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Dan Quintana
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Professor of Psychology at the University of Oslo | Behavioral neuroendocrinology, psychophysiology, and meta-science 🇦🇺🇨🇴🇳🇴
New preprint! 🎉 Using a sample of over 73k births across Norway, we found that induction of labor (with either oxytocin, prostaglandin, or amniotomy) and epidural analgesia are associated with lower likelihood of initiating breastfeeding doi.org/10.22541/au....
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Turns out @uio.no has access to Perma.cc, so I’ve gone with this option for creating a permanent snapshot of websites for my papers. Thanks for the heads up, @steve-kambouris.bsky.social!

bsky.app/profile/stev...
I have seen some papers which have used perma.cc, but I have not used it myself (I have used the Internet Archive, which was fine for my purposes).
Websites change. Perma Links don't.
Perma.cc helps scholars, journals, courts, and others create permanent records of the web sources they cite.
perma.cc
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
How are people going about including links to websites in papers that are persistent? Some kind of archiving service? A link along with a PDF version of the site in the supplement/OSF?
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 AM
There is no reason why systematic reviews can't be open. The data used for synthesis is *already* open and there are many excellent open source tools that can facilitate the easy sharing of analysis scripts.

Here's a nice guide for performing open systematic reviews doi.org/10.1525/coll...
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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🎈 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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MetaROR Turns One - MetaROR
An exciting year of open, community-driven evaluation of metaresearch One [...]
metaror.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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📣 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...
November 20, 2025 at 11:22 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... 🔓
November 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Today a student told me they found an "old" article from the 2000s 💀
November 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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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...
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
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
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 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...
November 15, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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...
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
“Google's strategic transformation into an AI-first company fundamentally conflicts with maintaining niche academic services like Scholar”
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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.
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?
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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
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?
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Me, hearing ‘Ok Computer’ for the first time when I was like 15
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Anyone have a copy of 'Replication in Behavioral Research' (1990) by Rosenthal?
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Right place, right time.
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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
Anyone have recommendations for books and/or papers on the methods behind translating questionnaires to other languages?
November 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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! ⬇️
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...
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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
October 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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🎉 @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)
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM