Nicholas Judd
Jacobs & Pro Futura Scientia Fellow
Researcher @ StockholmUni + Donders + Swedish Collegium
environment effects -> cognitive and neural dev
- Going to @sfn.org? Come check out my poster tomorrow [LBP078], Saturday from 14-15, on how wildfire smoke exposure impacts adolescent cognitive and neural trajectories! #SfN25 #SfN2025 eppro02.ativ.me/appinfo.php?... #SfN25
- New personal record of desk rejects 🥳 I am taking a note of journals that take over a month for the desk 📖 It is also a unusual situation where pretty much everything has been already reviewed at eLife on our Neuro paper (click for open reviews), now the sample size is just substantially larger.
- New paper by @njudd.com shows that an additional year of education doesn't causally affect telomere length in old age, despite many (theory) accounts arguing otherwise. It's been desk rejected by 13 journals happy to publish small 'positive' telomere studies. Sigh. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Lots of prior work has related longer telomeres to a host of positive lifestyle factors - with often the explicit hx that engaging in these behaviors will slow down biological aging (aka build a cognitive reserve).
- As mentioned by others (Rentscher et al., AnnRev, 2020) the vast majority of this work isn't even longitudinal. It is just people cross-sectionally relating telomere length to [insert your favorite IV]. Our paper is (to my knowledge) the first natural experimental design on telomeres.
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View full threadA similar effect happens for telomeres, yet 13 editors agreed it shouldn't get past the desk. Possibly it was seen as narrow in scope, yet education has one of the largest confounded effects with aging biomarkers. If this is happening for education... Mediterranean diets, etc watch out.
- I highly recommend the eScience fellowship - it has put me in touch with some very cool (& inspiring) people in the Open Software space!
- Meet Nicholas Judd (@njudd.com), one of the eScience Center's remarkable Fellows! His work bridges cutting-edge research and advanced computing, driving innovation in data-driven science. Learn more about his journey and contributions in our first #FellowFeature of 2025:
- Hot off the press, my latest paper with @rogierk.bsky.social
- Want some much needed distraction today? Have a look at @njudd.com's paper, out today in @elife.bsky.social, on the (lack of) long term effects of additional education on the brain! Summary here www.radboudumc.nl/en/news-item... paper here elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
- Great implication of ggrain in Jasp!
- Raincloud Plots in JASP: Incredibly Useful, Suprisingly Easy! Building on work from @micahgallen.com, @rogierk.bsky.social, @njudd.com, @jordyvanlangen.bsky.social, & many others! "Friends don´t let friends make barplots" - @chbergma.bsky.social & barbarplots team jasp-stats.org/2024/07/26/r...
- Looking forward to my variability talk at this workshop & CogSci in general. Reach out if you'd like to grab a coffee or have a chat!
- Super excited to be part of this study!
- Excited that we (Nick Judd, @jordyvanlangen.bsky.social and I) received NWO Open Science funding to generate and validate a (very) large number of matrix reasoning items. Too often these resources are expensive (limiting access) and limited in item number (limiting applications).
- Another successful Rainclouds workshop at Uni Marburg with @jordyvanlangen.bsky.social. We gave some background on transparent plotting along with exercises on using the ggrain package! github.com/jorvlan/rain... Thanks to @florian-hintz.bsky.social for the invite! #PsychSciSky #dataviz #Rstats
- Also giving a talk on Cognitive Fluctuations! It is an overview on how variability is structured in cognitive tasks. If you're curious what it's about check out the slides here: www.njudd.com/cognitive-fl... #neuroskyence #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #cogpsych #Science #cognition
- On my way to University of Marburg, Germany, with @njudd.com to deliver a lecture/workshop on data visualizations (rainclouds) in #rstats Excited to see that our #nwo #openscience funded project www.nwo.nl/en/projects/... is useful long-term and sustainable!
- Really happy with how our study on variability turned out! I expected the fact structure of variability to be much more similar to mean cognitive performance. It was an exciting study to do! The distinctness from the mean makes me think it'll be the new frontier in understanding cognition.
- To kick of posting some science to #PsychSciSky: Our newest paper on cognitive variability led by Nick Judd, showing much weaker correlations between cognitive variability than for mean performance across 11 tasks, N=2608 and >7 million trials nhttps://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/b29rn/
- Amazingly well done study! Even on small things, like they don't fall into the common neuroimager trap of only residualizing the DV (Frisch-Waugh-Lovell). Would've loved to see a SI table with site correction, while it would be posb overcorrection it would've been a nice addition. Check it out!
- Hellllo everyone! 👋 I'm Nick a postdoc at the Donders Institute with @rogierk.bsky.social I have a broad set of interests, my research looks at how we develop our cognitive abilities. I've used longitudinal, experimental, neuroimaging, and causal inf designs. Don't hesitate to reach out to collab!
