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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 06/11/2025

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

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GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap

dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Currently reading Stigler’s History of Statistics again (and loving it). Anyone know of a similar book for 1900-1960 period. Efron & Hastie, is great but it’s a different kind of book. Apparwntly Lehmann wrote specifically about Neyman v Fisher but I’m looking for other options too #stats #statsky

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Solomon Kurz @solomonkurz.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The 1.2.0 version of my #brms + #tidyverse translation of Kruschke’s "Doing Bayesian data analysis" is up! bookdown.org/content/3686/ 1/3 #rstats

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Doing Bayesian Data Analysis in brms and the tidyverse

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 07/04/2025

This is a fantastic list of papers on properly dealing with control variables (and other related methodological issues) in social science (and #polisky specifically)! I put it all in a public Zotero group library here www.zotero.org/groups/59433...

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I haven't read many recent textbooks, but I like Bouton's "Learning and Behavior: A Contemporary Synthesis". If you're interested in something more provocative, read Gallistel's "The Organization of Learning".

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I'm struck by how grad students in psych and neuro programs aren't generally expected to know basic facts about animal learning. For the psychologists, it has an odor of behaviorism, and for the neuroscientists it has an odor of psychology. Yet it's so fundamental (in my view).

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

When did we allow "causal inference" to mostly mean "causal inference with observational data"? At least that's how it seems to me. As someone who has to think a lot about inference with experimental *and* observational data, I think this is short sighted.

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Matteo Lisi @mlisi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I’m looking for psychology papers that use a rigorous causal inference approach with observational data. I’d like to find some great examples to showcase in my teaching. Any recommendations? #stats @rmcelreath.bsky.social @dingdingpeng.the100.ci

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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

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Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023

This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some ...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 08/11/2024

Currently working my way through @julianschuess.bsky.social and @pselb.bsky.social's "Graphical Causal Models for Survey Inference" for our journal club and so far it is a thing of beauty! Very clear language, clear arguments, meeting readers where they are etc journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

We’re seeking a research assistant to work on predicting which Parkinson’s patients would most benefit from deep brain stimulation. In collaboration with Machine Medicine and St George’s Hospital, London Closes December 4th Pls share! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

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Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Assistant (fixed term)

We seek a predoctoral research assistant to join the Humphries’ group at the University of Nottingham on the Innovate UK-funded project “GEMINI: Platform Informatics For Data-driven Neuromodulation”. ...

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Nick Holmes @thehandlab.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

the talk was a plea to slow down, read more, think more, focus on study quality rather than analytic wizardry, and to find ways to build more cumulative, progressive science. i don't have any answers, but it was fun..! drive.google.com/file/d/1Wega...

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Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Judgment and Decision Making (JDM) starter pack Happy to add you go.bsky.app/8nDKmwG

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Eric Garr @garrface.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Also, I’m looking for a faculty job! I’m a behavioral neuroscientist interested in the intersection between reinforcement learning and basal ganglia function in the context of both drug and non-drug rewards. Calcium imaging, optogenetics, behavior, + lots of teaching experience.

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Andrew Mercer @awmercer.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

I guess we’re doing this again. It is enough for LLMs to be incredibly powerful and flexible tools for analyzing and summarizing text. We don’t have to fool ourselves into thinking that they can reconstruct the mental processes of the humans who produced the text. They are already impressive!

For example, one could estimate levels
of individualism or intergroup prejudice across time by administering psychological scales to samples of simulated participants from adjacent historical eras. And one could generate

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Skull Issue @amagire.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

google 2012: here's how to make tacos google 2018: here's where to BUY tacos NEAR ME google 2024: hard shell tacos are made from fried corn tortillas, while soft shell tacos are medium or large freshwater turtles with oval-shaped shells covered by skin

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

One un-questioned research practice (UQRP) that does as much harm as QRPs is ignoring sampling bias and selection effects. This is a nice paper that shows one way to be transparent and analytical about the problem. "Graphical Causal Models for Survey Inference" doi.org/10.1177/0049... #stats 🧪

Figure 3. Three graphs where auxiliary variable must be used to recover , using external data on . Left: blocks all paths between and . Intermediate: unobserved confounders do not impede recoverability as long as they do not directly influence . An impact of on is also inconsequential. Right: may be influenced by , instead of the other way around. This too is inconsequential. However, in the intermediate and right graph, adding any additional arrow between or and impedes recoverability.

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Paul Bürkner @paulbuerkner.com · 01/10/2024

Drafts of the first chapters of my brms Book: Applied Bayesian Regression Modelling Using R and Stan are online: paulbuerkner.com/software/brm... Check it out and let me know what you think!

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Paul Bürkner - The brms Book

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

What’s the story behind that paper by the Center for Open Science team that just got retracted? statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/09/26/w...

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What’s the story behind that paper by the Center for Open Science team that just got retracted? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 27/06/2024

Also, please help me encourage a more diverse group of people to use the #StatsSky hashtag, so everyone interested in statistics can find them.

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Sean Mackinnon @seanpmackinnon.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

I've got a low-stakes quant problem for people. Six people make a pot of chili at a reception. We want to vote on which chili is the best by popular vote. But, not all voters will have tasted all 6 chilis, only whatever ones they feel like eating. What is the fairest way to determine the winner?

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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tj nightmahr 🧟‍♂️ @tjmahr.com · 19/09/2024

similarly, i pushed for targets to add a "description" field for targets objects and it was added in 1.6.0 docs.ropensci.org/targets/news...

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bggj.bsky.social @bggj.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

After a great #StanCon2024, I've started a blog series on using copulas in Stan. This first post gives a quick introduction to what copulas are. I'll keep each post short but over time I hope to put together a repository of helpful content! bggj.is/posts/stan-c... #stats

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If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It – bggj

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series on using Copulas in Stan. Each post is going to be short to keep me from postponing writing them. In this post I lightly introduce the series and ...

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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Testing out the fancy new video support with my log Galton board.

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

ICYMI: LinkedIn is using your data to train its AI by default. I was opted-in without giving explicit consent; you may be too. The opt-out link is here: linkedin.com/mypreference... Steps: Click "Me" on top, Settings and Privacy > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

trying the new GPT-o1 'reasoning' model on a "navigation" task: get the cat to the mouse, with impenetrable wall in the middle. o1 thinks for 23 seconds, then produces sequence that simply goes through the wall.

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Tomasz Woźniak @tomaszwozniak.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Help me creating one! go.bsky.app/N1569Qh

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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 17/09/2024

Having worked with some largeish data in #rstats, this seems potentially huge: duckplyr.tidyverse.org It's a drop-in translation for dplyr operations (no conversions / connections to DBs needed) to duckdb which has been a pleasure to use on its own.

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A DuckDB-Backed Version of dplyr

A drop-in replacement for dplyr, powered by DuckDB for performance. Also defines a set of generics that provide a low-level implementers interface for the high-level user interface of dplyr'.

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Stephen Wild @stephenjwild.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Show yourselves, Bayesians/Stan peeps! #stats

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

I have added a number of posters to the behavioural economics starter pack. Please let me know if you want to be added too. go.bsky.app/Ku4zvbT

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss figured out how to make a heptadecagon (a symmetrical 17-sided shape) & used it to solve a 2,000-year-old problem. He was 18. And he considered this his greatest achievement. www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-... 🧪

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Why This Great Mathematician Wanted a Heptadecagon on His Tombstone

Mathematician Gauss left behind a trophy case of mathematical achievements to highlight on his tombstone, but above all he wanted a regular heptadecagon etched on it

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

The best writing advice I've ever gotten is to remember that the first draft is where you explain it all to yourself and then the second draft is where you explain it all to your readers.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

List of psychology-related starter packs! #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪 🧵 Cross-Cultural Psychology and Quant Anthropology by @drboothroyd.bsky.social

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Over 100 social psychologists in this new Starter Pack, with more being added. Let me know if you want to be included! #SocialPsyc #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪

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Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

"Creating space for yourself isn’t a sign of falling behind; it’s a way to focus on what truly matters to you." www.science.org/content/arti...

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How slowing down made me a more productive scientist

At first this grad student thought a hectic schedule would make her a successful researcher

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Marvin Schmitt @marvin-schmitt.com · 12/09/2024

Our new short paper on Amortized Bayesian Workflow is out! ✨ We developed an adaptive workflow that combines the speed of amortized inference with the reliability of MCMC on thousands of datasets. 🔗 Link: arxiv.org/abs/2409.04332 The whole is more than the sum of its parts 🧵👇

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

"While applied research appears to be in the ascendancy at the moment, it is important to remember that without an equal and ongoing commitment to basic science, there would soon be nothing to translate into applications." 🧪 written by 3 senior leaders at the NIH! elifesciences.org/articles/102...

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Point of View: Applied research won’t flourish without basic science

Three senior figures at the US National Institutes of Health explain why the agency remains committed to supporting basic science and research.

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Stephen Wild @stephenjwild.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

What are your best/favorite books related to surveys? Can be on any aspect: general introduction, questionnaire design, sampling, analysis, complex surveys, anything #stats

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