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

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Steve Most @sbmost.bsky.social · 1d
Food for thought: "Students are more capable than their anxiety tells them they are."
Schools Are Accommodating Student Anxiety — and Making It Worse
Removing stressors robs students of growth opportunities, writes TC's Ben Lovett and his co-author Alex Jordan
www.tc.columbia.edu

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Andrew F. Hayes 🇨🇦 @afhayes.bsky.social · 1d
Two faculty positions (assistant or associate prof) advertised in the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary.
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1707164...
Two Assistant or Associate Professor Positions in Artificial Intelligence and Business - Marketing/Organizational Behaviour & Human Resources/Entrepreneurship/Strategy in ...
Two Assistant or Associate Professor Positions in Artificial Intelligence and Business - Marketing/Organizational Behaviour & Human Resources/Entrepreneurship/Strategy in ...
careers.ucalgary.ca

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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 1d
** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 2d
Horrific use of psychological testing, up there with the 20th century's worst practices: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 3d
Come join me and my brilliant, talented, kind, and generous colleagues at the University of Regina!

I’m delighted to share this open rank faculty position in Clinical Psychology.

#academicsky #highered #sciencejobs #womeninacademia

https://urcareers.uregina.ca/postings/17692
Yellow square with green text. The text reads: FACULTY OF ARTS - DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY WE ARE HIRING POSITIONS IN Clinical Psychology Apply Here HTTPS://URCAREERS.UREGINA.CA University of Regina Go far. Together.

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Canadian Psychological Association @canadianpsychology.bsky.social · 4d
The Department of Applied Psychology & Human Development at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto in Toronto is hiring an Associate Professor - Clinical and Counselling Psychology

Closing date: 2026/01/08

CPA Career Ads and Resources page: buff.ly/fA6Tgfw

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Jill A. Jacobson @doctorjaj.bsky.social · 4d
I wish he addressed how he handles in-class writing when 25% of his students have accommodations. E.g., how do you give them time and a half? Just do universal design, and when students complain, argue with the accommodations office that the total time allowed really is 1.5 * time intended?

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Matt Makel @mattmakel.bsky.social · 6d
Job posting alert! Open Science Specialist at the University of Calgary (in Canada!) #job #OpenScience careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1704502...
Specialist, Open Science, Research Services in Calgary, AB, ...
Specialist, Open Science, Research Services in Calgary, AB, ...
careers.ucalgary.ca

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 6d
I know several of the women who were harassed by this guy. They had real courage to testify. He engaged in serious professional retaliation against women.

This needs to end. I've seen how many people curry favor with known sexual harassers and how the worst can still manage to leap from job to job.

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Nils Reimer @reimtime.bsky.social · 6d
Sexual harassment is a scourge to academia and should have no place in our field. That it still does is, in part, because institutions still value academic prestige over the untold harms done to often early career scholars.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 7d
Confidence interval discussion time! The perfect opportunity to repost this blog post answering the question you haven’t dared to ask: www.the100.ci/2024/12/05/w...

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Josh McDermott @joshhmcdermott.bsky.social · 7d
Two weeks left to apply! MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working with nonhuman animals in some way. Application deadline is Dec. 1. Full posting: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30586
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Job #AJO30586, Assistant Professor level or higher, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
academicjobsonline.org

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Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 8d
"Using p<.05 is *bad*, but if you just work out the two values for which p=.05 and use those, that's *good*"

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Marcus Crede @marcuscrede.bsky.social · 8d
I am hoping to recruit a graduate student for next year. That person would help conduct research on leadership, individual differences, and methodological skullduggery. Please forward to any potentially interested students.

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Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social · 8d
@timtemizyurek.bsky.social, George Richardson and I agree that 'non-invariance is not black-and-white and does not necessarily thwart scientific progress', as 'evidence for non- invariance can lead to important refinements of instruments or novel findings.'

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Comparability of personality facets between men and women: A test of measurement invariance in IPIP-NEO facets in 49 countries
Identifying whether men and women differ in their personalities, and whether such differences are robust across populations, requires researchers to c…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social · 8d
Nice article by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @boryslaw.bsky.social: 'violations of measurement invariance imply that there are potentially interesting differences in the measurement process between the groups, which could warrant explanations in their own right.' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rethinking measurement invariance causally
Measurement invariance is often touted as a necessary statistical prerequisite for group comparisons. Typically, when there is evidence against measur…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 12d
APS is pleased to offer two financial assistance programs to help defray costs for APS members attending #APS26BCN.

Learn more about the Family Care and Travel Assistance programs and apply by 22 January www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...

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Canadian Psychological Association @canadianpsychology.bsky.social · 12d
l'Université de Montréal embauche un Professeure ou Professeur au rang d’adjoint en psychologie clinique de l’enfance et l’adolescence, traumatisme et intervention

Date limite: 2025/12/15

Annoncer des offres d’emploi : buff.ly/bCahIsK

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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 12d
Are you a student, early-career psychologist, or human factors engineer searching for #career directions and graduate school options? Join APS on December 3 for a free webinar and learn from a variety of professions outside academia #AcademicSky #AltAc
member.psychologicalscience.org/events/event...

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 12d
Nice one, from @drg.bsky.social and @jamesheathers.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
“Cake causes herpes?” - promiscuous dichotomisation induces false positives - BMC Medical Research Methodology
Background Continuous biomedical data is often dichotomized into two or more groups for analysis, despite long-standing warnings from statisticians that this constitutes bad practice. This dichotomisa...
link.springer.com

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Jess Salerno @jesssalerno.bsky.social · 12d
POSTDOC POSITION in social psychology at Cornell
@cornellpsych.bsky.social! We will begin reviewing apps Dec 1st. Please repost!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31185
@spspnews.bsky.social @spspsc.bsky.social @aplssc.bsky.social @spssi.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social
Cornell University, Psychology
Job #AJO31185, WDR-00055818(EVG) Postdoctoral Associate, Psychology, Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
academicjobsonline.org

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Canadian Psychological Association @canadianpsychology.bsky.social · 14d
Call for applications NOW OPEN

We are offering four grants valued at $2500.00 each for equity deserving psychology student affiliates, and two grants valued at $2500.00 each for Black psychology student affiliates.

Deadline January 19th.

More details:
Bursary for Equity Deserving Graduate Psychology Students - Canadian Psychological Association
– OPEN for 2026
buff.ly

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14d
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 15d
This slide unfortunately generalizes well 🥲
Slide titled: The non-experimental psych workaround - introduction: relies on a causal reading of the literature - methods & results: implicitly (but never explicitly) causal inference-y - discussion: only makes sense in terms of causality - IMPORTANT: add a paragraph that your study was only observational and no causal conclusions are warranted. future longitudinal or experimental studies will surely fix this problem.

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Casper Albers 🟥 @casperalbers.nl · 15d
Doing non-causal inference (and being explicit about it), yet using a causal word as second word in the title.

If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing.

I can tell you what I think of that for free.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...
screenshot from the paper, stating that no causal claims (like they did in the title) should be made. paper title

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Canadian Psychological Association @canadianpsychology.bsky.social · 16d
University of Toronto Mississauga in Mississauga, ON is hiring an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream - Foundations of Psychology

Closing date: 2025/12/18

CPA Career Ads and Resources page: buff.ly/yiZAWs5

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renebekkers.bsky.social @renebekkers.bsky.social · 16d
Great teaching case! On the Bad Science Bingo Card 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 31, and 36 are strong contenders for a prize for this article detectingbadscience.wordpress.com/bad-science-...
Bad Science Bingo
Here are 36 potential flaws in research reports. Can you find them all? For each flaw, a short description is below. Follow the link for an elaborate description and visualization. Conflicts of Int…
detectingbadscience.wordpress.com

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Jill A. Jacobson @doctorjaj.bsky.social · 16d
Timely post bsky.app/profile/stat...

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Daniel E. Weeks @statgendan.bsky.social · 16d
“changes in statistical significance are often not themselves statistically significant. … even large changes in significance levels can correspond to small, nonsignificant changes in the underlying quantities.”

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#Statistics
The Difference Between “Significant” and “Not Significant” is not Itself Statistically Significant
It is common to summarize statistical comparisons by declarations of statistical significance or nonsignificance. Here we discuss one problem with such declarations, namely that changes in statisti...
www.tandfonline.com

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Jill A. Jacobson @doctorjaj.bsky.social · 16d
Besides mediation mess, they never test if the diff between significant in females but not significant in males are significantly different (cf. Gelman & Stern) or why.
No sex diff in MDD vs not gps is odd as expect 2:1 for MDD.
If lemonade is a soft drink, then what about other fruit juices?