Mattan S. Ben-Shachar 🎗️🇮🇱🇺🇦
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Statistics lecturer | Freelance statistical consultant & research analyst | #rstats dev @easystats.github.io home.msbstats.info (He/Him)
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1k followers! Calls for a re-introduction:

Statistics lecturer, freelance stats consultant, & #rstats dev @easystats.bsky.social 📊

I try to help social scientists make better inferences from their data & communicate their findings 👨‍🏫

Hope to bring the #stats twitter/R community vibes over to bsky!
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There was an excellent tweet years ago that I can't find, someone announced their departure:

"I'm leaving academia to do the things I love most: research and teaching"
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I think that in that regard, perhaps there's a difference between """applied""" and """pure science""" research?
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Interestingly, like Mike, I also still live in the academic (or academia adjacent) space doing what I really like - teaching!
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This seems to echo a lot of the fears I had when I decided not to pursue an academic career.

Glad I wasn't off.
But also sad I wasn't off.
mikexcohen.bsky.social
Why I left academia and neuroscience.

This post on Substack has gained a lot of traction. I think many people identify with it.
(Most of my posts are technical tutorials on machine-learning and LLM-mechanisms.)
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
Why I left academia and neuroscience
Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.
mikexcohen.substack.com
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mikexcohen.bsky.social
Why I left academia and neuroscience.

This post on Substack has gained a lot of traction. I think many people identify with it.
(Most of my posts are technical tutorials on machine-learning and LLM-mechanisms.)
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
Why I left academia and neuroscience
Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.
mikexcohen.substack.com
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konsta.happonen.eu
Relatedly, ages ago @betanalpha.bsky.social wrote "Remember that using Bayes' Theorem doesn't make you a Bayesian. Quantifying uncertainty with probability makes you a Bayesian". I still think about this regularly.
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mzloteanu.bsky.social
#statstab #432 PsychOpen Gold

Thoughts: instead of submitting to greedy and unhelpful publishers, try this list of fully open and free journals in psychology.

#OpenScience #openaccess #apcs #goldaccess #pedagogy

psychopen.eu
PsychOpen GOLD: Open Access Publishing
We are a Diamond Open Access platform for psychology research. Peer-reviewed, free-to-read journals with no publication fees, promoting open science.
psychopen.eu
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Running, hanging out here.
I should read things unrelated to work...
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Idk, it's still an estimate of the conditional sd across (pooled? What is language?) all sub populations captured by the model. I agree this is a bad idea in terms of "what standardized effect size is interesting to inspect".
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I feel like that's the "extension" part of what I said. Are we not talking about the same thing?
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The (pooled) sd in Cohen's d can also be thought of as the residual sd when predicting y ~ group.

Compare:
m <- lm(mpg ~ am, data = mtcars)
coef(m)[2] / sigma(m)

effectsize::cohens_d(mpg ~ am, data = mtcars)
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3. Haven't read it, but this might make his rules for selecting ROPEs streamlined between gaussian and non gaussian models.
We had quite a lengthy discussion about this in bayestestR, but I can't seem to find that thread now.
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1. This is an extension of theogic behind Cohen's d (doesn't make it good).

2. This is also the parameterization in the popular BayesFactor package (and by extention JASP/jamovi) which has been criticized:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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My sociology professor used this... 10 years ago 🫥
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I recall (circa 2015) connecting a MacBook to a projector with 2 adapters, all sandwiched between 3 books so it wouldn't move.
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...
Causal inference interest group, supported by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies

Seminar series
20th October 2025, 3pm BST (UTC+1)

"Making rigorous causal inference more mainstream"
Julia Rohrer, Leipzig University

Sign up to attend at tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRohrer
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I don't think I have that code anymore. But anyone who wants is free to use with attribution, sure (:
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Chelsea, you can't scare us like that - I thought something was wrong with the function!