Have examples of social science papers that use DAGs to justify their controls? I find these very hard to come by & would like to use for teaching.
Hello all! I’m recruiting a postdoc to work with my lab and I on methods for analyzing intensive longitudinal timeseries of psychological phenomena, with particular focus on measurement and optimization of interventions! Start would be August 2026
📢 Call for Papers:
We’re excited to announce an upcoming Psychometrika Special Issue on Data Intensive Methods in Psychometrics (think of using many datasets for methodological development), guest edited by @klint.bsky.social, @kyliegorney.bsky.social, @jmbh.bsky.social, Ben Domingue, and me.
Which is why assumptions you can check aren't very helpful: if an assumption doesn't cost anything it won't buy much
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
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Call for papers: Emotion special issue on Affect Dynamics Across Multiple Timescales (moments→days→years) and links to mental and physical health. Letters of intent due Jan 15, 2026. Details/submission:
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
Please share with colleagues/trainees. @affectscience.bsky.social
Diederik Stapel was a massive watershed moment in psychology.
However, he was -- and let's be slightly glib here -- some guy from The Netherlands who wrote social psychology papers.
The full accounting of the Eysenck case is approx, at minimum, TWO STAPELS.
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Come work with us @unm.edu 🤩
I'm hiring (another) post doc, this time in collaboration with Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social at Columbia! We will be exploring some of the characteristics of human development using deep learning models. Email with questions!
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New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357
Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
Interesting new special issue in Psychological Assessment.
Edited by Kristin Naragon-Gainey and @kstanton.bsky.social
Here's their overview paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
And here's our contribution, which will win us no friends:
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Happy to share that our large-scale network analysis is now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com
We show that networks are often supported by too little evidence from the data for results to be reported with confidence, not meaning that results are flawed but rather suggests caution in interpretation.
Great study! A general implication is that when we infer effects of retrospectively measure variables on outcomes, we’re largely just seeing the effects of how people are currently feeling.
Wow, congrats!
New paper out with @boryslaw.bsky.social 🥳 In which we sketch out how to rethink measurement invariance causally for applied researchers. And provide a causal definition of measurement invariance!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Tenure-Track Quant Psyc job opening at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Areas of interest are pretty broad (SEM, multilevel, or psychometrics), the deadline to apply is coming up soon (Sept 15) if you're interested!
careers.nau.edu/jobs/assista...
AMPPS Call for Papers: Replicability and Reproducibility in Methodological Research. Proposals due September 15. @jkflake.bsky.social
Please add me.
Great post! I just read this paper by @drewhalbailey.bsky.social and colleagues that shows the RI-CLPM also performs better than CLPM when there are unmeasured time-varying confounders:
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
This work was officially accepted for publication today!
This is a required reading in my Intro to Research Methods class.
Love it!
🧵 US states that implemented abortion bans saw higher than expected infant mortality rates, with larger increases among Black infants and those in southern states, according to this analysis of US national vital statistics data from 2012–2023.
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#MedSky
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Are psychometric networks sufficiently supported by data such that one can be confident when interpreting its results? We analysed 294 psychometric networks from 126 papers with the Bayesian approach to address this question @jmbh.bsky.social Sara Ruth van Holst @maartenmarsman.bsky.social 🧵
I don’t know if it’s an addition, but drinking too much milk tea (aka bubble tea, which is not just milk and tea but usually high in sugar) is a common problem in Chinese teenagers and a legitimate public health concern. It’s the same problem that Americans have with soda.
7 steps to junk science that can achieve worldly success
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/01/17/7...
It’s fascinating to watch the exchanges between “TikTok refugees” and Chinese netizens on Rednote (Xiaohongshu)! Never imagined the “wall” would start to collapse in this way. Now I just worry that Rednote will get banned here if it becomes too popular😕
