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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 8h

I do wonder how many of these go straight to junk mail though. There are so many predatory journals it’s amazing that any content from real ones makes it through.

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 12h

Hi 🐶❤️

Lazy German shepherd dog lying on the floor, propping up her head on a nearby couch

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PCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · 18h

PCI Psychology is open for submissions! Did you know that you can easily submit your recommended preprint to any of the 20+ PCI Psych friendly journals? See all friendly journals here: psych.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_fr...
#PsychSciSky #SciPub

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 20h

I mostly try to get them to see that the c1/c2 effects are not of interest when they’re present for confound reasons, so their meaning isn’t relevant

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 21h

This is such an incredibly misunderstood issue. Try to tell students they don’t have to “check for multicollinearity” among the covariates; they have a hard time believing me

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 22h

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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Quantitude the Podcast @quantitude.bsky.social · 23h

Coming tomorrow. It’s almost that time of year…

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 23h

I think a main technique for data integration was IRT test equating/anchoring?

Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 1d

Only MNLFA, sorry

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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 2d

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

mymodernmet.com

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 2d

A new take on the limitations of "psychometric networks" now out in Nature Human Behavior. You don't want to put too much confidence in individual edges. Something we cautioned against in 2017.

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Statistical evidence in psychological networks - Nature Human Behaviour

Psychometric network models have become increasingly popular in psychology and the social sciences. Huth et al. show that a large proportion of reported network findings are based on weak or inconclusive evidence inviting caution when interpreting results.

www.nature.com

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 1d

Someone’s wise enough to know when a gift needs giving, well done 👏👏

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 2d

I haven’t looked forward to a Thanksgiving weekend this much in as long as I can remember

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Chris Ferguson @cjferguson1111.bsky.social · 2d

Got or about to get a PhD in social psychology?

Tired of standing on the breadlines?

Not a psychopath?

Can teach research methods to undergrads?

Like Disney/Universal and the beach?

Come work for us at @StetsonU! Job ad below!

www.stetson.edu/administrati...

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Liam Satchell @liamsatchell.bsky.social · 5d

What did we find in the end? The largest, most robust study, failed to replicate the effect of interest in study one. We found some other things in the study but the more interesting thing was being able to test a reasonable hypotheses and then fail to replicate it in a journal space.

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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 3d

New paper from my group, led by Carolina Guzman Holst

This is a secondary analysis of data from the high-quality MYRIAD trial, a universal school-based mindfulness intervention

Summary below (🧵)

acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Adolescents' trajectories of mental health in the MYRIAD trial

Abstract
Background
This study explored adolescent's mental health trajectories over the course of a school-based mindfulness-based intervention trial (MYRIAD). It examined whether intervention condition (mindfulness vs. teaching-as-usual), individual-level and contextual-level factors were associated with different trajectories.

Methods
This pre-registered study used data from 11- to 14-year-olds who participated in the MYRIAD trial. We used growth mixture models to examine distinct trajectories in risk for depression, social-emotional-behavioural functioning, and wellbeing (co-primary outcomes), and anxiety (secondary outcome), across pre-intervention, post-intervention and 12-month follow up (ns = 7198–7727). We then used multinomial and binomial logistic regression models to examine factors associated with individual trajectory membership.

Results
Distinct trajectories emerged for each outcome: A five-trajectory model best explained the changes in risk for depression, whilst four-trajectory models best explained changes in social-emotional-behavioural functioning, wellbeing, and anxiety. While 69%–80% of adolescents followed stable low-problem trajectories for each outcome, 11%–23% experienced stable high-problem trajectories, 2%–16% experienced increasing-problem trajectories and 1%–5% experienced decreasing-problem trajectories. Receiving the mindfulness intervention was not associated with any mental health trajectory in models adjusted for confounders. Several individual-level factors, including executive functioning difficulties and risk of mental health problems at baseline, and school-level factors, such as school climate, predicted adolescents' classification into different trajectories, but they did not vary according to intervention group.

Conclusions
Individual differences in mental health trajectories emerged over the course of a 1-year mindfulness-based intervention, with most adolescents experiencing low-stable problem trajectories for each outcome. However, the intervention itself had no impact on individual trajectory membership, mirroring null results found in the main trial. Our findings suggest that universal interventions may not be sensitive enough to address the diverse needs of all students, however, tailoring interventions to address a range of different individual and contextual factors might maximise their impact.

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 3d

OSF will be offline for several hours today, starting now. The team is rolling out the new interface!

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 3d

Oof I'm down a rabbit hole trying to parse this line in this article:

"According to a 2017 Fraser Institute report, the average after-tax income for a significant majority of independent school families is comparable to, or even slightly less than, the average income for public school families"

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Opinion: Setting the record straight on Alberta’s independent school funding

Independent school association takes issue with Don Braid column on government funding.

calgaryherald.com

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 3d

Reposting to show how I'm a moron, but differently than I thought.

Imputation does change things (estimates, but interestingly not really CIs). And the choice of glmm versus Bayesian doesn't matter tremendously (except that the latter takes orders of magnitude longer to run).

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 3d

This makes way more sense. TBH I worried there was an error in your original figure because the MI vs listwise deleted results shouldn’t be that perfectly close

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 3d

an elderly woman in a green shirt says it 's been 84 years ...

ALT: an elderly woman in a green shirt says it 's been 84 years ...

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 3d

Something something take my frequentist stats from my cold dead hands

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about the Elizabeth Holmes of the media lyz.substack.com/p/let-the-al...

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 4d

Postering today about @psych.peercommunityin.org at #OSCanada in Montreal!

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 5d

Applications now open for an international PhD program investigating child and adolescent health and wellbeing.

This provides funding for 4 students to do PhDs in Australia and Singapore, starting Jan 2026

comms.mcri.edu.au/v/110977/100...

MCRI & A*STAR Singapore PhD Placement Opportunity - Apply Now!

Having trouble viewing this email? View Online Applications now open for an international PhD program investigating child and adolescent health & wellbeing!

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 5d

BLUUUUE JAAAAAYS

a blue jays player stands on the field during a game

ALT: a blue jays player stands on the field during a game

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