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Jill A. Jacobson

@doctorjaj.bsky.social

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Professor and Chair of the Social-Personality Psychology Program at Queen’s University, Canada.

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Jill A. Jacobson @doctorjaj.bsky.social · 1d

Marseilles, IL and Monticello, IL vs Marseilles, France and Monticello, VA

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

We're hiring! 📢

Senior Lecturer in ‘Quantitative Methods and the Political System of Austria’ for 23 hours per week

The position is to be filled from September 1, 2026, and is limited until August 31, 2030

Deadline: 27 October 2025

More details: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...

Senior Lecturer (Academic Teaching)

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Pete Hitchcock @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social · 2d

We are hiring at Emory Psychology in Developmental!

Come join a wonderful department in a great city ☀️

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Wake Forest Statistical Sciences @wakeforeststats.bsky.social · 2d

Associate Professor @lucystats.bsky.social spoke today at the ISI World Statistics Congress in The Hague on how “Causal inference is not just a statistics problem”

You can find her slides here: www.lucymcgowan.com/talk/isi_wor...

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OECD Statistics @oecdstatistics.bsky.social · 2d

🆕 New edition of the #OECD Guidelines on Measuring #SubjectiveWellbeing now available!

Building on recommendations from 2013, this update clarifies and streamlines practices of subjective well-being measurement in light of new research and policy needs.

🔗 oe.cd/subjectivewellbeing

OECD Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being (2025 Update)

The OECD regularly produces guidelines to advance the measurement of concepts that are crucial to the well-being of people, the planet and future generations. In 2013, the OECD published the first edi...

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Joshua Claassen @jclaass.bsky.social · 2d

📢One week left to apply!

DZHW is hiring a research associate at the intersection of survey methodology and computer science (Hannover).

Do your PhD in an interdisciplinary setting with excellent supervision.

I'd apply myself if I weren't already on the team🤓

👉 karriere.dzhw.eu/jobposting/b...

Promotionsstelle

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Thomas Talhelm @thomastalhelm.bsky.social · 3d

Post-doc opportunity at Northwestern: facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQzNw==

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Canadian Psychological Association @canadianpsychology.bsky.social · 3d

Dunham House in Dunham, QC is hiring a Psychotherapist

Closing date: 2025/11/03

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 3d

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Analyses of ‘change scores’ do not estimate causal effects in observational data

AbstractBackground. In longitudinal data, it is common to create ‘change scores’ by subtracting measurements taken at baseline from those taken at follow-u

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 3d

We're looking for an experimental psychologist in Witten. Contact me if you have questions about the job (I'm not on the commission, so can talk freely :-)
uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/59638545...

Universitätsprofessur für Experimentelle Psychologie (W2-analog) bei Universität Witten/Herdecke

Wir suchen: Universitätsprofessur für Experimentelle Psychologie (W2-analog) (Vollzeit) • Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 50, 58455 Witten, Deutschland

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Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social · 3d

The extremely problematic use of change scores is so poorly understood by researchers that it’s almost sickening. Most don’t even understand what is needed for the subtraction operator to work. hbiostat.org/bbr/change

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Katie Gates @kgates.bsky.social · 6d

UNC is hiring in Quantitative Psychology! Assistant Professor (tenure-track). Please share widely! Find details here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

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Canadian Psychological Association @canadianpsychology.bsky.social · 6d

The next Lunchbox Lecture will be October 24 at 3pm EDT

"The Pull Toward Neutrality: Emotional and Cognitive Costs of Avoiding Extremes"

Presented by Dr. Thomas Vaughan-Johnston, Assistant Professor, School of Psychology, Cardiff University

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Canadian Psychological Association @canadianpsychology.bsky.social · 7d

Queen's University, Smith School of Business in Kingston is hiring a Professor in Organizational Behaviour/Human Resources

Closing date: 2025/11/10

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UBC Psychology @ubcpsych.bsky.social · 7d

UBC Psychology is calling for applications to teach in the 2026 Summer Sessions:
➡️ Summer Session Term 1 (May to June 2026)
➡️ Summer Session Term 2 (July to August 2026)
➡️ Summer Session Term 1 – 2 (6 credits; May to August 2026)
Apply by Oct 10. 2025: psych.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

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Zachary Fisher @fishingwithzack.bsky.social · 7d

We’re hiring in Quantitative Psychology at UNC Chapel Hill!

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the program and please share widely!

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Assistant Professor

Primary responsibilities of the position will include conducting high quality research, publishing in peer reviewed journals and broader dissemination, seeking external funding for research, teaching ...

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Rich Lucas @richlucas.bsky.social · 7d

We already know that lagged effects in CLPMs are likely to be upwardly biased, but just how easy is it to find significant effects? Way too easy. I tested CLPMS in 100 randomly selected pairs of correlated variables and found significant effects in 98 of them. New preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Lorne Campbell @lornejcampbell.bsky.social · 8d

New ad for an open rank position in Psychology at Cornell. That Human Bonding course seems very popular! May be a good fit for a relationship scientist out there. Below is a snippet of the job ad.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 9d

Was asked about collinearity again, so here's Vahove's 2019 post on why it isn't a problem that needs a solution. Design the model(s) to answer a formal question and free your mind janhove.github.io/posts/2019-0...

tl;dr

Collinearity is a form of lack of information that is appropriately reflected in the output of your statistical model.
When collinearity is associated with interpretational difficulties, these difficulties aren’t caused by the collinearity itself. Rather, they reveal that the model was poorly specified (in that it answers a question different to the one of interest), that the analyst overly focuses on significance rather than estimates and the uncertainty about them or that the analyst took a mental shortcut in interpreting the model that could’ve also led them astray in the absence of collinearity.
If you do decide to “deal with” collinearity, make sure you can still answer the question of interest.

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 10d

Happy to share the first meta-analysis on biased belief updating in depression, published in Clin Psych Rev. Across 29 studies, depression was related to a reduced belief update following positive information, but not to an increased update following neg info. 👇 authors.elsevier.com/c/1lsBL~0r1z...

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Jill A. Jacobson @doctorjaj.bsky.social · 10d

I pointed out to ours that I didn’t have to complete an 8-page consent form to get chemo, and it can kill you unlike a study on Qualtrics.

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David Bartram @dbartram.bsky.social · 10d

I'm totally on board with that finding, and the reason for previous incorrect findings:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

To Evaluate the Age–Happiness Relationship, Look Beyond Statistical Significance - Journal of Happiness Studies

The persistent contentiousness of research on the age–happiness relationship is puzzling; it should be possible to gain clarity and consensus about how to address the question effectively. In this paper I show that a key reason for the lack of clarity consists of overreliance on statistical significance as a means of evaluating empirical results. The statistical significance of a quadratic specification (age plus age-squared) is often taken as evidence in support of a ‘u-shaped’ relationship between age and happiness. But statistical significance on its own cannot tell us whether the age–happiness relationship is ‘u-shaped’ (nor indeed whether it takes any other shape). On the contrary, statistical significance can mislead us about it: a set of quadratic age coefficients can be ‘significant’ even when the relationship is obviously characterised by a different shape. When we have clarity on how to construct the analysis so that we can ‘see’ the underlying patterns in the data, it becomes obvious that the age–happiness relationship in European countries commonly shows other patterns; a u-shape is evident only in a minority of countries.

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Institute for Behavioral Genetics (IBG) @ibg.colorado.edu · 10d

University of Colorado Boulder Department of Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors. This is open to all department areas, including Behavioral, Psychiatric, and Statistical Genetics🧬 jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Assistant Professor

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Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 10d

Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 12d

Psychologists are also definitely guilty of confusing change with treatment response, which is why I wrote about it here:

www.the100.ci/2025/01/22/r...

Reviewer notes: In a randomized experiment, the pre-post differences are not effect estimates

Reviewer notes are a new short format with brief explanations of basic ideas that might come in handy during (for example) the peer-review process. They are a great way to keep Julia from writing 10,0...

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Scott Myers @smyers20.bsky.social · 13d

New PubPeer comment on "Efficacy of oral folinic acid supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial" (Panda et al, 2024). Concerns about significant errors. #folinicacid #leucovorin, #autism

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PubPeer - Efficacy of oral folinic acid supplementation in children wi...

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Efficacy of oral folinic acid supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (2024)

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Jennifer Polk @fromphdtolife.com · 13d

There are more options for PhDs than you think. This free webinar will help you discover what’s out there—and what fits you best If you're thinking seriously about leaving higher ed for good, don’t miss this. Watch the free webinar now. #PhDSky

Free Training for PhDs - From PhD to Life

Leaving academia? You want a new career as a PhD without wasting time applying for the wrong jobs, but don’t know where to start. Get clarity with Dr. Jen Polk in this free training.

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 13d

Job: Associate Professor in Cultural and Community Psychology in Oslo

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Associate Professor in Cultural and Community Psychology (283420) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Cultural and Community Psychology (283420), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 30, 2025

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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 14d

o 2 Crown positions (jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...)
o Director of Prevention Science Program at Institute of Behavioral Science that could have psych as tenure home (jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...)

Open-Rank Faculty Positions in the Crown Institute

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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 14d

In total, we have 3 positions in psych + 3 more that could have psych as their tenure home!

o Assistant teach professor in psych (jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...)
o 2 tenure track assistant professors in psych (jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...)

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Program Director

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