"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭 anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

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Tidy simulation: Designing robust, reproducible, and scalable Monte Carlo simulations #StatsSky arxiv.org/abs/2509.11741 It is not formally linked to the {tidyverse}, bit affinity is obvious. The paper does a solid job in describing the simulation workflow, could be useful for intros to simulation

These fuckin' losers bent over backwards to give a standing ovation for a dude that said it was morally good to stone gay people to death but won't let a group opposing genocide perform. Really earning my vote next time around. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

I've long been curious, and never attended, but my immediate and deep FOMO from all the initial #PositConf2025 posts. makes me feel like I have to make it a point to try to attend in 2026...

Jonathan McPherson just mentioned datapasta at the opening keynote of #positconf, so I'm sharing this once again to share the magic, for all those discovering it for the very first time ❤️ #databs #rstats

Do you want to get serious about specifying your random-effect structures? This paper might be for you.. plus lots of good stuff about multilevel and dyadic modeling: doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Interested in simulating the kind of data that you might commonly find in evolutionary and ecological studies? Then we have the R package for you - squidSim!! Check our new preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

For potential grad students: if you're interested in this kind of work on assessing and improving close relationships measures, our group just got a grant to do five more years of it. Join our team!

When considering the moving to UWO, the opportunity to have Sam as a colleague in SPDP, and work with her, was a huge draw. And I'll never forget how agitated her award-winning address--where she first laid these ideas out--left the audience. Incredibly proud to see this work out and play a role.

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our preprint for #dyadic SEM tutorial with {dySEM} is back up/available! Thanks to @psyarxivbot.bsky.social team quickly retooling their approach (and the thankless work of the mods) to help sift the real from the slop!

"63% rate of likely AI-generated responses" on mTurk www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My latest piece, on apprenticeship, artificial intelligence, and intrinsic motivation. Handcrafted from the heart. Please, share and enjoy. open.substack.com/pub/robchave...

Once again, @davisvaughan.bsky.social's extrachecks have saved me from a likely CRAN rejection for an upcoming #RStats package submission. Thanks Davis! github.com/DavisVaughan...

Excited to announce that our paper with @pingfanhu.bsky.social and Bogdan Bunea on our #rstats package {surveydown} is now published in @plosone.org The paper compares the benefits of using a code-based approach to survey design, leveraging #quarto and #shiny journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Good metaphor for ChatGPTing your way through a degree

Impacted by this too, as some have reached out to say that a recent preprint is not currently available. Patience, friends; these volunteers are doing God's work.

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

This. Not just the summer, but also the year(s) ahead. I've been having conversations with fellow academics about the push to do the same or more with less (as funding cuts set it). It's not sustainable. At some point we will just have to do less. We need to decide what is essential, and what's not

The Love Consortium Statistics Decision Tree launched today! Think of it like a choose-your-own adventure guide to help you identify the best analyses for your specific dataset and research question. theloveconsortium.org/so/9fPWyVE6Z... #DataScience #Statistics

That title :: chef's kiss ::

Newly accepted in PSPB! We examined whether Asian and Black Americans perceived one another through a zero-sum lens. Inspired by the SCOTUS affirmative action decisions, I wanted to know if Asians thought they were losing to Black people and how this mindset affects coalition osf.io/preprints/ps...

Gallagher: we must confront the possibility the US govt sets up a competing publication system clothed in the veneer of legitimacy for propagation of fringe science #FutureSciPub

Second day of the Royal Soc Future of Science Publishing conference #FutureSciPub. This morning we start with a panel on leveraging digital infrastructure to go beyond traditional journal/article model.

Western University is offering new scholarships of up to 40k CAD for four years to doctoral students who are studying at, have an offer from, or have had an offer rescinded from one of the top 100 American universities. Come and study with me or one of my colleagues!

As an aside, I keep finding myself thinking about how undervalued the creation of open-source software continues to be in academe. 🧵: Our most precious resources in this business are time and money. These resources constrain what both faculty and trainees do, but open-source can liberate us.

Our paper is now out: Trust in Close Relationships Revisited. All the buzzwords: bifactor modelling, invariance testing, construct, and a few others. Joking aside, @omarjcamanto.bsky.social is a very skilled and careful data wrangler/analyst while also able to relate theory and data. 👇

🧵 Very excited (w/ @omarjcamanto.bsky.social) to share our preprint tutorial for using our R 📦 dySEM for #dyadic data analysis with latent variables, in cross-sectional data sets. This paper has been literal years in the making, and provides three distinct tutorials. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Graduate students who have an offer to study in the US but are reconsidering or have been denied entry or current grad students who want to leave, then consider coming to Western University in Canada. Our University just launched a US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Program : grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

@westernu.ca has joined the fray of recruiting doctoral talent from the American political hellscape. Funding available to come to Western if you study at, received offer from, or had offer rescinded by doctoral program at a "Top 100" (QS or THE) American university. grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

Masters level course materials here too. I’m no simulation expert and the materials are still evolving, but maybe useful to others. github.com/ianhussey/simulation-course

Incredible OA resource if you're wanting to learn more about doing Monte Carlo work in R, with contemporary iteration approaches 👇🔥. Don't miss the "download" button if you want a full copy, locally (gods, bookdown [and quarto] is great...)

🎉 After 2 years of work, our #OpenScience guide for researchers in developing countries is LIVE! Check out our new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... We map the opportunities 🌟 + barriers 🧱 facing Global South researchers. *(1/4)*

These state laws banning gender-affirming care for youth are a product of religious-right and anti-LGBTQ activist organizing, starting in the years after Obergefell. We know this, because we have the receipts. Here's my 2023 investigation. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The sheer level of logical contortion required to say that banning trans care “doesn’t exclude any individual from medical treatments on the basis of transgender status” is truly mind-blowing.

Please hold your trans kids close today (and everyday). Remind them that they are fiercely loved, needed, and that we will keep fighting for a world that allows them to be the best version of themselves.

I wish I could say that I was surprised by this decision. I listened to the arguments in real time, and there wasn't a single part of me that had hope that any of the conservative judges could be swayed by rational arguments on this highly (and stupidly) politicized issue

My partner just now: "Yeah, people have strong opinions about Power BI vs. Tableau in my workplace..." Me: "Sounds similar to the #rstats vs. #python feud." Her: "...But how do you compete with a snake!?" I have to say, I've never thought about it that way... 🐍🐍🐍🐍

Special issue of Perspectives - Psychology in 100 years! Love the idea, @draehernandez.bsky.social Abstracts by August 1! Get your creative juices flowing this summer! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Our paper is now online! Check out our recommendations on asking SOGI questions to individuals in the LGBTQIA+ communities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Graduate student Karla Kenny has launched a survey focusing on relationship experiences of queer and trans people. Please share to help out.

The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration. We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

Excited to share a new paper in Current Directions on the theme of merging in close relationships, with @emmamcgorray.bsky.social, @erinhughes.bsky.social , and @abdoe.bsky.social! In the paper, we discuss merging in the domains of selves, goals, processing, and reality. tinyurl.com/ynbedzys (1/4)

This is a fantastic list of papers on properly dealing with control variables (and other related methodological issues) in social science (and #polisky specifically)! I put it all in a public Zotero group library here www.zotero.org/groups/59433...

I just noticed that NCHAT's @icpsr.bsky.social website has a new disclaimer "This repository is under review for potential modification in compliance with Administration directives." I am not sure what this means, but I wanted to let everyone know.

Just a reminder that I am still looking for a new position. My work fits well within multiple contexts ranging from Public Health to Psychology to Political Science. Don't let anti-science fear mongers win -- #HireWall #PsycSciSky #PublicHealth 🌈

Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.