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Fred Duong
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researcher at More in Common US | emotions • morality • political psych | fuhred.com
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davisvaughan.bsky.social
dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!

- `filter_out()` for dropping rows

- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools

These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!

tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
dplyr 1.2.0
dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...
tidyverse.org
February 4, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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johnholbein1.bsky.social
Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?

These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.

So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
February 3, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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jeffgreene.bsky.social
Trust in others and institutions predicts subjective well-being and vice versa. This makes me even more attuned to the costs of people and systems that undermine trust. The decay of trust as a public health issue. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the journal "Psychological Bulletin" titled: "Trust and Subjective Well-Being Across the Lifespan: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations."
January 16, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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scientificdiscovery.dev
I know, I get that there are formatting standards, etc. etc. but there has got to be a better way of communicating results in a world where scientific publishing is primarily digital than what's happening in this paragraph...
During the initial 36 weeks of tirzepatide treatment, participants’ weight decreased and cardiometabolic parameters improved. After withdrawal of tirzepatide, from week 36 to week 88, the mean change in waist circumference increased by weight regain category (<25% weight regain, 0.8 cm; 95% CI, −1.0 to 2.6; 25% to <50%, 5.4 cm; 95% CI, 4.0-6.8; 50% to <75%, 10.1 cm; 95% CI, 8.9-11.3; ≥75%, 14.7 cm; 95% CI, 12.7-16.7; P < .001), as did systolic blood pressure (6.8 mm Hg [95% CI, 3.9-9.7], 7.3 mm Hg [95% CI, 4.8-9.8], 9.6 mm Hg [95% CI, 7.1-12.1], and 10.4 mm Hg [95% CI, 8.0-12.8], respectively; P = .002), non–high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (−0.4% [95% CI, −7.3 to 6.5], 1.6% [95% CI, −2.3 to 5.5], 8.4% [95% CI, 3.9-12.9], and 10.8% [95% CI, 5.3-16.3], respectively), hemoglobin A1c (0.14% [95% CI, 0.06-0.22], 0.15% [95% CI, 0.09-0.21], 0.27% [95% CI, 0.21-0.33], and 0.35% [95% CI, 0.29-0.41], respectively; P < .001), and fasting insulin (−4.0% [95% CI, −20.7 to 12.7], 15.4% [95% CI, 2.3-28.5], 46.2% [95% CI, 29.5-62.9], and 26.3% [95% CI, 9.6-43.0], respectively).
January 9, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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gordpennycook.bsky.social
🚨 Now out in Psych Science 🚨

We report an adversarial collaboration (with @donandrewmoore.bsky.social) testing whether overconfidence is genuinely a trait

The paper was led by Jabin Binnendyk & Sophia Li (who is fantastic and on the job market!) Free copy here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7JIYS...
December 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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ebonawitz.bsky.social
eh, It wasn't that high up... and 4-year-olds can take it. 😜

But if you're looking for other good moments in the paper... I also recommend reading the acknowledgments closely.
The acknowledgment section of a paper stating that the construction crew at Rutgers drilled a hole in the lab and dumped several pounds of concrete on the stimuli
October 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
fuhred.bsky.social
love spotting new and fun ways how researchers show group differences. here is one from Walker et al., 2025 showing transparent, overlayed density plots with circled data labels for the mean

doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
October 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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thomasp85.com
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
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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markthornton.bsky.social
The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs
Bar plot showing the number of psychology jobs posted each year by area. There are major dips in 2020 due to covid, and in 2025 (now).
September 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life?

Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social)
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...
Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients into Clear Quantities Abstract Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear models, but is more challenging for more complex models with, for example, categorical variables, interactions, non-linearities, and hierarchical structures. Here, we introduce an alternative approach to making sense of statistical models. The central idea is to abstract away from the mechanics of estimation, and to treat models as “counterfactual prediction machines,” which are subsequently queried to estimate quantities and conduct tests that matter substantively. This workflow is model-agnostic; it can be applied in a consistent fashion to draw causal or descriptive inference from a wide range of models. We illustrate how to implement this workflow with the marginaleffects package, which supports over 100 different classes of models in R and Python, and present two worked examples. These examples show how the workflow can be applied across designs (e.g., observational study, randomized experiment) to answer different research questions (e.g., associations, causal effects, effect heterogeneity) while facing various challenges (e.g., controlling for confounders in a flexible manner, modelling ordinal outcomes, and interpreting non-linear models). Figure illustrating model predictions. On the X-axis the predictor, annual gross income in Euro. On the Y-axis the outcome, predicted life satisfaction. A solid line marks the curve of predictions on which individual data points are marked as model-implied outcomes at incomes of interest. Comparing two such predictions gives us a comparison. We can also fit a tangent to the line of predictions, which illustrates the slope at any given point of the curve. A figure illustrating various ways to include age as a predictor in a model. On the x-axis age (predictor), on the y-axis the outcome (model-implied importance of friends, including confidence intervals). Illustrated are 1. age as a categorical predictor, resultings in the predictions bouncing around a lot with wide confidence intervals 2. age as a linear predictor, which forces a straight line through the data points that has a very tight confidence band and 3. age splines, which lies somewhere in between as it smoothly follows the data but has more uncertainty than the straight line.
August 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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gregdepow.bsky.social
Paper on effortful leisure led by @aidanvcampbell.bsky.social with @minzlicht.bsky.social and myself now out! (www.nature.com/articles/s44...). Effort is aversive and often avoided, yet here we find effortful tasks and activities are also more meaningful, and effortful leisure is no less enjoyable.
July 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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cait.bsky.social
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
emotion wheel starting with "joy, fear, anger" in the center and then lapsing into gibberish
June 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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pewresearch.org
Majorities of adults in most countries surveyed say that animals can have spirits or spiritual energies, including:

- 83% of adults in Hindu-majority India
- 81% in Muslim-majority Turkey
- 76% in Christian-majority Argentina, and
- 70% in Jewish-majority Israel. www.pewresearch.org/...
Believing in Spirits and Life After Death Is Common Around the World
Belief in an afterlife, God and spirits in nature is widespread globally. Older adults are more likely than younger adults to believe in God. Pew Research Center.
www.pewresearch.org
May 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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aedwardslevy.bsky.social
While everyone gets mad about college students using AI...I am extremely curious about this very vague survey cite in the NY Mag story
"In January 2023, just two months after OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a survey of 1,000 college students found that nearly 90 percent of them had used the chatbot to help with homework assignments. "
May 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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moreincommonus.bsky.social
Today is #EarthDay a day for Americans to come together to protect and celebrate nature.

Despite the divisiveness of contemporary climate debates, Americans agree: protecting nature is important. (1/3)
April 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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bfschaffner.bsky.social
did young voters support Trump in 2024? this is a notoriously difficult group to poll but the major election surveys indicate that Trump lost among all but young white men. tufts-pol.medium.com/have-young-v...
Have young voters really abandoned the Democrats?
by Caroline Soler, Brian Schaffner, and Stephen Ansolabehere
tufts-pol.medium.com
April 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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jayvanbavel.bsky.social
Climate Terminology Does Not Matter

Across tens of thousands of participants in two large-scale experiments, we found that labeling climate change in different ways had no effect on their stated willingness to act.
jayvanbavellab.substack.com/p/climate-te...

via @dgoldwert.bsky.social
Climate Terminology Does Not Matter
Our new paper finds that swapping out one climate term for another does not meaningfully change people’s stated commitment to fight climate change
jayvanbavellab.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
dataviz is my passion
a scatterplot of 500,000 points that is basically a black rectangle
April 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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favstats.eu
I was curious to see how academic articles in (Political) Communication and Political Science are being shared on X vs. Bluesky.

I find: In 2024, academic articles in our field seem to be clearly more shared on X. But by 2025, Bluesky is catching up fast.

Short 🧵 1/n
March 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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gregdepow.bsky.social
Elon Musk recently claimed that "empathy is the fundamental weakness of western civilization", pushing us towards "civilizational suicide". I recently wrote a piece in Broadview Magazine explaining why I disagree: broadview.org/elon-musk-em...

#empathy #scicomm
March 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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gregdepow.bsky.social
Received news that my paper with @minzlicht.bsky.social was accepted at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin🥳. In it, we examine how trait measures of empathy predict everyday state empathy, and what this teaches us about how we measure and experience empathy: osf.io/preprints/ps... #empathy
Shows two overlapping distributions of compassion, empathy efficacy, emotion sharing, personal distress, and perspective taking. On the left, those low in Single Item Trait Empathy, who don't consider themselves an empathic person, are lower in all but distress. On the right, those high in SITE who think of themselves as empathic have right-shifted distributions of empathy, but not distress. Underscores that lay conceptions of empathy tend not to include personal distress as a key component.
March 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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lindatropp.bsky.social
Happy to share this new piece on bridging differences in the US, just published in @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social and inspired by the report on #socialconnection recently released by @moreincommonus.bsky.social
#bridging #intergroupcontact

thefulcrum.us/bridging-com...
March 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
fuhred.bsky.social
Americans want to connect across lines of difference (race/ethnicity, class, religion, politics) but lack the opportunity. New huge research on social connection (2-year study of >6,000 Americans, national, regional, quant + qual).

Happy to play a role on this project and celebrate its launch!
moreincommonus.bsky.social More in Common US @moreincommonus.bsky.social · Mar 18
[NEW REPORT] A new @moreincommonus.bsky.social
report finds that while 70% of Americans feel a responsibility to connect with people who have different backgrounds and beliefs, a lack of opportunity stands in their way. moreincommonus.com/publication/... (1/3)
March 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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brettmurpsych.bsky.social
@fuhred.bsky.social deserves all the credit for this ShinyApp 👏 see our paper at doi.org/10.1177/2515...
allisonkfarrell.bsky.social Allie Farrell @allisonkfarrell.bsky.social · Feb 20
There is nothing as useful as a good shiny app— And here’s one for illustrating the effects of careless responding! #SPSPCloseRels @brettmurpsych.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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jinxungoh.bsky.social
Are you a Southeast Asian social-personality psychologist attending #SPSP2025 in Denver? We are getting together on Thursday 2/20, 7pm local time at Hyatt Regency’s Assembly Hall Bar! RSVP on the Whova app in the meetup section (or just come through)! SEASAPP is back for our 5th year reunion!!
An invite for Southeast Asian Social and Personality Psychologists gathering at SPSP conference in Denver. Detail: 2/20/25, 7pm at Assembly Hall Bar in Hyatt Regency
February 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM