Jan R. Boehnke

@jrboehnke.bsky.social

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I work at the School of #HealthSciences, University of Dundee

Measurement, (health-related) quality of life #HRQL, multimorbidity, #ResearchEthics, publishing, #PeerReview, research assessment

Ex- #REF2021, former #NightshiftEditor

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Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · Sep 1

New #AcademicYear - New #introduction

I am a researcher at #DundeeUni, interested in health-related quality of life
#HRQoL #Psychometrics

I teach #ResearchMethodology and #ResearchMethods (focus #Quantitative)

I worked as a #NightshiftEditor and mull over roles in and sense of #AcademicPublishing

A bronze statue of a lemming from the game Lemmings looking over the top of a pillar. It hangs on to the pyramidal shaped top with its right hand, looking into the distance shielding its eyes with the left. Palm trees and other flowers like in a park or garden are visible behind. Clouds in the sky, but some blue visible as well.

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 7h

European Journal of #PsychologicalAssessment publishes TOP updates to 'materials, data, code publicly available'

and updated word limits, "the extended word count should primarily go towards the Methods and Results section" 👏

econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/full/10....

#Psychometrics #OpenScience

Introducing New Author Instructions at EJPA | European Journal of Psychological Assessment

econtent.hogrefe.com

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Ioana A. Cristea @ioanaacristea.bsky.social · 8h

New preprint retracted randomized trials attributed to super-retractors and top-cited scientists with multiple retractions: secondary analysis of the VITALITY retrospective cohort
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Led by PhD students, C Lyu & M Matbouriahi, w/ @floriannaudet.bsky.social, J Ioannidis

Retracted randomized trials attributed to super-retractors and top-cited scientists with multiple retractions: secondary analysis of the VITALITY retrospective cohort

Importance Multiple retractions from the same author often uncover issues affecting their entire work, such as having systematically altered or fabricated data. Objectives Evaluate the contribution o...

www.medrxiv.org

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 11h

Reading the "University of Dundee Section 25 Conditions of Funding as at 26 November 2025"* by #SFC I learned a new word:

timeous
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...

* available here:
www.sfc.ac.uk/assurance-ac...

#DundeeUni #HEI #HigherEducation #Funding

timeous

1. A timeous action is done quickly or before the time when it needed to be…

dictionary.cambridge.org

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 12h

The Candidates' responses in the #DundeeUni “Chair of Court election hustings” gave interesting perspectives on the problems of #HEI and #Dundee in particular.

One quote by Esther Roberton on pay 👇
(she acknowledged that pay offered may have impact of recruitment, though)

#Governance #Charity

Quote by Esther Roberton:
“When I discovered what principals earn, I was taken aback. […] I had a Chief Exec running a health board with nearly £2bn of a budget, 22.5 thousand staff, and he earned half of what some of our University Principals earn.

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 12h

Continuing the excellent journalism that has helped staff (and probably others) to understand what was going on in the last year, a lot of important details are covered in the discussion (David Clegg Alasdair Clark Andy Philip) and in the interview.
Episode
thestooshie.podbean.com/e/dundee-uni...

Dundee University principal Nigel Seaton, one year after crisis | The Stooshie: the politics podcast from DC Thomson

Our extended featured interview with Professor Nigel Seaton marks what could be a major turning point for Dundee University. One year after the financial crisis hit the headlines, is the university sa...

thestooshie.podbean.com

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 12h

#TheCourier published a “one year after” podcast episode that also included an interview with Professor Seaton.

Summary of the interview
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

#Funding #HigherEducation #Scotland #Dundee

EXCLUSIVE: Dundee University principal admits regret over 'no plan B' redundancy mistake

Interim Dundee University principal Nigel Seaton says staff have been the "victims" of mismanagement by his predecessors.

www.thecourier.co.uk

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 12h

The “Education, Children and Young People Committee” of the #ScottishParliament w Professor Nigel Seaton (Interim Principal, Vice-Chancellor) and Lee Hamill (Interim Finance Director) covered a wide range of concrete challenges in university management
www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...

Education, Children and Young People Committee | Scottish Parliament TV

www.scottishparliament.tv

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 12h

Three things I found interesting to delve into the UK #HEI crisis, case example #DundeeUni

A bit more detail here:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Pointers to the resources 👇

#Funding #HigherEducation #SFC

Fifty higher education providers at risk of exiting market in England, MPs told | Jan Rasmus Böhnke

Three things I found quite interesting to listen to about the crisis at the University of Dundee that illustrate the various crises in the UK #HigherEducation sector well and could therefore also be i...

www.linkedin.com

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 1d

There are good other resources out there, but this one is especially handy due to the breadth of topics covered:

statistical precision, bias from differential recruitment or missing data, how to select covariates, model-based approaches, missing data techniques, and illustration in a case study.

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 1d

This article offers a good discussion of covariate adjustment in cluster randomised trials:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

#RCT #Trials #StudyDesign

Covariate adjustment in cluster randomised trials: a practical guide

Covariate adjustment can offer several potential benefits in the analysis of cluster randomised trials. These benefits include increasing statistical precision (ie, narrowing width of confidence intervals), as well as potentially reducing any bias ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 2d

How to engage w collaborators in health state valuation, how to include their voices?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Based on 37 guidance documents and studies, the team develops a 15pt framework for developing guidance to improve practice in the field.

#HealthEconomics #PatientCentered #PPIE

Improving Collaborative Engagement in Health State Valuation: A Scoping Review of Current Practices and Emerging Recommendations - PharmacoEconomics

Background and Objective Collaborative engagement with individuals invested in or affected by health research, beyond researchers themselves, is advantageous and encouraged by major funding bodies. Ho...

link.springer.com

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 2d

Preregistrations without Code do not Prevent P-Hacking: You can increase your chances for a significant finding in the absence of real effects even with correlations and t test despite having preregistered your hypothesis (e.g., simply changing arguments in the functions).

doi.org/10.31222/osf...

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 2d

The Code of Conduct Democratic AI sets out 8 commitments supporting organisations deciding how to use AI in a deliberate manner:

- Weighing opportunities and risks

- Human-centeredness

- Transparency

- Participation

- Discrimination-critical

- Responsibility

- Competence

- Sustainability.

D64 @d-64.org · 3d

Brauchen wir als Verein wirklich KI?

Oft nicht.

KI ist kein Selbstzweck. Wir sollten uns vom Hype nicht treiben lassen, sondern auf unseren Bedarf schauen.

Mehr als 100 Organisationen haben den Code of Conduct Demokratische KI unterzeichnet: demokratische-ki.de/code-of-cond...

Ist KI wirklich zielführend?
Rechtfertigen die Vorteile
den Ressourcenaufwand?
Gibt es nachhaltigere Alternativen?
Bevor wir KI einsetzen, sollten wir fragen:
Unser Code of Conduct für Demokratische KI hilft gemein-nützigen Organisationen, diese Fragen zu beantworten.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 3d

This was a really interesting dataset to explore for #TidyTuesday, looking at how good different countries perform in terms of statistics.

Good news is that statistical performance has been improving overall, but bad news is that there are significant disparities 📊

#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

Small multiple line chart where each line presents a country's statistical performance over time since 2016. Each small multiple splits countries into different income brackets from high to low. The median for each small multiple is highlighted, with all four median lines trending upward, but at lower levels as income decreases.

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D64 @d-64.org · 3d

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 3d

Some stories from and about #DundeeUni graduates can be found in this LinkedIn feed:
www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...
#Nursing

www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...

#Graduation

Two of today's nursing grads have already put their training into practice - by helping save the life of a man who had fallen unconscious in the street. Kelly was heading into town with her sist...

Two of today's nursing grads have already put their training into practice - by helping save the life of a man who had fallen unconscious in the street. Kelly was heading into town with her sister w...

www.linkedin.com

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 3d

All the best to our graduates who graduated last week!

I am surprised how the same degree information leads to very different hoods being picked for me.

As I have no clue (evident by how I wear some 😅), any pointers to what they are, are welcome!

#Gown #AcademicDress
@burgonsociety.bsky.social

Collage with four square pictures showing someone wearing different hoods with academic dress. Top left black hood with red and purple inside and very thin golden or yellow rim. Top right black hood with blue inside and a yellow rim. Bottom left a black hood with only yellow inside. And bottom right a blue hood with red inside and a thin green rim.

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 3d

And maybe our "Living Well with Long-term Conditions" workgroup could be a good partner for the development activities? 😊
www.dundee.ac.uk/lwltc

#DundeeUni

Living Well with Long-Term Conditions (LWLTC)

Our research group aims to enhance the lives of people living with post-acute and long-term conditions to enable them to live well.

www.dundee.ac.uk

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 3d

Researcher development opportunity for #NHS employees in #Scotland working in roles such as nurse, midwife, allied health professional, pharmacist, paramedic, healthcare scientist
www.cso.scot.nhs.uk/fellowship-f...

🔥📆17.12.
www.cso.scot.nhs.uk

#Alba #Saidheans #CSO #AHP

CSO NHS Researcher Development Fellowship

To support and increase the level of high-quality health research conducted in Scotland.

www.cso.scot.nhs.uk

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 6d

Also, first paper coming out any day now. In the paper we describe the general modelling approach and methods underpinning LifeSim Childhood with an illustration of how to use the model
eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/23...

#MentalHealth #Microsimulation

LifeSim Childhood: Extrapolating Intervention Effects and Public Cost Savings from Birth to Adolescence in the UK - White Rose Research Online

eprints.whiterose.ac.uk

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 6d

High point this week was the Advisory Board Meeting for our "Long-Term Modelling Tools for Adolescent #MentalHealth and Wellbeing Research" project:
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...

Meeting colleagues who generously spend "brain time" with you is just fantastic 🙇

#Microsimulation #CYPMH

Gateway to Research (GtR) - Explore publicly funded research

The Gateway to Research: UKRI portal onto publically funded research

gtr.ukri.org

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EuroQol Research Foundation @euroqol.bsky.social · 7d

New insights from Virdis et al. on how different ethnic groups report their health 👇

- White respondents chose more mid-severity levels
- Asian & Black respondents reported fewer issues in Anxiety/Depression & Usual Activities.

💡 https://bit.ly/4r7LQh2

#HRQoL

Text: ‘Paper Thursday - Differences in rating of health related quality of life on the EQ-5D-5L between ethnic groups. by Virdis, J, M. Anselmi, L. Sutton, M. (2025).' The background is a gradient blue with overlaid images of books and the world map.

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 7d

Plug for projects w research group colleagues 😊

1) Regenerating Healthcare Pathways for Equitable Health & Wellbeing
#Futuring #Foresight #Participatory

2) Co-Designing Regenerative Therapeutic Spaces
#Participatory #MixedMethods

#HealthCare #DesignResearch #Regnr8i #Sustainability #Restorative

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 7d

Leverhulme Doctoral Programme for #RegenerativeInnovation* #PhD #Funding at #DundeeUni:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPL167/l...

* More info here:
www.dundee.ac.uk/phds/funding...

Leverhulme Doctoral Programme for Regenerative Innovation (Regnr8-i) at University of Dundee

jobs.ac.uk now advertising a Leverhulme Doctoral Programme for Regenerative Innovation (Regnr8-i) Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 7d

Three calls for papers from JPRO:
jpro.springeropen.com/articles/col...

Translation and Validation of Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) Measures

PROs in Clinical Registries

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in Telehealth

#PatientCentered #HRQOL #HealthEconomics #CrossCultural

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes

The Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes (JPRO) is an international, open-access, fully peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal publishing original ...

jpro.springeropen.com

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 7d

"The loss of workplace teaspoons was rapid, showing that their availability, and hence office culture in general, is constantly threatened." 😅🥄

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 9d

The Open Journals Collective
"This initiative replaces transformative agreements with a non-profit, community-led research infrastructure, collectively raising funds to support diamond journals."
Caroline Edwards, Birkbeck & a director of the Open Journals Collective.

* openjournalscollective.org

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Timo Gnambs @tgnambs.bsky.social · 14d

🌍 Call for papers: Educational Datasets for Psychological Research

🗓️ Deadline: June 30, 2026
🔗 More information: openpsychologydata.metajnl.com

The editorial team including Debora Maehler, @uschroeders.bsky.social , Kati Mozygemba, and myself look forward to your submission!

Journal of Open Psychology Data

openpsychologydata.metajnl.com

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Toshi Furukawa @toshi-frkw.bsky.social · 14d

The average SWD for antidepressants for MDD was RD of 20%, and SMD of around 0.5. mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1...

Reposted by Jan R. Boehnke

Michela Massimi @michelamassimi.bsky.social · 16d

The next conference of the Society for the Study of Measurement will take place at Edinburgh on 22-25 June.

Call for papers and symposia opens Nov 15 and closes Jan 15.

Submissions via app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec...

Events – The Society for the Study of Measurement

measurementsociety.org

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