It can be bewildering to even begin to explore which of the over 13,000 packages on CRAN might be suitable for your task! I found this wonderfully curated list of packages, broken down by particular task at hand, a good place to start: towardsdatascience.com/a-comprehensiv… #rstats #tidyverse

A cool side-effect of our #bropenscience article (with Kirstie Whitaker's) is that we have managed to totally reclaim the hashtag, which was taken away from us from some highly *ehem* motivated trolls originally. I won't link, but you can imagine, I'm sure. thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-33/nove…

Dear #rstats community: is there a package for importing .qif (quicken interchange format) files into R?

A warm welcome Anne Böckler-Raettig as new Professor for Research Methods and Social Cognition at the JMU Institute of #Psychology!

New paper out APA Journals: we show that under certain circumstances, multitasking can actually be beneficial. doi.apa.org/record/2021-98…

Happy to announce our new article in Attention, Perception and Psychophysics: facial context information fundamentally shapes attention capture by direct gaze rdcu.be/cAG0U Anne Böckler-Raettig Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg

I have seen recent tweets on a failure to replicate context dependent memory – the Godden & Baddeley 1975 scuba diving study. Should you drop this from teaching? No. Place dependent memory effects are huge, reliable. Some studies will fail to create the effect. Thread. 1/26

i call it “working hard”

If we could get rid of the “rigor” jerks in academia, universities would be better places, and our science would be better. It costs nothing to give CONSTRUCTIVE criticism instead of tearing down people’s work in condescending and mean-spirited ways. And, its how we get better.

This tweet has been making the rounds as an example of open science proponents piling on female ECRs (the lead author of the paper). The most noteworthy thing about that discourse is how no noteworthy open science proponent who engaged, engaged the actual issue. 🧵

Beware: If you keep doing research long enough, your stimuli start to look like you. ;-) New publication with Laura Schmitz, Alan Kingstone, & Anne Böckler-Raettig: "When eyes beat lips: Speaker gaze affects audiovisual integration in the McGurk illusion" doi.org/10.1007/s00426…

Omicron thoughts from dark, Christmas London. TL;DR - Europe+World is facing the Omicron storm and it looks increasingly bad; and, obviously, the virus doesn't care about Christmas. Despite some serious response in the UK, this virus is replicating fast; more action likely needed

Really interesting read if - like me - you only have a vague concept of how (viral) evolution works & affects things like transmissibility

Gaze and face information interact when catching our attention. Thanks for the great collaboration Dr. Christina Breil Robrecht van der Wel Tim Welsh Roxana Pittig and Tim Raettig!

Thanks to goetheinstitut for the great symposium on trust! Here's my talk for those interested :) youtu.be/Qs9Jzkx-3yQ