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Amateur sleuth earns £2m reward for exposing research fraud A British scientist has forced a leading US cancer research institute to pay a $15m legal settlement after trawling through scientific papers in his spare time

Great work here by @sholtodavid.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/article/3113...

Holy cow. This will be super useful for accelerating the development of all kinds of projects and methods from UKB—huge kudos to everyone in this team that made it happen (and the broader UKB team too)!

Here’s the original coding line: replace event`i’ = 1 if delta_mct`i’ != 0 | spouse_delta_mct`i’ != 0 And here’s the corrected coding: replace event`i’ = 1 if (delta_mct`i’ != 0 | spouse_delta_mct`i’ != 0) & delta_mct`i’ != . & spouse_delta_mct`i’ != .

I am just learning of this 2015 retraction, adding to my "science as amateur software engineering" files. Seems they classified missing values as obs outcome of interest (divorce). Classified 32% of sample divorced, rather than true 5%. retractionwatch.com/2015/07/21/t...

**How do we make long-lasting emotional memories**
Looks very interesting.
#neuroskyence
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.

I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Congrats Eiko 🎉

Nature Scientific Reports is the third most cited journal in the world smdh

This is another example of why I think default priors are generally inappropriate for professional work. They're still great for teaching, though.

I wrote something about publication bias at statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/14/t...

Many brain imaging “biomarkers” for autism have been proposed. Most aim for balanced accuracy (matching sensivity/specificity) on datasets where cases and controls are split 50/50. 1/🧵

If you read my thread, make sure to read the retracted paper’s last author’s response. As I highlighted on pubpeer & my thread, authors have been very responsive, transparent & collegial all the way through. I was surprised myself seeing a retraction as I had asked for a correction.

Digital Therapists Get Stressed Too, Study Finds Chatbots should be built with enough resilience to deal with difficult emotional situations, researchers said.

🚨 Big News! Our research has been featured in The New York Times @nytimes.com! 🥳
This engagement highlights the real-world impact of science beyond academia and its role in shaping conversations on AI & mental health.
🔗 Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/science/chatgpt-digital-therapists-anxiety.html

Tenured-research position opened here in Paris : A great opportunity to leverage the full potential of the new 11.7T MRI scanner at Neurospin @inserm.fr @cea.fr @unicog.bsky.social

🧠🟦 / 🧠🤖 / 🧠🩺
#AcademicSky

my team at MidJourney is looking to hire an experienced full-stack (but with emphasis on the frontend) developer to work on various personality-related projects. if you're interested, or know someone else who is, DM me a resume and/or a link to some of your previous work!

חנין, ממש מצטער לשמוע. מקווה שזה יסתדר בהקדם

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨
1/ Can early brain connectivity predict who will develop PTSD after trauma? 🧠🔍 Check out our new study, published today in JAMA Network Open!
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
@orduek.bsky.social @ifatlevy.bsky.social
@harpaz-rotem.bsky.social
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🚀 Just 5 days since publication, our paper is already the #1 trending article on @natureportfolio.nature.com npj Digital Medicine! 🥳

🤖 Check out how we induced anxiety in Chat-GPT using traumatic narratives - then calmed it down with mindfulness & meditation: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📝

🚨New Paper Alert! Our latest research in npj Digital Medicine explores two unusual questions:
1⃣ Can Chat-GPT experience state anxiety?💥🤖
2⃣ If so, can we reduce it? 📉
A thread on how we "took Chat-GPT to therapy" 🧵👇
Full text available here: rdcu.be/ebZ9v

Here are some cool animations I made a couple years ago for teaching DAG-based causal inference

Confounding!

Week 6 in my Bayes stats course, we finally arrive at multilevel models. For those who know the basics, there is also a BONUS lesson on group confounding and Mundlak Machines, incl a latent Bayesian variety. Lecture link set to start of BONUS content: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwVq...

Unveiling the Structure in Mental Disorder Presentations This cross-sectional study examines 4 preexisting datasets to determine how symptom-based definitions and assessments contribute to a distinct probability pattern for the occurrence of symptom combina...

Interesting point - disorders allow many combinations of symptoms, but many combinations of symptoms don't tend to show up at all: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Why we (usually) don't have to worry about multiple comparisons Applied researchers often find themselves making statistical inferences in settings that would seem to require multiple comparisons adjustments. We challenge the Type I error paradigm that underlies t...

Since it is inefficient to attempt to educate every reviewer individually, I am yeeting into your feed this clear paper from Gelman, Hill, and Yajima on how Bayesians can do even better than correcting for multiple comparisons. arxiv.org/abs/0907.2478

New large study (n ~ 6 million) in @JAMApsych tracking mental disorder trends in Denmark showing increases in mood disorders in recent birth cohorts tinyurl.com/c5nyfd8k

Causal methods peeps. Can you point me to a good intro reading on DAGs? Something more easily digestible than Pearl's primary papers but more technical than the kinds of 30,000-ft summaries you get from a Google search.

Anscombe's quartet illustrates how datasets can have nearly identical descrptv stats but different distributions
@lucystats.bsky.social proposed the "Causal Quartet" datasets all with the same statistical summaries & dataviz but different true causal effects livefreeordichotomize.com/posts/2023-0...

Very excited about this new preprint in which we solve one of the main issues in network psychometrics: estimating symptom networks in clinically severe populations. This solution is now available in the bootnet, IsingFit, IsingSampler and psychonetrics #Rstats packages! osf.io/xq8ur/

The Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science is looking for 4 Editorial Fellows (EFs) for the 2024 calendar year. EFs are a PAID mentored position intended to give individuals from underrepresented backgrounds frontline editorial experience. Ad attached

www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

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We are hiring at the University of Michigan Depression Denter.

The goal is clear. Move the needle on improving mental health. But the task is hard. So we are building a multidisciplinary team. Positions are open at all ranks and in any relevant discipline.

depressioncenter.org/about/facult...

Fallen palm tree in Silver Springs State Park near UF

🚨 Paging social psychologists! Actually (checks notes) paging ALL psychologists!

We (Florida) are hiring for a TT asst prof in QUANT psych! Area open; if you’re doing cool rigorous quant-focused work…we want to hear from you.

Deadline: 10/15

Job ad: psych.ufl.edu/wp-content/u...

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