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Tony Roberson

@tonyjroberson.bsky.social
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Asst Prof UH-Clear Lake / #RStats, Methods, & Measurement / Youth Wellbeing / #SchoolPsych / 🎸Radical🤙Behaviorism / #OpenScience / 🎞 Da Moviesh 🎥 / #DoubleBass

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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Was just informed that I have a whopping 6 U.S. dollars left over from a grant that needs spending. They suggested office supplies (yawn) but do y'all have better/more interesting ideas? #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky
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Erik Reinbergs @ereinbergs.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Your seasonal reminder that @drshireenrizvi.bsky.social has DBT valentines cards on her website 🤣 www.shireenrizvi.com/resources
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Intervening on a central node in a network likely does little given that its connected neighbors will "flip it back" immediately. Happy to see this position supported now. "Change is most likely [..] if it spreads first among relatively poorly connected nodes." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Transformation starts at the periphery of networks where pushback is less
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I didn't change the default correct answer to the actually correct answer for 2 items on my multiple choice Psych Measurement final when I built it so there were a couple students who ended up doing better than I did on the test lol #AcademicSky #SchoolPsych #ClinicalPsych #Psychometrics
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BJ🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bonj.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Google AI is useless. This made me laugh.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Do you use behavior rating scales that offer a general total score and subscale scores?🚨SPOILER!!!🚨You probably shouldn't be interpreting most of those. Come join and learn how to tell which scores are uniquely interpretable and which are wasting your time! #schoolpsych #clinicalpsych #psychometrics
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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.
A screenshot of a website laid out in a two-by-two grid:

Top-left, a line-drawing image of a cartoon woman with braided hair looking at text messages on her smartphone with a smile.

Top-right, "Text us from anywhere, anytime. Standard text messaging rates may apply." "Text 'START' to 678-678" button, "What to expect +" link.

Bottom-left, "Reach out to hear a live voice on the line." "Call us at 1-866-488-7386" button. "What to expect +" link.

Bottom-right, side-by-side line-drawing images of two cartoon people. On the left, a cartoon woman is holding her phone to her ear and looking up at the night sky. On the right, a cartoon phone agent is sitting in front of a laptop with a headset on in front of a bright, sunny sky.
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Nate Stevenson @natestevenson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
There are only 4 useful decisions for peer reviewed journals. Reject R & R Major revision (goes back out for full review) R & R Minor revision (reviewed only by AE and editor) Accept Everything else is just confusing and unhelpful.
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
It came up, for highly scientific reasons, during yesterday's Data Science Lunch in my department that one can estimate the speed of light using a microwave oven and marshmallows. I've successfully done this experiment in my own home. Here's a nice video explaining. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwRE...
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Finding The Speed Of Light With Peeps | SKUNK BEAR
YouTube video by NPR's Skunk Bear
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
- Twin Peaks - 30 Rock - Mad Men - Curb Your Enthusiasm - Better Call Saul* *MAYBE swap for Sopranos given the day but Kim Wexler is the best written female character in TV history and I would miss her
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 05/05/2025
This Thursday I will give a talk on (causal) mediation analysis -- happy to have finally worked out what I want to tell people. And happy to pilot a new mode of slide sharing: just putting them on my website (juliarohrer.com/resources/)
Title slide: Trust the process? (Causal) Mediation analysisDecision flowchart "So you want to conduct a mediation analysis"
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Gave the final today in my doc stats class. One student brought these cookies to share and I've never been so proud. #RStats #AcademicSky
Colorful, professionally decorated cookies that with various images and messages like "We fucking survived Quant I", the R software logo, p < 0.05, scatter plots, bar charts, pie chart
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 17/04/2025
Do you have a favorite empirical example of a situation in which there is a (documented) lack of measurement invariance? Send them all my way 😊!
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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This is a *key* new paper in the world of school mental health interventions A very large trial (N=6388) testing a universal CBT-based app for adolescent depression (13-14y) No effects found (on depression, anxiety, distress or insomnia) (🧵) mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
Future Proofing Study: a cluster randomised
controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of a
universal school-based cognitive–behavioural
programme for adolescent depression
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midwesanderson.bsky.social @midwesanderson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
My first #TidyTuesday: I really enjoyed exploring the Pixar dataset and getting more comfortable working in R with new data. Enjoyed @andrew.heiss.phd's program evaluation course this semester. Excited to keep building my R skills over the summer in #dataviz! #rstats
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
‼️ New paper @ Child Development discussing why it is inappropriate to use traditional common factor models to model adverse childhood experienced (ACEs) and other stressor inventories ‼️ Read full (brief) paper at srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @srcdorg.bsky.social #PsychSciSky 1/9
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<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are highly impactful stressors that increase individuals' risk for a plethora of negative developmental and health outcomes. Furthermore, minoritized groups and u...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/04/2025
Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die Off
Sometimes older voters aren’t just naturally more conservative. It’s just that wealthier and whiter people tend to live longer and healthier lives.
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
📚😅🎉 Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher! Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies. Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com #RStats #PyData
Model to Meaning: How to interpret statistical models with marginaleffects for R and Python
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Andy Charlwood @handle.invalid · 03/04/2025
After seeing FiveThirtyEights implementation of this idea (thank you @andrew.heiss.phd for sharing), I've been working on a medicine themed p-hacking simulator called Placebo playground: medicines.charlwood.xyz#phacking #pharmsky #healtheconomics #medsky #pharmacy 1/3 🧵
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Just one more scale bro, please bro 🙏 we just need to make one more scale bro then it will fix everything!
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 20/03/2025
I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value
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Solomon Kurz @solomonkurz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Who has an academic website they’re proud of? I’m especially interested in websites by grad students, and in websites built with Quarto. I’ll be offering a local workshop on building a website with Quarto, and I’m keen to give my audience examples. #rstats
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 14/03/2025
Hey beautiful causal inference people! I was invited to give a workshop on mediation analysis, ca. 90-120 min. What would you cover? Thinking both in terms of topics to be covered (e.g., mediator-outcome confounding, sensitivity analyses?) & practical implementations (R packages worth introducing)
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Predictor -> Oracle Prediction -> Prophecy Outcome -> Destiny
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Think this is a good way of talking about the disconnect
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 20/02/2025
Here are some cool animations I made a couple years ago for teaching DAG-based causal inference Confounding!
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Despicable
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Erik Reinbergs @ereinbergs.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Reposting - We're looking for a child/adolescent postdoc to provide a wide-range of services at our training clinic. USU is a great place to work and Logan is a great place to live. Join us! careers-usu.icims.com/jobs/8722/ps...
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Jobs | Human Resources
Learn more about finding a career at Utah State University. Apply for open positions, and learn about the campus community and culture.
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
An important avenue for securing our data
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Aw yeah, nice text demonstrating a coherent approach to generalized LMs that DOES NOT start with logistic regression for a change
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Good example of how untangling temporal precedence helps clarify potential intervention points and can refute "common sense" but wrong causal beliefs
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
A little good news among the bleakness this morning
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
People wanting to do structural path modeling bc ~pretty graph~ when regular regression or just straight up correlations are what's needed
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Calling school psychologists! #schoolpsych
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Would love to see splines become more common in school mental health risk modeling where it's common to dichotomize risk status bc that's how people are used to interpreting those scores. This offers a nice compromise, keeping the continuum intact. #schoolpsych #stats #youthmentalhealth
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Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · 20/01/2025
Trying to compile a list of people with active pedagogic interests in teaching statistics go.bsky.app/Qg6YSq6
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
He taught us to make room to dream...and enjoy snacks like a teenager #DavidLynch
David Lynch in a car wearing a lei holding up a coke can with the caption "I just had two cookies and a coke"
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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
i personally like to make sure my code is breathable
screenshot of R code.

functions and variables are replaced with ` ` with various number of spaces
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Tess Neal @tessneal.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
This is now published! #OpenAccess #OpenScience Reflections on Progress, Lessons Learned, & Suggestions for Continued Improvement journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @drandreahoward.bsky.social @jnfrltackett.bsky.social @heatherurry.bsky.social @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social
Image of part of the first page of the article "Open Science at Clinical Psychological Science: Reflections on Progress, Lessons Learned, and Suggestions for COntinued Improvement"
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Welp, looks like my quant class is getting a new extra credit assignment this semester
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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Eleven quick tips for properly handling tabular data doi.org/10.1371/jour...
An illustration of the 11 tips for tabular data.
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Nicole Mark (she/her) @nicoledesignsdata.com · 03/01/2025
Does anyone have any suggestions for books by women authors on the topics of data engineering, analytics, or visualization? (We already have a lot of books around general data topics, but specifically want more technical ones, too.)
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Been trying to find satisfying approaches to address item redundancy and like a gift from the gods here we are
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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 30/12/2024
I will be citing Ben from now on, as: Bolker, B. [ @bbolker.bsky.social ]. (2024, October 15). 𝘔𝘺 𝘳𝘶𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘹𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘴 (𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦): … [Image attached] [Post]. Bluesky. bsky.app/profile/bbol...
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Erik Reinbergs @ereinbergs.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Syllabus update time. What are your favorite articles on consultation in psychology? Any area (instructional, behavioral, mental health, systems), but with youth/school populations would be ideal. #schoolpsych #psych #CBTworks
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Demetri @phdemetri.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
You will be visited by three ghosts
A log likelihood is shown. The quantities for the score, wald, and likelihood tests are illustrated with respect to the log likelihood.
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Tony Roberson @tonyjroberson.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Straightforward and practical review of missing data handling issues and procedures with accompanying code. Nice to see this neatly summarized in one place. #Rstats #Stats onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Best practices for addressing missing data through multiple imputation
A common challenge in developmental research is the amount of incomplete and missing data that occurs from respondents failing to complete tasks or questionnaires, as well as from disengaging from th...
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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 24/12/2024
#statsmeme
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