James Bartlett
@bartlettje
Psychology lecturer at UoG 🏴 All things data skills, statistics, quant research methods, and HE pedagogy. #rstats 🗣️🇬🇧🇩🇪
And comparing estimates from our logistic regression models to potentially better capture the data generating process.
A violin-boxplot visualising the distributions side by side when the original study did not include any visualisation.
This article will also live with me forever as the best origin story. We wrote it during the Open Science Retreat 2025 in Beatenburg, Switzerland. As well as being productive, we also got to experience four seasons in possibly my favourite country.
I’m back at work after almost five weeks off on paternity leave. I thought I would be much more restless but I really enjoyed the time away minus the sleep deprivation.
print(“Hello World”) For someone who almost lives for their work, the next four weeks are going to be a wild change of pace! Extremely fortunate paternity leave increased from 2 weeks just in time for baby Astrid. P
At graduation, we had so many from our online distance learning programme attend, where people came from as far away as New Zealand, Canada, and Jordan. This is why I think HE will never die, anyone can read a book or watch some videos, but it’s the human connections which make the difference.
Ever year when I introduce NHST and the importance of effect sizes, I get students to respond what success rate would convince them that someone could see the future. Weirdly, most of the time, the answer isn't 53%...
I’ve had a beautiful few days in Münster. Now for a 4 hour adventure around Frankfurt until my late late flight.
Workshop done and dusted before the welcome event! All the attendees got their books up and running with minimal R Studio and GitHub shenanigans. All materials here with a walkthrough video for the book output: bartlettje.github.io/disseminatio...
I had planned to watch a football match, but got the unlucky side of resale tickets 🥲 Instead, I had a lovely 2 hour wander around Bochum…
One of the best bits of advice I ever received was keeping a log of things you do over the year. It's invaluable for promotion applications and performance reviews as you will 100% forget cool stuff you did. At Glasgow, we have four criteria, so I log things down to make it easier later:
Really nice design and analysis on this paper by Bitzan et al. Great example of rigorous scholarship work but I find the comparison absolutely baffling. Particularly in a psychology department, I don't know why software *or* hand calculations would be the choice. doi.org/10.1177/1475...
I had an absolute blast on the organising committee of @ukcots.bsky.social 2025. It was lovely working with everyone and seeing it come together to welcome people to Glasgow. The highlight was a drinks reception in the city chambers hosted by representatives of the Lord Provost!
My #UKCOTS2025 workshop on using Quarto/Github Pages to create open educational materials. Apart from minor GitHub shenanigans, most people left with their own book skeleton! Materials here if you’re interested: bartlettje.github.io/disseminatio...
For anyone who knows R/RStudio and wants to learn how to use a Chi-Square, one of my students is running a project on how students learn new data skills. You can take part online (uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...) or if you're at the University of Glasgow, you can do it in person.
Great productive initiative where we had an ECR writing day within the psychology school! Combined with a break in the middle to identify our strengths and weaknesses to identify collaboration opportunities.
Switzerland you beautiful beautiful place! Excellent start so far to the Open Science Retreat with an early run to check out the incredible scenery.
For anyone involved in a BPS accredited degree (BSc or MSc conv), we would appreciate you sharing our poster or link with your students! We're looking for students entering or just finishing their final year for a study on data skills using any stats software. uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
As we start the small Bayes segment of my (small) stats course, this is exactly the motivation behind it. MSc students (who responded) never had a course on it before, but they see it in research. So, how are they expected to appraise the process/results?
There's a bunch of interesting points in here but they also don't pick up on additional issues in the output. If you have super common misconceptions all over the internet, they're going to make their way into LLMs:
How pretty! We had a bullfinch visit the garden and earlier. Love our garden visitors!
Students are the absolute best. A bunch of our online MSc conversion students across the world bought each other rubber ducks to help with coding ❤️
On my way to Edinburgh where I'm doing a very short talk on teaching programming/reproducible research practices rapidly. We hear in psychology that students can't learn to programme or there's no time. I argue psychology students absolutely can providing the might support and content is available.
Finally watched an NHL game live and it was an incredible experience. I’ll never complain about UK arena prices again though with $20 beers 😅
Sad to only be transferring in Iceland as it’s one of my favourite countries 🇮🇸 At least we get a couple of hours in the airport before leaving for New York.