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Samantha Miadich @drsamm.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Drs. Jiabin Shen, @sarahmerrill.bsky.social, and I are recruiting students for the Psychology PhD program @ UML for Fall 2026! If you are interested in pediatric health psych, pediatric injury prevention and rehabilitation, or epigenetic research, contact us! Please share! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

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Brie Reid @briemreid.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Check out what the @reidlab.bsky.social is up to at #SRCD2025

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Sarah M. Merrill, PhD @sarahmerrill.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

So excited to see your success in this new chapter, Meingold! Congratulations - Purdue is so lucky to have you! 🎉❤️

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A strategy to slow/reverse human aging—partial epigenetic reprogramming—has big bets (many $ billions). Here's a simplified graphic + explainer for how it works, along with the many uncertainties and serious risks www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202... @gretchenxreynolds.bsky.social

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Lorne Campbell @lornejcampbell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

One study simply asked ppl to describe (in single words) love and/or commitment. The diagram below shows that ppl represent the constructs similarly to Kelley's model. Love is therefore NOT a triangle; yet in my class this week almost all students had heard of the triangular theory of love.

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Register interest in THE EPIGENETICS Gordon Research Conference Barcelona 10-15 August 2025. A great line up of speakers on the theme: Epigenetic Variation: Mechanisms & Impact Across Systems. ~15 talks to be chosen from submitted abstracts, so upload yours ASAP: www.grc.org/epigenetics-...

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2025 Epigenetics Conference GRC

The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Epigenetics will be held in Castelldefels, Barcelona Spain. Apply today to reserve your spot.

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Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

In case you needed more evidence that social media may not be the thing we should be obsessing about when it comes to wellbeing…another meta-analysis of experimental data showing no link.

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 06/03/2025

Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/evolutionary...

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Sarah M. Merrill, PhD @sarahmerrill.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Wow. Funded NIH studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 19/09/2024

New preprint! osf.io/preprints/ps... The age-period-cohort problem is something that many researchers are vaguely aware of. There have been very cool advances in how to reason about it which don't seem to be well-known in psych. So, I've written a primer!

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Psychological researchers are interested in how things change over time and routinely make claims about, for example, age effects (e.g., personality changes with age) or cohort effects (e.g., differences in intelligence between cohorts). The age-period-cohort identification problem means that these claims are not possible based on the data alone: Any possible temporal pattern can be explained by an infinite number of combinations of age, period, and cohort effects. This concern holds regardless of the study design—it also applies to longitudinal designs covering multiple cohorts—and regardless of the number of observations available—it also applies if we observe the whole population. Researchers rely on statistical models that impose assumptions to pick one specific combination of effects. But these assumptions are often opaque and researchers may be unaware of them, resulting in a lack of scrutiny. Here,...

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Alexandra (Allie) Sullivan, PhD @alliesullivan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I just learned that our @psychscience.bsky.social paper (collab with @sarahmerrill.bsky.social) was featured as APS #5 most downloaded paper in 2024 See the podcast, where they describe A TON of beautiful science, including ours. So honored! www.psychologicalscience.org/news/utc-202...

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2024 in Review: 10 Most Popular Articles from APS Journals

Podcast: How do the five love languages hold up to empirical research? How does gender equality vary by country globally? Tune in to hear highlights from last year’s most popular research.

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Adlung Lab @adlunglab.com · 06/01/2025

Age is also predicted by histone marks! De Lima Camillo et al. revealed age-linked epigenetic changes beyond DNA methylation. Their open-source models may unlock new aging insights! 🖥️ 🧬 🧪

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 05/12/2024

Multimodal analysis of RNA sequencing data powers discovery of complex trait genetics www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/PejLab/Pantry

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Justin Parent, Ph.D. @jparentphd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Another tenure-track position has posted! We seek someone with expertise in clinical intervention research. This position will also support our new Master’s program and our PhD program. jobs.uri.edu/postings/14461 @abctnow.bsky.social @sccap53.bsky.social

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#NeuroDegeneration preprints @prepub-neurodegen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

DNA Methylation Signature of a Lifestyle-based Resilience Index for Cognitive Health #NeuroDegeneration 🧪🧠 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5…

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