Charles Driver
charlesdriver.bsky.social
Charles Driver
@charlesdriver.bsky.social
Asst Prof UZH Psychology - quant methods, dynamic systems, human development, psychology. @CharlesDriverAU
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G'day sky. I'm a quant. psychologist at Uni Zurich, interested in dynamic systems, thoughts here: cdriver.netlify.app/post/introto...
I maintain R packages ctsem (hierarchical continuous time dynamic systems) and bigIRT (IRT for 'big data'). #devpsy #AcademicSky #dataskyence #PsychSci
Dynamic Systems Modeling in Psychology | Charles Driver
What is a dynamic system? Why are they interesting? How do we take bits of the bumbling buzzing confusion around us and pack them into a statistical model of change to make nuanced predictions and tes...
cdriver.netlify.app
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A recent redesign of OSF by @cos.io led to widespread access failures. What began as a few broken download links became for me a total disappearance of eight years of DOI-registered work. What happened, how was it resolved, and what it reveals about trust and infrastructure in open science
Open Science needs reliable infrastructure – Ven Popov
After OSF’s October 2025 redesign, I discovered that eight years of DOI-linked preprints and materials were silently hidden by an automated spam flag. What happened, how it was resolved, and what it r...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)
I'm now also looking for a postdoc with strong Bayesian background and interest in developing Bayesian cross-validation theory, methods and software. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact information at users.aalto.fi/~ave/).

Others, please share
I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.

Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Some more shiny apps for the classroom -- here looking at different approaches to pooling information across groups (e.g., partial pooling), and how the group level predictions shift with changes in amount of data used for fitting.

charlesdriver.shinyapps.io/Pooling_Info...
Exploring Pooling of Information Across Groups
charlesdriver.shinyapps.io
October 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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🚨 PhD/Postdoc alert 👇

If you are interested in doing a PhD/Postdoc in computational psychiatry (starting Sept 2026), do get in touch by October 4th at ondrej.zika@pm.me :)

Any inquiries are welcome. To apply, please attach your CV, half page motivation and half page research statements.
🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫

I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏
October 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Prepping for @dgps.bsky.social Methods, few recent papers pushing ctsem and dynamic models in interesting directions

#1 Developmental changes in twin cognitive correlation (ACE) across age, test instrument, zygosity, with @evangiangrande.bsky.social @ent3c.bsky.social et al

osf.io/preprints/ps...
September 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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MC Stan is here! Follow for the latest Stan news, and tag if you want us to repost your posts about new papers, packages, courses, etc. about Stan
September 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Perhaps a touch dreamy? but interesting and hopeful thread...
On reflection, this is a really magical time to be on Bluesky. A quiet period before some important dynamics start to happen. I think things will start to change here because of things happening outside Bluesky and the things happening under Bluesky.
September 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Third-party algorithmic feeds on Bluesky are about to become a lot more interesting and powerful 👀
August 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357

Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
August 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Applications still open for the professorship in the Sociology of Child and Adolescent Development 100 % at University of Zurich!

jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
UZH: Professorship in the Sociology of Child and Adolescent Development
The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in the sociology of child and adolescent development, starting on 1 February 2027. The future holder of the position will be affiliate...
jobs.uzh.ch
August 21, 2025 at 6:58 AM
dear @quarto.org using friends, lost too much time on this already and I'm very stubborn please save me:

---
title: "wrap text"
format: pdf
---

```{r}
print("I just want this text to wrap to a new line I just want this text to wrap to a new line I just want this text to wrap to a new line ")
```
August 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Happy to announce ✨quarto-revealjs-editable✨

This fully supersedes the imagemover extension, as I back then didn't realize the potential. You can now also move, resize, change font size and alignment for text in your slides

github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto #slidecrafting
August 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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I am shooketh. This is a gamechanger. 🤩
Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover

Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience

github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto
August 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
@sagepub.com Your unsubscribe links are ineffective and your spam is apparently not recognised as such by my robot email guardians. Please desist before I'm forced to invent even more elaborate reasons for not reviewing.
August 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓
August 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Your dynamic systems models aren't complicated enough? Skewed distributions keep you awake? Your dynamics dynamic differently at different dynamic levels? Here's a not-very-beginner friendly outline for addressing the issue with ctsem cdriver.netlify.app/post/ctsemas...
Asymmetric (State‑Dependent) Discrete and Continuous-Time Processes in ctsem
cdriver.netlify.app
August 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
In case I can reach the @quarto.org and #rstats and windows users driven mad by the inability to render files when stored on dropbox (there must be billions of you right?), here's an Rstudio add-on that uses temp files instead:

github.com/cdriveraus/Q...
July 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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July 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Excellent job opportunity
@ikmz.bsky.social!

- Work: Digital Health Communication
- Contract: Permanent
- Salary: 123k
- Location: Zurich

jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
UZH: LECTURER RESEARCH IN DIGITAL HEALTH COMMUNICATION (PERMANENT POSTDOCTORAL POSITION) AT IKMZ – DEPT. FOR COMMUNICATION & MEDIA RESEARCH
The lecturer position is a permanent postdoctoral position (100%, paid according to cantonal salary scheme; 123K CHF p.a.) with optional promotion to senior lecturer Workplace is Zurich
jobs.uzh.ch
June 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Friends, I have news.

It is very good news.

You'll just have to read it, I'm afraid.

jamesclaims.substack.com/p/introducin...
Introducing the Medical Evidence Project
And the quest to make less dead people
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June 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
ctsem is updated on CRAN to 3.10.3 (in time for SMiP Summer School next week). Useful updates include a model fit check of moderated lagged correlations, and better importance sampling for the optimize then sample Bayes variant.
June 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Postdoc position open in Zurich -- Prof. Martin Tomasik and I have a joint SNF project on interpretable neural network approaches for large scale, complex item / temporal structure, online learning / cognitive development data.

Please retweet.

tinyurl.com/PostdocGNNSNF
May 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Postdoc position open in Zurich -- Prof. Martin Tomasik and I have a joint SNF project on interpretable neural network approaches for large scale, complex item / temporal structure, online learning / cognitive development data.

Please retweet.

tinyurl.com/PostdocGNNSNF
May 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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How do people differ in pursuing their social lives? In a new paper at JPSP, lead by Cornelia Wrzus, we examined the affiliation motive (and other social traits) as moderators of how people dynamically regulate their social interactions. Across two studies with experience sampling and
May 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM