Catherine Bain, M.S.

I am thrilled to share that my first first-author publication is now out! If you've ever been interested learning how to apply machine learning variable selection methods for classification problems, I have the tutorial for you! #QuantitativePsychology #Psychology doi.org/10.35566/jbd...

I have had a TON of people asking how they can help...here is what would help us the most right now: SHARE SHARE SHARE SHARE SHARE!

Tell us why you #standupforscience2025! Send flyers to your colleagues and labs! Change your bluesky banner! Tell your professional orgs and departments!

there's nothing more rewarding than hearing that students i've mentored have successfully gotten into a phd program!!!

DEAR UNIVERSITIES:

This seems like a really cool opportunity to gain unique training in an area of the job where training is often null and void. If anyone wants to speak on their experience with this fellowship, I'd love to hear!

i've had people tell me to do exactly this. never fails to drive me crazy.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

Working w/ a reporter on the consequences of the NIH/NSF freezes (e.g., training pipelines, how grants support clinical time for trials)

If you've had a grant impacted, some organizational perspective (e.g., in APPIC leadership/DCT role) + are willing to share your experience please shoot me a DM

Per an NIH source:

“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”

Here’s How Science Funding Could Change Under Trump Trump’s nominees have big plans for remaking the federal health agencies, with consequences for university scientists who receive billions in funding.

A good article by Stephanie Lee that reviews some scenarios for NIH. www.chronicle.com/article/here...

Qualifications Necessary requirements: Applicants must hold a degree equivalent to a Norwegian doctoral degree in psychology or equivalent. Applicants must have a strong research record in Developmental Psychology, demonstrating quality, productivity, impact, dissemination, and innovation. They must have an extensive first-hand experience in observing, interviewing, or testing typical and/or atypical children and/or adolescents. Applicants must have a solid undergraduate and/or graduate teaching record in Developmental Psychology, including course organisation, lectures, seminars, supervision, and examinations. Applicants without a certified University Pedagogy Education are expected to obtain this certification within the first two years of employment. The Department will support this process by covering the costs of the courses at the University of Oslo and recognizing the hours of these courses in the departmental teaching accounting system. Applicants must have fluent oral and written communication skills in English. Applicants who are not fluent in a Scandinavian language (Norwegian, Swedish, or Danish) will have to learn Norwegian within the first three years of employment to effectively participate in the functions required by the position (documented proficiency: CEFR Independent user Level B2 or equivalent). The Department will support learning Norwegian by covering the cost of the courses at the University of Oslo, reducing teaching and administrative duties, and providing a Norwegian coach. Applicants must possess relevant personal qualities for the position, including: (i) High motivation for the position, (ii) High teaching and research ambition, and (iii) The ability to work both independently and collaboratively with students, administrative and academic colleagues / collaborators, and leaders.

Desired additional qualifications (not necessary but would be an advantage), include one or more of the following: Have been the recipient of at least one external grant as Principal Investigator (PI) Experience in conducting basic/fundamental research to understand psychological developmental processes. Experience in Open Science practices. Experience in research focusing on prevention and promotion. Experience / interest in academic administration. UiO has developed a matrix for the assessement of qualifications, which exemplifies results/competence, documentation, and reflection for all areas of the competency profile. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with this matrix and make use of it when applying for the position.

Our department has just announced a new permanent associate professor position in developmental psychology, come join us at @uio.no! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Trans-inclusive gender categories are cognitively natural - Nature Human Behaviour On the basis of decades of cognitive science research into the nature of lexical concepts, we argue that gender categories that reflect the reality of the experiences of transgender people are more us...

This paper might cause Steven Pinker to have a stroke.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An executive order ending birthright citizenship is effectively a suspension of the U.S. Constitution, just so we’re clear about what is happening.

King's challenge to the nation's social scientists Full text of Martin Luther King's address to the APA convention attendees in September 1967 which urged a change in society regarding racism.

1/5. I just finished re-reading King's "The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement"--a speech he gave at the American Psychological Association in 1967.
I revisit this speech every few years; much of it remains relevant.

A few notable sections...
www.apa.org/topics/equit...

this is the important research we should be doing as phd students

By Combining His Two Loves, Psychology and Computer Science, Keane Hauck Sets His Sights on Academia Keane Hauck found his calling in Robert Terry’s psychology class during the first semester of his junior year at the University of Oklahoma. Now, as he approaches graduation this month, he reflects on...

so cool to see articles about undergraduate students I've mentored. anxiously awaiting to see grad school offers this student receives
www.ou.edu/news/article...

Zotero is great and I think that anyone who needs to organise and cite more than a handful of references should be using it. Here's an intro to Zotero that I made for my undergrad students (but the info is relevant for anyone new to Zotero).

Full vid [13 mins]: youtu.be/SlUHjOqVCyU
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Have you ever wanted a better theoretical understanding of a Q-Q plot? One of my undergraduate teaching assistants wrote a blog post about this! It’s so cool to see my students sharing what I’ve taught them with the world at large!

keanehauck.com/quantitative...