WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈

I wrote another book & I'm very excited (& nervous) for it to be released into the world: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714593...

🚨 Just published in advances.in/psychology: “Cross-lagged panel networks” combine network theory and SEM to track dynamic, item-level effects across constructs like self-esteem and school commitment. advances.in/psychology/1...

florida having a hockey team is against the laws of nature

WHOA. That's a lot. Scientists, let's get out there and tell the public about this, and also share all the science we are doing! Write an op-ed for your hometown paper June 16 to speak to your hometown community. More info and sign up now: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters #SciComm #McClintockLetters

📢Job ad Postdoc position (full-time, 3 years) in the DFG project Reliability in Intensive Longitudinal Data in Aachen (topics: psychometrics, intensive longitudinal data / ambulatory assessment data) www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/kbag/f... Application deadline is June 16

The NIH move to restrict animal research is a bad one and not just about health - it's about national security. More here: medium.com/@eblissmorea...

To people who know nothing about Canadian politics, know that the fact Trump got Quebec to abandon the Bloc and vote for the Liberals is both outrageous and hilarious.

NEWS: After canceling thousands of foreign students' immigration records — threatening their ability to study and live in the US — the Trump administration has reversed course and restored them all. It follows intense pushback from courts across the country. Details TK

Out today, our method for comparing multivariate genetic architecture across groups of people, called Genomic Structural Invariance: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (feat: @tuckerdrob.bsky.social @michelnivard.bsky.social @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social @mijke.bsky.social @jorsmo.bsky.social et al.)

There’s a petition to the Canadian Parliament to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... I think every Canadian who’s on Fedi or Bluesky should sign this now, no exceptions. If you have Canadian followers, please repost this or just post it yourself. This matters.

New paper by @vsavalei.bsky.social and @muhuahuang.bsky.social finds another way in which fit indices aren't great at revealing when the CFA model is not the true model. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Anyone know about research in #linguistics regarding dialectology and dogs? If my friend's dog's name is Churro, and she has a VERY different accent from, will the dog understand when I'm calling his name? Will he know to equate my schwar with her [uɾ] realisation? Do dogs do phonemes? 🐦🐦

So much for free speech. Let's make this cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social go viral. I'm married to @tealcartoons.bsky.social so I might be biased, but cartoons have long played a vital role in shaping political debate - both past and present. This type of censorship is deeply troubling.

for every 50 likes nelly furtado will become like a bird.

Pour la St-Valentin, je vous souhaite de trouver quelqu'un qui vous regarde avec autant amour que Vladimir Poutine qui regarde le résultat de sa création sur cette photo. ❤️❤️

i suppose all we on the outside can do now is hope that the americans' sincere collective passion for litigation is stronger than their death drive

Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it. So we moved over to blue sky. Help us build another great following right here where the skies are clear and the water is fine ;-) Please do Follow Retweet & repeat

Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

If you are feeling a bit unsettled these days, I recommend NOT coming to Rocky Mountain Methodology Academy in Calgary in July 2025. Once you spend a little time here, you may start wondering why you still live where you do. haskayne.ucalgary.ca/ccram/academy

screen reader for python code but for each level of indentation the voice used for the line goes up an octave

I reviewed this paper-it is excellent and everybody should read it!

New paper with @mijke.bsky.social clarifying the distinction between factor scores and factor score estimates, open access! doi.org/10.1080/0027...

Hell is other people's datasets

Calling all #psychometricians & #researchers 📣 Does anybody have good resources/articles that compare & contrast psychometrics and “clinimetrics?” Is this a case where we’ve made up field-specific verbiage or is there a meaningful difference? Anything would help! @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Want to get editing experience? If you have a PhD & are a member of a group that’s historically underrepresented in editorial roles, apply for a 1 yr editorial fellowship at one of APS’s journals (including Psych Science)! Deadline 7 Feb. Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Quant Psych/ometrics folk! You have until Jan 10 to apply to attend the conference that I'm organizing with Ben. It's going to be small and awesome! The application is easy, just fill out this form: forms.gle/3HbrKaNPNHf9...

Non-native English speakers need 50% more time to write a paper When they do, they face a 2.5 times higher chance of being rejected because of language journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

“Many Swedish cities, including Stockholm, prioritize snow clearance very differently. They now clear walkways & bike paths first, especially those near bus stops & primary schools. Next, they clear local roads, & then, finally, highways.” Via @usa.streetsblog.org usa.streetsblog.org/2018/01/24/w...

Imagine Christmas morning: your loved ones hiding from drones, missiles raining down, silence after every explosion a gamble between hope and grief. This is Ukraine. This is Kharkiv. This is my family. This is the life I hate. And the blood-soaked name behind it is russia.

This short Qualtrics code chunk prevents open-ended survey questions from taking copy-pasted text. Huge in guarding against chatGPT/AI generated responses.

Please repost! We are hiring an assistant professor (W1) of Educational Psychology. We are looking forward to working with you!! uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties...

Entering my final year as editor of @psychscience.bsky.social #AMPPS in 2025. I'd love for us to receive papers on open science practices in human neuroscience-- any of the sub-areas (social, affective, etc)! Send us a best practices paper. Also: which are the strong papers out there now?

the issue is that, sometimes, authors try to pass off a turd sandwich as a gourmet burger, reviewers object, and then, when the final product comes out and it’s a gourmet burger (admittedly with Oreos), everyone is like “look at those Oreos” and not “wow, so much better than a turd sandwich!”

What are your favorite papers that report on experiments designed to understand how people fake responses to surveys? Particularly interested in faking of personality scales, but also in other psychological constructs.

Do you need educational and psychological item response data to do your research? The IRW has 600 item response datasets (more coming!), distributed in a standardized format and ready for analysis.

Sea life on the Oregon Coast. Starfish, sea anemones and kelp photographed at low tide.

West-coast (ish) Quant-Psych(ometric) friends! Ben Domingue and I are organizing a small conference to be held in Davis in June. Please apply to attend, we're going to have so much fun. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Preprint update alert! Happy to share the latest version of this work on large language models (LLMs) for psychological measurement. Internally known as “What Would Thurstone Do (with an OpenAI subscription)?”, it results for an ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration arxiv.org/abs/2405.07447

if santa needs an elf on a shelf to report my crimes, maybe he’s not as omnipotent as he claims. maybe he can be killed

It's a treat to have a paper highlighted in the NBER Digest! Couples' choices about when to relocate offer a lens into how they value each person's career success. In both Sweden and Germany, they seem to prioritize men's careers, even when the woman has similar earning potential. bit.ly/MTO-T

Been asked to do a presentation on cognitive ageing and learning. Have been reading Lindenberger, Baltes, Tucker-Drob, Park, Loevden. Any reccomendations for favourite papers (preferably reviews) most welcome, especially those that discuss the implications for adult learning. Thanks!

Finally (for now), here's a 9-part starterpack for Canadians migrating here from X and other platforms. Every account is vetted as: (1) active here, (2) Canadian, (3) not a jerk. Pass it on to any newbies who may need help finding their footing in #CanadaSky 🍁 10/10 🔚 bsky.app/profile/nick...

After 2 revisions unidim: An index of scale homogeneity and unidimensionality is now in press at Psych Methods. Preprint available at personality-project.org/revelle/publ... u, is an index of the unidimensionality and homogeneity of a scale. David Condon and I show simulations and real data.

Teaching my kids how traffic circles work using this very helpful and not at all bonkers depiction.

I have received 7 requests to review papers in 2 weeks. How are you all managing to be this productive at this time of year?