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Want to work with us? We're offering a paid internship! Quantitative anthropology grads, apply now. hraf.yale.edu/hraf-internshi… #jobs #internship #yale

I am an alum of this internship. It's a great bridge into academia for undergrads interested in quant social science and cross-cultural research.

With a 🌈 heart, I want to say that this is my first Mother's Day. With the grace of the 🤱🏽 Erik J. Ringen & I will welcome our first child in August. Celebrate baby Mina with us and please consider donating to the Academic Mamas Foundation. iamas.com/academic-mamas…

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Mina came safely and without too much trouble on Saturday! She is beautiful with lots of black hair and her grandmothers eyes. Erik J. Ringen and I are overwhelmed with love.

Teaching statistics to grad students this semester. Reading Freedman's anti-regression piece "Statistical Models and Shoe Leather" (paper brought to my attention by Ed Hagen) next week to calibrate expectations. Tag urself on his ordinal scale of pessimism.

More evidence of the prior recession. In the old days a high school graduate could afford a fat-tailed, Cauchy(0, 5) prior on a fixed effect. Now they struggle to afford rent on a N(0, 0.5). Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛

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I am advertising for a postdoc! You get to do cross-cultural research from the comfort of an office, write a lot of papers, and hang out with me! durham.taleo.net/careersection/…

Excited to attend for the first time this year!

PSA: this no longer works as of cmdstan 2.35.0. A new solution, courtesy of Andrew Johnson: discourse.mc-stan.org/t/rstan-read-s…

Mi gente! I'm thrilled to share the first preprint from the Period Biology Study I've started at Dartmouth! Led by amazing PhD student Irma Vlasac, we lay the groundwork for validating self-collected menstrual samples for DNA methylation research. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Has anyone had their GitHub account flagged before (all activity suddenly hidden from public)? I've had an open ticket with them for reinstatement for over a month with no response...

It feels like whenever OLS comes up on this site, one camp is talking about model checking (residuals, predictive plots) and the other about standard errors. Both talk past each other. Onlooks become more confused.

It turns out you can’t teach a decades worth of stats experience/learning in a single semester

Twin Peaks posting again

New blog: If you use observation-level random effects, your predictive checks are probably wrong. Here's how to do it the right way in both #brms and #PyMC tl;dr: you need to sample new levels of the OLRE to avoid a false goodness-of-fit erikringen.github.io/posts/OLRE/

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