Sonja Winter, PhD

We are opening three full professor positions in beautiful Innsbruck!

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

Full Professor in Methodology and Statistics The Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) at Maastricht University seeks to appoint a Full Professor of Methodology and Statistics to lead the department and strengthen its research, education,...

For all stats people out there: or neighbours at Psychology are looking for a full prof in Methods and Statistics: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3519... #metascience #stats

“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.

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

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...

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

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!

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...

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 ⭐️

ERICA to the Rescue! ERIC, the research repository of the Department of Education, was defunded this week. The ERIC catalog lists over 2 million education-related publications. More than 500,000 of these publications are ...

Some good news for this Friday. This astonishing group of people have spun up ERICA, the ERIC archive. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the...

#GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky

Non-Government Career Paths for U.S. Federal Data Scientists A community support and networking event hosted by rOpenSci and Openscapes

📣 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

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

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

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...

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

🚨 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

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.

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).

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...

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

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.

Clarivate Plc: Clarivate Unveils Transformative Subscription-Based Access Strategy for Academia New approach enables broad, simple and affordable access to trusted scholarly content for learning and research LONDON, Feb. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a leading

“Clarivate will also phase out one-time perpetual purchases of digital collections, print and digital books for libraries.”

Clarivate is making all its academic assets rentals.

This will be incredibly unpopular.

www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-...

Brock University (Canada) Psychology Dept has a position open, for teaching-intensive, statistics-focused person.

brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree...

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #PsychJobs #CanPsych

So proud to have my UCM PhD!

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.

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

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...

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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...

🎉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

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...

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.

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

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...

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.