Max Primbs

🚨 New paper! Think of a place you feel deeply attached to. When you're in that place, do you feel like your life is more meaningful? New work from @ashleykrause.bsky.social suggests you probably do!

Just accepted at Journal of Environmental Psychology, we find places can give our life meaning 🧵

#AcademicSky

I spend 1/2 my time asking people to peer review more, & other 1/2 complaining that filthy rich publishers should pay for our labour

These aren't incompatible complaints

Scientists DO need to review more (especially if publishing) Publishers DO need to pay reviewers

One approach to the age-period-cohort problem: Just don’t. Just to cause yourself more problems, you seek for something. But there is no need for you to seek anything. You have plenty, and you have just enough problems. Shunryū Suzuki in a 1971 talk A ...

New blog post about the age-period-cohort identification problem!

In which, for the first time ever, I ask "What's the mechanism?" and also suggest that sometimes you may actually *not* be interested in causal inference.

www.the100.ci/2026/02/13/o...

I will be hiring a full-time pre-doctoral Research Professional to work with me at Chicago Booth.

Know someone interested in studying conversation and connection? Please help spread the word!

More details, including application instructions, are here: www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/facu...

Our lab has the capacity to test ~500 uni students each semester
If you’re a researcher in cognitive psychology or metascience and need data collection support, we’d love to collaborate. We can help collect high-quality data from a large student sample.
Get in touch to discuss potential projects!

@aalaukik.bsky.social

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I'm on the job market🚨

I’m a social psychologist building computational models to study social cognition, attitudes, polarization, and how people update beliefs.

Evidence accumulation models, Hierarchical Bayes, Agent-based models, NLP, etc.

Interested in formal theorizing!

Postdoc position!

Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026.

Topic area broadly centered on intergroup dynamics, prejudice, discrimination

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I don't even need the Email anymore to know who that is :D

*sweating*

Do I want to save changes to my dataset???? Did I make changes to my dataset?????

Basic questions like "how many participants are in the dataset?" can produce surprisingly different answers between analysts.

Results from students in my class in data wrangling in tidyverse, who are good at wrangling but still have to make semi-subjective choices:

Right after the support for spatial regressions please 🥺

What’s a multiverse good for anyway? Julia M. Rohrer, Jessica Hullman, and Andrew Gelman Multiverse analysis has become a fairly popular approach, as indicated by the present special issue on the matter. Here, we take one step back and ask why one would conduct a multiverse analysis in the first place. We discuss various ways in which a multiverse may be employed – as a tool for reflection and critique, as a persuasive tool, as a serious inferential tool – as well as potential problems that arise depending on the specific purpose. For example, it fails as a persuasive tool when researchers disagree about which variations should be included in the analysis, and it fails as a serious inferential tool when the included analyses do not target a coherent estimand. Then, we take yet another step back and ask what the multiverse discourse has been good for and whether any broader lessons can be drawn. Ultimately, we conclude that the multiverse does remain a valuable tool; however, we urge against taking it too seriously.

New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?>

With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social

juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

We're pleased to announce Dr Charlotte Pennington @drcpennington.bsky.social, author of "A Student’s Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis to Reform Psychology", will be a keynote speaker at the UKRN conference in July 2026!

#ukrn2026joinus #OpenResearch #Research

For a weekly seminar class, I'm looking for pairings of psych popularization with scholarly take-downs of the underlying research. I want students to see examples of how shoddy research gets hyped.

Perceptual exposure influences body size perceptions and anti-fat attitudes - Communications Psychology Repeated visual exposure to bodies of varying sizes alters cognitive representations of weight and may influence anti-fat attitudes over time.

New paper led by Kelsey Neuenswander looking at perceptual exposure to fat/thin bodies and anti-fat attitudes.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Causion interface showing a front-door DAG

Played around with Causion by @isager.bsky.social
It's an impressive teaching tool for causal inference... and it also really pretty. Amazing color scheme and slick interface.
Shown below a demonstration of an extended front-door DAG in Causion.

Causal Inference 101 - Option 1: Run an experiment - Option 2: Give up -- include covariates, maybe? -- or maybe use longitudinal data???

This nicely maps onto this slide which I like to use

Introducing Causion: A web app for playing with DAGs | Peder M. Isager Personal website of Dr. Peder M. Isager

New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....

Self-report data is always biased! To truly find out how they think we need to have them do a Significant/Null-result Publish/Not Publish IAT ;)

After years in academia, I’m exploring data science and research roles in industry.

I'm a quant. social scientist (PhD Yale ’24, NYU) focused on causal inference, experiments, and large-scale data.

Feel free to get in touch or share; all leads appreciated. dwstommes@gmail.com

AMPPS is a participating journal for the Editorial Fellowships. A great opportunity to get hands-on editorial experience. Please apply and RT. Excited to potentially work with you.

Super excited to see that somebody finally wrote about this 🥳

If you do research about research, you really need causal thinking (just like when you do research about anything else really).

There's a great musical about that! It's called Come From Away!

Call for entries 📣 The international €350K #EinsteinFoundationAward honors researchers and institutions across all scientific disciplines working to advance #research quality and integrity.
Deadline: April 30, 2026
Please share! 🌍
➡️ award.einsteinfoundation.de
#OpenScience #reproducibility

Thank you!

Will do! And yes, that'd be fun.

For the Postdoc! I'll be starting at the DRRC / Kelloggs :)

Thank you! And I guess I'll see you in Chicago.

the Summer Internship

We're doing summerpsych.com again this year!

PhD curious undergrads, come hang out at the CSI lab, help us push forward a project and develop your social science chops Applications are due March 1st: