"Mandatory data and code sharing for research published by The BMJ" This will happen in all journals over the next century (in some fields sooner than in others). bmj.com/content/384/bm… Open Science is a one-way street.

Today, I’m proud to say, our new paper on assortative mating was published in Nature Communications. (Link: doi.org/10.1038/s41467…). Here are our key findings 🧵:

Very proud to say our Registered Report supporting a causal relationship between age at menarche and adolescent depression is now published in BMC Medicine. Link: shorturl.at/dFKTY. This was a big team effort spanning the duration of my PhD! A🧵on the process and findings:

Defending my PhD UiO - Psykologisk Institutt on May 16th! My trial lecture is entitled "The use of genetic designs for causal inference". Come for Neyman, family studies and MR—stay for Taylor Swift lyrics and my nephew's causal reasoning (counterfactual is not to come - not recommended)

Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment Spoiler alert...NO! #Grants #academia

First PhD paper🎉Stringent Covid-19 measures and quarantines were associated with more mental distress among adolescents. Younger adolescents, those with lower educated parents and those with lower MDD PGS were especially vulnerable jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Two days ago, a lawfirm filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against 6 commercial publishers (incl Elsevier & Wiley) in the federal district court in New York. They allege a 3-part scheme on part of publishers. 🧵 lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/acad…

It was a great pleasure, looking forward to meeting you all in person next time!

Are links between prenatal stress and child outcomes causal? Our study suggests associations between maternal stress during pregnancy and birthweight, gestational age, and emotional/behavioral difficulties are largely confounded by shared familial factors. bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Do individuals with mental health disorders exhibit differences of kind or degree? In a new preprint, we present a novel analytic method called Genomic Taxometric Analysis of Continuous and Case-Control data (GTACCC) to help answer this question, and then apply it Major