Let's go shopping! Meet you in about 15 minutes? youtube.com/live/oBGdjqj...

Is it finally time for me to watch Alien Stage? Perhaps. Am I emotionally prepared? All signs point to "no."

These are the countries where AI use in academic papers has increased the most (blue) and least (yellow), according to a new study.

A new video! Watch me crash out about bad data visualization for 7 minutes and 32 seconds.

don't worry a new video is coming soon (Challenge: Guess the Context)

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{easystats} is not only highly functional and powerful, but their help is also a goldmine of accessible #statistics advice. Here explaining how to address high VIF values (hint: generally not by removing predictors, as often done) easystats.github.io/performance/... Thanks @easystats.github.io

A new paper in Nature finds that engagement-based algorithms on social media amplifies intergroup, moralized and emotional (IME) information + toxic content relative to reverse-chronological feeds, with the largest increases in moral outrage and political content. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

AI chatbots have become human-like, with users seeking emotional support & companionship from them. Higher daily usage with chatbots—across all conversation types—was linked to higher loneliness, dependence, problematic use, and lower socialization with real people. arxiv.org/html/2503.17...

I live! Let's do a Q&A! I'll be answering your questions about research, (social) psychology, and academia on Monday May 18th at 5pm ET! Drop your questions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Community-based fact-checking works Community notes reducethe subsequent spread of misleading posts by 61% and increase the odds that users delete their false posts by 94% But they appear too late to stop the viral stage of the diffusion making the effect modest. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I live! Let's do a Q&A! I'll be answering your questions about research, (social) psychology, and academia on Monday May 18th at 5pm ET! Drop your questions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📢 Calling all students still on the market for this fall. 🚨 Post-doc opportunity working on how to adapt interventions to different cultures, with Catherine Thomas at the University of Michigan. Due June 15: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2... @iaccp.bsky.social @umich.edu @spspnews.bsky.social

Hiatus Update: I was thinking of coming back soon, but then... The Canvaspocalypse occurred and

5 PhD positions in @univie.ac.at's new interdisciplinary research platform Trustworthy Science Communication. Areas include communication science, STS and health psychology. Apply by 14 May to join our amazing team. More info: sci-comm.univie.ac.at/phd-positions #PhDLife #PhDJobs #BehSci #SciComm

So tired of the mindless use of mean/SD to describe data when it is obviously not very useful. Most recent example "patients had suffered from depression on average for 7.6 years (SD = 7.1)" Same paper reports BDI post treatment scores with mean 6.64 (SD = 8.04), when 0 is the lowest possible score.

I've made an R package for Bayesian Rasch #psychometrics with brms models, easyRaschBayes (on CRAN), implementing simple functions to create figures and tables with model fit metrics, etc. Attaching figures from conditional item infit, item-restscore with GK gamma, and the log-likelihood criterion.

POV: there's an anime girl on the conference merch table

It's that time of the semester (a magical phrase that can be used at any point in the semester)

VTheorem is just a collection of spreadsheets

New paper out in JPSP with @erichehman.bsky.social! We asked: What is the framework underlying our impressions of environments? Our large bottom-up study shows that people pay attention to 4 factors. We’re calling it the Environment Impressions Model: doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

It doesn't always go right #rstats #ggplot2

See you in half an hour on Twitch! I'll be drawing with Eggy! www.twitch.tv/myelinachemon

Hey all! I have one more collab stream coming up soon-ish, but other than that, I'm going to be going on a hiatus from streaming for a while. (Unsure how long.) Sorry- Theory Thursdays won't be making it through the full semester. Y'all take care of yourselves!

I'm live, streaming with Z and Nep! Let's learn how to actually find reliable information in the age of AI and misinformation 💪 Find us on Z's channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKeo... Or Nep's Twitch! www.twitch.tv/nepenthesvt

Did the anime aura quiz thing komiko.app/anime-aura

For today's Theory Thursday, we're reading about how context predicts belief in conspiracy theories at the country level! See you soon!

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! is .na(myelin$gender) > TRUE

Last day! We're going until it's no longer March 31st anywhere in the world so you still have time!

A new paper in Science measured the prevalence of social sycophancy across 11 leading large language models. The model’s responses were nearly 50% more sycophantic than humans’, even when users engaged in unethical, illegal, or harmful behaviors. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Just three days left to apply!

Quick reminder that this is happening in about ten minutes! Hope to see you there!

Wow! Thank y'all so much!

Going live in 5 minutes for a short, chill coworking stream! youtube.com/live/gjel1Ig...

Full-time research coordinator position at UC Berkeley. Ideal for folk aiming 4 graduate study in clinical/health psychology who enjoys managing data and using R. This job posting is now listed on UC Berkeley Careers! In case helpful, you can use the Job ID #85111 to find the listing.

My eternal curse of accidentally opening R Studio, and having to wait for ages for it to start up so I can close it.

We're in for a busy few weeks, so I'm bringing back the schedule!

This Friday (3/27) at 3pm Eastern, I'm going to have @leshner.bsky.social on the channel! Connor is a SUPER cool psychologist who'll be sharing some of his work on parasocial relationships with fictional characters, and doing a Q&A with chat! Hope to see you there! www.youtube.com/live/nKPERrl...

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

NEW CAVE BIOME IN MINECRAFT?

we read in 20 minutes

If you are working with multilevel data, try out my new package mlstats 📦 — an #rstats package for multilevel analyses. You can create publication-ready descriptive tables like the one below (including within- AND between-group correlations + ICCs). github.com/felixdidi/ml... Details in thread 🧵↓

the ominous sound of running feet

WE GOT TWITCH PARTNER!! Thank you so much everyone for your support during the partner push!! I can't tell you how much it means to me 🥹 🧡 I'm excited to use this checkmark in the name of science (only in ways approved by the ethics committee I swear)

See you in half an hour for Theory Thursdays! Today we're reading this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9Mn...

Students on the job market: Post-doc opportunity at Purdue in decision-making, risk, and AI. www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

New mini model!

This could be your dream job! PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!! www.ign.com/articles/the...

We're live, judging your rooms. (Gosling, Ko, Mannarelli, & Morris, 2002) www.twitch.tv/psydere