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Asst Prof UZH Psychology - quant methods, dynamic systems, human development, psychology. @CharlesDriverAU

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Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · Sep 25

G'day sky. I'm a quant. psychologist at Uni Zurich, interested in dynamic systems, thoughts here: cdriver.netlify.app/post/introto...
I maintain R packages ctsem (hierarchical continuous time dynamic systems) and bigIRT (IRT for 'big data'). #devpsy #AcademicSky #dataskyence #PsychSci

Dynamic Systems Modeling in Psychology | Charles Driver

What is a dynamic system? Why are they interesting? How do we take bits of the bumbling buzzing confusion around us and pack them into a statistical model of change to make nuanced predictions and tes...

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Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 3h

Would be interesting to see perspectives on this by age. Benefiting from pre entshittification social media was really quite nice sometimes.

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 PhD/Postdoc alert 👇

If you are interested in doing a PhD/Postdoc in computational psychiatry (starting Sept 2026), do get in touch by October 4th at [email protected] :)

Any inquiries are welcome. To apply, please attach your CV, half page motivation and half page research statements.

Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫

I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏

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Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 9d

Intervening centrally should be great if you can really intervene and hold it there. But is the view that symptom networks are like social networks (influence flows equally in both directions) still a thing? When I read this it mostly makes it clear how differently I think of a mental disorder.

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Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 13d

#4 Relations between depression and self esteem across 3 different time scales / datasets, with @peterhaehner.bsky.social et al. Besides the multiple time scales, extending VARish models to cross-effects that influence over different time scale is unusual I think.

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Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 13d

#3 Examining links between and within social and cognitive development, and how these differ with behaviour problems. Some big moderated growth + fluctuations models. With @mkdeserno.bsky.social et al.

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Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 13d

#2 "Personality functioning as generalized correlated changes in personality traits" -- basically a large factor model over time with some common factor nuance. With @chopwood.bsky.social et al.

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Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 13d

Prepping for @dgps.bsky.social Methods, few recent papers pushing ctsem and dynamic models in interesting directions

#1 Developmental changes in twin cognitive correlation (ACE) across age, test instrument, zygosity, with @evangiangrande.bsky.social @ent3c.bsky.social et al

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Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 20d

Pretty much everything nice requires some kind of compromise though. The tricky question is how much, when, etc. Independence is great but some vague social / institutional regularisation is not necessarily terrible either.

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MC Stan @mc-stan.org · 21d

MC Stan is here! Follow for the latest Stan news, and tag if you want us to repost your posts about new papers, packages, courses, etc. about Stan

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Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · Sep 4

Perhaps a touch dreamy? but interesting and hopeful thread...

Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · Sep 4

On reflection, this is a really magical time to be on Bluesky. A quiet period before some important dynamics start to happen. I think things will start to change here because of things happening outside Bluesky and the things happening under Bluesky.

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · Sep 3

Actually it was totally wrong because I forgot factor() aha. might look again tomorrow.

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · Sep 3

p value of the treatment effect, for whatever it's worth given p value and random effects discussions...

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · Sep 3

So if we had a site scale with a few million options, we could then treat it as a fixed effect / ignore it? For me the only justification I understand is the 'target of inference': estimating the specific effect of site / sex / colour etc? Then 'maybe' fixed effects. Otherwise partial/full pool.

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · Sep 3

Why are they not a random sample? Why does that matter?

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · Sep 3

Are you arguing they shouldn't pool across sites (ie use dummy site covariates) or they should ignore clustering? If the latter -- yeah people do seem very sensitive to very specific forms of clustering, but I don't really see the harm either...

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · Aug 26

Third-party algorithmic feeds on Bluesky are about to become a lot more interesting and powerful 👀

hailey @hailey.at · Aug 26

merged! thanks @gracekind.net

Enable show less / more buttons for third party feeds by kindgracekind · Pull Request #8672 · bluesky-social/social-app

Addresses #7285 by setting feedfeedBack.enabled when a feed generator has acceptsInteractions: true. Adds a enabledInteractions array to filter out passive actions from third-party feeds, since the...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Aug 21

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357

Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

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Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thanks! Yes I fuzzily understood this but knowledge chiming in is great :)

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · Aug 21

Ok. I can go home this evening.

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · Aug 21

This is somehow a foreseeable problem with minimal working examples right? My actual document / problem is somewhat grander in scale ;)

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Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · Aug 21

Were there long term experiments on smoking? Faxing my historical ethics board already. Yes, agree, smoking is a bit easier, but not easy still.

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Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · Aug 21

I've tried lots of fvextra / spverbatim stuff, that solution only wraps the code chunk, the tricky part seems to be the R output. options(width=xx) succeeds in wrapping some output but not character strings (containing white spaces). And, hi back! :) :)

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · Aug 21

The world would be a better place if we never figured out the whole smoking causes cancer thing eh?

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lillyshanahan.bsky.social @lillyshanahan.bsky.social · Aug 21

Applications still open for the professorship in the Sociology of Child and Adolescent Development 100 % at University of Zurich!

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UZH: Professorship in the Sociology of Child and Adolescent Development

The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in the sociology of child and adolescent development, starting on 1 February 2027. The future holder of the position will be affiliate...

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Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · Aug 21

dear @quarto.org using friends, lost too much time on this already and I'm very stubborn please save me:

---
title: "wrap text"
format: pdf
---

```{r}
print("I just want this text to wrap to a new line I just want this text to wrap to a new line I just want this text to wrap to a new line ")
```

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