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Prof Stephen Wood

@stephenwood8.bsky.social

Occasional chorister, professional academic

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Paul Bleicher@pbleic.bsky.social · 2w ago

Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.

FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)

In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.

nytimes.com

21 Group@21group.bsky.social · 2w ago

David Latchman has been appointed Vice Chancellor of University of London He was found guilty of research misconduct by University College, London. He blamed his postdocs. Nice to see strategy, networking & playing the long game win out in the end 😉

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Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · 3w ago

Societies rightly spend a lot of money on regulating drug trials. Allowing large scale betting on these trial outcomes just creates incentives to distort findings. This should be immediately legislated out of existence.

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 3w ago

Prediction market platform Kalshi will start taking bets on the outcomes of clinical trials and FDA regulatory reviews, it said on Thursday, making drug-development odds public for the first time.

Eiko Fried@eikofried.bsky.social · 3w ago

Blog post on new preprint by @ashleylwatts.bsky.social et al. They argue that correlations among internalizing & externalizing may not derive from comorbidity, but nomorbidity. I use an accessible simulatiom study tosupport this, & relate the preprint to prior work. eiko-fried.com/blog/psychop...

Psychopathology structure changes with severity | Eiko Fried

A simulation study showing that psychopathology structure changes with clinical severity

eiko-fried.com

Andrea Howard@drandreahoward.bsky.social · 4w ago

The real tragedy of this whole debacle is that we’re allowing people with bestseller cachet to peddle one-cause narratives when an excellent nuanced book that understands individual differences matter is *right there* (go read @peteetchells.bsky.social book)

Quoted text: Pete Etchells, a professor of psychology and science communication at Bath Spa University, also pushed back on the idea that Common Core is the primary cause of mental-health problems among American kids. “This is a common trap that we fall into when trying to figure out what’s going on with those declines,” he told me. “We try to answer the question of ‘What one big thing can explain this?’ The answer, in my view, is that there isn’t one big thing.” This was generally the thesis of Etchells’s own book Unlocked: The Real Science of Screen Time (And How to Spend It Better), which came out the week before The Anxious Generation did, sold only a few thousand copies, and received hardly any attention at all.
Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 4w ago

"What if It’s Not the Phones? An evolutionary psychologist is challenging the popular understanding of kids and technology." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Prof Stephen Wood@stephenwood8.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is a super-interesting paper. It also fits with the idea that lower severity (and earlier expression of psychopathology) is more overlapping. Progression is associated with crystalising conditions, as proposed by clinical staging

Ashley Watts@ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 4w ago

Excited to share a paper recently accepted at Nature Mental Health! 😄 For decades, we've assumed that covariance among psychopathology informs comorbidity. What if we’ve been wrong?