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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 11h

Nice!!

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a tutorial on using synthpop, which I didn’t create. Here’s the paper elifesciences.org/articles/53275

A synthetic dataset primer for the biobehavioural sciences to promote reproducibility and hypothesis generation

Sharing synthetic datasets that mimic original datasets that could not otherwise be made publicly available can help ensure reproducibility and facilitate data exploration while maintaining participan...

elifesciences.org

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 2d

Meg når nordmenn snakker engelsk med veldig australsk aksent

a man in a suit and tie looks surprised with his mouth open

ALT: a man in a suit and tie looks surprised with his mouth open

media.tenor.com

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 10d

Really enjoyed this chat with Ben about science communication and podcasts

BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 10d

New episode!

My podcast is changing format, from remote audio-only, to exclusively in-person video interviews. To review the past & discuss its future, I talked to @dsquintana.bsky.social

geni.us/bjks-new

There'll be a bit of a gap. In a month or two, new episodes with the new format will drop.

119. This (audio only) podcast is dead - long live the podcast? With Dan Quintana - BJKS Podcast

This is a special episode: this podcast will change after this episode, from remote audio-only interviews to exclusively in-person video interviews. Dan Quintana, professor at the University of Oslo a...

geni.us

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 10d

Nice to get away to the mountains for a short break. Can you spot the cabin in this photo?

A photo with mountains in the background and a white dog in the foreground. It is overcast weather

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 13d

Job: Associate Professor in Cultural and Community Psychology in Oslo

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Associate Professor in Cultural and Community Psychology (283420) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Cultural and Community Psychology (283420), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 30, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 14d

I seen preprint commentaries on papers but I don’t think I’ve seen back and forths?

Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 14d

Maybe there’s some selection bias going on where people have only shared the ‘good’ ones

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah, I really wish the “point-counterpoint” article format was more common in psychology. The only psych journal that that comes to mind that sort of does this is Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 14d

I want this kind of back and forth to be somewhere that everyone can see it and enjoy it, in perpetuity. What if peer review worked more like this, in the open?

Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 14d

“On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure”
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/25/o...

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 15d

Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 18d

Have you tried Lego masters? Really enjoy watching this with my kids. Inbestigators was a fun watch

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Melanie Richter-Montpetit @mellimo.bsky.social · 19d

Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today.

A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):

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Veli-Matti Karhulahti @mkarhulahti.bsky.social · 19d

Just learned about this diamond journal, which has apparently been running since 2015! Looks like a very nice place for any meta-sciency work & probably deserves some visibility.

septentrio.uit.no/index.php/no...

Nordic Perspectives on Open Science

Nordic-Baltic journal of Open Access to publications, data, peer review and open science.

septentrio.uit.no

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19d

Yeah, I agree! We’re planning on submitting there soon

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19d

Ah that’s a good one

Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19d

I know the authors and website don’t choose the specific ads that are served, but the website has a choice about the ad network and the types of ads the network uses

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19d

About halfway through this article on spotting pseudoscience there’s an ad about your ‘dopamine addiction type’

A Simple Guide to Spotting
Pseudoscience
We need to understand what pseudoscience is and how to recognize it.

KEY POINTS
• Pseudoscience mimics science.
• Its apparent certainty and quick fixes are appealing.
• We can detect pseudoscience by looking out for nine red flags.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 20d

Melbourne (MEL-bin)

Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 20d

If you pronounce Likert correctly (lick-urt) people will often think you don't know what you are talking about because the incorrect pronunciation (lie-kurt) is so common. Are there other good examples of this kind of thing?

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 20d

Imre Lakatos (LAH-kah-tosh)

Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 21d

Of course!

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 21d

I give this AI generated image I found on LinkedIn a 3 out of 10 because at least the brain is facing the right way

An AI generated image of a brain with many errors

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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 23d

This fall I will have a blind student in my coding class for the first time. Do any other instructors or visually impaired coders have advice beyond making sure my book has useful alt-text for the images? #rstats #accessibility

Class book: psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v5/

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 24d

My institution did this a few years ago. Cool idea, especially for a sustainability conference www.mn.uio.no/ibv/english/...

The University of Oslo has a goal to reduce plane travel by 10% in 2020, and so to encourage its delegates to travel in the most sustainable way, they booked an entire train carriage to transport UiO delegates over the mountains to Bergen. This "Sustain-train" or
"No-shame-train" served as an exciting preparation for the conference, with talks, speeches, activities and even a music concert to get everyone discussing how small changes, or 'tipping points', can lead to larger social and environmental transformations.
Clare presented the results from her master thesis, about environmental pollution in Norwegian killer whales, in the context of SDG 14 which is about protecting life under water.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 25d

Also, arancini rule

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 25d

Small specialist meetings are so much better than large mega-meetings IMO

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