Pam Davis-Kean, PhD

Why Boys Are Behind in Reading at Every Age

YPL's research, led by @catherineasher.bsky.social about the impact of intensive, small-group literacy tutoring was referenced in this article in @nytimes.com.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

More about the study: youthpolicylab.umich.edu/research-pro...

Deal struck to keep government funded, Trump and Democrats say The agreement would allow for passage of full-year funding for most federal agencies while extending DHS for two weeks.

Good news! www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Introducing the Theory-Based Predictions in Social Science Preregistration Template: Q&A with Andrew Cesare Miller Interview with Andrew Cesare Miller, developer of the new Theory-Based Predictions in Social Science preregistration template on the Open Science Framework (OSF).

Developed by political scientist Andrew Cesare Miller & now available on OSF, the new Theory-Based Predictions in Social Science template helps researchers document theories, variables, outcomes, & conditions—making predictions transparent & testable.

Learn more in our Q&A:

Excited to share this wonderful video of the amazing people I work with. The Survey Resesrch Center (SRC) @umich.edu is a vibrant community of scholars and staff with 141 faculty, 345 staff, and over 300 interviewers across the U.S. #WeAreSRC @um-src.bsky.social

The Challenger shuttle disaster that killed 7 crew members was 40 years ago. What happened and how they're being remembered. The diverse 7-member crew included a teacher who was going to teach lessons from space.

Forty years ago, today, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in mid air after being launched, killing all 7 crew members; one was a school teacher. It was a sad day for space travel & history.
www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

YouTube video by Survey Research Center, University of Michigan Coffee with LCD

January's Coffee and Donuts with the SRC Director was hosted by the #LifeCourseDevelopment program. Noah Webster chatted with SRC director @umpamdk.bsky.social chatted about the work LCD does and how important all social ties are to healthy aging youtu.be/1GX_M-dQY-s?...

The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...

Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.

One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.

THREAD 🧵

APS Editorial Fellowship Program: Call for Applications Deadline: February 6, 2026APS is pleased to announce the application process for the next cohort of the Editorial Fellowship Program (EFP) is now open. This program aims to increase opportunities for ...

Applications for APS's Editorial Fellowship Program (EFP) Due February 6! #AcademicSky

📝 Evaluate submitted manuscripts
🔍 Select and invite reviewers
🤝 Receive mentorship across five APS journals
💵 US $1,000 stipend

www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies Conference invites submissions from all researchers using @clscohorts.bsky.social data.

Conference: 22–23 September. Submissions by: 8 April. cls.ucl.ac.uk/events/cls-c...

It's not unheard of to find errors in your data after publishing it. While it's not fun when this happens, this one-pager can help guide you through the process of updating data, code, and publications when errors are found.
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SRC director, @umpamdk.bsky.social, says, "This generous support allows us to continue to address some of the most pressing research questions of our time."

Enhancing Transparency and Replicability in Entrepreneurship Research with Preregistrations, Registered Reports, and Registered Revisions: A Call for Papers

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Ultimately, our findings suggest that without detailed information on specific procedures and scoring methods, results from the Iowa Gambling Task are essentially uninterpretable.

For more info, check out our preprint 👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

How many versions of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) exist? And how much does this affect research using the IGT? More than you might think. 🧵

The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement.

In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99.

At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.

Measuring the State of Open Science in Transportation Using Large Language Models ArXiv link for Measuring the State of Open Science in Transportation Using Large Language Models

A study finds only 5% of transportation research papers share code and 4% share data, underscoring the need for open science. Using Large Language Models, researchers created a pipeline to track data availability, boosting transparency in transportation research. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14429

White House taps a new chief statistician Stuart Levenbach, Trump’s former CFPB nominee, is now the government's top statistics official. He’s the third person in the role under Trump.

Dr. Stuart Levenbach appointed chief statistician of the US. #statsky #rstats #fedstats

Should I allow my direct effect to be moderated? A Blog Companion to “How Does Model (Mis)Specification Impact Statistical Power, Type I Error Rate, and Parameter Bias in Moderated Mediation” by Jessica L. Fossum, Amanda Kay Montoya, and Samantha An...

New blog! Have you ever wondered whether you should allow your direct effect to be moderated in a conditional process analysis? @jessicalfossum.bsky.social's recently accepted paper speaks to this exact issue, and much more! www.akmontoya.com/post/should-...

This paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times. Wall Street execs, top govt officials, and even a former U.S. Vice President have all referenced it. It’s fatally flawed, and the scholarly community refuses to do anything about it.
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/22/a...

A read of @retractionwatch.com @statmodeling.bsky.social has me thinking that we need to stop developing egos in our science, and start developing scientists.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

- 1984, George Orwell

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social um_psychology @um-src.bsky.social affiliates Toni C. Antonucci Kristine J. Ajrouch Laura Beth Zahodne

Ethnic Disparities in Physical, Mental, and Cognitive Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Snapshot of Metro-Detroit

myumi.ch/G2JzP

@forrt.bsky.social and the Münster Center for Open Science are organizing a Love Replications Week this year. Get in touch if you would like to contribute with tutorials, case studies, or discussions surrounding #reproductions and #replications! The full program will be announced soon!

Junior Professional Researcher Program Overview The Junior Professional Researcher (JPR) Program is a unique opportunity for recent college graduates from backgrounds underrepresented in research to launch a career in the social sciences a...

@umisr.bsky.social is now accepting applications for the 2026 Junior Professional Researcher Program cohort.

JPRP is a two-year paid gig for recent college grads who are considering a career in social science research.

isr.umich.edu/training-opp...

Services like RegCheck are extremely promising for moving norms forward from doing open science practices to doing open science practices well.

Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap.
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...

Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...

Applications open for MCCFAD Summer Data Immersion at University of Michigan, May 18–21, 2026.

The application portal is now open for the 2026 Summer Data Immersion Program, hosted by the Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer's Disease, using #PSIDdata. Join us at @umisr.bsky.social in May. #Umich #AcademicSky #PSID

Apply by Monday, Feb. 2: myumi.ch/mRWPj

The Day Federal Data Went Dark: A Year of Monitoring and Action. January 29, 2026. 2 – 3 PM ET. Co-hosted by dataindex.us and the Association of Public Data Users. Featuring the following organizations: American Statistical Association, CDC Data Project, Data Rescue Project, Democracy 2025, EssentialData.US, Federation of American Scientists, Friends of BLS, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Movement Advancement Project, Population Association of America, Population Reference Bureau, and Public Environmental Data Partners.

The Day Federal Data Went Dark: A Year of Monitoring and Action

Register here: tinyurl.com/webinar-data...

Co-hosted by dataindex.us and @apduorg.bsky.social

Two photos from the scientific paper, both showing an electron microscopy photo (black and white) of a white cell with lots of extrusions (tentacle like). I have added green and pink boxes to show areas that look duplicated.

An Editorial Expression of Concern by @Nature for one of Marc Tessier-Lavigne (former @Stanford president)'s papers.
pubpeer.com/publications...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ImageForensics
#ScienceIntegrity

Even in the chaotic times of 2025, SRC focused on what we do best-rigorous social science research for the public interest.