Three! THREE!
ggview::canvas() is the best thing I have learned in 2025!
Do you know any other cool interactive applications that illustrate some statistical concept?
#rstats #stats
@rpsychologist.com
rpsychologist.com/likelihood/
The early bird gets the worm, or in my case, finds a minute to update my reading guide on the role of theory in cognitive science: All the amazing suggestions that the Bluesky community have given me are now incorporated. Enjoy🪱🐤 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
🧵So, what works when teaching reading comprehension in the classroom? To a whole class?
I dedicated a entire chapter of my Phd thesis to exploring the literature on this.
In fact, we do not know a lot about what works when teachers teach, to whole classes.
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Join us in York! 12-month full-time *development-focused* psychology lectureship in our very friendly York St John team. Quant research methods too. Deadline 24th February. Please share: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL260/l...
🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update.
On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R
📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K...
#RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪
Calling #primary schools in/around #York! We've got a brand new project investigating how learning and memory for new words changes over development 🧠 We're looking for Year 4/5 classes to take part in game-like activities. Please email (psychology-learnlab@york.ac.uk) for more info & to discuss 🙂🎓
The York Open Research Awards are back for 2026! 🎉
The call for submissions is open until Monday 27 April 📆
We are keen to recognise and reward a diverse range of projects, and this year we are offering additional prizes to ensure that all researchers at York have the opportunity to participate...
New paper by PD student Bob Kapteijns (not on bsky) How do reading, math, and various cognitive skills "grow together" in early childhood? 🧠📚
osf.io/preprints/ps...
The 1.3.0 version of my {brms} + {tidyverse} translation of Kruschke's "Doing Bayesian data analysis" is up!
solomon.quarto.pub/dbda2
#rstats
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Short-term fellowships for 2026 at the University of Potsdam, Germany (linguistics and psychology): linguistlist.org/issues/36/38...
Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
*New paper* showing that adults’ morpheme knowledge in English is shaped by what readers can readily pick up from spelling, even when this means relying on cues that don’t accurately reflect morphological structure or overlooking informative exemplars
doi.org/10.3758/s134...
🚨 Funded PhD on ageing, social cognition & self/other differentiation! 🚨
🧠 Supervised by myself (University of St Andrews) & Prof. Louise Phillips (University of Aberdeen), the project includes EEG & eye-tracking training.
🌍 Open to UK + international students!
📅 Deadline: 15th Dec 2025
I'm surprised I only came across it now, but this review on improving communication in data visualization is excellent.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Two-group pre/post data are deceptively simple, and you could analyze them in many different ways, depending on your goals. Here are three blog posts on the topic:
solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2022-06...
solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2020-12...
solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2023-06...
The meeting programme for EPS London 2026 is now live on our website!
Please use the link below to see all the exciting planned presentations. 😄
eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/
The #cogsci of reading, shared by the people who actually do the research. This will be spectacular!
#ReconstructingReading
bsky.app/profile/jonn...
Are you thinking of starting a #PhD in 2026? 🎓 I'm keen to hear from potential applicants interested in #language, #learning, or #literacy! Visit the website to find out more about developing a proposal ahead of the January deadline sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...
A short piece on #CelebrityTraitors and defending yourself from accusations of lying. Very fun to write! Thanks to @uk.theconversation.com for editing and publishing. theconversation.com/the-celebrit...
We have excellent facilities available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social for incorporating different methods. We have a strong developmental group and school partnerships through @sunray-york.bsky.social, alongside a range of neuroimaging facilities (fMRI, MEG, sleep lab) at York Neuroimaging Centre.
Are you thinking of starting a #PhD in 2026? 🎓 I'm keen to hear from potential applicants interested in #language, #learning, or #literacy! Visit the website to find out more about developing a proposal ahead of the January deadline sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...
There are lots of opportunities @yorkpsychology.bsky.social for incorporating different methods! We have a strong developmental group and partnerships with local schools through @sunray-york.bsky.social, alongside a wide range of neuroimaging and sleep lab facilities.
Today is Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day #DLDDay! ~2 children in every classroom have significant difficulties with language, yet these often go undetected. Last year we recorded short videos to introduce DLD and put the spotlight on wellbeing youtube.com/playlist?lis...
I had the BEST time soaking up all the stats discussions at SMLP this year, can highly recommend.
This is a nice paper. It faces down a common problem: in order to explain to why a common approach cannot work even in theory, we first need to teach a framework in which regression is not magic that tells us which variables on right cause the variable on left. It's exhausting.
Anyway great paper!
Cat Davies reports to the UK covid-19 inquiry this week "early childhood .... was significantly disrupted...Normally, when one support system falters, families can turn to alternatives... the pandemic removed almost all options simultaneously". medium.com/@ahcresearch...
🧩Learning to talk & read isn’t just about effort or teaching—it’s shaped by biology, experience & context
🧠Our new review links genetics, neuroscience, psychology & education to show why some children find language or reading easier.
📖 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
🖼️genes→brain→cognition→behaviour 🧵👇
** New ** Seeking Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3 yrs) for ESRC project on skilled reading in Arabic. Based in my lab at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social and collaborating with @denisdrieghe.bsky.social (Soton) and Sami Boudelaa (UAE). Please share! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
