Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

Postdoctoral Researcher Study of Affective Disorders’ Classification and Treatment (SADCAT) Lab  Dr. Lorenzo-Lorenzo LuacesDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Blooming...

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Efficacy of oral folinic acid supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (2024)

Handedness (i.e., the preference to use either the left or the right hand for fine motor tasks) is a widely investigated trait. Handedness heritability is consistently estimated to be 25%. After decad...

Tamnes et al. explore the complex relationship between ill-being—including mental and behavioural disorders—and mental well-being.

The UK's Royal Society was founded in 1660. Among its fellows have been numbered some of the most notable scientists in human history, such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. Electio...

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Last November, I wrote a blogpost explaining why I had resigned as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). In brief, over the summer a group ...

If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

Withdrawal from WHO and the Paris Agreements. USAID shuttered and aid halted, ceasing health programmes globally. A freeze on US$3 trillion worth of federal grants and loans, jeopardising the function...

Life expectancy and years of life lost for adults with diagnosed ADHD in the UK: matched cohort study

The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking to appoint one full time, open-ended, teaching-focused Lecturer to its Department of Psychology.

Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.

The gender gap in faculty attrition worsens after tenure, according to a new study

Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a set of principles for the ethical collection, access, use and sharing of human genomic data. Created with guidance from the WHO Technical Advisory Grou...