Dan Quintana
@dsquintana
Professor of Psychology at the University of Oslo | Behavioral neuroendocrinology, psychophysiology, and meta-science 🇦🇺🇨🇴🇳🇴
Congrats to Joakim Ebeltoft, who successfully defended his PhD today. It was a pleasure to Chair the defence and to learn about all exceptional work he’s done over the past few years
I just rebuilt my website using Quarto 🎉 My publication list generates itself from my Zotero library, and papers include links to materials and OA versions. The website's first post is on how to build your own, featuring an app that does all the coding for you: dsquintana.com/posts/quarto...
Just arrived at NMBU to deliver a workshop on social media for academics. These are always lots of fun to do
I did a double-take on this paper title because I didn’t notice it was in mice when reading the first two sentences
Here's an interesting piece on the use of metrics to measure academic performance. We all know that when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure, but at least metrics distort behavior *visibly* & institutions can choose the ones to reward nicolaijfoss.substack.com/p/coara-and-...
gonna post 100 likely permutations of the World Cup knockout bracket on bsky and then delete all the ones that were wrong after the final and then claim I predicted everything before the tournament to demonstrate p-hacking for my classes next semester
I was really happy to find a link to raw data in paper I was reading, but this is what I found when I clicked on the OSF link. At least it was better than a CSV file with one cell containing the text: "Data available upon reasonable request"
Psychology is in the middle of several overlapping crises—replication, generalisability, theory—but this isn't new. Crisis discussions first appeared in the 1920s (!?). The specific topics have changed but the structure seems kind of similar, maybe we can learn something from this? doi.org/czvw7m
Funnel plots and Egger's regression test measure small-study bias, not publication bias, which is a distinction many meta-analyses get wrong. So I made a screencast on how measure publication bias correctly in JASP and R: youtu.be/XiUj4yP8Nsw
As long as a paper's methods are described *somewhere* I don't think it matters where they are located in a manuscript
Many people write grant applications assuming their reader is engaged, but the opposite is more likely. Your evaluators are time- and attention-poor, so you should design your application with this in mind. This slide is part of a talk I'm giving today on writing grant applications
Most autistic students who need accommodations in higher education never get them. In our latest preprint, we describe where the gaps are and what students said about them doi.org/q8js
In our new preprint, we describe the unique needs and experiences of autistic students in higher education osf.io/preprints/ps...
Social media platforms and how academics use them change, but one thing doesn't
We have a tradition in our lab: every PhD or Master’s publication gets its own custom mug ☕
In my recent preprint, I formalized the Allostatic Theory of Oxytocin as a computational model and ran the two side by side. This theory proposes that oxytocin supports allostasis. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Here’s a GIF I put together illustrating the advantage of an allostatic system vs. a homeostatic system for an upcoming talk 🧵
We also looked at geographical differences, finding that researchers in some countries and regions have a higher psychology meta-analysis preregistration rate than others.
We also checked whether more carefully written preregistrations were more likely to get published. They weren't. This means that the *quality* of intent didn't translate into completion.
So we emailed the authors of all 358 unpublished registrations. 80 wrote responded. The reasons they gave were almost entirely logistical: no time (47%), people leaving the project (11%), no funding (7%). Only one person cited non-significant results as a reason for not publishing.
When it comes to the ongoing registrations, most were in the 'study search' stage. Almost half the records had not updated their registration since starting their search for eligible studies