New pop piece on assortative mating and personality in Psyche Magazine, based on @nguyenllpsych.bsky.social's dissertation work. psyche.co/ideas/does-i...

New paper in Collabra from @nguyenllpsych.bsky.social's dissertation, "Assortative Mating Patterns Based on Longitudinal Trajectories of Personality Traits and Relationship-Specific Characteristics." Check it out, it's a good one! doi.org/10.1525/coll...

HUGE congrats to DOCTOR Linh Nguyen (@nguyenllpsych.bsky.social) on the successful defense of her dissertation. A truly masterful effort!!

Yihui Xie, who authored or co-authored many widely used R packages including rmarkdown, shiny, knitr, and bookdown, has been laid off by Rstudio/Posit. (His blog post describes the separation as amicable.) He's looking for work, someone is going to be very lucky to get him yihui.org/en/2024/01/b...

It's a Festivus miracle, a new blog post! My airing of grievances this year pertain to some academics' widely-held wrong beliefs, including the disparagement of “more of a comment than a question,” GRExit, “leaving academia,” and more! getsyeducated.substack.com/p/the-ignora...

whenever i get pass a new academic/professional milestone im simply relieved to never have to do it again because of how rapidly things have become so much amore competitive. excited to one day annoy the youths with my tales of “just cast a wide net and youll get in somewhere”

just found this old screenshot saved as missing-not-at-random.png lol

Ah yes, graduate school. #phd #phdchat

wrapped up the last meeting this semester with my undergrad RAs by preregistering their research projects, using my dissertation data that they helped collect! it is truly through the shared excitement and discussions over the years (with 14 RAs in total now..) that my research stays alive 😅 #PhDSky

I did it. the seemingly impossible task of openning a note file titled “summer goal 2021” without cringing intensely

New preprint! How often do editors/reviewers actually compare preregistrations to the reporting in the article? Almost never. This figure sums up all of the results. Not good.

sometimes I would be deep in data analysis or teaching prep and wonder why I have decided against the academic path, but then always face the same rude awakening when the time comes to actually do some ✨writing✨

It's almost 2024, people...

recently received a couple awards to help fund my dissertation data collection! honestly pretty emotional thinking how these are likely my last research grants in academia 😬#phdsky

I'm looking to recruit a new Ph.D. student for Fall 2024, particularly someone interested in meta-science, and preferably intersections with diversity/structural perspectives. Full consideration given to applicants from inside or outside the U.S. Deadline is Dec 1. cla.umn.edu/psychology/g...

it took 5 years but i've arrived at my final grad student form: deep cleaning electronics as a procrastination mechanism #PhDSky

90% of my dissertation work and tears is probably going to go in an appendix and I just, Idk 😭 #PhDSky #linguistics

I haven't read this yet, but this kind of guidance is much needed. As a reviewer/reader I have frequently been appalled at how deviations have been handled in papers (usually not mentioned at all). Preregistration is worthless without full transparency.

whats the measurement invariance of the item “it could be worse”?

Can anyone share a pre-registration for a MLM (in R)? We’re particularly interested in how to incorporate decision trees about selecting models and how to deal with convergence issues. #PsychSciSky #CogSci #DevSci (is there an open science feed yet??)

I felt adequately prepared for much of dissertation life, but definitely not for explaining that most of our participants were "quite young, in the 25-34 age group" and have one research assistant immediately say oh that's not that young ☠️ #PhDSky

chaotic neutral is the way

it wasnt until running this multi-part data collection that I wanted to unironically refer to a work activity as “putting out a fire” ☠️ #PhDSky

Stats people online: "You buffoon, you complete moron, how can you still be using method X? Method Y is better!" Me, inevitably, after spending 5 hours reading and getting method Y to work: Coefficients and SEs change by 0.02, conclusions identical.

in less than a month, 55 romantic couples have signed up for my dissertation study, commiting to a week-long ESM process AND a relationship narrative interview 🤯 there are no-shows and all that jazz, but definitely more confident now about that data collection target #PhDSky

someone’s expecting a feature in that dissertation acknowledgment

going from a full-day employee recognition celebration at my industry gig yesterday back to the classic grad-student combo of teaching + learning + dissertating today has been … interesting. might actually miss all this chaos when i graduate #PhDSky

As I said elsewhere: What's supposed to be surprising about arriving at different results under different models making different assumptions, using different methods that also make different assumptions? It's almost as if our inference depends on the model & method. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#rstats What are your favourite examples when teaching students to think critically about data/figures and interpretations? For example, Simpson's Paradox and the importance of considering important subpopulations - is brilliantly displayed in the Palmer Penguins dataset.

welp data collection no-shows are happening more than expected… and we’re not even onto the craigslist recruitment wave yet ☠️ #PhDSky

A few important points: 1. this is about medical and public health research-if you can’t figure out flossing-what is the hope of psych constructs that we have created? Our theories are often more sophisticated than our empirical tests of those theories

Carbon! carbon.now.sh

ugh qualitative data is so cooooooool —she said, fighting the urge to immediately quantify these rich narratives into neat numbers so #rstats can go brrrrr

feeling such jitters right now as my undergrad RA is running data collection for my dissertation in the next room!!!! first time unsupervised!!! (they're doing fantastic) #PhDSky

I made a little diagram for illustrating the difference between fixed effects and random effects meta-analyses. #stats

never underestimate the power of pretty office supplies for productivity #rstats #PhDSky

New #rstats color palette package just dropped: {MoMAColors}! It has gorgeous colors from art at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC

it’s nice when #rstats data wrangling and cleaning still sometimes seems so magical to clients. perfect blend of a relaxing yet engaging problem solving task 💆‍♀️

The purpose of the first draft is to exist

returning a bunch of unfinished library books this week. dissertation brain is not leaving much room/energy so im returning to more mindless pursuits.. who wants a knitted xmas sweater? (jk plz dont request it takes me forever to make one) #PhDSky

The final version of our tutorial paper on power analyses for interactions is now live at Psych Science AMPPS journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Huge thanks to collaborators @drlynam.bsky.social Tom Olino, Colin Vize, Megan Finsaas, and Brandon Goldstein.

had a nice full-circle moment this week as I guest lectured and led the lab section on probability distributions for our first-year PhD students. I remember being quite confused when I was in their shoes not so long ago (what is a dnorm()???) 😅 funny how teaching is such a good learning tool #rstats

ramping up dissertation data collection (and 1st ever data collection in my PhD!) and everything feels so real now 😬 a pretty manual binder definitely helps.. #PhDSky

Sharing this R resources database with y'all! For the past 4 years, I have been accumulating resources (mainly free ones) for new & advanced #Rlearners in their programming journey. Feel free to share! resourcesdatabase.com #RStats #RResources #learningR #DataScience #Python #R

Slides from my #PositConf2023 talk on the upcoming GitHub Copilot integration in RStudio: colorado.posit.co/rsc/rstudio-... Try it out TODAY with the 2023.09 release of RStudio! #RStats #Copilot #GenAI #generativeai #DataScience

How do you write approachable, searchable documentation in your org? I'm looking for a good product for my department but it needs to be business-partner friendly and easy to edit. Confluence is fine (and can host quarto docs??) but I'm wondering what else is out there. paging #rstats and #quartopub

let us dissertate #PhDSky

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