What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

We’re not clear on what psychopathology is, at all

Registration for the 2025 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) is open!

www.psychometricsociety.org/imps2025-reg...

#IMPS2025 #Psychometrics #QuantitativePsychology

Always lovely to get emails from professors who use my open textbook in their stats course. There are now 17 chapters, explaining on a slightly more conceptual level why we compute statistics and what we learn from them, with self-graded quizzes: lakens.github.io/statistical_...

Upgrade your #causalinference arsenal.

A revision of our book "Causal Inference: What If" is available at miguelhernan.org/whatifbook

Thanks to everyone who suggested improvements, reported typos, and proposed new citations and material.

Enjoy the #WhatIfBook plus code and data. Also, it's free.

The limiting factor for MRI based prediction of behavioral traits may be neither the imaging nor the pipeline or learning algorith but rather the reliability of the target phenotypes

Thought provoking work my Martin Gell et al:

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

Really enjoyed doing this Q&A on complex traits, heritability, twins, and GWAS. Psychiatry At The Margins is a gem!

Once again reminded of @rmcelreath.bsky.social's "Science as Amateur Software Development" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qzV...). I know that time is a finite resource, but better coding would definitely be worth it -- it's a genuinely useful skill, outside of academia as well.

Short thread about a preprint we have just finished: osf.io/preprints/ps... The short story: we used NLP to look at the semantic overlap across 30 scales that measure different aspects of subjective time. The longer version of the story in the following posts
#neuroscience #PsychSciSky #cogpsyc

A preprint of our chapter, Stalking the Wild Quincunx, is here. To be published by Cambridge University Press. drive.google.com/file/d/1bfSW...

I wrote about bridging ideographic (dynamic systems) theory in psychology and genetic epidemiology when I couldn't sleep. its about trying to bridge scientific worlds, getting ppl to recognise shared goals, and trying to take English ppl to a good bar in Amsterdam and failing (spelling quality: 3am)

what should i do if a reviewer demands an a priori power analysis for an experiment i already did … ;)