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Dr Emma Henderson

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Behavioural Scientist illusions of truth | behaviour change | meta-science | Registered Reports lover | transparency & openness in research | responsible researcher assessment | 1st gen | she/her 🌱😻

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Sam Westwood @samwestwood.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We're back, with a fresh new lineup of talks and workshops! Get your place while you still can to learn about how to make your research more robust and how to deal with scientific fraud! This event is free and open to all: tinyurl.com/3ewaduvm
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Human Behaviour Change - APRICOT @hbcproject.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🚨 Registrations are now OPEN for the official launch of the APRICOT Project! 🚨 Join us as we explore how ontologies can advance behaviour change science. 🌍🧠 🗓️ 17 June 2025 ⏰ 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM (UK Time) Register here: tinyurl.com/HBCP-APRICOT
Flyer for the APRICOT Launch

17 June 2025
3:30 PM - 5 PM (UK time)

Online Event

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Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We’re hiring! RoRI is looking for a Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in metascience to join our team at UCL. If you're passionate about improving research systems, cultures and decision-making - we’d love to hear from you. More details & how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Hu Chuan-Peng is on paternity leave @hcp4715.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Cool paper in AMPPS of @psychscience.bsky.social "One App to Rule Them All: A One-Stop Calculator and Guide for 95 Effect-Size Variants for Two-Group Comparisons of Central Tendency, Variability, Overlap, Dominance, and Distributional Tails” doi.org/10.1177/2515...
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One App to Rule Them All: A One-Stop Calculator and Guide for 95 Effect-Size Variants for Two-Group Comparisons of Central Tendency, Variability, Overlap, Dominance, and Distributional Tails - Marton ...
The prevalence of effect-size (ES) reporting has risen significantly, yet studies comparing two groups tend to rely exclusively on the Cohen’s d family of ESs. ...
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 18/03/2025
Tens of thousands of psychological measures have been created, but 79% are not reused more than twice. In a new article in NHB lead by @faridanvari.bsky.social and @ruben.the100.ci we quantify this fragmentation in psychology's measures and propose solutions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dr Emma Henderson @emmahendersonrr.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
How do you identify predatory journals (other than their 90s vibe websites)? Which list or lists do you rely on?
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
We love to share new papers on here. But how many of the studies that scientists preregister on the Open Science Framework are never shared publicly? In a new paper in AMPPS we estimate 40% of preregistered studies are never shared. That’s a lot. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🧵⤵️
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An Inception-Cohort Study Quantifying How Many Registered Studies Are Publicly Shared - Eline N. F. Ensinck, Daniël Lakens, 2025
We quantified how many studies registered on the OSF up to November 2017 are performed but not shared after at least 4 years. Examining a sample of 169 register...
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Xenia Schmalz @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
New #preprint by @leungyianna.bsky.social: We introduce #ReSearchTerms: a #ShinyApp that visualises the content of #definitions for a set of key terminology in #OpenScholarship (selected from @forrt.bsky.social). Preprint: osf.io/qsp7x ShinyApp: msleungyi.shinyapps.io/Re-SearchTer...
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simine vazire @simine.com · 12/01/2025
Want to get editing experience? If you have a PhD & are a member of a group that’s historically underrepresented in editorial roles, apply for a 1 yr editorial fellowship at one of APS’s journals (including Psych Science)! Deadline 7 Feb. Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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APS Editorial Fellowship Program: Call for Applications
Deadline: February 7, 2025APS is pleased to announce the application process for the next cohort of the Editorial Fellowship Program (EFP) is now open. This program aims to increase opportunities for ...
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William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 06/01/2025
Announcing a side-project that I have been working on for the past few months – introducing quokka, a free-to-use, in-browser app for qualitative coding. My goal was to make an app that was fairly intuitive and flexible so that it could fit most workflows. An app demo here: youtu.be/9jJK70W0hAI?...
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quokka – an in-browser qualitative analysis app
YouTube video by Dr William Ngiam
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Dr Kelly Lloyd @kellylloyd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I've just submitted a paper on my experiences creating and uploading an anonymised qualitative dataset to a repository. Enjoyed writing this, & also think sharing these experiences and learnings more in papers is much more helpful than sharing it anecdotally. Fingers crossed!
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
✨ PREPRINT 📖🤩 "Study Preregistration: A How-To Guide" Written for students, this guide outlines the 'what, why, and how' of preregistration, perceived barriers and their solutions, and 10 top tips to adopting and/or critically evaluating this open research practice. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
Introducing RegCheck: a tool which uses Large Language Models to automatically compare preregistered protocols with their corresponding published papers and highlights deviations. @malte.the100.ci @ianhussey.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci @bjoernhommel.bsky.social regcheck.app
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RegCheck.app
RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/11/2024
Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
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Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences A leading scientist at the University of Oxford has resigned from the UK’s national academy of sciences over concerns about Elon Musk’s…
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
New blogpost: deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
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Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Loving this paper 'Rethinking barriers and enablers'. How many thousands of weak research studies have reduced complex change to 'identifying and addressing barriers and enablers'? Here's how to do better! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Rethinking Barriers and Enablers in Qualitative Health Research: Limitations, Alternatives, and Enhancements - Abby Haynes, Victoria Loblay, 2024
Explorations of barriers and enablers (or barriers and facilitators) to a desired health practice, implementation process, or intervention outcome have become s...
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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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Dr Emma Norris @emmajnorris.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
📢 EHPS Open Science SIG Webinar: Introduction to Registered Reports #OpenScience #BehaviouralScience 🗓️ Join us Thursday, November 28th at 12pm GMT, 1pm CET for a 1-hour webinar presented by Dr Aoife O'Mahony Register today to secure your spot: forms.gle/xyVYygK2jURe...
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EHPS Open Science Special Interest Group Webinar - Introduction to Registered Reports, Thursday November 28th, 12pm GMT
Join us on Thursday November GMT at 12pm GMT for a 1-hour webinar on an introduction to Registered Reports by Dr Aoife O’Mahony, organised by the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) Open Science...
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Stuart Ritchie @stuartjritchie.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
In case you didn’t know, I’ve been doing these monthly Substack link posts about bad science (fraud, the replication crisis, bias in science, dodgy journals, all that stuff). Feel free to subscribe, or to send me links to include in the next one! www.sciencefictions.org/p/science-fi...
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Science Fictions links for October 2024
Including a good scientific report about the bad scientific reports published in Scientific Reports
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Absolutely thrilled to have won the @einsteinberlin.bsky.social Individual #EinsteinFoundationAward. Big congrats to PubPeer and @helenajambor.bsky.social for winning in their categories.
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Einstein Foundation awards to Elisabeth Bik and Pubpeer. 💪 award.einsteinfoundation.de/award-winner...
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Recipients 2024 – Einstein Foundation Award
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
if u are wondering about that red pin emoji here 📌 if u find a post u want to return to u can stick a pin in it by replying with the red pin emoji then use @jaz.bsky.social's red pin feed which keeps track of your red pins
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 18/09/2024
We're excited to announce a major update to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines—TOP 2025! These guidelines streamline research practices and provide greater clarity around openness in research. The preprint is now available. Your feedback is welcome! www.cos.io/blog/new-pre...
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Our* new review of Open Research initiatives in Psychology is preprinted 📖 We identify 187 initiatives to increase awareness & uptake of OR in Psychology and cateogorise these as procedural (tools & resources🛠️), structural (policies, frameworks🏛️) & community (grassroots🤝) *Skubera et al., 2024 👏
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Just updated my blog catalog, making it easier to find old posts deevybee.blogspot.com/2012/11/bish...
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Bishopblog catalogue (updated 19 October 2024)
Source: http://www.weblogcartoons.com/2008/11/23/ideas/ Those of you who follow this blog may have noticed a lack of thematic coheren...
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
What does it mean to say ‘preregistration is a plan, not a prison’? In my recent paper on When and How to Deviate From a Preregistration online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... I explain the value of the plan, but also when to deviate from it. >🧵
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When and How to Deviate From a Preregistration
As the practice of preregistration becomes more common, researchers need guidance in how to report deviations from their preregistered statistical analysis plan. A principled approach to the use of pr...
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 13/05/2024
My paper 'When and How to Deviate From a Preregistration' is now published at Collabra Psychology. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
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When and How to Deviate From a Preregistration
As the practice of preregistration becomes more common, researchers need guidance in how to report deviations from their preregistered statistical analysis plan. A principled approach to the use of pr...
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 13/05/2024
The Metascience conference is coming to London! June 30-July 2, 2025
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Anne Scheel @annemscheel.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
Exciting news: I will be teaching a 4-day summer school on open science this August! The course is for ECRs in the social & behavioural sciences who want to get up to speed with open & reproducible practices and/or learn how to handle specific problems. utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/data...
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Open Science Bootcamp | Utrecht Summer School
This course offers hands-on training in transparent and reproducible research practices. These include preregistration, analysis blinding, FAIR but safe data sharing, dynamic documents, and version co...
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Farid Anvari @faridanvari.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
My wife has family in Gaza, brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews. I don’t need to tell you how bad things are, and they’re the lucky ones. We want to try to help get them out. Please, if you can, donate and/or share this gofundme link; no amount is too small. gofund.me/6356721f
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Help my family evacuate from Gaza, organized by Jana Anvari
Hello kind people of the world, I am asking for your help in bringing my family to s… Jana Anvari needs your support for Help my family evacuate from Gaza
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Nicholas A. Coles, PhD @nicholascoles.bsky.social · 01/04/2024
Today, my term as director of the Psychological Science Accelerator — one of the largest collaborative communities in psychology — ends. Working w/ @psysciacc.bsky.social was very hard work. But it was incredibly meaningful. 🧵on the past 3 years and the future of big team science
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Lena Nadarevic @lenadarevic.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
📣 New Article Alert! 🚀 Would you like to know whether people remember the truth of advertising claims better if they assume most of these claims to be false? Then you should check out our latest article published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: rdcu.be/dCsjt #PsychSciSky
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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
New: A registered report survey of open research practices in psychology departments in the UK and Ireland, with @priyasilverstein.com @drcpennington.bsky.social and colleagues not on bluesky bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #psychSciSky #cogsci #academicSky #neuroSky
Graph: prevalence of different open research practicesEngagement in open research practices by psychology subdisciplineGraph showing if people have ever participated in study preregistration, registered reports, or large-scale study
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Julia Bottesini @juliabottesini.com · 25/03/2024
Interested in becoming a PCI Psychology recommender? I'm happy to share the 1st update about PCIP, which includes a form to express your interest in being a reviewer, a recommender, or a member of the future managing board! Read more about it here: groups.google.com/g/pci-psycho... #PsychSciSky
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Priya Silverstein @priyasilverstein.com · 25/03/2024
Very pleased to share our new paper "A registered report survey of open research practices in psychology departments in the UK and Ireland" 🎉 doi.org/10.1111/bjop... We examined open research practices and self-reported capability, opportunity, and motivation to engage in open research practices.
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Tom Hardwicke @tomhardwicke.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
Recordings of the Royal Society Meeting on the Promises and Pitfalls of Preregistration are up. Day 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNb2... Day 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZPh...
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
My paper "When and How to Deviate from a Preregistration" is now in press at Collabra Psychology. I sincerely hope it will help people to 1) transparently report deviations from their preregistration, and 2) carefully evaluate the consequences of each deviation. osf.io/preprints/ps... #metascience
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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
New blog post! "Preregistration: More Promises than Pitfalls," some thoughts inspired by the recent meeting at the Royal Society. I don't find many pitfalls with preregistration itself, but there are plenty of problems with how we talk about it. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/preregistr...
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Preregistration: More Promises than Pitfalls
Or, maybe the real pitfalls are different from what we usually think
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 16/03/2024
What a great blog post! 'With preregistration, and open science practices in general, folks seem to feel free to fire off half-baked criticisms, raising issues that have already been fully addressed.'
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
Most of the talks of the 6th Perspectives on Scientific Error conference are now online: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... All these talks, from across scientific disciplines, were so interesting! I’ll link to each talk in this thread: 👇
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Emily Farran @ekfarran.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
Come and work on Neurodiversity and Mathematical Learning with Gaia Scerif, Jo Van Herwegen and I for a new ESRC project. Oxford/Surrey/UCL dream team. Postdoctoral Researcher: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFZ944/p... Recruitment Officer (part-time): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFZ951/p...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Neurodiversity and Mathematical Learning at University of Oxford
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Neurodiversity and Mathematical Learning on jobs.ac.uk!
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ERROR @error.reviews · 16/02/2024
Error checking is an important service to science, but it doesn't pay the bills. But what if it did? Introducing ERROR, a bug bounty program for science to systematically detect and report errors in academic publications error.reviews
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ERROR is a bug bounty program for science to systematically detect and report errors in academic publications
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Jess Butler @jessbutler.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
£3M funding call for metascience "support projects to deepen our understanding of how different structures, incentives, and funding practices within the Research and Development system shape scientific research outputs and career outcomes" www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
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Pre-announcement: UKRI Metascience research grants
The Metascience Grants Programme supports cutting-edge research into more effective ways of supporting and funding Research and Development (R&D). Projects must have the potential to inform science po...
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Xeni Deligianni (she/hers) @xenidel.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
😍 Excited about the #LoveData24 Week?! 🥰 Join us on February 14, 2024 ConstantinSluka will talk about Open Data and Data Management in Clinical Research. ❤️ Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-data-... And check out zhbluzern.ch/love-data-week for more events
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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 18/08/2023
A guide to BlueSky for Scientists * Common questions * Links to resources * An explanation of feeds * A directory of science feeds Please share with scientists on BlueSky! Written by me and @markrubin.bsky.social 🧪 #stats #PsychSciSky #neuroscience
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BlueSky for Scientists
BlueSky for Scientists Authors: Steve Haroz and Mark Rubin URL: http://blueskyscience.steveharoz.com Features you may miss from Twitter or Mastodon As BlueSky is in beta, some features are not impleme...
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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
Hey UK folks, I will be in London on book tour in March! Tickets already available for what is sure to be an amazing evening, but more to come! www.outsavvy.com/event/17888/...
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
I'm excited to release the 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 for #RStats ! Convert R dataframes to beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, PDF, Quarto, Markdown, etc. Easy to learn; minimalist interface; concise syntax; ultra-customizable tables; and zero dependency. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 10/01/2024
New blog post in which I discuss measurement invariance from a causal perspective. Come for the amateurish featured image (who needs photoshop anyway), stay for fancy Pooh as figure label. Bonus: You'll finally understand the different levels of invariance (I hope). www.the100.ci/2024/01/10/a...
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A casual but causal take on measurement invariance
Testing for measurement invariance is one of those things where researchers roughly fall into two categories. Either they consider it an incomprehensible and arcane practice that only nerds could ever...
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 09/01/2024
COS, in collaboration with NASA, invites you to contribute to the Year of Open Science Culminating Conference. Share insights, innovations, and visions to shape the future of open science policies and practices. Submit your session or lightning talk by Jan. 24! bit.ly/3SbdpGF
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Call for Proposals: Year of Open Science Culminating Conference
The Center for Open Science (COS), in collaboration with NASA, is hosting a no-cost, online culminating conference on March 21 and 22, 2024, to showcase the outcomes, coalition-building efforts, and o...
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