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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jul 6

Have you considered using LLMs to code open-ended survey responses?

This looks like a must read for you!

"An Empirical Investigation into the Utility of Large Language Models in Open-Ended Survey Data Categorization"

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, always annoyed with categorization of parenting into these terms which are generally meant to be negative and as you noted always from a certain SES group. What do we expect from a science that is constructed on convenience samples?

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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 1d

Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.

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UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social · 7d

Along with a brand new website - src.isr.umich.edu - we are launching a quarterly newsletter that will share Survey Research Center research, media mentions, and publications. Sign up here: myumi.ch/G2pXR

Serving the Public Interest: Insights & Innovations into the Human Lifespan.

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UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social · 1d

Our first issue of Serving the Public Interest: Insights & Innovations into the Human Lifetime is out! myumi.ch/NrR5M

This is our new quarterly newsletter that will share Survey Research Center research, media mentions, and publications. Sign up here: myumi.ch/G2pXR

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DTU Cryosphere group @dtucryo.bsky.social · 5d

Antarctica is undergoing “greenlandification,” with ice loss processes mirroring Greenland ❄️🌍 New paper out in Nature Geoscience with DTU Space contributions on key signs: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #ClimateChange #Antarctica #Greenlandification

The Greenlandification of Antarctica - Nature Geoscience

Climate and ice sheet processes in Antarctica increasingly reflect those observed earlier in Greenland. Applying process insights from Greenland can improve projections of future Antarctic ice and climate behaviour.

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

A headline-grabbing study touting apple cider vinegar for weight loss has been retracted. Other claims for the internet-famous remedy are also under fire.

How apple cider vinegar cured everything — until it didn't

A headline-grabbing study touting apple cider vinegar for weight loss has been retracted. Other claims for the internet-famous remedy are also under fire.

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 2d

In most of what psych studies, it is hard to imagine where such an assumption would be true. This leads to research that is bias and does little to understand the populations we study.

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 2d

Psych uses convenience samples and often doesn’t collect the necessary data to understand the bias in their sample. Why no training? This is due to this belief in universal psychological phenomenon. If you find it in one sample, it is true for everyone

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 2d

Psychology has a generalizability problem and it is harmful at multiple levels for the science. This stems from a few issues. There is no training in how to effectively create a sampling strategy in order to generalize.

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 2d

What Psychology doesn’t understand about sampling and selection bias-hurts our science and what we can offer to our communities from our science. This paper tries to provide some way to address some of these concerns.

Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 8d

October's Editor's Choice:

Improving generalizability of developmental research through increased use of homogeneous convenience samples: A Monte Carlo simulation.

Jager, Xia, Putnick, & Bornstein

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Nicholas Gibson @njsgibson.bsky.social · 7d

If you're a data scientist interested in a full-time or part-time role working with developmental psychologists on cross-cultural data from parents and children, check out this position with the Developing Belief Network. Application review begins October 15, 2025. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Position: Full-Time Data Scientist, Developing Belief Network

Position: Full-Time Data Scientist, Developing Belief Network Description: We are looking for a full-time data scientist to join the Developing Belief Network, a global team of psychologists studying...

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Robin Blythe @rbly.bsky.social · 3d

Love this paper by Hinne doi.org/10.1177/2515... but curious why BMA isn't compatible with competing theories: "BMA is less useful when...each candidate model may represent a different theory of a physical process...the models are not a nuisance factor; they are the focus of the analysis." #statsky

A Conceptual Introduction to Bayesian Model Averaging - Max Hinne, Quentin F. Gronau, Don van den Bergh, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, 2020

Many statistical scenarios initially involve several candidate models that describe the data-generating process. Analysis often proceeds by first selecting the ...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Embrace autumn! 20 reasons to be cheerful – from red wine to sensational star-gazing

From light festivals and Bonfire Night to spectacular forest walks and mushroom foraging, there’s plenty to enjoy. Or if you’d rather stay in, sip mulled wine as you take in a fantastic season of TV

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 4d

My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
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LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology

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Nuffield Trust @nuffieldtrust.org.uk · 3d

The new 10 Year Health Plan for England promises to shift more care from hospitals into the community, but history shows how hard this ambition is to deliver.

Our research explores lessons from Denmark and Ireland, two countries pursuing bold reforms to rebalance care.

From hospital to community: International lessons on moving care closer to home

The new 10 Year Health Plan for England promises to shift more care from hospitals into the community, but history shows how hard this ambition is to deliver. This new report looks to Denmark and…

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Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 3d

You know how chocolate and peanut butter are two great tastes that taste great together?

This is kinda like that, but for #healthpolicy, specifically explaining the current health insurance subsidy cliff.

Thanks, @citizencohn.bsky.social & @pkrugman.bsky.social !

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Talking With Jonathan Cohn

The coming premium apocalypse, the shutdown, and more

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Katie Gates @kgates.bsky.social · 4d

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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UC Berkeley School of Education @berkeleyeducation.bsky.social · 4d

We're hiring! Assistant Professor — Disparities and Education Policy. This faculty position is for someone whose scholarship addresses the goals of the Education Policy Cluster of the @obi-belonging.bsky.social. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04211

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AERA TEPSig (Teaching Educational Psychology SIG) @aeratepsig.bsky.social · 5d

#edpsychjobs

The Educational Psychology program at the University of New Mexico is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognition and Learning!

Link to posting: unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology: Cognition and Learning

University of New Mexico's College of Education and Human SciencesAssistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Educational PsychologyStarting in August 2026T...

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Don Lynam @drlynam.bsky.social · 5d

Pretty excited about this one. In this paper, we discuss the replication/credibility crisis, the factors that contribute to it, and clinical psychology's slow (really slow) progress in dealing with it. We offer a competency-based fraemwork for improving our training of future scholars.
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 6d

The Open Science Movement and Clinical Psychology Training: Rigorous Science is Transparent Science: https://osf.io/s46wd

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 5d

@psychscience.bsky.social Submission site for Barcelona 2026 opens Oct. 30th!!! Join us in Spain for the first APS to be held outside the U.S. Many new ways to interact and to share psychological research being done around the world. www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...

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rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · 7d

Gather round, all those bayes curious, pragmatic, committed or indifferent, for an elegant and flexible way to approach reliability estimation using bayesian measurement models! All thoughts and ideas welcome

Giacomo Bignardi @bignardi.bsky.social · 7d

New preprint with @rogierk.bsky.social @paulbuerkner.com - we introduce "relative measurement uncertainty" - a reliability estimation method that's applicable across a broad class of Bayesian measurement models (e.g., generative-, computational- and item response theory-models osf.io/h54k8

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6d

Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 6d

📢How can APS be the society that is international, interdisciplinary, and interesting to you as a scientist? We want to hear from you. 🫵https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/aps-todays-world.html #PsychSciSky #DevPsych #PsychSci

APS in Today’s World

"If APS is to thrive, we must come to terms with each of these issues," writes APS President James W. Pennebaker in his second presidential column.

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