In addition to a hiring PhD in ~October & hopefully some PhDs and postdocs ~February, if anyone would like to work with me as part of eg a Marie-Curie or something similar, please do get in touch. Topics include depression, classification, measurement, systems, time-series, & theory building.

i'm excited to offer a new 3-half-day online workshop through SMaRT Workshops: “Analysing Human Language using R: From Audio and Text to Interpretable Results” Learn transcription, embeddings, L-BAMs, and visualization with #rtalk, #rtext, and #rtopics. smart-workshops.com/lang-r-info

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!

Ridiculously useful information for anyone designing EMA studies or evaluating EMA studies as a reviewer/consumer of research.

New paper: PsychAdapter, a method for conditioning language models on psychological traits. Big 5 personality, mental health, and more. Lightweight approach works across multiple model architectures. @handyschwartz.bsky.social @lyleungar.bsky.social @oscarkjell.bsky.social and others! rdcu.be/e6m8H

1/5 Did you ever wish to make a visualization of language data? 🤔 We made an R-based tutorial for social scientists on how to turn language data into visual insights ✅ Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

the R-packages text 1.6 and topics .6 are now on CRAN topics includes visualisation improvements text is now easier to install, it checks for dependencies and instructs how to install them hope to get more user feedback to improve installation further www.r-text.org #rtext #rtopics #LLM #AI

We’ve just launched the HiTOP Teaching Hub—a space to collect and share materials for teaching dimensional models. If you have anything you're willing to share, please contact @kathleenwreardon.bsky.social or @miriforbes.bsky.social Here's what we have so far: www.hitop-system.org/hitop-teachi...

The LEADING reporting guideline is now published in Comprehensive Psychiatry 🥳 See www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Or read the previous summary 👇

1/ Correction! 🚨 I found and fixed an important coding error in a chart I made. Specifically, the peach category 'lymphatic and blood cancers' in this chart wrongly included both lymphoid and blood cancers (C81-C96) plus some of its subcategories, meaning some were double-counted. Before & after:

I’m thrilled about this special issue — please submit your abstract!

Today’s reading exercise.

Version 1.5 of the #r-text package is now available from #CRAN. This version improves the application of pre-trained language assessments from the #LBAM-library (r-text.org/articles/LBA...). #mlsky #PsychSciSky #Statistics #PsychSciSky #StatsSky #NLP

1/8 Balance ⚖️ vs. Harmony ☯️: Two emerging well-being constructs often sloppily used interchangeably. But they’re distinct. Balance = broad life domains ⚖️ Harmony = relationships🧘 We asked 15,275 people across 154 nations to show it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

our department at Lund University has a position for a PhD student. feel free to reach out if you are interested in applying. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

The tidymodels group has an #rstats summer internship position this year. The focus is on feature selection tools. All of the information is in the blog post below. We look forward to seeing your applications! www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01...

I really wish I discovered the {S7} and {cli} package before -- it would have really streamlined so much package development 100% recommend these tools for any package developers. #rstats

when the star on the tree is an actual star lol A NASA photo of the Christmas Tree Cluster 🎄

We received this beautiful handcrafted Christmas card from a student from Germany who visited us earlier this year... she did an amazing job capturing our cat! 🎄⭐ Merry Christmas, everyone!

Version 1.3 of the #r-text package is now available from #CRAN. This new version makes it easier to apply pre-trained language assessments from the #LBAM-library (r-text.org/articles/LBA...). #mlsky #PsychSciSky #Statistics #PsychSciSky #StatsSky #NLP

Better than bookmarks? Use R to save all your Bluesky likes in a searchable table! Bonus if you use generative AI: Upload them to a free service like Google NotebookLM and ask natural language questions to find that post you remember. www.infoworld.com/article/3623... #Rstats #R #GenAI #Bluesky

#rstats {lintr} finally got a hex logo! Thanks to @gregswinehart.bsky.social! And of course @hadley.nz for the initiative.

👋 I’m Nick. I study how we can make better decisions. Some examples: - Bounded Reflectivism & Epistemic Identity: researchgate.net/publication/356615873 - Great Minds Do Not Think Alike: researchgate.net/publication/359114933 - Tell Us What You Really Think: researchgate.net/publication/370193206

Hi folks! I know it is the weekend, but I'd like to quickly announance an update to {legendry} version 0.2.0: teunbrand.github.io/teunbrand_bl... #rstats #ggplot2

Hot day and our local echidna has had to take a dip to cool down on Kangaroo Island!

Let’s gooooo

In case you missed it, last October our paper "ELLIPS: An Ethics-Centered Approach to Research on LLM-Based Inference of Psychiatric Conditions" was accepted at AIES 2024. Let's dive into its details.

So many new followers!​! Hi folks, nice to meet you all. 🖤 I'll introduce my core research interests by showing you some of the work we've done in recent years on the conceptualization, measurement, modeling, and theories of mental health (problems). 🧪 #PsychSciSky #psychiatry #statssky 🧵

Launched a new HiTOP YouTube channel to host some videos my RA Tash Turner-Cohen and I are working on. We've just posted the first one, which gives a brief overview of some of the limitations of the DSM: youtu.be/4Kwu_1oMD9U

After I just added @masharemskar.bsky.social, there are 10 more placed available on the first Health Psychology starter pack. Anyone missing? Please let me know! go.bsky.app/9Xfk7Wo

European Social-Behavioral Science folks! Last chance to apply to my Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis workshop in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 20-24 Jan. Deadline has been extended to 4 Dec! gserm.org/apply-now/

First we have @albertrapp.bsky.social. I like his content because it focuses on what I call the "missing middle", not too basic and not too advanced. For example his book on {gt} tables is best in class for how to make tables in R He has a weekly newsletter - 100% recommended gt.albert-rapp.de

Last but not least we have @oscarkjell.bsky.social which has the awesome {text} package that brings huggingface NLP transformer capabilities to R Combine that with {bksyr} and you have a powerful combination. r-text.org

Hello #rstats, giving this side another try🤗. To kick it off, here is a great fashion item. A t shirt made out of more than 2000 hexstickers 😅 here is the making of and how you can make one yourself: blog.schochastics.net/posts/2024-1...

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

I want to agree but having some plan is always better than having no plan as far as analysis goes and so I don’t see the practice of registering as going out the window. I see option two with registered reports as another option to be a great balance moving forward.

🐣 New release: small-text v2.0.0.dev1 With Small Language Models on the rise, the new version of small-text has been long overdue! Despite the generative AI hype, many real-world tasks still rely on supervised learning—which is reliant on labeled data. #activelearning #nlproc #nlp #llms

My Simons talk on all the next-token & multi-token prediction stuff I've been yapping about is up, if anyone wants to watch! There're better versions of the talk that Gregor co-presented with me elsewhere, but sadly not recorded. He is an amazing presenter! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V0b...

Excited to share our Registered Replication on whether Women are Really (Not) More Talkative Than Men (in press at JPSP): osf.io/preprints/ps.... The results are complex but describe a reality different from what the photos below show 😊. Kudos to Colin Tidwell, Alex Danvers, and Valeria Pfeifer.

I made a starter pack for researchers in probabilistic machine learning. DM/reply if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/DuCtJqC

one interesting aspect of this is the tension between speeding up some things (like basic use of existing tech to accomplish stuff) vs the slowing down of other things (like adoption of new tech and libs). who will win?

#PinnedPosts! I research health-related quality of life #HRQL #Psychometrics esp. for #multimorbidity incl. #MentalIllness and am the outgoing #NightshiftEditor of "Quality of Life Research". My roles & teaching at #DundeeUni focus on #ResearchMethods & #ResearchEthics. #Dundee #Introduction

I can recommend #Porto for bringing Tweets over to Bluesky: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/porto... Not sure the world waited for it, but all the #NightshiftEditor #HRQL and other content is now here as well. And pictures from #Dundee * *The only content that really got engagement 😂

"That someone else has done or said something is epistemologically neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition to say or do so yourself." I wonder whether this point from #NightshiftEditor feedback on a #ResearchMethods paper has application to (my 😉) life more broadly..? #SapereAude

The Heart Nebula

Hello new bsky joiners. Thanks for following. May I encourage you to mostly select follows that bring you joy, delight, connection and meaning, rather than following dread and conflict? Twitter launched in 2006 and we have all learned alot about social media since then. You can start new here.

Welcome to BlueSky! 🦋 📌 To bookmark, add @bookmarkit.bsky.social & DM it. 🏁 Use starting packs to find & follow others w/similar interests. 🔁 Only reposts (not likes) amplify posts. 💬 By default, you can't be messaged by all users. If you wish to be messaged, change your settings under 'Chat'.

Is it better to make a good first impression, or end on a good note? We did 9 studies (!!) to discover how people summarize events in memory to make better choices! 🧵 psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-... #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Psychology