Hey folks doing #statnerdsummer ! This is your last chance to sign up for next week's course on designing ambulatory assessment/EMA studies. You can always register later and watch the recordings etc, but it's much more awesomer when people come in person and ask lots of questions!

The worst part of working at a Michigan public university are that the governing boards are made up of political actors. They are selected by partisan public elections. It’s no way to run universities @michiganstateu.bsky.social prez is most recent casualty president.msu.edu/communicatio...

Turns out empirically derived phenotypes (data-driven symptom sets) nested within traditional mental disorders can help reduce diagnostic heterogeneity! We learned so much cool and interesting stuff in this study. I could talk (/post) about it all day, but here’s a few highlights (🧵)

Hey folks, last chance to sign up to learn the basics of latent variable modeling with me this summer. The live virtual workshop kicks off on Monday! Ofc, you can always register to take the training asynchronously and learn at your own pace. You get access to the videos and materials forever.

I take it Canvass has been hacked and they (whoever did it) is holding everyone’s data ransom? And individual universities can pay the ransom by the 12th to have their data removed from the impending leak?

Careful out there folks, it’s starting to feel like P&T letter request season….

A student from the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences Cameroon reached out to me -- he's writing his thesis on estimating the causal effect of insecticide-treated net use on malaria infections & has nobody in his immediate network who could provide a quick sanity check on his methodology.>

Every pizza is personal size if you believe in yourself enough…

If nothing else, we wouldn't have to spend all that time updating our absurd CVs with every last thing including how many times we spoke to an undergraduate.

A new landscape, as usual, Atari 2600 palette, 90s vibes. #pixelart

minor PSA for the day: there's no such thing as "between-person" processes, as in contrast to within-person processes (I'm not talking about like dyadic interactions etc.)

Couldn’t have asked for a warmer lab for my research stay! Thank you for hosting me @aidangcw.bsky.social !

Lot's of folks cheering this paper's implications, as if it shows all's well in how we do science and can return to business as usual. IT DOES NOT SAY THAT! But by the paper's own logic, if we can't establish a crisis (using binary replication rates), we also can't say there isn't a crisis. 1/3

Call for papers at the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science: Advancing scientific and clinical understanding of medical assistance in dying These can be empirical, theoretical, policy related, or other types. Please share and consider submitting! www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

Absolutely bonkers footage of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones in prop planes with shotguns. Not ai, came from an official Ukrainian account and verified by the WSJ.

I'm offering a course on Structural Equation Modeling May 18-20. Come learn how to address the limitations of regression (eg model measurement error, fully multivariate models) and improve your research! Please RT! Here is the link to register and learn more: smart-workshops.com/intro-sem-info

A warm lab sendoff to Rana Kalkan who spent a very cold semester visiting the lab from KU Leuven!

Sad news out of Pittsburgh this week

Hey folks, www.smart-workshops.com is sponsoring yet another free webinar. This time on how to navigate and be successful at PCORI grants taught by Kelley Kidwell (UMich Professor of biostats) You can find out more and register here: smart-workshops.com/pcori-info Feel free to share!

You acting humorless and miserable does not actually make the authoritarians go away

On May 6th, I'll be providing a free webinar sponsored by www.smart-workshops.com on Bifactor models I plan to cover what I see as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly The good: what these models tell you that others can't The bad: how they are misinterpreted and misued The ugly: challenges modeling

Do you know how to model the five types of stability/change: Structural, Relative, Normative, Individual, and Ipsative? If not, consider signing up for my longitudinal SEM course on May 26-28. I cover the first 4 in depth. Detailed info and registration: smart-workshops.com/long-sem-info

I'm offering a course on Structural Equation Modeling May 18-20. Come learn how to address the limitations of regression (eg model measurement error, fully multivariate models) and improve your research! Please RT! Here is the link to register and learn more: smart-workshops.com/intro-sem-info

Postdoc available! There are two T32 positions at Minnesota focusing on developmental psychopathology, with a large selection of potential mentors. I could serve as primary mentor for someone interested in intersections with metascience and/or diversity. Apply now! drive.google.com/file/d/18SoO...

This is phenomenal. How many disease prevention programs are there that lead to 11% drop in mortality within 2 years? Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...

Today, we celebrated the 80th birthday of the @umich.edu Survey Research Center @um-src.bsky.social. We have more than 1,000 people who do rigorous and impactful science in the public interest every day and for 80 years. Happy Birthday, SRC 🎈

Good grief, I think one of the worst parts of working where I work is the fact that our board of regents is elected through statewide partisan elections It’s a horrible system

Showing the kid Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade for the first time…boy does this scene resonate

Three NIH study section meetings back to back every two months due to the government shutdown is brutal.

New this year: free trainee pre-conference on July 13 organized by @cehaeffner.bsky.social @adanyajohnson.bsky.social Pre-conference tickets are free for main conference attendees but space is limited to 75 people so register early! www.cpconf.org/faq-cpconf20...

Keynotes: @danisbassett.bsky.social Anne Collins, Eyiyemisi Damisah, Guillermo Horga, Frederike Petzschner @adredish.bsky.social Don Robinaugh @aidangcw.bsky.social Organizers: @xiaosigu.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social Al Powers @yiplab.bsky.social Katie Myerscough @francesghart.bsky.social

📣🔥 Early bird registration now open for 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference cpconf.org at Yale July 14-16. Late-breaking abstracts now open (deadline: May 8) Trainee pre-conference (July 13) registration open (free!) See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026

My paper "Powering the Circumplex" was just accepted at Assessment! 🎉 It's a practical guide to sample size planning for the Structural Summary Method with an R package (github.com/kimberlyjg/s...) & web calculator (kjgilbert01.shinyapps.io/shiny/). Data & code: osf.io/63wyf

“They realized, well, that was a mistake,” said Sheriff Sam Hulse of Bonneville County, a Republican. “You started seeing deaths occurring in the community. We started seeing the numbers in the crisis system rise. The very thing we told them would happen was beginning to happen.”

So, since I was recruited to Michigan, in 2023 we’ve won the national Championship in football and men’s basketball… Coincidence or causation?

These two books contain the sum total of all human knowledge

Mostly interested in psychology depts with this question, but curious about all: Are your departments developing gen AI policies? Are your areas/programs developing gen AI policies? Is it each lab for their own? If so, what are they?

I don’t know about this guys reasoning, but the data comports with my experience of it here. It’s sleepy, unless you are ranting about politics. Twitter was like going to parties in 80’s movies, but BS is like drinking in the library (I imagine, never tried it)

Will never forgive the chair for not checking with me any me availability before scheduling this

Actually, College is Getting Cheaper Interesting analysis on the actual cost of college for families of different incomes by The Chronicle of Higher Education - looks like things are getting cheaper, though how much depends on your income bracket www.chronicle.com/article/actu...

🚨FREE WEBINAR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 Get an early start to #statnerdsummer with a free seminar on how multilevel models and structural equation models intersect. I'll be showing this through MLM and SEM growth curves. Sign up for free! Share widely! You can register here: smart-workshops.com/workshops

My employer adopted new two-factor identification software. Everyone I talk to is complaining about the added burden. It takes me much longer to log in and I have to do it more times per day. I wondered, how much is this costing the university in lost productivity? My estimate: ~$37.3M per year.

Posting to request any examples people have seen of AI disclosure statements in recent papers that are not just "grammatical edits" or "detect errors in code" - I know there's a lag in publications but surely some folks here are writing them already or seeing them in papers?

📣 The 2026 SMaRT Workshops schedule is officially LIVE — with workshops covering SEM, MLM, dyadic methods, time series, machine learning, clinical trials design, and more. STATS NERD SUMMER is HERE. Come learn something. 🧑‍🎓 smart-workshops.com/workshops Please share and RP🙏 More info 👇 1/n

So, I edit a journal, and when you submit a paper it asks if you used AI in the preparation of the paper...it's a checkbox, and then an open response if you check yes. It's obvious that a lot of people are liars. People are submitting work that obviously used AI in various ways, but they check "no"

Have done @kgates.bsky.social GIMME and @vizecolin.bsky.social Meta-workshops. A+++ highly recommend

Are you an Otrovert? Here's what I'd say. First, that's not really a thing. But, sure, you can take any configuration of traits and call it something. And, there will be people who fit that configuration. Should we have a name for this constellation of traits? Meh.. lsa.umich.edu/psych/news-e...

JOB ALERT🚨 We are hiring a new research coordinator in the lab. Please apply if you are interested in psychopathology and personality reproach. Information about the position is here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2... Feel free to ask any questions here, in DM, or email.

Hey nerds, summer is a great time to learn new stats skills! SMaRT workshops are back again. I'll be co-leading a couple on time series and GIMME. The whole line up is really strong this year, check it out.