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there's also around Russia via the North Pole
Political Science and Genetics, odd bed fellows? Not necessarily! Listen in on this weeks episode of Born and Raised, with Sven Oskarsson, professor of political science at Uppsala university.
Interactive resources With the power of OJS and Quarto, I’ve created a few interactive websites to illustrate trickier statistical concepts when teaching. Check them out (and adapt and copy as much as you want!) With links to three different websites (accessible at the main link in the post)
Finally got around to adding fancy links to my different interactive teaching websites for showing things like p-hacking, p-value interpretations, and (still-in-draft-form) DAGs at www.andrewheiss.com/teaching/ #rstats #QuartoPub #statsky
This is pressure tactic and money earning opportunity less than actual risk. Despite Irans propaganda Stait is not actually blockaded. Its more of an insurence issue. We will see convoys before oil hits 90. And we'll know what Iran is actually capable to do. Won't be zero but less than predicted
There are a bunch or brief but well structured research fellowships opening up at the MRC-IEU: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
The last case of polio was detected in Finland in 1985 🤔
The genomics of Johari Window's façade 👇
I couldn't find a tool to plot different #neuroimaging data in one consistent style, so I made one! Meet yabplot (yet another brain plot) - a #Python package for (sub)cortex & tracts.🧠
- Simple API
- Built-in atlases
- Custom atlas support
🔗 github.com/teanijarv/ya... (drop a ⭐️!)
Eisenhower
Would there be interest in a "scientific programming with agents" writeup? I'd build the same R package with different LLM agents, and see how far each gets. I'd evaluate and what a good prompting strategy is, and how we could train our future students who'll never code themselves.
New newspaper headline for your Intro to Causal Inference lecture just dropped
In short, the US and Israel have started this war with vague and unachievable objectives, with no int law base, and little or no support from Gulf states or other US allies. If Iran succeeds in hitting US/Israeli targets or disrupts oil exports, Trump will find using mil force is not risk free. End
Bluesky needs polls
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Our institute is hiring
1. an assistant professor (with TT) for Social Psychology (focus: environmental psychology)
ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
2. an assistant lecturer (with TT) for Experimental Personality Psychology
ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
School psychology scholars: we have a job opening. We are Canadian and very nice humans. You can contact me for more info. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...
🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about...
🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples?
We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...
198 effect sizes in ego depletion resesrch showed an effect size of d=0.62. Preregistered large replications (including some by original authors) yielded an effect size of 0. No one has been able to offer any other explanation for this huge research waste than massive p-hacking.
Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/
The Big 5 test is about twice as accurate as the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator for predicting life outcomes, placing the usefulness of the MBTI test halfway between science and astrology.
Any psychologist will tell you, the Meyers-Briggs is mostly bullshit.
powerofusnewsletter.com/p/why-are-we...
A particular moment in my favourite Radiohead song always gives me goosebumps every time I play it. Turns out susceptibility to such “chills” (induced by music, poetry, art) varies between people & that genetic differences play a part. Check out our new paper, led by @giacomobignardi.bsky.social. 👇🧪
Great summary! Recent personality research has moved beyond Big Five to personality nuances. Nuances are even better at predicting outcomes, eg most suitable jobs - everyone can test themselves for free at whichjob.me
Great to be involved in this publication: "Phenome-wide study on alcohol consumption provides genetic evidence for a causal association with multiple diseases and biomarkers" led by Nigussie Kassaw - doi.org/10.1016/j.nu....
Very interesting perspective article by @caina89.bsky.social et al on genetic studies in psychiatry.
The authors argue that studies increasingly rely on "shallow" phenotyping (self-reported), leading to biases in estimation of genetic relationships between disorders.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In case you missed these, here's a compilation (for a few giggles to end the week).
1. Instagram post by NYUmed comms (oops).
bsky.app/profile/andr...
I'm hiring #PROMENTA @uio.no: Researcher (PhD) in post-pandemic youth mental health (#NordForsk consortium SISU/PRISM).
#MoBa #genetics + registry data -> gene-environment interactions. Please share!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... @ki.se @haskolinn.bsky.social @thlorg.bsky.social
Another Claude project: a static site that pulls in GWAS SNP data from ensemble, multiple public biobanks, open targets, gtex, eqtl catalog, and OMIM.
sashagusev.github.io/gwas_lookup/
Looking forward to this year's Behavior Genetics Association (BGA) conference, in my hometown of Amsterdam!
Deadline for abstracts is next week, February 16th: bga.org/content.aspx...
Me and @aysuo.bsky.social talk to @sjoerdalten.bsky.social about economics and genetics. And we get some book recommendations. Neat!
Mendelian Randomization is powerful but often debated. We benchmarked it against the "ground truth" of human metabolic pathways to see how often it gets it right. 🧬
Result: MR is robust! It matches known metabolism in 43% of cases and identifies valid drug targets.
www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...
