Kids repurposing tech to meet their extremely unique needs leaving adults baffled is one of my absolute favorite reoccurring stories

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · last mo.

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Working on a new taxonomy for research methods

Quant job in Berkeley Psych. Deadline on 9/29. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05480

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“Theory and Model Building in Psychology” New book edited by @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social and Alexander Wendt, with chapters by @ufeest.bsky.social, @devezer.bsky.social, @mieronen.bsky.social, and @bringmannlaura.bsky.social. link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

And so after a very brief hiatus, version 0.7.0 of "learning statistics with R" exists. Full rebuild in quarto, stylistic fixes, "epilogues from 2026" to comment on how the world changed since original publication, and as an added bonus, no longer misgenders the author learningstatisticswithr.com

Learning Statistics with R

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Another example of how useful {geomtextpath} can be, imho. This is from the item category probability plot in my {easyRasch2} package. Most psychometric papers within the factor analytic tradition seem to disregard evaluating how the response scale works, which I find difficult to understand.

If you're an academic and are worried about AI and feel powerless, don't let it get to you. It's actually what they want. They want us to burn out and give up. You can turn off the internet and chill. I promise. All you need to do is stay strong, with breaks of course. From an email I sent an ally:

I was saddened to learn of the death of Raul Pacheco-Vega earlier this week. I’ve known Raul for a very long time. I’ve written something for my website. Read here: jovanevery.co.uk/in-memoriam-...

In memoriam: Raul Pacheco-Vega

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Hey. Here are all of the discussion boards I use in my online stats class. Less serious, more wonder, let's do it, let's make our students love stats like we love stats. notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2026/04/all-...

kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain with the words `` yay statistics '' .

ALT: kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain with the words `` yay statistics '' .

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Hey folks. A link to the pre-recorded episode of my podcast History Matters from my YouTube channel. History is HOWLING at us re: the meaning & threat inherent in censoring criticism. My YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@joannefreem... The episode: On Silencing Opposition youtu.be/dRgjGsBYwxo?...

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Professor Joanne Freeman is an award-winning historian who studies the politics and culture of America's past to better understand our history as a nation, and the roads and choices that have led us t...

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We're doing a shorter series ReproducibiliTea JC seminars this semester. The open science focus has gradually changed towards "methods stuff" more generally (but it's a fuzzy line of course). The participants aren't meta-science researchers so I try to keep it broad.

For those interested, here is a link to a new power paper: Hancock, G. R., & Feng, Y. (2026). nmax and the quest to restore caution, integrity, and practicality to the sample size planning process. Psychological Methods. yifengquant.github.io/Publications...

Poetically thoughtful and deeply moving How often do we study the ripples while ignoring the stone tossed in the water?

folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · last yr.

In this essay I argue against the study of Africa as a temporal or spatial monolith. Any study of Africa that only studies the failure of African states is not a study of Africa. Any study of Africa that only studies lines on the ground is a study of ripples. folukeafrica.com/how-we-study...

Check out this new blog post. YouGov measured summer activities that everyone loves, or just younguns love. This accessible example explains paired t-tests w sig and non-sig differences. notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-qu...

A quick, accessible lesson on paired t-tests, featuring summer activities that people over 45 (me!) don't like.

Blog teaching statistics funny examples how to teach statistics and research methods engaging modern memorable

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This sounds like a blast

Julia Strand@juliafstrand.bsky.social · last yr.

I started a new thing at Carleton College! It highlights the breadth of a liberal arts education, reminds students that faculty don't know EVERYTHING, and is loads of fun! In "Guess Lectures," faculty give 7-minute talks using someone else’s slides from an unrelated discipline, sight unseen.

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

Mahmoud Khalil, a legal U.S. resident, has been held in an ICE detention center for over a month but has still not been charged with a crime.

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For consideration, I submit: Things Statisticians Claim to Hate But Secretly Love drive.google.com/file/d/1XBPV...

Contrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be. – Francois Jacob www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts. About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone. See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

@hcrichardson.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social Heather Cox Richardson and Jasmine Crockett together. Trump began implementing Project 2025 on his first day back in office. I can't imagine two more informed and empowering women to show us how to fight it. Sign up at social.redwine.blue/s/qg1zPfLs

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OK I had announced this before but forgot to say that Andrew Gelman would be joining Nancy Cartwright and myself as well. Short idea talks, lots of panel discussion and Q&A. Join us on April 25th to discuss RCTs, replications, and scientific inference. sites.google.com/view/cepbi/t...

Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have just agreed to give a tandem talk with... wait for it... Nancy Cartwright (the philosopher, not the one of Simpsons fame) at an online event next spring. Details tbd. Let the readings and preps commence right away!! I wouldn't wanna make a fool of myself.

Hey folks! I'll be teaching two workshops in May on Structural Equation Modeling! One course is introductory (May 7-9): smart-workshops.com/intro-sem-info The other is on longitudinal models (May 14-16): smart-workshops.com/long-sem-info 🙏Please RT and share! 🙏 Let met tell you more...

I've come across a few great resources lately for job seekers (especially those in the education/social science research space). Just thought I would drop them here for anyone who is looking. ☀️ 1. www.purposephilcareer.com 2. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 3. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Last 3 random songs feel a bit too on the nose A little bit off - Five Finger Death Punch Everyday people - Sly & The Family Stone Stressed out - twenty one pilots

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John Pfaff@johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yet another example of the lesser-ranked schools taking the stand that the bigger schools are too scared to. Here: even as Ann Arbor caves on DEI, Eastern Michigan does not. The courage of the smaller schools is laudable. The refusal of the bigger schools is frustrating.

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

Reviewer notes: That’s a very nice mediation analysis you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.

Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...

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🚀Very excited to finally see our paper on nonsignificance misinterpretations published! 📈 Together, @smurphee.bsky.social, Aurelio Fernández, Linda Reimann and I investigated the prevalence of "p > .05 = absence of an effect" interpretations. (1/4) doi.org/10.1098/rsos...