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James Bartlett
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Psychology lecturer at UoG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
All things data skills, statistics, quant research methods, and HE pedagogy. #rstats
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Ever year when I introduce NHST and the importance of effect sizes, I get students to respond what success rate would convince them that someone could see the future. Weirdly, most of the time, the answer isn't 53%...
October 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I’ve had a beautiful few days in Münster. Now for a 4 hour adventure around Frankfurt until my late late flight.
September 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Workshop done and dusted before the welcome event! All the attendees got their books up and running with minimal R Studio and GitHub shenanigans.

All materials here with a walkthrough video for the book output: bartlettje.github.io/disseminatio...
September 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I managed to make up for it 💛🖤💛
September 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
I had planned to watch a football match, but got the unlucky side of resale tickets 🥲 Instead, I had a lovely 2 hour wander around Bochum…
August 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
One of the best bits of advice I ever received was keeping a log of things you do over the year. It's invaluable for promotion applications and performance reviews as you will 100% forget cool stuff you did. At Glasgow, we have four criteria, so I log things down to make it easier later:
August 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Really nice design and analysis on this paper by Bitzan et al. Great example of rigorous scholarship work but I find the comparison absolutely baffling. Particularly in a psychology department, I don't know why software *or* hand calculations would be the choice.

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June 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I had an absolute blast on the organising committee of @ukcots.bsky.social 2025. It was lovely working with everyone and seeing it come together to welcome people to Glasgow. The highlight was a drinks reception in the city chambers hosted by representatives of the Lord Provost!
June 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
My #UKCOTS2025 workshop on using Quarto/Github Pages to create open educational materials. Apart from minor GitHub shenanigans, most people left with their own book skeleton! Materials here if you’re interested: bartlettje.github.io/disseminatio...
June 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This isn’t helping get through 190 annual leave emails…
June 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
For anyone who knows R/RStudio and wants to learn how to use a Chi-Square, one of my students is running a project on how students learn new data skills.

You can take part online (uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...) or if you're at the University of Glasgow, you can do it in person.
May 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Great productive initiative where we had an ECR writing day within the psychology school! Combined with a break in the middle to identify our strengths and weaknesses to identify collaboration opportunities.
April 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Day 1 vs Day 4 😅 Man, I love Switzerland.
April 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Switzerland you beautiful beautiful place! Excellent start so far to the Open Science Retreat with an early run to check out the incredible scenery.
April 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
For anyone involved in a BPS accredited degree (BSc or MSc conv), we would appreciate you sharing our poster or link with your students! We're looking for students entering or just finishing their final year for a study on data skills using any stats software.

uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
March 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
As we start the small Bayes segment of my (small) stats course, this is exactly the motivation behind it. MSc students (who responded) never had a course on it before, but they see it in research. So, how are they expected to appraise the process/results?
March 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The sample was representative…
February 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
There's a bunch of interesting points in here but they also don't pick up on additional issues in the output. If you have super common misconceptions all over the internet, they're going to make their way into LLMs:
February 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
How pretty! We had a bullfinch visit the garden and earlier. Love our garden visitors!
February 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Students are the absolute best. A bunch of our online MSc conversion students across the world bought each other rubber ducks to help with coding ❤️
January 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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.
January 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
We are interested in current students or graduates from a BPS-accredited psychology degree. This could be after two years as an undergraduate or one semester as an MSc conversion student. Essentially, just before students are entering their dissertation.

uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
December 18, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Finally watched an NHL game live and it was an incredible experience. I’ll never complain about UK arena prices again though with $20 beers 😅
December 11, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Sad to only be transferring in Iceland as it’s one of my favourite countries 🇮🇸 At least we get a couple of hours in the airport before leaving for New York.
December 9, 2024 at 3:55 PM
I had lots of fun yesterday speaking at an employability event for my previous universities. I tried to give a no-nonsense overview of what I love about the job while also being honest about Higher Education.
December 6, 2024 at 9:37 AM