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assoc. prof of psychology at uc riverside • perception, action, and development • data science, rstats, julia, machine learning • he/him

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Around that age our son started referring to things as "ham pink" or "hammish white"

19.04.2025 22:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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An Accurate Organizational Chart of Your University In accordance with our informal tradition of updating documents every thirty years, whether they need it or not, our university is pleased to prese...

"We're pleased to present this updated org chart that captures our system of governance (which management scientists term “Kafkaesque bureaucracy meets Lord of the Files,” though no one understands these references since we cut our literature requirements)."

04.02.2025 19:27 👍 218 🔁 65 💬 5 📌 30

I can still imagine the sound of those doors opening on mouse over

03.02.2025 05:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is the same rationale for rejecting AI for legal work. It’s through engaging with the text of the law that the reasoning occurs. You cannot avoid the work.

01.02.2025 05:30 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

As we watch all mention of diversity actively get scrubbed from the NIH website in real time it's important to know that, we were not taking over anything, we were just trying to exist.
- Only 2% of NIH R01 grants are awarded to Black investigators.
The goal is total erasure/elimination.

30.01.2025 20:31 👍 867 🔁 269 💬 19 📌 6
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I haven't really used #rstats case_match before, but I think I'll start using it more. It's a nice little time saver and reduces repetition.

30.01.2025 20:26 👍 91 🔁 10 💬 9 📌 2

We just learned that our insurance is awful. We do not have enough coverage to rebuild and we do not have any coverage at all for temporary housing. So essentially, we have a mortgage and no home. Housing is outrageously expensive in Los Angeles. So I’m bumping this fundraiser again. Please share ❤️

11.01.2025 22:45 👍 2 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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Will you keep your New Year’s resolutions? A UC Riverside psychologist shares his thoughts on how to make them last

Some tips for making and keeping New Year's resolutions! @ucriverside.bsky.social
news.ucr.edu/articles/202...

07.01.2025 00:53 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Tip from a journal editor: if you are late on a review, ask for an extension so we know when to expect it and so we can adjust those annoying auto reminders. I almost always would rather have a late review than no review.

04.01.2025 18:06 👍 34 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 4

Best description of academia I've heard: it's a pie eating contest, where the prize is more pie

04.01.2025 22:06 👍 27 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 4
Perception, Action, and Development Lab

I got sick of updating multiple things so my lab website (in Quarto) renders my CV to both html and PDF. Quarto allows multiple output formats in the YAML. I keep my pubs in a csv to pull for a pubs page and the CV so that there's only 1 place to update. Padlab.ucr.edu

03.01.2025 03:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Once I had to use Adobe acrobat pro to convert PDF to word for a submission. It worked surprisingly well for a final step but it's not something I'd want to make a habit of. Now I will usually pick RMarkdown or Quarto since they can output to LaTeX PDF or Word from the same source

15.12.2024 20:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dear academics

We could dramatically reduce our administrative workload if we all just agreed not to ask for reference letters until we made our list of finalists.

This is massive collective action problem has already been solved by…

*checks notes*

…every other industry on earth.

14.12.2024 15:00 👍 627 🔁 124 💬 21 📌 22

Who is for abolishing grad app letters of rec at the point of application? Would it be so bad if letters were requested AFTER candidates were shortlisted? If we do this at UCSD who will join us?

14.12.2024 14:46 👍 184 🔁 17 💬 27 📌 10
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Implementing mobile eye tracking in psychological research: A practical guide - Behavior Research Methods Eye tracking provides direct, temporally and spatially sensitive measures of eye gaze. It can capture visual attention patterns from infancy through adulthood. However, commonly used screen-based eye ...

Now out! Jessie Fu led a practical guide for mobile eye tracking. We present approaches across the lifespan, but have good info for work with infants & kids.

link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Implementing mobile eye tracking in psychological research: A practical guide
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10.09.2024 18:51 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

I just shared with two fantastic outgoing staff members. One has been running ema studies in my lab for the last two years!

29.05.2024 02:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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University of California, Riverside - Jobs UCR is hiring for this great opportunity!

I am looking for a lab manager for the brand-new Emotional Lives lab (starting this Fall) at UC Riverside. Sharing would be much appreciated :) jobsportal.ucr.edu/jobs/33028489

28.05.2024 14:12 👍 17 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0

The days of upgradeable RAM!

29.03.2024 03:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

interested in developmental applications of machine learning/computer vision? we are hosting a workshop at the @infantstudies.bsky.social meeting in Glasgow and launching a new listserv: padlab.ucr.edu/posts/2024-0...

21.03.2024 15:47 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Come check out UCR PADLAB members presenting at #CDS2024 in Pasadena! Full posters here: padlab.ucr.edu/posts/2024-0...

20.03.2024 20:22 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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CDS 2024: Hidden Curriculum

Going to CDS 2024? Consider attending the Hidden Curriculum pre-conf! @tissyana.bsky.social and I are fortunate to be joined by a *fantastic* group of invited speakers who are committed to democratizing info. You can learn more about the pre-conf here: tinyurl.com/CDS-HCpreconf 1/4

17.01.2024 15:44 👍 18 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
Learning, Development, and Rehabilitation Laboratory – USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical...

My lab (sites.usc.edu/ldrlab/) is recruiting a 32 hr/wk lab technician. Great opportunity for new grads interested in infant development or pediatrics and looking for research experience! View details and apply here usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange... or contact me for more information. #DevSci

27.11.2023 23:00 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

(to the tune of Eleanor Rigby)

Monthly expenses
Fill in the form and upload your receipt to Concur
Science goes brrr

26.11.2023 22:28 👍 40 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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famous moments in psychology / cog-sci as lego sets, a thread.

1. Pavlov's dogs.

20.11.2023 15:08 👍 695 🔁 293 💬 17 📌 56

this was using formr.org which we found difficult to get working with SMS texting. in current work we're using Expiwell in some projects and homebaked stuff with REDCap in others. i've been meaning to give Inclivio another try, it looks great

14.11.2023 20:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Perception, Action, and Development Lab - Article in press Longitudinal relations between independent walking, body position, and object experiences in home life

excited to share that our paper on 10-13 month olds' everyday body position, restraint, and object holding (measured via EMA) was accepted in developmental psych. the transition to independent walking predicts changes in some activities and not others: padlab.ucr.edu/posts/2023-1....

14.11.2023 20:08 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Come join our fantastic research community at UCRiverside! The Computational Cognitive and Neural Sciences lab is recruiting at all levels. Check out our research at www.ballardlab.org

08.11.2023 15:08 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1

Do I understand how hashtags work on this website yet? No I don't.

TLDR: I am hiring for a researcher/community-focused role working on two open source projects in psychology!

#openscience #opensci #metasci #psychscisky #cogsci #devsci #cogdev #opendata #psychjobs #neurojobs

03.11.2023 14:51 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks! I knew I forgot something

03.11.2023 16:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Issue 59, Volume 11 is now out for Developmental Psychology!

psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...

Papers :
-2023 Boyd McCandless Awardees
-EF across developmental domains
-Face Processing
-Racial Socialization
-Parent-Child Conversations

👶🧠 #devsci #DevPsy #devpsych #devsky #DevCogNeuro

03.11.2023 14:03 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0