Dan Quintana

Dan Quintana

Oslo, Norway
Senior Researcher in biological psychiatry at the University of Oslo investigating how the oxytocin system influences our thoughts, feelings, and physiology.
Aug
18
Reproducible and future-proof analysis

Reproducible and future-proof analysis

Here's a screencast I recently made on how to make a reproducible version of your R analysis. This is incredibly easy to set up, so if you would like to easily share your analyses you should check this out
Jul
24
Creating a synthetic version of a real dataset to facilitate data sharing

Creating a synthetic version of a real dataset to facilitate data sharing

How to make a synthetic dataset which mimics the characteristics of a real dataset
3 min read
Jul
19
Why I'm live streaming the creation of a scientific paper

Why I'm live streaming the creation of a scientific paper

How live streaming will normalize the ups and downs of writing a paper, keep me accountable, and improve my coding and writing.
6 min read
Jun
21
Using equivalence testing to better understand non-significant results

Using equivalence testing to better understand non-significant results

I recently did a series of talks at the "Psychology and the Brain" conference in Germany. I managed to film one these talks, which was on how to better understand non-significant results, for a livestream. Here's the replay...
Jun
15
How to make your own website for free in an under an hour

How to make your own website for free in an under an hour

This tutorial will walk you through how to make your own website for free using the `blogdown` package in RStudio.
5 min read
Jun
13
Three common mistakes in meta-analysis

Three common mistakes in meta-analysis

Meta-analysis has become a popular tool to summarizing data from a body of work investigating a common research question. However, there are several common meta-analysis misunderstandings that can lead to inaccurate conclusions.
8 min read
Jun
11
The benefits and drawbacks of intranasally-delivered medications

The benefits and drawbacks of intranasally-delivered medications

The nasal cavity is the only accessible surface on your body that has direct access to the central nervous system. But there are a few important considerations for using this administration route for brain-targeted medications
5 min read
Jun
11
How to respond to reviewer’s comments on your manuscript

How to respond to reviewer’s comments on your manuscript

You might be frustrating the people who peer-review you manuscripts without even realising it. Here are some brief tips on reducing peer review friction from my (limited) experience as an author, reviewer, and associate editor.
2 min read
Jun
10
The academic publishing industry, explained

The academic publishing industry, explained

The importance of the battle for open scientific publishing
1 min read
Jun
10
Identifying and labeling boxplot outliers in R

Identifying and labeling boxplot outliers in R

Boxplots typically visualize outliers, however, they don't indicate at glance which participant or datapoint is your outlier. Labeling your boxplot outliers is straightforward using the `ggstatsplot` package, here's a quick tutorial on how to do this.
2 min read