Dan Quintana
@dsquintana.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology at the University of Oslo | Behavioral neuroendocrinology, psychophysiology, and meta-science 🇦🇺🇨🇴🇳🇴
Reposted by Dan Quintana
🎈 Time flies! Exactly one year ago today @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social launched MetaROR, a platform to publish metaresearch through the publish-review-curate approach.
Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers.
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Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers.
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MetaROR Turns One - MetaROR
An exciting year of open, community-driven evaluation of metaresearch One [...]
metaror.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🎈 Time flies! Exactly one year ago today @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social launched MetaROR, a platform to publish metaresearch through the publish-review-curate approach.
Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers.
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Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers.
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Reposted by Dan Quintana
📣 We are looking for new members for the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee!
📅 Applications are open until 30th November 2025 (midnight CET).
👉 Full Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
✍️ Application Form:
forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2...
📅 Applications are open until 30th November 2025 (midnight CET).
👉 Full Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
✍️ Application Form:
forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2...
November 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
📣 We are looking for new members for the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee!
📅 Applications are open until 30th November 2025 (midnight CET).
👉 Full Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
✍️ Application Form:
forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2...
📅 Applications are open until 30th November 2025 (midnight CET).
👉 Full Announcement:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
✍️ Application Form:
forms.gle/R8FSHGJCFVk2...
Our new systematic review on music therapy and heart rate variability (HRV) is now online 🎉
While we found potential positive effects of music therapy on HRV, the quality of HRV measurement methods in these studies was generally low—but quality was improving over time 📈 doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... 🔓
While we found potential positive effects of music therapy on HRV, the quality of HRV measurement methods in these studies was generally low—but quality was improving over time 📈 doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... 🔓
November 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Our new systematic review on music therapy and heart rate variability (HRV) is now online 🎉
While we found potential positive effects of music therapy on HRV, the quality of HRV measurement methods in these studies was generally low—but quality was improving over time 📈 doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... 🔓
While we found potential positive effects of music therapy on HRV, the quality of HRV measurement methods in these studies was generally low—but quality was improving over time 📈 doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... 🔓
Today a student told me they found an "old" article from the 2000s 💀
November 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Today a student told me they found an "old" article from the 2000s 💀
Reposted by Dan Quintana
Choice, reproducibility, and reporting of stats is critical & an editorial focus at the journal.
It's also pretty hard & starts long before a paper is submitted.
We hope this piece will aid researchers in the task
@dsquintana.bsky.social @annalschubert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
It's also pretty hard & starts long before a paper is submitted.
We hope this piece will aid researchers in the task
@dsquintana.bsky.social @annalschubert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Improving statistical reporting in psychology - Communications Psychology
Practical guidelines for transparent statistical reporting in quantitative psychology are presented, covering key decisions from study planning through results reporting across frequentist, Bayesian, ...
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Choice, reproducibility, and reporting of stats is critical & an editorial focus at the journal.
It's also pretty hard & starts long before a paper is submitted.
We hope this piece will aid researchers in the task
@dsquintana.bsky.social @annalschubert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
It's also pretty hard & starts long before a paper is submitted.
We hope this piece will aid researchers in the task
@dsquintana.bsky.social @annalschubert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
In Norway, you’ll be lucky if undergrads call you *anything*. Most messages or emails simply begin with, “Hei…”.
I’m fine with this personally as it’s the norm here, but it *does* mean I usually need to give “the talk” to more senior students who need to contact researchers outside Norway
I’m fine with this personally as it’s the norm here, but it *does* mean I usually need to give “the talk” to more senior students who need to contact researchers outside Norway
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
In Norway, you’ll be lucky if undergrads call you *anything*. Most messages or emails simply begin with, “Hei…”.
I’m fine with this personally as it’s the norm here, but it *does* mean I usually need to give “the talk” to more senior students who need to contact researchers outside Norway
I’m fine with this personally as it’s the norm here, but it *does* mean I usually need to give “the talk” to more senior students who need to contact researchers outside Norway
If you’ve ever attempted a meta-analysis, you’ll know that authors generally do a poor job reporting statistics. If you do this well, you’ll improve your chances of your work being included in a future meta-analysis.
Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉
As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 15, 2025 at 7:08 AM
If you’ve ever attempted a meta-analysis, you’ll know that authors generally do a poor job reporting statistics. If you do this well, you’ll improve your chances of your work being included in a future meta-analysis.
Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉
As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉
As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
“Google's strategic transformation into an AI-first company fundamentally conflicts with maintaining niche academic services like Scholar”
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
hannahshelley.neocities.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“Google's strategic transformation into an AI-first company fundamentally conflicts with maintaining niche academic services like Scholar”
Reposted by Dan Quintana
Important points 👇
We strongly encourage ORCIDs & mandate them for corresponding authors. It adds admin 🫠, but it benefits especially people who a) have frequent names, b) use a moniker that is a transcription of their names in Roman letters, c) do not have English institutional websites.
We strongly encourage ORCIDs & mandate them for corresponding authors. It adds admin 🫠, but it benefits especially people who a) have frequent names, b) use a moniker that is a transcription of their names in Roman letters, c) do not have English institutional websites.
I wish ORCIDs were more widely used. You can add a secondary email address to your ORCID account, so even if you lose your institutional email, which is the norm rather than then exception, you can still use the same ORCID.
194: Author verification everythinghertz.com/194
We discuss whether preprint servers and journals should introduce author identity verification for submitting manuscripts. This would probably speed up the submission process, is this worth the potential downsides?
We discuss whether preprint servers and journals should introduce author identity verification for submitting manuscripts. This would probably speed up the submission process, is this worth the potential downsides?
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Important points 👇
We strongly encourage ORCIDs & mandate them for corresponding authors. It adds admin 🫠, but it benefits especially people who a) have frequent names, b) use a moniker that is a transcription of their names in Roman letters, c) do not have English institutional websites.
We strongly encourage ORCIDs & mandate them for corresponding authors. It adds admin 🫠, but it benefits especially people who a) have frequent names, b) use a moniker that is a transcription of their names in Roman letters, c) do not have English institutional websites.
Here’s an interesting breakdown of ORCID use per field ⬇️
Good question! The lowest rate by far are those publications where field can't be assigned (meaning the metadata is particularly poor anyway--probably without even an abstract available). Chemistry, Physical Sciences, and Engineering are rocking the ORCID, while the humanities are all lagging. -2024
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Here’s an interesting breakdown of ORCID use per field ⬇️
I wish ORCIDs were more widely used. You can add a secondary email address to your ORCID account, so even if you lose your institutional email, which is the norm rather than then exception, you can still use the same ORCID.
194: Author verification everythinghertz.com/194
We discuss whether preprint servers and journals should introduce author identity verification for submitting manuscripts. This would probably speed up the submission process, is this worth the potential downsides?
We discuss whether preprint servers and journals should introduce author identity verification for submitting manuscripts. This would probably speed up the submission process, is this worth the potential downsides?
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I wish ORCIDs were more widely used. You can add a secondary email address to your ORCID account, so even if you lose your institutional email, which is the norm rather than then exception, you can still use the same ORCID.
Me, hearing ‘Ok Computer’ for the first time when I was like 15
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Me, hearing ‘Ok Computer’ for the first time when I was like 15
Anyone have a copy of 'Replication in Behavioral Research' (1990) by Rosenthal?
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Anyone have a copy of 'Replication in Behavioral Research' (1990) by Rosenthal?
Right place, right time.
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Right place, right time.
Computer trying to connect to printer down the hall from my office: Sorry, no can do mate, try again, three or four attempts should do it
Computer trying to connect to wifi at any university in the world: I connected to the network before you even opened up your laptop. I am one with eduroam
Computer trying to connect to wifi at any university in the world: I connected to the network before you even opened up your laptop. I am one with eduroam
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Computer trying to connect to printer down the hall from my office: Sorry, no can do mate, try again, three or four attempts should do it
Computer trying to connect to wifi at any university in the world: I connected to the network before you even opened up your laptop. I am one with eduroam
Computer trying to connect to wifi at any university in the world: I connected to the network before you even opened up your laptop. I am one with eduroam
Prepping for a workshop tomorrow, in which I'm covering sample size calculation and power analysis, among other topics
November 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Prepping for a workshop tomorrow, in which I'm covering sample size calculation and power analysis, among other topics
Anyone have recommendations for books and/or papers on the methods behind translating questionnaires to other languages?
November 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Anyone have recommendations for books and/or papers on the methods behind translating questionnaires to other languages?
Are you a Norway-based early career researcher who has demonstrated a clear commitment to open science practices?
Apply for the 2025 NORRN open science award! ⬇️
Apply for the 2025 NORRN open science award! ⬇️
We’re excited to share that NORRN is launching its first-ever Open Science Award to recognise outstanding early career researchers in Norway who champion open science 🏆
Award winners will receive a gift card + certificate, see the application form for more details nettskjema.no/a/531568#/pa...
Award winners will receive a gift card + certificate, see the application form for more details nettskjema.no/a/531568#/pa...
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Are you a Norway-based early career researcher who has demonstrated a clear commitment to open science practices?
Apply for the 2025 NORRN open science award! ⬇️
Apply for the 2025 NORRN open science award! ⬇️
Who’s gonna pay @rpsychologist.com to make a mega tool converting all g*power analysis types to an interpretable web tool like this?
New release of PowerLMM.js! Browser-based power analysis for longitudinal models with dropout.
Now includes:
- Power analysis summary report
- Reproducible & shareable configs (URL/JSON)
- Calculations validated against R
- Hypothesis region visualization
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
Now includes:
- Power analysis summary report
- Reproducible & shareable configs (URL/JSON)
- Calculations validated against R
- Hypothesis region visualization
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Who’s gonna pay @rpsychologist.com to make a mega tool converting all g*power analysis types to an interpretable web tool like this?
Reposted by Dan Quintana
🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
So it appears that there are a few orthopedic journals that don’t accept preprinted papers, I wonder why this is? Why *this* particular sub field?
But on the plus side, this seems to be the only field in which there’s even a possibility that you might have issues publishing preprinted work.
But on the plus side, this seems to be the only field in which there’s even a possibility that you might have issues publishing preprinted work.
Ah, found a list: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Only outlier I could see is the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. My one submission to them was incredibly exasperating anyway, so I never went back, preprint or not.
Only outlier I could see is the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. My one submission to them was incredibly exasperating anyway, so I never went back, preprint or not.
List of academic publishers by preprint policy - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
So it appears that there are a few orthopedic journals that don’t accept preprinted papers, I wonder why this is? Why *this* particular sub field?
But on the plus side, this seems to be the only field in which there’s even a possibility that you might have issues publishing preprinted work.
But on the plus side, this seems to be the only field in which there’s even a possibility that you might have issues publishing preprinted work.
Anyone know if PsyArXiv accepts papers that describe and report datasets?
It seems that they do not accept 'data dictionaries', which I interpret to simply be a description of a dataset, but maybe this also extends to papers that describe collection methods etc? blog.psyarxiv.com/about-psyarx...
It seems that they do not accept 'data dictionaries', which I interpret to simply be a description of a dataset, but maybe this also extends to papers that describe collection methods etc? blog.psyarxiv.com/about-psyarx...
About PsyArXiv – PsyArXiv Blog
What is PsyArXiv? PsyArXiv (psychology archive) is an open preprint archive designed to facilitate rapid dissemination of psychological research. PsyArXiv is a creation of the Society for the Improvem...
blog.psyarxiv.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Anyone know if PsyArXiv accepts papers that describe and report datasets?
It seems that they do not accept 'data dictionaries', which I interpret to simply be a description of a dataset, but maybe this also extends to papers that describe collection methods etc? blog.psyarxiv.com/about-psyarx...
It seems that they do not accept 'data dictionaries', which I interpret to simply be a description of a dataset, but maybe this also extends to papers that describe collection methods etc? blog.psyarxiv.com/about-psyarx...
LLMs can be useful for some things, but simulating human research participant responses isn’t one of them
![However, recent work demonstrates that demographically prompted LLMs cannot accurately simulate diverse identities. Prompted LLMs are more likely to represent majority groups' stereotypes about minority groups than minority groups' own standpoints [12,13]. For instance, one study [13] prompted LLMs with the identity of Black woman. GPT-4 started generations with phrases such as 'Hey girl' and
'Oh, honey'; Llama-2 started nearly every response with 'Oh, girl', and used phrases including I'm like, YAASSSSS' and 'That's cray, hunty!' In addition, demographic prompting flattens diverse identities into narrow categories, limiting researchers' ability to observe and understand diversity within those categories [13,55]. Demographic prompting misrepresents people who are chronically under-represented in cognitive science research, a form of representational harm [56].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ho22o3jwfn4k7diklsrfnazt/bafkreifiqpzt5r2qjkewoxwxyutln7i4rg3x65pzbxbbgo7zp2by4wdqs4@jpeg)
October 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
LLMs can be useful for some things, but simulating human research participant responses isn’t one of them
On the way to the University of Zurich to deliver a talk tomorrow at their seminar series in evolutionary medicine 🇨🇭
My talk will be on the evolution of the oxytocin system and Implications for health + wellbeing. This will also be streamed on Zoom (registration required) www.uzh.ch/en/events/ag...
My talk will be on the evolution of the oxytocin system and Implications for health + wellbeing. This will also be streamed on Zoom (registration required) www.uzh.ch/en/events/ag...
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
On the way to the University of Zurich to deliver a talk tomorrow at their seminar series in evolutionary medicine 🇨🇭
My talk will be on the evolution of the oxytocin system and Implications for health + wellbeing. This will also be streamed on Zoom (registration required) www.uzh.ch/en/events/ag...
My talk will be on the evolution of the oxytocin system and Implications for health + wellbeing. This will also be streamed on Zoom (registration required) www.uzh.ch/en/events/ag...