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Katie Gates @kgates.bsky.social · 7d

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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Jonathan J. Park @jonathanpark.bsky.social · 8d

Wanted to announce that I will be recruiting graduate students this year in Quantitative Psychology here at UC Davis. If you are or know of any undergrads who are interested in dynamical systems and network analytic methods, please send them my way or get in touch!

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Zachary Fisher @fishingwithzack.bsky.social · 8d

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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Jonathan Templin @jonathantemplin.com · Aug 28

A new semester is upon us! This time, I’m teaching Structural Equation Modeling. Want to follow along? Here you go: jonathantemplin.github.io/Structural-E... and www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #StatModeling #SEM

Structural Equation Modeling (Fall 2025; University of Iowa: PSQF 6249) – Structural Equation Modeling Fall 2025 (PSQF 6249)

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W. Joel Schneider @w-joel-schneider.bsky.social · Aug 20

Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other.
wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...

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A bivariate change model with structured residuals

A hierarchical model of cognitive abilities

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Siwei Liu @siweiliu.bsky.social · Jun 12

This work was officially accepted for publication today!

Siwei Liu @siweiliu.bsky.social · Nov 26

New work by my lab members Sebastian Castro-Alvarez and Di Jody Zhou, in collaboration with @eikofried.bsky.social @bringmannlaura.bsky.social and others.

Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · Nov 1

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Our new preprint shows how to estimate internal consistency reliability in EMA data:

➡️n~1150, 3 months data, 4 scales
➡️6 nomothetic & idiographic methods
➡️2 timescales (4/day & 1/week)
➡️2 languages (ENG vs NL)
➡️separation of between & within person reliability.

#psychscisky #stats

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Noah Greifer @noahgreifer.bsky.social · Jun 4

Starting to look like I might not be able to work at Harvard anymore due to recent funding cuts. If you know of any open statistical consulting positions that support remote work or are NYC-based, please reach out! 😅

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Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · May 28

Postdoc position open in Zurich -- Prof. Martin Tomasik and I have a joint SNF project on interpretable neural network approaches for large scale, complex item / temporal structure, online learning / cognitive development data.

Please retweet.

tinyurl.com/PostdocGNNSNF

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Daniel Heck @danielheck.bsky.social · May 15

🚀 PhD Position in Psychological Methods at @unimarburg.bsky.social
📅 Start: 01.10.2025 | 💼 50% TV-H E13 | ⏳ 3 years

Focus on statistical modeling—Bayesian statistics, cognitive modeling, psychometrics.

🔗 Apply now: uni-marburg.de/r5dKTr

🔄 Thanks for sharing!

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Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · May 7

For anyone who'd like the verbal / visual introduction to my work in quant psych / dynamic systems (or a little of the personal background), I gave my inaugural lecture with UZH Monday night and it's available here: vimeo.com/showcase/826...

Antrittsvorlesung von Prof. Dr. Charles Driver

Human Behaviour, Cognition and Emotions as Dynamic Systems

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Dr. Eva Telzer @evatelzer.bsky.social · Apr 30

We’re hiring postdocs to join my lab at UNC. If you’re interested in adolescence, brain, and social development, DM me. Our work incorporates fMRI, social media, and longitudinal methods. We study risks and opportunities in adolescence. If you’re at #SRCD2025 and want to meet, please reach out!

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · Apr 10

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Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!

Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.

Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com

#RStats #PyData

Model to Meaning: How to interpret statistical models with marginaleffects for R and Python

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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · Jan 29

This paper on intensive longitudinal reliability led by Sebastian Castro-Alvarez is one of the best I've read in a while -- the review was so thorough, the code was fantastic, and it answered any questions I had about IL reliability. Definitely check it out you work with ILD!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Leonie Vogelsmeier @leonievogelsmeier.bsky.social · Jan 6

🤓Latent GOLD licenses for academic use are now freely available on the website! www.statisticalinnovations.com/shop/lg-6-1-...

LatentGOLD 6.1 Academic New License - Statistical Innovations

LG 5.1 Academic Latent GOLD new license LG Choice Advanced Syntax Latent Class Discrete Choice 3step markov multilevel scale factor 5.1 annual perpetual

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Jonathan J. Park @jonathanpark.bsky.social · Dec 16

My first paper as an Assistant Professor at UC Davis is out in the journal SEM!

In the paper, we introduce a continuous-time extension to the GIMME model implemented in OpenMx. It uses iterative tests of modification indices to construct group- and person-specific dynamic networks!

Unsupervised Model Construction in Continuous-Time

Many of the advancements reconciling individual- and group-level results have occurred in the context of a discrete-time modeling framework. Discrete-time models are intuitive and offer relatively ...

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Brenden Tervo-Clemmens @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social · Dec 3

For the quant methods people in my circle:

Tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in measurement and psychometric issues related to complex data structures.

Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · Oct 31

Assistant Professor (Measurement Issues in Complex Data Structures) in the UCLA Department of Psychology recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09885

Assistant Professor (Measurement Issues in Complex Data Structures) in the UCLA Department of Psychology

University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.apo.ucla.edu

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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · Dec 3

Scientists don't have to be in academia to make a huge impact! Check out this new resource for details, salaries, etc on how to pick a career!
#psychology #PsychSky #mentalhealth #PsychSciSky #Skychiatry #Neuroskyence #neuroimaging
#PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #ClinPsych

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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · Nov 13

This article gives a phenomenal overview of the history and evolution of best practices in measurement invariance and differential item functioning -- I can't remember the last time I learned so much reading a single paper, highly recommended!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Review of Some of the History of Factorial Invariance and Differential Item Functioning

The concept of factorial invariance has evolved since it originated in the 1930s as a criterion for the usefulness of the multiple factor model; it has become a form of analysis supporting the vali...

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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · Oct 24

Starter pack for EMA, ESM, and Intensive Longitudinal Researchers.

Feel free to share, follow, and nominate. Suggestions welcome!

go.bsky.app/LzqJoUX

#ESM #EMA #AA #IntensiveLongitudinalResearch

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Christopher Crawford @cmcrawford.bsky.social · Sep 24

We have a new preprint!

I'm excited to share recent work related to modeling multiple-subject, multivariate time series.

We extend the multi-VAR framework to allow for data-driven identification and penalized estimation of subgroup-specific dynamics.

arxiv.org/abs/2409.03085

Penalized Subgrouping of Heterogeneous Time Series

Interest in the study and analysis of dynamic processes in the social, behavioral, and health sciences has burgeoned in recent years due to the increased availability of intensive longitudinal...

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Katie Gates @kgates.bsky.social · Sep 19

We're hiring a tenure track Quantitative Psychologist at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill!
We are particularly (but not exclusively) seeking someone with expertise in the measurement and modeling of high-density data structures.
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/288222
Please share widely.

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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rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · Sep 19

I made an attempt at a bsky psychometrics starter pack with people who work on or largely with psychometric tools! Please reskeet and (selfl!)nominate to help me fill my many and varied blind spots and make this a useful and balanced resource #rstats #psychometrics go.bsky.app/6oGLp7D

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Katie Gates @kgates.bsky.social · May 29

Come join me for a couple of workshops the week of June 10! Focusing on Time Series basics and GIMME. Also check out the other workshops available here - so many good ones!

Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · Mar 15

Use your summer wisely to get a methods leg up, and join me, Jeff Girard, Kelley Kidwell, @shirleybwang.bsky.social , @kgates.bsky.social , Amie Gordon and more at smart-workshops.com !!!

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SMaRT Workshops

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Zachary Fisher @fishingwithzack.bsky.social · Jan 9

Interesting new paper from Suryadyuti Baral and Patrick Curran on the stability of DSEM estimates.

https://ajuronline.org/uploads/Volume_20_3/AJUR_Vol_20_Issue_3_Dec_2023_p69.pdf

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