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Johannes Buggle @jcbuggle.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We are opening three full professor positions in beautiful Innsbruck!

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

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Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

If you are planning to attend #APS2025 next week, please come by our (@winterstat.bsky.social & @ashleylwatts.bsky.social) invited symposium on the myriad problems of widespread statistical model evaluation practices (e.g., goodness-of-fit testing), along with some insightful solutions

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

Model Evaluation and Its Discontents
Invited Symposium
Saturday May 24, 2025 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM ET

Subject: Methodology

Wes Bonifay (Chair)
Talks:
How to Lie With Fit Statistics
Wes Bonifay (Presenting Author)
The Shape of Good Model Fit
Sonja Winter (Presenting Author)
Consideration of Indicator Interchangeability Can Strengthen Construct Validation Efforts
Ashley Watts (Presenting Author)
Statistical models enable scientists to describe data, explain phenomena, form testable predictions, and (ideally) understand the world. To achieve such aims, a model and its components must undergo thorough evaluation. In this symposium, we confront the widely accepted methods of model evaluation, expose their limitations, and explore more insightful alternatives.

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Ethan @drbeef.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Spencer Foundation joins Kapor Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch a rapid response bridge funding program (up to $25,000) for education scholars impacted by the abrupt grant cancellations by the National Science Foundation (NSF)! #AcademicSky

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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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Dr. Eva Telzer @evatelzer.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

We’re hiring postdocs to join my lab at UNC. If you’re interested in adolescence, brain, and social development, DM me. Our work incorporates fMRI, social media, and longitudinal methods. We study risks and opportunities in adolescence. If you’re at #SRCD2025 and want to meet, please reach out!

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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.” ⭐️ Please share ⭐️

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Research to Advance Racial and Indigenous Health Equity

We seek to build an actionable body of evidence to construct fair systems that determine resource distribution and support health equity. Deadlines: Rapid Response brief proposal 5/28/25; New Research...

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 25/04/2025

📣 Current and former #USgov data scientists! Join @ropensci.org + @openscapes.bsky.social on May 6 for a community support and networking event: ropensci.org/events/datas... Co-hosted by former feds (NOAA, NASA, DOE, NSF, NIH + Federal Reserve) to discuss their paths to other sectors. #dataBS

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Non-Government Career Paths for U.S. Federal Data Scientists

A community support and networking event hosted by rOpenSci and Openscapes

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Machine Yearning Model 🫠 @girlmeetsbrass.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

ATLAS is seeking applicants for the 2025 Research Fellowship! Doctoral students in the US and Canada are eligible and it's a neat opportunity to work with some leading assessment experts on innovative educational research and evaluation projects. Please share w/your circles! atlas.ku.edu/fellowship

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Research Fellowship

Everything you need to know about the ATLAS Research Fellowship program.

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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

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Rachel Santiago, PhD @drrachsant.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🚨 New publication alert! Excited to share our new article in Journal of Latinos and Education: "Family–School Partnerships for Rural U.S. Latine English Learners: A Systematic Review". Link to 50 free downloads here: tinyurl.com/yh2pvuhc

Title and abstract for the article "Family–School Partnerships for Rural U.S. Latine English Learners: A Systematic Review".

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

While the State Department CAN revoke *visas* with very little legal process involved, stripping someone of a green card is done by DHS (not the State Department) and requires filing formal charges alleging a violation of immigration law and a removal hearing in front of an immigration judge.

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Beth Tipton @statstipton.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

In this op-ed, we - the presidents of SREE and AEFP - joined forces to argue for the importance of evidence on "what works" and how cutting such funding is not "efficient" - it is wasteful. www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...

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Cutting research funding would make education less effective and efficient

Presidents of education research associations explain the impacts of recent funding cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

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Sonja Winter, PhD @winterstat.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Never thought I would be impressed by the pension fund that holds like €500 from my undergrad side gig, but here we are.

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Emily Hahn, MD @ehahnmd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

504 plans are how kids can carry EpiPens or make sure their classroom is peanut free. It’s how kids with diabetes can use insulin. It’s how kids with mobility issues can have more passing time or use an elevator. An attack on 504 is an attack on everyone. Listen to @lollardfish.bsky.social.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...

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AERA and COPAFS Statement on the New Administration’s Sudden Termination of National Center for Education Statistics Contracts

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Here's why your education friends had a real rough one today. It's... it's the entire education data collection apparatus of the United States. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Screenshot of the article that reads: The Institute of Education Sciences, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, appears to be the latest agency in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency office.

Dozens of researchers and contractors received notices Feb. 10, directing them to immediately stop work on research projects and program evaluations financed by IES, a federal agency with a roughly $800 million budget, sources say.

It was not immediately clear which—or how many—of IES’ hundreds of contracts are affected, though one source estimated roughly 170.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Can’t believe I’m typing this but… FUCK IT IM PLANNING A STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PROTEST IN DC. If you want to be involved, be dm me. I’m nervous, I’ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world.

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Klint Kanopka @klint.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Application review for our Clinical (teaching-based) Assistant Professor of Applied Statistics for Social Science Research position begins on Monday. If you're passionate about methods education and want to work with awesome students and colleagues at NYU, we want you! apply.interfolio.com/162021

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

For science reform folks #metasci, it’s important to push back hard on the way in which reform is being weaponized right now. Here’s an article by Paul Thacker about a new, open peer review “rigorous” journal. disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/pandemic-c...

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Pandemic Censorship Spurs Trump Research Nominees and Others to Create “Journal of the Academy of Public Health”

As traditional journals die, transparency, speed and an end to gatekeeping become a new model.

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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🎉We are hiring 1-2 postdoctoral fellows in my lab (webbslab.com) to work on NIMH/NCCIH-funded projects focused on the causes and treatment of depression in teens. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️ webbslab.com/job-postings

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Job Postings — TEDY Lab

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Re-boosting two recently announced permanent positions in our department at the University of Oslo ⬇️ Associate Professor - Artificial Intelligence in Psychology www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Associate Professor - Developmental Psychology www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

New research finds that seeing scientists as intellectually humble increases public trust in them, their research, and their recommendations, highlighting the importance of humility in science communication across various fields. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #scicomm

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The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research - Nature Human Behaviour

Across five pre-registered studies, Koetke et al. find that perceptions of scientists’ intellectual humility positively affect the perceived trustworthiness of scientists and their research.

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Ed Merkle @edgarmerkle.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

New preprint with @winterstat.bsky.social and Ellen Fitzsimmons on ordinal factor analysis, where the latent variables are scaled so that they generally take values from 1 to # of ordered categories. The scaling is intuitive because it is what you use when you treat ordinal variables as continuous.

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Identification and Scaling of Latent Variables in Ordinal Factor Analysis

Social science researchers are generally accustomed to treating ordinal variables as though they are continuous. In this paper, we consider how identification constraints in ordinal factor analysis ca...

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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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Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

@winterstat.bsky.social, Brian Keller, & I will be leading a half-day workshop on "Comprehensive Statistical Model Evaluation" at the @ncme38.bsky.social conference this April in Denver. Join us to learn how to go beyond goodness-of-fit testing when evaluating the usefulness of measurement models.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Please repost! Searching for candidate for postdoc who I could work with to apply for a diversity supplement: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Candidates should want a postdoc now or soon, & be psychologists interested in pain, intensive longitudinal data, or both. Should also meet criteria in link👇

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PA-23-189: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Not Allowed) PA-23-189....

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Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

Our recent work is motivated by claims like "Using Model A, we replicated earlier findings." Usually, this just means Model A replicated the good fit of the original study. But fit replication ignores important between-study differences in both data patterns & parameter estimates

Figure 1. The confirmatory factor model in Panel A will fit well (comparative fit index (CFI) ≥ .95) to all three correlation matrices, despite considerable differences in the data patterns and parameter estimates. Data matrices are available on OSF (https://osf.io/q6rvf/).

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Sonja Winter, PhD @winterstat.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Putting my startup funds to good use 🤓

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Dr. Laura Elenbaas @drlauraelenbaas.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

My department is hiring! TT, assistant level, open area. I joined HDFS at Purdue last year and would be very happy to talk about my positive experience getting started here with folks interested in applying. careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Laf...

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Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)

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Mijke Rhemtulla @mijke.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Do you know any undergrads curious about quant methods training (what it is, what it's good for, where to do it, how to get in)? Online info session happening *this Friday* at 12 pacific / 3 eastern. Please share widely!

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Like for honey crisp retweet for cosmic crisp.

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Kathleen Weldon @kathleenweldon.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

The most frustrating thing about working for the oldest social science data archive in the world is knowing how much cool stuff we have that goes unused because people don't know about it. In some cases, making data usable requires more resources than we have (THREAD).

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Sonja Winter, PhD @winterstat.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Go apply to work with my PhD advisor and all the other amazing people in the psych department at UC Merced! Happy to tell you all about my experience there as a grad student.

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