105: Tell it like it is (with Marike Schiffer)

Episode 105 · April 6th, 2020 · 57 mins 45 secs

About this Episode

We chat with Marike Schiffer, who is a Senior Editor at Nature Human Behavior, about her journal's push to increase reproducibility in the behavioral sciences. She also shares how her team evaluates manuscripts and some common misunderstandings about scientific publishing.

Here's what else we cover:

  • Marike's experiencing making the switch from researcher to full-time editorial work
  • The day-to-day tasks of an editor
  • The Manifesto for reproducible science
  • Why has Nature Human Behavior made such a big push towards reproducibility
  • The benefits of transparent peer review comments
  • The importance of posting rich datasets
  • Transparency in how journals deal with manuscripts
  • The Editorial describing how Nature Human Behavior deals with manuscripts
  • The future of scientific publishing
  • Audio versions of papers
  • Two common misunderstanding that scientists have about scientific publishing
  • Dan's synthetic data paper

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Music credits: [Lee Rosevere](freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/)

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Episode citation and permanent link

Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2020, April 6) "105: Tell it like it is (with Marike Schiffer)", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/U9QRN, Retrieved from https://osf.io/u9qrn/

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