Michael Philipp
@mphilipp.bsky.social
Aspiring enthusiast · Armchair methodologist · Social cognition · thinking about animal minds 🪲
University of Canterbury, NZ
Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa 🇳🇿
University of Canterbury, NZ
Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa 🇳🇿
Pinned
Recruiting a PhD student to join us at Univ Canterbury (Christchurch, NZ) to study how people perceive animal minds & how those perceptions shape moral concern, behaviour, & policy. Scholarship info:
www.canterbury.ac.nz/research/abo...
Rolling review starts Dec 2025 • Flexible Feb–July 2026 start
www.canterbury.ac.nz/research/abo...
Rolling review starts Dec 2025 • Flexible Feb–July 2026 start
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Recruiting a PhD student to join us at Univ Canterbury (Christchurch, NZ) to study how people perceive animal minds & how those perceptions shape moral concern, behaviour, & policy. Scholarship info:
www.canterbury.ac.nz/research/abo...
Rolling review starts Dec 2025 • Flexible Feb–July 2026 start
www.canterbury.ac.nz/research/abo...
Rolling review starts Dec 2025 • Flexible Feb–July 2026 start
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Recruiting a PhD student to join us at Univ Canterbury (Christchurch, NZ) to study how people perceive animal minds & how those perceptions shape moral concern, behaviour, & policy. Scholarship info:
www.canterbury.ac.nz/research/abo...
Rolling review starts Dec 2025 • Flexible Feb–July 2026 start
www.canterbury.ac.nz/research/abo...
Rolling review starts Dec 2025 • Flexible Feb–July 2026 start
Recruiting a PhD student to join us at Univ Canterbury (Christchurch, NZ) to study how people perceive animal minds & how those perceptions shape moral concern, behaviour, & policy. Scholarship info:
www.canterbury.ac.nz/research/abo...
Rolling review starts Dec 2025 • Flexible Feb–July 2026 start
www.canterbury.ac.nz/research/abo...
Rolling review starts Dec 2025 • Flexible Feb–July 2026 start
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Recruiting a PhD student to join us at Univ Canterbury (Christchurch, NZ) to study how people perceive animal minds & how those perceptions shape moral concern, behaviour, & policy. Scholarship info:
www.canterbury.ac.nz/research/abo...
Rolling review starts Dec 2025 • Flexible Feb–July 2026 start
www.canterbury.ac.nz/research/abo...
Rolling review starts Dec 2025 • Flexible Feb–July 2026 start
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New favorite sign just dropped
October 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
New favorite sign just dropped
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New study shows people who took a causal inference class are better at reasoning about data. Asked if they have any policy recommendations, authors narrow eyes, look at reporter, and reply "Absolutely none"
September 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
New study shows people who took a causal inference class are better at reasoning about data. Asked if they have any policy recommendations, authors narrow eyes, look at reporter, and reply "Absolutely none"
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Great reporting by Guyon & colleagues @rnzrss.bsky.social
The #AlcoholIndustry shouldn’t be involved in policy. They:
▶️ refute evidence of harm
▶️ avoid blame for their actions
▶️ fight approaches that would reduce harm to communities
▶️ prioritise profit over people
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
The #AlcoholIndustry shouldn’t be involved in policy. They:
▶️ refute evidence of harm
▶️ avoid blame for their actions
▶️ fight approaches that would reduce harm to communities
▶️ prioritise profit over people
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Ministry of Health forced to release documents showing alcohol lobby influence
Papers reveal industry lobbying against tax hikes, restrictions on sales, and a Fetal Alcohol plan.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 20, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Great reporting by Guyon & colleagues @rnzrss.bsky.social
The #AlcoholIndustry shouldn’t be involved in policy. They:
▶️ refute evidence of harm
▶️ avoid blame for their actions
▶️ fight approaches that would reduce harm to communities
▶️ prioritise profit over people
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
The #AlcoholIndustry shouldn’t be involved in policy. They:
▶️ refute evidence of harm
▶️ avoid blame for their actions
▶️ fight approaches that would reduce harm to communities
▶️ prioritise profit over people
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
My embittered genx soul finds it endearitating
August 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
My embittered genx soul finds it endearitating
Am I happy because it resonates or sadder?
July 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Am I happy because it resonates or sadder?
Next to the lake this morning I learned that TikTok dancing takes a LOT of takes. Watching the social-media-sausage get made. 🌭
June 21, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Next to the lake this morning I learned that TikTok dancing takes a LOT of takes. Watching the social-media-sausage get made. 🌭
I’ll see your shorts and raise you swimmers in the lake!
June 20, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I’ll see your shorts and raise you swimmers in the lake!
✨Hope the skies clear tomorrow for ya!
June 20, 2025 at 4:30 AM
✨Hope the skies clear tomorrow for ya!
Surely your midwestern male upbringing includes shorts in winter?
June 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Surely your midwestern male upbringing includes shorts in winter?
😂 we’ve just arrived and exploring that way now.
You stargazing tonight [pending clear skies]?
You stargazing tonight [pending clear skies]?
June 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
😂 we’ve just arrived and exploring that way now.
You stargazing tonight [pending clear skies]?
You stargazing tonight [pending clear skies]?
We’re heading to Tekapo today. Weather looks great.
June 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
We’re heading to Tekapo today. Weather looks great.
+2¢
- Claude’s artifact generator is great. Claude wants you to feel like a programmer.
- Claude doesn’t link sources from the internet (as of yet), but I don’t find I’m usually looking for that.
- Claude doesn’t digest as large of docs as gpt. But I break em up and it does fine.
- Claude’s artifact generator is great. Claude wants you to feel like a programmer.
- Claude doesn’t link sources from the internet (as of yet), but I don’t find I’m usually looking for that.
- Claude doesn’t digest as large of docs as gpt. But I break em up and it does fine.
May 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
+2¢
- Claude’s artifact generator is great. Claude wants you to feel like a programmer.
- Claude doesn’t link sources from the internet (as of yet), but I don’t find I’m usually looking for that.
- Claude doesn’t digest as large of docs as gpt. But I break em up and it does fine.
- Claude’s artifact generator is great. Claude wants you to feel like a programmer.
- Claude doesn’t link sources from the internet (as of yet), but I don’t find I’m usually looking for that.
- Claude doesn’t digest as large of docs as gpt. But I break em up and it does fine.
I oscillate between the two. GPT’s memory for past conversations is great, but Claude’s projects get you some way to a sustained context window. Claude Pro seems to restrict use of the sonnet model more quickly though with large projects (even w pro) and seems to give less warning than gpt).
May 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I oscillate between the two. GPT’s memory for past conversations is great, but Claude’s projects get you some way to a sustained context window. Claude Pro seems to restrict use of the sonnet model more quickly though with large projects (even w pro) and seems to give less warning than gpt).
I’ve never been so motivated to create a jamovi module. 🙏
May 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I’ve never been so motivated to create a jamovi module. 🙏
If you have anything to do with teaching statistics, visit Kristoffer’s online interactive visualizations. They used to be my favourite contribution to the teaching of research methods. I don’t teach my students R, but this is now my favourite 👇🏼
🚨New R package! {easymediation}🚨
The *Simplest* and *Most Correct* Way to Do Causal Mediation Analysis
Are you tired of explaining mediation analysis to your colleagues? Just send them this package.
github.com/rpsychologis...
The *Simplest* and *Most Correct* Way to Do Causal Mediation Analysis
Are you tired of explaining mediation analysis to your colleagues? Just send them this package.
github.com/rpsychologis...
May 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
If you have anything to do with teaching statistics, visit Kristoffer’s online interactive visualizations. They used to be my favourite contribution to the teaching of research methods. I don’t teach my students R, but this is now my favourite 👇🏼
Oscillating between looking forward to a closer read of this and retreating to my motivated reasoning about the occasional merits of external invalidity.
Say you’ve got very good causal IDENTIFICATION. Can you say you have causality, can make a causal general claim, and can say what “THE causal effect” is?
NO
We explain why in new article at Journal of Causal Inference.
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
NO
We explain why in new article at Journal of Causal Inference.
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
The necessity of construct and external validity for deductive causal inference
The Credibility Revolution advances internally valid research designs intended to identify causal effects from quantitative data. The ensuing emphasis on internal validity, however, has enabled a negl...
www.degruyter.com
February 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Oscillating between looking forward to a closer read of this and retreating to my motivated reasoning about the occasional merits of external invalidity.
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Oof. *checking my super to see how many years of betas I might have to teach*
January 1, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Oof. *checking my super to see how many years of betas I might have to teach*
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We are recruiting an RA for an eye-tracking project investigating human factors in forensic science at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch NZ! There is also PhD scholarships available. If this sounds like something you might be interested in, hit me up or send me your CV! NZ pics for tax 🦜
November 20, 2024 at 7:03 AM
We are recruiting an RA for an eye-tracking project investigating human factors in forensic science at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch NZ! There is also PhD scholarships available. If this sounds like something you might be interested in, hit me up or send me your CV! NZ pics for tax 🦜
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“i am running into a new year / and i beg what i love and / i leave to forgive me” — Lucille Clifton
December 30, 2023 at 10:27 PM
“i am running into a new year / and i beg what i love and / i leave to forgive me” — Lucille Clifton
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In hindsight, I didn’t think replies would have their own button. 😅
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😂 literally spent 2 hours trying to remember which email/password combo would work with a journal’s manuscript central portal today.
I envy that it’s in your past 😊
I envy that it’s in your past 😊
Does anyone else have flashbacks to logging in to Manuscript Central when trying to access your different Slack workspaces on a new machine?
December 7, 2023 at 6:54 PM
In hindsight, I didn’t think replies would have their own button. 😅
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