Fred Oswald

APA Board Nominations Call for Nominations for the APA Board of Directors and Committee for the Advancement of General Applied Psychology

​​​​​​The APA is looking for people to join the Open Science and Methodology (OSM) expert panel. Nomination deadline: September 1st 2025.

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If you just got an email from APA encouraging you to come to this session, YOU SHOULD! Because the "Open Science and Methodology panel member" is ME! Come say hi! Learn about registered reports, and other awesome open science things at APA!

they need to change their seed every morning :)

The U-M Dept of Psych is hiring! We seek a tenure-track scholar exploring human cognition with generative AI—pushing the boundaries between biological and artificial minds. Apply at lnkd.in/eF2EXmJz

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Speer, A. B., Oswald, F. L., & Putka, D. J. (2025). Reliability Evidence for AI-Based Scores in Organizational Contexts: Applying Lessons Learned From Psychometrics. Organizational Research Methods
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The Science and Practice of Team Science Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.

The new National Academies report on the Science and Practice of Team Science is out today: nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2904...

I was very excited to be a part of this group in order to discuss the role of open science in team science.

My most egocentric table by far :D

(Oswald, 2020; from Big Data in Psychological Research, S. E. Woo, L. Tay, and R. W. Proctor, Eds.)

Time for Congress to save American science … and the nation We believe the best hope for saving science and, perhaps, saving our form of democracy, is convincing at least a couple dozen Republican members of Congress that it’s up to them—that the stakes requir...

Time for Congress to save American science … and the nation
By John P. Holdren, Neal Lane | June 6, 2025

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And to all I-O psychologists, my support for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) remains stronger than ever :) n/n

...supporting and developing our graduate students, collaborating on interesting research projects, strengthening our networks within and outside the university -- and being kind and thoughtful colleagues. I wish the department continued success and look forward to visiting in the future! 4/n

As excited as I am for this new chapter in my career, I will dearly and deeply miss all my psychology colleagues at Rice University, who over the past 17 years have positively influenced virtually all aspects of my professional life... 3/n

As an industrial-organizational psychologist, I will join a highly collaborative and very productive group of scholars who span multiple disciplines (e.g., education, psychology, economics, and computer science). 2/n

Big professional and personal news to share: I've accepted a position as a professor at the UCI School of Education, effective January 2026, continuing my research on measuring skills relevant to education and the workforce. 1/n

🚨We’re hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science!
📍The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (SweCSS)
📅 Apply by June 3
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Future Trajectories of Human-AI Collaboration and Teaming Register for this event from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Join @sbs.nationalacademies.org for a webinar series on #Human-AI Teaming (HAT) to explore the future of human-AI partnerships.

The first session is next week on May 28 (1-2:30pm ET). Experts will explore effective collaboration with #AI.

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When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History | Quanta Magazine Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.

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Thank you, Florian! Will check this out.

Mean centering helps alleviate “micro” but not “macro” multicollinearity - Behavior Research Methods There seems to be confusion among researchers regarding whether it is good practice to center variables at their means prior to calculating a product term to estimate an interaction in a multiple regr...

a couple of psych papers on this, in case you haven't seen 'em:
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Congratulations, Tom! What a terrific accomplishment, and I'm looking forward to reading your book.

A1 goes well with Grilled Prime Tenderloin (GPT)

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How Not to Fool Ourselves About Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects - Paul T. von Hippel, Brendan A. Schuetze, 2025

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[30] Trim-and-Fill is Full of It (bias) - Data Colada Statistically significant findings are much more likely to be published than non-significant ones (no citation necessary). Because overestimated effects are more likely to be statistically significant...

yes -- as one example of the concern (among others):
datacolada.org/30

Generative AI in Education Welcome to Cambridge Core

This is the first pub in our Generative AI in Education Cambridge Element series, which aims to quickly review & bring to the public 20,000-30,000 word overviews of important topics related to theory, research, pedagogy, and/or policy of generative AI in Education. www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

It's that time of year again: I'm teaching Linear Regression. As such I've updated my writing guide for linear regression. Tips and tricks for writing accurate and clear interpretations and inferences in regression. You can check it out on OSF osf.io/aeqn6

Introduction to Bayesian Thinking and Bayesian Modeling Workshop Intro to Bayesian thinking and Bayesian modeling workshop materials. Hosted on the Open Science Framework

Introduction to Bayesian Thinking and Bayesian Modeling Workshop osf.io/gftv4/ via @cos.io by @kcourey.bsky.social

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I feel 95% confident when I’m in there

it's the post-it note that is so encouraging :D

Happy to share that my first solo-authored paper is now published in the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.

📑 Reproducibility in the Classroom
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Please share! Not 100% official yet, but I may get to recruit a Ph.D. student for Fall 2025. If you are interested in psychological methods, math, and/or some combination of those, send me a message so we can chat!