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Scott Myers @smyers20.bsky.social · 13d

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

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There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Efficacy of oral folinic acid supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (2024)

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Michelle Meyer @michellemeyer.bsky.social · 29d

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.

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Jun 4

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 · Jun 4

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

Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’

Group behind Retraction Watch aims to pinpoint the most influential flawed health data.

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Christopher Chabris @cfchabris.bsky.social · May 27

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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David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · May 15

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/

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Christopher Chabris @cfchabris.bsky.social · May 14

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)

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Michelle Meyer @michellemeyer.bsky.social · May 10

And you’d try to get the meeting started but with every straggler you’d be interrupted with “Dan” <recorded in exasperated tone> “is joining the call.” (JK I’m sure you never straggled.)

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Michelle Meyer @michellemeyer.bsky.social · May 6

Location: Danville, PA or (for exceptional candidates) any U.S. location.

Watch for more jobs in the coming days as we grow our Behavioral Insights and Program Evaluation teams! (2/2)

Michelle Meyer @michellemeyer.bsky.social · May 6

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

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Michelle Meyer @michellemeyer.bsky.social · Mar 20

Indeed!

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Michelle Meyer @michellemeyer.bsky.social · Mar 20

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.

I am unconvinced that the three additional citations, all to [redacted], add to the paper. Although I fully understand the authors’ decision to include them given the other reviewer’s suggestions, I would like to voice my firm support if they prefer not to include them in the final version.

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Michelle Meyer @michellemeyer.bsky.social · Mar 18

Meanwhile… www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/t...

Eric Green is out as head of National Human Genome Research Institute

The longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more changes.

www.statnews.com

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Michelle Meyer @michellemeyer.bsky.social · Mar 5

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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Michelle Meyer @michellemeyer.bsky.social · Feb 28

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

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · Feb 10

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...

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Paul Hufe @paulhufe.net · Nov 28

🔊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).

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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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Michelle Meyer @michellemeyer.bsky.social · Nov 23

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 · Nov 23

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...
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Felipe A. Araujo @felipeaaraujo.bsky.social · Nov 23

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.

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Michelle Meyer @michellemeyer.bsky.social · Jul 15

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....

Stephanie Kraft, JD, Assistant Professor
Geisinger Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences (as of July 15, 2024)

Education:
-- BA, Economics, Stanford
-- JD, University of California Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) (concentration in law & health sciences)
-- Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Integration of Research on Genetics and Ethics, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University School of Medicine

Previously:
-- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics (Division of Bioethics & -- Palliative Care), U. Washington SOM
-- Director of Research, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics & Palliative Care, Seattle Children’s Research Inst.
-- NHGRI K01 awardee on respect and trust in research

Expertise and Research Focus:
-- Ethical, legal, and social implications of genomics
-- Research ethics/ELSI of the Learning Health System
-- Ethics and equity in the implementation of emerging health technologies

Nick Byrd, PhD, Assistant Professor
Geisinger Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences (as of July 22, 2024)

Education:
-- B.A., Philosophy, Palm Beach Atlantic University
-- M.A., Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder
-- Ph.D., Philosophy, Florida State University (most coursework towards a second PhD in Psychology)
-- Intelligence Community Postdoc., Carnegie Mellon University & Stevens Institute of Technology

Previously, Stevens Institute of Technology:
-- Assistant Professor of Philosophy
-- Affiliate Faculty, Institute for Artificial Intelligence
-- Affiliate Faculty, Quantitative Social Science

Expertise and Research Focus:
-- Quantitatively tracing thoughts (transcripts or recordings)
-- Improving decisions (with interventions, nudges, AI)
-- How better decisions benefit education, health, medicine

Kate Saylor, MS, PhD, Assistant Professor
Geisinger Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences (as of September 2, 2024)

Education:
-- BA, Biology/Neurobiology, Macalester College
-- MS, Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Sciences University
-- PhD, Public Policy, UNC Chapel Hill
-- Postdoctoral Fellow in the ELSI of Genetics and Genomics, Penn Med. Dept. of Medical Ethics & Health Policy

Previously, NIH:
-- NIH Presidential Management Fellow
-- Health Policy Analyst, NHGRI
-- Special Assistant to the Associate Director for Science Policy, Office of the Director

Expertise and research focus:
-- Normative analysis of fairness and equity in cost-effectiveness analysis and healthcare allocation
-- Cost-effectiveness of medical interventions (e.g., BRCA1/2 genetic testing) using simulation modeling
-- Impact of biased data on the quality of evidence across patient populations

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Michelle Meyer @michellemeyer.bsky.social · Apr 5

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

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Mar 27

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.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Michelle Meyer @michellemeyer.bsky.social · Mar 12

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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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Michelle Meyer @michellemeyer.bsky.social · Mar 11

I also disagree with IRB review of any survey instrument, since all surveys are exempt one way or another—unless the researchers are relying on exemption 2(ii), which depends on the researcher’s claim that survey responses are not sensitive (I’m happy with the IRB vetting that claim independently).

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Michelle Meyer @michellemeyer.bsky.social · Mar 11

Of course incomplete disclosure is a nebulous concept since one can never disclose all details of a study. I hope the premise isn’t that randomization fits (2). But IMO disclosure isn’t compelled by (1) either, & the fact that it’s called out by some IRBs might indeed reflect an AB effect of sorts.

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Michelle Meyer @michellemeyer.bsky.social · Mar 11

Oh dear. I disagree strongly, but this is not unheard of (& alas I don’t know of a resource arguing the negative). For instance, Penn’s IRB views this as incomplete disclosure (which is at least conceptually coherent, unlike deeming it deception) & requires debriefing irb.upenn.edu/homepage/soc...

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