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A statement by Doctors Against Genocide which reads: To all international humanitarian organizations, The situation in Gaza is spiraling beyond any medical or moral threshold. The limited stock of intravenous fluids in our hospitals is no longer sufficient to treat the waves of starving individuals arriving at emergency units — from infants to the elderly, they are collapsing from pure exhaustion and hunger. This is no longer just a humanitarian crisis. It is a deliberate, systematic starvation of an entire population. We urge you — Speak. Act. Intervene. Nasser Medical Complex

“a deliberate, systematic starvation of an entire population”

A statement by Doctors Against Genocide.

#Gaza

Israeli fire mows down starving Palestinians in Gaza as hunger deaths surge UN says starvation in Gaza is man-made as families in the besieged territory endure ‘catastrophic hunger’.

UN says starvation in Gaza is man-made as families in the besieged territory endure ‘catastrophic hunger’.

‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall

Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.

What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.

Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.


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'ggplothko' #aRt

Just 3 days left until this workshop, so don't miss your chance to register!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

A quoted movie review about pearl harbour '“Pearl Harbor” is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.'

My favourite Ebert sentence for a 1.5 star review: "Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours". This opening paragraph should be framed.

I thought ponies were baby horses until I was about 28. Years, not months.

Especially when some (e.g. NPJ aging) take a month to do so!

Unsung observatory worker was UK’s first professional female astronomer, experts say Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy is trying to find a photo of Annie Walker, who died in 1940, to give her star billing

'researchers...say that Annie Walker – a Victorian woman who began working at the observatory in 1879, when she was only 15 – ...observed thousands of stars herself....Walker was the first British professional female astronomer...paid a living wage by an observatory in the UK to chart the stars.'

(and of course, it's a preprint so it matters much less, and it will find a home in a good journal. But having 'positive' and 'negative' findings published in non-overlapping journals is a great way to generate zombie findings)

New paper by @njudd.com shows that an additional year of education doesn't causally affect telomere length in old age, despite many (theory) accounts arguing otherwise. It's been desk rejected by 13 journals happy to publish small 'positive' telomere studies. Sigh. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Picked up my poster for #ESCAP2025 last week and had a small surprise arriving at the Airbnb..

If you want to see my real poster on the association between adversity and grey and white matter development, come meet me at D2.102 today!

In Control A Manifesto for a Responsible Digital Future in Higher Education - De Jonge Akademie Publications

www.dejongeakademie.nl/en/publicati...

Big tech is threatening our autonomy and academic freedom, don't let it!

Cover of the textbook used in the workshop

✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/

Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing, and artificial intelli...

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

Data sharing practices and data availability upon request differ across scientific disciplines - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Data sharing practices and data availability upon request differ across scientific disciplines

cf. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 'We observed that statements of data availability upon (reasonable) request are inefficient and should not be allowed by journals.'

Very pleased to welcome new postdoc Dr Lucia Hernandez Pena @luciahp96.bsky.social to our lab.
Lucia will be working on our new longitudinal study on microstructure brain development and its relation to cognition and mental health in adolescence, with a large team of collabs at Cardiff and Donders

Balloon wall art inspired by the ggplot2 hex sticker. The display features a hexagonal frame made of black balloons, filled with white balloons inside and surrounded by a background of light and dark blue balloons. A line graph with black balloon segments and round coloured nodes runs across the centre, and the word “ggplot2” is spelled out in black balloon letters below the chart.

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

The second is less feedback on writing and more a process step. When you think you are done, read the whole thing out loud, slowly. The number of things that stick out for rephrasing, deleting, etc. versus when you simply reread is amazing

Figure out what a sentence is doing (1&3), whether the style/writing matches the purpose (2), whether it is in the right section (4, eg discussion vs intro), and whether it may be a sentence or section you are fond of, but that shouldn't be here in this particular paper (5, def a weakness of mine)

my PhD supervisor condensed it into a single sentence: For every sentence in a paper, you should be able to answer each of these 5 aspects: 'What(1) is this sentence(2) doing(3) here(4) in this paper(5)'. Emphasis on each of the numbers.

🧠 Tractography on Ultra-Low Field MRI!

Thrilled to share "Diffusion Tensor Imaging & Spherical-Deconvolution-Based Tractography Using an Ultra-Low Field, Portable MRI System", led by James Gholam

lnkd.in/emDyp9gT

Thanks to the Gates Foundation, Wellcome LEAP & Wellcome who supported this work!

Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

Figure 1 of the paper

🚨New paper!🚨

Meta-analysis on 4M p-values across 240k psych articles: How has psychology changed since the replication crisis began? How is replicability linked to citations, impact factor, and university prestige? 🧵

Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Interactive: pbogdan.com/meganal

Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries Exclusive: The climate cost is more than than the combined 2023 emissions of Costa Rica and Estonia, study finds

By me: Climate cost of Israel’s war on Gaza will exceed the annual greenhouse gas emissions of >100 countries - exacerbating planetary catastrophe on top of the horrific death toll and suffering of Palestinians

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

10 Early Career Researchers Join APS’s 2025 Cohort of Editorial Fellows APS welcomes 10 researchers from across the globe to the second cohort of APS Editorial Fellows.

We have a new group of Editorial Fellows at @psychscience.bsky.social journals-- check out their bios here: www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2025-ma...

EU almost on track to reach 2030 climate goal The European Union is nearly on track to reach its main climate target for this decade, with countries' existing CO2-cutting plans set to bring the bloc within one percentage point of the goal, the European Commission said on Wednesday.

Many believed that EU would not be able to reach its ambitious 2030 climate goal
Now:
EU almost on track to reach 2030 climate goal
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Ulman Lindenberger elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society Ulman Lindenberger, Director of the Center for Lifespan Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, has been elected to the Royal Society. The prestigious British associati...

Ulman Lindenberger, Director of the Center for Lifespan Psychology @lipmpib.bsky.social, has been elected as Foreign Member to the Royal Society @royalsociety.org for his significant contributions to the psychology of the lifespan. Congratulations!

www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2044069/awar...