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

Join us Monday, September 15th from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET for a talk by Simona Mancini, Ikerbasque Research Associate Professor / Neurolinguistics and Aphasia group leader at the Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language. Register now at https://bit.ly/45LjrF1

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

New #rstats blog up! solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2025-07... This is the first in a new series discussing causal inference with experimental data using multilevel models. My basic case is g-computation is the way to go.

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

Had a great time sharing about our test-retest, #multimodal #communication #aphasia & peer dataset at the University of Technology Sydney Graduate School of Health seminar series today. Join AphasiaBank (totally free) and get full access to our data! aphasia.talkbank.org/access/Engli...

Funding curves for K and F mechanisms (Warning: the new F mechanism "curve" is a lot)

Hey #rstats friends. I’m looking for examples of papers or posts that do a really really good job unpacking/writing about/explaining statistical results. Not just technically correct but also clear. Bonus points for using marginal effects. What’s your go to exemplar for students new to research?

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

Bsky/Academia friends - any suggestions on time tracking software? Criteria: I want to spend as little time as possible actually tracking my time. Bonus if integrated with outlook. Doesn’t need to be exact. I’m just hoping for a reasonable estimate of research/teaching/service breakdown.

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

DEI initiatives are still legal. Universities need to stand their ground. A Friday gift to your university's General Counsel Office - courtesy of an all star lineup of civil rights lawyers and scholars. You're going to want to read this.

New blog post! Sometimes, when reviewing a manuscript, it's really unclear to me what precisely the authors are trying to do -- which makes it hard to evaluate the work properly. So, here's some advice for how to ensure that readers don't get lost. www.the100.ci/2025/02/17/r...

Great analysis of the indirect cost rate announcement by @stuartbuck.bsky.social

🚨 New open-access paper out now in PB&R: link.springer.com/article/10.3... We (w/ Ted Gibson, @swathikiran.bsky.social) explore how individuals with aphasia interpret sentences & whether their comprehension difficulties stem from increased expectations of noise in language input. 🧵👇

In case anyone is wondering, I did ask GPT and I don’t think it quite has a handle on DAGs yet.

Question for #rstats / #causalinference friends. I can imagine the DAG for a basic RCT and a model: PostTx ~ Group + PreTx Does the DAG change for the repeated measures equivalent? Score ~ Time (pre/post) + Group + Time (pre/post) x Group (And what if there's a prognostic variable to be added??)

Hey #StatsSky, what are you favorite papers to cite when you need to justify something that is obvious (I once had a reviewer ask we justify the use of logistic regression on a binary outcome) or when you need to push-back on silly reviewer requests (e.g., asking for p-values in table 1)?

The Aphasia Therapy Finder is a free online tool to help speech therapists find and access high quality resources and instructional videos for evidence-based aphasia therapies. If you haven’t already, please check it out and share widely.

New post on the 100% Christmas Interval -- after almost 8 years, it's time that we finally talk about CIs. www.the100.ci/2024/12/05/w...

FOQUSAphasia will be kicking off structured #writing groups again in January! Pop over to the website to learn more about our consortium on #discourse in #aphasia (broadly defined!) and register your interest. Can't wait to see you! www.foqusaphasia.com/writinggroup

Just stumbled on this and stoked to use it for future research! pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Register to hear 45 minutes of wisdom from the fantastic aphasia trialist, Caterina Breitenstein - *tomorrow* Wednesday 27th November 👂📝 (Alternatively, catch up on our youtube channel) t.co/ShMY0YBstj #aphasia

From the archives: Have you (like me!) wondered what the ATT means and how it's different from average treatment effects? I use #rstats to explore why we care about (and how to calculate) the ATE, ATT, and ATU #polisky #episky #econsky www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/03...

The Aphasia Research Library www.aphasialibrary.org is a new, free resource for creating and sharing aphasia friendly research summaries. Co-designed with people living with aphasia and researchers. Learn more here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xais8...

A goal of mine for MANY YEARS has been to make plain language summaries and, where possible, #infographics of the papers coming out of the lab. Thanks to awesome undergrad RAs, here they come! Check back in as more get added! #aphasia #accessible #research www.neuralresearchlab.com/plainlang

Join the #aphasia cohort on BSky! go.bsky.app/PW5JHmQ

Here's a starter pack for people interested in the cognitive science and neuroscience of language. With all the new Bluesky arrivals, I'm sure I'm missing people—please let me know and I'll add! go.bsky.app/6iumPee

In clinical research, you will often receive feedback on study design, stats, and/or data analysis from an editor or reviewer that is simply wrong. Here is a list of common "statistical myths" and references you can use to push back. discourse.datamethods.org/t/reference-...

My posit conf talk is live youtu.be/sjYNUIkOlC0?...

brms book update: I have added a new chapter on generalized linear multilevel models (GLMMs). See paulbuerkner.com/software/brm... for the latest draft of the book. I would love to hear your thoughts!

We're thrilled to announce our book, Exploring Complex Survey Data Analysis Using R, is now available for preorder! Learn to conduct tidy survey analysis in R. Free online version: tidy-survey-r.github.io/tidy-survey-... or preorder at: www.routledge.com/Exploring-Co... @ivelasq3.bsky.social and RJP

"Be vewwy vewwy quiet. I'm testing wandom effects" — lmer() Fudd

Looking forward to delivering a lecture today on effect sizes and power analysis for a second-year research methods course. God bless Kristoffer Magnusson for his web apps rpsychologist.com/cohend/ 🙏

...is that constraints imposed by setting out to test a (not transparently described) supernatural hypothesis preclude the paper's key claims from being made---even by exploratory analysis. @devezer.bsky.social and I elaborate in a Matters Arising. #metascience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In other science reform implosion news, the contested article including OSF & Data Colada authors on how preregistration & other rigor-enhanching practices led to high observed replicability (the one that couldn't produce its own preregistration) was just retracted www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2/ Just run grateful::cite_packages() and you'll get a report with formatted citations and references for all the #rstats packages used in your analysis, ready to paste into your manuscript or report

I'm interviewing PhD students this year. If you know students interested in using behavior & neuroimaging to study speech and language, please consider pointing them my way! Northeastern has a strong training environment and Boston is great. #neuroscienceoflanguage #neuroskyence peellelab.org/join

This tool is absolutely nuts. 5 minutes to do a pretty darn good job distilling my dissertation into a 12 minute dialogue. Just wait until you can incorporate your own (or some elses…scary!) voice. drive.google.com/file/d/1-LU2....

I’m not a "real" statistician, and you can be one too. ICYMI: statsepi.substack.com/p/im-not-a-r...

Hola Nerds -- Anyone out there have recommendations for a good research methods textbook for graduate cog sci/psychology/speech/linguistics -- Something that spans case series, etc -- less epi and clinical trials? THANKS

I had a first pass at a starter pack for folks interested in the cognitive or brain aspects of speech, language and communication: go.bsky.app/6iumPee Who else should I add? (Self-nominations encouraged!) #neuroskyence

THE BIG ONE! link.springer.com/article/10.3...

New paper alert, just out in Open Mind (MIT Press)! This project came from a serendipitous conversation with my friend Jen Scapetis-Tycer where we were musing on what makes some people (Jen) particularly good vocal mimics, whereas others (me) are crap at accents. 🧵. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

If you want a sneak peak of the whole book: arxiv.org/abs/2305.18793 I prefer physical copies, but I won't hold it against anyone who prefers electronic versions.

Alphafold and various materials modeling techniques are some of the best algorithmic probability generators out there, today, and I really wish we hadn't let these hypemerchants collapse and conflate GPTs, LLMs, ML, NLP, and Algorithms into an undifferentiated smear they labeled "AI"

📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results. I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this! ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

The International Society for Bayesian Analysis tells me Statistical Rethinking has won the 2024 DeGroot Prize for its contributions to "statistical inference, decision theory and statistical applications". This is huge honor especially given the previous winners who have influenced me so much.

I can retire now right? Or is this an automatic qualifier for tenure?

New blog post! Seven (7!) new tidyexplain-esque animations showing how {dplyr}'s mutate(), summarize(), group_by(), and ungroup() all work together #rstats #dataskyence www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/04...