I fear somebody in the Australian government may have misunderstood the meaning of pull requests

This is a hidden “two-fer” position; they want someone who can also teach stats!

The University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor – Mental Health and Well-Being Psychology Closing date: 2025/11/03 CPA Career Ads and Resources page: buff.ly/sg5hGah

Very interesting if EU sets social media age limits. Relative to how impactful such decisions (both limiting & not) can be for human development and society, the scale of genuinely dedicated research feels rather small. www.politico.eu/article/von-...

I'm hoping to recruit one grad student for 2026-27, in the developmental science area!

I have been saying this for years: There is nothing inherently progressive about emphasizing environmental causes over genetic ones. Bad speculation about environmental causes can also be dangerous. I wish, though, that the current administration hadn’t illustrated my point so spectacularly.

FACT CHECK: Acetaminophen (Tylenol) has no credible link with autism. Tylenol is the leading option to combat dangerous fevers during pregnancy — fearmongering around tried and tested medicine puts pregnant people and children at risk. #impeachthequack

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Really cool new paper from the lab led by our awesome lab manager Diego Moss - see Kevin's thread below

I use this graph a lot.

Multiverse Analyses Nice consideration of five nonmutually exclusive motives for conducting multiverse analyses: 🔹️ Assessing robustness 🔹️ Examining boundary conditions 🔹️ Generating hypotheses 🔹️ Increasing transparency 🔹️ Improving a study’s methodology #MetaSci #Methodology

It is a common and (IMO) misguided critique that grant review panels discourage innovative ideas. What trips up more grants than anything (but especially "innovative" ones) is lack of feasibility. 1/4

I will take students interested in adolescent development and intensive longitudinal data. Something we do: parenting, impulsivity, psychopathology, emotion regulation, peer relationships, modeling stats, all in daily contexts. Multi-timescale data main foci. Very affordable place to live. Plz apply

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‘One of the Most Egregious Interventions in University Autonomy We’ve Ever Seen’ - thelocal.to/bill-33-onta...

Wow - it's a Far Side "Trouble Brewing" cartoon in real-life!

Join our ranks tomorrow….

Really interesting overview of why guesses on public opinion polls for rare things are overestimated.

While Positron is a great product, one of the most reassuring things I heard from posit::conf (that I know will reassure others as well) is that if you are solely an R user a) you don't really *need* to switch to Positron and b) RStudio is not going anywhere! Posit will continue to support it.

Not loving these MMRV headlines, they feel misleading! The vast majority of kids under 4 in this country get MMR and V separately when they’re ~1 and this is what will still happen. The combined MMRV is what is changing, but that was not commonly given to young children already

About halfway through this article on spotting pseudoscience there’s an ad about your ‘dopamine addiction type’

This is insane. Let your friends and colleagues know.

Another chapter in the book of “Sometimes There’s Nothing There & Using Fancy Stats to Find Something Can Be a Bad Idea” Do you wish we could understand causality by finding lagged effects in longitudinal data? Bad news - lagged effects are probably rare, & even the RI-CLPM is an ill-suited test.

As a progressive & ex-Evangelical, I would LOVE to tour evangelical churches and talk with (genuinely talk with, not use as fodder for YouTube gotcha videos) church members. Unfortunately, evangelical churches don’t allow women to teach men.

Any tips on good resources for students interested in pursuing their PhD in I/O? I know of great options for clinical psych and am guessing something like this exists for I/O? @foswald.bsky.social @larsujohnson.bsky.social @marcuscrede.bsky.social

'Optimeet: A computational tool to enhance participant attendance in group research' In this paper we discuss the challenges of conducting group based research and provide a practical, web-based tool that can enhance the scheduling and recruitment of groups for experimental research.

Yes indeed, and we have one for psychology. You can learn more and submit here, psych.peercommunityin.org, and read more about the background and rationale in our editorial. We would love to have you submit your work! osf.io/preprints/ps...

How to avoid politics on Bluesky 🦋 [THREAD] When scientists left X, many hoped for a quieter space. But politics will take over your feeds unless you actively do something about it. This guide will help you if you just want to follow your scientific interest! mikeyoungacademy.dk/researchers-...

Whoa—my book is up for pre-order! 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity. tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8

If I read this, will it say they’re looking at paying reviewers?

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...

This is the best Redford movie, in case you were looking for a suggestion. Or even if not, I still want to tell you.

Applying to grad school is a competitive and often confusing process. Use our roadmap to help you understand what programs are looking for and how to effectively prepare. buff.ly/if4394U

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

If you’re in #Ottawa on Sept 25th, join us for the Pickering Public Lecture where this year Dr. Tracy Vaillancourt will speak on the neurobiology of bullying victimization. She is the 2025 recipient of the Pickering Award! Register here to let us know you’re coming: pickeringcentre.org/register/

Teaching graduate statistics is such a wonderful experience - I love being in the position where I can say here are all these cool resources, here's what you can do, here's how to do good science #academicsky #R

In this week's special In The Wild episode, we turn our Quantitude loose on the premise that National Public Radio is liberally biased, talking about what issues we would need to have addressed in order to be able to evaluate whether or not that's a reasonable claim.

this is a very good and incredibly sad piece about Canadian national treasure Robert Munsch, the author of phenomenal children's books Angela's Airplane, the Paper Bag Princess, Thomas's Snowsuit, and many others Munsch has dementia. Fuck dementia.

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Taking our quantitude for a test drive tomorrow…

Penn State Psychology is Hiring! Full-time Assistant Professor of Quantitative/Computational Psychology. The position is co-funded by @ssripennstate.bsky.social Questions can be sent to: [email protected]. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Super well-deserved

Deskilling is a huge concern. It's terrifying that students and academics convince themselves that AI can substitute for their own critical faculties or skill development.

I haven't used {DeclareDesign} before, but I have been using {marginaleffects} in my simulation-based power analyses for the past year or so, and I recommend you do too.

Brief story: For 7 years In my early career, I was harassed by an online anti-porn activist. He wrote hundreds of thousands of words in blog posts trashing my research, emailed colleagues to try to get them to publicly condemn me, tried to get my articles retracted, and tried to get me fired (1/4)

I wrote a little something that I needed to hear, about keeping hope and making a difference when the world is shit. So maybe you need to hear it too.

🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych. Review begins 10/10. Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

TIMELINE CLEANSE! 1. Bingo has since been renamed Mingo. Idk, it just suits him. 2. He’s a delightful, bitey, little puppy menace. 3. I’m potty training a toddler and a dog. SEND HELP. 4. I LOVE this age of kiddo absolutely my fav so far. The SNUGGLES OMG. 5. WEDNESDAY S2 is SO GOOD 100/10

Looks like a winner!