Here we have another observational study looking at alcohol consumption & mortality. The findings? Moderate wine drinking is associated with LOWER risk, while moderate beer/spirits drinking is associated with HIGHER risk. Think about that ... www.foxnews.com/health/beer-...

Beer, wine or liquor? Massive study reveals which was linked to lower death risk

Heavy alcohol use raised death risk by 24%, but wine at low levels was linked to lower mortality than beer or spirits in a UK Biobank study.

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Many of you will have seen the recent post about changes at OSF. If you'd like to learn more about how to use other services (particularly Zenodo) to share data and code, see my book chapter on resource sharing. bettercode-book.org/book-sharing...

It finally happened to me - I was invited to review my own paper!

1. We've gotten so used to Trump's declarations that it's easy to focus on the substance of this executive order (which is utter nonsense) rather than the fact he's making it at all. To my knowledge it's unprecedented for a president to issue direct clinical guidance from the White House podium.

Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

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I cannot wait for my copy to arrive! 🤓

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 5d ago

New issue of WiP just arrived and I genuinely can’t decide what to read first — What medicine could be, will farm animals always suffer, what if everything we know about recycling was wrong, a piece about how Thailand was never conquered, daycare pseudoscience.

Some interesting cheating in a 2026 Nature paper. Similar areas in this fluorescence measurement are unexpected, these tend to be quite noisy. Source data confirms sections have been copied and pasted 👇

"Ultimately, PAW Patrol echoes core tenets of neoliberalism and encourages complicity in a global capitalist system that (re)produces inequalities and causes environmental harms." What a way to end an abstract...

Andrea Howard@drandreahoward.bsky.social · 7d ago

HEY. The Economist is ripping off a sociological analysis of Paw Patrol from five years ago. You think we don’t remember obscure academic writing that made the rounds on Twitter?? WE REMEMBER.

HEY. The Economist is ripping off a sociological analysis of Paw Patrol from five years ago. You think we don’t remember obscure academic writing that made the rounds on Twitter?? WE REMEMBER.

“Whenever there’s trouble, just yelp for help”: Crime, conservation, and corporatization in Paw Patrol - Liam Kennedy, 2021

With few exceptions, cultural criminologists have yet to investigate how crime, criminalized individuals, and punishment are depicted in children’s television p...

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The Economist@economist.com · last wk.

They may look like a pack of cutesy anthropomorphised dogs. Don’t be fooled: some say the cartoon heroes of “Paw Patrol” are covert outriders for authoritarian capitalism

New method for advancing scientific knowledge is about to drop.

Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · last wk.

Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications...

Some sensible suggestions for bio-banking www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses - Nature Human Behaviour

The authors use information on 14 traits and create a representative pseudo-sample of the UK Biobank population, showing that participation bias distorts behavioural genome-wide association study and ...

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🧬 New preprint! An interpretable omnigenic neural network architecture for the human genome We introduce the Omnigenic Model (OGM), a neural network architecture for human genetics. It uses biological system structure to aggregate genetic variation for disease risk prediction.

If you wanna catch up on new research in your networks, I recommend this bsky feed! It's great. It shows you posts linking to academic papers - from people you already follow. I've found it very useful so far.

Can one minute daily audio recordings replace long symptom surveys? Very excited about our new paper addressing this question! @aidangcw.bsky.social @vizecolin.bsky.social et al. Short 🧵 below...

Scalable, context-sensitive psychiatric assessment with large language models and brief diaries | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core

Scalable, context-sensitive psychiatric assessment with large language models and brief diaries - Volume 56

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#psychjobs

Anne Reitz@annereitz.bsky.social · 3w ago

📢 We’re hiring! Postdoc in Personality Psychology & Psychological Assessment at the University of Greifswald. ✨ Lots of freedom for your own research ✨ Start Oct 2026 or later ✨ Long-term perspective toward a permanent position Deadline: 15 Aug Please share — and feel free to get in touch!

The "Serenity Prayer" (*Serenity to accept things I can't change/Courage to change the things I can/Wisdom to know the difference*) is usually cited as pop psychology or addiction recovery advice, but I think there's a place for it in policymaking. 1/

that was a great workshop!

Nature Metabolism@natmetabolism.nature.com · 3w ago

#Throwback 🧪 PERSPECTIVE | On the pathogenesis of obesity: causal models and missing pieces of the puzzle F Magkos ‪@kevinh-phd.bsky.social‬ ‪@johnspeakman4.bsky.social‬ A Astrup et al

23andMe is hiring for 2 amazing roles! - Scientist, ML for Health Risk Prediction: build next-gen health prediction tools integrating genetics. - Scientist, Population Genetics: build state-of-the-art algorithms for genetic relationship & ancestry inference. Links below!

🧵Wow. A Case Western study by the group of Ash Sehgal on the impact of induction stoves replacing gas stoves on households with asthma found something remarkable: in 72 homes, asthma went down. Significantly.

Every part of this story is more horrifying than the last.

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · 3w ago

A couple paid more than $800,000 for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died, and it wasn’t made public. An exclusive from us and @science.org.

I just rebuilt my website using Quarto 🎉 My publication list generates itself from my Zotero library, and papers include links to materials and OA versions. The website's first post is on how to build your own, featuring an app that does all the coding for you: dsquintana.com/posts/quarto...

Weekend reads: Young girl’s death after gene therapy never made public; FDA retracts lettuce test result; ADA delays editorial publication after controversy

Weekend reads: Young girl’s death after gene therapy never made public; FDA retracts lettuce test result; ADA delays editorial publication after controversy

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Exclusive: A couple’s daughter died after they paid more than $…

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1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:

Does the (live) shingles vaccine protect against dementia? Fergus Hamilton and colleagues provide important evidence in a new preprint using hospital data from the whole of England in a regression discontinuity design from which we *don't* show evidence of a meaningful protective effect /cont

#Estonia 🇪🇪 has once again been ranked the world’s most environmentally friendly country, topping the Environmental Performance Index by @Yale and @Columbia for the second time. #climate #EnergySecurity🧵 1/4 environment.yale.edu/news/article...

2026 EPI: Climate Bright Spots but Slow Progress Globally

Europe continues to dominate in the rankings but is likely to hit a wall without more ambitious strategies and agricultural reform.

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The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

Can we quantify the impact of individual DNA mutations on healthcare costs? In our new preprint we ran the largest GWAS of healthcare costs to date: 1,429,889 individuals, 11 cohorts, 7 countries, across inpatient, outpatient, primary care, and prescription expenditure 💰🧬

Happy 108th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social