Everything Hertz

91: Shifting the goalposts in statistics (with Kristin Sainani)

September 2nd, 2019  |  1 hr 3 mins

We chat with Kristin Sainani (Stanford University) about a popular statistical method in sports medicine research (magnitude based inference), which has been banned by some journals, but continues to thrive in some pockets of scholarship. We also discuss the role of statistical inference in the current replication crisis.

90: Mo data mo problems

August 19th, 2019  |  58 mins 4 secs

Dan and James discuss listener questions on performing secondary data analysis and the potential for prestige to creep into open science reforms.

89: Conflicts of interest in psychology (with Tom Chivers)

August 5th, 2019  |  59 mins 52 secs

We chat with Tom about whether psychology has a conflict-of-interest problem and how to best define conflicts.

88: The pomodoro episode

July 15th, 2019  |  1 hr 6 secs

Dan and James apply the pomodoro principle by tackling four topics within a strict ten-minute time limit each: James' new error detection tool, academic dress codes, the "back in my day..." defence for QRPs, and p-slacking.

87: Improving the scientific poster (with Mike Morrison)

July 1st, 2019  |  51 mins 16 secs

We chat with Mike Morrison, a former User Experience (UX) designer who quit his tech career to research how we can bring UX design principles to science. We discuss Mike's recently introduced 'better poster' format and why scientists should think carefully about UX.

86: Should I stay or should I go?

June 17th, 2019  |  1 hr 4 mins

Dan and James answer a listener question on whether they should stick it out for a few months in a toxic lab to get one more paper or if they should leave.

85: GWAS big teeth you have, grandmother (with Kevin Mitchell)

June 3rd, 2019  |  1 hr 23 mins

We chat with Kevin Mitchell (Trinity College Dublin) about what the field of psychology can learn from genetics research, how our research theories tend to be constrained by our research tools, and his new book, "Innate".

84: A GPS in the Garden of Forking Paths (with Amy Orben)

May 21st, 2019  |  52 mins 22 secs

We chat with Amy Orben, who applies "multiverse" methodology to combat and expose analytical flexibility in her research area of the impact of digital technologies on psychological wellbeing. We also discuss ReproducibiliTea, an early career researcher-led journal club initiative she co-founded, which helps young researchers create local open science groups.

83: Back to our dirty unwashed roots

May 8th, 2019  |  59 mins 11 secs

By popular demand, Dan and James are kicking it old school and just shooting the breeze. They cover whether scientists should be on Twitter, if Fortnite is ruining our youth, book recommendations, and null oxytocin studies.

82: More janitors and fewer architects

April 15th, 2019  |  1 hr 11 mins

We answer a listener question on the possible negative consequences of the open science movement—are things moving too quickly?

81: Too Young To Know, Too Old To Care

April 1st, 2019  |  56 mins 9 secs

We answer our first audio question, on whether academia is too broken to fix, and a second question on whether we’ve ever worried about the possible repercussions of our public critiques and commentary on academia

80: Cites are not endorsements (with Sean Rife)

March 17th, 2019  |  51 mins 33 secs

We chat with Sean Rife, who the co-founder of scite.ai, a start-up that combines natural language processing with a network of experts to evaluate the veracity of scientific work

79: Clinical trial reporting (with Henry Drysdale)

March 3rd, 2019  |  55 mins 47 secs

We chat with Henry Drysdale (University of Oxford), co-founder of the COMPare trials project, which compared clinical trial registrations with reported outcomes in five top medical journals and qualitatively analysed the responses to critical correspondence.

78: Large-scale collaborative science (with Lisa DeBruine)

February 17th, 2019  |  58 mins 38 secs

psychology, r stats, registered reports, reproducibility, research, science, statistics

We chat with Lisa DeBruine (University of Glasgow) about large-scale collaborative science and how her psychology department made the switch from SPSS to R

77: Promiscuous expertise

February 4th, 2019  |  55 mins 16 secs

Dan and James discuss how to deal with the problem of scientists who start talking about topics outside their area of expertise. They also discuss what they were to do different if they were to do their PhDs all over again

76: Open peer review

January 21st, 2019  |  48 mins 8 secs

Peer review is typically conducted behind closed doors. There's been a recent push to make open peer review standard, but what's often left out of these conversations are the potential downsides. To illustrate this, Dan and James discuss a recent instance of open peer review that led to considerable online debate