Pam Davis-Kean, PhD

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD

@pdakean.bsky.social

Prof. of Dev/Quant Psych @UMich. Longitudinal researcher studying SES, parenting, math dev, achievement, data science. Open science supporter.
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Tips for data cleaning using code! 👇 More info about data cleaning using code: datamgmtinedresearch.com/clean#cleani... More info about creating a coding style guide: datamgmtinedresearch.com/style#style-...
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Headed to London for a meeting and looking forward to hearing about politics in that country and taking a break from the ones in the US
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This is my surprised face 😐
Now accepted at AMPPS: It's not just p-values that get hacked. We present evidence that the distribution of published Cronbach’s alpha values is also distorted in some way due to hacking and/or bias. @malte.the100.ci @ruben.the100.ci @taymalsalti.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
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MSU's Psych Department is hiring a TT assistant professor with expertise in intergroup relations (broadly defined) and, ideally, who uses advanced methods Feel free to reach out with an email if you have questions! careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/51...
MSU Careers Details - Assistant Professor-Tenure Systemcareers.msu.edu
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Do you ever wonder whether you should model your data with a multilevel model or a structural equation model? Or, do you ever wish you could have features of both in the same model? You can! Learn how to do multilevel SEM using Mplus next week! smart-workshops.com/msem-info
Multilevel SEM Information — SMaRT Workshopssmart-workshops.com
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Thinking about pros and cons of collecting data from kids online? Our meta-analysis is out today. Effects from online testing were slightly but not significantly smaller than matched in-lab effects: d = −.05 [−.17, .07]. By Aaron Chuey, Veronica Boyce, and Anjie Cao. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
Conducting Developmental Research Online vs. In-Person: A Meta-Analysisdirect.mit.edu Abstract. An increasing number of psychological experiments with children are being conducted using online platforms, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Individual replications have compared the fi...
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I have no say on what the Democratic Party does-but reading @jbouie.bsky.social discussions this morning has made me comfortable thinking about Kamala Harris moving into the Presidential spot and excited to think about who an excellent VP (with foreign policy experience) might be.
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Looking for research that has followed the work of Nisbett & Wilson (1977), understanding the accuracy of people's self report of causal processes. Is there a more recent body on how people come to (mis)understand WHY they do things? psycnet.apa.org/record/1978-...
APA PsycNetpsycnet.apa.org
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I updated our guide to BlueSky for Scientists to include a section on moderation and labelers:
A guide to BlueSky for Scientists * Common questions * Links to resources * An explanation of feeds * A directory of science feeds Please share with scientists on BlueSky! Written by me and @markrubin.bsky.social 🧪 #stats #PsychSciSky #neuroscience
BlueSky for Scientistsblueskyscience.steveharoz.com BlueSky for Scientists Authors: Steve Haroz and Mark Rubin URL: http://blueskyscience.steveharoz.com Features you may miss from Twitter or Mastodon As BlueSky is in beta, some features are not impleme...
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John Kubale from ICPSR, facilitating data harmonization for improving comparability in public health emergencies. Pandemic sparked many grassroots data collection efforts (CUSP, KFF) .  They asked how comparable were the data sources in terms of what collecte and findings from these data sources?
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Introducing LEVANTE, a project for measuring children's developmental and learning variability around the world! LEVANTE provides a measurement platform with data flowing to an open repository. In August, the Jacobs Foundation will make a call for proposals to use these tools! levante-network.org
Homepage - Levantelevante-network.org
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Exciting news: I will be teaching a 4-day summer school on open science this August! The course is for ECRs in the social & behavioural sciences who want to get up to speed with open & reproducible practices and/or learn how to handle specific problems. utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/data...
Open Science Bootcamp | Utrecht Summer Schoolutrechtsummerschool.nl This course offers hands-on training in transparent and reproducible research practices. These include preregistration, analysis blinding, FAIR but safe data sharing, dynamic documents, and version co...
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“My hope for this is that it goes from something that was unimaginable until it happened, and then it was unthinkable not to do it,” says @ianhussey.bsky.social “You have to give people the permission, and incentive, to think in the first place that errors might exist.” www.wired.com/story/bounty...
Science Is Full of Errors. Bounty Hunters Are Here to Find Themwww.wired.com A new project is paying researchers to find errors in other scientists’ work. The only problem? Even error hunters make mistakes.
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This is a real issue for researchers. It isn't that groups of scientists are disagreeing. Rather, there's a handful of people making ludicrous claims and a community of researchers working on the challenges. Fielding interview requests about these moral entrepreneurs is important and exhausting!
FWIW, she told me she was refusing most media appearances as just not being worth it. Not saying that's what happened with you, but I think she's been getting a ton of inbound, mostly asking her to be a foil to Haidt, and she's decided it's not worth it.
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Congressional Republicans have a new plan to reorganize NIH and it's a doozy. One thing that stands out is replacing the National Institute On Aging with a new institute titled the National Institute on Dementia. Yikes. www.statnews.com/2024/06/18/n...
With sweeping NIH reform on the table, GOP previews new era of research scrutinywww.statnews.com There seems to be broad agreement that change is coming for the NIH. It's just a matter of how much — and which institutes see their fates upturned.
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“The roots of the problem lies elsewhere: in a distorted system of incentives, in group think, in inadequacies within the system of peer review, and in the complexities of social behavioral.“ www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...
Is social science research credible, reliable and reproducible?www.insidehighered.com Issues of bias, credibility, politics, reliability and reproducibility.
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This topic just came up again yesterday as I was talking to a colleague about the drop in attendance at conferences and increases in the expense of going to conferences (likely related). This made me curious-what would increase your likelihood of attending a conference, or not attending?
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Find postdocs, fellowships, and more job opportunities on the APS Employment Network! bit.ly/302kf5R #psychology #career
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Gun rights activists have won legal victories against firearm restrictions using the seemingly independent work of a Georgetown University professor. But he has undisclosed ties to pro-gun interests, The New York Times found. nyti.ms/3XAPCD8
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