🚨New preprint🚨: Attitude measures like the IAT reveal biased behavior — but the levels across which bias operates are varied. Our new preprint borrows formal modeling approaches from perceptual science to find out where age-valence interactions happen in perceptual processing🧵

Looking for general data cleaning guidance when preparing to share your study data in a repository, particularly when using #rstats? These slides may help. 👇 cghlewis.github.io/ncme-data-cl...

We should pay peer reviewers Paying reviewers led to faster decisions—an average of 5.5 working days vs 38 days for unpaid reviews And review quality improved (judged by handling editors) Reviewers who delivered a good peer review in 4 days were paid $290 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Jennifer Eberhardt, @spruill.bsky.social, and Julia Proshan attended the APS 2026 convention!🌟 Eberhardt received the James S. Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award, and Proshan presented on the relationship between historical redlining and current disparities in police officers' treatment of drivers.

Join us for our next official PsychoPy and Pavlovia workshop! 📅 October 13th- 16th 🕐️ 4 half days to accomodate time zones. Learn how to use the tools with our team! workshops.psychopy.org#official-psy...

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happy July 1 to all the academics whose main reaction to the day is “oh no the summer is almost over already”

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Mike Frank@mcxfrank.bsky.social · last mo.

Most of the statistical tests you learned in stats class — t-test, ANOVA, correlation — are actually special cases of a single thing: linear regression. Ch 7 of Experimentology argues that thinking in models, not tests, is more flexible and a better foundation for theory. 🧵 experimentology.io

Congratulations to Co-Director Markus for receiving the 2026 Sage Publishing-Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (@casbsstanford.bsky.social) Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement in the behavioral and social sciences! tinyurl.com/fe5ymjze

Congratulations to Co-Director Jennifer Eberhardt! TIME named her a 2026 “Closer”—leaders working to close racial equity gaps in their communities and nationwide. tinyurl.com/4fw7uet5

SPARQ is officially on Bluesky! We're excited to connect with the community and share updates and news about our work here!💫

💡New Publication💡 I am excited to share my latest publication and first solo-authored piece “The Law Shapes the Mind: Structural‐Level Influence on Individual‐Level Psychology.” Out now in Social & Personality Psychology Compass dx.doi.org/10.1111/spc3...

Join us at the Legacy Sites to celebrate this Juneteenth. Admission to all four of the Legacy Sites will be completely free. We hope to see you there!

Celebrate Juneteenth with Free Admission to the Legacy Sites

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feel free to ask me Qs! im in the midst of converting my lab from qualtrics to pavlovia surveys. i will also be holding a local workshop in Toronto for those interested in learning more :)

PsychoPy@psychopy.org · 2mo ago

Thank you to @rondalo.bsky.social for introducing Pavlovia Surveys to @canadianpsychology.bsky.social at #CPA2026 ! Are you searching for a low-cost flexible online survey tool? Check out Rondas slides and materials here! 👇 osf.io/rs6mg/overview

it must be fundamentally absurd and on some level unreconcilable to be both, 1. A devout Catholic 2. The brother of the current Pope

Cai@annenotation.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is probably the most traditional possible behavior for the family of a pope.

Four years of daily Quarto use. One CLI replaced bookdown, xaringan, distill, and R Markdown. 40+ extensions. ~14,000 comments/replies. mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-06-10-why-quarto-stuck/ #quarto #typst #rstats #QuartoPub

Why Quarto Stuck: Four Years from a Biostatistician’s Desk - mickael.canouil.fr

After four years of daily use, Quarto has replaced R Markdown across my reports, slides, websites, and books. I reflect on what made it stick: cleaner defaults, real multi-language support, the extens...

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Inside Toronto’s top 100 under $100: 11 food-obsessed critics, 300 restaurants, and one delicious mission. Here’s how we made our guide

Inside Toronto’s top 100 under $100: 11 food-obsessed critics, 300 restaurants, and one delicious mission. Here’s how we made our guide

Meet the reviewers who ate their way around the GTA.

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#ICYMI Our relentlessly researched guide to the most unforgettable and affordable meals in Toronto

Toronto's top 100 restaurants under $100: 'You have to eat here ASAP!!!'

Eating out is so expensive. Use our relentlessly researched guide to the most unforgettable dining in Toronto.

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🧑🏻‍🏫 Do you teach statistics? 📊 Have you ever taught ANOVA? ⏰ Do you have 5 minutes to spare? Then participate in our survey and help us improve statistics education! run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/sur... #stats #edusky #mathsky #scisky #academicsky

Fellow academics/writers, I come bearing bad news: #AcademicSky #WritingSky #AcWri #AmWriting #GetYourManuscriptOut

some great discussion in this thread!

Andrea Howard@drandreahoward.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m updating the “mediation” lecture for my grad stats class. What’s new in mediation these days? Is it still worth explaining the original Baron and Kenny method? Suggested R packages? Note: these are first-year grad psychology students in a larger GLM class. I have 2 hours.

Making open-sourced stuff last in perpetuity, finding long-term funding models, stewardship, etc is all hard, but worthwhile when the tool serves the community (whatever community that is) Hoping to have some progress on this score regarding jsPsych in the next while btw

Lol forgot the one I'm most involved with: for deploying surveys and experiments online, jspsych (free community-run OSS) vs $$ stuff like Qualtrics, e-prime, SurveyMonkey, Gorilla etc

many other examples in science, like Python vs Matlab, R vs SAS/Stata/SPSS/etc; public-good services like Zenodo, OSF, Zotero vs commercial alternatives; even document creation via Quarto/Rmd/LaTeX vs. Microsoft Word

Incidentally, collective action against bad actors, by creating alternative services that work well, is among the most hopeful things about technology academics creating open-access alternatives to Elsevier, libraries creating local alternatives to Spotify that pay musicians fairly, vibes are good

samuel mehr@mehr.nz · 2mo ago

27. MOOD MACHINE (Liz Pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social). A truly excellent, deeply reported history of music streaming & its effects. Elegantly written throughout. learned a lot, was touched to hear of libraries spinning up open-source streaming services (akin to scientists taking on monopolists w/ OSS)

Announcing #RStats package ggcube, now on CRAN -- make 3D #ggplot2 figures using `coord_3d()` matthewkling.github.io/ggcube/

This is an interesting article for those in behavioral sciences wondering about when & when not to z-score (my trainees are reading it too!) “Why and When You Should Avoid Using z-scores in Graphs Displaying Profile or Group Differences” by J Moeller pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #stats

Why and When You Should Avoid Using z-scores in Graphs Displaying Profile or Group Differences

Many person-oriented studies use z-standardized scores before conducting cluster analyses and/or before displaying group differences. This article summarizes reasons why z- standardized scores can oft...

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I put together a short slidedeck on specifying random effects in mixed models. This doesn't cover all possible edge cases, but I think this provides some basic best practices for proper generalization and uncertainty in estimation. Feedback is welcome! #stats #MLM #HLM #LMM #MEM (did I miss any?)

Specifying Random Effects Structure

Specifying Random Effects Structure for Hypothesis Testing or Estimation of Fixed Effects A Comprehensive Guide to Correct Random Effects Specification Mattan S. Ben-Shachar

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Paid Undergraduate Research Internship within the Department of Psychology at the University of York, funded by NIHR. An 8-week summer placement is open to undergraduate students in Psychology (or related disciplines) interested in memory research. You can find out more here: shorturl.at/flepx

Are you a researcher based in the USA 🇺🇸 or Canada 🇨🇦 interested in pursuing curiosity-driven research in Europe? Join the ERC and Euraxess for a webinar exploring ERC funding opportunities. 👇️ 📅 20 May 2026 🕚 11:30 AM ET | 8:30 AM PT 💻 Online Find out more and register:

ERC Grants Info Session: Funding for Excellent Frontier Research

Join EURAXESS North America and the European Research Council Executive Agency for a webinar on the bottom-up funding schemes that make up the European Research Council grants. The ERC is the premier…

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