iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Charles Driver

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 26/08/2026

Congratulations to the project “openESM,” which received🏆2026 SIPS commendation! openESM is a database of harmonized openly available experience sampling datasets. 🔗Project website: buff.ly/3Q5EwYt 🔗A preprint describing the project: buff.ly/iXcT6ZL

openesmdata.org

openESM: Open Experience Sampling Method Database

<!DOCTYPE html> openESM: Open Experience Sampling Method Database A database of open experience sampling datasets openESM is a database of harmonized openly available experience sampling datasets.…

14019

Reposted by Charles Driver

Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Does the new shingles vaccine (Shingrix) protect against cardiovascular disease (CVD)? Yes, according to a new 'natural experiment' study in @natmed.nature.com. But the truth is sadly far less convincing! Pull up a chair and let's examine another peer review failure in a Nature journal. 1/10 🧵

817574

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

How do dynamics estimates vary by study timescale, even when using continuous-time methods that should 'theoretically' account for this? @maristodemou.bsky.social takes a look at wellbeing variables from bimonthly GESIS and yearly SOEP panels to examine the issue. osf.io/preprints/ps...

osf.io

OSF

0113

Reposted by Charles Driver

Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

One week to go until I'll be reviewing the applications - can't wait! I've now added information on the top-up funds I have available too. Please spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested in doing a PhD in quantitative psychopathology :) miriamkforbes.academic.ws

miriamkforbes.academic.ws

Miriam K. Forbes, PhD

I am an Associate Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University. I was awarded my PhD in Psychology in 2014, and went on to do po...

12612

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Bee sting in mouth removal operation with a spoon was a new experience at #SAA2026 conference dinner last night

250

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

ctsem has a GUI now -- visual, SEM-like spec, fit & diagnostics for hierarchical discrete or continuous time state space models (i.e., DSEM's). github.com/cdriveraus/c... State-space (process + measurement) and individual difference views shown. Ideas welcome! Workshop @saa2026.bsky.social

43013

Reposted by Charles Driver

kasparburger.bsky.social @kasparburger.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I am hiring! A postdoctoral position (100%, 3 years, renewable) is available at the University of Potsdam. The successful candidate will contribute to research on education and the life course and to teaching. Application deadline: August 15, 2026. See: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/socedlico...

uni-potsdam.de

Overview

01821

Reposted by Charles Driver

Daniel Heck @danielheck.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Postdoc position @unimarburg.bsky.social in the project: "Bridging the Gap Between Verbal Psychological Theories & Formal Statistical Modeling with Large Language Models" (funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de) 📅Start: 01.10.2026 |⏳3 years 🔗 Job posting: uni-marburg.de/78NrWT Thanks for sharing!

13628

Reposted by Charles Driver

Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

You can find my fork here github.com/Lakens/Quart... but it is under extremely active development, and probably not fully documented, so maybe check in end of next week? It is functional, but setting it up might still be some effort without assistance at the moment.

github.com

GitHub - Lakens/QuartoReview: Editor for Qmd files

Editor for Qmd files. Contribute to Lakens/QuartoReview development by creating an account on GitHub.

4233

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Is there a 'git personal access token' region of the brain? Did I sustain damage there as a child?

110

Reposted by Charles Driver

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The Max Planck Society has begun an exploratory round table for open science. We are drafting some recommendations to leadership. Still a long way to go! But here are my notes on the most recent draft, just so you all know how I am trying to steer things.

Richard McElreath: It must not be overlooked that junior researchers DO NOT TRUST US. We, the directors, are a big part of the problem. We made this system, we remake it every year, and we benefit from it. What can we do to credibly signal our commitment to reform a corrupt research culture? My conversations with junior scientists in the society has taught me that directors are too often either indifferent or hostile to science reform. We cannot hope to convince our prize winning colleagues. Their egos are immune. But we can replace retirements with researchers who care more about integrity than their own prestige. This is important both for earning the trust of the junior researchers who really do the research in the MPG and for attracting excellent future directors and starting to earn the trust of the public. So I suggest two strong signals to our junior researchers (and the public): (1) we will reform recruitment and promotion at all levels to eliminate proxies like citation counts and journal brands in favor of reliability and sustainability; (2) we will make open science skills a core part of scientific training, through the graduate schools at a minimum, as conditions for the central funding. The most ambitious thing we could do, as hinted at in item 5 above, is to meaningfully invest in metascientific research. As the largest basic research organization in the world, the MPG is uniquely suited to studying research and its products from a broad perspective that includes the humanities, the sciences, and policy. Governments are already involved in science reform. Someone should study it in an organized and sustained way.

521848

Reposted by Charles Driver

Umberto Picchini @upicchini.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Parametrization Cookbook: A set of Bijective Parametrizations for using Machine Learning methods in Statistical Inference arxiv.org/abs/2301.08297

061

Reposted by Charles Driver

the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 08/12/2025

The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.

youtube.com

Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

16577352

Reposted by Charles Driver

Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 02/12/2025

Works the other way around too. “If I was Jonathan Haidt, how would I destroy the next generation?”

913342

Reposted by Charles Driver

Ven Popov @venpopov.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

A recent redesign of OSF by @cos.io led to widespread access failures. What began as a few broken download links became for me a total disappearance of eight years of DOI-registered work. What happened, how was it resolved, and what it reveals about trust and infrastructure in open science

venpopov.com

Open Science needs reliable infrastructure – Ven Popov

After OSF’s October 2025 redesign, I discovered that eight years of DOI-linked preprints and materials were silently hidden by an automated spam flag. What happened, how it was resolved, and what it r...

43119

Reposted by Charles Driver

Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)

25551

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Some more shiny apps for the classroom -- here looking at different approaches to pooling information across groups (e.g., partial pooling), and how the group level predictions shift with changes in amount of data used for fitting. charlesdriver.shinyapps.io/Pooling_Info...

charlesdriver.shinyapps.io

Exploring Pooling of Information Across Groups

1153

Reposted by Charles Driver

Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🚨 PhD/Postdoc alert 👇 If you are interested in doing a PhD/Postdoc in computational psychiatry (starting Sept 2026), do get in touch by October 4th at ondrej.zika@pm.me :) Any inquiries are welcome. To apply, please attach your CV, half page motivation and half page research statements.

01412

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Prepping for @dgps.bsky.social Methods, few recent papers pushing ctsem and dynamic models in interesting directions #1 Developmental changes in twin cognitive correlation (ACE) across age, test instrument, zygosity, with @evangiangrande.bsky.social @ent3c.bsky.social et al osf.io/preprints/ps...

1167

Reposted by Charles Driver

MC Stan @mc-stan.org · 17/09/2025

MC Stan is here! Follow for the latest Stan news, and tag if you want us to repost your posts about new papers, packages, courses, etc. about Stan

13831

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Perhaps a touch dreamy? but interesting and hopeful thread...

020

Reposted by Charles Driver

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 26/08/2025

Third-party algorithmic feeds on Bluesky are about to become a lot more interesting and powerful 👀

0223

Reposted by Charles Driver

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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!

2177168

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

dear @quarto.org using friends, lost too much time on this already and I'm very stubborn please save me: --- title: "wrap text" format: pdf --- ```{r} print("I just want this text to wrap to a new line I just want this text to wrap to a new line I just want this text to wrap to a new line ") ```

231

Reposted by Charles Driver

Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Happy to announce ✨quarto-revealjs-editable✨ This fully supersedes the imagemover extension, as I back then didn't realize the potential. You can now also move, resize, change font size and alignment for text in your slides github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto #slidecrafting

1011636

Reposted by Charles Driver

Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 13/08/2025

I am shooketh. This is a gamechanger. 🤩

0111

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

@sagepub.com Your unsubscribe links are ineffective and your spam is apparently not recognised as such by my robot email guardians. Please desist before I'm forced to invent even more elaborate reasons for not reviewing.

050

Reposted by Charles Driver

Lea Bartsch @leabartsch.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓

Applications are invited for a
Postdoctoral Position (80%)
at the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich. The ideal
start date would be January 1st, 2026 but could be somewhat earlier or later. The position is for
initially 3 years, with possible renewal for another 1.5 years.
The successful applicant will work with the head of the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Prof. Dr. Klaus
Oberauer, and the Cognitive Psychology team. The post involves research and teaching (one course
per semester).
Research at the Zurich Cognitive Psychology Unit focuses on capacity limits of cognition, in particular
working memory, long-term memory, and attention, which we investigate with experimental,
individual-differences and aging studies and computational modeling. For further information see:
https://www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec/allgpsy.html
We offer:
- An attractive research environment with close collaboration within the team
- Excellent lab infrastructure
- Salary according to Cantonal regulations
We expect:
- a PhD in psychology or a related discipline
- experience with experimental research
- excellent method knowledge and skills
- very good command of English
- interest in pursuing an academic career in cognitive psychology
In addition, it would be desirable if you had:
- experience with publishing in international journals
- programming skills
- experience with mathematical / computational modeling
Please send applications including your CV and motivation letter
no later than September 10, 2025
electronically as a single PDF to: Michaela Oestmann, michaela.oestmann@psychologie.uzh.ch
For questions about the position please contact Klaus Oberauer, k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch

35444

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Your dynamic systems models aren't complicated enough? Skewed distributions keep you awake? Your dynamics dynamic differently at different dynamic levels? Here's a not-very-beginner friendly outline for addressing the issue with ctsem cdriver.netlify.app/post/ctsemas...

cdriver.netlify.app

Asymmetric (State‑Dependent) Discrete and Continuous-Time Processes in ctsem

172

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

In case I can reach the @quarto.org and #rstats and windows users driven mad by the inability to render files when stored on dropbox (there must be billions of you right?), here's an Rstudio add-on that uses temp files instead: github.com/cdriveraus/Q...

162

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

ctsem is updated on CRAN to 3.10.3 (in time for SMiP Summer School next week). Useful updates include a model fit check of moderated lagged correlations, and better importance sampling for the optimize then sample Bayes variant.

062

Reposted by Charles Driver

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Postdoc position open in Zurich -- Prof. Martin Tomasik and I have a joint SNF project on interpretable neural network approaches for large scale, complex item / temporal structure, online learning / cognitive development data. Please retweet. tinyurl.com/PostdocGNNSNF

02319

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

02319

Reposted by Charles Driver

Michael D. Krämer @mdkraemer.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

How do people differ in pursuing their social lives? In a new paper at JPSP, lead by Cornelia Wrzus, we examined the affiliation motive (and other social traits) as moderators of how people dynamically regulate their social interactions. Across two studies with experience sampling and

1105

Reposted by Charles Driver

Journal of Robustness Reports @robustnessreports.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

We are live! Introducing the "Journal of Robustness Reports" – a Diamond Open-Access journal dedicated to publishing short reanalyses of empirical findings. Check out our website and blog post about the journal: 🌐 scipost.org/JRobustRep 📄 www.bayesianspectacles.org/introducing-...

[Editorial: Introducing the Journal of Robustness Reports]

28451

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

My 3.5 year old, Swiss German / English / Italian speaking daughter seems to have decided that 'Hochdeutsch' is just an adjective that means 'randomly screwed up language' and finds it hilarious to teach me hochdeutsch-English and hochdeutsch-Italiano.

030

Reposted by Charles Driver

Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Research funders at all levels must get past this fascination with unicorns and superstars. Invest broadly, and in enabling research infrastructures.

618553

Reposted by Charles Driver

Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Hasok’s classic example is temperature and thermodynamics. You need thermometers to calibrate thermometers. You need thermodynamics to justify the concept of temperature. But you need thermometers to develop thermodynamics. The only way out is to start with a bad thermoscope (your hand) and iterate.

goodreads.com

Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progr…

What is temperature, and how can we measure it correctl…

2121

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

For anyone who'd like the verbal / visual introduction to my work in quant psych / dynamic systems (or a little of the personal background), I gave my inaugural lecture with UZH Monday night and it's available here: vimeo.com/showcase/826...

vimeo.com

Antrittsvorlesung von Prof. Dr. Charles Driver

Human Behaviour, Cognition and Emotions as Dynamic Systems

2309

Reposted by Charles Driver

Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 18/03/2025

Want to make nice graphs with me, starting this summer? I am hiring for two PhD positions at the University of Witten/Herdecke.

Treemap chart showing the fragmented landscape of psychological measures.

59473

Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Considering changes to 20 person seminar structure to handle AI. Previously 70% of overall grade from individual report, considering: explicitly encouraging AI use for report, but half the grade for it now comes from a 10-15 minute in person question session based on report. Any experiences?

171