Does anyone know of any generalised additive mixed models courses running over the next ~year? Ideally in person, pref UK/Europe #rstats #gam #gamm

Too many children with speech and language challenges are being left out and left behind at school. Today, we’ve launched our own white paper – because Government must get SEND reform right. Share it with your MP today👇 https://speechandlanguage.org.uk/the-issue/our-campaigns/transforming-send/

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭 anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

I'm looking for secondary schools in the Yorkshire area to take part in an intervention to help children critically engage with sexist content online! If you know any teachers or schools that might be interested, please ask them to drop me an email on [email protected] for more information :)

Please check out the Top 10 Research Priority Questions for #DevLangDis. Newly launched after extensive consultations involving people with DLD, families and professionals. www.rcslt.org/news/top-que...

"In summary, there isn't a specific "McDonald's Omega value" associated with the McDonald's brand itself." ...thanks for the clarification Google AI summary, there was I getting my fast food and statistical coefficients all confused. 🤷‍♀️🍟

The portals for the next EPS scientific meeting (University College London, between 7th – 9th January 2026) are now open! The portals for this meeting opened on Monday 8th September at 10am (UK time) and will remain open for at least 24 hours. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/ eps.ac.uk/submit-an-ab...

Grace Wahba was just recently awarded for her work on smoothing splines. www.statprize.org They're wicked cool. If you want to give them a look there's no better place to start than Wood's book on GAMs (the 2017 2nd Ed is a must)

Awwwww Yeah -- it's official

If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

It's not too late to spend next year gearing up for #datascience! The deadline is 29th August for overseas applicants, 5th September for home applicants. Come and learn #rstats with us in lovely York :)

I'm looking forward to getting stuck into #julialang next week but not enjoying the feeling of being completely clueless again 😅 Think I might need to keep this handy!

In case you missed it, there's just over one week left to apply for this RA post! Very grateful for all the shares, thank you 🙌 The last reminder from me now as I'm running away to Italy until the deadline 🇮🇹☀️

We are seeking an Editor-in-Chief for @qjep.bsky.social, to lead a team of associate editors and manage the journal. The new EiC will start shadowing the current role from July 2026 and will take over fully in January 2027. The term is initially for 4 years. eps.ac.uk/an-open-call...

Hi there! If you're a teacher in/near York, we'd really love your input on a research event we're considering for 2026. We want to know whether it would be of interest, & what should be included. If you have 5 mins to spare, please let us know via this short survey! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/ www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Neat little article on using Quarto and creating course materials: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10..... Resonates nicely with our experiences creating all our workbooks in R Markdown / Quarto.

📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

This turtle on a skateboard has brought me great joy @gentlem.bsky.social @dynavox.bsky.social

📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Today I’ll be sharing some of my favorite Quarto learning resources 💻✨ Most of what I know, I learned thanks to the amazing work of others. So this thread is a small tribute to open educational content and the people behind it. Let’s go! 👇 #QuartoPub #RLadies #RStats

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

📣 We are still accepting applications for our brand new shiny MSc in Data Science (Human Behaviour), designed to upskill psych/social sci grads for careers working with data 🎓@yorkpsychology.bsky.social www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr... #datascience #rstats #statistics

New paper day 🎉 In this secondary data registered report with ALSPAC data, we looked at preschool predictors of comprehension weaknesses at age 9 📚https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.70048

Next week onwards, I'm teaching a five-day introductory course on Bayesian Data Analysis in Gent. Newly recorded video lectures to accompany the course are now online: vasishth.github.io/LecturesIntr...

If you are going to any 4 year olds birthday parties then take this flyer along. As well as contributing to an understanding of the impact of covid on child development, participants get to keep the tablet. UK only. #EarlyYears @bicycle-study.bsky.social

Alert! ... for the child development world! @fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪ The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive. Check here: docs.hbcdstudy.org and here: nbdc-datahub.org Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

Really lovely piece on Children of the 90s broadcast on ITV West Country last night, featuring throwbacks to the 90s data collection alongside interviews with both Prof. Jean Golding and Prof. Nic Timpson. Always a joy to see! #ALSPAC #Co90s #WeAreCo90s www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr7e...

youtu.be/Ko6sFea3v0w?... Feel free to share - our guide is appropriate for mental health professionals working with adults or children (it’s important to remember many children with language problems continue to have communication needs as adults)

Great to see the link between language and mental health considered on the BBC - and amazing of Siouxsie to share her experiences www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... We have video guides for mental health practitioners about language problems and mental health - see below!

📣 *New resource!* Academics & practitioners at the University of York have developed a free online course to support individuals in recognising and responding to mental health concerns in children/young people. You can access it via our staff training resources page sunray.york.ac.uk/workshops-an...

As you listen to a story, the meaning of each word you hear relates to the meaning of prior words. But how? We operationalized semantic distance, and identified brain regions that correspond to this rolling summary measure during naturalistic listening. #neuroscienceoflanguage

🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨 The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing! And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg

Two new research opportunities! @ellenrlavender.bsky.social & team have developed a lesson to encourage adolescents to critically engage with sexist social media content. They are looking for (a) teacher feedback via focus groups, & (b) Year 7 classes to trial. See sunray.york.ac.uk/research-opp...

I just updated my post on equivalence testing with {marginaleffects} so that it's consistent with the latest version. (Some of the notes and code were outdated.) www.carlislerainey.com/blog/2023-08...

We're happy to have an accompanying publication for another #rstats #easystats package published! Thanks to @vincentab.bsky.social and @tjmahr.com for reviewing the manuscript!

I’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊 Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc

Looking forward to my trip to Birkbeck today! I'll be presenting our work using ALSPAC data to understand the bigger picture for children with comprehension difficulties 📚🎓🧪➕💼😶

🚀 Join us for this week's School of Psychological Science Seminar with Dr. Emma James! 🗓️ Wednesday, 14th May 🕐 1 PM 📍 Room 612 or on Teams @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

I'm very excited about this free workshop as part of BPS Developmental Psychology Section's conference. f/t @jakketamminen.bsky.social! Still a few days left to submit your work!

Look how many language and literacy skills this 14 month old child has developed. It's never too early to read to your child

*New paper* out in npj Science of Learning! @kathyrastle.bsky.social and I take a deep dive into the fascinating intricacies of morphology and introduce a new account of how readers learn about the internal structure of words. Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

New preprint from @bartlettje.bsky.social, Gaby Mahrholz & I written as part of #OSR25CF 🗻 We provide a tutorial of concrete ways to assess students knowledge about open sci and/or using open and reproducible practices such as registered reports, open code/data osf.io/preprints/os... #AcademicSky

And once again (because why not?) I'm recommending all psychology researchers read Bolger et al's (2019, doi.org/10.1037/xge0...) paper discussing heterogeneous causal processes in experimental psychology. Two of the data sets are on GitHub: github.com/kzee/heterog...

Very excited to finally share this! In this new study with co-investigators @rogierk.bsky.social and Mara Cercignani, we are following 300 children longitudinally between 6 months and 5 years to establish the building blocks of cognition and their neural foundations. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tips for getting started with Bayesian statistics dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

🔨 another tool i find indespensible for working in R is version control if you're not familiar with it, and in particular how it can help you manage your work in R, i highly recommend reading peerj.com/preprints/31... #rstats

How the words students hear changes significantly at the transition to secondary school. Really interesting research with specific examples via @alicedeignan.bsky.social & Marcus Jones. www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

The portals are now open! EPS Meeting: University of Dundee. 8th – 11th July 2025. A joint meeting with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS). Portals for this meeting opened at 10am (UK Time) on April 7th for a minimum of 24 hours. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/