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Victoria Savalei

@vsavalei.bsky.social
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Quantitative Psychologist at the University of British Columbia

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Christopher Porter @canadianveggie.com · 29/09/2026
Bike Lanes or Bitcoin? Police or Park Board? Slower Streets or Safeway Megatowers? Choose your position on 12 iconic Vancouver votes from the past 4 years to see which party you are most aligned with. canadianveggie.github.io/vancouver-co... #vanpoli
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How would you vote? — Vancouver Council Quiz
Answer 12 Vancouver council questions and see which party's voting record most closely matches yours.
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Last year, I publicly complained multiple times (see e.g. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...) that the open access movement had been captured by publishers, and we are now worse off than before open access. Well people got mad at me for saying it. But I think things are still getting worse.
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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
🏆 @simine.com, psychologist at @psychunimelb.bsky.social / @unimelb.bsky.social and Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) is a leading voice in the reform movement in psychology - and is now being honored with the €150K Individual Award. Huge congratulations! 🎉
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Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
New paper in Psychometrika from Yon Soo Suh, myself, & Li Cai. We introduce SISQUOC: a Sequential Importance Sampling algorithm to Quickly and Uniformly Obtain Contingency tables. This algorithm opens the door to fitting propensity analysis of categorical data models. Preproof here: bit.ly/3SYilhO
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 13/04/2025
The conservative conception of masculinity affirms men as breadwinners and promotes toughness. It’s a mentality that fuels the misogynistic online network known as the “manosphere,” a body that may be powerful enough to sway Canada’s political conversation. thewalrus.ca/the-kids-are-lea...
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Look, those elitist penguins have been ripping us off for decades.
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Robert Ross @robert-m-ross.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
New research by Wendy Higgins, @vsavalei.bsky.social, Vince Polito, and me shows that the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test scores have poor structural properties. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test Scores Demonstrate Poor Structural Properties in Nine Large Non-Clinical Samples - Wendy C. Higgins, Victoria Savalei, Vince Polito, Robert M. Ross, 2025
The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) is widely used in clinical and non-clinical research. However, the structural properties of RMET scores have yet to...
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Liz Borkowski @lizborkowski.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
NIH has rescinded its scientific integrity policy. Hard to see this as anything other than clearing the way for shoddy research on things like vaccines. Regardless of the rationale, it's bad news for public health. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-080: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Rescission of the Final Scientific Integrity Policy of the National Institutes of Health NOT-OD-25-080. OD
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Frank Beier @beierlab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Changes to MSc, PhD and postdoc funding programs from 🇨🇦 tri councils. Harmonization across councils, more awards, and new eligibility for international PhD and postdoc applicants!
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NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 26/02/2025
🇨🇦New Tri-Agency open access policy: "Agency grantees & chairholders must deposit their article in a Canadian institutional repository at the time of publication [...] preprints deposited under an open license will be accepted as compliant with this policy." science.gc.ca/site/science...
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Draft, Revised Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications
Preamble The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. It is worth patiently considering the proposals. They reveal little about Ukraine, but much about America in February 2025. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...
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"Recoup the costs"
The sadism of American policy to war-torn Ukraine
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Victoria Savalei @vsavalei.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New paper in Psych Methods with @muhuahuang.bsky.social, in which we show that EFA structures that CFA models will fit well to many underlying EFA-like structures, i.e., models with many cross-loadings. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-..., osf.io/q2jw8
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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
For newcomers, I and @vincentmourik.bsky.social wrote the 2012 Science article that literally started the Microsoft technical effort to build topological qubits. The paper is okay, and it includes a lot of negative evidence in the supplement (i made sure of it), 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Signatures of Majorana Fermions in Hybrid Superconductor-Semiconductor Nanowire Devices
Theoretically predicted particles that double as their own antiparticles emerge in a superconductor-coupled indium antimonide nanowire.
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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Yes. PAY even for retracted articles.
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dennyborsboom.bsky.social @dennyborsboom.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This year I have the honour of serving the Psychometric Society as its President, and we have been working hard on the program for the International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) psychometricsociety.org/imps-2025 You can submit an abstract here: imps2025.exordo.com
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IMPS 2025 - Psychometric Society
July 15-18, 2025 (Short Courses July 14)
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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Call for nominations! I know many great people who would do a wonderful job in this position. I also probably don't know many great people who would do a wonderful job as well-- help spread the word! Happy to answer questions about EiC at AMPPS with @psychscience.bsky.social . tinyurl.com/ykpzvp7e
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<em>Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science</em> Call for Editor-in-Chief Nominations
Deadline: March 14, 2025Nominations are now being invited for Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS), APS’s open access journal that serves as the ...
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Karoline Huth @karolinehuth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Are psychometric networks sufficiently supported by data such that one can be confident when interpreting its results? We analysed 294 psychometric networks from 126 papers with the Bayesian approach to address this question @jmbh.bsky.social Sara Ruth van Holst @maartenmarsman.bsky.social 🧵
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Victoria Savalei @vsavalei.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
New paper with @mijke.bsky.social clarifying the distinction between factor scores and factor score estimates, open access! doi.org/10.1080/0027...
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Estimated Factor Scores Are Not True Factor Scores
In this tutorial, we clarify the distinction between estimated factor scores, which are weighted composites of observed variables, and true factor scores, which are unobservable values of the under...
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Victoria Savalei @vsavalei.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
What not to write in reference letters: "Among several undergraduates I've worked with over the years, he is definitely in the top 20."
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Jasmin Schmitz @jasminschmitz12.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
"We think that it’s too easy for journals and publishers to claim that they have followed COPE guidance, when — in our view — they have only paid lip service to publication integrity while sidestepping the harder work of assessing, flagging and resolving concerns". doi.org/10.1038/d415...
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How to improve assessments of publication integrity
Too often, journal assessments of potentially unreliable research are superficial, opaque and prolonged. Changes to the guidance given by the Committee on Publication Ethics could tighten up the proce...
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Kristoffer Magnusson @rpsychologist.com · 11/12/2024
Introducing PowerLMM.js! A new tool for power analysis of longitudinal linear mixed-effects models (LMMs) – with support for missing data, plus non-inferiority and equivalence tests. powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com Would really appreciate your feedback as I refine this app! Details below 🧵👇
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James E. Pustejovsky @jepusto.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Come be my colleague! The quant. methods program in the Educational Psychology department at UW Madison is hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the area of measurement and machine-learning/AI. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods - RISE AI - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Job Summary: The University of Wisconsin - Madison Quantitative Methods Program in the Department of Educational Psychology seeks a tenure-track faculty member whose research focuses on advancing me...
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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
2/2 The second is my solution for the replication crisis. It was recently accepted at Assessment. "How to Produce, Identify, and Motivate Robust Psychological Science: A Roadmap and a Response to Vize et al." doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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E. David Klonsky, PhD @klonskylab.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
1/2 Hi All! I’d like to share two papers that mean a lot to me. The first is my diagnosis of the replication crisis. "Campbell’s Law Explains the Replication Crisis: Pre-Registration Badges Are History Repeating" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....)
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Campbell’s Law Explains the Replication Crisis: Pre-Registration Badges Are History Repeating - E. David Klonsky, 2024
Campbell’s Law explains the replication crisis. In brief, useful tools such as hypotheses, p-values, and multi-study designs came to be viewed as indicators of ...
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Robert Ross @robert-m-ross.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
New research by Wendy Higgins, @vsavalei.bsky.social, Vince Polito, and me: Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test scores demonstrate poor structural properties in nine large non-clinical samples. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Victoria Savalei @vsavalei.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
This holiday season, please consider donating to lavaan! It runs our lives. I mean, our models. I couldn't do without it. lavaan.ugent.be/about/donate...
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Victoria Savalei @vsavalei.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Nice to finally be let in! Please re-? the ad below! Thank you. :) UBC Psychology invites applications for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in quantitative methods, to begin on July 1, 2024. The deadline for applications is OCT 13, 2023! psyc.air.arts.ubc.ca/assistant-pr...
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