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Greg Depow

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Postdoc at UCSD/Harvard, PhD from University of Toronto. Studying #empathy #effort #wellbeing #socialmedia and #prosocial behaviour. #rstats #PhDad #openscience website: gregdepow.com

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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · May 29

My paper with @minzlicht.bsky.social on how trait empathy and features of the context such as valence predict everyday state experiences of empathy is now published #OpenAccess in #PSBP 🥳. Check it out here and let me know if you have any questions: doi.org/10.1177/0146....

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 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! 🧵

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 3d

New jobs for computational social scientists at UNC and USC: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... amd uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

Assistant Professor

This Assistant Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology, participate in departmental service, and mentor graduate students.

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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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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 8d

It depends: Logistic is for binary variables typically coded as 0 or 1, e.g., disease or not. Poisson is for count variables, e.g. number of drinks per week. For poisson, people use Incidence Rate Ratios instead of Odds Ratios, but both can be converted to statements about Quantities of Interest.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 11d

Intervening on a central node in a network likely does little given that its connected neighbors will "flip it back" immediately. Happy to see this position supported now.

"Change is most likely [..] if it spreads first among relatively poorly connected nodes."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less

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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 13d

Good explanation of odds ratios. As Noah notes, ORs can often be tough to interpret. One way to improve interpretability is to present results in terms of Quantities of Interest such as probabilities (logistic) and counts (poisson/negative binomial) as argued here: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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Noah Greifer @noahgreifer.bsky.social · Apr 24

Thinking about odds ratios...

An odds is a ratio of events to non-events. For example, if the event is survival, the odds of survival is the number of survivors per death. If the event is getting a disease, the odds is the number of diseased individuals per healthy individual.

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Benjamin Swerdlow @baswerdlow.bsky.social · 15d

Halvorson et al. (2021) should probably be required reading for folks working with binary and count data (@kevinmking.bsky.social )

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Making sense of some odd ratios: A tutorial and improvements to present practices in reporting and visualizing quantities of interest for binary and count outcome models

Generalized linear models (GLMs) such as logistic and Poisson regression are among the most common statistical methods for modeling binary and count outcomes. Though single-coefficient tests (odds rat...

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 18d

Final week to apply for the 2026 SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships

If you're an early-career scholar and passionate about collaborative, transdisciplinary research beyond traditional departments, this is the postdoc fellowship for you.

Deadline: Oct 1, 2025

Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

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Colin Vize @vizecolin.bsky.social · 23d

🚨 Spread the word! We're (w/ @whitneyringwald.bsky.social & @aleksakaurin.bsky.social) organizing a special issue at PD:TRT focused on innovations for measuring context in ambulatory assessment studies of personality pathology. We'd love for you (yes, you) to submit a proposal (deadline Nov. 14th):

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 23d

Whoa—my book is up for pre-order!

𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData

The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit

The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity.

tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8

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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · Sep 10

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/...

Pseudo Effects: How Method Biases Can Produce Spurious Findings About Close Relationships - Samantha Joel, John K. Sakaluk, James J. Kim, Devinder Khera, Helena Yuchen Qin, Sarah C. E. Stanton, 2025

Research on interpersonal relationships frequently relies on accurate self-reporting across various relationship facets (e.g., conflict, trust, appreciation). Y...

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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259...

I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵

Assistant Professor in Social Psychology, Tenure-Track

The Department of Psychology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ, plans to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, with a start date of September 1, 2026. We seek a candidate...

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI).

Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · Sep 8

For our scientists.

By @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · Sep 6

Haha 🤣
Fair enough

Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · Sep 6

Get a session manager extension for your browser. You can categorize and save your tabs and open them on your new laptop!

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · Sep 5

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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Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social · Aug 18

Come be my colleague! The Department of Psychology at Princeton and @princetonneuro.bsky.social‬ are jointly searching for an Assistant Prof in Cog Neuro. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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Jackie Chen @jackiemchen.bsky.social · Sep 5

We're hiring TWO social psychologists (one health, one any area of social) at U of Utah! Pls share widely, and reach out if you have any questions! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/186...

Assistant Professor in Social Psychology

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Heejung Jung @jungheejung.bsky.social · Sep 4

New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!

N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!

🧵below

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Marcus Crede @marcuscrede.bsky.social · Sep 4

Come and work with me in beautiful Ames!
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Assistant Professor in Psychology

Position Title: Assistant Professor in Psychology Appointment Type: Faculty Job Description: Summary of Duties and Responsibilities: The Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sci...

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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you, Brett! 🥳

Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you, Kaitlyn!! 🙌

Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · Sep 3

Exciting news! I'll be working with the Center for Digital Thriving @digitalthriving.bsky.social as a fellow to develop an intervention aimed at improving the well-being of youth on social media. The intervention will train youth to engage skilfully with emotions on their feed using wise empathy.

Center for Digital Thriving @digitalthriving.bsky.social · Sep 3

🎉Meet our 2025 Digital Thriving Fellows! From reimagining empathy online to blending Pan-African community concepts with digital life, four bold projects share one goal: helping youth thrive in a tech-filled world. ✨ Learn more 👉 digitalthriving.gse.harvard.edu/fellows/

#DigitalThriving #YouthVoice

TeYRa AnDeRSOn Teyra’s project, MYA: IRL, is a youth-guided mini-series that captures the real complexities of growing up in a hyperconnected world. Co-created with teens, the series explores how digital life intersects with friendship, family, identity, and selfhood.

MiChaEL DaviS Michael’s project brings mindfulness and cyberpsychology into K–5 classrooms, developing tools that help kids build resilience, regulate emotions, and grow into mindful digital citizens.

GReGORY DePOW Greg’s project explores how young people can practice wise empathy to reshape their online experiences — engaging with others’ emotions in ways that foster joy, compassion, and authentic sharing rather than comparing.

ECY FeMi KinG Ecy’s project, Tech for Togetherness, is an interactive comic guide that blends Pan-African concepts with technology to offer youth fresh frameworks for community-centered digital thriving.

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