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Mar 2, 2016

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Dan and James discuss what to do if you want to collect heart rate variability (HRV) data, oxytocin parties (yes, they're a thing), and the peer review process.

Released:

Mar 2, 2016

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Methodology, scientific life, and bad language. Co-hosted by Dr. Dan Quintana (University of Oslo) and Dr. James Heathers (Cipher Skin)

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5: Do you even replicate?: In this episode, James and Dan talk about replication in science, self-control, and the file-drawer problem in oxytocin research. by Everything Hertz
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13: Academic horror stories: Dan and James discuss a few academic horror stories sent in by their listeners. by Everything Hertz
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22: Pokemon and public health: Pokemon Go is sweeping the world and getting people walking again! But is the Pokemon Go 'model' a golden opportunity to tackle obesity or just another fad? by Everything Hertz
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23: Serious academics: Can you be a "serious academic" while still posting photos on Instagram? In this episode, James and Dan discuss a recent article bemoaning the infiltration of the "selfie epidemic" into academia. by Everything Hertz
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6: The research pipeline - getting from idea to publication: In this episode, James and Dan talk about getting from research idea to publication. They also discuss the ethical approval process, getting research published, and share tips for running experiments by Everything Hertz
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3: Scientific publishing: Dan and James talk about Scihub and open access publishing. by Everything Hertz
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36: Statistical inconsistencies in published research: In episode 34 we covered a blog post that highlighted questionable analytical approaches in psychology. That post mentioned four studies that resulted from this approach, which a team of researchers took a closer look into. Dan and James discuss the statistical inconsistencies that the authors reported in a recent preprint. by Everything Hertz
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9: What happens if your research is wrong?: James and Dan discuss what happens if your research is wrong. They talk about the recent controversy surrounding tDCS, why many people don't hold negative results to the same scrutiny as positive results, and the "hype cycle" of research. by Everything Hertz
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1: So you want to measure heart rate variability...: Dan and James discuss what to do if you want to collect heart rate variability (HRV) data, oxytocin parties (yes, they're a thing), and the peer review process. by Everything Hertz
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8: The PhD to Postdoc transition: James and Dan discuss how to navigate the PhD to Postdoc transition. They provide advice to a hypothetical first-year graduate student and also discuss the realities of the postdoc job market. by Everything Hertz
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61: Performance enhancing thugs (with Greg Nuckols): Dan and James chat with Greg Nuckols, who is grad student in exercise physiology, strength coach, and writer at strongerbyscience.com by Everything Hertz
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Episode 7: 7: The writing process: How do you write a lot and do it well? In this e… by Everything Hertz
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2: Nutrition and Psychiatry: Dan and James talk about nutrition and psychiatry. They also introduce themselves (you know, because that's what you do for your *second* episode) and explain the origin of their podcast name. by Everything Hertz
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45: Conferences and conspiracy theories: It’s conference season so in this episode Dan and James discuss the ins and outs of scientific conferences by Everything Hertz
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30: Authorship: Dan and James discuss authorship in the biomedical sciences by Everything Hertz
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4: Meta-analysis or mega-silliness?: In this episode, Dan defends meta-analysis against more recent criticisms put forward by James and offers suggestions on how meta-analysis can be improved. by Everything Hertz
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10: Failure: James and Dan talk about failure. What's the benefit of openly sharing your failures - is this an antidote to the imposter syndrome or something only the privileged few can afford to do? by Everything Hertz
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19: Let us spray: oxytocin and spirituality: Dan and James discuss a recent paper on intranasal oxytocin and spirituality by Everything Hertz
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21: This is your brain on steroids: Dan and James discuss a new paper that compared brain structure in long-term steroid users and non-using weightlifters by Everything Hertz
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24: Incentive structures in science: Science funding has a series of built in incentive structures, but what sort of science does this produce? by Everything Hertz
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37: Work/life balance in academia: In this episode, we talk work/life balance for early career researchers. Do you need to work a 70-hour week to be a successful scientist or can you actually have a life outside the lab? by Everything Hertz
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14: Science communication: Dan and James discuss public engagement, science communication, and the internet outrage machine. by Everything Hertz
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11: The placebo effect: James and Dan discuss issues surrounding the placebo effect by Everything Hertz
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25: Misunderstanding p-values: P-values are universal, but do we really know what they mean? In this episode, Dan and James discuss a recent paper describing the failure to correctly interpret p-values in a sample of academic psychologists. by Everything Hertz
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20: Sample sizes in psychology studies: Can psychologists learn more by studying fewer people? by Everything Hertz
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39: Academic hipsters: In this episode, James and Dan discuss academic hipsters. These are people who *insist* you need to use specific tools in your science like R, python, and LaTeX. So should you start using these trendy tools despite the steep learning curve? by Everything Hertz
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18: Data sharing: Withholding data: bad science or scientific misconduct? by Everything Hertz
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16: What makes a good psych study?: What are the defining characteristics of a good psychology study? by Everything Hertz
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33: Zombie theories: Dan and James discuss Zombie theories, which are scientific ideas that continue to live on in the absence of evidence. Why do these ideas persist and how do we kill them for good? by Everything Hertz
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32: Can worrying about getting sick make you sicker?: Dan and James discuss a new population study that linked health anxiety data with future heart disease by Everything Hertz
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182: What practices should the behavioural sciences borrow (and ignore) from other research fields?: Dan and James answer a listener question on what practices should the behavioural sciences borrow (and ignore) from other research fields by Everything Hertz
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181: Down the rabbit hole: We discuss how following citation chains in psychology can often lead to unexpected places, and how this can contribute to unreplicable findings. We also discuss why team science has taken longer to catch on in psychology compared to other research fields. by Everything Hertz
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180: Consortium peer reviews: Dan and James discuss why innovation in scientific publishing is so hard, an emerging consortium peer review model, and a recent replication of the 'refilling soup bowl' study. by Everything Hertz
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179: Discovery vs. maintenance: Dan and James discuss how scientific research often neglects the importance of maintenance and long-term access for scientific tools and resources by Everything Hertz
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178: Alerting researchers about retractions: Dan and James discuss the Retractobot service, which emails authors about papers they've cited that have been retracted. What should authors do if they discover a paper they've cited has been retracted after they published their paper? by Everything Hertz
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177: Plagiarism: We discuss two recent plagiarism cases, one you've probably heard about and another that you probably haven't heard about if you're outside Norway. We also chat about the parallels between plagiarism and sports doping—would people reconsider academic dishonesty if they were reminded that future technology may catch them out? by Everything Hertz
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175: Defending against the scientific dark arts: We chat about a recent blogpost from Dorothy Bishop, in which she proposes a Master course that will provide training in fraud detection—what should such a course specifically teach and where would these people work to apply their training? We also discuss whether open science is a cult that has trouble seeing outward. by Everything Hertz
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174: Smug missionaries with test tubes: James proposes a new type of consortium paper that could provide collaborative opportunities for researchers from countries that are underrepresented in published research papers by Everything Hertz
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173: How do science journalists evaluate psychology papers?: Dan and James discuss a recent paper that investigated how science journalists evaluate psychology papers. To answer this question, the researchers presented science journalists with fictitious psychology studies and manipulated sample size, sample representativeness, p-values, and institutional prestige by Everything Hertz
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172: In defence of the discussion section: Dan and James discuss a recent proposal to do away with discussion sections and suggest other stuff they'd like to get rid of from academic publishing by Everything Hertz
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171: The easiest person to fool is yourself (with Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris): We chat with Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris about the science of cons and how we can we can avoid being taken in. We also cover the fate of the gorilla suit from the 'invisible gorilla' study, why scientists are especially prone to being fooled, plus more! by Everything Hertz
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170: Holy sheet: We discuss evidence of data tampering in a series of experiments investigating dishonesty revealed via excel spreadsheet metadata and how traditional peer review is not suited for the detection of data tampering. by Everything Hertz
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169: Using big data to understand behavior (Live episode with Sandra Matz): In our first ever live and in-person episode, we chat with Sandra Matz about the opportunities and challenges for using big data to understand human behavior by Everything Hertz
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168: Meta-meta-science: Dan and James discuss a new paper that reviews potential issues in metascience practices. They also talk about their upcoming live show in May in Frankfurt. by Everything Hertz
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167: Diluted effect sizes: Dan and James chat about a new study that uses homeopathy studies to evaluate bias in biomedical research, a new-ish type of authorship fraud, and the potential for Chat GPT peer-review. by Everything Hertz
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166: Is science becoming less disruptive over time?: Dan and James discuss a recent paper that claims that science is becoming less disruptive over time and the suggested causes for this decline. by Everything Hertz
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165: Self-promotion: Dan and James chat about self-promotion in academia, how they both wish they had doctoral defences (these aren't a thing in Australia), and replacing error bars with the letter "t". by Everything Hertz
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164: The great migration: James and Dan discuss the recent migration of scientists from Twitter to Mastodon and the pros and cons of sharing the prior submission history of manuscripts by Everything Hertz
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163: eLife's new peer review model: Dan and James discuss eLife's new peer review model, in which they no longer make accept/reject decisions at the end of the peer-review process. Instead, papers invited for peer review will receive an assessment from eLife and the peer reviews will be shared on eLife's website. It's up to author if they would like revise their manuscript or publish their paper as the version of record. by Everything Hertz
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162: Status bias in peer review: We chat about a recent preprint describing an experiment on the role of author status in peer-review, dodgy conference proceedings journals, and authorships for sale by Everything Hertz
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