Noah Pevie
@noahpevie.bsky.social
Social Psych PhD Student @ Western University | MaRSS Lab | Quantitative Methods + Trans Research | he/him
trans/stats/methods blog: catchingsplinters.wordpress.com
🌟 you only live forever in the lights you make 🌟
trans/stats/methods blog: catchingsplinters.wordpress.com
🌟 you only live forever in the lights you make 🌟
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Revising Gender Minority Stress Theory: A Network Psychometrics Perspective: https://osf.io/9j8b5
Excited about my fun, measurement-y pre-print with the lovely @johnsakaluk.bsky.social ✨
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When I think back to being an undergrad, many of my most memorable classes were taught by ppl who were not efficient, well prepared teachers but were ppl who lived in a way I aspired to live. No one aspires to be AI.
AI simply cannot stand in front of a classroom, gesticulating wildly and writing semi-illegibly on chalkboards, both of which are key to building rapport and convincing your students you are worth learning from
If people think AI can replace historians and political scientists, I have a bridge on the Thames to sell you.
February 11, 2026 at 4:56 PM
When I think back to being an undergrad, many of my most memorable classes were taught by ppl who were not efficient, well prepared teachers but were ppl who lived in a way I aspired to live. No one aspires to be AI.
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Calling transfeminist researchers! See our call for abstracts below - deadline 1-15th March (with full papers in August)
Are you doing research on anti-trans politics? Consider submitting to the special issue of @cogitatiopag.bsky.social 'Global Politics and Anti-Trans Moral Panics: Transfeminist Perspectives', co-edited by me, @ashstokoe.bsky.social and @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social to be published in 2027 (1/2)
Future Issues | Politics and Governance
Politics and Governance is an innovative new offering to the world of online peer-reviewed open access publishing in the Political Sciences.
www.cogitatiopress.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Calling transfeminist researchers! See our call for abstracts below - deadline 1-15th March (with full papers in August)
Started a blog! One of my first posts walks through how to prep your data to use the CATAcode #rpackage (with code + diagrams). With CATAcode, you can easily summarize and visualize responses from choose-all-that-apply questions:
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Using CATAcode for Choose-All-That-Apply Sexual Orientation and Gender Questions
In mid-2025, I collected data from trans participants, and some of my survey questions were choose-all-that-apply. Since that time, Merrin and Nickodem (2025) released an R package, CATAcode, to he…
catchingsplinters.wordpress.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Started a blog! One of my first posts walks through how to prep your data to use the CATAcode #rpackage (with code + diagrams). With CATAcode, you can easily summarize and visualize responses from choose-all-that-apply questions:
catchingsplinters.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/u...
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Every estimand needs an estiplan - lecture A05 of Statistical Rethinking 2026. Total and direct effects, posterior predictions and causal contrasts, sermon about model assumptions and strength of inference. Next week is a back-alley intro to do-calculus. github.com/rmcelreath/s...
Statistical Rethinking 2026 Lecture A05 - Estimands & Estiplans
YouTube video by Richard McElreath
www.youtube.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Every estimand needs an estiplan - lecture A05 of Statistical Rethinking 2026. Total and direct effects, posterior predictions and causal contrasts, sermon about model assumptions and strength of inference. Next week is a back-alley intro to do-calculus. github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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‼️Applications are open for the inaugural TJA Reporting Fellowship!
Seven fellows will receive:
💰$5000 stipend over six months to offset reporting costs
👍🏾Dedicated mentorship and reporting guidance
🎯Targeted professional development
Find out more info www.transjournalists.org/reporting-fe....
Seven fellows will receive:
💰$5000 stipend over six months to offset reporting costs
👍🏾Dedicated mentorship and reporting guidance
🎯Targeted professional development
Find out more info www.transjournalists.org/reporting-fe....
February 3, 2026 at 3:54 PM
‼️Applications are open for the inaugural TJA Reporting Fellowship!
Seven fellows will receive:
💰$5000 stipend over six months to offset reporting costs
👍🏾Dedicated mentorship and reporting guidance
🎯Targeted professional development
Find out more info www.transjournalists.org/reporting-fe....
Seven fellows will receive:
💰$5000 stipend over six months to offset reporting costs
👍🏾Dedicated mentorship and reporting guidance
🎯Targeted professional development
Find out more info www.transjournalists.org/reporting-fe....
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No one who has seen the Epstein case unfold should have any doubt left about why victims don’t report. When reporting means facing more abuse, more exploitation, and more betrayal at the institutional level, while the perpetrators are the leaders of the very systems of “justice” supposed to help you
February 2, 2026 at 5:15 PM
No one who has seen the Epstein case unfold should have any doubt left about why victims don’t report. When reporting means facing more abuse, more exploitation, and more betrayal at the institutional level, while the perpetrators are the leaders of the very systems of “justice” supposed to help you
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Join us online in Feb for @uoyevents.bsky.social's LGBT+ History Month Lecture, this year given by @elierlick.bsky.social. Discover the trailblazing lives of 30 trans people who will change everything you've been told about transgender history. Register here: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve... #booksky
Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History 1850-1950
Discover the trailblazing lives of thirty trans people who will radically change everything you've been told about transgender history.
www.york.ac.uk
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Join us online in Feb for @uoyevents.bsky.social's LGBT+ History Month Lecture, this year given by @elierlick.bsky.social. Discover the trailblazing lives of 30 trans people who will change everything you've been told about transgender history. Register here: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve... #booksky
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All my #rstats ebooks are now in the quarto format, and hosted on Quarto Pub. Their old bookdown links will all be dead by the weekend.
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January 28, 2026 at 3:34 PM
All my #rstats ebooks are now in the quarto format, and hosted on Quarto Pub. Their old bookdown links will all be dead by the weekend.
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Adventures in Covariance - Lecture B03 of Statistical Rethinking 2026. Prelude about MCMC effective sample size, Multilevel varying slopes models with correlated features, non-centered parameterizations for covariance models, model expansion workflow. Next week is social networks.
Statistical Rethinking Lecture B03 - Adventures in Covariance
YouTube video by Richard McElreath
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Adventures in Covariance - Lecture B03 of Statistical Rethinking 2026. Prelude about MCMC effective sample size, Multilevel varying slopes models with correlated features, non-centered parameterizations for covariance models, model expansion workflow. Next week is social networks.
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Needless to say that Renee Good and Alex Pretti will go down as heroes here in Minnesota and nationally, their names synonymous with sacrifice and caring for vulnerable neighbors even at the risk of your own life. And hopefully no more innocent lives are lost.
January 26, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Needless to say that Renee Good and Alex Pretti will go down as heroes here in Minnesota and nationally, their names synonymous with sacrifice and caring for vulnerable neighbors even at the risk of your own life. And hopefully no more innocent lives are lost.
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Self-report scales in psychology get a lot of flak & there’s a desire for more objective, “scientific” behavioral measures. Now if you look at some of these more closely, there are hundreds of way to score them to generate some outcome variable — and many scorings are used exactly *once.*>
How many versions of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) exist? And how much does this affect research using the IGT? More than you might think. 🧵
Methodological Flexibility in the Iowa Gambling Task Undermines Interpretability: A Meta-method Review: https://osf.io/4g3vr
January 26, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Self-report scales in psychology get a lot of flak & there’s a desire for more objective, “scientific” behavioral measures. Now if you look at some of these more closely, there are hundreds of way to score them to generate some outcome variable — and many scorings are used exactly *once.*>
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Just say the government is lying. The goal of journalism should be to inform, not gaslight.
A battle over the truth erupts after deadly Minneapolis shooting
A battle over the truth erupts after deadly Minneapolis shooting
Federal and local leaders are sharply divided over what happened and who is to blame.
dlvr.it
January 26, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Just say the government is lying. The goal of journalism should be to inform, not gaslight.
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
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If you’re outside of Minnesota and you’re wondering how to help, this guide is excellent.
And seriously. Take down your Ring doorbell TODAY.
And seriously. Take down your Ring doorbell TODAY.
How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…
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January 24, 2026 at 5:47 PM
If you’re outside of Minnesota and you’re wondering how to help, this guide is excellent.
And seriously. Take down your Ring doorbell TODAY.
And seriously. Take down your Ring doorbell TODAY.
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Noah's first foray into trans*-forward psychometrics is a banger! After a certain point, if your construct doesn't behave like you think it ought to, you start to reconsider foundational assumptions about the construct...
Excited about my fun, measurement-y pre-print with the lovely @johnsakaluk.bsky.social ✨
Revising Gender Minority Stress Theory: A Network Psychometrics Perspective: https://osf.io/9j8b5
January 23, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Noah's first foray into trans*-forward psychometrics is a banger! After a certain point, if your construct doesn't behave like you think it ought to, you start to reconsider foundational assumptions about the construct...
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The Spring 2026 course website for my grad causal inference class is up and running. Was inspired by @andrew.heiss.phd and @mattblackwell.bsky.social to move my materials over to a standalone site and use as little of Canvas as possible.
www.antonstrezhnev.com/ps813/
www.antonstrezhnev.com/ps813/
PoliSci 813
www.antonstrezhnev.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:09 PM
The Spring 2026 course website for my grad causal inference class is up and running. Was inspired by @andrew.heiss.phd and @mattblackwell.bsky.social to move my materials over to a standalone site and use as little of Canvas as possible.
www.antonstrezhnev.com/ps813/
www.antonstrezhnev.com/ps813/
Excited about my fun, measurement-y pre-print with the lovely @johnsakaluk.bsky.social ✨
Revising Gender Minority Stress Theory: A Network Psychometrics Perspective: https://osf.io/9j8b5
January 22, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Excited about my fun, measurement-y pre-print with the lovely @johnsakaluk.bsky.social ✨
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Gauss says you may have a little orbital dynamics as a treat: Lecture A03 of Statistical Rethinking 2026. History of least squares estimation, simple linear regression, quadratic approximation, prior predictive distributions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX_U...
Statistical Rethinking 2026 - Lecture A03 - Geocentric Models
YouTube video by Richard McElreath
www.youtube.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Gauss says you may have a little orbital dynamics as a treat: Lecture A03 of Statistical Rethinking 2026. History of least squares estimation, simple linear regression, quadratic approximation, prior predictive distributions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX_U...
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COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
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Reporting on the transgender community? Here are resources from TON and @transjournalists.org for reporting accurately and responsibly. 🧪
Resources for Evidence-Based Reporting on Transgender Communities - The Open Notebook
Many of the issues that affect transgender people—such as gender-affirming medical care, educational policy, sports participation, military service, gender-motivated hate crime, and workplace discrimi...
www.theopennotebook.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Reporting on the transgender community? Here are resources from TON and @transjournalists.org for reporting accurately and responsibly. 🧪
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Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version?
I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/
It all started a few years ago... 🧵
I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/
It all started a few years ago... 🧵
January 13, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version?
I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/
It all started a few years ago... 🧵
I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/
It all started a few years ago... 🧵
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The 0.5.0 version of my {brms} + {tidyverse} translation of McElreath's "Statistical Rethinking" (2nd ed) is up!
solomon.quarto.pub/sr2/
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Statistical rethinking 2 with rstan and the tidyverse
solomon.quarto.pub
January 14, 2026 at 3:08 PM
The 0.5.0 version of my {brms} + {tidyverse} translation of McElreath's "Statistical Rethinking" (2nd ed) is up!
solomon.quarto.pub/sr2/
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#rstats
solomon.quarto.pub/sr2/
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#rstats
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I biked to work in 3cm of slush this morning to deliver another lecture. Stat Rethinking A02: more Bayesian updating, points and intervals, posterior predictive distributions. Next week it's linear regression as Gauss intended. Full course schedule here: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
Statistical Rethinking 2026 - Lecture A02 - Garden of Forking Data
YouTube video by Richard McElreath
www.youtube.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:14 PM
I biked to work in 3cm of slush this morning to deliver another lecture. Stat Rethinking A02: more Bayesian updating, points and intervals, posterior predictive distributions. Next week it's linear regression as Gauss intended. Full course schedule here: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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This same study, on suicidality and impact of hormonal care for trans youth, can be interpreted in two parallel ways - this is important to note when discussing the 'evidence' for trans youth healthcare. A short thread 1/
New Study finds a significant reduction in suicidality after trans people receive gender-affirming hormone therapy.
“Hormone therapy was associated with clinically meaningful reductions in suicidality over time…”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“Hormone therapy was associated with clinically meaningful reductions in suicidality over time…”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 9, 2026 at 9:39 AM
This same study, on suicidality and impact of hormonal care for trans youth, can be interpreted in two parallel ways - this is important to note when discussing the 'evidence' for trans youth healthcare. A short thread 1/