Fred Oswald

PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!

If you’ve ever attempted a meta-analysis, you’ll know that authors generally do a poor job reporting statistics. If you do this well, you’ll improve your chances of your work being included in a future meta-analysis.

Psychological Assessment is seeking its new editor, to start receiving manuscripts in early 2027 to prepare for issues published in 2028: www.apa.org/pubs/journal... Deadline for accepting nominations is Monday, January 12, 2026, at editorsearch.apa.org @apajournals.bsky.social

Positive counterprogramming to recent science news **The OSF is back online with a new interface** This key milestone makes OSF faster and cleaner. Also, now we can deliver more improvements efficiently and effectively. Please check it out and send feedback to support@osf.io osf.io

Interested in models used to estimate lagged effects in panel data? We (@rebiweidmann.bsky.social, Hyewon Yang) have a new paper looking at patterns of stability and their implications for bias and model choice: osf.io/preprints/ps... [1/x]

Keynote speakers: @tuckerdrob.bsky.social @foswald.bsky.social Ellen Hamaker Hands-on workshops by: @tedmond.bsky.social & @ukuvainik.bsky.social (genomic analyses) @dirkwulff.bsky.social (LLMs in personality research) www.ecp22edinburgh.org/programme

Psychological Methods invites early-career psychologists to apply to be a 2026 Editorial Fellow. This year kicked off our EF program -- it was enriching for the EFs and rewarding for everyone involved. Let's do it again! For details: www.apa.org/pubs/journal... @apajournals.bsky.social

The Department of Psychological Sciences at Rice University, partnering with the Center for African and African American Studies, invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of associate or full professor to begin July 1, 2026. apply.interfolio.com/172829 @ricesocsci.bsky.social

this just out APA Journals Policy on Generative AI: Additional Guidance www.apa.org/pubs/journal... via @apajournals.bsky.social

as editor, I'm actually signing the petition myself :) == Adopt Registered Reports at Psychological Methods - Sign the Petition! chng.it/wszLWM4KPX == e.g., look forward to exploring options for preregistration for the journal @apajournals.bsky.social @akmontoya.bsky.social

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other. wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...

​​​​​​The APA is looking for people to join the Open Science and Methodology (OSM) expert panel. Nomination deadline: September 1st 2025. nomination.apa.org?utm_campaign...

If you just got an email from APA encouraging you to come to this session, YOU SHOULD! Because the "Open Science and Methodology panel member" is ME! Come say hi! Learn about registered reports, and other awesome open science things at APA!

The U-M Dept of Psych is hiring! We seek a tenure-track scholar exploring human cognition with generative AI—pushing the boundaries between biological and artificial minds. Apply at lnkd.in/eF2EXmJz

Speer, A. B., Oswald, F. L., & Putka, D. J. (2025). Reliability Evidence for AI-Based Scores in Organizational Contexts: Applying Lessons Learned From Psychometrics. Organizational Research Methods journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The new National Academies report on the Science and Practice of Team Science is out today: nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2904... I was very excited to be a part of this group in order to discuss the role of open science in team science.

My most egocentric table by far :D (Oswald, 2020; from Big Data in Psychological Research, S. E. Woo, L. Tay, and R. W. Proctor, Eds.)

Time for Congress to save American science … and the nation By John P. Holdren, Neal Lane | June 6, 2025 thebulletin.org/2025/06/time...

🚨We’re hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science! 📍The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (SweCSS) 📅 Apply by June 3 🔗 liu.se/en/work-at-l...

Join @sbs.nationalacademies.org for a webinar series on #Human-AI Teaming (HAT) to explore the future of human-AI partnerships. The first session is next week on May 28 (1-2:30pm ET). Experts will explore effective collaboration with #AI. Register: events.nationalacademies.org/45078_05-202...

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A1 goes well with Grilled Prime Tenderloin (GPT)

How Not to Fool Ourselves About Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects - Paul T. von Hippel, Brendan A. Schuetze, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This is the first pub in our Generative AI in Education Cambridge Element series, which aims to quickly review & bring to the public 20,000-30,000 word overviews of important topics related to theory, research, pedagogy, and/or policy of generative AI in Education. www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

It's that time of year again: I'm teaching Linear Regression. As such I've updated my writing guide for linear regression. Tips and tricks for writing accurate and clear interpretations and inferences in regression. You can check it out on OSF osf.io/aeqn6

Introduction to Bayesian Thinking and Bayesian Modeling Workshop osf.io/gftv4/ via @cos.io by @kcourey.bsky.social @ricesocsci.bsky.social

Happy to share that my first solo-authored paper is now published in the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. 📑 Reproducibility in the Classroom 🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Of 8 highly-cited simulation studies with over 1000 citations each: - 3 could be replicated almost perfectly - 4 partially - 1 *not at all* royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

teaching logistic regression this week :D

whichjob.me is now also available in French -- our 13th language. There will be some more, to make it available to most people in the world. Thank you, Kokou Atitsogbe and Jérôme Rossier, l’Université de Lausanne!

We are excited about our latest work, just published in Nature Reviews Psychology. Read & share here: rdcu.be/edUCO

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

📊 #psy6135 #rstats Today's topic: Visualizing Uncertainty Topics: Visualizing distributions, Error bars, Bayesian stuff, fitted curves, ... Thx to @elibryan.bsky.social, @mjskay.com, @clauswilke.com, @cedricscherer.com and other folks I stole from. 💻 Slides-- friendly.github.io/6135/lecture...

dominance analysis (for better or for worse) is used to determine predictor importance in linear regression here is a colorized/annotated example found in Azen & Budescu (2003) psycnet.apa.org/record/2003-...

New paper on analyzing adverse impact with Bayesian statistics. My graduate student, @kcourey.bsky.social, led the charge: Courey, K. A., & Oswald, F. L. (2025). Evaluating the adverse impact ratio and its associated uncertainty: A Bayesian approach. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law.

another year of teaching regression...

Take your factors for a spin tomorrow…

I cannot emphasize enough, the importance of consistently naming any variables that you plan to combine/compare across forms/time. So that when it comes time for an urgent analysis, you don't have to spend gobs of time mapping and renaming variables before you can begin that analysis. ❤️

each spring when I teach regression, I share some regression slides with y'all -- if you'll indulge me, here are two of them

Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.

Calling all #datascientists! Crossref is hiring for two roles in #metadata analysis and engineering. Work remotely on a global team and contribute to scholarly infrastructure. Deadline to apply: February 5, 2025 Details and application: https://tinyurl.com/47648dc9 #openinfrastructure #metadata