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Psicostat
@psicostat.bsky.social
We are an interdisciplinary research group working in areas related to quantitative psychology, psychometrics, psychological testing and statistics.

https://psicostat.dpss.psy.unipd.it
🔬La scienza incontra la città!✨

📅 Venerdì 14 novembre 2025, h17
📍Via Venezia 16, Aula A Galleria (psico3), Padova
👩‍🔬 Ricercatori ed esperti dialogano su ricerca e comunità
🎩 A seguire, momento conviviale aperto a tutti con il Mago Alessandro!

Vi aspettiamo!
November 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🚀 Kicking off the upcoming meetings with a fresh round of online talks! First up: Gabriela Xavier-Quintais ♻️ Join us next Friday, November 7th at 12pm (CEST), for "Metascience in Ecology: the role of statistical tests". Don’t miss it! 🔍📊
October 31, 2025 at 9:32 AM
🎉 Il 23 gennaio festeggiamo 10 anni di Psicostat con talk, momenti di confronto e aperitivo offerto!
📣 Aperta la call Minitalk Early Careers per studentə, dottorandə e giovani ricercatorə
🔗 Partecipazione gratuita (anche come uditori) con iscrizione obbligatoria: lnkd.in/dpBEJYVy
October 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Our core team members Massimiliano Pastore and Filippo Gambarota were thrilled to take part in the Behavioral Neuroscience Conference 2025 held in Agropoli, where they led a hands-on workshop on Bayesian stats with R and Open Science essentials 📖📊
October 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Our team joined #Science4All to share how psychologists ensure their findings are valid and reliable! Through interactive games, kids and adults explored what makes good science tick 🧠🎯 #Psychology #ScienceCommunication
October 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Proud to represent our group at AIP Sperimentale 2025! Great discussions, inspiring talks, and an amazing opportunity to share our work. #AIP #Research
September 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Psicostat took part in the European Mathematical Psychology Group Meeting 2025 in Padova 🧠📊
Insightful contributions by Matteo Manente and @ialfarone.bsky.social featured in the Statistical Methods session, while our core team member Ottavia Epifania chaired the Psychometrics session!
#EMPG
September 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Il gruppo di ricerca Psicostat esprime il proprio cordoglio per la scomparsa del Professore Carlo Arrigo Umiltà, Honorary Member del gruppo e figura centrale nella nostra comunità scientifica. Alla sua famiglia e a chi gli ha voluto bene va il nostro affetto e la nostra vicinanza
June 30, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Lively session on setting up the Methodological Review Board today! 🔎
After presenting the MRB and the April survey results, a roundtable took place with voices from all three departments in our School of Psychology.
Thanks to everyone who joined and to @lakens.bsky.social for the closing remark!
June 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Our Replicability School just wrapped up after days of engaging sessions and a public lecture! 🎓 To top it off, Giovanni Parmigiani joined our Thursday HandZone, bringing his insightful perspective to the discussion - can’t wait for next year’s edition!
June 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
📢 Starting from Monday, our School has been diving into the 3Rs of science: Replication, Robustness, Reproducibility 🔁📊
Giovanni Parmigiani (Harvard), Branden Fitelson (Northeastern) & our core team member Filippo Gambarota bring unique perspectives from statistics, philosophy and methodology 💥
June 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🚀 Our Replicability School kicked off Friday with a hands-on workshop by @marcald.bsky.social on practical tools for reproducible analyses 🔍📊
We also received warm greetings from two key figures for the week ahead, Giovanni Parmigiani (Harvard University) and Gianmarco Altoè 👋
June 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Exciting days at the University of Trento for the BEYOND Summer School! 📊🧠
With international speakers and Psicostat members among the lecturers, participants are exploring statistical and AI methods to enhance psychological inference. A brilliant blend of insight and innovation!
May 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
It's important to be able to go beyond statistical folklore and yesterday Jelle Goeman reminded us of that! Visiting from Leiden University, he shared an insightful view on correcting for multiple testing within the Bayesian framework. A real pleasure to hear and exchange ideas!
May 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
🚀 Kicking off the upcoming month with a fresh round of online talks! First up: Simone D'Ambrogio 🎙 Join us next Friday, May 9, for "Discovering Predictive and Interpretable Models of Decision-Making via Hybrid Neural Networks and Symbolic Regression". Don’t miss it! 🔍📊 

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May 2, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Straight from Florida to Padua! 💥
Today we had the honor of attending Prof. Alan Agresti’s lecture at the Department of Statistical Sciences.
A full auditorium for a brilliant talk on interpreting effects in modelling binary and ordinal data — pure inspiration!
April 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We’re excited to share our April meeting! 🎉 Join us on April 4th for a talk with Simone Gastaldon on "Reanalyzing Published Science: The Power and Perils of Commentary Articles as an Early Career Researcher". 👥📢 Don’t miss our next meetings and subscribe to the mailing list!
March 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Huge shoutout to our very own core team member @ambra-perugini.bsky.social for smashing the Three Minute Thesis competition at the University of Padua! 🎤⏳ With an engaging summary of her PhD thesis, Ambra sparked curiosity about the Overlapping Index and how to uncover the full story in our data 👏
March 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🚀 Kicking off the new semester with a fresh round of online talks! First up: Irene Alfarone from Innsbruck 🎙️ Join us next Friday, March 7, for "Change of d-irection: Alternative Methods for Meta-Analysis in Psychology." Don’t miss it! 🔍📊

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February 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Day 4 Continues! ✈️

We keep the momentum going with @giuliacalignano.bsky.social exploring the power of the multiverse approach 🔀🌍, followed by Livio Finos diving into the challenges of inference in the multiverse and introducing us to PIMA. 🧮
February 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🔥 Day 4 of Winter School on 4M’s!

After closely following @ulrichschimmack.bsky.social work online, it was a blast to have him join us in person! 🎤✨ He delivered a brilliant thought-provoking talk on how we measure things in psychology—and the controversy of attempting to make causal inference. 🧠📊
February 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🚀 Day 3 of Winter School on 4M’s!

Ettore Ambrosini walked us through improving Neuroimaging Measurement 🧠💡. Then, @debruine.bsky.social took us on a deep dive into Multi-Lab studies infrastructure, then showed us how to organize data and code like pros—including building our very own R package! 📦💻
February 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM