Got so passionate/angry about data management I started crying, how is your morning going?
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Do you want to do a psychology experiment while following best practices in open science? My collaborators and I have created Experimentology, a new open web textbook (to be published by MIT Press but free online forever).
experimentology.io
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this is 100% the book that I needed in grad school! there are so many great classic books on stats or experiment design but so few pulling together all the threads on how to be a modern 'full-stack' experimental psychologist. I hope to be teaching from it for a long time!
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Do you want to do a psychology experiment while following best practices in open science? My collaborators and I have created Experimentology, a new open web textbook (to be published by MIT Press but free online forever).
experimentology.io
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Hi #PsychTwitter... I've had a student approach me with an idea for a "how are babies affected by face masks" study, and we are working on a lit review of what has been done in the past couple of years, but I thought I would ask here too. Self-citations welcome! Thread: (1/x)
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My pronouns are Occupy/Bajor
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Our paper "Is Open Science Neoliberal?" is now online in Perspectives on Psychological Science!
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I tweeted my thoughts on academics stealing others ideas earlier this year. Then, invited me to write an article! 😳
I do hope this article serves as a guide for us all on how to be mindful of protecting ours (and others) work
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At least the Shoebills Every Hour account still works!
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(I joined a big instance because I don't understand what the options mean, but if Metafilter spins up a server I will be over there in a heartbeat, lol.)
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Also this was hilarious
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I went into the Grand Canyon and emerged partway through whatever the hell last week was.
I'm nervous about losing the 'weak ties' brilliance of science convos alongside insights/nonsense from every other trot (yes that's a ref) but:
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🔔NEW PREPRINT🔔 We found that counting videos help 14- to 19-month-old infants better track moving objects 🐷 osf.io/rfm5y via
👇 check out my super low-tech animated stimuli
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This study was conducted entirely during the COVID-19 pandemic. I was starting a new lab with everyone in quarantine. None of this would have been possible without the genius insight by the Lookit team and incredible support from .
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Read these 3 pages. I post them every so often because I think it is some of the tightest, wisdom-packed writing on managing complex systems ever.
And almost every system is a complex system today, which is why cascading failures are swirling around us. researchgate.net/publication/22
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when i say that i'm an interdisciplinary researcher and i wear many hats what i mean is that I'm a disciplinary "estimator"
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Okay everybody it's Zero Hour for this website, post your favorite tweets and give them a little kiss goodbye.
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Academia is not a "calling." It's an "emailing."
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ICYMI: The and are thrilled to announce winners of the inaugural MIT Prize for Open Data. Join us on Oct 28 to celebrate the winners, and enjoy a reception and networking with open data advocates across MIT. ow.ly/eTXp50LcpfX #OpenData #OpenScience
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Big Team Science Infrastructure panel
Fri, Oct 28 - 5:00-6:00pm EDT
Panelists include (adapter of Canvas for ), (co-creator of tenzing, an open source contribution-tracking tool), and (Exec. Dir. of Lookit)
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It's funny too, as a parent, you do the opposite of surnames like Johnson, and use names like Mike Anna's Dad, or Jennifer Chloe's Mom
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the thing where you enter people in your phone like "dave landlord" or "joe hookup" is modern culture reinventing bynames from yesteryear
eventually they will become new surnames
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Can anyone point me to a child developmental paper (preferably cognitive development) where half the sample was tested remotely and half in-person?
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We can accelerate progress in AI by providing free daycare to all grad students and postdocs working on AI. Ask your funding agency to support daycare-inspired AI!
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I'm not really sure why NIH goes out of their way to tell you the exact date your grant is being reviewed, but I'm really, really, really glad I didn't remember about mine until 9pm.
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#jsPsych users... Suppose you could host experiments on a static site provider like GitHub pages, and the data that you collected would be automatically stored in an OSF data component. Useful? What features would you need?
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(I'm also very much not a qualitative researcher so would be interested to hear from those who are if this sounds on anything like the right track...)
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e.g. "I'm going into this expecting to find XYZ." If you're wrong in some respects, you then have *documentation* that the data & your analysis creates *meaningful change* in what we know & understand about that topic, that you wouldn't/didn't have without that engagement.
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Preregistration in qualitative science!
I've had qual researchers tell me that being led by the data you actually encounter is one of the key factors for rich/valuable qual research - under that framework, prereg is a way to accurately document your "pre-contact" self
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The qualitative preregistration template on OSF has been used more than 550 times. Three cheers for Tamarinde Haven and her collaborators for the delphi study that produced the template and to the researchers that are exploring its value for qual work. osf.io/registries/dis
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Carcinization is inevitable!!
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Intrigued about the thought that one day ManyCrabs might join @Many_Babies @TheManyGoats @ManyDogsProject @TheManyBirds @ManyPrimates @PsySciAcc etc. doi.org/10.1016/j.anbe
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A lot of PhDs want to work in supportive teams. It's a reason why many explore careers outside academia.
A strong team of folks is a great thing. You don't have to figure everything out yourself all the time! Other people have different skills & knowledge! Shared responsibility!
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Best part was one of the philosophers, in order to kid the cog sci contingent, had copy-pasted his entire paper onto some powerpoint slides, which he then also read aloud to us.
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Early in grad school I went to a workshop on causality that was about evenly split psych/cog, linguists & philosophers. Cogsci brought slides, Ling brought 10-page printed handouts, and Phil read their papers aloud. Everyone was mutually horrified at each other's talk norms!
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wait do people in some fields actually give talks by literally reading their paper out loud, I thought you guys were joking about people being boring speakers
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It’s important for academics to maintain friendships with folks outside of the academy. You’ll find it refreshing to talk to folks who simply don’t give a damn about your title or research agenda. Those interactions will be a reminder that you are so much more than what you do.
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This virtual event is open to all and was created with a particular emphasis on providing insight and information to prospective students who are Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.
💻Register here:
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Interested in applying to Ph.D. programs in psychology? Join us virtually at Tufts for our "Diversifying Psychology Open House" on Wednesday, October 26, 2022 from 7:00-9:00 PM Eastern time. (Attendance comes with an application fee waiver for those who apply for Fall 2023!)
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mathematicians: oh hey you’re done early
gödel: math’s haunted
mathematicians: what?
gödel: *cocks shotgun recursively and goes back into office* math’s haunted
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In press: "The Benefits, Barriers, and Risks of Big Team Science"
Link: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36190899/
Ungated: psyarxiv.com/2mdxh/
We argue the challenges in psych have a common cause, insufficient investment of resources, & argue "big team science" can solve these challenges
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