Interesting. Thanks for sharing—that’s probably what I’d expect in terms of self report. I’m keen to see the effects of something large scale and well set up
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Interesting. Thanks for sharing—that’s probably what I’d expect in terms of self report. I’m keen to see the effects of something large scale and well set up
Extraordinary indeed! Gorgeous lingering shots in places, with those transient, moving visual meditations on the deep, chthonic earth and the raptor sky. Buckley is raw and a revelation. Silly me didn’t realise going in that Jupe the Elder was related to Hamnet! Jupe the Younger is such a talent ❤️
Professor @orbenamy.bsky.social from @mrccbu.bsky.social will co-lead the world’s first major trial to test whether reducing social media use can improve teen mental health.
Find out more about the IRL Trial: https://bit.ly/4a2FZmB
#socialmedia #research
Missed this last year. Jon Severs at the TES has done a good job of surveying the field and speaking to the right people in the UK.
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Excited to share our latest work on the factors that determine what genes we find (and don't find!) in GWAS and burden tests.
We describe a critical concept that we call *specificity*.
Led by Jeff Spence and Hakhamanesh Mostafavi:
A screenshot with the following Learning statistics with R: A tutorial for psychology students and other beginners. (Version 0.6.1) Danielle Navarro (bookdown translation: Emily Kothe) 2019-01-11 Overview Learning Statistics with R covers the contents of an introductory statistics class, as typically taught to undergraduate psychology students, focusing on the use of the R statistical software. The book discusses how to get started in R as well as giving an introduction to data manipulation and writing scripts. From a statistical perspective, the book discusses descriptive statistics and graphing first, followed by chapters on probability theory, sampling and estimation, and null hypothesis testing. After introducing the theory, the book covers the analysis of contingency tables, t-tests, ANOVAs and regression. Bayesian statistics are covered at the end of the book.
A screenshot with the following Welcome! Welcome to the online version of “Doing Meta-Analysis with R: A Hands-On Guide”. This book serves as an accessible introduction into how meta-analyses can be conducted in R. Essential steps for meta-analysis are covered, including pooling of outcome measures, forest plots, heterogeneity diagnostics, subgroup analyses, meta-regression, methods to control for publication bias, risk of bias assessments and plotting tools. Advanced, but highly relevant topics such as network meta-analysis, multi-/three-level meta-analyses, Bayesian meta-analysis approaches, and SEM meta-analysis are also covered. The programming and statistical background covered in the book are kept at a non-expert level. A print version of this book has been published with Chapman & Hall/CRC Press (Taylor & Francis)
Here are two "I can't believe these are free" online stats texts books that cover both underlying principles and practical applications in R that I regularly refer to.
Learning Statistics with R
learningstatisticswithr.com
Doing Meta-Analysis with R bookdown.org/MathiasHarre...
I’m proud of our Premier ❤️.
Some good news amid it all!
What is Dopamine, really? Wanting != liking. Seeking loop (phone) vs Motivation in motion (runner)
As a neurologist, I see the term "dopamine" everywhere: dopamine fasting, dopamine hits, dopamine culture. It's become a cultural shorthand for pleasure.
But the real story is far more complex and fascinating. Here’s a thread on what we actually know 🧠
Episode 4 of Screen Sense is out now! This week, we explore why our public conversations about tech often get stuck in fear, and how we might move toward more helpful ways of thinking and talking about screens, wellbeing and family life:
screensensepodcast.substack.com/p/episode-4-...
Large Language models are powerful prediction tools. Based on short aspirational essays written at age 11, these models predicted cognitive and non-cognitive traits up to the level of teacher assessments.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
How do autistic young people experience universal mental health interventions at school?
Please read/share this 🙏
A mum recently got in touch with me to share a story about her autistic daughter’s experience of mental health lessons in school
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6/ #chatgpt #learning #memory
5/ differ in systematic ways pre-intervention.
Session 4, which the authors hang a lot on, had 9 participants per cell, and there appears to be no attempt to handle order effects, carry-over, etc.
It’s a very interesting paper, but isn’t being tagged for its exploratory qualities.
4/ network dynamics and infer plausible roles for these dynamics based on prior mappings.
Perhaps most fatally for me is that it’s a) incredibly underpowered (n = 54), and b) had no baseline performance assessment (e.g., writing skill, cognitive ability, or prior AI experience) … the groups might
3/ better. There were no retention or transfer tasks in these studies. There were also no tests of depth of processing of the “rich associative processes” of writing. EEG can’t assess depth of idea generation or richness of thought, or quality of associative processes. It can only approximate
2/ methodological issues.
The authors get way out over their skis on what the EEG data in particular shows. There’s no longitudinal or behavioural evidence of memory loss. At best, the EEG data shows evidence of altered activation patterns under different task demands. More activation doesn’t =
1/ This paper is currently blowing up across the internet.
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
While I’m intrigued by the integration across modalities and the entirely valid questions that are thoroughly pedagogically relevant, there are some highly speculative claims in this paper, not to mention
Screen Sense: Parenting in a Digital World, the new podcast from @shuhbillskee.bsky.social and I - first episode is now live. We hope you enjoy it. open.substack.com/pub/screense...
Me neither … thank you for sharing, Leon. It’s behind a paywall—so the argument is that a greater proportion of the HSC mark should come from the exam? Do they advocate for anything else about the nature of school-based assessment?
Future Proofing Study: a cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of a universal school-based cognitive–behavioural programme for adolescent depression
This is a *key* new paper in the world of school mental health interventions
A very large trial (N=6388) testing a universal CBT-based app for adolescent depression (13-14y)
No effects found (on depression, anxiety, distress or insomnia)
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mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain rdcu.be/d72Fj - a fascinating paper from my @tcddublin.bsky.social colleagues Lara Cassidy, Dan Bradley and others, shedding light on the prominent role of women in Celtic societies
A Venn diagram showing the intersections of dogs, pirates and archaeologists. Dogs and pirates bury things for later, dogs and archaeologists get excited by bones, and archaeologists and pirates are good with maps. They all love digging things up.
A little #FridayFun - we love this recent cartoon by @tomgauld.bsky.social!
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This will be fascinating to follow. Eager to see what emerges from it.
Fantastic preprint on the pitfalls of dichotomising continuous data (and what goes on under the hood when you do) from @tomohiroinoue.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/...
#AcademicSky
I still see many students taking notes by hand
Turns out, there's a benefit! See meta-analysis:
Laptop users take more notes, but under-perform.
Students, resist temptation to write down everything we say!
Listen, think, capture the key essence
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Storm front rolling by before it started howling and lightning (x 2 speed)
#SydneyStorm
Great to see work from our team lead by the fantastic @fassiluisa.bsky.social being written up for a general audience by The Mental Elf! Worth a read if you are interested in the evidence base on social media and clinical anxiety/depression in young people ⬇️
Our new paper on why people love sad art
The key question: You probably wouldn’t enjoy it if someone started telling you about how she is addicted to drugs and her life is failing apart. So why do you love it when she creates a work of art about that very same thing?
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Very much agree. The author of this article has quite a line in catastrophising about screens (including boosting this openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/ha... very poor quality research from Norway), and appeared to want to hang an article on a TikTok. Reading rate reductions are complex, as you say.
New Preprint! "Reproducibility and replicability of qualitative research: An integrative review of concepts, barriers and enablers" - osf.io/preprints/me...
A nice ouput from our TIER2 project, led by Nicki Lisa Cole :)
