Angela Staples

Dr. Joanne Freeman Professor Joanne Freeman is an award-winning historian who studies the politics and culture of America's past to better understand our history as a nation, and the roads and choices that have led us t...

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A link to the pre-recorded episode of my podcast History Matters from my YouTube channel.

History is HOWLING at us re: the meaning & threat inherent in censoring criticism.

My YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@joannefreem...

The episode: On Silencing Opposition
youtu.be/dRgjGsBYwxo?...

We're doing a shorter series ReproducibiliTea JC seminars this semester. The open science focus has gradually changed towards "methods stuff" more generally (but it's a fuzzy line of course). The participants aren't meta-science researchers so I try to keep it broad.

For those interested, here is a link to a new power paper:

Hancock, G. R., & Feng, Y. (2026). nmax and the quest to
restore caution, integrity, and practicality to the sample size planning process. Psychological Methods.

yifengquant.github.io/Publications...

Poetically thoughtful and deeply moving

How often do we study the ripples while ignoring the stone tossed in the water?

A quick, accessible lesson on paired t-tests, featuring summer activities that people over 45 (me!) don't like. Blog teaching statistics funny examples how to teach statistics and research methods engaging modern memorable

Check out this new blog post. YouGov measured summer activities that everyone loves, or just younguns love. This accessible example explains paired t-tests w sig and non-sig differences. notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-qu...

This sounds like a blast

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

Beautiful

I love that you painted the inside. I’m just imagining how delightful it would be to see the pattern emerge as you sip a warm drink on a chilly day

Mahmoud Khalil, a legal U.S. resident, has been held in an ICE detention center for over a month but has still not been charged with a crime.

#statsmeme

For consideration, I submit: Things Statisticians Claim to Hate But Secretly Love

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Contrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be. – Francois Jacob
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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@hcrichardson.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social Heather Cox Richardson and Jasmine Crockett together. Trump began implementing Project 2025 on his first day back in office. I can't imagine two more informed and empowering women to show us how to fight it. Sign up at social.redwine.blue/s/qg1zPfLs

OK I had announced this before but forgot to say that Andrew Gelman would be joining Nancy Cartwright and myself as well. Short idea talks, lots of panel discussion and Q&A.

Join us on April 25th to discuss RCTs, replications, and scientific inference.

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Hey folks! I'll be teaching two workshops in May on Structural Equation Modeling!

One course is introductory (May 7-9): smart-workshops.com/intro-sem-info

The other is on longitudinal models (May 14-16): smart-workshops.com/long-sem-info

🙏Please RT and share! 🙏

Let met tell you more...

I've come across a few great resources lately for job seekers (especially those in the education/social science research space). Just thought I would drop them here for anyone who is looking. ☀️

1. www.purposephilcareer.com
2. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Last 3 random songs feel a bit too on the nose

A little bit off - Five Finger Death Punch

Everyday people - Sly & The Family Stone

Stressed out - twenty one pilots

As an institution of opportunity, the DEIA organizations are true partners in helping students achieve their degrees

Proud to be an Eagle

Reviewer notes: That’s a very nice mediation analysis you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it. Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words!

If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance.

www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

🚀Very excited to finally see our paper on nonsignificance misinterpretations published! 📈
Together, @smurphee.bsky.social, Aurelio Fernández, Linda Reimann and I investigated the prevalence of "p > .05 = absence of an effect" interpretations. (1/4)
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

You Are Going to Have to Tell Them the Truth Speaking in the Heartland

When I looked out across the room, I saw several women wiping their eyes. They were silently crying while listening to me speak. Now, I can hype up a crowd, but I have never induced such raw emotion in my life.

I don’t think it had much to do with me… open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Just a reminder for anyone who receives SPSS, Stata, or SAS files but does not have licenses for these programs (🙋), you can import any of these files into #rstats and work them! My favorite package for working with these files is {haven}.
haven.tidyverse.org

Defense Against Dishonest Charts This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims

flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

An image of the 'Hang in There' poster from Severance, season 2. Dylan G. is seen with arms extended, holding the overtime contingency switches.

The perfect message for our times. Not only to 'hang in there', but to subvert the powers that be while doing so.

I Have Written You A Book On Forensic Metascience Use it to cause trouble

Friends, I have written you a book on forensic metascience.

It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day.

If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all.

open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...

An advertisement for 2/7/25 webinar with Jessica Hartnett

Hi! I'm giving a free talk on Friday. I'll be sharing some easy-to-implement, engaging ideas for teaching stats. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Rocky Mountain Methodology Academy program

Jessica Flake @jkflake.bsky.social will teach you how to measure rather than just schmeasure in "Scale Development and Psychometrics" during Rocky Mountain Methodology Academy in Calgary, July 21-22, 2025. A trip to Banff is included (while space is available). See haskayne.ucalgary.ca/ccram/academy

Introducing PowerLMM.js!

A new tool for power analysis of longitudinal linear mixed-effects models (LMMs) – with support for missing data, plus non-inferiority and equivalence tests.

powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com

Would really appreciate your feedback as I refine this app! Details below 🧵👇

I just learned about Infinite Craft

I see a lot of poor decisions in the near future