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There are currently three open faculty positions (all levels) in my department (Psychology) Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...

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Patent Mills 🙁 ...the next step to game the system, more concerns for #researchintegrity www.science.org/content/arti...

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

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I tried it out and think it's a great tool. Not perfect for every type of research (especially the more technical, mathy type), but I can get the main gist of a research paper on my 30-minute commute to work, which I think helps a lot in staying up-to-date with the literature.

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Phenome-wide association studies (PheWAS) are a powerful tool for uncovering drug repurposing opportunities and unexpected side effects of novel targets📊 🧬 The best open-access resources for PheWAS analyses👇

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“There was evidence that grandparents invest more in grandchildren from higher SES families than in those from lower SES families. The findings suggest that grandparental support may widen the inequality between advantaged and disadvantaged children” [Germany] osf.io/preprints/so...

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Hea kommentaar USAs toimuvale. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...

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I've been developing a semantic search tool that covers not just bioRxiv and medRxiv, but the entire PubMed database. This means you can search across a massive collection of biomedical research using keywords, questions, hypotheses, or even full abstracts. Try it out: mssearch.xyz

submitted 11 days ago • 35 comments

One function per week, this time we show you `check_itemscale()`, which computes various measures of internal consistencies applied to (sub)scales from items that were extracted using `principal_components()`, or supplied as data frame. #easystats #rstats easystats.github.io/performance/...

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This should be drawn for all countries to empathize with the situation Ukraine faces.

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This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

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🚨NEW PAPER! Together with Wuno Akingbuwa (@wonuola.bsky.social) we developed a way to estimate non-linear genetic correlations. It didnt sit well with us that known non-linear relations (e.g. BMI and MDD with a famous U shaped ) are poorly captured in statistical genetics. 🧵

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Friends, I have written you a book on forensic metascience. It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day. If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all. open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...

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Thank you for including me. I really like this paper and I refer to it all the time. Hopefully it can find a good home.

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I have now spent almost four months to get this paper with @ericfauman.bsky.social desk-rejected from three journals (Genetic Epidemiology, eLife and HGG Advances) and not really sure where to go from here. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Think of a polygenic score you care about. Are direct genetic effects driving variation among people in this predictor? Or perhaps other, confounding factors? We at the @arbelharpak.bsky.social & @docedge.bsky.social Labs developed a method to tackle this question. [1/n]

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Are parents and offspring similar in their personality? How far does the apple fall from the tree? We found the error-free parent-offspring correlation to be bigger than before (r=.30 vs r=.11)!

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Sõna maatriks juured on ladina sõnas mater 'ema'. Matrix tähendas ladina keeles tiinet looma, hiljem kitsenes tähendus emakale, siis aga toetavale keskkonnale, kus midagi arendada/luua. Just viimasest tuleneb maatriksi tänapäevane tähendus.

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whichjob.me just became available to over 800M more people in their native language, as we launched Spanish and Arabic versions. Thank you, MJ Sánchez Ruiz and Monah Al Hassanieh!

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Do psychiatric GWASs find drug targets? Excited to see our work linking GWAS and pharmacological treatments in psychiatric disorders now published in JAMA Psychiatry jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧬💊🎯 Big thanks to @bendfulcher.bsky.social @alexfornito.bsky.social Mark Bellgrove 🧵👇

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🔥 AMAZING. Today, the Baltic states disconnected their power grids from that of Russia. It’s taken years of prep. What a moment.

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We're hiring to expand on the work to understand the human genome by engineering it! lnkd.in/da-gitNc

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Take me to Talleke ja Pullike! ekspress.delfi.ee/artikkel/120...

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Maksud Soome!!1

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My chapter on Combining Statistical and Causal Mediation Analysis is out now as part of the new Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology. This was my first ever chapter! Check out the whole book here, or the preprint of the chapter here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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See on hea sisukas intervjuu eestikeelse tehisaru teemal. novaator.err.ee/1609599314/t...

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Try it yourself! regcheck.app

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Bluetorial-A dream and a bit of a nightmare Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.

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Introducing a major upgrade to OmicsPred platform (www.omicspred.org) — a resource to enhance the accessibility and usability of genetic scores for multi-omic traits and their phenotypic associations. (1/N)

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I have been selected as the recipient of the Estonian National Annual Research Award in Social Sciences for 2025. I feel truly honoured and humbled. I thank the members of the Estonian Biobank for their effort and trust, and my dear colleagues and students for their support and inspiration.

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Did you know there are multiple types of #hunger? From physical to emotional triggers, learn more about what drives your appetite in this latest @nejm.org article doi.org/10.1056/NEJM...

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OMG! Is this genomic Item Response Theory?

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Pikka iga Tartu rattarendile! Talvel vaat, et peamine liikumisvahend naelkummide tõttu. 🚲❄️

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I wouldn't have anticipated this one! Preventing or treating hypertension through a gut microbiome intervention, in both mice and a pilot study in people www.cell.com/cell-metabol... @cellpress.bsky.social

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This is how you can visualize z-scores in #tidyplots heatmaps 🚀 This is especially useful when you want to focus on the dynamics within rows or columns. #rstats #dataviz #phd

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I cowrote this links post with @nikomccarty.bsky.social, who you should all be following! Snakebites, pig hearts, and more: A round up of some of the most important research in biotechnology and medicine. Enjoy!

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Here is a great new initiative in #ScientificPublishing: * Transparant and collaborative peer review * Recognition for peer reviewers * Affordable publishing: single article submission is only $400 ! www.stacksjournal.org

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I haven't really used #rstats case_match before, but I think I'll start using it more. It's a nice little time saver and reduces repetition.

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Mendelian randomization (MR) has been criticized due to a flood of papers based on the output of a single R command. But MR can offer valuable insights into disease etiology and can be really fun Some interesting MR applications in examples from our work over the years 🧵 1/17

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Could you imagine that a young adult asks a psychologist: will I be a different person by the time I retire? Would this be a meaningful question? If yes, what could a psychologist say and why? (Thinking about this for a paper I work atm)

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