Moses Rivera

Asst. Professor focusing on the psychological science of teamwork. Views are my own.

[Moses Rivera @MosesRivera100]

I started using Quarto in 2023, and it has quietly become one of the most useful tools in my academic workflow.

One tool, many outputs:

📄 Manuscripts and reports

📊 Presentation slides

🌐 Websites

🎓 HTML course content for Canvas

It’s a free, open-source publishing system from the team behind R Markdown and Positron. It lets you create polished, reproducible documents without maintaining separate workflows for every format—which means less copying, pasting, and reformatting.

It also plays nicely with VS Code, Positron, RStudio, GitHub, Jupyter, Python, etc.

https://t.co/LRCbnTJc8j

#OpenSource #ReproducibleResearch #ScienceCommunication #DataScience #AcademicWriting #Markdown #RStats #Python #VSCode

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What makes a team trustworthy when the environment itself is unforgiving?

I’m pleased to share our new article in the journal: Environment and Behavior:

“Investigating the Effects of Trust in Isolated, Confined, and Extreme Teams: A Mixed-Methods Inquiry.”

In this study, we examine trust in isolated, confined, and extreme teams—contexts where coordination, psychological safety, cohesion, and well-being are not abstract ideals, but practical conditions for mission success and safety.

Using a mixed-methods approach, our work integrates qualitative findings from Antarctic field missions with quantitative survey data from polar team members. The findings reinforce that trust in these teams is multidimensional, involving cognitive and affective components, and shaped by perceptions of ability, benevolence, integrity, and identification.

Grateful to my coauthors Andres Käosaar, Pedro Marques-Quinteiro, and Shawn Burke for the opportunity to contribute to this work.

Read the article here: https://t.co/50BDNEpnKt

#Teamwork #Trust #PsychologicalSafety #ExtremeTeams #IOPsychology #IWOPsychology #OrganizationalPsychology #HumanFactors #SpacePsychology #PolarResearch

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Vote Now: I voted in the APA election and so can you https://t.co/cBpeD8HGhb #ivoted via @apa

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@quantitudepod I really appreciated this episode! Thank you!!!

[Moses Rivera @MosesRivera100]

I started using Quarto (https://t.co/LRCbnTJc8j) a year ago, and I’ve been very happy. Very intuitive.

If you create reports, manuscripts, websites, or slide decks, check it out. It’s a free, open-source publishing system built by the same folks behind R Markdown.

I’ve been using it for manuscripts, HTML pages for my courses in Canvas, and also to create my entire personal website.

🎉 Bonus: It works well with VS Code, RStudio, GitHub, Jupyter, etc.

#OpenSource #ReproducibleResearch #ScienceCommunication #DataScience #AcademicWriting #Markdown #Rstats #Python #VSCode

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Searching for a word to describe a cónstruct that is both an antecedent and a consequent of another (e.g., respect at time 1 is an antecedent of psychological safety at time 2, which is an antecedent of respect at time 3). For now I'm coining: reciprocedent

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Check out the excellent online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and it is provided at no charge to the reader! The quality of the entries has been supported by grants and an experienced editorial team. I have zero affiliation with it, I’m just a fan.🤓 https://t.co/9rT9PcUm0s

[Moses Rivera @MosesRivera100]

If you want to give written feedback quickly on your students' papers:
1️⃣ Keep a list of feedback you frequently write.
2️⃣ Copy those list elements, one by one.
3️⃣ On your keyboard, open your clipboard history by pressing the Windows key + V. You will see a list of all of the elements you just copied, ready for you to paste any ones you like. You can also pin your favorites inside your clipboard history.

I find this is much faster than using Canvas' built-in Comment Library in SpeedGrader. Anybody have other tips?

If you're on a Mac computer, sorry I don't know anything about them.

#teachers #teaching

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Today I discovered Microsoft PowerToys (https://t.co/PdaDwowTEQ). I mostly just use it to highlight my mouse when I'm screen-recording.

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@quantitudepod "Are you a regression line? Because you're the best fit for me."

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@tkaiser_science @quantitudepod Thank you for sharing! I didn't know about this handbook.

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@quantitudepod “The author now knows that they better hold a lab meeting to try to guess who the reviewer is so they can cite their work.” 🤣

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@quantitudepod I’m with Greg on this: Paul Bliese is indeed a wonderful guy! I took a summer course taught by him on multilevel modeling last year, and one of my good friends used to work with Paul way back in the day. Small world.

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@quantitudepod “For the love of poop!” Indeed!

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@quantitudepod I really enjoyed the broad applicability of this topic!

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@quantitudepod 🫨

[Moses Rivera @MosesRivera100]

PSA: the American Psychological Association’s “Dictionary of Psychology” is excellent and free to use online! I’ve been using it for many months. Check it out: https://t.co/zrBXdh9jmj #iopsychology #behavioralscience

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If you're looking for a private tutor with a PhD in all areas of mathematics, try my custom GPT named "Moses' Math Wizard" instead. It's been incredibly useful for me. You'll need a ChatGPT Plus account. https://t.co/dlOhjD8YBT

#chatGPT #customGPT