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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 21h

Trying out the {marquee} #rstats package for markdown-based formatting of ggplot elements and it's super neat marquee.r-lib.org

(code for plot here github.com/andrewheiss/...)

Plot showing the percent decrease in the number of polling places in a handful of US states after the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder SCOTUS ruling, with Arizona seeing a 22% decrease in voting locations. The title and subtitle use nicer typography and have keywords colored in reddish pink to match the plot

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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 18h

👀 this new meta-analysis on edutainment by @bardiarahmani.bsky.social, Montano, @dylanwgroves.bsky.social, and Green

doi.org/10.1017/bpp....

377 ests in 77 exps: edutainment moves attitudes, norms, beliefs 📊
Effects persist ⏳
Many reasonable theories about effect heterogeneity are not supported 😇

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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 1d

We're searching for a tenure track assistant professor in clinical psychology here at the University of Arizona! Come to Tucson-- great place to live and work! 🌄🌵🏀 @uarizona.bsky.social

arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Assistant Professor, Psychology (T/TE)

The candidate will be expected to build and sustain an externally funded, nationally recognized research program, provide effective instruction at the...

arizona.csod.com

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Jessie Baldwin @jessiebaldwin.bsky.social · 2d

When is it appropriate to deviate from a pre-registration, and how should this be done? 🧐

Join us to find out from Daniël Lakens @lakens.bsky.social at the next ReproducibiliTea!

October 28, 1pm GMT.

Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h...

@tabeasch.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org

When and How to Deviate From a Preregistration, with Prof Daniël Lakens

Prof Daniël Lakens will share guidance on appropriate circumstances and methods for deviating from a pre-registration

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 1d

New blog post!

Let's say you have two measures meant to capture the same confounder. They're highly correlated. Can you still proceed with your regression analysis?

(I admit, the title is a bit of a spoiler)

www.the100.ci/2025/10/13/i...

If you have two measures of the same confounder, you can just include both of them in your regression model

Sometimes, researchers worry about multicollinearity in situations where it’s actually a non-issue. Here’s one such scenario. Imagine a situation where you are interested in the effect of X on Y (X...

www.the100.ci

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Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · 1d

I'm starting to explore {simDAG}, a nifty #rstats package that has a nice API for specifying DAGs and then simulating data from them: robindenz1.github.io/simDAG/

Simulate Data from a DAG and Associated Node Information

Simulate complex data from a given directed acyclic graph and information about each individual node. Root nodes are simply sampled from the specified distribution. Child Nodes are simulated according...

robindenz1.github.io

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 1d

That West German motherhood penalty 🥲

Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 1d

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social.

It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets.

Thread 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 5d

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions!

Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

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Felix Thoemmes @felixthoemmes.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks Andres. Nice to hear from you!

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 4d

One of the best things I did in Amsterdam is to tell students that I’d make the taped lectures only available to them when the average turnout at lectures was 67%. Taught them a lesson on collective goods and coordination. It worked!

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4d

'It is no secret that student attendance has plummeted in recent years, with near-empty lecture halls a staple of the post-pandemic world.'

Really? I lecture to all our 1st years. Lecture hall is full, not near-empty. Student engagement picked up last year and (early days) seems stronger again. 1/2

Fiction ‘brings lectures to life’ as academics face empty classes

University ‘whodunnit’ inspired by attempts to tackle poor attendance as scholars look for novel ways to engage mainstream audiences

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Jan Vanhove @janhove.bsky.social · 4d

New blog post: Clarifying research questions by sketching possible outcomes

janhove.github.io/posts/2025-1...

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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 5d

New preprint from member of FORRT - How to Develop and Use Open Educational Resources 📣

In this chapter, we position Open Educational Resources (OERs) as not only cost-saving tools but as instruments of epistemic justice and inclusion.

📃 osf.io/preprints/ed...

🧵👇

OSF

osf.io

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Pausal Zivference @pausalz.bsky.social · 5d

For years I had trouble following some of the discussion about confidence bands, but at ACIC this year @noahgreifer.bsky.social pointed me to a helpful paper

So you don't have to be as perplexed as I once was, we have a new pre-print introducing the key ideas
arxiv.org/abs/2510.07076

Confidence Regions for Multiple Outcomes, Effect Modifiers, and Other Multiple Comparisons

In epidemiology, some have argued that multiple comparison corrections are not necessary as there is rarely interest in the universal null hypothesis. From a parameter estimation perspective, epidemio...

arxiv.org

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 5d

There was a great post by someone saying that choosing to use an LLM for coding is always like choosing to be the hare in the 'hare and tortoise'.

You set off quickly but inevitably run into problems. Eventually your counterfactual tortoise self - who did by building knowledge - walks past.

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 5d

Three things that are probably worth knowing about the 'Stanford top 2% scientists' metric that people are sharing.

1. It's based on a rather subjective 'C-score', where:

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Diego Reinero, Ph.D. @diegoreinero.bsky.social · 7d

🚨Excited to announce the full-day Moral Psychology pre-conference at #SPSP2026!

We sold out last year, and with this year’s incredible speaker lineup, we expect the same.

Submit your poster or data blitz abstract by Oct. 23! spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p... There’s a best poster award!

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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 8d

Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 8d

We're looking for an experimental psychologist in Witten. Contact me if you have questions about the job (I'm not on the commission, so can talk freely :-)
uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/59638545...

Universitätsprofessur für Experimentelle Psychologie (W2-analog) bei Universität Witten/Herdecke

Wir suchen: Universitätsprofessur für Experimentelle Psychologie (W2-analog) (Vollzeit) • Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 50, 58455 Witten, Deutschland

uni-wh.softgarden.io

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 9d

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship "invests in the graduate education of 30 New Americans—immigrants and children of immigrants—poised to significantly contribute to U.S. society, culture, or their academic field. Fellows receive up to $90,000 in financial support over two years."

Why Become a Fellow – Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Apply for a Paul & Daisy Soros fellowship and become one of the thirty New Americans— immigrants or the children of immigrants—who are pursuing graduate

pdsoros.org

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 9d

I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.

Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

ellis.eu

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 9d

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 11d

Also - contrast b/w the response when I advocate teaching R instead of SPSS -- "No hurry, let's not rush into it" (still waiting) -- & others re: use of LLMs -- "It's inevitable, we're behind; need it implement it ASAP!" -- is telling. Learning to code is freeing. Overhyped LLMs create dependency.

Excerpt from Guest & van Rooij, 2025:

As Danielle Navarro (2015) says about shortcuts through us-
ing inappropriate technology, which chatbots are, we end up dig-
ging ourselves into “a very deep hole.” She goes on to explain:

"The business model here is to suck you in during
your student days, and then leave you dependent on
their tools when you go out into the real world. [...]
And you can avoid it: if you make use of packages
like R that are open source and free, you never get
trapped having to pay exorbitant licensing fees." (pp.
37–38)

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 10d

Happy fall y'all

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 11d

Research output after tenure drops off a cliff for business, economics, sociology, and other non-lab fields.

But it remains high post-tenure in lab-based fields such as chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Katie Gates @kgates.bsky.social · 11d

UNC is hiring in Quantitative Psychology! Assistant Professor (tenure-track). Please share widely! Find details here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

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