Psych #rstats Club
About
Psych #rstats Club is an open science peer-based learning platform for statistics and R. We've members from around the world, undergraduates to PhDs, coming together to share resources and learn in a collaborative way. One of the main reasons for starting this club was the observation that students in psychology and other related fields experience several barriers in learning R and statistics. Especially those from the Global South often experience barriers due to the lack of resources, guidance, support, among other things. Psych #rstats Club aims to provide a safe, inclusive and accessible platform for everyone to come together for an engaging peer learning experience in R and statistics.
Psych #rstats Club is honored to be recognized with a SIPS Mission Award!
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Meet The Team
Pooja Kulkarni (she/her)
Founder
Pooja has completed her MA in Applied Psychology from University of Mumbai, India. She's passionate about science, increasing its accessibility, and research, specifically in the areas of self-regulation, self-control, motivation, emotions, and education. She is associated with several initiatives and collaborations working towards increasing accessibility and inclusivity in academia.
Psych #rstats Club was founded by her to create a safe, inclusive, and accessible platform for learning R and statistics, with a focus on its application in Psychology and related fields. The club aims to help overcome barriers and provide a supportive community for those learning statistics and R, especially for those in the Global South.
Munna R. Shainy (he/him)
Core Team | Social Media Head
Munna is currently a Research Intern at Axxonet Brain Research Lab, Bengaluru, India, and a Research Assistant at Stanford Psychophysiology Lab and ManyBabies Consortium. Additionally, he is the Co-founder of #dev-ersity in academia, an initiative aimed at spreading awareness about the developmental psychology area in under-represented countries.
His research interests are mostly on early social cognition through the lens of morality and how emotions, social hierarchies, memories, and early life experiences impact the development of social relationships. He is also interested in other topics like the theory of mind, interneural synchrony, and moral behaviors during play.
Macarena Quiroga (she/her)
Core Team
Macarena Quiroga is a PhD Student at University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, and education.
Her research is about language acquisition in diverse socioeconomic contexts. She is also passionate about statistics with R, is an Instructor and a Social Sciences Curriculum Advisor at The Carpentries.
She is also member of LatinR, a Latinamerican conference about the use of R in research and development, and of RELIF, a civil association about linguistics.
Tanushka Bhatia (she/her)
Core Team
Tanushka is currently pursuing her MSc in Neuropsychology from Christ University, Bengaluru. Her research interests lie (broadly) in the area of human cognition and cognitive neuroscience, more specifically related to empathy, pain perception, episodic memory and many more. She is also interested in neuropsychological assessment and intervention, specifically cognitive retraining. She firmly believes in open science and through her role at Psych R Stats Club, hopes to contribute to making R and statistics accessible to all.
Federico Alegría (He/Him)
Core Team
Federico is a researcher on visual culture studying the social uses of photography. As an associate professor at UCA and UJMD in El Salvador, Federico advocates for methodological reproducibility and open science. His PhD candidacy, aims to enrich how self-presentation through photographs work. On his spare time, he writes about photography and develop documentary projects.
Wan Irisha, Volunteer
Hritik Gupta, Former Core Team
Brighid Fitzpatrick, Former Core Team
Advisory Board
Dr. Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo
Dr. Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo is a dedicated professional in the field of psychology and developmental science. Her active involvement demonstrates a strong passion for academic and research pursuits within these domains, emphasizing their commitment to advancing knowledge in psychology and developmental science. Dr. Rocha-Hidalgo is currently working at the Cognition, Affective, and Temperament Lab at Penn State University with Dr. Koraly Perez-Edgar. Her current research focuses on the transmission of anxiety between parents and children using measures such as fNIRS, EEG, ECG, eye-tracking, and behavior. She is also a co-founder of Black in Psych and has created and compiled many accessible resources for R.