis.

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If only there was a good explanation as to why 🤔

There still seems to be a lot of confusion about significance testing in psych. No, p-values *don’t* become useless at large N. This flawed point also used to be framed as "too much power". But power isn't the problem – it's 1) unbalanced error rates and 2) the (lack of a) SESOI. 1/ >

a man in a leather jacket is smiling in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it . Alt: roll safe meme

Your answer cannot be biased if you never specified a question.

New Frost lab preprint from @SohnClaira: “Elevation of the mechanically-sensitive protein emerin links nuclear mechanotransduction to tau-induced cytoskeletal remodeling in neurons”

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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This is dark. But also, this display of solidarity on the part of the pentagon press corps should be a model for dealing with the regime

When students, faculty, and our communities are united to fight for our universities, for the common good, and for our democracy, nothing can stop us!

WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN!

@aft @higheredlabor.bsky.social

#DefendHigherEd

Brown's rejection of the compact would not have been possible without the amazing mobilization of faculty, students and staff last week! When we fight, we win!! Score this as another victory for workers and students!
@aaup.org

Brown rejects the compact!

President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

Ugh... This study has existed for decades, providing valuable health data for all sorts of topics and publications. This is just more awful news. 🛟😷 Sociology medsky

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Psychometrics | Online Course | Statistical Horizons Apply psychometric methods in this online course with Matthew Diemer, Ph.D. Measure latent constructs using EFA, CFA, MIMIC models, and invariance testing.

Join "Psychometrics" w/ @mattadiemer.bsky.social on Nov. 12-14 to learn about #psychometrics and how to to understand, detect, and remediate bias in measures. Topics include exploratory factor analyses, confirmatory factor analyses, MIMIC models, invariance & more.

Causal inference interest group, supported by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies Seminar series 20th October 2025, 3pm BST (UTC+1) "Making rigorous causal inference more mainstream" Julia Rohrer, Leipzig University Sign up to attend at tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRohrer

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

Thank you to Stata, the October sponsor of ASA's "Practical Significance" #podcast! For 40+ years, Stata has supported researchers & analysts with powerful, reproducible statistical tools. Learn more about how Stata can power your work: www.stata.com/stata-differ... statacorp.bsky.social #STATSSKY

Announcing the 2025 NASW Science in Society Journalism Award winners The National Association of Science Writers and its Awards Committee are pleased to announce the winners of the **2025 NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards.** This year, NASW is awarding prizes i...

Congrats to @bucklr01.bsky.social on being selected as a finalist in the NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards, for her piece "Brains, biases and amyloid beta: Why the female brain deserves a closer look in Alzheimer’s research"! www.nasw.org/article/anno...

Brains, biases and amyloid beta: Why the female brain deserves a closer look in Alzheimer’s research New results suggest the disease progresses differently in women, but we need more basic science to unpack the mechanisms involved.

Congratulations to Rachel Buckley @bucklr01.bsky.social on being a finalist for a National Association of Science Writers @sciencewriters.org award. Read Rachel's essay,
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#neuroskyence

@mariacarrilloalz.bsky.social of @alzassociation.bsky.social knows the #ADRD research community helps #geronsky. We got out NOA to many of you last month right before the #shutdown. The FY2026 budget request for #NIA is $2,686.5 million. #geronsky touches everyone. To see more, read here.

🚨 Position Alert! 🚨
I am looking for a full-time Research Scientist 1 to join my lab in Albuquerque, NM at the Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addiction (CASAA). We will be studying how stress and trauma influence cannabis and substance use. 🧠🌿 (1/5)

Here is NIA.

NIA made on 51% as many new R01 awards in FY25 compared with FY24.

7/n

A mentee should have had her first R01 funded 😔

Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.