Ada Kępińska

I also just got rejected for yet another set of academic applications, and because I am at work, I cannot even cry really

Wow, so much cool science right in my wheelhouse has just come out, and knowing that I may not be part of it in 5 months as my contract with what for now is a non-renewal is coming up, it's really painful to interact with really great science in a weird way

New preregistered preprint by @emkbridger.bsky.social (w J Maltby, @danielnettle.bsky.social & @larsklintwall.bsky.social). We queried a UK-representative lay sample to rated perceived causal influence between 20 biopsychosocial causes linked to mental health & poverty.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Figure 1 from the linked paper. It shows a color coded list of 30 items that improve lab culture including things like a public diversity statement, a public lab code of conduct, green initiatives in the lab, info for incident reporting, etc.

New winter break goal just dropped:

Research culture: The SAFE Labs Handbook as a tool for improving lab culture. Donà et al. 2025.

elifesciences.org/articles/108...

H/T @napaaqtuk.bsky.social

Mapping the genetic landscape across 14 psychiatric disorders - Nature Genomic analyses applied to 14 childhood- and adult-onset psychiatric disorders identifies five underlying genomic factors that explain the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders...

1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

screenshot of my post

Big new blogpost!

My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.

--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs

1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

This is so well deserved! Congratulations (how many pizzas are going to be consumed?)

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Just an incalculable loss from which we won’t soon recover.

Alice was the best of us and I hope we all do (or keep doing) the kind of good work that burnishes her memory.

Fuck ableism. “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”

Oh James Watson died

You dodged the bullet in the best way but also what on earth

The rapid growth in Mendelian randomization studies - European Journal of Epidemiology European Journal of Epidemiology -

The rapid growth in Mendelian randomization studies. Gibran Hemani, Stefan Stender, Frank J. Wolters, Albert Hofman & George Davey Smith. European Journal of Epidemiology. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I have just spent six hours (on my birthday) writing up my results and I am still not done, welp

YouTube video by Madonna Madonna - Material Girl (Official Video) [HD]

Feeling really sad that I had not enough time to get dressed this year (yet another year without doing Gomez and Morticia or, given what I look like, Elvira?) but keep thinking how this is maybe the only Halloween costume for late capitalism www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p-l...

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Emergency running data helping a colleague and I have been doing okay doing to Nelly Furtado, but the shuffle just got to Robyn and I don't know if I can keep going (why can't you see me is me to academia in this metaphor)

(unfortunately)

You would think that of all nations we would be winning that one by now, but no

Career first: I just suggested in the peer review that the authors include a DAG

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍

This hasn’t moved much since yesterday, please help!

Done!

I donated, please go do it, too!

The election is v soon so important question. Supporters of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, is it Zohranastrians or Mamdanistas?

So now we happen to know how they feel about the machine or

Southwark, I miss your silly every day (but no shade to anyone, I also mispronounced it for a while while living there!)

Asking Pelosi of any year to be quiet honestly

Reframing tenure as a form of worker protection rather than promoting its benefits for academic freedom will help scholars win the debate around its merits, according to the author of a new book, writes Patrick Jack #academicsky
https://ow.ly/ptJc50X3Lrl

In Focus: Madonna 26th September 2025 Playing Pop. Two hours of hits, album sleeper tracks, edits, remixes and more from the provocative icon who changed the blueprint for pop. Selected by Sofie K.

On the topic of Madonna still, a lot of how it works really, really well is essentially about bumping up the bpm, it turns out, old person shock as if I've never visited a club. This is not so fast, but apparently yes to Material Girl gabber? www.nts.live/shows/in-foc...