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Shelby Rivers

@ashelbyrivers.bsky.social
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She/her. Social/health psych, assistant prof. Views always my own and do not represent my employer. 🐈‍⬛🧛‍♀️🎮🪴🥘🎶📖

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 18/05/2026
I love walking into @skeuomorphpress.org & finding amazing things that our students & patrons made!
Black bookmarks with silver white ink reading

WIVES SUBMIT
TO TOP TIER ACADEMIC JOURNALS
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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships @josoperrel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🌐Online First Publication: Dad votes conservative, mom does it all — & the data agrees. New research by Tager-Shafrir et al. links fathers' political ideology to unequal parenting, and that inequity hits relationships hard. 📊 doi.org/10.1177/0265... #AcademicSky #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing
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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Shelby Rivers @ashelbyrivers.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Yes!! So well deserved!
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
When the NIH abruptly terminated thousands of research grants last year, the fallout wasn’t distributed equitably. A new analysis suggests the cuts disproportionately hit women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ investigators. My latest for @nature.com
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NIH grant cuts disproportionately hit minority and female scientists
A survey reveals sharp divides in who bore the brunt of last year’s spree of grant cancellations by the Trump administration.
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404 Media @404media.co · 04/05/2026
NEW: Less than 72 hours before Weber State University in Utah was scheduled to host a conference on censorship, presenters were told not to discuss identity politics, or be removed from the official program agenda. www.404media.co/how-a-univer...
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How a University’s Censorship Conference Got Censored
Presenters say that Weber State University’s legal team adopted a narrow construction of a state law designed to withhold funding from public institutions suspected of practicing DEI.
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 29/04/2026
Reminder: when authors observe Cohen's d = 4, no they didn't. Article now retracted: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Critique: osf.io/preprints/ps... Blog on plausibility of effect sizes: trustworthy.scientific.claims/posts/if-res...
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis - Humanities and Social Sciences Communication...
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - RETRACTED ARTICLE: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a...
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Ben Wright @ben-wright.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I am inspired by many of my colleagues fighting the good fight here in Texas, but wrote this for the rest of y'all: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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How Not to Talk About Colleagues in Texas, Florida (opinion)
We’re not fighting a lost cause.
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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
NEW from me: New restrictions on sexual orientation and gender identity at Texas Tech extend to student research @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...
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At Texas Tech, Even Some Student Research on Gender Will Be Banned
A ban on theses or dissertations about sexual orientation or gender identity has faculty worried about the consequences for graduate students — as well as future attacks on research.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/04/2026
The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/04/2026
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
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UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers
A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.
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ACLU of Texas @aclutx.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A Texas university censored an art exhibition about being Latino in the United States — due to concerns about its "anti-ICE messaging." Let's be clear: Silencing artwork displayed on campus just because officials don’t agree with what is expressed is wrong.
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My exhibition celebrating cultural heritage and Indigenous resilience will not be silenced. - ACLU of Texas
In February 2026, The University of North Texas abruptly censored an exhibition by artist Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez — a Neo-Indigenous and Dallas-raised Mexican American artist. Leaked transcripts lat...
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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This post is part of a longer thread and we really wanted to make sure it got attention from our community. Many thank you's to Paige Amormino (@amormino.bsky.social) for putting together this action guide to help scholars advocate for the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences!
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Predicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measures
In relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ...
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William T. Grant Foundation @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The application for the William T. Grant Scholars program is now open! The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas. Learn more and apply by June 30: bit.ly/3NN2L9Y
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William T. Grant Scholars Program - William T. Grant Foundation
The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers...
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 28/03/2026
Some real talk, on a Friday evening before #NoKings: This is a proposal designed to re-anchor our expectations. No Republican in Congress wants to walk the plank and vote for cuts to cancer research! We shld not fall for it. Our counter-proposal should be a 25% incr in govt support for research.
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 25/03/2026
Another day, another violation of academic freedom in Texas. This time a university is firing a philosophy professor owing to complaints about an off-campus talk he gave on the Israeli-Palestine conflict...
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Texas State Fires Philosophy Professor Over Off-Campus Talk on the Israeli-Palestine Conflict - Daily Nous
Idris Robinson, a tenure-track assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University, is suing several university officials for violating his constitutional rights after they told him he would h...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers
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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
New paper in Cognition: We know people find LLM (moral) arguments persuasive, but are people being persuaded in an epistemically responsible way? No. 🧵 With @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social and @jimaceverett.bsky.social #philsky #psychology #AI www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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People defer to AI moral advice, but not blindly
As AI large language models (LLMs) become increasingly embedded in everyday technologies, should we be concerned about their capacity to influence hum…
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Study promotion for a great PhD student! If you and/or your romantic partner are experiencing depressive symptoms, consider participating in this online study. Your participation can help researchers better understand romantic partner support. Open to couples of any gender or sexual orientation 🌈
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I reflect on a past class discussion that would have run afoul of a new University of Texas System policy prohibiting discussions on "controversies not germane to the course." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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UT System Gives Itself a Catchall Threat to Faculty
What the heck does this even mean?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
headshot of Judith Butler centered in a Judith Butler apology form:

"The media convinced me their work was unreadable.

I don't know shit about critical theory

I only looked at analytic philosophy.

My agenda blinded me.

I was jealous of Gender Studies' joie de vivre

I am sorry for my behaviour and I will hereby respect Judith Butler."
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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He refused to censor his syllabus — so Texas Tech cancelled his class
In another blow to academic freedom in the Lone Star state, Texas Tech canceled a psychology class after the professor refused to scrub race and gender from his syllabus.
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Aaron H @benefiction.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
A “literally chef’s kiss” analogy, as my kid would say.
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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org
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Trans Continental Pipeline
Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 25/02/2026
Maybe of interest: The submission guidelines of Psychological Science now demand an explicit statement on measures taken to reduce the risk of AI-generated responses for all online studies! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Online Studies
Psychological Science requires that authors who use samples from online data collection include a statement in the Method section explicitly addressing their approach to preventing and detecting automated or AI-generated responses.

Rationale

As large language models and other generative AI tools become more accessible, the risk of data contamination by non-human respondents has increased dramatically in research. Psychological science (and the social sciences generally) is particularly susceptible to this issue given its growing reliance on online data collection. Preventing automated responses during data collection and detecting them afterward often involve methodological trade-offs. For instance, technical barriers that aim to prevent LLM use (e.g., blocking copy-pasting functionalities) may eliminate behavioral indicators needed for detection (e.g., pasting rather than typing). This policy aims to enhance transparency and reproducibility of reported results by requiring authors to articulate their approach across both prevention and detection dimensions, enabling readers and reviewers to assess the likelihood of reported data being influenced by automated responses.

Scope

This policy applies to any submission with at least one study that includes data collected online without direct human supervision (e.g., via crowdsourcing platforms, student participants who complete the study online, online recruitment ads, or remote survey distribution tools).

Required Reporting

Authors must include in the Methods section either:

A statement confirming that procedures were in place to prevent and/or detect and exclude automated or AI-generated responses, including a description of those procedures (e.g., explicit participant instructions against LLM use, disabled copy–paste functionality, CAPTCHA use, IP filtering, consistency checks, attention checks, adversarial prompting) as well as the types of automated responses that these procedures are suitable …
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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I don't think the "Einstein" or other AI replacing the important steps of learning, esp in higher ed, would be posing quite the challenge it is right now if students hadn't been sent the message their entire lives that the point of college is to get good grades and a high paying job, not to learn.
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Shelby Rivers @ashelbyrivers.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The energy I’m bringing to my Friday.
A black cat with a bow tie and his tongue out.
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...
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Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology
Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology provide a several-week-long visit to our department for early-career faculty. The program focuses on early-career scholars who would benefit from interactions ...
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Geoff MacDonald 🇨🇦 @gmacdonalduoft.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Consider signing up for this study.
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Violeta J. Rodriguez, PhD, MSEd @vjrp.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
New paper w/ @qmmmmliu.bsky.social Network analysis of LGBTQIA+ parents linking parenting, stigma, & mental health. Supportiveness, reinforcement, & transphobia were central. Child psychopathology & parent anxiety bridged domains. Patterns varied by identity doi.org/10.1037/fam0001459
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APA Journals @apajournals.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“Accelerating Innovative Strategies for Greater Equity and Inclusion in Pain Care and Research,” a coordinated pair of special issues in Health Psychology (HEA) and @thejournalofpain.bsky.social. Check out the free-to-read HEA introduction: bit.ly/4rbT57f @apadivision38.bsky.social
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
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Rep. Mark Pocan @pocan.house.gov · 10/02/2026
There seems to be some confusion about the SAVE America Act. If it becomes law, you will NOT be able to vote with your drivers license alone. You’d need:
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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I got 99 problems in online survey research but social desirability ain‘t (a huge) one Important paper ⬇️⬇️
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 11/02/2026
📢 Applications are open for the 2026 Modern Meta-Analysis Research Institute (MMARI). This 5-day workshop funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) is tailored for early-career education researchers with little to no prior meta-analysis experience. Apply by 3/15: www.meta-analysis-re...
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Erin's filling in CHE's holes again and collecting adjunct pay info. Drop yours at the form.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Mallory J Feldman [She/Her/Hers] @malloryjfeldman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Hey everyone! I’m leading a student mentoring table at SPSP on Family Planning and Pregnancy during graduate school. I'm trying to collect some useful data: If you had kids in academia (any career stage)-- I would be grateful if you filled out this 10-question survey: forms.office.com/r/JeLL5cBk3w
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This article captures the scale at which academic freedom is being repressed at TX A&M, but also the chaotic way the new rules are being implemented. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
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Texas A&M Ends Women’s Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender
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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
📢 Hiring: Postdoctoral Fellow in LGBTQ Reproductive Health Disparities at Harvard Medical School 🌈🧬 Focus on rigorous epi methods + big data (longitudinal cohorts, EMR, claims) 📊 Ideal for epi/biostats folks who want rich cross-Harvard collaborations Details👇 Please boost + tag! 📣
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I've seen reports via social media and my email about students using AI on their personal statements for grad programs. This is an opportunity to rethink the what and why of the writing we ask for in these situations. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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What Does It Mean to Use an LLM for a “Personal Statement”?
Is this still a worthy tool for graduate admissions?
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Scenario: a friend or family member is having surgery with an overnight stay and you are going to be their hospital advocate. Here is your packing list: - a change of clothes for you both - all their meds in original bottles in case the hospital pharmacy can't source something they take
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
UPDATE re SAMHSA: While the Trump Admin signaled they'll undo the terminations, we don't yet have proof. On Jan 13, grantees received revised Notices of Award (NOAs) formally terminating their grants. Until they receive *another* new NOA w/ original terms, we assume grants remain terminated.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Good summary of the Goldwater Institute/Martin Center plan to further reduce professional autonomy from educators in order to politicize campus. They also want to take over journals. open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...
How to accomplish this? Pass the new model legislation that the Goldwater Institute and the James G. Martin Center have put together for state universities:
• creating tenured teaching-track positions for Excellence in Americanism and Western
Civilization
enshrine student feedback (course evaluations)
as the measure of teaching effectiveness
• mandate a standard 3-3 teaching load for non-STEM faculty and faculty teaching the Western
Civ course (!)
• bar automatic taxpayer-funded support for non-STEM faculty
restrict non-STEM course releases
• let trustees approve all new faculty job postings
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
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WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried
If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...
Pew Research Center is seeking a Data Archivist to support our commitment to open science and data transparency. This newly created role will play a key part in enhancing the accessibility, usability, and reproducibility of our research data while continuing to protect the privacy and identity of our survey participants. 

As Data Archivist, you will lead efforts to create and implement best practices for preparing, documenting, and disseminating datasets. These best practices should maximize FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles while minimizing disclosure risk. You will work across teams to ensure our data is well-organized and thoroughly documented. 

You will serve as an internal advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are not only accurate and comprehensive but also easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public.   

This is a full-time, Pew Research Center position. The position is funded by an external grant and limited to a two-year term.   Primary Responsibilities 

Develop optimization procedures to improve discoverability of our datasets on internal and external platforms 

Develop and maintain standards to improve accessibility of our microdata and tab plans by changing/adding formats and/or adding documentation 

Identify metadata documentation best practices and a process to implement those best practices at the Center 

Work with Legal to evaluate most appropriate license to publicly share the Center's survey data, including Creative Common options

Identify and correct processing inefficiencies in our data publication process 

Sit on the internal Disclosure Risk Taskforce 

Document analytical decisions and code to support transparency and replicability, including the development of a RACI chart for publishing code to recreate derived variables that are used in reports but are not included in the microdata 

Manage/create merged time series datasets for select Center datasets 

Identify a process for internally archiving data and projects that are no longer in active use 

Identify and implement a process to assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) to microdata 

Prepare and upload public-facing datasets and restricted-use datasets for external sharing. 

Train staff on FAIR principles and best practices in data archiving. Education/Training/Experience 

Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in library sciences, organizational management, or a related field.  

5-7 years of experience with data archiving, database management, or survey research. This may include graduate training at the MA/PhD level or equivalent experience in an applied setting. 

At least 3-5 years of experience applying FAIR and open science principles. 

Background in social science research or data curation. 

Experience in data management, archiving, or research support. 

Familiarity with FAIR principles, Creative Common licensing, data privacy principles, and exposure risk.

Proficiency in metadata standards and documentation tools. 

Experience managing research projects, including working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team. 

Experience with statistical software (e.g., R, Python, Stata) and reproducible research workflows. 

 

 

Knowledge, Skill and Workplace Requirements 

Strong organizational and communication skills. 

Detail oriented with exacting standards to maintain accuracy and impartiality in all work products. 

Ability to work independently to carry out special projects from start to finish. 

Ability to balance numerous tasks simultaneously. 

Ability to work collaboratively and collegially with other team members, as well as with staff from other Pew Research Center teams. 

Ability to balance competing priorities and identify optimal solutions 

 

FLSA Status: Exempt  

Compensation: Starting salary is commensurate with experience within the range of $100,000 - $120,000. 

Hybrid Work Schedule: Pew Research Center staff are required to be present in the Center’s Washington, D.C., office three core days weekly (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday).  Staff may work virtually from remote locations on other days in a typical work week.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I implore you to hit up CVS and get your flu shot. Please don’t game it with whatever else you heard. It’s real serious and we don’t gave any public health allies in the government now.
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