🎲 Want to add a little playfulness to your R sessions? Check out {fun}- a package full of classic games (Minesweeper, sliding puzzles, Gomoku) and quirky utilities all in R.

Try demo(package = "fun") to see what it can do!

🔗 cran.r-project.org/package=fun

#rstats #RPackage #UseR #FunWithR

We’re hiring in Quantitative Psychology at UNC Chapel Hill!

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the program and please share widely!

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up

There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily

slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto

New: The Education Department's cuts have left the niche, government-backed "industry" of education research in a dire state.

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

I don’t know who needs this right now, but I really enjoy browsing “Paper Skygest”, a feed of posts on academic papers *from people you follow*. I think it’s what a lot of us are actually here for

Sleep when the baby sleeps, eat when the baby eats, edit your manuscript when the baby edits their manuscript

Signing a new Executive Order to make all instrumental variables satisfy the exclusion restriction.

The Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis in R Conference (ESMARConf) is back! It will be held June 11th to the 13th, 2025: esmarconf.org/2025/

Recordings of the talks and workshops from previous years can be found here: esmarconf.org/recordings/

#ESMARConf #MetaAnalysis #EvidenceSynthesis #RStats

🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration?

I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for *meaningful* opposition to each.

I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24

JIC, here is an OSF Folder of the following What Works Clearinghouse materials as of February 2025:

- Data from Study Reviews
- Handbooks and Reviewer Resources
- Intervention Reports
- Practice Guides

osf.io/w5aq8/

This Friday!

It goes without saying, but if you see the need to access any data about American education from the federal government, you should go download it now. Like stop reading this post and do it immediately.

And what about journals that require a statement such as: "The funder played no role in the design, conduct, or reporting of this study.”? If they are dictating the language you use, that's no longer true. Please, US colleagues, stand together and RESIST this.

If your research could be affected by such policies, you can use OSF or similar services to post a preprint with a CC-BY license to ensure it is accessible to everyone:

osf.io/preprints

OSF is open source, free-to-use, and maintained by @cos.io a 501(c)3 charity.

Do you know a US-based researcher who wants to update their meta-analysis skills? #MATI2025 is accepting applications for our one-week training workshop in Chicago from July 28th – August 1st. Apply by March 2nd: www.meta-analysis-training-institute.com/application-...

Come be my colleague! The quant. methods program in the Educational Psychology department at UW Madison is hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the area of measurement and machine-learning/AI. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...