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Ellie Bastos Degobi

@elliebastos.bsky.social
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PhD in Psychology | Interested in Metascience, Philosophy of Science, Mental health & wellbeing, and Measurement elliedegobi.com | elliedegb.quarto.pub/psychometrics

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Sajedeh Rasti @sajedehra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We are excited to announce that we are going to broadcast the second day of Meta-Research Symposium 2026 (this Friday on October 9th) for those who were interested but unable to join in person. You can join the meeting using this link: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
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Juha Karvanen @juhakarvanen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When does“variance explained” actually mean causation? In our new preprint, Olli Saarela and I develop graph-based causal variance decompositions. The framework clarifies when components of an ordered variance decomposition have causal interpretations. arxiv.org/abs/2608.27140
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Graph-based causal variance decompositions: When "variance explained" means causation
Recursive application of the law of total variance decomposes the marginal variance of an outcome into components attributed to explanatory variables and a residual component. The resulting decomposit...
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Ada Kępińska @adakepinska.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Epi/stats friends! I want to learn about ("modern", i.e., recent) longitudinal analysis techniques so that I don't try to fit data like an evil doer from Scrooby-Doo. Any recent papers/reviews, your absolute fave new models? @eikofried.bsky.social @michelnivard.bsky.social @georghenning.bsky.social
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Basic rationale is here. eiko-fried.com/blog/blood-t...
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Blood tests for mental health problems | Eiko Fried
A new paper was published yesterday on a blood test for schizophrenia, by the same research team that in 2021 published a paper on a blood test for depression . The papers and...
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Ellie Bastos Degobi @elliebastos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Another paper that was part of my thesis: Assessing Common-Cause Implications of Reflective Models: A Simulation Study of the Tetrad Fit Index osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Now that school is starting, what are you reviewing this Fall? H-Environment has many new books available in environmental history, humanities, and social sciences, just waiting for a volunteer! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #envphil #conservation #anthropocene #climate docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Books Available to review for H-Environment
Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...
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Ellie Bastos Degobi @elliebastos.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
To any of my fellow folks who have a hard time focusing on specific tasks, I found FocusTown super helpful. I created a study room/ book club there; anyone can join. www.focustown.app/i/YJvXM5GTR5...
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FocusTown - Study with Friends
Focusing feels better with friends. Study live with homies around the world.
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Ellie Bastos Degobi @elliebastos.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Who here will also be there? Would love to connect finally in person!
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 0.18.0 📦 for #RStats is out! The new version is faster, has lots of bug fixes, and some beat new features. Check it out if you need a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dep-free package to draw tables: (interactive) html, typ, tex, pdf, and png. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable
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Peder M Isager @isager.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Perspectives on Scientific Error 2027 is heading to Copenhagen, Jan 27th to 29th PSE brings together philosophers of science, statisticians and metascientists around 1 question: how do errors get into the scientific record, and what can we do about them? Register your interest at errorsin.science
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Perspectives on Scientific Error 2027 · PSE9
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Joseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
📝 Excited to share an accepted first-authored paper at Clinical Psych Science! Why are so many mental disorders treated as unidimensional? We show support for 1-factor models is often just an artifact of conventional psychometric methods -- which weren't designed with psychopathology in mind.
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Beth Clarke @bethclarke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I’m hiring a PhD student to work with me on metascience in psychology at @zpid.bsky.social! The position is very open - could cover a wide range of topics/themes 🤸🏻‍♀️✨ If you have questions, please reach out! Applications are open until October 1st. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/en/job/fyjwt...
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PhD in Psychological Meta-Science (m/f/d)
Become part of the open science movement The Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) in Trier (Germany) is an internationally recognized research-based psychology service center located in...
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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 17/08/2026
Call for new early-career speakers! Do you want to share your expertise and insights, gain experience as an invited speaker, expand your network, and help out a journal club in need? Then sign up as a speaker for ReproducibiliTea's Speaker Swap! 🎤 The link is below:
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Ellie Bastos Degobi @elliebastos.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
finally got to this reading: Objective Knowledge from Karl Popper. Love the fact that many of his works are translated to portuguese.
Karl Popper's book Objective Knowledge (Brazilian Version).
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Two junior research fellowships @kingscollege.bsky.social opening soon due on Oct 1st. The theme is REPLICATION conceived broadly to encompass different research projects in humanities and social sciences. As a philosopher of science I am esp hoping for applications in #philsci #metascience #hps
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Ellie Bastos Degobi @elliebastos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’ve been working on major improvements to the layout, presentation, and also revising the text to make complex concepts more accessible. The latest updates also expand the discussion of reliability and measurement theory. The book is freely available online: elliedegb.quarto.pub/psychometrics/
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Advances in Psychometric Theory and Measurement for Psychological Sciences
A reading-first guide to psychometric theory, measurement, and practical analysis in R, connecting foundational ideas with modern methods for psychological science.
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Jan Pfänder @janpfa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Why do people trust physicists and biologists more than economists or sociologists? In a new paper out in Public Understanding of Science, @hugoreasoning.bsky.social and I argue that it has to do with perceived precision and consensus. doi.org/10.1177/0963...
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Sciences perceived as precise and consensual are more trusted - Jan Pfänder, Hugo Mercier, 2026
Research focused on the United States shows that people’s trust in science varies considerably between disciplines. Existing explanations of these trust gaps st...
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Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🌺🌞🍃 @mzloteanu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#statstab #594 Measurement Theory: Why it is Possible to Measure Psychological Phenomena Thoughts: I need to engage with this properly, but seems cool. #psychometrics #mesurement #theory #validity #reliability #history elliedegb.quarto.pub/psychometric...
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4  Measurement Theory: Why it is Possible to Measure Psychological Phenomena – Advances in Psychometric Theory and Measurement for Psychological Sciences
This is an educational resource, with content at the cutting edge of scientific knowledge. It aims to improve future research, by improving researchers knowledge in the statistical inferences made, pl...
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Ellie Bastos Degobi @elliebastos.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Just got a paper submission canceled by the editor because my OSF repository link is down. Guess Zenodo is the way?
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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The following R script downloads your public projects from the OSF. Set the variable "me" to your OSF user ID, which you can find at osf.io/profile after logging in.
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Ellie Bastos Degobi @elliebastos.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
One of the papers from my PhD is out in the world.
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Steve Kambouris @steve-kambouris.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
My single top recommendation would be Zenodo (zenodo.org), but there are other very good options, such as Dryad (datadryad.org) and the Dataverse (dataverse.org), which is deployed by institutions (for Australia, see dataverse.ada.edu.au/dataverse/ada)
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Gilad Feldman @giladfeldman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Meta Research Symposium 2026, 8-9 October 2026, TU/e Eindhoven paulmeehlschool.github.io/workshops/sy... Seems like a wonderful event for ECRs doing meta-science. I'll give a workshop on "How to use AI tools, agents, LLMs, and automation to improve open science practices" Hope to see you there.
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Ellie Bastos Degobi @elliebastos.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
As I'm changing my personal Website, I created a blog post that might interest my open-science folks elliedegobi.com/os-brazil/ Happy to know your thoughts.
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How Other Countries Can Learn from Brazil’s Open Science—and Why Policy Alone Is Not Enough - Ellie Bastos Degobi, PhD.
Brazil built much of its open-science capacity from the ground up, through public infrastructure, scholarly communities, and institutional experimentation. Its achievements—and its unfinished transiti...
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Ellie Bastos Degobi @elliebastos.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
As I'm changing my personal Website, I created a blog post that might interest my open-science folks elliedegobi.com/os-brazil/ Happy to know your thoughts.
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How Other Countries Can Learn from Brazil’s Open Science—and Why Policy Alone Is Not Enough - Ellie Bastos Degobi, PhD.
Brazil built much of its open-science capacity from the ground up, through public infrastructure, scholarly communities, and institutional experimentation. Its achievements—and its unfinished transiti...
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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 07/08/2026
📢 Quick Reminder: Register for ReproducibiliTea 2026! The ReproducibiliTea Conference 2026 is approaching fast! Don't miss out on connecting with the global community to dive into this year's theme: "Spilling the ReproducibiliTea: A decade on & decades ahead."
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William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 07/08/2026
Ever thought meta-research and Open Science needed a virtual conference that all could attend? @reproducibilitea.org is putting one together in September, with the program shaping up to be insightful and impactful. Please reach out if you would like to help! reproducibilitea.org/conference2026
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Spilling the ReproducibiliTea 2026
An online conference on reproducibility in research: open discussions, fresh perspectives, and community building with researchers worldwide.
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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Absolutely. Code review and unit testing should now be a major part of coding education. (I have some revisions to my textbooks planned.) psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v5/
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Data Skills for Reproducible Research
This book provides an overview of skills needed for reproducible and open research using the statistical programming language R and tidyverse packages. It covers reproducible workflows, data visualisa...
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In the last 2 years I (and our lovely collaborators) have been rather obsessively working on Metacheck - a tool to automatically check best practices in papers. In this RIOTS summerschool talk, I walk you through what the tool can do, and future plans www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWd2...
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Metacheck: automatically check papers for best practices - Daniel Lakens
Can automated tools help researchers catch problems before their work is published? In this talk from the King’s Open Research Summer School 2026, Professor Daniël Lakens (Eindhoven University of…
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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Are you on academic job market for #Postdoc or #TT Assistant/Assoc. Prof/Lecturer/ #AP /Research Scholar/ #fellowship jobs for 2026-2027 in #CS/ #SocSci/ #InfoSci/ Management Science/ #Psych & similar? Like last year, I am maintaining a list (so far ~200 positions) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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2026-2027 Postdoc/TT/Research Scientist Positions in Information/CS/Social Science + Related Fields
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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Psychological Science is running a special issue on "Advancing Psychological Science using Large Language Models", co-edited by me and @ruben.the100.ci. Check out the calls for submissions below! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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Special Issue Call for Submissions: “Advancing Psychological Science using Large Language Models”
Editors: Jamie Cummins and Ruben C. ArslanPsychological Science invites submissions for a special issue on psychological science involving large language models. We welcome theoretically and empirical...
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Daniel Dunleavy @dunleavy-daniel.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
For anyone interested the deadline for submissions has been extended to August 7th: forrt.org/ai-metascience #Metascience #OpenScience
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FORRT AI in Metascience Online Conference | FORRT - Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training
Call for submissions — FORRT AI in Metascience Online Conference, 28–30 September 2026, online. Deadline 7 August 2026.
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
If you read one paper on the conceptualization of mental health problems this year, make it this one. Much of it aligns closely with my views—bummer it's not published elsewhere. Curious what you think and which clinical, research, or logical weak spots you see. doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...
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Frontiers | Problem-sustaining patterns: redesigning the concept of mental disorder
We propose the concept of a problem-sustaining pattern as a revision of the established concept of mental disorder. The proposed concept preserves valuable f...
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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I’m recruiting two new PhD students to start in 2027, working with me on my program of research in quantitative psychopathology. I’ve put some information for interested students on my website: miriamkforbes.academic.ws Please share with anyone you know who might be interested!
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 27/07/2026
Two-year postdoc in meta-research at Carnegie Mellon jobs.chronicle.com/job/38018780...
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Postdoctoral Associate in Meta-research - UEIS - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States job with Carnegie Mellon University | 38018780
Are you a recent Ph.D. graduate in a STEM or social science discipline interested in a career path in meta-research, knowledge synthesis, open...
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Anne Reitz @annereitz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
📢 We’re hiring! Postdoc in Personality Psychology & Psychological Assessment at the University of Greifswald. ✨ Lots of freedom for your own research ✨ Start Oct 2026 or later ✨ Long-term perspective toward a permanent position Deadline: 15 Aug Please share — and feel free to get in touch!
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Research Associate (Postdoc) - Institute of Psychology 26/Sa23
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Psychologie
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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Applications are open for SFI's 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
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Ellie Bastos Degobi @elliebastos.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Is anyone researching eating disorders and open to collaborations? Please reach out!
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Amy Knight @amyknight.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
We’re looking for new members to join our Service User and Carer Advisory Group! Do you have lived experience of a mental health condition, or support someone who does? Help shape clinical psychology teaching & research. Members are paid for their time & expertise. Please share! 🌱 #PPI #PPIE
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/07/2026
New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >
Thinking Clearly About Sampling and Representation With the Total Survey Error Framework

Collecting a sample that represents the population of interest well constitutes a challenge across the social and behavioural sciences. Psychology in particular frequently relies on convenience samples—most notably students and, increasingly, online participants—with a tendency to either (implicitly) assume representativeness without substantive justification, or to acknowledge a lack of it only in passing. In contrast, researchers rarely engage with the actual implications for their inferences, which undermines the generalisability of psychological findings. Critically, representativeness must be defined with respect to variables relevant to the target of inference, rather than superficial demographic diversity. Here we present the Total Survey Error (TSE) framework as a methodological tool that systematically addresses the multifaceted sources of error—particularly those related to representation—that emerge throughout the research cycle. Although TSE originated in survey research, its principles are broadly applicable to any psychological study seeking inference from sample to population. We offer practical strategies for identifying, preventing, and mitigating representation errors to improve the credibility and generalisability of psychological research.

Illustration of the total survey error framework with the representation strand highlighted. It shows how coverage error, sampling error and non-response error arise during the sampling process.
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
If you are considering a Marie Curie for the September deadline that fits in the lab (depression, measurement, time-series, complex systems, history of psychiatry), please don't hesitate to send me an email if you'd like to work with me :).
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...
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Assistant Professor in Metascience
Personal type: Scientific staff
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We're developing alternative ways to shorten questionnaires, given psychology's questionable focus on inter-item correlations. We are looking for datasets: - clinical (mental health) - contains diagnosis - contains long form - contains short form Steep requirements, but maybe someone knows smth?
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Ellie Bastos Degobi @elliebastos.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Anyone got book recommendations on theory building?
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 08/07/2026
Good news everyone! 🎉 The new version 3.0 of graph-tool is just out with major improvements! See below. graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N
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Thomas Schubert @schubert.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Open position alert: Associate Professorship in Quant methods in psych department at University of Oslo. Deadline 1 September www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of Oslo
Job title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026
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coolbutuseless @coolbutuseless.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Introducing {rdoom} - Play Doom in #RStats (in time for #UseR2026 !) github.com/coolbutusele... This is a demonstration that {tigerfb} + {nara} can do realtime interactivity in R! Includes: keyboard & mouse control, audio, cheat modes!
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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
WE ARE HIRING! Come work with us (me + @malte.the100.ci) on developing and validating RegCheck. PhD or postdoc applications welcome. Folk with backgrounds in meta-science, psychology, (pre)clinical trials, and/or economics are especially invited to apply. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...
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PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science - Universität Bern
Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science
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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Excited to share a paper recently accepted at Nature Mental Health! 😄 For decades, we've assumed that covariance among psychopathology informs comorbidity. What if we’ve been wrong?
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