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Or Duek

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Assistant Prof. at Ben-Gurion Univesity / Adjunct at Yale #Pych, #Bayes, #Neuro #publichealth orduek.github.io

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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarise yourself with the following to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to hold.
portrait of Reverend Thomas Bayescover of Bayesian Data Analysis (Third Edition)cover of Statistical Rethinkingcover of The Book of Why
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medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Neural Alterations in Chronic Pain: MRI Analysis www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Available now: The 3rd and final round results of the predicting replicability challenge. Much wider performance heterogeneity across the 15 teams compared with the prior rounds. www.cos.io/blog/predict...
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Predicting Replicability Challenge: Round 3 Results
COS launched a public competition in 2025 to test automated methods for predicting if a research claim would be successfully replicated in a new sample of data. Read third round results here.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 21/07/2026
Sobering: initial trials with huge effect, large follow-up trial showing no evidence for an effect. But practice is already locked in and criticism is defused by pointing to random effects meta-analyses which are necessarily dominated by the initial trials. polypharmacy.substack.com/p/we-should-...
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We should stop running clinical trials that cannot change practice
The case of prazosin for PTSD nightmares and the PACT trial
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
If you are considering a Marie Curie for the September deadline that fits in the lab (depression, measurement, time-series, complex systems, history of psychiatry), please don't hesitate to send me an email if you'd like to work with me :).
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Great work here by @sholtodavid.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/3113...
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Amateur sleuth earns £2m reward for exposing research fraud
A British scientist has forced a leading US cancer research institute to pay a $15m legal settlement after trawling through scientific papers in his spare time
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Stephanie Noble @sneuroble.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Holy cow. This will be super useful for accelerating the development of all kinds of projects and methods from UKB—huge kudos to everyone in this team that made it happen (and the broader UKB team too)!
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I am just learning of this 2015 retraction, adding to my "science as amateur software engineering" files. Seems they classified missing values as obs outcome of interest (divorce). Classified 32% of sample divorced, rather than true 5%. retractionwatch.com/2015/07/21/t...
Here’s the original coding line:

    replace event`i’ = 1 if delta_mct`i’ != 0 | spouse_delta_mct`i’ != 0

And here’s the corrected coding:

    replace event`i’ = 1 if (delta_mct`i’ != 0 | spouse_delta_mct`i’ != 0) & delta_mct`i’ != . & spouse_delta_mct`i’ != .
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
**How do we make long-lasting emotional memories** Looks very interesting. #neuroskyence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Nature Scientific Reports is the third most cited journal in the world smdh
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Solomon Kurz @solomonkurz.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This is another example of why I think default priors are generally inappropriate for professional work. They're still great for teaching, though.
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Erik van Zwet @erik-van-zwet.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I wrote something about publication bias at statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/14/t...
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🌙 Lune Bellec @lune-bellec.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Many brain imaging “biomarkers” for autism have been proposed. Most aim for balanced accuracy (matching sensivity/specificity) on datasets where cases and controls are split 50/50. 1/🧵
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
If you read my thread, make sure to read the retracted paper’s last author’s response. As I highlighted on pubpeer & my thread, authors have been very responsive, transparent & collegial all the way through. I was surprised myself seeing a retraction as I had asked for a correction.
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Ziv Ben-Zion, PhD @zivbenzion.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🚨 Big News! Our research has been featured in The New York Times @nytimes.com! 🥳 This engagement highlights the real-world impact of science beyond academia and its role in shaping conversations on AI & mental health. 🔗 Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/science/chatgpt-digital-therapists-anxiety.html
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Digital Therapists Get Stressed Too, Study Finds
Chatbots should be built with enough resilience to deal with difficult emotional situations, researchers said.
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Philippe Domenech @philippedomenech.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Tenured-research position opened here in Paris : A great opportunity to leverage the full potential of the new 11.7T MRI scanner at Neurospin @inserm.fr @cea.fr @unicog.bsky.social 🧠🟦 / 🧠🤖 / 🧠🩺 #AcademicSky
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tal yarkoni @talyarkoni.com · 14/03/2025
my team at MidJourney is looking to hire an experienced full-stack (but with emphasis on the frontend) developer to work on various personality-related projects. if you're interested, or know someone else who is, DM me a resume and/or a link to some of your previous work!
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Ziv Ben-Zion, PhD @zivbenzion.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨 1/ Can early brain connectivity predict who will develop PTSD after trauma? 🧠🔍 Check out our new study, published today in JAMA Network Open! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @orduek.bsky.social @ifatlevy.bsky.social @harpaz-rotem.bsky.social 🧠🧵👇
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Ziv Ben-Zion, PhD @zivbenzion.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
🚀 Just 5 days since publication, our paper is already the #1 trending article on @natureportfolio.nature.com npj Digital Medicine! 🥳 🤖 Check out how we induced anxiety in Chat-GPT using traumatic narratives - then calmed it down with mindfulness & meditation: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📝
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Ziv Ben-Zion, PhD @zivbenzion.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🚨New Paper Alert! Our latest research in npj Digital Medicine explores two unusual questions: 1⃣ Can Chat-GPT experience state anxiety?💥🤖 2⃣ If so, can we reduce it? 📉 A thread on how we "took Chat-GPT to therapy" 🧵👇 Full text available here: rdcu.be/ebZ9v
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 20/02/2025
Here are some cool animations I made a couple years ago for teaching DAG-based causal inference Confounding!
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Week 6 in my Bayes stats course, we finally arrive at multilevel models. For those who know the basics, there is also a BONUS lesson on group confounding and Mundlak Machines, incl a latent Bayesian variety. Lecture link set to start of BONUS content: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwVq...
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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Interesting point - disorders allow many combinations of symptoms, but many combinations of symptoms don't tend to show up at all: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Unveiling the Structure in Mental Disorder Presentations
This cross-sectional study examines 4 preexisting datasets to determine how symptom-based definitions and assessments contribute to a distinct probability pattern for the occurrence of symptom combina...
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Since it is inefficient to attempt to educate every reviewer individually, I am yeeting into your feed this clear paper from Gelman, Hill, and Yajima on how Bayesians can do even better than correcting for multiple comparisons. arxiv.org/abs/0907.2478
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Why we (usually) don't have to worry about multiple comparisons
Applied researchers often find themselves making statistical inferences in settings that would seem to require multiple comparisons adjustments. We challenge the Type I error paradigm that underlies t...
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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
New large study (n ~ 6 million) in @JAMApsych tracking mental disorder trends in Denmark showing increases in mood disorders in recent birth cohorts tinyurl.com/c5nyfd8k
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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Causal methods peeps. Can you point me to a good intro reading on DAGs? Something more easily digestible than Pearl's primary papers but more technical than the kinds of 30,000-ft summaries you get from a Google search.
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Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics @urbandemog.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Anscombe's quartet illustrates how datasets can have nearly identical descrptv stats but different distributions @lucystats.bsky.social proposed the "Causal Quartet" datasets all with the same statistical summaries & dataviz but different true causal effects livefreeordichotomize.com/posts/2023-0...
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Sacha Epskamp @sachaepskamp.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Very excited about this new preprint in which we solve one of the main issues in network psychometrics: estimating symptom networks in clinically severe populations. This solution is now available in the bootnet, IsingFit, IsingSampler and psychonetrics #Rstats packages! osf.io/xq8ur/
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
The Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science is looking for 4 Editorial Fellows (EFs) for the 2024 calendar year. EFs are a PAID mentored position intended to give individuals from underrepresented backgrounds frontline editorial experience. Ad attached www.apa.org/pubs/journal... 1/3
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
We are hiring at the University of Michigan Depression Denter. The goal is clear. Move the needle on improving mental health. But the task is hard. So we are building a multidisciplinary team. Positions are open at all ranks and in any relevant discipline. depressioncenter.org/about/facult...
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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
🚨 Paging social psychologists! Actually (checks notes) paging ALL psychologists! We (Florida) are hiring for a TT asst prof in QUANT psych! Area open; if you’re doing cool rigorous quant-focused work…we want to hear from you. Deadline: 10/15 Job ad: psych.ufl.edu/wp-content/u... [Cross-post]
Fallen palm tree in Silver Springs State Park near UF
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Kristina Visscher @visscherlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
UAB is hiring in Neuroimaging! uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/19319 UAB has amazing resources, a vibrant neuro community, and a great city – come join us! Please re-post #neuroskyence #SfN2023 #Neuroimaging @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social #CogSci #CogPsyc #AcademicSky #VisionScience #neurojobs #academicjobs
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Academic Joint Departments-Open Rank/Open Tenure-Department of Neurobiology
The Departments of Neurobiology and Radiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) are seeking highly qualified candidates for a joint, full-time, open-rank and open-tenure, research-focus...
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 29/09/2023
Ooh I just discovered a new feature in blue sky mobile app - include posts from your feeds in the main feed! It works great so you don’t have to check your feeds specifically.
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Sherri Rose @sherrirose.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
I'm hiring an Open Science Rigor & Reproducibility Software Developer at Stanford! Great mix of work developing best practices, coding, and independence to propose new initiatives. careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/open-sc... Hybrid & remote eligible within the United States. #stats #academicsky
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Adam L @adam-lg.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
"Past, Present, and Future of Software for Bayesian Inference" - An interesting overview of what, exactly, building software to do Bayesian inference means If you use Stan, JAGS, PyMC, NumPyro, etc, you might be interested. www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/rese...
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Ryan Morin 🇨🇦 @morinryan.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
I whipped up a basic Shiny app (using the PubMedWordCloud R package) to generate word cloud summaries of any researcher based on their abstracts in PubMed. Here's mine! The app is available here: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/pu...
A word cloud
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · 22/09/2023
Just in time to say #HiSciSky, here is an interview with me about our recent work looking at the effects of being born (yes!) on brain development, that was just published this morning: www.washington.edu/news/2023/09...
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Stephanie Noble @sneuroble.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
NOA in hand, we are ready to launch research in the NeuroPRISM lab! 🚀 Appreciate @noahghola.bsky.social NGNResearch taking the time to profile this NIMH R00-funded project. We are hiring a fully-funded postdoc—reach out if interested and spread the word! news.northeastern.edu/research/arc...
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Psychology professor building ‘data science tool’ to increase the reliability of human brain res...
Assistant professor of psychology Stephanie Noble is building a power calculator to help human neuroscience researchers increase the reproducibility of their experiments.
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Or Duek @orduek.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Hi All! Happy to (finally) join BlueSky. I'm an Assistant Prof. at Ben-Gurion University in the Epi department. I'm a clinical psychologist and working on both RCTs and Epi stuff, mostly related to exposure to stress (changes in brain mechanism, symptoms etc.) #HiSciSky
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