Emma James
@emljames.bsky.social
Lecturer in Psychology, most interested in learning, language, and literacy across development. Wannabe stats geek. Social runner. https://learnlabyork.org.uk/
New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...
Reviewer notes: Odds ratios are really odd
When psychological researchers investigate binary outcomes, they routinely report odds ratios to quantify the strength of an effect or an association. This is quite understandable given that psycholog...
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We still have places left for our upcoming workshop on Supporting Vocabulary in Secondary School! An opportunity to share current practice, build networks, discuss ideas, and shape future research. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/supporting... #secondaryschool #edchat #york #vocabulary #oracy #literacy
We would really appreciate a few more perspectives over the next week! 🙏 Please let us know what vocabulary support looks like in your classroom/school, and the kinds of challenges you encounter. #EduSky #edchat #secondaryschool tinyurl.com/UoYVocabular...
Survey | Supporting Vocabulary at Secondary School
Schools are increasingly prioritising vocabulary and spoken language. But what is actually working in classrooms? And what is left to do? We are running a short survey to understand how vocabulary is...
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Emma James@emljames.bsky.social · 3mo agoAre you a #secondaryschool teacher or school leader? We're looking to hear from educators across all areas of the curriculum about how #vocabulary is being supported in your school. Please share, thanks! ⏱ 15–20 minutes (can leave & return) 🎁 Chance to win a £20 voucher tinyurl.com/UoYVocabular...
We would really appreciate a few more perspectives over the next week! 🙏 Please let us know what vocabulary support looks like in your classroom/school, and the kinds of challenges you encounter. #EduSky #edchat #secondaryschool tinyurl.com/UoYVocabular...
Survey | Supporting Vocabulary at Secondary School
Schools are increasingly prioritising vocabulary and spoken language. But what is actually working in classrooms? And what is left to do? We are running a short survey to understand how vocabulary is...
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Emma James@emljames.bsky.social · 3mo agoAre you a #secondaryschool teacher or school leader? We're looking to hear from educators across all areas of the curriculum about how #vocabulary is being supported in your school. Please share, thanks! ⏱ 15–20 minutes (can leave & return) 🎁 Chance to win a £20 voucher tinyurl.com/UoYVocabular...
Juvenile kestrels surprised by a butterfly. Original post
How can I make my MCQs more inclusive for neurodiverse individuals? This excellent resource was put together by my colleagues Shiri Einav and Lauren Marsh @notts-psych.bsky.social nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/62026...
Guiding Principles to Writing Accessible Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs): A practical evidence-based guide for educators
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A reminder of our forthcoming discussion event on Fri 12 June, addressing the opportunities, challenges and practicalities of reproducible and replicable research in quantitative Social Sciences disciplines 📊 ♻️ 🔓 Open to all! Full details and sign-up link on the wiki uoy.atlassian.net/wiki/x/MQBjRg
We are very excited to officially announced that ICOM - The International Conference on Memory - is back in 2027 from 26th-30th July! icom-memory.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
LingMethodsHub has been in need of some devops TLC for a while, and I finally got around to it! To make sure things are working as intended, I've put together this tutorial on using @vincentab.bsky.social's {marginaleffects} package!
Using {marginaleffects} to understand statistical models – LingMethodsHub
This is a tutorial about how to use the {marginaleffects} package to extract and plot predictions of interest from a statistical model.
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Are you a #secondaryschool teacher or school leader? We're looking to hear from educators across all areas of the curriculum about how #vocabulary is being supported in your school. Please share, thanks! ⏱ 15–20 minutes (can leave & return) 🎁 Chance to win a £20 voucher tinyurl.com/UoYVocabular...
Are you a #secondaryschool teacher or school leader? We're looking to hear from educators across all areas of the curriculum about how #vocabulary is being supported in your school. Please share, thanks! ⏱ 15–20 minutes (can leave & return) 🎁 Chance to win a £20 voucher tinyurl.com/UoYVocabular...
Is R worth learning in 2026? Yes, the BBC, NHS, and FT all use it in production. Swipe for the full case. 📊 Read the blog post by Theo Roe to learn more: jumpingrivers.com/blog/why-learning-r-is-a-good-career-move-in-2026 #RStats #DataScience
Three! THREE!
Gareth Gaskell@mggaskell.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe have three lectureships available at York Psychology (@yorkpsychology.bsky.social) with a broad remit for research/teaching areas. Home and overseas applications are welcome. Deadline for applications is early April - enquiries welcome. Come and join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
ggview::canvas() is the best thing I have learned in 2025!
Daniel E. Weeks@statgendan.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe canvas() function from the ggview R package is very useful for previewing/tweaking a ggplot into publication-ready format: it renders a plot "as it would appear if saved to a file with the specified dimensions". cran.r-project.org/web/packages... #RStats #ggplot #ggview
The early bird gets the worm, or in my case, finds a minute to update my reading guide on the role of theory in cognitive science: All the amazing suggestions that the Bluesky community have given me are now incorporated. Enjoy🪱🐤 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Theory: What to read
The role of theory in cognitive science Or: my guide to what to read if you really want to understand how to do good, robust , theory-driven cognitive science. (disclaimer: this is an aspirational gu...
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🧵So, what works when teaching reading comprehension in the classroom? To a whole class? I dedicated a entire chapter of my Phd thesis to exploring the literature on this. In fact, we do not know a lot about what works when teachers teach, to whole classes. 1/8
Join us in York! 12-month full-time *development-focused* psychology lectureship in our very friendly York St John team. Quant research methods too. Deadline 24th February. Please share: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL260/l...
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🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update. On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R 📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K... #RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪
What's new in the world of Generalized Additive Models
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The York Open Research Awards are back for 2026! 🎉 The call for submissions is open until Monday 27 April 📆 We are keen to recognise and reward a diverse range of projects, and this year we are offering additional prizes to ensure that all researchers at York have the opportunity to participate...
New paper by PD student Bob Kapteijns (not on bsky) How do reading, math, and various cognitive skills "grow together" in early childhood? 🧠📚 osf.io/preprints/ps...
The 1.3.0 version of my {brms} + {tidyverse} translation of Kruschke's "Doing Bayesian data analysis" is up! solomon.quarto.pub/dbda2 #rstats 1/8
Doing Bayesian Data Analysis in brms and the tidyverse
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Short-term fellowships for 2026 at the University of Potsdam, Germany (linguistics and psychology): linguistlist.org/issues/36/38...
LINGUIST List 36.3850 Internships: Cognitive Science, General Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics: 3- to 4-month Fellowships at the University of Potsdam, CRC1287 L...
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
*New paper* showing that adults’ morpheme knowledge in English is shaped by what readers can readily pick up from spelling, even when this means relying on cues that don’t accurately reflect morphological structure or overlooking informative exemplars doi.org/10.3758/s134...
Morpheme knowledge is shaped by information available through orthography - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
A large portion of words in a language are formed by combining smaller meaningful units called morphemes (e.g., teach + -er → teacher). Understanding a language’s morphology is vital for skilled readi...
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🚨 Funded PhD on ageing, social cognition & self/other differentiation! 🚨 🧠 Supervised by myself (University of St Andrews) & Prof. Louise Phillips (University of Aberdeen), the project includes EEG & eye-tracking training. 🌍 Open to UK + international students! 📅 Deadline: 15th Dec 2025
I'm surprised I only came across it now, but this review on improving communication in data visualization is excellent. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works - Steven L. Franconeri, Lace M. Padilla, Priti Shah, Jeffrey M. Zacks, Jessica Hullman, 2021
Effectively designed data visualizations allow viewers to use their powerful visual systems to understand patterns in data across science, education, health, an...
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Two-group pre/post data are deceptively simple, and you could analyze them in many different ways, depending on your goals. Here are three blog posts on the topic: solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2022-06... solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2020-12... solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2023-06...
Just use multilevel models for your pre/post RCT data | A. Solomon Kurz
I've been thinking a lot about how to analyze pre/post control group designs, lately. Happily, others have thought a lot about this topic, too. The goal of this post is to introduce the change-score a...
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tj mahr 🤘@tjmahr.com · 9mo agoah here's what i looking for lmem: y ~ time * group + (1 | id) "ancova": post ~ pre * group change: post - pre ~ group solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2022-06...
The meeting programme for EPS London 2026 is now live on our website! Please use the link below to see all the exciting planned presentations. 😄 eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
Next Meeting
EPS Meeting: University College London. 7th – 9th January 2026. This meeting will include the 54th EPS Bartlett Prize Lecture by Matthew Botvinick (with an accompanying symposium organised by Patri…
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