Any tips on good resources for students interested in pursuing their PhD in I/O? I know of great options for clinical psych and am guessing something like this exists for I/O? @foswald.bsky.social @larsujohnson.bsky.social @marcuscrede.bsky.social
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Any tips on good resources for students interested in pursuing their PhD in I/O? I know of great options for clinical psych and am guessing something like this exists for I/O? @foswald.bsky.social @larsujohnson.bsky.social @marcuscrede.bsky.social
'Optimeet: A computational tool to enhance participant attendance in group research' In this paper we discuss the challenges of conducting group based research and provide a practical, web-based tool that can enhance the scheduling and recruitment of groups for experimental research.
Yes indeed, and we have one for psychology. You can learn more and submit here, psych.peercommunityin.org, and read more about the background and rationale in our editorial. We would love to have you submit your work! osf.io/preprints/ps...
How to avoid politics on Bluesky 🦋 [THREAD] When scientists left X, many hoped for a quieter space. But politics will take over your feeds unless you actively do something about it. This guide will help you if you just want to follow your scientific interest! mikeyoungacademy.dk/researchers-...
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If I read this, will it say they’re looking at paying reviewers?
Do you want to get serious about specifying your random-effect structures? This paper might be for you.. plus lots of good stuff about multilevel and dyadic modeling: doi.org/10.1177/2515...
I swear I’m on the straight and narrow like, most days
haha one of my best kept secrets until now!!
This is the best Redford movie, in case you were looking for a suggestion. Or even if not, I still want to tell you.
Applying to grad school is a competitive and often confusing process. Use our roadmap to help you understand what programs are looking for and how to effectively prepare. buff.ly/if4394U
Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵
If you’re in #Ottawa on Sept 25th, join us for the Pickering Public Lecture where this year Dr. Tracy Vaillancourt will speak on the neurobiology of bullying victimization. She is the 2025 recipient of the Pickering Award! Register here to let us know you’re coming: pickeringcentre.org/register/
Teaching graduate statistics is such a wonderful experience - I love being in the position where I can say here are all these cool resources, here's what you can do, here's how to do good science #academicsky #R
In this week's special In The Wild episode, we turn our Quantitude loose on the premise that National Public Radio is liberally biased, talking about what issues we would need to have addressed in order to be able to evaluate whether or not that's a reasonable claim.
this is a very good and incredibly sad piece about Canadian national treasure Robert Munsch, the author of phenomenal children's books Angela's Airplane, the Paper Bag Princess, Thomas's Snowsuit, and many others Munsch has dementia. Fuck dementia.
facts
Taking our quantitude for a test drive tomorrow…
Penn State Psychology is Hiring! Full-time Assistant Professor of Quantitative/Computational Psychology. The position is co-funded by @ssripennstate.bsky.social Questions can be sent to: SSRIQuant-CompSearch@psu.edu. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
Super well-deserved
Deskilling is a huge concern. It's terrifying that students and academics convince themselves that AI can substitute for their own critical faculties or skill development.
Congratulations!! 🎉
All the crossover episodes with other ST series prove that they’re still far too short on psychology professionals if they have to call Troi back across several star systems every time someone has a mental health crisis
I haven't used {DeclareDesign} before, but I have been using {marginaleffects} in my simulation-based power analyses for the past year or so, and I recommend you do too.
Brief story: For 7 years In my early career, I was harassed by an online anti-porn activist. He wrote hundreds of thousands of words in blog posts trashing my research, emailed colleagues to try to get them to publicly condemn me, tried to get my articles retracted, and tried to get me fired (1/4)
No matter how bad things get, I’ll still want to “get the Wordle in less than 4” every day
I wrote a little something that I needed to hear, about keeping hope and making a difference when the world is shit. So maybe you need to hear it too.
🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych. Review begins 10/10. Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵
I needed some good news, thank you
TIMELINE CLEANSE! 1. Bingo has since been renamed Mingo. Idk, it just suits him. 2. He’s a delightful, bitey, little puppy menace. 3. I’m potty training a toddler and a dog. SEND HELP. 4. I LOVE this age of kiddo absolutely my fav so far. The SNUGGLES OMG. 5. WEDNESDAY S2 is SO GOOD 100/10
EVERYWHERE I’d say pity those of us with kids who play the songs at home interminably, but it’s catchy as hell tbh
Looks like a winner!
😁 And for the record, it’s “pop” in Canada too
This was a true mess with a ton of AI-generated word salad slop being submitted as preprints. The field owes these moderators a huge thanks for all the work and energy! 🙏👏
📣📣📣 Hi Everyone! I'm accepting PhD students for the Fall 2026 cycle! Our lab topics include the developmental origins and elaboration of moral cognition/prosocial behavior, persistence, and optimism. More info below!!
There are some really neat new features here! Better theme settings! Easier ways to set geom defaults! *Labels from labels stored as column attributes* #rstats
Why Teachers Say Yes (or No) to Research Participation—and What Researchers Can Learn From It From SRI International studentbehaviorblog.org/why-teachers...
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
@davidmsidhu.bsky.social this one’s for you!
In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This is schmeasurement's Dead Salmon fMRI study: A cautionary tale of how standard research practices can produce misleading results. I love it. Immediately putting it on my reading lists.
“Students shouldn’t be exposed to ideas that expand or run counter to their preconceived notions about a topic (unless they are specifically mentioned in the 25 word course catalog entry)” is a helluva argument from a university president
Every Apple event
Therapist: So, what are you doing with your one wild and precious life? Me: Apparently, email. Also meetings Therapist: That's not really... Me: Tidying as well Therapist: Therapist: um Me: Doomscrolling? What answer are you looking for
Two words that will haunt me forever: Zoom. Kindergarten.
I’m really grateful mine are a little older now (9, 12), which makes a big difference
It could be anything that you find defensible, e.g adding some text that explains the reviewer’s position, or coming up with a different defensible sensitivity check, or something else.
This is an excellent analysis of what has been happening to post-secondary education in Ontario. It succinctly describes how the tuition cut and freeze by Ford directly lead to the explosion of international students, and how under funded ON universities are. thelocal.to/ontario-post...
Idk if this applies, but I’ve had a lot of success with responding “here’s why I won’t do what you want, but I did this other related thing instead”.
Yeah I think there’s no way around it other than to be the author-educator. All of this is volunteer labour and it’s not exactly a buyer’s market when it comes to finding reviewers
Agree!
In their spare time, my department colleagues… …read 3 books a week …make custom furniture …practice karate (black belt!) …play in a band (with regular gigs!) …learn piano …learn tap dancing …compete in dressage and probably a bunch more things. We’re a fun group!
Field norms are that there is no causal inference with cross-sectional data, so you’re swimming upstream with that. Good luck.
Part of the culture of this profession is sharing how busy we are. I’m guessing that’s not so different from other careers, but I’ll admit that I enjoy conversations about my colleagues’ vacations and sports and hobbies far more
Thrilled to once again be able to bookmark posts I will never once revisit like a chipmunk hoarding nuts before winter 🐿️ The really killer feature that the former place never had would be to search or organize your bookmarks 🙏🏻
There are so many uncertainties in the academic job market, but you can also count on the University of Toronto to have a job opening in social-personaity psych ;) my.spsp.org/Career-Cente...
It should not be up to John Oliver to be publicly making the argument that university presidents should be making loudly & collectively on the news & in front of the US Capitol every day.
In case you haven’t seen, we have a new workshop that provides a clear entry into the application and interpretation of Bayesian statistics, focused on mean comparisons and regression, and laying the foundations for much more complex models (DSEM, I’m looking at you) centerstat.org/Bayesian-fou...
the academic conundrum of - wanting a university to run better than it does, therefore needing to show up to uni-wide or division-wide faculty meetings - dealing with the consequences of showing up to those faculty meetings
Yeah so do I. There is so much variation in the workloads of faculty that it’s really unhelpful to just paint the entire profession as struggling with balance, or that the job by nature is incompatible with work life balance. I just don’t think that’s true.
A strict reading of this would probably remove a wide swath of comics and graphic novels.
Some of y’all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal. Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.
Routine or rut? Join us for the fun tomorrow as we try to define, and maybe redefine, ourselves for Season 7…
Yeah that’s unacceptable. It’s JAMA, not exactly an understaffed outlet where you could claim vacation leaves are causing delays
I remember reading this paper. If the authors said the data would be on GitHub they either lied or misunderstood, because you can’t just post the ABCD data online. It’s protected access. That’s no excuse for the missing code though
Ohoho this is apparently a widespread thing then!
Is today the right day for this?
I heard that students need to have a 1st author paper to get into a PhD program This is not true in psychology--most students we admit at NYU & most of the students from my own lab who got into PhD programs do not have publications, let alone 1st author publications www.science.org/content/arti...
The lab motto of the Menard Psych Group.
See @djnavarro.net blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-0...
lololol
I’m getting about the same volume of emails but more that look too “tidy”. I tell everyone the same thing regardless, which is I’ll talk to you if you’re on my shortlist for next year.
UPDATE: due to unforeseen circumstances I will NOT be reviewing students this cycle. Apologies to anyone who was interested. This is NOT a program issue, other Michigan clin psych faculty still on!
I'm happy to announce that Vanderbilt Psychology's clinical area is hiring a TT asst prof this year! Please share with your networks and consider applying if you're on the market! Happy to (try to) answer questions about the search if you have them. Link here: apply.interfolio.com/173316
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Reread this one for the history of psych class I am teaching and was reminded of how good it is. Short, thoughtful, and provocative. A highly worthwhile read. doi.org/10.1037/gpr0...
Any issues with accommodations for students who need to type instead of write? 📌
One of my amazing students defended her thesis today, passed with flying colours, but the real story was how she gave every member of the committee a simultaneous heart attack by referring to a piece of research that was published in “the 1900s”
I'm reviewing applications for the University of Washington's PhD program this fall. Applicants interested in the Clinical Psychology, Social-Personality (emphasis on personality), or Quantitative programs are welcome to apply. More information here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/radla...
Thoughtful thread on Bluesky
Well I’m counting all my years as a student too 😅
What bothers me about the reviews themselves is the lack of quality control. So many reviews are not very thoughtful, or focus on scientifically unimportant issues Editors rarely know what to expect before issuing invites. This is a problem at all journals and compromises the purpose of review.
The thumbs-up reaction is imo more efficient than sending yet another email to say thanks, or got it, or whatever acknowledgement. I’m good with it!
Come and work with me in beautiful Ames! isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaSt...
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I have now completed my 41st consecutive first day of school
Tenure-Track Quant Psyc job opening at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Areas of interest are pretty broad (SEM, multilevel, or psychometrics), the deadline to apply is coming up soon (Sept 15) if you're interested! careers.nau.edu/jobs/assista...
I wrote this seven years ago. It’s relevant. Again. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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zing
Paper accepted today in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, "Establishing minimally sufficient conditions reduces the complexity of symptom presentations in DSM internalizing disorders." A quick thread, below. (link is to a PDF on the paper's OSF page) 1/15 osf.io/fxdm6
I sometimes have to remind myself, that not everyone here “knows” me, the way they once did on Twitter. So let me clarify. I support vaccination, sound public health policy, trans rights, abortion rights, labour rights, treaty rights, free speech, and access to information.
I get a lot of lengthy emails from students who introduce themselves with a personal history with mental illness or addiction as a reason to go to graduate school. I appreciate there are mixed views on this but I think it’s a bad idea.
"...and Danielle Smith found herself with a nice blue dress but no job. The end."
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PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work! Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :) #PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky
We’re hiring an assistant or associate professor to join our psychology department at the University of Illinois Chicago! We’re a vibrant research-active department in a great city, a diverse institution with a purpose-driven mission, and a fun place to work! #psychjobs uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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