A halloween cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

Thank you to Hannah who visited our picket line this morning and then went home to recreate it in Lego! We can see plenty of pink UCU @ucu.org.uk hats outside our Tower Building. The famous Bob the dog and Sarah. And the magical frog spirit of solidarity. Can you spot yourself?!

I usually post an #Introduction at the beginning of each academic year. But after having taken #VR at #DundeeUni I am a free agent. Plans are in the works, but the #Lemmings will definitely no longer be the statue closest to my place of work. #HRQoL #HRQL #Psychometrics #ResearchMethodology

If you ever wanted to know how an inaugural lecture works in the Netherlands, or what I talked about in mine, I put the materials here. I talked about bottlenecks of diagnostic systems, problems of clinical and scientific utility, and how to make a better DSM-6. eiko-fried.com/blog/my-inau...

My inaugural lecture | Eiko Fried

Full professor shenanigans, fancy hats, and a systems view of mental health.

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Did not notice until now, but the Ronald Harden Lecture has now also been made available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pECf... #DundeeUni #MedicalEducation #Scholarship

The Ronald Harden Lecture 2026

YouTube video by Dundee University and NHS Tayside Grand Rounds

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Jan R. Boehnke@jrboehnke.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Reflecting on learning and the value of teaching following the #DundeeUni Ronald Harden Lecture by Victoria Brazil. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #MedicalEducation (1) Know the grain of your wood before you carve - protect formative manual and reflective work early in one’s career [...👇...]

2 new (old) books delivered today and they both belonged to Carl Hempel!

We are taking 25 days of strike action starting on Monday. We want the University of Executive Group rule out compulsory redundancies. To our students - this is a last resort to retain jobs that are essential for your education during your degree at the University of Dundee. Support the strike!

Publisher: "We will send your proofs from exactly this email address. Please consider whitelisting it." Me: {whitelisting} Also me, two weeks later: Oh, publisher has sent proofs from completely different email address, which ended up in my spam folder. 🤷

Thinking Tim Gunn

Alt: Thinking Tim Gunn A man (Tim Gunn) with dark-rimmed glasses, wearing a grey shirt, tie and shirt (different greys and patterns), putting his hand to his chin and looking downwards, his face and posture maybe expressing surprise or annoyance in addition to signalling that he has to think about or process something.

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This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.

Any Human Ever

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

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Shout out an meine Kolleginnen Lisa Weitemeier, Lea Wolz und Lara Schwenner, die an dieser wichtigen Recherche zu Paper Mills viele Monate gearbeitet haben: youtu.be/Ub2eY8EhTEU?...

Dieses Experiment hat (leider) funktioniert … | Studio Q

YouTube video by Quarks

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A set of posts by @marcikayrn.bsky.social is coming out about the results of her #PhD project with high relevance to #CoreOutcome and #Psychometrics communities: www.linkedin.com/posts/marcik... #HiddenCurriculum #Mentoring #Nursing #PatientCentered

#coreoutcomesets #cos #patientandpublicinvolvement #research #clinicaltrials | Marci Kay Livingston

GUIDE-COS | 4 DAYS TO GO - The question that started it all How does a PhD topic go from something you notice to a question you spend four years trying to answer? For me, it started with a fairly sim...

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You don't know The Cappuccino Index? Watch @jameshoffmann.bsky.social's video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtlE... And look at a great visualisation of the result below 👇 #Coffee #Cofaidh

The Surprising Things We Discovered In The Cost Of A Cappuccino

YouTube video by James Hoffmann

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Nicola Rennie@nrennie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A very quick pictogram for #TidyTuesday this week where we're looking at The Cappuccino Index ☕ #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

EU friends: pls be aware that you cannot share certain types of data on Zenodo because Zenodo does actually not comply with GDPR. @lakens.bsky.social 's blog has a great summary. It's a pretty serious reason to avoid Zenodo for researchers who work with data, if I understand the issue correctly.

Amanda Kay Montoya@akmontoya.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Curious about Zenodo as an OSF Project alternative? Here's a short video to get you started: File Uploads, Communities, and generating links for Anonymous Peer Review. youtu.be/jW84PxuJTMw

The "Multiple Long-Term Conditions (MLTC) #PhD Programme for Health Professionals" will be selecting its 2027 cohort soon! Central themes are fundamentals of MLTCs, combined mental and physical MLTCs, and prevention & management. Information www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... #NCDs #Multimorbidity

Following Victoria Brazil's Ronald Harden Lecture reflecting on whether learners "who rely on AI during the early formative years of education may fail to develop the foundational reasoning skills that safe, independent practice requires" www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MedicalEducation #DundeeUni

AI-induced never-skilling in medical education - Nature Medicine

Will medical trainees who rely on AI fail to develop foundational independent clinical reasoning? This Perspective outlines a precautionary framework to preserve foundational competence while supporti...

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The Scottish Government doesn't have confidence in the University of Dundee Executive Group. UEG are calling for compulsory redundancies, and without the Scottish Government confidence this should be ruled out. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

EXCLUSIVE: SNP education chief not yet convinced to release Dundee University £20m

Mairi McAllan told The Courier she wants more mediation between staff and the institution.

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The findings of our #NIHR #PGfAR "Developing and evaluating a #diabetes #SelfManagement intervention for people with severe #MentalIllness" have been published: openresearch.nihr.ac.uk/documents/6-... #Multimorbidity #LTCs #NCDs

A live writing retreat on the radio - join me next week for three hours of music soundtracked, community supported, writing productivity. It's free. 10th September - 1.00-4.10pm Sign up here, it's free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/write-club... #PhdChat #AcademicLife

The @dgps.bsky.social, the German Research Foundation Priority Programme “META-REP"*, and @zpid.bsky.social have issued a statement addressing the reduction of #OSF services** [German] leibniz-psychology.org/news/detail/... #DGPs #DFG #ZPID

Took me a while to get the important message of this paper journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #SorrySlow 😅 #Epidemiology #LongTermConditions #LTC The team assumes that their register offers a TRUE estimate of the prevalence of #multimorbidity...

The role of primary care data in multimorbidity estimates using administrative health data - Clare Tazzeo, Katharina Schmidt-Mende, Karin Modig, 2026

Background This study aims to investigate the extent to which two frequently used multimorbidity measures, the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) and the 2+ count...

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🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

The webinar* by Sylvie Vincent-Höper** on human perceptions of embedding AI in the healthcare sector has been made available here [German]: tube.switch.ch/videos/wrU0u... #FHNW #Psychology

Really nice day with #interdisciplinary and stakeholder perspectives at #UofGlasgow at the workshop "What’s a difference that matters? Establishing #PatientFocused “good enough” margins" organised by Beatriz Goulao. #RCT #PatientCentered #Trials #Glaschu #Saidheans

This is a brilliant piece. It lays out perfectly the self-discipline needed to embrace AI in those areas in which we wish (or are required) to integrate AI in what we do and how we think about what we do.

Interesting paper on the evaluation of anxiety and depression item banks for the #EORTC CAT link.springer.com/article/10.1... The classification of the symptoms by experts is an interesting step (but no involvement of #LivedExperience). #MIRT #PatientCentered

Psychometric evaluation of separate anxiety and depression item banks - potential supplements to the EORTC CAT Core - Quality of Life Research

Purpose The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer’s computerized adaptive test instrument, the EORTC CAT Core, provides dynamic, individualised assessment across 14 health-related...

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Reflecting on learning and the value of teaching following the #DundeeUni Ronald Harden Lecture by Victoria Brazil. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #MedicalEducation (1) Know the grain of your wood before you carve - protect formative manual and reflective work early in one’s career [...👇...]

On simulation, artificial intelligence, and the spirit of the Shokunin - Advances in Simulation

Background The healthcare simulation community has rapidly embraced artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) for scenario design, delivery, and debriefing. While discussions have ...

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I found that the more I tried to find reasons for these emotions or tried to get rid of them, the stronger they became. Instead of trying to resolve or eliminate them, I became interested in simply noticing and observing how they emerge, transform, and change www.dundee.ac.uk/press-releas...

Finding inspiration from anxiety: student’s sculpture takes centre stage at Masters Show 2026

A student’s experience of anxiety is explored through her art as part of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design’s Masters Show 2026.

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A PhD student is finishing their sampling frame for submission to the Scottish Health Research Register and Biobank #SHARE www.registerforshare.org The last few days offered quite a bit of "Fun with #ReadCodes" 😂 Read up on #ReadCodes pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #Saidheans

Sheldon Cooper's Fun With Flags - BBT

Alt: Sheldon Cooper's Fun With Flags Two people in a living room, one is dressed up as a Pretzel (Amy Farrah Fowler) and the other one (Sheldon Cooper) wears a Bavarian outfit with short lederhosen and holding a Bavarian flag. They bop down and up by bending their knees and the caption reads "And this is 'Fun with Flags'"

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In nutrition research, the effect you estimate from a model is determined by which other dietary variables you adjust for. If you adjust for total energy intake, the effect will switch from an addition to a substitution. Which substitution will be determined by which other variables are adjusted.

Der Koalitionsausschuss der Bundesregierung hat Anfang Juli beschlossen, das #Informationsfreiheitsgesetz grundlegend zu reformieren. Was bedeutet dies für Bürger*innen, Journalist*innen und Wissenschaftler*innen? www.mpg.de/26923995/inf... #Informationsfreiheit #Demokratie

Informationsfreiheit als Garant liberaler Demokratien

Die geplante Änderung des Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes schränkt das Auskunftsrecht drastisch ein und gefährdet die demokratische Transparenz in Deutschland

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