Episodes
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67: Shit Academics Say (with Nathan Hall)
August 20th, 2018 | 1 hr 3 mins
We’re joined by Nathan Hall (McGill University) to chat about the role of humour in academia. Nathan is the person behind the ’Shit academics say’ Twitter account (@AcademicsSay), which pokes fun of all the weird stuff that academics say.
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66: Ideal worlds vs grim truths
August 6th, 2018 | 54 mins 23 secs
Dan and James answer listener questions on tips for starting your PhD and the role of statistics in exploratory research
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65: Blockchain and open science (with Jon Brock)
July 16th, 2018 | 54 mins 30 secs
Dan and James chat with Jon Brock (Cognitive scientist at Frankl) about the use of blockchain technology for open science
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64: Salami slicing
July 2nd, 2018 | 1 hr 1 min
Dan and James talk about the recent SIPS conference and answer a listener question on "salami slicing" the outcomes from one study into multiple papers
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63: Science journalism (with Brian Resnick)
June 18th, 2018 | 1 hr 34 secs
Dan and James chat about science journalism with Brian Resnick, who is a science reporter at Vox.com.
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62: Adopting open science practices (with Dorothy Bishop)
June 4th, 2018 | 57 mins 29 secs
Dan and James chat about the adoption of open science practices with Dorothy Bishop, Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at the University of Oxford.
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61: Performance enhancing thugs (with Greg Nuckols)
May 21st, 2018 | 56 mins 7 secs
Dan and James chat with Greg Nuckols, who is grad student in exercise physiology, strength coach, and writer at strongerbyscience.com
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60: This is more of a comment than a question
May 8th, 2018 | 1 hr 7 mins
Dan and James answer listener questions on academic conferences, getting abreast of the literature, and conflicts of interest
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59: Rethinking the scientific journal (with Rickard Carlsson)
April 16th, 2018 | 1 hr 2 mins
Despite cosmetic changes, scientific journals hav…
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58: Lessons from podcasting (with Simine Vazire)
April 2nd, 2018 | 1 hr 1 min
Dan and James are joined by Simine Vazire (University of California, Davis and co-host of the Black Goat podcast) to chat about the role of podcasting in scientific communication. Dan's wife also starts going into labor during the episode, so this is an extra special one
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57: Radical Transparency (with Rebecca Willén)
March 15th, 2018 | 49 mins 15 secs
Dan and James are joined by Rebecca Willén (Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education) to discuss transparency in scientific research and how she started her own independent research institute in Bali
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56: Registered reports (with Chris Chambers)
February 2nd, 2018 | 53 mins 59 secs
Dan and James are joined by Chris Chambers (Cardiff University) to discuss the Registered Reports format
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55: The proposal to redefine clinical trials
January 18th, 2018 | 59 mins 11 secs
Dan and James discuss the US National Institutes of Health's new definition of a “clinical trial”, which comes into effect on the 25th of January
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54: Cuckoo Science
December 15th, 2017 | 55 mins 14 secs
In this episode, James sits in the guest chair as Dan interviews him on his recent work find and exposing inconsistent results in the scientific literature
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53: Skin in the game
November 17th, 2017 | 1 hr 6 mins
Dan and James discuss whether you need to have “skin in the game” to critique research.
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52: Give p's a chance (with Daniel Lakens)
October 20th, 2017 | 1 hr 2 mins
In this episode, Dan and James welcome back Daniel Lakens (Eindhoven University of Technology) to discuss his new paper on justifying your alpha level