New Preprint 📖 with @rogierk.bsky.social on 🔥 Does wildfire pollution affect cognitive and brain development? We merged data sources to answer this question in ~9000 children! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci

Amazing 1st lecture by Katalin Karikó, who gave candid insights into her life in science & deeply non-linear path towards her Nobel Prize in 2023. Favourite quote: "When things go wrong, don't waste time feeling sorry for yourself" What a way to kick off #LINO75 www.penguin.co.uk/books/462526...

A survey of 2600 Ph.D. students, postdocs, and other researchers in 65 countries found that top three complaints were that supervisors: 1) used dismissive communication 2) provided little feedback 3) ignored team members’ well-being The main thing they wanted was empathy

Was really a pleasure working with BOLD 🎉

BOLD@boldinsights.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Every child is unique. Two children may respond positively to the same intervention but for entirely different reasons.” Nicholas Judd tells Aisha Schnellmann about his work examining how children’s environments shape brain development and learning. @njudd.com boldscience.org/the-cognitiv...

Hey @natureportfolio.nature.com is this some sort of joke?? Please act ASAP. This is an abomination! 👇How the hell did this ever pass peer review, editorial processes??? doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Presenting in a week (Wens Apr 8 @10CET) at the CEN Colloquium at the Max Planck in Berlin, tune in if interested! @lipmpib.bsky.social www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/events/45260...

CEN Colloquium: Nicholas Judd, Wildfire pollution exposure during childhood adversely affects cognitive and neural development

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Job ad: Postdoc to work with me & @rogierk.bsky.social at the Donders on lifespan development questions from Sept onward! Profile: independent, good quant skills, interested in theory-driven work Please share widely www.careersatradboudumc.com/vacancies/po... #Postdoc #AcademicJobs

Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher cognitive development

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Having paid over $1,200 for OHBMs' 4-day conference (early bird price), I do not understand why we don't have conferences using university infrastructure during the summer. Is there something I am missing? This money could be spent on so much fun stuff, dinners, networking, scholarships, etc.

Scientific publishing: Rethinking how research is reviewed and published Review of how the loss of impact factor affected submissions at eLife - uneven drop across countries, but generally holding up remarkably well and shows a new model is possible elifesciences.org/articles/110...

Scientific Publishing: Rethinking how research is reviewed and published

Taking a radical new approach to the publication process resulted in eLife losing its impact factor, but authors, reviewers, editors and funders support the journal and its efforts to reform scientifi...

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I am a parking reformer because I live in a country where self-professed environmentalists, like this @sierraclub.org leader, oppose affordable housing because it ”doesn’t have enough parking.”

Jordan Grimes@cafedujord.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Mike, a leader of the local Sierra Club chapter, is up now. He says it’s “heartwrenching” to hear people’s needs for housing. He claims that the city has always been supportive of affordable housing. BUT! He says this project is too tall (5 stories) and doesn’t have enough parking.

Are you interested in detecting brain changes in individuals with higher precision over shorter intervals? Check out our new paper in Nature Communications. With Randy Buckner, @jingnandu.bsky.social, and others. Link - doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Are you a postdoc in the Brain & Cognitive Sciences? 🧠 Don't miss this opportunity to showcase your work at MIT - apply by May 31! 🌟

Sreeparna Pradhan@sreeparnap.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The MIT BCS Postdoc Association is looking for a Rising Star 🌟 Showcase your work and meet folks in the department! Deadline 31st May 2026! @picowerinstitute.bsky.social

a while back i threatened to share this. finally online for detection tasks we often systematically estimates sensitivity wrong. we need to control for unequal variance in models, but we often don't coz it needs extra data now there's a virtually 'free' way to do it www.cell.com/iscience/pdf...

This is finally out in NeuroInformatics "Enhancing fMRI Decoded Neurofeedback with Co-adaptive Training: Simulation and Proof-of-principle Evidence" shorturl.at/XCwve and the updated PyDecNef repo github.com/pydecnef/Pyd... @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @neuroaure.bsky.social

Enhancing fMRI Decoded Neurofeedback with Co-adaptive Training: Simulation and Proof-of-principle Evidence - Neuroinformatics

A significant challenge for neurofeedback training research and related clinical applications, is participants’ difficulty in learning to induce specific brain patterns during training. Here, we addre...

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Despite decades of research there are still no reliable biomarkers for any of the major psychiatric diagnoses. In this now published perspective in Molecular Psychiatry we consolidate evidence from genetics, exposome and neuroimaging research on the potential reasons underlying these failures.

The many-to-many problem of endophenotypes in psychiatry - a biological perspective - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - The many-to-many problem of endophenotypes in psychiatry - a biological perspective

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Now in press one of my last PhD projects! We traced the neurobiological profile of fMRI BOLD signal variability, a measure that has been related to age, behaviour, disease status, but had not yet been fully contextualised within the brain's multiscale architecture. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There are also meaningful differences in school proximity to hazardous sites by state. Even among states with similar site and population densities, the share of sites located near schools varies, suggesting the influence of local policy and land-use decisions. 5/

The CNG plot thickens - which method recovers correctly a true number of factors? 🍿👇

Ondrej Zika@ondrejzika.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In factor analysis, why does the commonly used CNG method nearly always land at 3 factors when applied to anx/depr/ocd scales? TLDR: There tends to be one factor/component with a large eigenvalue. In these cases, almost inevitably and somewhat arbitrarily, the procedure selects 3 factors 👇

Going to @sfn.org? Come check out my poster tomorrow [LBP078], Saturday from 14-15, on how wildfire smoke exposure impacts adolescent cognitive and neural trajectories! #SfN25 #SfN2025 eppro02.ativ.me/appinfo.php?... #SfN25

You can read both the manifesto and the report here: www.dejongeakademie.nl/en/news/3148... and some coverage in e.g. the @foliacivitatis.bsky.social here www.folia.nl/en/actueel/1...

Universities should be more ambitious in the climate transition, according to The Young Academy - De Jonge Akademie

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JASP Raincloud plots! More transparency, clearer patterns, better science. New BRM paper by @vlott.bsky.social, @donvdbergh.bsky.social, @fbartos.bsky.social, @njudd.com, @jordyvanlangen.bsky.social, @lukekorthals.bsky.social, @rogierk.bsky.social, @ejwagenmakers.bsky.social et al.

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This section provides brief summaries of selected resources for research that have been published in journals of the Psychonomic Society, typically Behavior Research Methods. These resources consis…

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👀 From Maps to Models: A Survey on the Reliability of Small Studies of Task-Based fMRI | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

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Our position paper is now out: "Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE): A Global Framework for Measuring Children's Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharing". srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) What is LEVANTE? 🧵

Random Intercepts and Slopes in Longitudinal Models: When Are They "Good" and "Bad" Controls? or Illusory Traits 2: Revenge of the Slopes Led by Siling Guo, with Nicolas Hübner, Steffen Zitzmann, Martin Hecht, and Kou Murayama. Comments welcome! osf.io/preprints/ps...

New personal record of desk rejects 🥳 I am taking a note of journals that take over a month for the desk 📖 It is also a unusual situation where pretty much everything has been already reviewed at eLife on our Neuro paper (click for open reviews), now the sample size is just substantially larger.

rogier kievit@rogierk.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper by @njudd.com shows that an additional year of education doesn't causally affect telomere length in old age, despite many (theory) accounts arguing otherwise. It's been desk rejected by 13 journals happy to publish small 'positive' telomere studies. Sigh. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great post! I just read this paper by @drewhalbailey.bsky.social and colleagues that shows the RI-CLPM also performs better than CLPM when there are unmeasured time-varying confounders: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · last yr.

New blog post! Let's say you've measured two variables repeatedly and want to investigate how one affects the other over time. Here are some recommendations for how to do that well. www.the100.ci/2025/06/25/r...

Reliability paradox. It is not a paradox. osf.io/mu896_v1

🚨New Preprint alert! ANS and spatial skills are the same thing! doi.org/10.31234/osf... We aimed to explore how the Approximate Numbers Sense (ANS) and spatial skills related over time, but instead found that they are the same underlying construct.

🚨 “Good Description” with @annagbusse.bsky.social 🚨 What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description? We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers. Two main contributions... 🔗📄 tinyurl.com/gooddesc

good_description/good_description_ddk_agb.pdf at main · ddekadt/good_description

Homepage of "Good Description" by Daniel de Kadt & Anna Grzymala-Busse - ddekadt/good_description

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