Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today. A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):

How Indigenous-led health education in remote communities can make reconciliation real

📣 Call for unpublished studies on discrimination of bisexual people! ⬇️ Please see the full call below We are very grateful for all contributions! #SocialPsych #PsychSciSky

Call for Papers: Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science is calling for proposals for manuscripts that discuss, demonstrate, and work to enhance replicability and reproducibility of methods research in psychology. Proposals are due by September 15!

RFK Jr has promised to release a report on the causes of autism in September. To prepare, it's a good idea to make sure we know what the common types of observational research biases are. First up: confounding by indication. Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Why Teachers Say Yes (or No) to Research Participation—and What Researchers Can Learn From It From SRI International studentbehaviorblog.org/why-teachers...

3 Aug 25 - New study shows vast "over-representation of trans boys" turns out to be vast _under-representation_ of trans girls bec. they: a) come out ~10 years later; b) start puberty later; & c) delay transitioning longer because of deep social animus towards AMAB femininity. tinyurl.com/yrwvmxws

Are you working on issues of replication and reproducibility of methodological research in psychology? Consider submitting a proposal to my call for papers, happy to chat about your ideas or answer any questions! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

🧵 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...

Happy to share my new study, publ. in Social Science Research 🎉 Bottom line: Yes, adolescents use their phones a lot 🤳 But I find no support for the notion that this use displaces reading, homework, hobbies, physical act., sleep... Instead: Changing media preferences 📺 ->📱. doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🧵 addressing the argument: "AI won’t replace teachers, but it will save them time and make them more effective.” Adding edtech doesn't necessarily save teachers time. A recent study found that LMSs sold to schools over the past decade+ as time-savers aren’t delivering on making teaching easier.

every year my lab does a re-read + edit of our Handbook, a documentation resource for how we do science this year we also updated our Public Handbook, an open-access version for folks wanting to improve their own docs it's at handbook-public.themusiclab.org and available for noncommercial re-use

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

📱 Want to know when to schedule your #EMA / #ESM beeps for the highest completion rates? ⏰ Timing matters: some moments during the day and week are more receptive than others. See: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Has our scientific writing gotten better or worse since the 1950s? Some cool data here. #acwri #scipub link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Here’s a screenshot of the “addictive use” trajectories from the JAMA paper cited below. My educated guess from the details of the measure is that none of these lines comes close to bona fide “addictive” use 🧵

Scientists have come under pressure in the information age; with fascist myth-making and autocratic political movements leading the anti-science aggression. @lewan.bsky.social put together a team to provide key info & guidance. I have some thoughts: www.protagonist-science.com/p/the-anti-a... 1/

We will soon be hiring a research assistant in Calgary to work on projects related to brain imaging, prenatal alcohol exposure, and mental health. Please reach out if you're interested, and I will share the posting once it's live. @ucalgary.bsky.social @mathisoncentre.bsky.social

I'm trying to find someone to teach a short course helping SAS users (specifically) transition to #Rstats. If you are such a person or are willing to recommend someone, my DMs are open!

Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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...

New website up & running! (with an up-to-date team section) www.developmentalneuroimaginglab.ca @courtneygilchrist.bsky.social @bryce-g.bsky.social @kathrynmanning.bsky.social @xiangyuloong.bsky.social @mervsingh.bsky.social

Love this. The journal Behavioral Medicine has a call for papers from terminated public health grants: The Terminated Public Health Science Issue Check it out: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you're currently working—or have worked in the past 5 years—in consulting or collaborative research as a biostatistician, we’d love to hear from you. 📅 Closes 11th July This survey has been approved by the QUT Human Research Ethics Committee (approval #9691).

In a recent paper, my undergrad student Zoe Childers-Rockey examined the cost and representativeness of recruiting a pregnancy cohort via social media ads and Zoom calls. She made this great video summarizing the findings! youtu.be/7wwAokOsRLc?...

📌 THREAD: I’m taking Health & Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. to court ⚖️ Not for me — but to defend science 🧬, LGBTQ health 🏳️‍🌈 & the future of public research 🏥 Here’s why 🧵 🔗 Full story via my op-ed in @statnews.com #DefendScience #LGBTQHealth #RFKJr #NIH #PublicHealth #AcademicFreedom

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

Results from our recent study on @theconversationca.bsky.social!

🧪 Since now there's round 3 of NSF grant terminations, it is yet *again* a good time to repost this. So far has been an every Friday thing for the past 3 weeks...

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

"The study revealed that AI chatbots actually created new job tasks for 8.4 percent of workers, including some who did not use the tools themselves, offsetting potential time savings."

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science

🇨🇦New Tri-Agency open access policy: "Agency grantees & chairholders must deposit their article in a Canadian institutional repository at the time of publication [...] preprints deposited under an open license will be accepted as compliant with this policy." science.gc.ca/site/science...

This paper might cause Steven Pinker to have a stroke. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Is anyone planning to go to CPA next year and interested in putting together a LGBTQ or diverse pops symposium? Trying to find a home for my dissertation! #addictionsci #psychscisky

#HiSciSky👋 Asst prof of psych at UOklahoma studying predictors of mental health from pregnancy-adulthood, prevention, + methods/science communication. Interdisciplinary and look forward to connecting with #AcademicSky #addictionsci #devpsy #episky #ClinPsy #reprosky #SciComm #PsychSci #WomenInSTEM