Today, my term as director of the Psychological Science Accelerator — one of the largest collaborative communities in psychology — ends.
Working w/ @psysciacc.bsky.social was very hard work. But it was incredibly meaningful.
🧵on the past 3 years and the future of big team science
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Three-quarters of teens say it often or sometimes makes them feel happy (74%) or peaceful (72%) when they don’t have their smartphone.
These positive emotions are much more common than negative feelings, like anxiety or loneliness.
Please don't use 'power analysis' when you mean 'sample size justification'. Power analysis is only one approach to sample size justification (online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...) - accuracy and feasibility (!) are often more in line with the actual inferential goal of a study.
Haven't needed to send this for a while. #scientificPublishing
😔 A new study by Hadavand et al. finds that it takes on average 25 months from submission to acceptance in economics (compared to 13 in psychology and 6 in the hard sciences). pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
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We test 9 online samples and find clear tradeoffs between attentiveness and representativeness - which sample is best depends on research q and priorities. For social/political qs I rec Bovitz/Lucid, for complex designs I rec Cloud/Prolific osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Great article as usual from Jay!
Love this new paper so much!
Post-doc position at the University at Buffalo's Office of Research Advancement! Assist in building infrastructure for broader impacts, campus relationships, community engagement to expand public reach and societal benefits of faculty research.
More info here: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/46379
This may well be the first: if you saw a paper in @natureportfolio.bsky.social Nat Hum Behav that you think would benefit from an independent replication, would like to do one & maybe have it published in the actual original journal, here is your chance #AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nature Human Behaviour joins Psych Science, the first two journals that publish Psych papers that will be part of @i4replication.bsky.social ‘s replication games. Sign up if you want to be part of the replicating team!
An analysis of 20 million articles + 4 million patents finds that long distance collaborators produce fewer discoveries than groups working in person. nature.com/articles/d41...
When collaboration distance went from 0 kms to 600 kms, the probability of disruption fell from 28% to 22% for papers.
More information on our lab here pascl.stanford.edu, and more info on the position and how to apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...
Really enjoyed this conversation with Andy, which focused primarily on the most controversial paper our lab has ever produced.
First the center for
Open science. And now an age-matched website photo. How will @briannosek.bsky.social shake up academia next?!
2 dogs dressed in turtlenecks
These dogs look like the villains in a movie where a golden retriever wins a snowboarding tournament
Postdoc opportunity to work in my lab at the University of Toronto. Please spread the word!
RAND is hiring social and behavioral scientists to fill some really exciting positions (LA, DC, PGH, Boston), and offering exceptional salary+benefits. Would highly recommend this - RAND was an extremely valuable experience early in my career.
rand.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
