https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fAR_oro1NY About the speaker Daniel S. Quintana is a researcher in biological psychiatry at the University of Oslo. His research interests include social behaviour, the oxytocin system, heart rate variability, and meta-analysis. He currently leads a project investigating the role of the oxytocin system in the development of severe mental illness and metabolic disorder, whichContinue reading "Synthetic data: A primer by Dr Dan Quintana"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPY2-MI61ns About the speaker Dr Marion Criaud is a postdoctoral research associate in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry department at King’s College London. Her current work focuses on developing a new non-medical treatment for children with ADHD called fMRI NeuroFeedback. She has a keen interest in identifying best practice in fMRI and understanding the limitationsContinue reading "Pitfalls of functional MRI by Dr Marion Criaud"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agC-SG5-Qyk About the speaker Professor David Colquhoun is a pharmacologist notable for his insights into the biophysics of drug–receptor interactions of single ion channels. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1985, was awarded the Humboldt Prize in 1990 and made Honorary Fellow of UCL in 2004. Colquhoun joined the PharmacologyContinue reading "Why p-values can’t tell you what you need to know and what to do about it by Prof David Colquhoun"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8bU1CyEkRM About the speaker Florian Markowetz is a Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. He is a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder and received a CRUK Future Leader in Cancer Research prize. He holds degrees in Mathematics (Dipl. math.) and Philosophy (M.A.) from the University of Heidelberg and aContinue reading "Five selfish reasons to work reproducibly by Dr Florian Markowetz"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owJaD3UiseQ About the speaker Dr Priya Silverstein is a postdoctoral researcher in the CoGDeV Lab at the University of Surrey, studying the relationship between Lego construction ability, spatial thinking, and numeracy achievement in children. She is passionate about methods for studying development, and how we can do better, more transparent, reproducible, and diverse science. AboutContinue reading "Easing into open science: A guide for graduate students and their advisors by Dr Priya Silverstein"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6VAwzwZ3K8 About the speaker I am a personality psychologist by training and my work covers a broad range of topics, including the effects of birth order, age patterns in personality, and the correlates and determinants of subjective well-being. My methodological interests include causal inference on the basis of observational data and data analytic flexibility. IContinue reading "A walk in the garden of forking paths by Dr Julia Rohrer"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB1Hk3c-lZY About the speaker Dr Eiko Fried is an Assistant Professor in clinical psychology at Leiden University working in the fields of clinical psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology and methodology. His main focus is on studying individual symptoms of mental disorders and their causal relations. Broader, his interests include measurement (how to best assess whether someone isContinue reading "Theory building and testing in psychological research by Dr Eiko Fried"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5F8e--2ef4 About the speaker Jack Taylor is a PhD student at the University of Glasgow. He is in interested in how we represent words, particularly how we represent and access concepts associated with words, like emotion and imageability. Jack is also interested in the extent to which we predict the visual features of words, givenContinue reading "Visualising variability and uncertainty in R by Jack Taylor"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYJzm4ktF2g About the speaker Courtney Soderberg is the Statistician and Data Scientist at the Center for Open Science. Before working at COS, she received her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of California, Davis. About the talk Open research practices around data, materials, code, and articles are becoming more common in many fields, butContinue reading "Open science with OSF by Dr Courtney Soderberg"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq6n7AS_r8w About the speaker For details about the speaker, please see https://www.jessicakayflake.com. About the talk Questionable measurement practices are decisions researchers make that raise doubts about the validity of the measures, and ultimately the validity of study conclusions. They make it impossible to evaluate a wide range of potential validity threats to the study’s conclusions.Continue reading "Measurement schmeasurement: Questionable measurement practices and how to avoid them by Dr Jessica Flake"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Grw2vIMopM About the speaker Stephen R. Cole is a Professor in Epidemiology at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Stephen R. Cole works to build accurate and impactful knowledge, particularly population-health (epidemiologic) knowledge. Professor Cole is interested in study designs and analyses that accurately estimate parameters of central interest to population-health scientists, such asContinue reading "How do we ask better questions and get better answers? by Prof Stephen Cole"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PCzWHJfz0g About the speaker Gavin Buckingham was awarded his PhD in Psychology from the University of Aberdeen in 2008. Following the completion of his PhD, he moved to Canada to take up a position as a postdoctoral fellow in the Brain and Mind Institute at Western University in Canada working with Prof Mel Goodale. HisContinue reading "Drifting into the world of open science and reproducibility by Dr Gavin Buckingham"