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Hudson Golino

@hudsongolino.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods at the Department of Psychology - University of Virginia. NLP/LLMs, Network Science, Info Theory, Psychometrics. Web: tinyurl.com/HudsonGolino Web 2: r-ega.net

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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
BREAKTHROUGH COMING NEXT WEEK! After months of very intensive work, we are about to release the results of our "Exploratory Graph Analysis Item Parameters" simulation. We've successfully derived IRT-compatible parameters directly from EGA! Stay tuned, folks!
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Are you interested in hierarchical dimensionality analysis? Here's our new "Taxonomic Graph Analysis" used to model the IPIP-NEO Personality Hierarchy. The project is led by Andrew Samo and Alexander Christensen, with the collaboration of Luis Garrido, Paco Abad, Sam McAbee, and me! 1/n
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A new approach for LLM Interpretability: Mapping the Emergence of Semantic Structure in GPT-2. See the project details and initial findings below:
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
What happens when we use Quantitative Psychology methods to understand and dissect Large Language Models? Follow me this week for a very interesting journey on the semantic dimensionality emergence and structural shifts in LLMs...
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Statistical Horizons @stathorizons.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Join "Network Psychometrics with Exploratory Graph Analysis: An Innovative Approach to Structural Validity, Item Analysis, and Dimension Analysis" with @hudsongolino.bsky.social on April 30-May 2! Learn what EGA is, how it works, and get the answers to the many questions surrounding EGA.
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Network Psychometrics with Exploratory Graph Analysis | Statistics Course
This Network Psychometrics with Exploratory Graph Analysis seminar by Hudson Golino covers a network psychometrics approach to structural validity, item analysis, & dimension analysis.
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New paper alert: Revised Network Loadings, by Alexsander P. Christensen, Hudson Golino, Francisco Abad, and Luis Garrido (2025). Link: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The most innovative course I've ever created is back! April 15 and 17, come learn how to develop and validate new scales in silica using LLMs and network psychometrics in R.
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Now Published: "Towards a psychology of individuals: The ergodicity information index and a bottom-up approach for finding generalizations", by Golino, Christensen, and Nesselroade (2025). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Toward a Psychology of Individuals: The Ergodicity Information Index and a Bottom-up Approach for Finding Generalizations
In the last half of the twentieth century, psychology and neuroscience have experienced a renewed interest in intraindividual variation. To date, there are few quantitative methods to evaluate whet...
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UVA Department of Psychology @uvapsychology.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🧠 Applying to Psychology PhD programs? Join @UVA's virtual panel April 14 at 12:30PM! Current faculty & PhD students will share tips on choosing programs & creating competitive applications. All welcome, especially those from underrepresented groups. Register via QR code! #PsychPhD #GradSchool
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
After a very successful first edition (sold out), we'll be offering the course again on April 15 and 17! Stay Tuned!
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
After a very successful first edition (sold out), we'll be offering the course again on April 15 and 17! Stay Tuned!
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This is by far the MOST innovative and mind-blowing course I've created in my entire career. I couldn't be more excited with a course: from the beauty of the slides, the organization of the content, to the unbelievably cool hands-on activities.
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The Generative Psychometrics and Exploratory Graph Analysis Lab has a new tag and a brand new room at UVa
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Large Language Models are great at mimicking human conversation, but do we trust them? Until now, research on trust in LLMs has been scarce. Introducing the Trust-In-LLMs Index (TILLMI), a new framework extending McAllister’s cognitive and affective trust dimensions to human–LLM interactions 1/n
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Come join me next week (March 12 and 13) for the very first: Automatic Item Generation and Validation: A Short Course, A Network Integrated Approach using Large Language Models in R. codehorizons.com/Seminars/aut...
https://codehorizons.com/Seminars/automatic-item-generation-and-validation/
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Come join me next week (March 12 and 13) for the very first: Automatic Item Generation and Validation: A Short Course, A Network Integrated Approach using Large Language Models in R. codehorizons.com/Seminars/aut...
https://codehorizons.com/Seminars/automatic-item-generation-and-validation/
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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Come work with me! We are looking to bring on more top talent to our language modeling workstream at @ai2.bsky.social building the open ecosystem. We are hiring: * Research scientists * Senior research engineers * Post docs (Young investigators) * Pre docs job-boards.greenhouse.io/thealleninst...
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The Allen Institute for AI
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Statistical Horizons @stathorizons.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Join "Automatic Item Generation and Validation: A Network Integrated Approach using Large Language Models in R" on March 12-13 with @hudsongolino.bsky.social to learn how to use artificial intelligence to create and validate questionnaires and scales!
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Automatic Item Generation and Validation | Code Horizons
An 8-Hour Online Seminar on Automatic Item Generation and Validation taught by Hudson Golino, Ph.D.
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Attention dear colleagues: there's a significant increase in bots activities here in Bsky. Be aware of your chat messages.
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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🚨 Excited for the latest paper from the lab, led by Zhang & Arsham. Can we coarse-grain a #ComplexNetwork while preserving macroscopic network flows? Surprisingly, the answer is positive, and we have shown it by means of StatPhys + Machine Learning. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Coarse-graining network flow through statistical physics and machine learning - Nature Communications
Information dynamics are key in complex systems. The authors apply graph neural networks to group components for coarse-graining networks, reducing computational complexity. Their approach preserves i...
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We did it!!! A full-blown, 100% in-silica item development and validation (structural validity and item quality) for PERFORMANCE items using a new AI-GENIE developed exclusively for performance-based assessment/tests. Accuracy (NMI = .95). Mean Difference between DIFFICULT and EASY items: 3.34 1/n
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Our UVA Research Award Dinner last week, with our beloved friends Steve Boker and Valerie Larsen
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A personal note about academic life, especially for early-career scientists: I recently won an important award at my university. And I shared a lot about it. But here's what you don't see: the numerous awards I wasn't selected for, despite being nominated +
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UVA Department of Psychology @uvapsychology.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Congratulations to the UVA Psychology Professors awarded with the 2024 Distinguished Researcher Award (Dr. Steve Boker), and the 2024 Research Excellence Award (Dr. Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social).
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Celebrating the 2024 Research Excellence Award at @UVA with my beautiful and brilliant wife, and two of the most inspiring people at UVa, our amazing president Jim Ryan and our great provost, Iam Baucom.
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We're approaching a significant breakthrough in our AI-GENIE project, blending LLMs and Network Psychometrics for automatic item development and validation. Stay tuned.
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Statistical Horizons @stathorizons.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Another new seminar this Spring is @hudsongolino.bsky.social's “Automatic Item Generation and Validation: A Network Integrated Approach using Large Language Models in R”! Learn how to use artificial intelligence to create and validate questionnaires and scales. bit.ly/40LhJzQ
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
We are SO excited with the things we're doing right now. It's just mind-blowing. Things that were though to be IMPOSSIBLE. Just, IMPOSSIBLE to do in Psychometrics. Stay tuned.
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Coming to EGAnet soon: The Total Entropy Fit Index Bootstrap Test. Compare two dimensionality structures using bootstrapped TEFI values. Includes non-parametric tests and sweet visualization of TEFI distributions. Perfect for robust network comparison!
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Psychometric Society @pmetricsoc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The Psychometric Society has new social media accounts! Follow us, repost us, like us, on your favorite platform: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/psyc... Facebook: www.facebook.com/pmetricsoc/ Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/pmet... Instagram: www.instagram.com/psychometric... X: x.com/pmetricsoc
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Open postdoc position at @sfiscience.bsky.social to work with my fantastic colleagues on "emergent engineering": santafeinstitute.teamtailor.com/jobs/5463514...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Emergent Engineering - Santa Fe Institute
SFI seeks applicants for a postdoctoral fellow in a multidisciplinary research program on Emergent Engineering.
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Are you interested in AI/LLMs, and item development/validation? We have a super exciting new breakthrough from our AI-GENIE project... More information as soon as the new simulation is done! Stay tuned!
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Despite several tragedies going on (including a personal one), let me share some good news. I am very happy to receive the 2024 University of Virginia (@UVA) Research Excellence Award, together with my dear colleague Steve Boker (that received the Distinguished Researcher Award).
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Holiday season approaching, lots of chaos and sadness around the world. Embrace your loved ones and make sure they know they're loved.
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Items generated and validated in silica using Large Language Models have the SAME STRUCTURAL VALIDITY COMPARING COMPUTER-VALIDATION AND REAL HUMANS VALIDATION! We demonstrated that in 5 different nationally representative samples... Read below:
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Paper submitted! Fingers crossed!
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Automatic Item Development and Validation using LLMs via AI-GENIE: In Silica and Human Results. Are you interested in LLMs, Network Psychometrics, Item Development and Validation, and how to automatically develop AND validate items in-silica? Read this thread... 1/n osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Automatic Item Development and Validation using LLMs via AI-GENIE: In Silica and Human Results. Are you interested in LLMs, Network Psychometrics, Item Development and Validation, and how to automatically develop AND validate items in-silica? Read this thread... 1/n osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Ok, so our pre-print is ready and will be released tomorrow. It's a monumental paper that we believe will change how we develop and validate items in Psychology and related fields.
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Are you interested in LLMs, Network Psychometrics, Item Development and Validation, and how to automatically develop AND validate items in-silica? We have something big to share soon... Stay tuned!
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
It is easier to read this thread here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18611...
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Thread by @GolinoHudson on Thread Reader App
@GolinoHudson: Optimization of the landscape of LLM embeddings using Dynamic Exploratory Graph Analysis. Problem: How can the accuracy of LLM embeddings be improved when they are used to map concepts/...
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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
⚠️Urgent public service announcement for anyone using Microsoft Office: by default Office will scrape your documents, unless you opt out, as described below:
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Interested in Large Language Models for concept clustering/item development/text clustering? Check out the main results of my new simulation study. Pre-print coming soon...
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Optimization of the landscape of LLM embeddings using Dynamic Exploratory Graph Analysis. Problem: How can the accuracy of LLM embeddings be improved when they are used to map concepts/traits using text data? Read below for a wild and interesting simulation study...
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hi Psych folks, give @marianatelesg.bsky.social from @uvapsychology.bsky.social a follow. Her work focuses on cognitive science, interventions, science of teaching and learning, memory, and aging.
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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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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Another open position with LEVANTE - this time a postdoc on our psychometrics team, with Nilam Ram: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/... Come join us in creating a field-leading framework for developmental data collection! levante-framework.org
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Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Nilam Ram | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Count down to blow everyone's mind: AI-GENIE's fire test. In-silica item development and validation's pressure test coming soon to your timeline. Stay tuned!
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I just finished reading "The Devotion of Suspect X", by Keigo Higashino. One of my new favorite writers.
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Hudson Golino @hudsongolino.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
If you work with quantitative methods and is interested in being part of this starter pack, please let me know: go.bsky.app/MMeFFH6
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