Martina Sladekova
@martinasladek.bsky.social
Lecturer in psychological methods studying robust statistics and the credibility reform. Keen #rstats user. AI dissident. I climb a lot. I also like dogs. No DMs (refusing to verify age).
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#PhDone #PhDSky - I have successfully defended my PhD thesis yesterday. I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who supported me along the way, especially to @profandyfield.bsky.social who’s been a wonderful supervisor and a mentor throughout the process.
🧵 A brief thread on the topic 👇
🧵 A brief thread on the topic 👇
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WANTED! Collaborators for a Big Team Science Systematic Review on Statistical Software in #StatsEd, led by @alyssacounsell.bsky.social (RoSE Statistics Software SIG Lead), @maddipow.bsky.social (@forrt.bsky.social rt.bsky.social Director of Education & Pedagogy), & @richharrisleeds.bsky.social. 1/2
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
WANTED! Collaborators for a Big Team Science Systematic Review on Statistical Software in #StatsEd, led by @alyssacounsell.bsky.social (RoSE Statistics Software SIG Lead), @maddipow.bsky.social (@forrt.bsky.social rt.bsky.social Director of Education & Pedagogy), & @richharrisleeds.bsky.social. 1/2
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AI "is a thieving, hallucinating, biased, data-scraping, ecо-destroying, surveillance bot that will never be able to reconcile the receipts of its unethical origins."
—A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social
LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR...
www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
—A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social
LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR...
www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
November 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
AI "is a thieving, hallucinating, biased, data-scraping, ecо-destroying, surveillance bot that will never be able to reconcile the receipts of its unethical origins."
—A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social
LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR...
www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
—A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social
LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR...
www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
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I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own
It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries
benharrap.com/post/2025-10...
#statssky #episky #academicsky
It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries
benharrap.com/post/2025-10...
#statssky #episky #academicsky
October 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own
It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries
benharrap.com/post/2025-10...
#statssky #episky #academicsky
It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries
benharrap.com/post/2025-10...
#statssky #episky #academicsky
Now out in PeerJ 🎉 peerj.com/articles/200...
Chapters 3 & 4 from the thesis coming soon bsky.app/profile/mart...
Chapters 3 & 4 from the thesis coming soon bsky.app/profile/mart...
September 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Now out in PeerJ 🎉 peerj.com/articles/200...
Chapters 3 & 4 from the thesis coming soon bsky.app/profile/mart...
Chapters 3 & 4 from the thesis coming soon bsky.app/profile/mart...
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The idea that we have to "encourage responsible AI usage" is a core part of the inevitability narrative driving the institutional adoption that makes people think it's worth trying out.
it contributes to the very problem it supposedly tries to solve. we can't let it go unchallenged.
it contributes to the very problem it supposedly tries to solve. we can't let it go unchallenged.
September 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
The idea that we have to "encourage responsible AI usage" is a core part of the inevitability narrative driving the institutional adoption that makes people think it's worth trying out.
it contributes to the very problem it supposedly tries to solve. we can't let it go unchallenged.
it contributes to the very problem it supposedly tries to solve. we can't let it go unchallenged.
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I did hear a bit doing the traditional "Open access publishing is now so expensive no-one can afford to do it". And I mostly want to stand up and scream Green.
I seem to spend my life wanting to stand up and scream green.
I seem to spend my life wanting to stand up and scream green.
September 5, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I did hear a bit doing the traditional "Open access publishing is now so expensive no-one can afford to do it". And I mostly want to stand up and scream Green.
I seem to spend my life wanting to stand up and scream green.
I seem to spend my life wanting to stand up and scream green.
Our review paper with @profandyfield.com just got accepted to PeerJ 🎉 osf.io/preprints/ps...
We review OLS models and their assumptions, discuss statistical practice, and offer some practical tips on how to use robust methods with preregistration to reduce unnecessary analytic degrees of freedom.
We review OLS models and their assumptions, discuss statistical practice, and offer some practical tips on how to use robust methods with preregistration to reduce unnecessary analytic degrees of freedom.
OSF
osf.io
August 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Our review paper with @profandyfield.com just got accepted to PeerJ 🎉 osf.io/preprints/ps...
We review OLS models and their assumptions, discuss statistical practice, and offer some practical tips on how to use robust methods with preregistration to reduce unnecessary analytic degrees of freedom.
We review OLS models and their assumptions, discuss statistical practice, and offer some practical tips on how to use robust methods with preregistration to reduce unnecessary analytic degrees of freedom.
Reposted by Martina Sladekova
Out today in Teaching Statistics! Our paper on getting started in (statistics) education research, inspired by our 2024 @ukcots.bsky.social panel on the same. #StatsEd onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Education research: Getting started
Statistics education research advances knowledge, informs teaching practices, and improves learning outcomes, but how does a higher education statistics educator get started in research? A panel disc...
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August 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Out today in Teaching Statistics! Our paper on getting started in (statistics) education research, inspired by our 2024 @ukcots.bsky.social panel on the same. #StatsEd onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky
Expression of Interest in Serving as a PsyArXiv Moderator
As you might have heard, PsyArXiv is having some issues with an increase in low-quality submissions, ranging from AI generated manuscripts to inflate citation metrics, incoherent or nonsensical docume...
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August 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky
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Excited for our #StatsEd conference on July 31st? You can register to attend for ✨ free ✨ by clicking here: bit.ly/roseconferen... - Don't miss a chance to connect with other statistics education researchers from around the world!
July 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Excited for our #StatsEd conference on July 31st? You can register to attend for ✨ free ✨ by clicking here: bit.ly/roseconferen... - Don't miss a chance to connect with other statistics education researchers from around the world!
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Psych Stats Instructors: please consider participating in a 15-min anonymous survey about best practice and teaching methods. Closes May 31st. For details see: ryersonpsych.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Sharing appreciated!
Sharing appreciated!
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May 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Psych Stats Instructors: please consider participating in a 15-min anonymous survey about best practice and teaching methods. Closes May 31st. For details see: ryersonpsych.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Sharing appreciated!
Sharing appreciated!
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Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
April 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline.
March 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline.
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February 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Parallelization just landed in the dev version of purrr: purrr.tidyverse.org/dev/referenc...
Really pleased that the mirai framework makes this possible.
Huge credit to the tidyverse maintainers @hadley.nz @lionelhenry.bsky.social and @davisvaughan.bsky.social !
#rstats #tidyverse
Really pleased that the mirai framework makes this possible.
Huge credit to the tidyverse maintainers @hadley.nz @lionelhenry.bsky.social and @davisvaughan.bsky.social !
#rstats #tidyverse
Parallelization in purrr — parallelization
purrr's map functions have a .parallel argument to parallelize a map using
the mirai package. This allows you to run computations in parallel
using more cores on your machine, or distributed over the ...
purrr.tidyverse.org
February 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Parallelization just landed in the dev version of purrr: purrr.tidyverse.org/dev/referenc...
Really pleased that the mirai framework makes this possible.
Huge credit to the tidyverse maintainers @hadley.nz @lionelhenry.bsky.social and @davisvaughan.bsky.social !
#rstats #tidyverse
Really pleased that the mirai framework makes this possible.
Huge credit to the tidyverse maintainers @hadley.nz @lionelhenry.bsky.social and @davisvaughan.bsky.social !
#rstats #tidyverse
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Trying to compile a list of people with active pedagogic interests in teaching statistics go.bsky.app/Qg6YSq6
January 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Trying to compile a list of people with active pedagogic interests in teaching statistics go.bsky.app/Qg6YSq6
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What's the moment of luck that's had the biggest impact for your academic career? For me, it was how I wouldn't have gotten a PhD fellowship if it wasn't for the 1st-ranked person declining, which meant that I was awarded the fellowship as 2nd-ranked applicant. That was my last shot at a PhD.
December 12, 2024 at 2:01 PM
What's the moment of luck that's had the biggest impact for your academic career? For me, it was how I wouldn't have gotten a PhD fellowship if it wasn't for the 1st-ranked person declining, which meant that I was awarded the fellowship as 2nd-ranked applicant. That was my last shot at a PhD.
December 7, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Day 6 - part 1 only ⭐ 🏳️
github.com/martinaslade...
Part 2 will need to wait until my end-of-term broken brain recovers some capacity to function (or not)
#AdventOfCode
github.com/martinaslade...
Part 2 will need to wait until my end-of-term broken brain recovers some capacity to function (or not)
#AdventOfCode
December 6, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Day 6 - part 1 only ⭐ 🏳️
github.com/martinaslade...
Part 2 will need to wait until my end-of-term broken brain recovers some capacity to function (or not)
#AdventOfCode
github.com/martinaslade...
Part 2 will need to wait until my end-of-term broken brain recovers some capacity to function (or not)
#AdventOfCode
Day 5 #AdventOfCode using #rstats:
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It doesn't count as an explicit loop if it's wrapped in a function, right...?
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It doesn't count as an explicit loop if it's wrapped in a function, right...?
December 5, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Day 5 #AdventOfCode using #rstats:
github.com/martinaslade...
It doesn't count as an explicit loop if it's wrapped in a function, right...?
github.com/martinaslade...
It doesn't count as an explicit loop if it's wrapped in a function, right...?
Day 4 #AdventOfCode, this time combining #rstats and chaos (and some purrr again):
github.com/martinaslade...
github.com/martinaslade...
December 4, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Day 4 #AdventOfCode, this time combining #rstats and chaos (and some purrr again):
github.com/martinaslade...
github.com/martinaslade...
#AdventOfCode Day 3: github.com/martinaslade...
Reluctantly grappling (grepling?😏) with REGEX using #rstats and #tidyverse.
Reluctantly grappling (grepling?😏) with REGEX using #rstats and #tidyverse.
December 3, 2024 at 1:50 PM
#AdventOfCode Day 3: github.com/martinaslade...
Reluctantly grappling (grepling?😏) with REGEX using #rstats and #tidyverse.
Reluctantly grappling (grepling?😏) with REGEX using #rstats and #tidyverse.
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Happy to have been a small part of this NEW PAPER by @beccalouisedean.bsky.social✨ She synthesised evidence to find out whether young people's self-perceptions change in response to treatment for depression. Check it out here 👉 authors.elsevier.com/c/1kBub~0r1w3cL
authors.elsevier.com
December 2, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Happy to have been a small part of this NEW PAPER by @beccalouisedean.bsky.social✨ She synthesised evidence to find out whether young people's self-perceptions change in response to treatment for depression. Check it out here 👉 authors.elsevier.com/c/1kBub~0r1w3cL
Day 2 of #AdventOfCode using #rstats and #tidyverse, this time full of (possibly unnecessary) purrrmagedon:
github.com/martinaslade...
github.com/martinaslade...
December 2, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Day 2 of #AdventOfCode using #rstats and #tidyverse, this time full of (possibly unnecessary) purrrmagedon:
github.com/martinaslade...
github.com/martinaslade...
My #AdventOfCode Day 1 solutions with a chaotic combination of tidyverse and base R: github.com/martinaslade...
Last time I attempted these was 3 years ago and rage-quitted about half-way through. I look forward to questioning my competence daily over the next three weeks 🔥👨💻🎄
Last time I attempted these was 3 years ago and rage-quitted about half-way through. I look forward to questioning my competence daily over the next three weeks 🔥👨💻🎄
advent_of_code/2024/day_1 at main · martinasladek/advent_of_code
Contribute to martinasladek/advent_of_code development by creating an account on GitHub.
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December 1, 2024 at 9:46 PM
My #AdventOfCode Day 1 solutions with a chaotic combination of tidyverse and base R: github.com/martinaslade...
Last time I attempted these was 3 years ago and rage-quitted about half-way through. I look forward to questioning my competence daily over the next three weeks 🔥👨💻🎄
Last time I attempted these was 3 years ago and rage-quitted about half-way through. I look forward to questioning my competence daily over the next three weeks 🔥👨💻🎄