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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · Aug 13

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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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Aug 13

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? 🧵

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Drew Bailey @drewhalbailey.bsky.social · Jul 25

Random Intercepts and Slopes in Longitudinal Models: When Are They "Good" and "Bad" Controls?

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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...

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Nicholas Judd @njudd.com · Jul 1

A similar effect happens for telomeres, yet 13 editors agreed it shouldn't get past the desk.

Possibly it was seen as narrow in scope, yet education has one of the largest confounded effects with aging biomarkers. If this is happening for education... Mediterranean diets, etc watch out.

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Nicholas Judd @njudd.com · Jul 1

Here, you can even see how the weight of evidence shifts across 6 different structural brain metrics related to aging when you look at educational attainment (correlational) and education from a policy change (causal).

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Nicholas Judd @njudd.com · Jul 1

Using the largest sample of telomere length around (UK Biobank), we really find absolutely no effect from an additional year of education via a policy change. This mirrors our null finding for structural neuroimaging in Elife.

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Nicholas Judd @njudd.com · Jul 1

There is a serious lack of causal inference in psychology as a whole, which @pwgtennant.bsky.social & @dingdingpeng.the100.ci, among others, have been pointing at!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Natural Experiments: Missed Opportunities for Causal Inference in Psychology - Michael P. Grosz, Adam Ayaita, Ruben C. Arslan, Susanne Buecker, Tobias Ebert, Paul Hünermund, Sandrine R. Müller, Sven R...

Knowledge about causal effects is essential for building useful theories and designing effective interventions. The preferred design for learning about causal e...

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Nicholas Judd @njudd.com · Jul 1

As mentioned by others (Rentscher et al., AnnRev, 2020) the vast majority of this work isn't even longitudinal. It is just people cross-sectionally relating telomere length to [insert your favorite IV].

Our paper is (to my knowledge) the first natural experimental design on telomeres.

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Nicholas Judd @njudd.com · Jul 1

Lots of prior work has related longer telomeres to a host of positive lifestyle factors - with often the explicit hx that engaging in these behaviors will slow down biological aging (aka build a cognitive reserve).

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Nicholas Judd @njudd.com · Jul 1

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.

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Siwei Liu @siweiliu.bsky.social · Jun 27

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-...

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Nicholas Judd @njudd.com · Jun 29

Just saw this post on how Claude destroyed thousands of books to train it's models.

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…

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Attila Krajcsi @krajcsi.bsky.social · May 5

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

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CoolenIlse @coolenilse.bsky.social · May 16

🚨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.

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Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · May 14

🚨 “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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Pietro Biroli @pietrobiroli.bsky.social · May 9

not a visualization but a good paper about this
direct.mit.edu/rest/article...

Omitted Variable Bias in Interacted Models: A Cautionary Tale

Abstract. We highlight that analyses using interaction terms to study treatment effect heterogeneity are susceptible to a form of omitted variable bias that is often overlooked in economics. Unlike mo...

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · May 8

Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

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rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · May 6

Are you an international early career scholar considering spending time in the Netherlands? We likely have capacity to host a Marie Curie Fellow if you are interested. Our lab (lifespancognitivedynamics.com) works on modeling cognitive change in early or later life, at short and long timescales.

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Noah Greifer @noahgreifer.bsky.social · May 6

A paper I find extremely interesting on the equivalence between fixed effects models and "tweaked" random effects models:

doi.org/10.1017/pan....

Understanding, Choosing, and Unifying Multilevel and Fixed Effect Approaches | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core

Understanding, Choosing, and Unifying Multilevel and Fixed Effect Approaches - Volume 30 Issue 1

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · May 3

Good question! I think in that setup just drawing the DAG (with repeated nodes) may be the starting point? The paper on outcome-wide longitudinal designs may also be helpful: content.sph.harvard.edu/wwwhsph/site... >

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Apr 30

This 2024 gem by @marinopagan.bsky.social has also changed how I think (about individual variability and the importance of complex systems to measure things we've never measured before):

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Individual variability of neural computations underlying flexible decisions - Nature

Behavioural experiments to study decision-making in response to context-dependent accumulation of evidence provide testable models that are consistent with the heterogeneity in neural signatures among...

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Dr Elsje van Bergen @drelsje.bsky.social · Apr 13

Big performance differences by parental education 📊
While boys and girls scored similarly, a striking education gradient emerged:
🎓 Children of Master's-educated parents mostly scored above the mean
🧑‍🔧 Children of lower-secondary educated parents mostly scored below the mean
doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵

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Aleksandra Lazić @alelazic.bsky.social · Apr 26

Ran into this fantastic open access resource while doing it!

📊 Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals dx.doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

🔗 matthewbjane.quarto.pub/guide-to-eff...

Jané, M.B., Xiao, Q., Yeung, S., Azevedo, F., Ben-Shachar, M.S., Caldwell, A.R., Cousineau, D., Dunleavy, D.J., Elsherif, M., Harlow T.J., Johnson, B., Moreau, D., Riesthuis, P., Röseler, L., Steele, J., Vieira, F.F., Zloteanu, M., & Feldman, G. (2024). Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals.

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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · Mar 28

Question: “Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages”? Vikesh Amin, @hanspkohler.bsky.social @jasonmfletcher.bsky.social et al. dig into the Harmonized Cognition Assessment Protocol of the HRS to examine education & cognitive aging. @SociologyatPenn read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Nicholas Judd @njudd.com · Mar 27

That's just AIDs, per year direct deaths are estimated at 3.3mil; serious travesty

www.cgdev.org/blog/how-man...

How Many Lives Does US Foreign Aid Save?

We present some estimates for lives saved by US assistance worldwide, with illustrative estimates by recipient country. Our core estimates are for deaths prevented from HIV/AIDS, vaccine-preventable i...

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