This article illustrates how problematic are publication venues like Qeios, which operate without editorial oversight. The author doesn’t cite Lynn at all; the source of “national IQ” data is given instead as this paper 👇 which appears to be “peer approved” but is in fact just Lynn’s data rehashed

Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Publications which use "national IQ" data still appearing in Springer Nature journals in 2026. Cool cool doi.org/10.1057/s415...

The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement. In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99. At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.

Annika Külpmann@anniria.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How many versions of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) exist? And how much does this affect research using the IGT? More than you might think. 🧵

PhD position with Dr Chloe Fawns-Ritchie @cfawnsritchie.bsky.social exploring how chronic pain and analgesic use shape cognitive decline and #dementia using UK Biobank and other cohorts with advanced modelling. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/phd-pain...

PhD: Pain, prescribing and cognitive decline

PhD explores how chronic pain and analgesic use shape cognitive decline and dementia using UK Biobank and other cohorts with advanced modelling

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I feel like psychometrics is uniquely bad at naming things. Parallel, congeneric, tau-equivalent, essentially tau-equivalent measures? Configural, metric, scalar, residual invariance? Item difficulty defined so that the higher the difficulty, the easier the item???

Submissions are now open for 22nd European Conference on Personality (Edinburgh, 2026); deadline 7/12/25. Keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops have also been confirmed. www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission

New paper out with @boryslaw.bsky.social 🥳 In which we sketch out how to rethink measurement invariance causally for applied researchers. And provide a causal definition of measurement invariance! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Calling for your paper for the upcoming collection Brain metabolomics in dementia and neurological disease I’m honoured to be serving as the collection’s Guest Editor and eager to read your submission. #CallForPapers @natureportfolio.nature.com Learn more about the collection: go.nature.com/41S5bI3

Brain metabolomics in dementia and neurological disease

This Collection invites original research using metabolomic platforms to explore the mechanisms of dementia and neurological disease or aid in its diagnosis ...

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Join us on Friday 5 December for the 15th Scottish Pain Research Community / NRS Pain Network Annual Scientific Meeting, being held in Dundee - Scotland's sunniest city! Registration and call for abstracts are open now! @nrs-pain.bsky.social www.nhsresearchscotland.org.uk/calendar/spa...

Finishing your PhD & job hunting? Join our Salon on Aug 20, 12pm with Chloe Fawns-Ritchie @cfawnsritchie.bsky.social & Ishita Virmani for advice & experiences on finding your next role in dementia research. communities.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/c/events/adv...

Advise for Job Hunting after your PhD - Dementia Researcher Salon

Advise for Job Hunting after your PhD - Dementia Researcher Salon

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📣Lecturer post in differential psychology available in Edinburgh! 📣 Fixed-term, teaching-focused role. Ideal for someone post-PhD with expertise/interests in Personality or other differential topics. Closing 13th June. Get applying! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very cool! I had the pleasure of seeing the Chicago Archaeopteryx whilst visiting Chicago in December. Utterly mesmerised by the feathers!

Steve Brusatte@stevebrusatte.bsky.social · last yr.

Last week, a Chicago pope. This week, the Chicago Archaeopteryx is published! And what a fossil it is, illuminating what the first birds were like 150 million years ago! Upper arm wing feathers, long tail, fairly mobile palate, feet adapted for the ground. Whoa! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How do life satisfaction and job satisfaction vary among hundreds of jobs? (Doing a religion job looks good, if you are considering a career change.) New preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

I am looking for a PhD student to study the role of exposome in the development of hypertension in over 200,000 individuals of the Estonian Biobank @estbiobank.bsky.social genomics.ut.ee/en/content/p... applications until May 15th!

PhD position: The role of exposome in the development of hypertension and its interactions with genetic risk

The aim of the project is to understand the role of exposome, metabolites and genetic risk in the development of hypertension.

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And it's over already! A big thanks to everyone who came today, who presented their work, and to our fab organiser, Lizzie Bradford, for hosting us. If you'd like to join SCAN, send a message or sign up via the link in the bio. As you can see, we're a friendly bunch!

The sun is shining in St Andrews ready for our @scotcogageing.bsky.social meeting this afternoon! 😄

New post by me: The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking. We shouldn't minimize the very real impact of many contributors — including improvements in diagnosis, medical and surgical innovation, vaccination against cancers, and more — to the reduction in cancer death rates.

The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking

I respond to the claim that the decline in cancer mortality is mostly, or almost entirely, because of the decline in smoking.

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Tenure-track Lectureship (Assistant Professor) in Organisational Psychology at The University of Manchester. Come work with us! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Lecturer in Organisational Psychology/Organisational Behaviour (Teaching & Research):Oxford Road

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Dr Aja Murray’s keynote explored how we can better understand and support young people’s mental health📱🧠🌍 She discussed how smartphone-based data and youth involvement can offer deeper insights into their daily experiences and guide more effective, relevant mental health support #EMH2025

43% of participants didn't use the app *at all*. Only 22% even completed 4 of the 7 modules. This is also not new. Lots of other trials also show us, using quant and qual data, that adolescents don't much like universal interventions, and don't do the tasks/homework (I can share refs if helpful)

You. It’s gonna be you

Ariel Edwards-Levy@aedwardslevy.bsky.social · last yr.

the nice thing about creating a variable is that you never know who might be mad at you 20 years later for your weird decisions while doing so

The Guardian really have it in for UK Biobank, don't they? This time because Chinese researchers can access de-identified health data, despite UK Biobank participants giving explicit consent for researchers worldwide to use their health data for health research! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Revealed: Chinese researchers can access half a million UK GP records

Medical information will be available from UK Biobank, despite western intelligence agencies’ security fears

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Published today in Lancet Neurology. Updated treatment guidelines from @iasp.bsky.social NeuPSIG. A major international project, of which I was privileged to be a part. doi.org/10.1016/S147...

It is one of the largest dinosaur tracksites in Scotland. Trackways of theropods and sauropods cross each other in the shallow sand of a Jurasssic lagoon. Dinosaurs going about their lives, loitering near the shore when Scotland was a subtropical island.

The newest dinosaur discovery from Scotland! Over 100 tracks made by theropods & sauropods. In the same spot where, 170 million years later, Bonnie Prince Charlie landed on Skye to escape the English. When the Prince was on the run, he sprinted in the footsteps of dinosaurs!

Thrilled to share our latest publication in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: a global survey on experiences and perceptions of sexism in dementia research careers. Grateful to my incredible co-authors for their collaboration on this important topic. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Experiences and perceptions of sexism in dementia research careers: A global cross‐sectional survey

INTRODUCTION Sexism is prevalent in academia and is a crucial factor driving women out of the academic workforce. However, sexism in dementia research remains underexplored. This study aimed to unde.....

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The largest ever genome-wide association study on osteoarthritis has advanced understanding of the disease and laid the groundwork for developing more effective and personalised therapies that could transform osteoarthritis care: edin.ac/43HK39g @genscot.bsky.social @www.helmholtz-munich.de

New study identifies drug targets for osteoarthritis

Combining functional genomics with the largest ever genome-wide association study of osteoarthritis has identified disease-linked variants and new drug targets.

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Call for collaborators! We are launching the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB) to replicate a sample of findings relevant to public health, epidemiology, health policy, and behavioral science. Teams receive funding for conducting replication studies. Details: www.cos.io/rphb

Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB)

The Center for Open Science (COS) is launching the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB), which is a large-scale, multi-team effort to help support a transparent and trustworthy foundation in ...

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A particularly fun differential journal club today with Prof Ian Deary presenting on lessons learned from over 25 years of the Lothian Birth Cohorts @edinunilbc.bsky.social @schoolofppls.bsky.social

There’s so much we can learn from health data. Our new partnership with the UK Government aims to unlock it. By simplifying access to secure data for research, we can improve understanding of ill health and accelerate discoveries that improve health. Read more ⤵️ wellcome.org/news/nationa...

National data service will simplify access to health data for research | News | Wellcome

Wellcome is partnering with the UK Government to establish a £600 million health data research service. It will simplify secure access to health data for research.

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