Charles Driver

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

Congratulations to the project “openESM,” which received🏆2026 SIPS commendation! openESM is a database of harmonized openly available experience sampling datasets. 🔗Project website: buff.ly/3Q5EwYt 🔗A preprint describing the project: buff.ly/iXcT6ZL

Does the new shingles vaccine (Shingrix) protect against cardiovascular disease (CVD)? Yes, according to a new 'natural experiment' study in @natmed.nature.com. But the truth is sadly far less convincing! Pull up a chair and let's examine another peer review failure in a Nature journal. 1/10 🧵

How do dynamics estimates vary by study timescale, even when using continuous-time methods that should 'theoretically' account for this? @maristodemou.bsky.social takes a look at wellbeing variables from bimonthly GESIS and yearly SOEP panels to examine the issue. osf.io/preprints/ps...

One week to go until I'll be reviewing the applications - can't wait! I've now added information on the top-up funds I have available too. Please spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested in doing a PhD in quantitative psychopathology :) miriamkforbes.academic.ws

ctsem has a GUI now -- visual, SEM-like spec, fit & diagnostics for hierarchical discrete or continuous time state space models (i.e., DSEM's). github.com/cdriveraus/c... State-space (process + measurement) and individual difference views shown. Ideas welcome! Workshop @saa2026.bsky.social

I am hiring! A postdoctoral position (100%, 3 years, renewable) is available at the University of Potsdam. The successful candidate will contribute to research on education and the life course and to teaching. Application deadline: August 15, 2026. See: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/socedlico...

Postdoc position @unimarburg.bsky.social in the project: "Bridging the Gap Between Verbal Psychological Theories & Formal Statistical Modeling with Large Language Models" (funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de) 📅Start: 01.10.2026 |⏳3 years 🔗 Job posting: uni-marburg.de/78NrWT Thanks for sharing!

You can find my fork here github.com/Lakens/Quart... but it is under extremely active development, and probably not fully documented, so maybe check in end of next week? It is functional, but setting it up might still be some effort without assistance at the moment.

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy #TrustedResearchEnvironments Pursue your scientific career at GESIS! youtu.be/zMY2zqYFIMg Apply now for a job as a Associate in Trusted Research Environments (Salary group 11 TV-L, working time 39,5 h/week, unlimited contract) gesis.jobs.personio....

The Max Planck Society has begun an exploratory round table for open science. We are drafting some recommendations to leadership. Still a long way to go! But here are my notes on the most recent draft, just so you all know how I am trying to steer things.

Parametrization Cookbook: A set of Bijective Parametrizations for using Machine Learning methods in Statistical Inference arxiv.org/abs/2301.08297

The Department of Psychology @uzh-ch.bsky.social has an open position for a tenured Lecturer (Research) «Psychological Data Management and -Stewardship» jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... #psychjobs

The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.

Works the other way around too. “If I was Jonathan Haidt, how would I destroy the next generation?”

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

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/)

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...

🚨 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.

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Perhaps a touch dreamy? but interesting and hopeful thread...

Third-party algorithmic feeds on Bluesky are about to become a lot more interesting and powerful 👀

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!

Applications still open for the professorship in the Sociology of Child and Adolescent Development 100 % at University of Zurich! jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

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

I am shooketh. This is a gamechanger. 🤩

@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.

🚨 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 🥰🤓

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...

Excellent job opportunity @ikmz.bsky.social! - Work: Digital Health Communication - Contract: Permanent - Salary: 123k - Location: Zurich jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

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.

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

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

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

We are live! Introducing the "Journal of Robustness Reports" – a Diamond Open-Access journal dedicated to publishing short reanalyses of empirical findings. Check out our website and blog post about the journal: 🌐 scipost.org/JRobustRep 📄 www.bayesianspectacles.org/introducing-...

My 3.5 year old, Swiss German / English / Italian speaking daughter seems to have decided that 'Hochdeutsch' is just an adjective that means 'randomly screwed up language' and finds it hilarious to teach me hochdeutsch-English and hochdeutsch-Italiano.