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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 2d

Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence

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Adam Turnbull @adamgturnbull.bsky.social · 8d

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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · 17d

🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨

We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health.

We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach.

With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social

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Adam Turnbull @adamgturnbull.bsky.social · 17d

Just continuing the long-standing scientific tradition of prioritizing cool-sounding names for things over clear science communication 😅

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Adam Turnbull @adamgturnbull.bsky.social · 17d

Something like this? Source: jtr13.github.io/cc21fall2/ra... but then it doesn't look like a raincloud... (original raincloud plot source pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...)

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Adam Turnbull @adamgturnbull.bsky.social · 17d

This is a ready-made advert for raincloud plots

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22d

Huntington’s disease treated successfully for first time in gene therapy trial

UCL trialled hours-long surgical procedure to treat disease which causes dementia and paralysis Huntington’s disease, a devastating degenerative illness that runs in families, has been treated successfully for the first time in a breakthrough gene therapy trial. The disease, caused by a single gene defect, steadily kills brain cells leading to dementia, paralysis and ultimately death. Those with a parent with Huntington’s have a 50% chance of developing the disease, which until now has been incurable. Continue reading...

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Ian Kremer @leadcoalition.bsky.social · 23d

New landscape of the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... by @thelancet.com

#Alzheimers #dementia #biomarkers #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence

New landscape of the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease involves a drastic departure from the cognitive, functional, and behavioural trajectory of normal ageing, and is both a dreaded and highly prevalent cause of disability to individu...

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Michael W. Cole @mwcole.bsky.social · Sep 14

Lab’s latest is out in Imaging Neuroscience, led by Kirsten Peterson: “Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding”, where we demonstrate a major improvement to standard fMRI functional connectivity (correlation) 1/n

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 29d

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life.

Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’

Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits

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Adam Turnbull @adamgturnbull.bsky.social · Sep 15

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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · Sep 12

📱EMA is increasingly used in intervention studies to acquire a more fine-grained and ecologically valid assessment of change. But EMA is relatively burdensome. What's the added value? We tried to address this question in our new paper now out @jmirpub.bsky.social www.jmir.org/2025/1/e69297 1/n

Ecological Momentary Assessment as a Measure of Intervention Change: Evaluation in 4 Digital Mental Health Trials

Background: Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is increasingly being incorporated into intervention studies to acquire a more fine-grained and ecologically valid assessment of change. The added uti...

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · Sep 10

Will ICE send guys to Boston looking for red hair and listening for brogues? Or stake out delis in Chicago to see who buys a kielbasa?
No. This is about profiling people by skin color and language.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Government Wants to See Your Papers

And the Supreme Court decides that the Fourth Amendment might not be for everyone.

www.theatlantic.com

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Women's Health Research Cluster @whrcluster.bsky.social · Sep 8

How do sex, stress & anxiety shape risk for Alzheimer’s disease?

Join Dr. Holly Hunsberger on Sept 15 for our next #WHSS talk on vulnerabilities to aging & AD.

📅 Sept 15 | 12pm ET
💻 Free, virtual — register today: ow.ly/KR1150WJEny

#Alzheimers #Research #WomensHealth

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Sep 2

So, kudos to both #Democrats & #Republicans in the House for their draft mark-up for next year's #budget, which maintains funding for #NIH (just like the Senate). This is rare, true #bipartisanship and should be praised. But #RussellVought will not be stopped by an appropriations bill. Why? 1/

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Adam Turnbull @adamgturnbull.bsky.social · Aug 29

Forever grateful for having a dad who was into jazz so I was never at risk of being in the no-jazz group. Now I get to have a re-discovery phase every few years when I get into something new or find a new appreciation for something I'd always liked. Just wish it was more readily available live.

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · Aug 29

After 5 years, I finally carved out time to turn this blog post on FDR (markallenthornton.com/blog/fdr-pro...) into a manuscript. The preprint features a much broader range of simulations showing how FDR promotes confounds, and how this effect compounds with publication bias: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Effect of confound mass on true positive rates under FDR correction. Confound mass represents how large a confound is in terms of the product of its voxel extent and effect size. Results are shown at differing combinations of true effect size, true effect voxel extent, and sample size.

Inflated surface maps of meta-analytic z-statistics from Neurosynth for low-level confounds (top) and high-level cognitive tasks (bottom). Red reflects positive activations, blue reflects negative (de)activations, and darker colors indicate larger z-statistics. Maps are thresholded at |z| = 1 for visualization purposes.

Effect of confound effect size on true positive rates for task effects under FDR correction. Colors indicate sample sizes: N = 25 in blue, N = 50 in green, and N = 100 in orange. Effect sizes are reflected by the darkness of each color, with light shades representing d = .2, medium d = .5, and dark d = .8. The task brain maps and confound brain maps referenced in each panel are shown in Figure 3.

Effect of FDR-based publication bias on observed confound effects sizes. Simulated meta-analytic confound effect sizes are visualized through violin plots for each combination of task effect and confound effect examined in the neural data simulations. Meta-analyses featuring publication bias (orange) substantially inflate these effect size estimates in all cases, relative to meta-analyses featuring no publication bias (blue).

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Adam Turnbull @adamgturnbull.bsky.social · Aug 20

the absolute worst thing they can do is be over the second apron without a chance of competing for a title: the penalties are brutal. I think if they can stay under it for 2 years while keeping Brown/White they can take shots to compete again when Tatum is back. not really fun but the reality...

Adam Turnbull @adamgturnbull.bsky.social · Aug 20

Although I will say a lot of this is the current media and cultural environment. It's easier to compete in long-form media and when people have decent science (or whatever domain you're trying to explain) literacy.

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Adam Turnbull @adamgturnbull.bsky.social · Aug 20

I agree to some extent: there are excellent science communicators that "preserve the interest in truth" but even the best ones don't compete with the junk scientists in terms of popularity. I think the trust can't compete with falsity but that doesn't mean you shouldn't at least try.

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Adam Turnbull @adamgturnbull.bsky.social · Aug 20

Impossible to judge from this off-season. Punting this year is the only rational choice.

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Adam Turnbull @adamgturnbull.bsky.social · Aug 20

I agree that rationalists could use these tactics more but I do think there is often a trade-off between trying to represent the truth and being appealing.

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Adam Turnbull @adamgturnbull.bsky.social · Aug 20

I think it's tricky... e.g., in science communication. The people that get popular are often those most willing to play it fast and loose with these tactics when discussing what is "true" or what we know. The reality is objectively more boring, complicated, and harder to sell.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · Aug 20

This is the definition of a failed social media platform.

For scientists who use social media to encourage followers to visit external links (websites, papers, etc.,) here’s some data from this blog. For nearly a decade, Twitter was the #1 or #2 source of traffic to the blog almost every day. It hasn’t been in the top 10 sources of traffic to the blog in years, and a single SheetMusicPlus.com article from 2016 generates more traffic here than all of Twitter. So far this year, Bluesky is responsible for about 100x as much traffic as Twitter. AltMetric reports that despite Twitter having 10x the user base as BlueSky, BlueSky users share almost as many scholarly publications as Twitter users- and Twitter’s numbers are declining as Bluesky’s rise.

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