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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

In a study of naturally occurring ostracism experiences: After experiencing ostracism, people initially prioritize withdrawal and prosocial coping responses. Prosocial responses increase overtime. Anti-social responses were relatively rare journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Dongning Ren @dongningren.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

PhD position in social psychology / org psychology in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 apply by 19th!

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Dongning Ren @dongningren.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🚨 PhD opportunity! Join our team in beautiful Maastricht 🇳🇱 for a fully funded 4-year position on the psychological impact of algorithmic management. Supervisors: Rosin Rutten, Dongning Ren & Philippe Verduyn 🗓️ Apply by June 19 🔗 vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

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PhD candidate on the Psychological Consequences of Working Under Algorithmic Management

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Dongning Ren @dongningren.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The issue? Selection bias. Winners are a nonrepresentative subset of the applicant pool, and failing to account for this can distort our understanding of inequality. In the paper, we use causal inference tools to illustrate this bias and offer strategies to address it.

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Dongning Ren @dongningren.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

While it might seem intuitive to compare the proportion of women vs. men among recipients, this approach can lead to misleading conclusions (e.g., underestimating disparities).

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Dongning Ren @dongningren.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

So, what is our paper about? The core idea is simple: When quantifying group-based disparities—such as the gender gap in receiving prestigious grants—we can’t just examine the winners.

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Dongning Ren @dongningren.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

A huge thank you as well to our reviewers and editor, Dave Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social , for seeing the potential in our work and helping us refine it into something stronger and more accessible.

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Dongning Ren @dongningren.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Before diving into the paper, I want to express my deep gratitude to Cathy Johnson and Karen Hegtvedt—two incredible sociologists whose work inspired us to pursue this project.

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Dongning Ren @dongningren.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

My coauthor, Wen Wei Loh, and I had the pleasure to talk with Özge Fischer-Baum about our work in a new episode of #UndertheCortex, the podcast of APS @psychscience.bsky.social

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Dongning Ren @dongningren.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I don’t post here often, but today, I wanted to share a paper I truly enjoyed working on, which was recently published in one of my favorite journals, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Advancing Group-Based Disparities Research and Beyond: A Cautionary Note on Selection Bias - Dongning Ren, Wen Wei Loh, 2024

Obtaining an accurate understanding of group-based disparities is an important pursuit. However, unsound study designs can lead to erroneous conclusions that im...

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Dongning Ren @dongningren.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Had so much fun working on this paper with @chrbuettner.bsky.social & a team of brilliant collaborators!

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

🔍 Join SPSP's Reviewer & Editor Network! Help shape psychology journals and build pathways to editorial leadership. Add your expertise to our growing scholarly community and make an impact. Learn more add your profile: ow.ly/NyzB50Upa8a

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Dongning Ren @dongningren.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Thanks for doing this! Could you add me please?

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

As someone who often uses self-reports and has found that they work pretty well for what we want, this is a refreshing perspective pointing out that they work and they work better than the oft-cited alternatives.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

New paper on "the practices of wage theft that often surround academic promotions, and specifically, the common requirement that someone must already be working at the level for which they are hoping to be promoted" BSky author @troyheff.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0729... #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Higher education has a strong relationship with wage theft, which has been examined throughout years of research, reports, and government enquiries. This paper examines the practices of wage theft that often surround academic promotions, and specifically, the common requirement that someone must already be working at the level for which they are hoping to be promoted. The work uses Australia’s higher education sector as an example, as Australia’s employment and promotion conditions are similar in many aspects to other higher education sectors. The paper provides an analysis of the promotion expectations to which academics are subjected to understand what tasks academics are expected to complete, and for how long, without being paid, before they can apply for promotion. The paper demonstrates to academics, policymakers, and unions, yet another exploitative practice that must be monitored and removed from the modern university as the sector looks to engage more equitable practices.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/10/2024

Remote work can't solve the childcare crisis. Treating it as the solution risks forcing parents (especially moms) to be full-time caregivers while also working for pay full-time. And it risks gaslighting parents (especially moms) if they can't manage that impossible task.

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

The average Nobel laureate grew up in an 87–90th percentile household. Access to opportunity doubled from 1901–2023, but remains highly unequal. Barriers are higher for women, but lower for Americans. cepr.org/publications...

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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

Toronto Metropolitan University is hiring in Quantitative Psych. hr.cf.torontomu.ca/ams/faculty/...

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

More evidence that underrepresented groups face considerable bias in P&T decisions/outcomes Universities, surely we (of all types of organizations) can do better! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch

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Firuze Mullaoglu @firuze-mullaoglu.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Hi Bluesky🌍! I’m newly on the job market and seeking a PhD in social psychology. I’d love to connect with potential supervisors or collaborators! Feel free to check out my research card below! #PhDSearch #SocialPsychology #Research

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Boryana Todorova @todorova.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

It's OUT! 🥳 My first (shared) first author paper with @kimdoell.bsky.social , @madalina.bsky.social , @jayvanbavel.bsky.social and 254 amazing collaborators is published 🌍 Hope our dataset would be useful to many! Cant way to see the research that will come from it 🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dongning Ren @dongningren.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Love it. I feel the same 😶‍🌫️

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Sacha Epskamp @sachaepskamp.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

I gave a 2-hour workshop on Structural Equation Modeling and Confirmatory Factor Analysis in lavaan for the Psych #rstats Club. the recording is available here: youtu.be/YrxvV8zlNLY?... Supported by @improvingpsych.org!

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Introduction to CFA & Structural Equation Modelling in R

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

I agree. It selects for the most common approach to asking questions in social psych and assumes the most commonly assumed problems, goals, constraints and affordances. What’s fascinating is that a field questioning its rigor managed to redefine rigor as science that resembles the same field.

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Dongning Ren @dongningren.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Four more days to apply! We would love to see your application! 🤩any questions? Drop me a line!

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Posting for a friend: Unique 2-year post-doc at Maastricht University with a tight application timeline (deadline: Sept 22). The topic? Causal Inference, public mental health, and psychology vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

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Dongning Ren @dongningren.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

it just popped up when i logged in my account!

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Schools and Departments of Psychology by @markhaselgrove.bsky.social

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Dongning Ren @dongningren.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,678,438! 🎉

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Eva A. García Ferrés @egarciaferres.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

I also have a tutorial for Lollipop plots that plot differences between group means across a number of variables. If you ask me, whoever chose to not name this graph *Lolliplots* missed big time. 🙄 Anyway, here is the code: sites.google.com/view/egarcia...

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Eva A. García Ferrés @egarciaferres.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Last semester, I taught myself how to plot maps using R. Because I suffered a bit too much through this process, I figured I would make an easy tutorial for choropleth maps like the one below. I put this tutorial up on my website: sites.google.com/view/egarcia... I hope this helps someone!

Map of the state borders of the United States, colored in warm colors according to the number of union certification elections between 2016 and 2023.

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Dongning Ren @dongningren.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

This is great! Thanks! I’m new here - could you add me?

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