Magnus Nordmo @magnusnordmo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Something is off here... Let me see 🫣 doi.org/10.1177/0266... 000
Reposted by Magnus NordmoMattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 07/07/2026The Hallgrímskirkja church is very heavy tailed... #rstats #ggplot2 2386
Reposted by Magnus NordmoRobert Ross @robert-m-ross.bsky.social · 14/04/2026In a new study my collaborators and I focus on this alternative hypothesis. We asked participants if this statement is true or false: “The Canadian Armed Forces have been secretly developing an elite army of genetically engineered, super intelligent, giant raccoons to invade nearby countries”. 43410
Reposted by Magnus NordmoNathaniel Haines @natehaines.bsky.social · 15/03/2026New blog just dropped! This one is all about estimators—we cover James-Stein, classical test theory, empirical Bayes, penalized regression, and hierarchical models, showing how they all can be used to do a better job than sample stats alone 🤓 haines-lab.com/post/how-to-...haines-lab.comHow to Estimate a Mean, and What It Means for Science | Computational PsychologyIntroduction If I asked you to estimate 30 means, you would probably compute 30 sample means. And you would be provably wrong (well.. maybe not wrong, but at least provably inefficient). 56524
Reposted by Magnus NordmoTaylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 03/03/20261908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health 32648915
Reposted by Magnus NordmoDr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 23/02/2026I'm in the Guardian today, writing about the question of overdiagnosis of mental illness. I argue we need to stop seeing this as a binary yes/no question - is overdiagnosis happening or is the increase real? - and acknowledge that multiple things can be happening at once tinyurl.com/yzsey97ctheguardian.comAre we really overdiagnosing mental illness?It’s tempting to dismiss the proliferation of labels as a fad, but there’s more to this phenomenon than a simple culture-war reading allows 56823
Reposted by Magnus NordmoLukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Modern academic publishing part II: Sage has now blocked my (university) IP address because I have had a tab open for >4 hours since my license does not allow downloading. I now have to write my colleagues an email so that I can read papers that they are already paying an annual fee of ~100K€ for. 1277
Reposted by Magnus NordmoFartein Ask Torvik @torvik.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Who wants to join us in Oslo to study how health influences educational underperformance? We are hiring PhDs postdocs candidates for our funded project. We will follow children from birth to emerging adulthood, using behavioural genetic methods and large datasets 945000.webcruiter.no/Main/Recruit...945000.webcruiter.noTwo positions as either PhD or postdoctoral fellow on health determinants of educationDo you want to research how health influences school performance and leads to intergenerational inequality? We have two vacant 3-year positions as a PhD fellow or postdoctoral research fellow in the p... 01410
Reposted by Magnus NordmoIan Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 02/12/2025Works the other way around too. “If I was Jonathan Haidt, how would I destroy the next generation?” 913342
Reposted by Magnus NordmoJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 09/11/2025This one surely has something on offer for every one: In this cross-sectional mediation analysis, the "effects" of soft drink consumption on depression were "mediated" by abundance of Eggerthela in the gut microbiome. This was sent to me via dm and now you all got to suffer as well.jamanetwork.comSoft Drink Consumption and Depression Mediated by Gut Microbiome AlterationsThis cohort study examines the association between soft drink consumption and major depressive disorder diagnosis and severity and whether this association is mediated by changes in the gut microbiota... 149723
Reposted by Magnus NordmoJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 21/10/2025The recording is now available so that you can confirm that I indeed have a German accent and color-match my outfits with my Zoom background. youtu.be/YL0co26ng-g?...youtu.beCIIG Seminar: Julia Rohrer | Making Rigorous Causal Inference More Mainstream | 20 Oct 2025YouTube video by the Causal Inference Interest Group (CIIG) 1115536
Reposted by Magnus NordmoIan Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 14/10/2025Results of the replication are in! Chocolate is more desirable than poop: Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78] N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability. w/ @jamiecummins.bsky.social 68227
Reposted by Magnus NordmoHans Fredrik Sunde @hfsunde.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Our new paper is out today! 🎉 In it, we use administrative register data to document how psychiatric disorders are strongly linked to parental income, from childhood far into adulthood. Furthermore, we attempt to separate causation and selection using kinship-based models. doi.org/10.1111/jcpp... 14116
Magnus Nordmo @magnusnordmo.bsky.social · 28/06/2025🧵1/7 New study: How do adolescent cognitive ability and education predict adult mental disorders? 🧠📚➜🧑⚕️ Using Norwegian register data (N = 272,351 men) of GP diagnoses and military assessed cognitive abilities. 👇 3249
Reposted by Magnus NordmoJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 05/06/2025The Causal Bandits episode with me is finally up! We talked about a hodge-podge of causal inference and methods issues. I already got one positive testimonial from my boss who listened to the first half and liked it!youtube.comCausal Inference, Human Behavior, Science Crisis & The Power of Causal Graphs | Julia Rohrer S2E5YouTube video by Causal Python with Alex Molak 69822
Reposted by Magnus NordmoBjørn Sætrevik @satrevik.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2025Before submitting your manuscript, make sure to include some obvious errors. This gives reviewers a sense of adding some value to the process, without asking you to change anything of consequence. #AcademicPublishing #AcademicJournals #AcademicChatter #PeerReview 035
Reposted by Magnus NordmoPerline Demange @perlinedemange.bsky.social · 16/04/2025New preprint! We find no evidence that parental mental health influences children's academic achievement when comparing families in the Norwegian MoBa study. osf.io/preprints/ps... Quick thread 👇 15620
Reposted by Magnus Nordmomortennordmo.bsky.social @mortennordmo.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Are we getting dumber or smarter? Our new study revisits the Flynn effect using Norwegian Armed Forces data. Results suggest IQ trends reflect changing test content and education, not true shifts in general intelligence. See our latest publication for details. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comReevaluating the Flynn effect, and the reversal: Temporal trends and measurement invariance in Norwegian armed forces intelligence scoresSince 1954, the Norwegian Armed Forces have annually administered an unchanged general mental ability test to male cohorts, comprising figure matrices… 082
Reposted by Magnus NordmoMichael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.open.substack.comThe Collapse of Ego DepletionScience's Biggest Self-Control Failure 1119264
Reposted by Magnus NordmoDorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13): 331093423
Magnus Nordmo @magnusnordmo.bsky.social · 03/01/2025I spend a lot of time teaching non-scientists basic statistical concepts 📊. Effect size is especially hard to explain—PDFs, histograms, box plots, violin plots, and so on just don’t cut it. We need a new approach. Here’s one that requires minimal prior knowledge to understand. 121
Magnus Nordmo @magnusnordmo.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I can't belive how good the new O3 models are from OpenAI 😱. All the talk about AI stagnation feels completely misplaced. 010
Reposted by Magnus NordmoFartein Ask Torvik @torvik.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Psykisk helse hos barn varierer sterkt etter foreldrenes inntekt og utdanning. Hvorfor er det sånn? I fire år har vi forsket på sosial ulikhet, psykisk helse og genetikk. Kom på Kulturhuset onsdag 20. november kl. 9, så får du høre hva vi har funnet ut! www.fhi.no/om/kurs-og-k...fhi.noSosial ulikhet, psykisk helse og genetikkBarn av lavt utdannede foreldre gjør det dårligere på skolen, og ender ofte opp med lavere utdanning, lavere inntekt, og høyere arbeidsledighet enn andre. Hvorfor er det slik? 094
Magnus Nordmo @magnusnordmo.bsky.social · 02/11/2024Two perspectives on cocaine use among young adult in Norway. Data: www.fhi.no/contentasset... 010
