Angela Staples
@astaples.bsky.social
Assc Prof | teach stats, methods, science writing | study sleep in early childhood | 1st gen college | treading water and accepting the mess
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Hey folks.
A link to the pre-recorded episode of my podcast History Matters from my YouTube channel.
History is HOWLING at us re: the meaning & threat inherent in censoring criticism.
My YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
The episode: On Silencing Opposition
youtu.be/dRgjGsBYwxo?...
A link to the pre-recorded episode of my podcast History Matters from my YouTube channel.
History is HOWLING at us re: the meaning & threat inherent in censoring criticism.
My YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
The episode: On Silencing Opposition
youtu.be/dRgjGsBYwxo?...
Dr. Joanne Freeman
Professor Joanne Freeman is an award-winning historian who studies the politics and culture of America's past to better understand our history as a nation, and the roads and choices that have led us t...
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September 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Hey folks.
A link to the pre-recorded episode of my podcast History Matters from my YouTube channel.
History is HOWLING at us re: the meaning & threat inherent in censoring criticism.
My YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
The episode: On Silencing Opposition
youtu.be/dRgjGsBYwxo?...
A link to the pre-recorded episode of my podcast History Matters from my YouTube channel.
History is HOWLING at us re: the meaning & threat inherent in censoring criticism.
My YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
The episode: On Silencing Opposition
youtu.be/dRgjGsBYwxo?...
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We're doing a shorter series ReproducibiliTea JC seminars this semester. The open science focus has gradually changed towards "methods stuff" more generally (but it's a fuzzy line of course). The participants aren't meta-science researchers so I try to keep it broad.
August 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
We're doing a shorter series ReproducibiliTea JC seminars this semester. The open science focus has gradually changed towards "methods stuff" more generally (but it's a fuzzy line of course). The participants aren't meta-science researchers so I try to keep it broad.
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For those interested, here is a link to a new power paper:
Hancock, G. R., & Feng, Y. (2026). nmax and the quest to
restore caution, integrity, and practicality to the sample size planning process. Psychological Methods.
yifengquant.github.io/Publications...
Hancock, G. R., & Feng, Y. (2026). nmax and the quest to
restore caution, integrity, and practicality to the sample size planning process. Psychological Methods.
yifengquant.github.io/Publications...
August 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
For those interested, here is a link to a new power paper:
Hancock, G. R., & Feng, Y. (2026). nmax and the quest to
restore caution, integrity, and practicality to the sample size planning process. Psychological Methods.
yifengquant.github.io/Publications...
Hancock, G. R., & Feng, Y. (2026). nmax and the quest to
restore caution, integrity, and practicality to the sample size planning process. Psychological Methods.
yifengquant.github.io/Publications...
Poetically thoughtful and deeply moving
How often do we study the ripples while ignoring the stone tossed in the water?
How often do we study the ripples while ignoring the stone tossed in the water?
In this essay I argue against the study of Africa as a temporal or spatial monolith. Any study of Africa that only studies the failure of African states is not a study of Africa. Any study of Africa that only studies lines on the ground is a study of ripples.
folukeafrica.com/how-we-study...
folukeafrica.com/how-we-study...
How We Study Africa
We study the ripples. Not the water. Under which the bodies lie.
folukeafrica.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Poetically thoughtful and deeply moving
How often do we study the ripples while ignoring the stone tossed in the water?
How often do we study the ripples while ignoring the stone tossed in the water?
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Check out this new blog post. YouGov measured summer activities that everyone loves, or just younguns love. This accessible example explains paired t-tests w sig and non-sig differences. notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-qu...
A quick, accessible lesson on paired t-tests, featuring summer activities that people over 45 (me!) don't like.
Blog teaching statistics funny examples how to teach statistics and research methods engaging modern memorable
notawfulandboring.blogspot.com
July 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Check out this new blog post. YouGov measured summer activities that everyone loves, or just younguns love. This accessible example explains paired t-tests w sig and non-sig differences. notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-qu...
This sounds like a blast
I started a new thing at Carleton College! It highlights the breadth of a liberal arts education, reminds students that faculty don't know EVERYTHING, and is loads of fun!
In "Guess Lectures," faculty give 7-minute talks using someone else’s slides from an unrelated discipline, sight unseen.
In "Guess Lectures," faculty give 7-minute talks using someone else’s slides from an unrelated discipline, sight unseen.
May 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This sounds like a blast
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🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
May 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
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Mahmoud Khalil, a legal U.S. resident, has been held in an ICE detention center for over a month but has still not been charged with a crime.
April 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Mahmoud Khalil, a legal U.S. resident, has been held in an ICE detention center for over a month but has still not been charged with a crime.
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For consideration, I submit: Things Statisticians Claim to Hate But Secretly Love
drive.google.com/file/d/1XBPV...
drive.google.com/file/d/1XBPV...
Things Statisticians Hate.pdf
drive.google.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
For consideration, I submit: Things Statisticians Claim to Hate But Secretly Love
drive.google.com/file/d/1XBPV...
drive.google.com/file/d/1XBPV...
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Contrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be. – Francois Jacob
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Contrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be. – Francois Jacob
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵
NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts.
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts
Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.
www.nature.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
🧵
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social Heather Cox Richardson and Jasmine Crockett together. Trump began implementing Project 2025 on his first day back in office. I can't imagine two more informed and empowering women to show us how to fight it. Sign up at social.redwine.blue/s/qg1zPfLs
Register here.
social.redwine.blue
April 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social Heather Cox Richardson and Jasmine Crockett together. Trump began implementing Project 2025 on his first day back in office. I can't imagine two more informed and empowering women to show us how to fight it. Sign up at social.redwine.blue/s/qg1zPfLs
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OK I had announced this before but forgot to say that Andrew Gelman would be joining Nancy Cartwright and myself as well. Short idea talks, lots of panel discussion and Q&A.
Join us on April 25th to discuss RCTs, replications, and scientific inference.
sites.google.com/view/cepbi/t...
Join us on April 25th to discuss RCTs, replications, and scientific inference.
sites.google.com/view/cepbi/t...
April 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
OK I had announced this before but forgot to say that Andrew Gelman would be joining Nancy Cartwright and myself as well. Short idea talks, lots of panel discussion and Q&A.
Join us on April 25th to discuss RCTs, replications, and scientific inference.
sites.google.com/view/cepbi/t...
Join us on April 25th to discuss RCTs, replications, and scientific inference.
sites.google.com/view/cepbi/t...
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Hey folks! I'll be teaching two workshops in May on Structural Equation Modeling!
One course is introductory (May 7-9): smart-workshops.com/intro-sem-info
The other is on longitudinal models (May 14-16): smart-workshops.com/long-sem-info
🙏Please RT and share! 🙏
Let met tell you more...
One course is introductory (May 7-9): smart-workshops.com/intro-sem-info
The other is on longitudinal models (May 14-16): smart-workshops.com/long-sem-info
🙏Please RT and share! 🙏
Let met tell you more...
Intro SEM Information — SMaRT Workshops
smart-workshops.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Hey folks! I'll be teaching two workshops in May on Structural Equation Modeling!
One course is introductory (May 7-9): smart-workshops.com/intro-sem-info
The other is on longitudinal models (May 14-16): smart-workshops.com/long-sem-info
🙏Please RT and share! 🙏
Let met tell you more...
One course is introductory (May 7-9): smart-workshops.com/intro-sem-info
The other is on longitudinal models (May 14-16): smart-workshops.com/long-sem-info
🙏Please RT and share! 🙏
Let met tell you more...
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I've come across a few great resources lately for job seekers (especially those in the education/social science research space). Just thought I would drop them here for anyone who is looking. ☀️
1. www.purposephilcareer.com
2. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
3. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
1. www.purposephilcareer.com
2. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
3. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
April 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I've come across a few great resources lately for job seekers (especially those in the education/social science research space). Just thought I would drop them here for anyone who is looking. ☀️
1. www.purposephilcareer.com
2. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
3. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
1. www.purposephilcareer.com
2. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
3. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Last 3 random songs feel a bit too on the nose
A little bit off - Five Finger Death Punch
Everyday people - Sly & The Family Stone
Stressed out - twenty one pilots
A little bit off - Five Finger Death Punch
Everyday people - Sly & The Family Stone
Stressed out - twenty one pilots
April 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Last 3 random songs feel a bit too on the nose
A little bit off - Five Finger Death Punch
Everyday people - Sly & The Family Stone
Stressed out - twenty one pilots
A little bit off - Five Finger Death Punch
Everyday people - Sly & The Family Stone
Stressed out - twenty one pilots
As an institution of opportunity, the DEIA organizations are true partners in helping students achieve their degrees
Proud to be an Eagle
Proud to be an Eagle
Yet another example of the lesser-ranked schools taking the stand that the bigger schools are too scared to.
Here: even as Ann Arbor caves on DEI, Eastern Michigan does not.
The courage of the smaller schools is laudable. The refusal of the bigger schools is frustrating.
Here: even as Ann Arbor caves on DEI, Eastern Michigan does not.
The courage of the smaller schools is laudable. The refusal of the bigger schools is frustrating.
EMU has no plans to close its Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
While sadness and anger are being expressed down the road in Ann Arbor, Eastern Michigan University says its Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will continue. WEMU’s Kevin Meerschaert has this...
www.wemu.org
April 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
As an institution of opportunity, the DEIA organizations are true partners in helping students achieve their degrees
Proud to be an Eagle
Proud to be an Eagle
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New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words!
If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance.
www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...
If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance.
www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...
Reviewer notes: That’s a very nice mediation analysis you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.
Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...
www.the100.ci
March 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words!
If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance.
www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...
If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance.
www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...
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🚀Very excited to finally see our paper on nonsignificance misinterpretations published! 📈
Together, @smurphee.bsky.social, Aurelio Fernández, Linda Reimann and I investigated the prevalence of "p > .05 = absence of an effect" interpretations. (1/4)
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Together, @smurphee.bsky.social, Aurelio Fernández, Linda Reimann and I investigated the prevalence of "p > .05 = absence of an effect" interpretations. (1/4)
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
March 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
🚀Very excited to finally see our paper on nonsignificance misinterpretations published! 📈
Together, @smurphee.bsky.social, Aurelio Fernández, Linda Reimann and I investigated the prevalence of "p > .05 = absence of an effect" interpretations. (1/4)
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Together, @smurphee.bsky.social, Aurelio Fernández, Linda Reimann and I investigated the prevalence of "p > .05 = absence of an effect" interpretations. (1/4)
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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When I looked out across the room, I saw several women wiping their eyes. They were silently crying while listening to me speak. Now, I can hype up a crowd, but I have never induced such raw emotion in my life.
I don’t think it had much to do with me… open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
I don’t think it had much to do with me… open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
You Are Going to Have to Tell Them the Truth
Speaking in the Heartland
open.substack.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
When I looked out across the room, I saw several women wiping their eyes. They were silently crying while listening to me speak. Now, I can hype up a crowd, but I have never induced such raw emotion in my life.
I don’t think it had much to do with me… open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
I don’t think it had much to do with me… open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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Just a reminder for anyone who receives SPSS, Stata, or SAS files but does not have licenses for these programs (🙋), you can import any of these files into #rstats and work them! My favorite package for working with these files is {haven}.
haven.tidyverse.org
haven.tidyverse.org
March 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Just a reminder for anyone who receives SPSS, Stata, or SAS files but does not have licenses for these programs (🙋), you can import any of these files into #rstats and work them! My favorite package for working with these files is {haven}.
haven.tidyverse.org
haven.tidyverse.org
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This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
flowingdata.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
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The perfect message for our times. Not only to 'hang in there', but to subvert the powers that be while doing so.
February 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The perfect message for our times. Not only to 'hang in there', but to subvert the powers that be while doing so.
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Friends, I have written you a book on forensic metascience.
It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day.
If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all.
open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...
It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day.
If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all.
open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...
I Have Written You A Book On Forensic Metascience
Use it to cause trouble
open.substack.com
February 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Friends, I have written you a book on forensic metascience.
It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day.
If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all.
open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...
It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day.
If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all.
open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...