🚨POSTDOC HIRING: Our lab in the Dept. of Bioethics & Decision Sciences in Geisinger's College of Health Sciences is hiring a Postdoct in the Behavioral Science of Health-Related Beliefs, Judgment & Decision-Making. Start date is asap. Can be remote from anywhere in U.S. tinyurl.com/MeyerChabris...

Well-written, comprehensive tick tock of pharma p-hacking anishkokamd.substack.com/p/we-cannot-...

"We Cannot Afford to Miss a Superiority Outcome"

How a securities lawsuit uncovered data manipulation at the heart of an FDA drug approval — and what happened to the regulator who acted on it

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Geisinger is hiring a Lead Data Scientist responsible for evaluating the AI deployed here and monitoring it over time. Among the teams this role will work closely with is the multidisciplinary AI governance team (including me). This is a critical role—please circulate widely!

Today I'm thrilled to welcome Paul Han to the Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences in the @geisingercollege.bsky.social at @geisinger.bsky.social. A recent Fulbright Scholar who studies medical decision-making, uncertainty, and risk communication, Dr. Han joins us from NCI/NIH.

🚨New paper from our Behavioral Insights Team🚨: we randomized patients without activated patient portals who had new lab results to receive one of two emails emphasizing a key portal feature—immediate access to results—or to no contact beyond usual system efforts to encourage enrollment.

🚨New paper! eConsent can promote cost-effectiveness & equity in research, but how does it compare to traditional consent w/r/t informedness? In this RCT, we tested the Sage Bionetworks eConsent developed by @megdoerr.bsky.social & @wilbanks.bsky.social, used by, eg NIH All of Us & Apple ResearchKit.

New PubPeer comment on "Efficacy of oral folinic acid supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial" (Panda et al, 2024). Concerns about significant errors. #folinicacid #leucovorin, #autism pubpeer.com/publications...

I’m excited to participate in Mass General’s 5th annual Conference on Precision Psychiatry, which will be held virtually on Sept. 25–26. It’s free for trainees and learners and there is a discount code below for everyone else.

A huge development for normalization and support of the scientific sleuth community as an important component of a healthy, high integrity research system.

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · last yr.

Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’ Thrilled to announce this new $900,000 project headed by @jamesheathers.bsky.social

I'm very happy that Pedram Heydari, @michellemeyer.bsky.social, and I have published our study on the internal inconsistencies in the choices that laypeople and medical clinicians make about rationing scarce treatments (such as ventilators and drugs during the Covid pandemic).

Medical rationing choices of laypeople and clinicians are often illogical and inconsistent with their own stated preferences

The sudden onset, rapid spread, and later surges of the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in shortages of ventilators, pharmaceuticals, and other critical resources, leaving individual clinicians to make rat...

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If you are at #WebSci2025, join our "Beyond APIs: Collecting Web Data for Research using the National Internet Observatory" - a tutorial that addresses the critical challenges of web data collection in the post-API era. national-internet-observatory.github.io/beyondapi_websci25/

At Geisinger we have created a new team to conduct and publish rigorous evaluations of important health system initiatives, programs, and interventions. I'm one of the faculty co-directors of this group and I'm happy to say we have two new positions open! (1/2)

We’re hiring! tinyurl.com/GeisingerBIT Geisinger’s Behavioral Insights Team is looking for a new Staff Scientist. We conduct large pragmatic trials of behavioral science-informed interventions to improve health outcomes, with work published/forthcoming in Nature Hum Behav, PNAS, JAMA Netw Open 1/2

Reviewer 2 used an LLM to generate their review of our manuscript—except for the part where they asked for several irrelevant papers, all mysteriously authored by the same person, to be cited. Thank you, Reviewer 1, whoever you are. Not all heroes wear capes.

Nationwide preliminary injunction GRANTED in the three consolidated #NIH #indirects cases. www.scribd.com/document/835...

Commonwealth of Massachusetts et al vs. NIH et al.; AAMC et al. v. NIH et al.; AAU et al. vs. HHS et al. | PDF | Legal Remedy | Sovereign Immunity In The United States

Order granting nationwide preliminary injunction in three consolidated "NIH indirects rate" cases.

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We are HIRING a clinical ethicist to join the Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences in the Geisinger College of Health Sciences! There is potential for advancement into a leadership role in the future for a candidate with preferred qualifications. Please share widely! tinyurl.com/4mu4cv2c

BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🔊Next conference of the European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN) in Bristol, 22-23 May. ✅Keynote by @michellemeyer.bsky.social ✅Panel on the current frontier of MR w/ George Davey-Smith (Bristol), Dalton Conley (Princeton), and Alice Carter (Novo-Nordisk). essgn.org/essgn-confer...

ESSGN Conference IV

Bristol, May 22-23, 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce the 4th conference of the European Social Science Genetics Network. This conference aims to improve our understanding of how gene…

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Great postdoc opportunity (work from anywhere in the US) in quantitative decision sciences (plus great coverage of this weekend’s @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social conference #FOMO) 👇

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.@byrdnick.com · 2y ago

I’m sharing talks and posters from this weekend’s @SJDM-tweets.bsky.social conference. First, a talk about the #jobMarket — by the way, I’m hiring a 3-year #postdoc researcher who does quantitative #decisionScience and can #workFromHome in the U.S.: geisinger.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/GeisingerExt... …

I'm thrilled that our paper on base-rate neglect (BRN) and on-the-job experience (w/ @cfchabris.bsky.social and @michellemeyer.bsky.social) was just accepted at Management Science! TLDR: on-the-job experience with base-rate type problems mitigates, but does not eliminate, base-rate neglect. 1/7

Thrilled to welcome 3 new faculty members to Geisinger's Department of Bioethics & Decision Sciences: Stephanie Kraft, @byrdnick.com & @katesaylor.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing them continue their great work. You can read more about the department here: www.geisinger.edu/gchs/researc....

Do I have thoughts about peer review? <cracks knuckles> <takes deep breath> <clears calendar for the day>

Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her)@helenahartmann.com · 2y ago

🚨 PEER REVIEW SURVEY ALERT 🚨 We investigate perceptions & practices of peer review in social sciences worldwide The survey is now ** open to all participants ** 🌎🌍🌏 Thoughts about peer review? Take the survey ➡️peerreviewstudy.com Plz retweet for N and diversity 🔥

Oh my. Danny was an inspiration to a generation of social-behavioral scientists and transformed our understanding of decision-making. I can no longer answer the question "who is the most important living psychologist?" with any confidence. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Daniel Kahneman, Nobel-winning economist, dies at 90

He found that people rely on shortcuts that often lead them to make wrongheaded decisions that go against their own best interest.

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Court Orders Harvard's Investigative Report in Francesca Gino v. Harvard Largely Unsealed

The quick backstory on the litigation, from my "Scholar of Dishonesty Accused of Research Dishonesty Sues for Libel, Claiming Accusers...

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NEW: Open Letter on the Need for Preregistration Transparency in Peer Review docs.google.com/document/d/1... To work as intended, preregistration needs to be part of peer review process. We make commitments to doing so as authors, editors, & reviewers. Please sign and share widely with colleagues!

‼️We’re hiring for several research positions at the intersection of behavioral science & health, spanning lab studies, big data studies, & field experiments: ✔️Predoctoral fellow (starting asap) ✔️Postdoctoral fellow (starting asap) ✔️Faculty (open rank; timing flexible) Ads: tinyurl.com/BehSciJobs

Harvard is asking for all counts against it to be dismissed for failing to state a claim upon which relief can be granted—except for her Title IX claim (they will of course seek summary judgment on that count after discovery, if it gets that far). Data Colada answer due 11/8.

Stephanie M. Lee@stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 3y ago

Harvard just filed a partial motion to dismiss Francesca Gino's lawsuit against it, saying that she failed to state claims for breach of contract and defamation, among other things

Also, Harvard wants to publicly post a minimally redacted version of its 1,200-page investigation into the four studies of Dr. Gino's. Her team was on board — then backed out, according to Harvard. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Harvard just filed a partial motion to dismiss Francesca Gino's lawsuit against it, saying that she failed to state claims for breach of contract and defamation, among other things

THE NEW EIC OF PSYCH SCIENCE IS @simine.com WAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

<em>Psychological Science</em> Names Incoming Editor-in-Chief

APS is pleased to announce that Simine Vazire has been selected as the next Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science. Vazire is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne, where she serv...

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