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Chloe Fawns-Ritchie

@cfawnsritchie.bsky.social
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Psychology Lecturer, University of Edinburgh. Research: Cognitive Ageing | Chronic Pain | Psychological Predictors of Health

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
This article illustrates how problematic are publication venues like Qeios, which operate without editorial oversight. The author doesn’t cite Lynn at all; the source of “national IQ” data is given instead as this paper 👇 which appears to be “peer approved” but is in fact just Lynn’s data rehashed
Screenshot of a publication in Qeios on “The intelligence of nations: national IQs and correlates

The article has received an average peer review score of 3,38, which has given it the “green light” of peer approval
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 25/01/2026
The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement. In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99. At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
PhD position with Dr Chloe Fawns-Ritchie @cfawnsritchie.bsky.social exploring how chronic pain and analgesic use shape cognitive decline and #dementia using UK Biobank and other cohorts with advanced modelling. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/phd-pain...
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PhD: Pain, prescribing and cognitive decline
PhD explores how chronic pain and analgesic use shape cognitive decline and dementia using UK Biobank and other cohorts with advanced modelling
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 07/11/2025
I feel like psychometrics is uniquely bad at naming things. Parallel, congeneric, tau-equivalent, essentially tau-equivalent measures? Configural, metric, scalar, residual invariance? Item difficulty defined so that the higher the difficulty, the easier the item???
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René Mõttus @renemottus.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Submissions are now open for 22nd European Conference on Personality (Edinburgh, 2026); deadline 7/12/25. Keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops have also been confirmed. www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission
European Conference on Personality, Edinburgh, 2026
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 11/09/2025
New paper out with @boryslaw.bsky.social 🥳 In which we sketch out how to rethink measurement invariance causally for applied researchers. And provide a causal definition of measurement invariance! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rethinking measurement invariance causally

Highlights:
It is preferable to work with a causal definition of measurement invariance
A violation of measurement invariance is a potentially substantively interesting observation
Standard tests for measurement invariance rely on strong assumptions
Group differences can be thought of as descriptive resultsConceptual graph illustration the central points of the manuscript. A group variable is potentiall connected to a construct of interest which affects items. Measurement invariance is violated if the group variable directly affects the items, for example by modifying the loadings from the construct to the items, or by directly affecting an itemTo make this less abstract, consider a scenario where students take an exam, R, meant to capture some ability, T, and then are admitted to a program, V, depending on their exam results: R → V. This is sufficient to result in a violation of the statistical definition of measurement invariance. Exam results and admission are not independent given ability because exam results have a direct effect on admission. Even if we know somebody’s ability (e.g., we know it’s very high), learning about their admission status (e.g., they were not admitted) can tell us something about their exam result (e.g., it may have been worse than expected). According to the causal definition, this in itself does not constitute measurement bias, which seems a sensible conclusion here. After all, the scenario does not involve any reason to believe that the measurement process varied systematically by admission status. Admission happens after the exams took place, it cannot retroactively influence the measurement process (and, for example, lead to unfair treatment depending on admission status).
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Sarah Harris @saraheharris99.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Calling for your paper for the upcoming collection Brain metabolomics in dementia and neurological disease I’m honoured to be serving as the collection’s Guest Editor and eager to read your submission. #CallForPapers @natureportfolio.nature.com Learn more about the collection: go.nature.com/41S5bI3
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Brain metabolomics in dementia and neurological disease
This Collection invites original research using metabolomic platforms to explore the mechanisms of dementia and neurological disease or aid in its diagnosis ...
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Chloe Fawns-Ritchie @cfawnsritchie.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Join us on Friday 5 December for the 15th Scottish Pain Research Community / NRS Pain Network Annual Scientific Meeting, being held in Dundee - Scotland's sunniest city! Registration and call for abstracts are open now! @nrs-pain.bsky.social www.nhsresearchscotland.org.uk/calendar/spa...
Dundee waterfront
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Finishing your PhD & job hunting? Join our Salon on Aug 20, 12pm with Chloe Fawns-Ritchie @cfawnsritchie.bsky.social & Ishita Virmani for advice & experiences on finding your next role in dementia research. communities.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/c/events/adv...
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Advise for Job Hunting after your PhD - Dementia Researcher Salon
Advise for Job Hunting after your PhD - Dementia Researcher Salon
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Chloe Fawns-Ritchie @cfawnsritchie.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
📣Lecturer post in differential psychology available in Edinburgh! 📣 Fixed-term, teaching-focused role. Ideal for someone post-PhD with expertise/interests in Personality or other differential topics. Closing 13th June. Get applying! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Lecturer
The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking to appoint a teaching focused lecturer in Psychology on a full time, fixed term contract until 31st of August 2026.
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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Chloe Fawns-Ritchie @cfawnsritchie.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Very cool! I had the pleasure of seeing the Chicago Archaeopteryx whilst visiting Chicago in December. Utterly mesmerised by the feathers!
Photo of the Chicago archaeopteryx
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René Mõttus @renemottus.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
How do life satisfaction and job satisfaction vary among hundreds of jobs? (Doing a religion job looks good, if you are considering a career change.) New preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Jaanika Kronberg @jaanikakronberg.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I am looking for a PhD student to study the role of exposome in the development of hypertension in over 200,000 individuals of the Estonian Biobank @estbiobank.bsky.social genomics.ut.ee/en/content/p... applications until May 15th!
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PhD position: The role of exposome in the development of hypertension and its interactions with genetic risk
The aim of the project is to understand the role of exposome, metabolites and genetic risk in the development of hypertension.
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Scottish Cognitive Ageing Network (SCAN) @scotcogageing.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
And it's over already! A big thanks to everyone who came today, who presented their work, and to our fab organiser, Lizzie Bradford, for hosting us. If you'd like to join SCAN, send a message or sign up via the link in the bio. As you can see, we're a friendly bunch!
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Lizzie Bradford @lizziebradford.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The sun is shining in St Andrews ready for our @scotcogageing.bsky.social meeting this afternoon! 😄
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 24/04/2025
New post by me: The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking. We shouldn't minimize the very real impact of many contributors — including improvements in diagnosis, medical and surgical innovation, vaccination against cancers, and more — to the reduction in cancer death rates.
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The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking
I respond to the claim that the decline in cancer mortality is mostly, or almost entirely, because of the decline in smoking.
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David Hughes @david-j-hughes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Tenure-track Lectureship (Assistant Professor) in Organisational Psychology at The University of Manchester. Come work with us! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Lecturer in Organisational Psychology/Organisational Behaviour (Teaching & Research):Oxford Road
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Edinburgh Mental Health @edinburghmentalhealth.org · 25/04/2025
Dr Aja Murray’s keynote explored how we can better understand and support young people’s mental health📱🧠🌍 She discussed how smartphone-based data and youth involvement can offer deeper insights into their daily experiences and guide more effective, relevant mental health support #EMH2025
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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
43% of participants didn't use the app *at all*. Only 22% even completed 4 of the 7 modules. This is also not new. Lots of other trials also show us, using quant and qual data, that adolescents don't much like universal interventions, and don't do the tasks/homework (I can share refs if helpful)
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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 21/04/2025
You. It’s gonna be you
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Chloe Fawns-Ritchie @cfawnsritchie.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
The Guardian really have it in for UK Biobank, don't they? This time because Chinese researchers can access de-identified health data, despite UK Biobank participants giving explicit consent for researchers worldwide to use their health data for health research! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Revealed: Chinese researchers can access half a million UK GP records
Medical information will be available from UK Biobank, despite western intelligence agencies’ security fears
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Blair H Smith @blairhsmith.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Published today in Lancet Neurology. Updated treatment guidelines from @iasp.bsky.social NeuPSIG. A major international project, of which I was privileged to be a part. doi.org/10.1016/S147...
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Redirecting
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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It is one of the largest dinosaur tracksites in Scotland. Trackways of theropods and sauropods cross each other in the shallow sand of a Jurasssic lagoon. Dinosaurs going about their lives, loitering near the shore when Scotland was a subtropical island.
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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The newest dinosaur discovery from Scotland! Over 100 tracks made by theropods & sauropods. In the same spot where, 170 million years later, Bonnie Prince Charlie landed on Skye to escape the English. When the Prince was on the run, he sprinted in the footsteps of dinosaurs!
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Adam Smith @betterresearch.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Thrilled to share our latest publication in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: a global survey on experiences and perceptions of sexism in dementia research careers. Grateful to my incredible co-authors for their collaboration on this important topic. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Experiences and perceptions of sexism in dementia research careers: A global cross‐sectional survey
INTRODUCTION Sexism is prevalent in academia and is a crucial factor driving women out of the academic workforce. However, sexism in dementia research remains underexplored. This study aimed to unde.....
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Institute of Genetics and Cancer @uoe-igc.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The largest ever genome-wide association study on osteoarthritis has advanced understanding of the disease and laid the groundwork for developing more effective and personalised therapies that could transform osteoarthritis care: edin.ac/43HK39g @genscot.bsky.social @www.helmholtz-munich.de
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New study identifies drug targets for osteoarthritis
Combining functional genomics with the largest ever genome-wide association study of osteoarthritis has identified disease-linked variants and new drug targets.
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Call for collaborators! We are launching the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB) to replicate a sample of findings relevant to public health, epidemiology, health policy, and behavioral science. Teams receive funding for conducting replication studies. Details: www.cos.io/rphb
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Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB)
The Center for Open Science (COS) is launching the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB), which is a large-scale, multi-team effort to help support a transparent and trustworthy foundation in ...
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Chloe Fawns-Ritchie @cfawnsritchie.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A particularly fun differential journal club today with Prof Ian Deary presenting on lessons learned from over 25 years of the Lothian Birth Cohorts @edinunilbc.bsky.social @schoolofppls.bsky.social
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Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
There’s so much we can learn from health data. Our new partnership with the UK Government aims to unlock it. By simplifying access to secure data for research, we can improve understanding of ill health and accelerate discoveries that improve health. Read more ⤵️ wellcome.org/news/nationa...
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National data service will simplify access to health data for research | News | Wellcome
Wellcome is partnering with the UK Government to establish a £600 million health data research service. It will simplify secure access to health data for research.
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Bryan D. James, PhD @bryandjames.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🚨 Our new @alzdemjournals.bsky.social paper on neighborhood disadvantage and dementia in in the Black Women's Health Study (BWHS). Honored to be part of this collaboration @bostonu.bsky.social @rushalzheimers.bsky.social & more @beyoung40.bsky.social @zinzinator.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/alz....
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Neighborhood disadvantage and the incidence of dementia in US Black women
INTRODUCTION We investigated the association of neighborhood disadvantage with the incidence of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) in the longitudinal Black Women's Health Study (BWHS).....
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Scottish Cognitive Ageing Network (SCAN) @scotcogageing.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Just a wee reminder of this great event at the University of St Andrews next month! The deadline for presenters has passed but those interested in/studying cognitive ageing are welcome to attend, as always. Get in touch with us via our website (see below/profile) or PM to register your interest!
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Chloe Fawns-Ritchie @cfawnsritchie.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Edinburgh put on a show today ☀️
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NHS Research Scotland Pain Network @nrs-pain.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Join us on the 5th of December in Dundee to learn about the latest Scottish pain research and hear from our keynote speakers Prof Brona Fullen and Prof David Bennett #painresearch #pain
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School of PPLS at The University of Edinburgh @schoolofppls.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Congratulations to @renemottus.bsky.social on receiving the National Science Prize in Social Sciences for his research on personality psychology. Well-deserved recognition for impactful research! Read more here: edin.ac/3E0xN9s #psychology #research #impact #researchimpact #personalitypsychology
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Psychology Professor ‘Honoured’ to Receive Prestigious Award
Congratulations to Professor of Personality and Social Psychology René Mõttus who was awarded the National Science Prize in the Field of Social Sciences by the Government of Estonia.
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Dr. S. Duke Han @sdukehan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Honor to present our work on financial decision making in older age to the ACRC of The University of Edinburgh and catch up with old friends and colleagues. Lots of great science happening in Scotland! @sarahemacpherson.bsky.social @cfawnsritchie.bsky.social @simonrcox.bsky.social
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Kira Shaw @kirasha.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Dementia devastates the lives of everyone it touches, but this #internationalwomensday let’s highlight the impact it has on women: www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/about-us/our...
ARUK “impact of dementia on women” report graphic
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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Dr @aramblingrosie.bsky.social at University of Dundee is seeking x2 #PhD Students to Investigate the effects of Rare ApoE variants on protein function & structure + the Impact of ApoE source and isoform on Neuroinflammation - Closing date: 31 March www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/find/jobs/?f...
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Jobs in Dementia Research
Find all the latest jobs in dementia research, in the UK and across the world. Working in all areas of discovery from fundamental science, clinical research, care and social sciences.
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Sarah Harris @saraheharris99.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Closing date to apply for the post-doc position to work on my NIH funded project "Longitudinal multi-omic biomarkers for neurocognitive decline prior to dementia onset" is this coming Monday, January 13th.
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Chloe Fawns-Ritchie @cfawnsritchie.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Just deleted the X app. What a bin fire that place is. But sad to lose my lovely science-related network that I took years to build. Any tips for quickly building a similar network here?
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Chloe Fawns-Ritchie @cfawnsritchie.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
One week left to apply for this exciting PhD project examining the links between pain prescribing and cognitive decline. Application deadline: 13th January. Get in touch if you have any questions! 💊🧠
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Joanna Moodie @joannamoodie.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
New preprint! Which regions of the human brain are most strongly related to individual differences in general cognitive functioning? And what are the underlying neurobiological properties of those areas? | bioRxiv | doi: 10.1101/2024.12.17.628670 🧠
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Sarah Harris @saraheharris99.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Exciting post-doc position available working on my NIH funded project "Longitudinal multi-omic biomarkers for neurocognitive decline prior to dementia onset". Based in the beautiful city of Edinburgh within @edinunilbc.bsky.social elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
The Lothian Birth Cohorts Group within the Psychology Department, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking a PDRA on a full time, fixed term contract until 30th of June 2025 i...
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
New blogpost: deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
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Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...
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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Did you need another reason to share your work as a preprint #AcademicSky? Turns out that open-access articles, but particularly green open-access articles, have higher citation diversity, not just higher citation counts. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The goal of open access is to allow more people to read and use research outputs. An
observed association between highly cited research outputs and open access has been
claimed as evidence of increased usage of the research, but this remains controversial.
A higher citation count also does not necessarily imply wider usage such as citations by
authors from more places. A knowledge gap exists in our understanding of who gets to
use open access research outputs and where users are located. Here we address this gap
by examining the association between an output’s open access status and the diversity
of research outputs that cite it. By analysing large-scale bibliographic data from 2010 to
2019, we found a robust association between open access and increased diversity of citation sources by institutions, countries, subregions, regions, and felds of research, across
outputs with both high and medium–low citation counts. Open access through disciplinary
or institutional repositories showed a stronger efect than open access via publisher platforms. This study adds a new perspective to our understanding of how citations can be used
to explore the efects of open access. It also provides new evidence at global scale of the
benefts of open access as a mechanism for widening the use of research and increasing the
diversity of the communities that beneft from it
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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
You know the "🔹AI Overview" you get on Google Search? I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke. "Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...
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Chloe Fawns-Ritchie @cfawnsritchie.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
🌟PhD Opportunity🌟 Investigate the links between opioids, other analgesics, and cognitive decline/dementia. Supervisors include researchers at Edinburgh and Glasgow University and the Karolinska Institute! Learn more about this Precision Medicine PhD and apply below!⬇️ usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...
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Chronic pain, analgesic prescribing, and cognitive decline
Precision Medicine Project - Chronic pain, analgesic prescribing, and cognitive decline
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