Reposted by Uku VainikTheo Sanderson @theo.io · 18hThis essay (from 1990) is still the most useful piece I've ever read on how to write about science clearly. The "old-first, new-last" thing is the most important bit. www.americanscientist.org/blog/the-lon...americanscientist.org 4155
Reposted by Uku VainikSocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026SocArXiv now has a limit of two papers per week. If authors submit more than that we assume they are LLM-generated and reject them all. Normal humans who need to upload a batch of papers, which sometimes happens, must make arrangements. Also today, ArXiv set a two papers per month limit.blog.arxiv.orgFair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit PolicyarXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a… 17227
Reposted by Uku VainikProf. Tony Goldstone @tonygoldstone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026News about the Novo study I presented @easdnews.bsky.social on effects of Cagrisema on eating behaviour and food cue reactivity in overweight/obesity www.novonordisk.com/content/nnco...novonordisk.comNews DetailsNews Details 161
Reposted by Uku VainikKen Paller @paller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Did you know that your speed — in a simple task of quickly pressing a button every time you see a yellow square — is faster when you are exhaling or pausing then when you are inhaling? Dr. Erika Yamazaki figured this out, did all the work, and published on it this week www.cell.com/iscience/ful...cell.comResponse speed is modulated by respiratory phaseBehavioral neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience 06016
Reposted by Uku VainikTamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New trial of retatrutide (triple agonist, building on GLP-1s), shows 25% weight loss in the highst-dose group. 25%! Just a few years back, a trial with 10% weight loss would have been big news. These drugs are the biggest public health boon since antibiotics and vaccines. 192
Reposted by Uku VainikEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Hey friends, trying to find a reviewer who could provide a review on an empirical EMA paper focused on emotion regulation. I've had 31 declines so getting a little desperate and feel really bad for the authors. Let me know here or per email (firstnamesecondname@gmail.com) 81115
Uku Vainik @ukuvainik.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Great example of combining a low-N accurate child BMI GWAS with high-N inaccurate GWAS. 030
Reposted by Uku VainikAmanda J. Wright @ajwright.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Since our paper on the Changing How I Live Life (CHILL) Study is now out in Psychological Science (doi.org/10.1177/0956...), here's a LONG overdue post on the intervention work we've been doing the past few years! Have you ever wanted to change one of your personality traits? 14520
Reposted by Uku VainikBratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 24/09/2026netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1038/s415... Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging @natprot.nature.com ⤵️doi.orgnetneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience - Nature ProtocolsThis is a Perspective covering a Python toolbox for neuroscience research that enables users to fetch datasets, construct networks and null models, estimate graph metrics, fit statistical models and v... 16426
Reposted by Uku Vainik Institute for Behavioral Genetics (IBG) @ibg.colorado.edu · 23/09/2026IBG at CU Boulder is hiring 2-3 tenure-track faculty (junior or senior) in statistical genetics, twin/family designs, and computational work. A chance to help shape IBG for decades. Starts fall 2027. More info: colorado.edu/ibg/. Apply by Oct 15. Please repost!colorado.eduHome 066
Reposted by Uku VainikMicah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing? 3212569
Reposted by Uku VainikKerli Ilves @kerliilv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Saime ka Eesti meedias isiksuse GWASist ja käitumisgeneetikast natuke juttu puhuda 🎙️🍎📰 @ukuvainik.bsky.social 161
Uku Vainik @ukuvainik.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Started off great! Less than 4€ at ebooks.com www.ebooks.com/en-ee/book/2...ebooks.comeBooks.com: Buy Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Textbooks OnlineeBooks.com is a leading retailer of ebooks, with a vast range of ebooks from academic, popular and professional publishers. 051
Reposted by Uku VainikDan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵 4265113
Uku Vainik @ukuvainik.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We also tried giving latent profile analyses a fair chance and concluded that it has limited utility journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....journals.sagepub.comTo Profile or Not to Profile: A Multiinformant Study of the Robustness and Utility of Personality-Based Profiles on a Large Biobank Sample - Helo Liis Soodla, Uku Vainik, René Mõttus, Kirsti Akkermann...Person-centered personality profiles are widely used to examine latent covariation patterns in heterogeneous samples. However, their robustness across measureme... 042
Reposted by Uku Vainikestwell.bsky.social @estwell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Join EstWell’s second research seminar of the academic year on 22 September, 11:00–12:00 (Zoom). Helo Liis Soodla and Lehar Lukjanov will present “See the person, not their problem or what happens to them”. More information: estwell.ut.ee/en/event/est... 022
Uku Vainik @ukuvainik.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Cool project! It makes perfect sense that daydreaming is related to high openness and low conscientiousness 030
Reposted by Uku VainikMaggie Clapp Sullivan @mclapps.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Out today with @tedmond.bsky.social, our research briefing summarizing key takeaways from our Big Five GWAS! www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comGenetic associations with the Big Five personality traits probed in one million peopleLinks between genetic variants and personality differences are robust, complex and related to health, career and relationship outcomes. 175
Reposted by Uku VainikKevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Why do people with type 2 diabetes often lose less weight with GLP-1s? My first paper with AstraZeneca uses modeling to suggest that reduced urinary glucose excretion & energy expenditure offset negative energy balance, particularly with background SGLT2i therapy. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1164
Reposted by Uku VainikAndy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Amazon's market dominance has actually destroyed adjacent industries, as well as inflating prices across entire market segments and destroying our ability to comparison shop and effectively find the best product for our needs. Here's how: 16619
Reposted by Uku VainikPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026There are about as many trees in Canada as stars in the milky way 322115312
Reposted by Uku VainikTed Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Our big Big Five GWAS, out today! Personality Genomics is extremely hot in 2026. 25519
Reposted by Uku VainikJeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 02/09/2026"we find minimal spousal assortment for personality in recent history" 🤣 041
Reposted by Uku VainikLarry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Genetics of personality is turning out to be an actual thing. Interesting how the associated genes don't support historic claims about personality associations with dopaminergic or serotonergic systems. 0103
Reposted by Uku VainikKerli Ilves @kerliilv.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The day is here! @michelnivard.bsky.social sums up the huge collaborative effort behind our personality genetics paper in this thread, finally out in Nature. I learned so much from this incredible team along the way. Sõge! 🧬🎭 1142
Reposted by Uku VainikJens Lund @lundjens.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Could Wegovy’s weight-lowering effect be caused by how the drug affects fuel metabolism? 1/16 133
Uku Vainik @ukuvainik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I've been having GWAS-envy for so many years...no more! So so happy to see this out! 040
Reposted by Uku VainikJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A new paper fails to replicate Ariely (a) You can see the perfect results from Ariely & Wertenbroch on the role of deadlines in mitigating procrastination (b & c) The new results do not replicate: changes in the deadlines had no effect on performance. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 0125
Reposted by Uku VainikData Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2 Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination. datacolada.org/139 816857
Reposted by Uku VainikPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 01/09/202678. Underworld: www.erikigelstrom.com/articles/cau... 151
Uku Vainik @ukuvainik.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Cannot wait for them to replicate the most notorious heist of 2010s 🍁🍁🍁 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_C...en.wikipedia.orgGreat Canadian Maple Syrup Heist - Wikipedia 060
Reposted by Uku VainikUlrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 21/08/2026Interesting especially about Europe having less AI making it a risk diversifier.giftarticle.ft.comEurope, the secret outperformerIts cash generation, broader earnings and lower tech concentration deserve more respect 211826
Reposted by Uku VainikLeonid Schneider @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 23/08/2026For Europeans who get upset when their train is delayed. 031
Uku Vainik @ukuvainik.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Excellent initiative! I started morning runs at @estwell.bsky.social annual meeting last year and as of this year, it's a tradition! 020
Reposted by Uku VainikMelissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 19/08/2026In Montréal, what started as an emergency pandemic response has evolved into the continent’s most ambitious car-free scheme. Across 9.3 kilometres of 11 commercial arteries in seven boroughs, entire corridors have been handed back to pedestrians, helping some 2,100 businesses thrive in the process.🧵 7371120
Uku Vainik @ukuvainik.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Really happy to see binge eating GWAS finally out! Such a big step for eating behaviour research! 060
Reposted by Uku VainikPietro Biroli @pietrobiroli.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I call this a win www.wsj.com/business/pac... 182
Reposted by Uku VainikPhilip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 18/08/2026I'm not smart enough to figure out what is wrong with this study, but I am smart enough to know that popular streaming album releases increasing traffic fatalities by 15% in one day is an implausibly large effect. 118214
Reposted by Uku VainikDorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 16/08/2026New blogpost deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/08/acce... inspired by recent depressing experience as a peer reviewer. AI-generated #fraud is getting very hard to detect. #peerreviewdeevybee.blogspot.comAcceleration of the arms race between fraudsters and honest researchersI was recently asked to review a paper that piqued my curiosity. From the abstract it sounded as if it was a secondary analysis of a datas... 59552
Reposted by Uku VainikTamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Here we have another observational study looking at alcohol consumption & mortality. The findings? Moderate wine drinking is associated with LOWER risk, while moderate beer/spirits drinking is associated with HIGHER risk. Think about that ... www.foxnews.com/health/beer-...foxnews.comBeer, wine or liquor? Massive study reveals which was linked to lower death riskHeavy alcohol use raised death risk by 24%, but wine at low levels was linked to lower mortality than beer or spirits in a UK Biobank study. 195
Reposted by Uku VainikRuss Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 11/08/2026Many of you will have seen the recent post about changes at OSF. If you'd like to learn more about how to use other services (particularly Zenodo) to share data and code, see my book chapter on resource sharing. bettercode-book.org/book-sharing...bettercode-book.org12 Sharing Research Objects – Better Code, Better Science 317783
Uku Vainik @ukuvainik.bsky.social · 12/08/2026It finally happened to me - I was invited to review my own paper! 1140
Reposted by Uku VainikCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/08/20261. We've gotten so used to Trump's declarations that it's easy to focus on the substance of this executive order (which is utter nonsense) rather than the fact he's making it at all. To my knowledge it's unprecedented for a president to issue direct clinical guidance from the White House podium.whitehouse.govDelivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for AmericansBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. 1732185
Reposted by Uku VainikSholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Some interesting cheating in a 2026 Nature paper. Similar areas in this fluorescence measurement are unexpected, these tend to be quite noisy. Source data confirms sections have been copied and pasted 👇 1194
Reposted by Uku VainikPaul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 08/08/2026"Ultimately, PAW Patrol echoes core tenets of neoliberalism and encourages complicity in a global capitalist system that (re)produces inequalities and causes environmental harms." What a way to end an abstract... 1122
Reposted by Uku VainikAndrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 08/08/2026HEY. The Economist is ripping off a sociological analysis of Paw Patrol from five years ago. You think we don’t remember obscure academic writing that made the rounds on Twitter?? WE REMEMBER.journals.sagepub.com“Whenever there’s trouble, just yelp for help”: Crime, conservation, and corporatization in Paw Patrol - Liam Kennedy, 2021With few exceptions, cultural criminologists have yet to investigate how crime, criminalized individuals, and punishment are depicted in children’s television p... 1347