Today Dominic Packer & @jayvanbavel.bsky.social republished @minzlicht.bsky.social's post about "The Downfall of Stereotype Threat" in their widely-read The Power Of Us newsletter. I felt a certain way about that & the evidence presented there & thought I'd respond:
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We find that regions with more Ku Klux Klan activity in the 1920s show higher levels of modern White Supremacist activity but, unexpectedly, lower levels of modern implicit and explicit racial bias
#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch
New by @maxprimbs.bsky.social et al.
Still trying to get my head around the findings, a bit of a head-scratcher
I love this type of research question & research design, so I'll be sure to dig in.
4-panel cartoon of 2 people and a dog: Panel 1: Person in green shirt looks apprehensively at the dog and asks the person in blue shirt "Does your dog bite?" Panel 2: Person in blue shirt replies "No, but it can hurt you in other ways." Panel 3: in an apparent demonstration of how the dog can hurt you without biting, the dog says to the green shirted person: "Just because you can draw a DAG does not mean that the relationships depicted are causal." Panel 4: the green shirted person is crying while the blue shirted person and dog look on.
hey @pwgtennant.bsky.social - thanks for your delightful talk at BU today on "Have DAGs Fulfilled their Promise in Epidemiology and Health Research?"
One of my fav bits:
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The leftmost graph here is a crossover interaction. From journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
π¨ New paper! Think of a place you feel deeply attached to. When you're in that place, do you feel like your life is more meaningful? New work from @ashleykrause.bsky.social suggests you probably do!
Just accepted at Journal of Environmental Psychology, we find places can give our life meaning π§΅
#AcademicSky
I spend 1/2 my time asking people to peer review more, & other 1/2 complaining that filthy rich publishers should pay for our labour
These aren't incompatible complaints
Scientists DO need to review more (especially if publishing) Publishers DO need to pay reviewers
New blog post about the age-period-cohort identification problem!
In which, for the first time ever, I ask "What's the mechanism?" and also suggest that sometimes you may actually *not* be interested in causal inference.
www.the100.ci/2026/02/13/o...
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Evidence accumulation models, Hierarchical Bayes, Agent-based models, NLP, etc.
Interested in formal theorizing!
Postdoc position!
Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026.
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I don't even need the Email anymore to know who that is :D
*sweating*
Do I want to save changes to my dataset???? Did I make changes to my dataset?????
Basic questions like "how many participants are in the dataset?" can produce surprisingly different answers between analysts.
Results from students in my class in data wrangling in tidyverse, who are good at wrangling but still have to make semi-subjective choices:
Right after the support for spatial regressions please π₯Ί
Whatβs a multiverse good for anyway? Julia M. Rohrer, Jessica Hullman, and Andrew Gelman Multiverse analysis has become a fairly popular approach, as indicated by the present special issue on the matter. Here, we take one step back and ask why one would conduct a multiverse analysis in the first place. We discuss various ways in which a multiverse may be employed β as a tool for reflection and critique, as a persuasive tool, as a serious inferential tool β as well as potential problems that arise depending on the specific purpose. For example, it fails as a persuasive tool when researchers disagree about which variations should be included in the analysis, and it fails as a serious inferential tool when the included analyses do not target a coherent estimand. Then, we take yet another step back and ask what the multiverse discourse has been good for and whether any broader lessons can be drawn. Ultimately, we conclude that the multiverse does remain a valuable tool; however, we urge against taking it too seriously.
New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?>
With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social
juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...
We're pleased to announce Dr Charlotte Pennington @drcpennington.bsky.social, author of "A Studentβs Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis to Reform Psychology", will be a keynote speaker at the UKRN conference in July 2026!
#ukrn2026joinus #OpenResearch #Research
For a weekly seminar class, I'm looking for pairings of psych popularization with scholarly take-downs of the underlying research. I want students to see examples of how shoddy research gets hyped.
New paper led by Kelsey Neuenswander looking at perceptual exposure to fat/thin bodies and anti-fat attitudes.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Causion interface showing a front-door DAG
Played around with Causion by @isager.bsky.social
It's an impressive teaching tool for causal inference... and it also really pretty. Amazing color scheme and slick interface.
Shown below a demonstration of an extended front-door DAG in Causion.
Causal Inference 101 - Option 1: Run an experiment - Option 2: Give up -- include covariates, maybe? -- or maybe use longitudinal data???
This nicely maps onto this slide which I like to use
New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....
Self-report data is always biased! To truly find out how they think we need to have them do a Significant/Null-result Publish/Not Publish IAT ;)
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AMPPS is a participating journal for the Editorial Fellowships. A great opportunity to get hands-on editorial experience. Please apply and RT. Excited to potentially work with you.
Super excited to see that somebody finally wrote about this π₯³
If you do research about research, you really need causal thinking (just like when you do research about anything else really).
