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Greg Depow

@gregdepow.bsky.social
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Postdoc at UCSD/Harvard, PhD from University of Toronto. Studying #empathy #effort #wellbeing #socialmedia and #prosocial behaviour. #rstats #PhDad #openscience website: gregdepow.com

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL Social Research Institute recruitment poster for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science at the Centre for Quantitative Social Science. Applications close 30 October 2026.
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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My paper with @chrisoveis.bsky.social, Emily Zohar, and @minzlicht.bsky.social about regulating empathy on social media is now out in SM+S doi.org/10.1177/2056.... We show that training individuals to 'share not compare' for + emotions and 'care not share' for - emotions improves their well-being.
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Wise Empathy Improves Well-Being on Instagram - Gregory John Depow, Christopher Oveis, Emily Zohar, Michael Inzlicht, 2026
Two-thirds of the global population spends significant time browsing social media, making it critical to understand how to improve online experiences to support...
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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My department is looking to hire 3 new faculty members! Please share widely. Assistant Professor - Cognitive: apply.interfolio.com/193975 Assistant Professor - Social Psychology: apply.interfolio.com/193979 Associate/Full Professor - Mental Health: apply.interfolio.com/193984
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Anna Weinberg @annaweinberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
📣 *Two* tenure-track Assistant Prof jobs in @mcgillpsych.bsky.social! 🧠 Developmental Psychology 🧩 Child Clinical Psychology Great colleagues/department, strong interdisciplinary ties (MUHC, The Neuro), in a city worth moving for. Apply within 40 days—please spread the word! Links in thread:
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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Good points to focus on. Great to see the call for more descriptive research.
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Postdoc and doctoral student positions in Bayesian workflow at Aalto, Finland statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/27/p...
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Postdoc and doctoral student positions in Bayesian workflow at Aalto, Finland | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How should you respond when friends share good news? My new article in Emotion with @chrisoveis.bsky.social, Dr. Gu, and Dr. Gordon (doi.org/10.1037/emo0...) suggests feeling positive emotions with your friend when they 'capitalize' (share good news) correlates with better responses. #empathy
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Björn Siepe @bsiepe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
To celebrate the openESM paper release, I wrote a brief blog post summarizing recent developments: openesmdata.org/blog/2026-07... We: 💠added more data 💠provided descriptive visualizations for each item 💠created a semantic similarity mapping for items, making it easier to find related items
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Updates: Paper published, new dataset & features
Our tutorial paper on openESM has been published, and we have added new datasets and features to the platform.
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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Today we launch the first stable release of RegCheck: v1.0.0. RegCheck makes it easier and quicker to compare study registrations to published papers for consistency - something we know is important in principle, but rarely done in practice. A 🧵 on what's new: regcheck.app
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RegCheck
RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.
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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🧵 New paper out in JPSP: Morality Cut Both Ways. Can reading facts make you moralize an issue — or lose a moral conviction? We ran 6 studies, 4,464 participants. The results were surprising. 👇 #MoralPsychology #Attitudes. @icedteas.bsky.social 1/8
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Len Simms @lensimms.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Reminder: If you have students or colleagues who would benefit from a workshop focused on psychometric scale development, please spread the word: smart-workshops.com/scale-dev-info
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Psychometric Scale Development — SMaRT Workshops
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We made an open repository of close relationships measures. Our goal is to catalogue all of the published self-report measures in relationship science. You can help us expand the database by suggesting measures you tend to use in your research, or by uploading your own measures! relascale.com
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RelaScale - Psychological Measures and Constructs
RelaScale is a searchable database of psychological measures and constructs for relationship researchers.
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Diego Guevara Beltran @psycheddiego.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
An outstanding question: does helping really cultivate empathy or is it the other way around?). We will examine this with dyadic daily diaries, and ecological momentary assessments (w @dsbarra.bsky.social Jessica Andrews-Hanna & @gregdepow.bsky.social)
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Diego Guevara Beltran @psycheddiego.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Why is lower wealth often associated with greater empathy? New work at SPPS w @jessicadayers.bsky.social Yul Kwon Peter Todd @athenaaktipis.bsky.social shows lower wealth cultivates empathy via challenges and helping - but only among moderate helpers🧵https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506261449280
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Helping People in Times of Need Cultivates Empathy Over Time - Diego Guevara Beltran, Jessica D. Ayers, Jung Yul Kwon, Peter M. Todd, Athena Aktipis, 2026
Why is lower social class often associated with greater empathy? We test whether less wealthy people experience more challenges, thereby motivating them to help...
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Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion @ucsdcompassion.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
@ucsdcompassion.bsky.social -funded researchers – @gregdepow.bsky.social & @chrisoveis.bsky.social – were recently published for their new #research on positive empathy and perceived responses to #capitalization attempts. Read the article ➡️ osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 31/05/2026
What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? All of these questions and more to be discussed at the Emergency Science Meeting on June 2nd, 4PM ET, hosted by Stand Up for Science! Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/g3vTZ
The graphic contains photos of speakers Prof. Timothy Snyder, U. of Toronto, Author of On Tyranny, Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi, Standford U. Nobel Laureate 2022, Amb. Norman Eisen, Democracy Defeders, and Dr. Elizabeth Ginexi, 20 yr NIH Veteren, "AND MORE..." to speak. The graphic reads: "TUESDAY JUNE 2nd 4PM ET/1PM PT, All welcome for the SUFS EMERGENCY SCIENCE MEETING, VIRTUAL AND ACCESSIBLE, What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? REGISTER HERE: https://zurl.co/oCIDw, LINK IN BIO".
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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Excited for the 1st day of APS today in Barcelona @psychscience.bsky.social! I'll be attending the empathy pre-conference organized by The Love Consortium @theloveconsortium.bsky.social where I'll be talking about positive empathy and capitalization. If you're around, feel free to say hello!
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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
✨New paper out @nature.com ✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we built ourselves. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional (IME) content—and does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵🔗 👇
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
What is a psychological theory? Here's our take on this tricky and controversial question in this week's Experimentology chapter summary. Many things called "theories" in psychology aren't actually theories — they're frameworks. 🧵 experimentology.io
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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
When people attempt to capitalize by sharing the good news with others, what dimensions of empathy in the responder predict perceived responses to capitalization attempts from the capitalizer perspective? I address this question in a new paper now In Press at Emotion osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
💡Policy Update: The Trump Administration has dismissed all 24 members of the National Science Board which oversees NSF. SPSP stands with @cossa.bsky.social in calling on Congress to exercise its oversight authority to investigate this action. Learn more: ow.ly/JaF250YQMeB
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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This finding (10% of participants thought CAF was probably training a raccoon army) reminds me of the anecdote from David Wilk who wrote questions for the game show The Power of 10. When they polled Americans if they ever had been decapitated, 4% responded that they had. www.npr.org/transcripts/...
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Episode 714: Can A Game Show Lose?
Crafting a TV game show is a balancing act. Producers have to carefully calibrate the rules, the drama and the prizes just right. Sometimes they get it way wrong.
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AFT @aft.org · 13/04/2026
HAPPENING NOW: The AFT and @aaup.org are in Texas launching our new Nnational Higher Education platform ahead of the 2026 midterms. Read more in the release here, and follow along in the thread below. @afthighered.bsky.social
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AAUP and AFT Launch National Higher Education Platform Ahead of 2026 Midterms
AUSTIN, Texas—Today, the American Association of University Professors and the AFT jointly launched a new comprehensive national policy platform ahead of the 2026 midterms to counter the Trump adminis...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 13/04/2026
Today, the AAUP & @aft.org launched our national policy platform to win back an American higher education system that protects the freedom to teach & learn & strengthens our democracy. Read it in full here: www.aaup.org/blueprint-st... 🧵
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A Blueprint for Strengthening and Transforming Higher Education
The AAUP and AFT jointly launched a new comprehensive policy platform ahead of the 2026 midterms aimed to counter the Trump administration’s far right extremist attacks on American higher education an...
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Predicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measures
In relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ...
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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Thanks to @gregdepow.bsky.social & Leif Anderson for organizing a great session yesterday on receiving empathy! Along with @anatperry.bsky.social, they are excellent colleagues to chat with and then consider true meanings of the constructs "empathy" and "brunch" @affectscience.bsky.social #SAS2026
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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Come check out the fun Friday morning AI empathy symposium led by @gregdepow.bsky.social & Leif Anderson @affectscience.bsky.social #SAS2026. I'll be talking about empathy choice for AI empathy work with @jdweng.bsky.social @minzlicht.bsky.social, and why recipient experiences matter for this debate
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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Looking forward to @affectscience.bsky.social #SAS2026 in Pittsburgh this week, where I will speak on AI empathy in a session by @gregdepow.bsky.social & Leif Anderson, along with @anatperry.bsky.social. Ontology of empathy, and pierogies, a balanced meal. I may arrange an AI #empathy popup coffee ☕
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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
1/ New paper in Communications Psychology: Against Frictionless AI. Led by my student Emily Zohar and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social. The argument: AI's greatest selling point is also its problem. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Against frictionless AI - Communications Psychology
AI’s greatest strength—removing friction from work and relationships—is also a liability. Prioritizing outcome over process, it eliminates desirable difficulties that drive growth. By subtracting effo...
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...
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Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology
Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology provide a several-week-long visit to our department for early-career faculty. The program focuses on early-career scholars who would benefit from interactions ...
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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Preprint of "Wise Empathy Improves Well-being on Instagram" is now available: osf.io/preprints/ps... Effects of social media on well-being vary, and depend greatly on online experiences. Here, we present a wise empathy intervention to change digital experiences and improve well-being. #empathy 1/4
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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
As we head toward #SAS2026 we are excited to partner with @inclivio.com to support EMA research in affective science. If you’re attending the conference, like (1 entry) and repost (3 entries) this post to enter a drawing for 1 of 3 licenses to run your study on Inclivio for *free*. inclivio.com
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Nina Wang @ninawang.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Interested in doing a postdoc on misinfo/belief change with me and @gordpennycook.bsky.social? We are looking for candidates to apply for a Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowship, based at York University. Contact me for more details! #PsychJobs
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Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowships - Connected Minds
INTRODUCTION: New technologies are revolutionizing society, creating a 'techno-social collective' where humans and intelligent technologies are deeply interconnected. While such advances present excit...
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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
We are excited to announce our partnership with @inclivio.com's software for #SAS2026. We’re counting down to the conference with a series of posts. Enter a drawing for 3 EMA study licenses by liking (1 point) and reposting (3 points)! #SAS #AffectiveScience #EMA #EmotionDynamics
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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Excited to share: This summer I'm starting as an Assistant Professor at @lakeheaduniversity.bsky.social! 🥳 I'll be continuing my research on empathy, teaching, and mentoring students. Prospective students interested in empathy are welcome to reach out. Grateful to my family, colleagues, and mentors!
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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Excited to see this out in print in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. It's the first publication with @amormino.bsky.social in the EMP Lab, along with Joel Segel from Health Policy and Administration. At a pivotal moment for empathy, we consider its role for policymaking 1/n
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Motivating Empathy and Moral Pluralism in Health Policy - C. Daryl Cameron, Paige Amormino, Joel E. Segel, 2026
Health policy is motivated by a variety of factors including moral concerns, values and convictions. Policymakers are motivated to consider how constituents and...
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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I wrote a piece with Nick Hobson in Harvard Business Review (@hbr.org) on how leaders can use empathy wisely to help their employees feel supported while benefitting their own well-being. Check it out and share let me know what you think. hbr.org/2026/01/five... #empathy #leadership
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How Leaders Can Practice Wise Empathy
Empathy has become a baseline expectation of modern leadership, but practiced without judgment it can backfire, leaving leaders depleted and employees feeling misunderstood. Effective leadership requi...
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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Pleased to share for those using #rstats for analyzing #dyadic data, that we released a major update of dySEM on CRAN (now ver. 1.4.1) *just* before the winter break. New functionality for scripting/outputting dyadic SEMs, along with (much) more test coverage! 🧵 cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
dySEM package logo of two gender/sex-ambiguous figures holding onto a collection of rainbow-coloured balloons in a fashion resembling an SEM path diagram
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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Some good resources on mediation and design-based alternatives in this thread.
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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Excited to announce a new open-access EMP Lab paper on empathic AI: an interdisciplinary collaboration between psychology, philosophy, & engineering on motivated empathy expression and reception with social robots. @ssripennstate.bsky.social @psuliberalarts.bsky.social @rockethics.bsky.social 1/n
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Empathy for and From Embodied Robots: An Interdisciplinary Review - C. Daryl Cameron, Alan R. Wagner, Martina Orlandi, Eliana Hadjiandreou, India G. Oates, Stephen Anderson, 2025
Several years ago, the world was stunned when the cute robot HitchBOT was destroyed. Does empathy for robots—sharing experiences and feeling compassion—make sen...
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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I quite enjoyed answering questions about what got me interested in empathy, what surprised and interested me in a recent paper on state and trait empathy, and how I think about some of the interpersonal implications of my research. Thank you to @theloveconsortium.bsky.social for the opportunity!
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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Recently presented at @theloveconsortium.bsky.social's Virtual Symposium on Empathy as an Interpersonal Process with Dr. Kotiuga and Dr. Monroy. I presented on how empathy predicts perceptions of partner responsiveness across positive and negative emotional contexts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyRA...
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Virtual Symposium: Empathy as an Interpersonal Process
YouTube video by The Love Consortium
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Amy Orben @orbenamy.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
📣 Digital Research Community! The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include. Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Adolescent Health Survey - Digital Media
Expert guidance shaping digital media questions in upcoming Adolescent Health Study.
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The Love Consortium @theloveconsortium.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Excited to have you @gregdepow.bsky.social! We hope you'll join us next week. www.theloveconsortium.org/tlc-events
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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
On Nov. 18th I'll be presenting at a virtual symposium run by @theloveconsortium.bsky.social. I'll present recent work w/ @chrisoveis.bsky.social on how different dimensions of empathy relate to perceived responsiveness for the target of empathy across positive and negative emotional conversations.
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Björn Siepe @bsiepe.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Wake up, boo. Craig Enders just dropped a bunch of new, free material and software on how to manage missing data. www.appliedmissingdata.com/ies-toolkit #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Screenshot of website with the title "Dealing with Missing Data in Educational Research."
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
New jobs for computational social scientists at UNC and USC: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... amd uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...
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Assistant Professor
This Assistant Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology, participate in departmental service, and mentor graduate students.
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Katie Gates @kgates.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
UNC is hiring in Quantitative Psychology! Assistant Professor (tenure-track). Please share widely! Find details here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
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