Episodes
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42: Some of my best friends are Bayesians (with Daniel Lakens)
April 21st, 2017 | 1 hr 7 mins
Daniel Lakens (Eindhoven University of Technology) drops in to talk statistical inference with James and Dan
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41: Objecting to published research (with William Gunn)
April 7th, 2017 | 1 hr 7 mins
In this episode, Dan and James are joined by William Gunn (Director of Scholarly communications at Elsevier) to discuss ways in which you can object to published research
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40: Meta-research (with Michèle Nuijten)
March 24th, 2017 | 49 mins 18 secs
Dan and James are joined by Michèle Nuijten (Tilburg University) to discuss 'statcheck', an algorithm that automatically scans papers for statistical tests, recomputes p-values, and flags inconsistencies
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39: Academic hipsters
March 10th, 2017 | 54 mins 49 secs
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?
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38: Work/life balance - Part 2
February 24th, 2017 | 1 hr 2 mins
Dan and James continue their discussion on work/life balance in academia. They also suggest ways to get your work done within a sane amount of hours as well as how to pick the right lab
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37: Work/life balance in academia
February 17th, 2017 | 56 mins 30 secs
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?
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36: Statistical inconsistencies in published research
January 27th, 2017 | 50 mins 40 secs
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.
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35: A manifesto for reproducible science
January 20th, 2017 | 50 mins 41 secs
Dan and James discuss a new paper in the inaugural issue of Nature Human Behaviour, "A manifesto for reproducible science"
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34: E-health (with Robin Kok)
December 22nd, 2016 | 1 hr 11 secs
Dan and James have their very first guest! For this episode they're joined by Robin Kok (University of Southern Denmark) to talk e-health. They also cover a recent blog post that inadvertently highlighted questionable research practices in psychology.
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33: Zombie theories
December 16th, 2016 | 43 mins 53 secs
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?
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32: Can worrying about getting sick make you sicker?
December 1st, 2016 | 43 mins 8 secs
Dan and James discuss a new population study that linked health anxiety data with future heart disease
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31: Discover your psychiatric risk with this one weird trick
November 16th, 2016 | 54 mins 56 secs
Dan and James discuss a recent study of over one million Swedish men that found that higher resting heart rate late adolescence was associated with an increased risk for subsequent psychiatric illness
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30: Authorship
November 2nd, 2016 | 49 mins 5 secs
Dan and James discuss authorship in the biomedical sciences
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29: Learning new skills
October 16th, 2016 | 48 mins 55 secs
Dan and James talk about how they learn new things
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28: Positive developments in biomedical science
September 30th, 2016 | 49 mins 4 secs
Pre-registration, p-hacking, power, protocols. All these concepts are pretty mainstream in 2016 but hardly discussed 5 years ago. In this episode, James and Dan talk about these ideas and other developments in biomedical science.
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27: Complaints and grievances
September 23rd, 2016 | 52 mins 45 secs
Dan and James discuss complaints and grievances. Stay tuned for part 2 (next episode) where things get positive.