Felix Thoemmes
@felixthoemmes.bsky.social
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Finally got around to switching my in-browser #rstats R Primers website to use the newer better-supported #QuartoPub Live extension, which will now let me eventually add nicer inline feedback someday
- Free primers site: r-primers.andrewheiss.com
- Extension: r-wasm.github.io/quarto-live/
- Free primers site: r-primers.andrewheiss.com
- Extension: r-wasm.github.io/quarto-live/
November 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Finally got around to switching my in-browser #rstats R Primers website to use the newer better-supported #QuartoPub Live extension, which will now let me eventually add nicer inline feedback someday
- Free primers site: r-primers.andrewheiss.com
- Extension: r-wasm.github.io/quarto-live/
- Free primers site: r-primers.andrewheiss.com
- Extension: r-wasm.github.io/quarto-live/
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I remember John Fox as one of the most kind R Foundation #rstats members (ca. 2006-2023) giving wise and kind words often. The 1-1 interview he held with several of us, resulting in a useR!2008 pres and the article journal.r-project.org/articles/RJ-... It is sad to miss him. May he rest in peace!
#rstats
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca
John Fox: Books and Software
www.john-fox.ca
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I remember John Fox as one of the most kind R Foundation #rstats members (ca. 2006-2023) giving wise and kind words often. The 1-1 interview he held with several of us, resulting in a useR!2008 pres and the article journal.r-project.org/articles/RJ-... It is sad to miss him. May he rest in peace!
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The between-instituion differences in these "deals" are interesting.
At some point it might be useful to code these and do side-by-side comparisons.
At some point it might be useful to code these and do side-by-side comparisons.
Fuck, Northwestern just caved. Reading the deal now. ( www.northwestern.edu/president/do... )
www.northwestern.edu
November 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The between-instituion differences in these "deals" are interesting.
At some point it might be useful to code these and do side-by-side comparisons.
At some point it might be useful to code these and do side-by-side comparisons.
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"Prestige bias" is one of the strongest forms of bias in academia.
Reviewers rank paper submissions from top-20 institutions and non-students higher, but this goes away with blinded reviews.
haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles...
Reviewers rank paper submissions from top-20 institutions and non-students higher, but this goes away with blinded reviews.
haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles...
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"Prestige bias" is one of the strongest forms of bias in academia.
Reviewers rank paper submissions from top-20 institutions and non-students higher, but this goes away with blinded reviews.
haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles...
Reviewers rank paper submissions from top-20 institutions and non-students higher, but this goes away with blinded reviews.
haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles...
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Among Native Americans and First Nations peoples, the planting combination of corn, squash, and beans is known as "Three Sisters."
In Central America and Mexico, the practice is known as milpa, and it dates back thousands of years. 🧵⬇️
In Central America and Mexico, the practice is known as milpa, and it dates back thousands of years. 🧵⬇️
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Among Native Americans and First Nations peoples, the planting combination of corn, squash, and beans is known as "Three Sisters."
In Central America and Mexico, the practice is known as milpa, and it dates back thousands of years. 🧵⬇️
In Central America and Mexico, the practice is known as milpa, and it dates back thousands of years. 🧵⬇️
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#rstats
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca
John Fox: Books and Software
www.john-fox.ca
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
#rstats
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca
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🔗 SynthNet is freely accessible on HuggingFace Spaces: huggingface.co/spaces/magno...
SynthNet Search - a Hugging Face Space by magnolia-psychometrics
Search SynthNet to find conceptual overlap in measures from behavioral sciences. Enter survey items or scale names, traits, or constructs to get relevant results. Agree to the terms of service and ...
huggingface.co
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
🔗 SynthNet is freely accessible on HuggingFace Spaces: huggingface.co/spaces/magno...
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🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨
Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3
Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨
Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3
Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3
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Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
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📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
peercommunityin.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
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Looking forward to this next week!
During waking hours for people in Europe, Africa, & the Americas.
And the Middle East.
And parts of Asia.
Really almost everywhere except Eastern Asia & Australia/NZ.
Link to register: univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
During waking hours for people in Europe, Africa, & the Americas.
And the Middle East.
And parts of Asia.
Really almost everywhere except Eastern Asia & Australia/NZ.
Link to register: univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
peercommunityin.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Looking forward to this next week!
During waking hours for people in Europe, Africa, & the Americas.
And the Middle East.
And parts of Asia.
Really almost everywhere except Eastern Asia & Australia/NZ.
Link to register: univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
During waking hours for people in Europe, Africa, & the Americas.
And the Middle East.
And parts of Asia.
Really almost everywhere except Eastern Asia & Australia/NZ.
Link to register: univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Exciting news on @malengo.org, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings!
Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social:
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk...
Thread follows!
Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social:
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk...
Thread follows!
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Exciting news on @malengo.org, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings!
Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social:
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk...
Thread follows!
Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social:
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk...
Thread follows!
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My time as Editor of AMPPS is coming to an end-- here are some parting thoughts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... .
Taking Stock of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science at the End of the Beginning - David A. Sbarra, 2025
journals.sagepub.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
My time as Editor of AMPPS is coming to an end-- here are some parting thoughts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... .
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🎉 Announcing surveydown v1.0.0!
surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including:
- Simplified YAML settings
- Auto page navigation
- Previous buttons!
More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...
surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including:
- Simplified YAML settings
- Auto page navigation
- Previous buttons!
More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...
Announcing surveydown v1.0.0! – surveydown.org
We are thrilled to announce the v1.0.0 release of surveydown, a stable release with improvements to YAML settings, page navigation, question creation, and a smoother overall developer experience.
surveydown.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
🎉 Announcing surveydown v1.0.0!
surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including:
- Simplified YAML settings
- Auto page navigation
- Previous buttons!
More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...
surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including:
- Simplified YAML settings
- Auto page navigation
- Previous buttons!
More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...
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Imagine you lived in the 18th century.
Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine?
In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!
Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine?
In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!
The history of vaccines
open.spotify.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Imagine you lived in the 18th century.
Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine?
In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!
Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine?
In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!
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We have a new revision on our preprint "Practice what you preach: Designing student assignments that advance open and reproducible science"! We had some of the nicest (but still critical) peer-review comments I've ever received, so that was refreshing.
osf.io/preprints/os...
osf.io/preprints/os...
OSF
osf.io
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
We have a new revision on our preprint "Practice what you preach: Designing student assignments that advance open and reproducible science"! We had some of the nicest (but still critical) peer-review comments I've ever received, so that was refreshing.
osf.io/preprints/os...
osf.io/preprints/os...
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Job opportunity — Junior Professorship in Psychological Metascience @zpid.bsky.social leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 h/t @bethclarke.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Job opportunity — Junior Professorship in Psychological Metascience @zpid.bsky.social leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 h/t @bethclarke.bsky.social
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In Japan and want to learn about #openscience, #opendata, #datamanagementplan and The Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility Survey? Come out December 16th to the University of Tokyo @die-bonn.de @meta-rep.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
In Japan and want to learn about #openscience, #opendata, #datamanagementplan and The Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility Survey? Come out December 16th to the University of Tokyo @die-bonn.de @meta-rep.bsky.social
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S-Values are much more interpretable than P-values, yet adoption seems near impossible. I wonder what it would take to make the leap? #statssky #episky #rstats #statistics
October 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
S-Values are much more interpretable than P-values, yet adoption seems near impossible. I wonder what it would take to make the leap? #statssky #episky #rstats #statistics
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Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.
I'm still relatively new to this journal associate editor business, but it already sucks… I've had a paper on my desk for more than a month now:
Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7
Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.
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In 2014 I introduced a replication project in my grad research methods class. I taught this version of the class 4 times (no longer teach it). Some tallies: 9 published replication papers; 30 grad student authors; 19 *open* data sets; materials, syntax, etc also open (all on OSF). Check them out 👇
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
In 2014 I introduced a replication project in my grad research methods class. I taught this version of the class 4 times (no longer teach it). Some tallies: 9 published replication papers; 30 grad student authors; 19 *open* data sets; materials, syntax, etc also open (all on OSF). Check them out 👇
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🏆 Individual: @simine.com, psychologist at @unimelb.bsky.social & editor-in-chief of Psychological Science, is recognized for pioneering methodological rigor, reproducibility & collaborative research, driving initiatives such as @improvingpsych.org & the journal Collabra @ucpress.bsky.social. (2/5)
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🏆 Individual: @simine.com, psychologist at @unimelb.bsky.social & editor-in-chief of Psychological Science, is recognized for pioneering methodological rigor, reproducibility & collaborative research, driving initiatives such as @improvingpsych.org & the journal Collabra @ucpress.bsky.social. (2/5)
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We proudly present the winners of the #EinsteinFoundationAward for Promoting Quality in Research 2025! The jury has selected outstanding contributions that promote research quality around the world!
In coop w/ QUEST Center @bihatcharite.bsky.social
www.einsteinfoundation.de/presse/2025/... (1/5)
In coop w/ QUEST Center @bihatcharite.bsky.social
www.einsteinfoundation.de/presse/2025/... (1/5)
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
We proudly present the winners of the #EinsteinFoundationAward for Promoting Quality in Research 2025! The jury has selected outstanding contributions that promote research quality around the world!
In coop w/ QUEST Center @bihatcharite.bsky.social
www.einsteinfoundation.de/presse/2025/... (1/5)
In coop w/ QUEST Center @bihatcharite.bsky.social
www.einsteinfoundation.de/presse/2025/... (1/5)
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My amazing friend and MetaMelb co-director @simine.com has won the 2025 Einstein Foundation Award! @unimelb.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social and @replicats.bsky.social are so lucky to have you
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
My amazing friend and MetaMelb co-director @simine.com has won the 2025 Einstein Foundation Award! @unimelb.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social and @replicats.bsky.social are so lucky to have you
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Science is a collective effort, but @simine.com is a singular force. She is an exemplary model for all of us to follow in her commitment and action to improving science, on every dimension.
She is so deserving of the award. The only uncertainty is whether the award deserves her!
She is so deserving of the award. The only uncertainty is whether the award deserves her!
Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Science is a collective effort, but @simine.com is a singular force. She is an exemplary model for all of us to follow in her commitment and action to improving science, on every dimension.
She is so deserving of the award. The only uncertainty is whether the award deserves her!
She is so deserving of the award. The only uncertainty is whether the award deserves her!