I missed the llama AND the rooster?! I want a Portland refund

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

pubpeer.com/publications...

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.

A huge development for normalization and support of the scientific sleuth community as an important component of a healthy, high integrity research system.

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...

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).

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/

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)

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.)

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)

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

Indeed!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Nationwide preliminary injunction GRANTED in the three consolidated #NIH #indirects cases. www.scribd.com/document/835...

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

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...

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…

🔊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).

essgn.org/essgn-confer...

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) 👇

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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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

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....

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

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.

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...

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...

reason.com/volokh/2024/...

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).

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.

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...

NEW: Open Letter on the Need for Preregistration Transparency in Peer Review
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

To work as intended, preregistration needs to be part of peer review process. We make commitments to doing so as authors, editors, & reviewers.

Please sign and share widely with colleagues!

Can we add “as reviewers, we will not complain that a study was not preregistered when the prereg link was dutifully included right there, in the manuscript itself, for all to see” and “as editors, we will confirm reviewer claims about lack of preregistration are not obviously false”? #stillbitter

‼️We’re hiring for several research positions at the intersection of behavioral science & health, spanning lab studies, big data studies, & field experiments:

✔️Predoctoral fellow (starting asap)
✔️Postdoctoral fellow (starting asap)
✔️Faculty (open rank; timing flexible)

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Harvard is asking for all counts against it to be dismissed for failing to state a claim upon which relief can be granted—except for her Title IX claim (they will of course seek summary judgment on that count after discovery, if it gets that far). Data Colada answer due 11/8.