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Dan Quintana

@dsquintana.bsky.social

Professor of Psychology at the University of Oslo | Behavioral neuroendocrinology, psychophysiology, and meta-science 🇦🇺🇨🇴🇳🇴

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Dan Quintana@dsquintana.bsky.social · last mo.

Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

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Dan Quintana@dsquintana.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Some journals require lay abstracts alongside conventional abstracts. I almost always prefer the lay version because they more clearly describe what was done and what the results mean, which says a lot about how we approach scientific writing

Dan Quintana@dsquintana.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Every AI-managed Frontiers invitation that is sent to someone to review a paper that’s comically outside their field of expertise is one less person that will consider submitting their work to Frontiers, as this reveals how poorly their paper will be handled

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Dan Quintana@dsquintana.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

A screenshot of the World Cup knockout bracket bracket with Norway as the winner
Dan Quintana@dsquintana.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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"

OSF screenshot with the text "No files are available at this time"
Alex Holcombe@alexh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Please improve acknowledgments sections to better credit research contributors! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Our new paper on this topic begins by summarising three pathways to improve crediting of research contributors – 1. Loosen authorship restrictions.

Improving acknowledgments sections to better credit research contributors

Formal recognition of research contributions is critical for career advancement and the allocation of research funding. However, some contributions are mentioned only in the acknowledgments section...

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Dan Quintana@dsquintana.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

The second half of the 1920s may be called ‘‘the Golden Age’’ of crisis declarations in psychology. The diagnosis became so widespread that in 1926 the then influential Viennese psychologist and philosopher Karl Bühler wrote that ‘‘one can now even read in the newspapers that there is a crisis in psychology’’ (Bühler, 1926, p. 455). A great number of such declarations appeared in articles and even book-length studies coming from quite different schools and traditions in psychology (see contributions by Allesch, Hatfield, Hyman, and Sturm in this volume) and from several countries throughout Europe and from North America, having repercussions, too, for philosophy (Feest, this volume).
Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Trust in science. Expert opinion, context, and open data all help, and in the era of AI, we should aspire to audit trails that confirm data provenance. Key to trust is accountability of researchers, however, and for that we need identity verification. New blog post. openrxiv.org/trust-signal...

Trust Signals and Accountability - openRxiv

By Richard Sever (Chief Science & Strategy Officer) and Tracy K. Teal (Chief Executive Officer) Progress in science depends on the trustworthiness of research that is shared. Developing signals that i...

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Dan Quintana@dsquintana.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

Presentation slide. Header: "Core principle 1 — Your evaluators are time- and attention-poor." Subtitle: "Design every page for the tired reader (not the engaged one)." Left panel ("Picture This"): It's 10pm. Your application could be the fifth one your evaluator has opened tonight. The kids are finally asleep; there's maybe a half-finished glass of red on the desk. They are not going to read it the way you wrote it. Takeaway: "Make your application easy to evaluate!" Right column, four tips: (1) Land the project on page 1 — don't build it like a story; state what, why, and how by the first page. (2) Help them fill out the evaluation form — mirror the funder's criteria in your headings so evaluators can copy-paste into their report. (3) Bold the key sentences — mark claims a skimmer must catch, but sparingly; if everything is bold, nothing is. (4) Put a summary figure on page 1 — one visual that captures the whole project and makes sense before any prose does. Logo top right: Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Laboratory.