Jan R. Boehnke

@jrboehnke.bsky.social

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I work at the School of #HealthSciences, University of Dundee

Measurement, (health-related) quality of life #HRQL, multimorbidity, #ResearchEthics, publishing, #PeerReview, research assessment

Ex- #REF2021, former #NightshiftEditor

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Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · Sep 1

New #AcademicYear - New #introduction

I am a researcher at #DundeeUni, interested in health-related quality of life
#HRQoL #Psychometrics

I teach #ResearchMethodology and #ResearchMethods (focus #Quantitative)

I worked as a #NightshiftEditor and mull over roles in and sense of #AcademicPublishing

A bronze statue of a lemming from the game Lemmings looking over the top of a pillar. It hangs on to the pyramidal shaped top with its right hand, looking into the distance shielding its eyes with the left. Palm trees and other flowers like in a park or garden are visible behind. Clouds in the sky, but some blue visible as well.

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Dr Kathrine Cuccuru @aphilosopher.bsky.social · 2h

Good morning from the Tay

View across Tay Firth towards the rail bridge the breaking sun painting the sky pink through gold.

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 16h

Analysis of consent docs for two biobank projects (Medizininformatik Initiative, Germany; Helsinki Biobank, Finland) indicates that donors are informed of the right to withdraw, but not sufficiently that this may not prevent further use of data
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

#ResearchEthics

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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journals.sagepub.com

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 21h

Airlie Place was built c.1871 and was demolished nearly a century later. The site is now occupied by the Dundee University Student Association.

Date: c.1966

Ref: IN20-053 CL1002

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely- will work through an example applying the tool to an RCT - relevant for people who want to use it outside of a systematic review context

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 3d

INSPECT-SR is a tool to address risks posed by untrustworthy randomized controlled trials:
www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...

The focus is on use in #SysReviews, but I think it may offer opportunities for training in #RCT methods.

I'll find out - just registered 👇

#ResearchWaste #ResearchIntegrity

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 3d

Hey #AcademicSky, #ResearchIntegrity, and #ScientificPublishing crowd, question:

Has anyone received invitations to guest edit or submit to special issues organised by the Discover journal series?
link.springer.com/brands/disco...

I am curious about their email game.

Open access journals | Discover journals

Discover journals support researchers in publishing their scientific discoveries, spanning the applied physical, life, medical and social sciences.

link.springer.com

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The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · 4d

Edinburgh University is closing the Institute for Academic Development. Download these student resources while you can. Making notes, reading strategies, time management, dissertations and so on.
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...

Reposted by Howard Williams, Elizabeth Stokoe, Charles West , and 3 more Howard Williams, Elizabeth Stokoe, Charles West, Margot C. Finn, Dolly Jørgensen, Jan R. Boehnke

Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 5d

Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.

It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 5d

We’re leading 5 days of industrial action at the University of Dundee.

We’re calling on all our members to participate in this action. You can join us on the picket line or strike from home. You can legally join the strike if you aren’t a member of a union

The people united will never be defeated.

Against a bright pink background text states

“No more job cuts. Join the strikes. 10-14th November. Picket lines Mon-Fri, 8:30-12:00, Perth Road. Dundee UCU.”

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Matt Williamson @mattdoesscience.bsky.social · 6d

Lovely bit of sunset.

Sunset over the Firth of Tay, with the new arch sculpture at Broughty Ferry in the foreground, looking upstream towards Dundee and the Tay bridges.

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 7d

#NIHR PHIRST evaluation of a money and #MentalHealth service delivered by #CitizensAdvice suggests
(i) increased financial support, and
(ii) a single, dedicated adviser who builds a relationship with the client and advocates on their behalf as a key mechanism.
phirst.nihr.ac.uk/evaluations/...

Evaluations - NIHR Public Health Interventions Responsive Studies Teams (PHIRST)

List of NIHR PHIRST evaluations completed and in progress. Investigating the effects of local government public health interventions

phirst.nihr.ac.uk

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 7d

Anyone have recommendations for books and/or papers on the methods behind translating questionnaires to other languages?

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 8d

This Wednesday I look forward to the launch of this network which brings together scientific, humanities and clinical research on mental health. Our remarks with Sebastian Rodriguez Duque are called Why Mental Health is Hard to Measure

Bridging Mental Health Network

The Bridging Mental Health Network is a recently founded initiative aiming to promote interdisciplinary exchange of mental health research undertaken at the University of Cambridge.

bridgingmentalhealth.github.io

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 9d

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog

blog.arxiv.org

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 11d

It is so woven into the industrial history of the city that it is even part of the #Dundee Tapestry
www.thedundeetapestry.com/gaming

#Design #CreativeDundee #VADundee

Gaming | The Dundee Tapestry

Games companies like DMA Design (now Rockstar North) and 4J Studios paved the way for a new breed of start-ups in Dundee in the early 1990s, and games like Grand Theft Auto, Minecraft and Lemmings soo...

www.thedundeetapestry.com

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 11d

Indeed!

Fun documentary
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbAV...
#Lemmings

A lot past and current gaming in #Dundee

#ZXSpectrum
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#GrandTheftAuto
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocksta...

#Minecraft porting
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4J_Stud...

For visitors
visitdundee.com/discover-dun...

Rockstar North - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 11d

The new paper is part of the ongoing #CallForPapers by the journal "Quality of Life Research"

"Quality of life in people with #MentalDisorder – beyond global scores"
link.springer.com/journal/1113...

Linked editorial:
rdcu.be/eNtXG

#HRQOL #Psychometrics #MentalHealth #MentalIllness

Quality of Life Research

“Quality of Life Research is an international, multidisciplinary journal of original research, theoretical articles, and methodological reports related to the ...

link.springer.com

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 11d

We investigated how QoL/ #HRQoL instruments were used in substance and behavioural addictions. We found similar issues as this team:
variety of measures, lack of theory, and issues around methodological quality:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#SysReview #Psychometrics
@ptoner.bsky.social

A systematic review of quality of life and health‐related quality of life as outcomes in substance and behavioural addictions

Issues Consideration of an individual's quality of life (QoL) can benefit assessment and treatment of addictive disorders, however, uncertainty remains over operationalisation of the construct as an.....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 11d

A #ScopingReview of quality of life measures in treatment for substance misuse:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Urgent:
Culturally adapted measures, intersecting identities in QoL experience, impacts of stigma, and the roles of socioeconomic factors and cooccurring conditions.
#SDH

#HRQOL

Quality of life measures in treatment for active substance misuse: a scoping review - Quality of Life Research

Purpose Unlike previous reviews on quality of life (QoL) and substance use disorders (SUD), this scoping review focuses on QoL within the context of SUD treatment and active substance misuse. This rev...

link.springer.com

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 12d

I am sure @benjaminalbrecht.bsky.social has taken note already 😊

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 12d

Probably last time cycling for this year. 🚴
Bha e cho fuar! 🥶

#BroughtyFerry #Dundee #RiverTay

Picture of a river landscape (River Tay), shot from one of its banks. On the left are a row of houses close to the water line (Broughty Ferry), the middle and right are dominated by a wide calm body of water. On the horizon, another river bank with woods and maybe low hills is visible (Tentsmuir). The picture is shot against the direction of the rising sun, with light orange tones at the horizon merging into light blue-greens toward the top. Some very light cloud cover.

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 12d

Study looking for people with experience in #CoreOutcomeSet development 👇

Wide remit:
Researchers, clinicians, patients, people with lived experience, carers...

An interview (c60min, online).

#Psychometrics #PatientCentered #HRQOL #HRQL #Consensus #Delphi

Marci Kay Livingston @marcikayrn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Have you been involved in developing a Core Outcome Set? Researchers, clinicians, patients, or carers—we want to hear from you! Help us explore how those with lived experience are included in the COS development process.
#CoreOutcomeSets #PPI #ClinicalTrials
Contact:
📧 Livingston.Marci@ul.ie

Recruitment flyer for a PhD study at the University of Limerick on Core Outcome Set (COS) development. The flyer headline reads “Study Recruitment! Core Outcome Set Development.” It asks:

Have you been involved in developing a COS as a researcher, clinician, patient, carer, family member, or otherwise?

The study aims to understand how people with lived experience are included in the early stages of COS development.

Participants will be invited to take part in a one-on-one interview.

Contact: Livingston.Marci@ul.ie
.
Logos: University of Limerick, Education and Health Sciences.
Approval: EHSREC (Ref No: 2025_05_10_EHS).
Design elements include abstract shapes and an illustration of a person sitting at a desk with a laptop and coffee.

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Dan Lewer @danlewer.bsky.social · 14d

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

A "methods primer" article in the journal "BMJ Medicine", titled "Factors associated with: problems of using exploratory multivariable regression to identify causal risk factors"

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 14d

The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis does not meet contemporary standards for #ResearchEthics for its violations of informed consent and disregard of the risks to participants.

Should 19 derived papers be retracted or receive an expression of concern?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Publication ethics, retraction notices, and hindsight - Mikyung Kim, Christopher B. Shook, 2025

Academic research from years past has increasingly come under scrutiny for a variety of reasons. While it is imperative that flawed studies based on obvious res...

journals.sagepub.com

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 14d

Finalising prep for our #ResearchEthics training and read the "refreshed" 2025 version of
"The Concordat to Support #ResearchIntegrity"
ukrio.org/research-int...

I am not sure that the fourth commitment of our sector should read
"Questionable research practices and potential research misconduct"

The Concordat to Support Research Integrity - UK Research Integrity Office

The Concordat to Support Research Integrity The Concordat to Support Research Integrity is the UK’s governing document on research integrity, including requirements on specific aspects of research int...

ukrio.org

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 18d

#PeerReview

Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 18d

Anybody knowledgeable in measurement (especially in adaptations for Mexican culture) and/or prosopagnosia that would be willing to serve as a reviewer for @collabrapsychology.bsky.social ? At the point where decliners are mostly recommending people who have already declined😅

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 18d

Amrita Basu presents development and implementation of a system for monitoring patient-reported data via ePROs in the I-SPY2 Trial
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
#ISOQOL

Great example of papers that elucidate practical challenges of PRO capture (see rdcu.be/eMp57 )

#HRQL #PatientCentered

Using feedback tools to enhance the quality and experience of care

rdcu.be

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 18d

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 18d

Second, it is great to see the strong theoretical underpinnings of exploratory graph analysis making their way into promising applications
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

#Psychometrics #HRQOL

Exploratory graph analysis: A new approach for estimating the number of dimensions in psychological research

The estimation of the correct number of dimensions is a long-standing problem in psychometrics. Several methods have been proposed, such as parallel analysis (PA), Kaiser-Guttman’s eigenvalue-greater-...

journals.plos.org

Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 18d

Great to see @hudsongolino.bsky.social presenting on AI-GENIE at #ISOQOL

Firstly, the community hears and uses the words "the #PrePrint is out" too rarely, and here it is:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

#Psychometrics #HRQOL

Investigating the performance of exploratory graph analysis and traditional techniques to identify the number of latent factors: A simulation and tutorial - PubMed

Exploratory graph analysis (EGA) is a new technique that was recently proposed within the framework of network psychometrics to estimate the number of factors underlying multivariate data. Unlike other methods, EGA produces a visual guide-network plot-that not only indicates the number of dimensions …

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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