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Vanessa Loaiza
@vmloaiza1.bsky.social
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cognitive developmental psychologist based at Colorado State University. low span studying working memory 😉 she/her & my last name is pronounced low-eye-zah
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Vanessa Loaiza @vmloaiza1.bsky.social · Sep 23
I am pleased to share that "the bird study" is now accepted at Psychology and Aging! A great collaboration with visiting intern Kishen Senziani, @leabartsch.bsky.social & @edamizrak.bsky.social 😀 Check out the pre-print below and a short thread on the study design and main takeaways 🧵👇
psyarxivbot.bsky.social PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Sep 23
What Makes a Birdbrain Tick: Long-term Memory Drives Expertise Effects on Working Memory Binding: https://osf.io/y835u
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dsquintana.bsky.social
Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉

As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Transparent and comprehensive statistical reporting is critical for ensuring the credibility, reproducibility, and interpretability of psychological research. This paper offers a structured set of guidelines for reporting statistical analyses in quantitative psychology, emphasizing clarity at both the planning and results stages. Drawing on established recommendations and emerging best practices, we outline key decisions related to hypothesis formulation, sample size justification, preregistration, outlier and missing data handling, statistical model specification, and the interpretation of inferential outcomes. We address considerations across frequentist and Bayesian frameworks and fixed as well as sequential research designs, including guidance on effect size reporting, equivalence testing, and the appropriate treatment of null results. To facilitate implementation of these recommendations, we provide the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology (TSRP) Checklist that researchers can use to systematically evaluate and improve their statistical reporting practices (https://osf.io/t2zpq/). In addition, we provide a curated list of freely available tools, packages, and functions that researchers can use to implement transparent reporting practices in their own analyses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To illustrate the practical application of these principles, we provide a side-by-side comparison of insufficient versus best-practice reporting using a hypothetical cognitive psychology study. By adopting transparent reporting standards, researchers can improve the robustness of individual studies and facilitate cumulative scientific progress through more reliable meta-analyses and research syntheses.
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
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...
Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients into Clear Quantities Abstract Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear models, but is more challenging for more complex models with, for example, categorical variables, interactions, non-linearities, and hierarchical structures. Here, we introduce an alternative approach to making sense of statistical models. The central idea is to abstract away from the mechanics of estimation, and to treat models as “counterfactual prediction machines,” which are subsequently queried to estimate quantities and conduct tests that matter substantively. This workflow is model-agnostic; it can be applied in a consistent fashion to draw causal or descriptive inference from a wide range of models. We illustrate how to implement this workflow with the marginaleffects package, which supports over 100 different classes of models in R and Python, and present two worked examples. These examples show how the workflow can be applied across designs (e.g., observational study, randomized experiment) to answer different research questions (e.g., associations, causal effects, effect heterogeneity) while facing various challenges (e.g., controlling for confounders in a flexible manner, modelling ordinal outcomes, and interpreting non-linear models). Figure illustrating model predictions. On the X-axis the predictor, annual gross income in Euro. On the Y-axis the outcome, predicted life satisfaction. A solid line marks the curve of predictions on which individual data points are marked as model-implied outcomes at incomes of interest. Comparing two such predictions gives us a comparison. We can also fit a tangent to the line of predictions, which illustrates the slope at any given point of the curve. A figure illustrating various ways to include age as a predictor in a model. On the x-axis age (predictor), on the y-axis the outcome (model-implied importance of friends, including confidence intervals). Illustrated are 1. age as a categorical predictor, resultings in the predictions bouncing around a lot with wide confidence intervals 2. age as a linear predictor, which forces a straight line through the data points that has a very tight confidence band and 3. age splines, which lies somewhere in between as it smoothly follows the data but has more uncertainty than the straight line.
August 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
vmloaiza1.bsky.social
Here is your chance to become an associate editor of a fantastic journal! The incoming editor of @jcgntn.bsky.social, @davidecrepaldi.bsky.social, is looking for associate editors. Check out this cool opportunity to self-nominate or nominate someone you know!

www.escop.eu/about-us/jou...
ESCOP - Journal
ESCOP is a dynamic scientific society that provides a venue within which current research in cognitive psychology and neighboring disciplines can be presented, discussed and encouraged.
www.escop.eu
October 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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mlisi.bsky.social
I’ll be giving a 'Workshops for Ukraine' session on Building and Customising Statistical Models with Stan and R: An Introduction to Bayesian Inference — online on Nov 13.

Open to all, with donations supporting Ukrainian organisations.

👉 sites.google.com/view/dariia-...

#stats #rstats #statssky
Dariia Mykhailyshyna - Workshops for Ukraine
Feedback on the past workshops (if you want to learn how to make wordclouds, check out Text Data Analysis workshop below)
sites.google.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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carohautekiet.bsky.social
The final part of my PhD work is now published in JEP:LMC 🤩 Special thanks to my wonderful PhD supervisors @evievergauwe.bsky.social and @nlangerock.bsky.social 🤗 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
October 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
vmloaiza1.bsky.social
I am pleased to share that "the bird study" is now accepted at Psychology and Aging! A great collaboration with visiting intern Kishen Senziani, @leabartsch.bsky.social & @edamizrak.bsky.social 😀 Check out the pre-print below and a short thread on the study design and main takeaways 🧵👇
psyarxivbot.bsky.social PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Sep 23
What Makes a Birdbrain Tick: Long-term Memory Drives Expertise Effects on Working Memory Binding: https://osf.io/y835u
September 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
vmloaiza1.bsky.social
Congrats to @lauraklatt.bsky.social for being the #WomWoM research fairy of 2025! She is both a star researcher & incredibly generous and collegial with all in the field, especially the juniors! Thank you to everyone who sent in nominations & to @scannedfruits.bsky.social for making Laura's wand 🪄🧚‍♀️
lauraklatt.bsky.social Laura-Isabelle Klatt @lauraklatt.bsky.social · Sep 15
3/3 My personal highlight of #ESCOP2025 was becoming this year‘s #WomWom research fairy! 🧚‍♂️ Thanks again to all my fellow #WomeninWorkingMemory. It means a lot ❤️
September 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social
Hey #memory folks, check out this new preprint by @joschadutli.bsky.social , @koberauer.bsky.social, and @leabartsch.bsky.social showing that elaboration benefits are likely driven by aiding in establishing efficient retrieval cues.
psyarxivbot.bsky.social PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Aug 28
How does semantic elaboration affect retrieval from episodic memory?: https://osf.io/ktgsu
August 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social
Yes, this was a really great experience! Thanks for @cvonbastian.bsky.social and @vmloaiza1.bsky.social for asking us to do this as part of #ESCOP2025! And if you are interested in having a similar workshop for your PhD Programm or similar, feel free to reach out!
isabelcourage.bsky.social Isabel Courage @isabelcourage.bsky.social · Sep 12
A huge thanks to all participants, my fellow workshop co-organizers @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social and @ruhibhanap.bsky.social, and #ESCOP2025 for hosting our workshop introducing cognitive measurement models with the #bmm R package (venpopov.github.io/bmm/) - it was such a rewarding experience!
September 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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richjallen.bsky.social
Leeds WoMCog group at the #ESCoP2025 conference in Sheffield!
September 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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cbaryanto.bsky.social
I’m going to present at the Blitz Talk on Friday, 6pm, at #ESCOP2025 @escop.bsky.social. The very last session, yet I’m sure with a lot of excitement! Come to listen whether engaging in your hobby predict your cognitive abilities. 🧠
September 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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candicemorey.bsky.social
Here is the paper that @mollyadelooze.bsky.social presented this morning at #escop2025 showing source amnesia for recently presented verbal information.
September 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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lizziebradford.bsky.social
It’s been an excellent few days in Sheffield for #ESCoP2025! I have enjoyed so many talks, posters, and chats, and have come away feeling inspired and excited about research ideas and topics happening across labs 🤩
September 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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yonghoonchung.bsky.social
Tomorrow afternoon I'll be presenting my symposium talk at #ESCoP2025 titled "Meaningful and familiar stimuli support visual working memory for simple features"! See you there!
September 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
vmloaiza1.bsky.social
It's all starting soon 🥳 we can't wait to welcome you all to Sheffield for #ESCoP2025 🤩 @cvonbastian.bsky.social @escop.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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cvonbastian.bsky.social
With less than week until #ESCOP2025, we're super excited to kick-off our conference with something truly special - an Algorave! 🤩 (1/12 👀)
August 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
vmloaiza1.bsky.social
Happy first day of classes! I had a stress dream that a cacophony of errors made me so late to work that I missed today's entire graduate seminar that I'm teaching this semester. But I live less than a mile away from work 🤣
August 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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bradpostle.bsky.social
2026 @jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellowship
@jocn.bsky.social and Cog. Neurosci. Soc. to offer a stipend of $3000, plus waived conf. reg. and waived poster submission fee to attend www.cogneurosociety.org/annual-meeti... , to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions:
Annual Meeting - Cognitive Neuroscience Society
March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster CNS 2026 Annual Meeting – March 7 – March 10, 2026 We invite you to join us at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2026 Annual Meeting, March...
www.cogneurosociety.org
August 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
vmloaiza1.bsky.social
Me: This project will distinguish between Theories A and B
My data:
Popular meme of guy holding up a sign that says "I just hope both teams lose"
August 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
vmloaiza1.bsky.social
📣 Tomorrow is the last day! 📣
Get those nominations in and celebrate those awesome female scientists in our field 🤩
August 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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ubiquityopen.bsky.social
Ubiquity Press is sponsoring #ESCOP2025 this year! As the publishers of the @jcgntn.bsky.social, @escop.bsky.social's journal, we believe in supporting our publications as much as possible. @vmloaiza1.bsky.social @cvonbastian.bsky.social

journalofcognition.org
Journal of Cognition
journalofcognition.org
July 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
vmloaiza1.bsky.social
🚨 Just about a week left to celebrate all our fantastic female colleagues in #workingmemory by nominating them for the #WomWoM research fairy award! 🚨
July 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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neillewisjr.bsky.social
It's only cancel culture if it comes from the democratic regions of the U.S. Otherwise it's sparkling authoritarianism.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 25
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
July 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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yonghoonchung.bsky.social
New paper with LaurenWilliams, @timbrady.bsky.social, and @violastoermer.bsky.social now out in JEP: General! "Limits of verbal labels in cognition: Category labels do not improve visual working memory performance for obfuscated objects" psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
July 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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williamngiam.github.io
Are you an early-career researcher (or someone hoping to help ECRs) working in #openscience or #metascience? The @reproducibilitea.org podcast is looking for guests for our next season of episodes! We'd love to feature ECR voices foremost – the next generation of scientists should be heard the most!
July 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM