Pam Davis-Kean, PhD

I am happy to announce that @psychscience.bsky.social will have a special event at our May 2027 Meeting in Seattle. Greg Hancock and Patrick Curran of the QUANTITUDE podcast will be joining us to answer your questions on quantitative methods. What quant methods questions would you ask them?

Stop. Just stop.

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

October's SRC Director's Chat features the Future of Surveys initiative. @umpamdk.bsky.social chatted with @bradytwest.bsky.social & Grant Benson about the challenges and solutions for survey research. In pt 1, Grant & Brady discuss their biggest concerns facing survey research youtu.be/bAbfH8JA8Hw

Hey all, Indiana University is doing A LOT of hiring in clinical. We're looking for Associate/Full: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34486 Assistant: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34485 Non-tenure track: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/33992 Post-docs: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34399

Tuition guarantee at work at UT Austin! Modeled on the HAIL intervention at UMich

Our new paper has just been accepted at AMPPS 😊 In psychology, we often bundle different things into composites (extraversion, depression, …). If the parts have different effects, the composite's effect is an ambiguous blend. Above all, this is Lukas Junker's achievement. osf.io/preprints/ps...

in 2020 my lab quit Microsoft Word and began writing in R Markdown, an open-source document-publishing system that facilitates a clear, permanent link between statements in text (scientific prose) and the code producing analyses and visualizations supporting those statements (scientific analyses)

Call for Submissions for the 2027 APS Annual Convention opens October 15! The 2027 Program Committee is hosting a webinar to walk through the submission process and answer your questions on building a competitive submission. Register for the one that fits your schedule!

Researchers share the lessons they’ve learned in conducting international, cross-cultural research, and provide advice for those looking to embark on their own global collaborations. #Science #AcademicSky

Congratulations to Karl Deisseroth on receiving the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine! 🎉 Deisseroth shares the prize with scientists Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their groundbreaking discoveries in optogenetics.

#7 Interdisciplinary Science and its importance to Psych.

If there’s one thing I hate, it’s paying big publishers for science that should be open. And thanks to Cam @camhostinar.bsky.social and the editors, now we don’t have to! Check out her new journal that is FREE to publish open access in!

Super cool special issue call for submissions from @psychscience.bsky.social journal Psychological Science.

In response to our questions, an NSF spokesperson said that SBE has not been shut down. But with zero SBE-specific funding opportunities, no review panels, and dwindling numbers of staff, it's hard to see the directorate continuing for much longer.

The NSF-Social, Behavioral and Economics website no longer shows any of the programs that used to be there or the program officers. The only thing available is information on the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES). It is now only in name at NSF www.nsf.gov/sbe

Myriam Bcherraoui presents the final research of the @umpsid.bsky.social Annual Data User Conference, “How Early Family Risk and Promotive Factors Shape Parent and Child Resilience: Associations with Adolescent Emotion and Behavior Regulation”.

#ISRNextGeneration scholar Myriam Bcherraoui came to @umisr with a research question: how do early contexts in which children develop, like home, neighborhood, and school, shape educational attainment? She is supported by the Sarri Family fellowship in CPS & using data from the @umpsid.bsky.social.

Interested in studying survey and data science at U-M? PhD Info Sessions (sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/...) Sess 1: Oct 9, 9-10AM ET Sess 2: Nov 9, 7:30-8:30 PM ET MS Info Sessions (sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/...) Sess 1: Oct 23, 9-10AM ET Sess 2: Nov 23, 7-8PM ET

Join us, Tuesday, October 6 at 1:00 for Rebecca Hasson: From Evidence to Action: Precision Implementation of Classroom Physical Activity Breaks More information & zoom link: events.umich.edu/event/152406 6050 ISR-Thompson

🇧🇷 Brazil, Latin America’s largest democracy, will hold presidential elections on Oct. 4. Join the Latin American Elections Hub for an expert panel discussing the stakes and implications of the election on Oct. 13, 3 to 4:20. RSVP and join us for the hybrid event: events.umich.edu/event/152569

Join us Tuesday, September 29th at 9:00 AM with Joy Jang, PhD! 📆 Register for this Seminar: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📨 Subscribe to our ListServ: chear.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=... 🌐 More Events: chear.org/events @ihpidirector.bsky.social

My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound.

What "self-correction" looks like in action. We need more Pauls, and tooling that supports them.

The University of Michigan National Survey Panel (M-Panel) is now openly accepting questionnaire content from researchers. Would you like to ask questions to a national probability-based panel of adults in the U.S., with an oversample from Michigan? Tap below! mpanel.isr.umich.edu/for-research...

Converging evidence with other systematic reproducibility projects

Over the next few Observer columns, APS President @umpamdk.bsky.social will share some of her thinking on why she selected her plenaries for the 2027 APS Annual Convention happening in May 2027. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

My newest Presidential Column for @psychscience.bsky.social addresses the issue of psychologists' dominant use of convenience samples for their research. Can our science stop being WEIRD if we don't consider how we sample? www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Perhaps psychologists should spend more time developing and validating scales

This is an *excellent* post on cluster analysis. If you ever thought about applying cluster, latent class or latent profile analysis to psychological scales, you absolutely should read this!>

New data release! Explore the Age 4 electroencephalography (EEG) data from the Baby’s First Years study: myumi.ch/VDrrX

"Eventually I told him that a guy with a $91 million contract ought to have a top-notch lawyer on speed dial and not be using ChatGPT for legal advice," Mars said.

Collecting longitudinal data? Know when you should start cleaning it? ❌ Not at the end of your project. ✔️ After every wave of collection See reasons why below. 👇

• Advancing Psychological Science Using LLMs • From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World • Centering Underrepresented Populations and Cultural Frameworks in Psychological Science: African & Global Perspectives • Descriptive Research in Psychological Science

Psychological Science is seeking submissions for four upcoming special issues #AcademicSky #Psychology www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Universal free school breakfast and lunch is a great proposal. www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-...

How do you model what your heartbeat feels like? Our new Bayesian toolbox makes models of cardiac and respiratory interoception easier to use and interpret, with familiar R formulas and worked tutorials. New publication 🧪: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

If spending more on schools raises the earnings of the children who benefit, does it eventually make the whole economy richer? My new NBER paper examines this using school-finance reforms. 🧵 www.nber.org/papers/w35755

Congratulations to the 2027 APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award recipients 🎉 Mary A. Carskadon, Jennifer E. Lansford, and Mark McDaniel!

My newest Presidential Column for @psychscience.bsky.social addresses the issue of psychologists' dominant use of convenience samples for their research. Can our science stop being WEIRD if we don't consider how we sample? www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

This month's SRC Director's Chat was hosted by @umpsid.bsky.social. @ninsolera.bsky.social and @umpamdk.bsky.social chatted about the many ways PSID's data can be used, from income dynamics to family life over decades to health outcomes. youtu.be/3AoedIUiY4I

The Washington Nationals are hiring! statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/09/14/t...

U-M students, faculty, & staff are invited to a Data Preservation Hackathon to safeguard valuable government data during Democracy Week! No experience required—bring your laptop! Sept. 16, 10 am–noon ISR Thompson, Room 1430 Register at myumi.ch/kVd2r #ICPSR #UMISR #UMich #DataLumos #DataRescue

Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

The psychology job market may be showing some early signs of regaining strength, relative to last year. A week ago last year, fewer than 200 jobs had been listed - today, it is nearly 300, a figure we didn't hit till early October in '25. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs