Reposted by Ina DemetriouJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 18/09/2026This is an *excellent* post on cluster analysis. If you ever thought about applying cluster, latent class or latent profile analysis to psychological scales, you absolutely should read this!> 511835
Reposted by Ina DemetriouJan Vanhove @janhove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026New blog post: "Cluster analysis: A skeptic’s guide". In which I ask a few questions that social scientists wishing to identify hidden classes in their data ought to address. janhove.github.io/posts/2026-0... 416146
Reposted by Ina DemetriouMark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 24/07/2026"The act of prediction is more than just an objective, educated guess about the future: it’s often an exercise of power that can help bend the future toward a desired outcome." New from me, on the book "Prophecy" by @carissaveliz.bsky.social - buttondown.com/creativegood...buttondown.comBig Tech predicts the future, to our detrimentWhen I was young graduate student at the MIT Media Lab, I came across this quote from computer scientist Alan Kay: The best way to predict the future is to... 0125
Ina Demetriou @inadem.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Grateful and honoured to have joined the Cam-CAN team later in the study and to have helped write this up. Real shout-out and credit to the many people who have designed, run, and cared for the Cam-CAN study over the past 15 years! 030
Reposted by Ina DemetriouMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge @mrccbu.bsky.social · 15/07/2026New protocol paper (doi.org/10.37349/en.2026.1006138) describing Phases 4-5 of the Cam-CAN study of healthy ageing, led by Ina Demetriou Includes MRI and MEG data up to 14 years after baseline. Data available soon on cam-can.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/dataset 0127
Reposted by Ina DemetriouGale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I think we just passed oops. 451173245800
Reposted by Ina DemetriouMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge @mrccbu.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Does signed prediction error influence declarative memory? This recent study takes a closer look - replicating prior findings, but uncovering an alternative explanation along the way! Doi.org/10.3758/s13421-026-01864-8 075
Reposted by Ina DemetriouEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 13/06/2026APA no longer shows me the actual paper, authors, abstract etc when I click on a paper in a search engine. Everything gated now, including basic paper info. Screenshots: (1) search hit (2) resulting APA site. Tried for a few papers now. What on Earth. 149522
Reposted by Ina DemetriouDr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I checked this too. *20 seconds* of Reform logo display. *No other* party logo displayed. In local election purdah. This is not normal. At all. 551268505
Reposted by Ina DemetriouFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Given ChatGPT recommended this person should walk to the car wash to get his car washed it is hardly surprising to hear that it isn’t great at recommending when people should go to the hospital 63914
Reposted by Ina DemetriouFleur Zeldenrust @fleurzeldenrust.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I am so proud of the team that made the @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social and that continues to work very hard to answer all these fun #brain #questions! 022
Reposted by Ina DemetriouCam-CAN @camcan-2010.bsky.social · 22/03/2026New preprint by @inadem.bsky.social dissociating cortical thickness and surface area in their effects on cognitive change in ageing: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org 041
Reposted by Ina DemetriouSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 06/03/2026David Lammy: "... because Cyprus is part of NATO" erm, Cyprus is not a member of NATO. Maybe its just a slip of the tongue? Except he repeats the claim just a minute later "... Cyprus is a NATO country" Does the deputy PM not know that Cyprus isn't a member of a NATO? 2719988
Ina Demetriou @inadem.bsky.social · 05/03/2026“Thousands of Cypriots are living there. British personnel are coming and going according to the duration of their terms but Cypriots are there. And if you want to safeguard British interest, 5% of the population are British. So how could you differentiate whom you protect and where in the island?”news.sky.comCyprus: 'We don't want to be dragged into this conflict'Cyprus' High Commissioner to the UK, Kyriakos Kouros, has told Sky News that Cyprus wants "coordination" with the British government so that they do not "take decisions that affect our lives". 000
Reposted by Ina DemetriouMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge @mrccbu.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Do novel experiences shortly before or after learning improve memory for what was learned? They don’t according to Raza et al., but simply resting might. Read about novel VR experiences versus wakeful rest as ways to improve memory: doi.org/10.1177/17470218251346156 072
Reposted by Ina DemetriouRik Henson @rhens.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Over the years, I have written a few Jupyter/Rmd/Matlab notebooks that attempt to teach some statistical concepts, particularly in neuroimaging. You can find them here: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h..., though I will say a bit more about each one in a number of posts over next few days.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.ukPeople 66927
Reposted by Ina DemetriouMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge @mrccbu.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Congratulations to MRC CBU’s PhD student Annalise Whines, who won the runner-up prize at the MRC Max Perutz Science Communication Awards in the video category. ‘Does motivation change across the menstrual cycle?’ www.ukri.org/publications/mrc-max-p… 0124
Ina Demetriou @inadem.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Girls just want to have fun but make it Donna Strickland wayinstagram.comNobel Prize on Instagram: "Throwback to 2018 when physics laureate Donna Strickland started her banquet speech by talking about Cyndi Lauper's song 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun'. Strickland told us ...27K likes, 168 comments - nobelprize on November 22, 2025: "Throwback to 2018 when physics laureate Donna Strickland started her banquet speech by talking about Cyndi Lauper's song 'Girls Just Want To... 000
Reposted by Ina DemetriouMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge @mrccbu.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Why do some people lose memory faster with age? A mega-analysis of 13 longitudinal datasets (3,700+ adults, 10,000+ MRIs) shows that memory decline tracks brain atrophy, especially in the hippocampus, and that these links strengthen with age, but not APOE status: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 0156
Ina Demetriou @inadem.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Ask anyone who moved to the UK (EU or non-EU) how many documents, pieces of evidence of “legal right” to reside in the UK, and (unnecessary) personal and biometric information they had to continuously provide to the UK government over the years. Proving identity clearly isn’t the goal here. 142
Reposted by Ina DemetriouCam-CAN @camcan-2010.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Hello BlueSky - sorry it has taken us so long to move here from less-blue skies. Anyway please follow us if you're interested in healthy ageing of brain and cognition, including scientific outputs and news from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (www.cam-can.org).cam-can.orgCambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience – The Science of AgeingThe Science of Ageing 053
Reposted by Ina DemetriouInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025King's College London launches the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets, in partnership with @wellcometrust.bsky.social / @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social, a free platform with over 1,600 datasets, to support mental health research worldwide. 🌍 Read more and learn how to access: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...kcl.ac.ukKing's launches the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets to support mental health researchResearchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London have launched a new free platform to allow people to discover hundreds of longitudinal mental hea... 19662
