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Dr Helena Paterson

@drhelenapaterson.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology University of Glasgow & mum, she/her. Sharing #rstats #openscience #PsyTeachR, #DigitalEducation, #StudyDifference, #creativefamily #TeamUofG ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Dr Carolyn Loveridge @carolynloveridge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Delighted to have presented our work at the QAA Assessment and Feedback Virtual Roadshow on Tuesday 15th September with my colleagues @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social and @susanllindsay.bsky.social. Event recordings now available: events.qaa.ac.uk/eventsplus/8...
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 25/09/2026
Support open-access research in psychological science – join the PsyArXiv Moderation team! 🧑‍🏫Moderator training is provided 🕰️Commitment: ~2 hours a month 📝Checking submissions for relevance, scope, and appropriate metadata 🌐Moderation work can be done asynchronously buff.ly/6TlgL7Q
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Sign up to be a moderator for PsyArXiv
It is amazing that you are considering becoming a moderator. Moderation is a small job when there are plenty of moderators, which is why we are always on the lookout for people to join the team. We…
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Dr Helena Paterson @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I can't believe PsyArXiv is only 10! I'm very proud to be involved with it in a small way, so I celebrated with a nostalgic look at my past preprints. And enjoyed the memories of collaborations that led to these submissions. See them in my replies below.
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 11/08/2026
The Center for Open Science recently announced its decision to phase out OSF Projects. We want to share how those changes will affect PsyArXiv, a psychology preprint server run and maintained by SIPS volunteers but hosted on the OSF platform. improvingpsych.org/2026/08/11/w...
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What Researchers Need to Know about PsyArXiv Given Upcoming Changes to OSF Projects
In just a few short days (August 15th, 2026), PsyArXiv – the community preprint server for psychology – turns 10! 🥳 Over the past decade, our community has published over 58,000 preprin…
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James Bartlett @bartlettje.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
New pre-print and it's not about teaching for once! 🚨 We report a direct replication of Irving et al. (2022) who showed debunking statements can decrease mistaken causal inferences when reading a news article. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Available now: Teaching Open Science, edited by Charlotte R. Pennington (@drcpennington.bsky.social) and Madeleine Pownall (@maddipow.bsky.social) Learn more: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... Read a free sample chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
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Dr Helena Paterson @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
First flavour posy of the year. Picked from the herb patch for a casserole. Oregano, thyme, savory, hissop, marjoram, bay, rosemary, sage No parsley, this is not a song. Aromatic and flavoursome
A row of herb cuttings on a wooden table with a pair scissors.A bunched bouquet garni of herb cotton’s tied with string
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James Bartlett @bartlettje.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
🚨 New article klaxon 🚨 Gaby Mahrholz, @emilynordmann.bsky.social and I have our article "Practice What You Preach: Designing Student Assignments That Advance Open and Reproducible Science" published in AMPPS. doi.org/10.1177/2515...
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Practice What You Preach: Designing Student Assignments That Advance Open and Reproducible Science - James Bartlett, Gaby Mahrholz, Emily Nordmann, 2026
Since the replication crisis came to widespread attention in psychology, there has been significant progress in reforming research practices to be more open and...
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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I’m at the @improvingpsych.org online conference at a session about #PsyArXiv moderation, which switched from a post-moderation system (DOI assigned before moderation) to a pre-moderation system in 2025 for reasons that should be apparent on this plot.
Graph of new submissions by month from 2017 to 2026. Submission increased a bit in 2020 and doubled again in 2025.
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Brendan Schuetze @schu.etze.co · 06/05/2026
Great conversation on the future of @psyarxivbot.bsky.social during today's @improvingpsych.org hackathon! Thanks for taking the lead @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social and Anna Butters! Also nice to see @epronizius.bsky.social after reading so many slack messages in the moderation channel! #SIPS2026
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 01/05/2026
Due to an issue with OSF, PsyArXiv is currently only able to "accept" manuscripts. If papers need to be revised before acceptance - for instance, due to not meeting our server's policies (blog.psyarxiv.com/about-psyarx...), we will hold them in our queue until the OSF implements a fix.
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Dr Helena Paterson @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Very much looking forward to #SIPS2026 Online!
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Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
1/ NEW in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology — our first review of a decade+ of research on understanding & predicting cultural change, with Michael Varnum. This one is personal. A thread on what we found, what surprised us, and how two kids reading Asimov ended up here. 🧵
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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 24/03/2026
Updates to #PsyArXiv moderation policies blog.psyarxiv.com/2026/03/23/u...
"From March 2026, moderators have added additional checks to ensure that authors have complied with all the terms of service for PsyArXiv. Moderators will also use authors’ past publication record to establish scholarly expertise for formats such as reviews, case studies, opinion pieces, etc. or topics where moderators have less experience, such as theories of consciousness, linguistics, philosophy, psychiatry, computational theory, etc. Such formats and topics require more specialist knowledge to establish whether they are in scope as scientific psychology, and what their scholarly contribution represents; hence, submissions cannot be evaluated by moderators in only a few minutes, and we rely on established scholarship to inform decisions. Submissions also need to be complete enough that they represent an independent contribution to the field of psychology, so slide decks and working papers presented as notes or research proposals or with incomplete methods will no longer be accepted into the archive, as they also require more than a few minutes to evaluate. We encourage authors to use OSF projects to record and version work-in-progress. However, PsyArXiv continues to accept stage 1 registered reports, where they pass standard checks for well-crafted registered reports. "
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 22/12/2025
📢 PsyArXiv 12 Days of Christmas 🎄 🧑‍🎄 🎁 PsyArXiv moderators will be taking a holiday break from Dec 24 to Jan 4. Please avoid uploading work to the archive during this time to prevent a backlog, and expect some delays in moderation. We aim to clear any holiday backlog by Jan 16. Happy Holidays!
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
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Dr Helena Paterson @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Really pleased with this chapter showing our teaching of reproducible workflows as a core skill for our students at all levels of study.
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Kalli ✨️ @kalliverse.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
my first ever research study is public! In a study designed with the amazing @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social, I replicated the mere exposure effect with human sentences reading voices, uncovering an unexpected state of "familiarly unfamiliar" voices processed differently to familiar and unknown voices
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James Bartlett @bartlettje.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Our argument is that you *can* embed reproducible research skills in every degree; you just need the right support in place. Your students might just surprise you in what they're capable of learning and valuing. @debruine.bsky.social @philmcaleer.bsky.social @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social
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Phil McAleer @philmcaleer.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
If you've ever wondered what 1990s #cycling can teach us, in 2025, about incorporating #AI into #HigherEducation, this article on LinkedIn from @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social & myself is the very one for you! All comments welcome! 🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-pr...
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How professional cycling can teach Higher Education to navigate AI
Phil McAleer and Helena Paterson, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Glasgow Reading Time: Approximately 5-10 minutes. In the 1990s the world of cycling finally woke up to the realis...
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simine vazire @simine.com · 23/05/2025
Please spread the word! Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks. If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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Call for Volunteers: Psychological Science REPEAT Network
Are you passionate about ensuring the reproducibility of scientific research? The journal Psychological Science is looking for volunteers to join REPEAT—our new network of computational reproducibilit...
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Dr Helena Paterson @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Very lucky to have some posts to fill @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social. Come join the team.
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Dr. Alyssa Counsell @alyssacounsell.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Psych Stats Instructors: please consider participating in a 15-min anonymous survey about best practice and teaching methods. Closes May 31st. For details see: ryersonpsych.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Sharing appreciated!
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Dr Helena Paterson @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Great Q&A-type resource to reveal the hidden curriculum behind doing an MSc in the UK @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social's @philmcaleer.bsky.social
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Dr Helena Paterson @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Fantastic resource for understanding and calculating effect sizes. ⭐️⭐️
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Ryssa Moffat @ryssamoffat.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
✨ ✏️ The final meerkat sketches are ready! Straight from the Open Science Retreat #OSR25 in 🇨🇭 1/8
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James Bartlett @bartlettje.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
@philmcaleer.bsky.social @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social and I working on a project and went down the rabbit hole of working out how to get R to generate .Rmd file to use elsewhere. Here is a reproducible test case if you need this niche solution too! gist.github.com/BartlettJE/6...
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We wanted to create a series of .Rmd files based on a spreadsheet. This will be passed to a Quarto book/blog, but we wanted to generate entries based on responses to an online form. It took a surprisi...
We wanted to create a series of .Rmd files based on a spreadsheet. This will be passed to a Quarto book/blog, but we wanted to generate entries based on responses to an online form. It took a surpr...
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James Bartlett @bartlettje.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
In our MSc stats course, we changed the feedback approach this year. We usually just give students a grade and class-level feedback. However, we used the great markr package by @debruine.bsky.social and I've shared a little example to supplement the package vignette: github.com/BartlettJE/m...
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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2025
UNESCO compendium of practices promoting open and inclusive science www.unesco.org/en/open-science/incl…
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Dr Helena Paterson @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
On feedback for students: Even a top-graded student needs to know where to go next. There is always more up unless you're a mountaineer, but then the next thing is getting home safely. Sharing my & @philmcaleer.bsky.social's words on feedback and the student's learning journey. tinyurl.com/56dj45z8
In this article we share practical and evidence-based advice on framing assessment feedback around student development. The practices that we share are centred on two aspects of framing feedback. The first is in how feedback is generated and how the teacher can author effective feedback by making it personal, situated within the student’s learning journey and by providing actionable points for the next assignment. The second aspect that we share is the framing of feedback in relation to student reflection and use of the feedback, scaffolding the development of a dialogue between student and teacher, and helping the student to situate their assignment and feedback within their own wider learning journey. Ultimately, we want students to find feedback useful and for feedback to represent a positive interaction between teacher and student, but both teachers and students need tools that help them to create usable feedback.
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Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Refreshing piece by Amy Fleming in The Guardian, where I joined scholars to unpack misconceptions that disempower parents & young people around tech. Evidence doesn’t support fear—our approach shouldn’t either. Let’s pause panic & do better for families in 2025! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot
Is screen use really sapping our ability to focus and lowering our IQs? The scientists who have actually analysed the data give their verdict
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Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · 20/01/2025
Trying to compile a list of people with active pedagogic interests in teaching statistics go.bsky.app/Qg6YSq6
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Dr Helena Paterson @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
This is a fantastic set of resources to build flashcards for better learning. Includes flashcards for some of our @psyteachr.bsky.social books. When I have 5 minutes there will be some playing... #PsyTeachR
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Dr Helena Paterson @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
News! #PsyTeachR is now on Bluesky. Find us for links to our Open Educational Resources, software and news about what we're up to. @psyteachr.bsky.social
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James Bartlett @bartlettje.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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.
Gif of a talk for the Edinburgh Winter School. Discussing how psychology students are capable of learning programming skills - even on an accelerated one-year MSc conversion programme. Walks through the course overview, support available, and what's worked well vs not so well.
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James Bartlett @bartlettje.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A little gathering for students across all of our MSc programmes to celebrate the end of the first semester! Including a speech by me for our group work prize, mince pies, and Christmas jumpers🎄
Winter gathering to celebrate MSc students. Eight people stood in a line with Christmas jumpers on.
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University of Glasgow SoTL Network @uofgsotl.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
On Day 3 of the Advent calendar, we look at Peer Support and Assessment, with a blog post on peer support for postgraduate dissertations and a poster exploring peer assessment in a first-year chemistry lab: uofgsotl.blog/day-3-peer-a...
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Day 3: Peer Assessment & Support - #UofGSoTL
On Day 3 of the Advent calendar, we have a blog post on peer support for postgraduate dissertations and a poster exploring peer assessment in a first year chemistry lab. Back to main page Lead editor:...
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University of Glasgow SoTL Network @uofgsotl.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
On Day 2 of the SoTL Advent Calendar we turn our attention to Podcasting and a reflective piece on insights gained from a group podcast project conducted by some of our UoG economics students. For our Christmas song, we go with Ella Fitzgerald and White Christmas... ❄️☃️ uofgsotl.blog/day-2-podcas...
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Day 2: Podcasting - #UofGSoTL
On Day 2 of the Advent calendar, we turn our attention from generative AI to the use of podcasting. Students from the University of Glasgow reflect on their experience of group podcasting and the key ...
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University of Glasgow SoTL Network @uofgsotl.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Welcome to Day 1 of our SoTL Advent Calendar: uofgsotl.blog/12-days-of-s... We kick things off with a blog post on 'Illuminating the Intersections of Generative AI, Gender, Race, and Ethnicity'. And a calming version of 'Silent Night' by The King's Singers. 🎄🕯️
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12 Days of SoTL 2024 - #UofGSoTL
Day 01 Day 02 Day 03 Day 04 Day 05 Day 06 Day 07 Day 08 Day 09 Day 10 Day 11 Day 12 The SoTL Advent Calendar Editors wish you all peace, good health, and a well-earned break when it comes!
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
New ManyBabies large scale replication study fails to find support for a classic finding by Hamlin and colleagues from 2007 that babies prefer characters that show prosocial behavior. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Open Academia @openacademia.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#OpenScience promotes transparency, collaboration & accessibility in #research by making publications, data, methods & tools openly available, fostering public engagement & evidence-based policy-making to drive global knowledge sharing & innovation. 🤝 🌐 Open Science will revolutionize research.
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University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk · 15/11/2024
Gorgeous November light captured by UofG School of Psychology & Neuroscience's Dr Helena Paterson! 🍂 🤩 Happy Friday everyone! 💙
Yellow autumnal light with cloudy blue skies over the University of Glasgow Tower and Kelvingrove Park. The scene is reflected in the River Kelvin in the foreground.
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Dr Helena Paterson @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Very pleased that this paper is now officially published. We worked to make it as practical as possible so we added resources on the OSF osf.io/du6gy/ including a Pre-reg template, code & coding manual. Already using it to teach my project students transparent methods for their open-ended data.
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Transparency and Validity in Coding Open-Ended Data for Quantitative Analysis
This project includes data, figures, and other supplementary materials for the paper on best practices for coding open-ended data Hosted on the Open Science Framework
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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
🔍 Paid opportunity with FORRT! Join us to expand the world’s largest replication database. Supported by @cos.io, we seek researchers to input entries, validate data, and support #OpenScience - 100% remotely. 🌐 Apply now! bit.ly/fred_apply #ResearchJobs
Join the FORRT Team as a paid researcher, and help us build the world's largest Replication Database
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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
We're trying to track the impact of our PsyTeachR materials - if you've ever used any of our data skills and #rstats materials for teaching, please could you complete this short form? forms.office.com/e/v8Sk0UpP6Q Thank you! 🙏
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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Amazing seminar by @maddipow.bsky.social speaking about gender and open science and expressing many of the thoughts I have had over the years, with much more eloquence and nuance than I could ever muster. #AcademicSky
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Dr Helena Paterson @drhelenapaterson.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
New Pre-print from @bartlettje.bsky.social using open data to teach students to value all the R's for making better science.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 08/10/2024
Neurodiversity is the idea that people matter and have rights, regardless of how their brains work! Want to learn more about Neurodiversity, including facts and myths? See our Neurodiversity FAQ, at TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/neurodiversi... #neurodiversity #autism
Graphic with an off-white background and a rainbow arc on the left-hand edge.

Black text in the upper left reads,

"Neurodiversity is the idea that people matter and have rights, regardless of how their brains work!"

There are black four-pointed stars to the upper left and lower right of the text. 

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"@ThinkingAutism

tinyurl.com/TPGAneurodiversityFAQ" with the '@' in red.
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Here's an intro video on Zotero that I put together for my undergraduate psych students, covering reference management, getting bibliographic data and PDFs from websites, citations, and how to create a group library youtu.be/SlUHjOqVCyU 📺 Short preview 👇
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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
If you're going to be teaching open science to undergraduates this year, check out our course and free resources on @forrt.bsky.social forrt.org/educators-co... #openScience
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Course on Open Science 101
We present a set of 16 lectures and paired tutorials that introduce students to the concepts of open science. Starting from the basics of experimental psychology, we cover concepts of open research fr...
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