Episodes
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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
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51: Preprints (with Jessica Polka)
October 6th, 2017 | 56 mins 14 secs
In this episode, Dan and James are joined by Jessica Polka, Director of ASAPbio, to chat about preprints
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50: Special 50th episode (LIVE)
September 14th, 2017 | 1 hr 39 mins
Dan and James celebrate their 50th episode with a live recording! They cover a blog post that argues grad students shouldn’t be publishing, what’s expected of today’s postdocs, and the ‘tone’ debate in psychology. You can also watch the video of this episode on the Everything Hertz YouTube channel (link in show notes)
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49: War and p's
July 31st, 2017 | 55 mins 59 secs
Dan and James discuss a forthcoming paper that's causing a bit of a stir by proposing that biobehavioral scientists should use a 0.005 p-value statistical significance threshold instead of 0.05.
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48: Breaking up with the impact factor (with Jason Hoyt)
July 21st, 2017 | 53 mins 57 secs
Dan and James are joined by Jason Hoyt, who is the CEO and co-founder of PeerJ, an open access journal for the biological and medical sciences
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47: Truth bombs from a methodological freedom fighter (with Anne Scheel)
July 7th, 2017 | 1 hr 9 mins
In this episode, Dan and James are joined by Anne Scheel (LMU Munich) to discuss open science advocacy
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46: Statistical literacy (with Andy Field)
June 23rd, 2017 | 1 hr 19 mins
In this episode, Dan and James are joined by Andy Field (University of Sussex), author of the “Discovering Statistics” textbook series, to chat about statistical literacy
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45: Conferences and conspiracy theories
June 2nd, 2017 | 1 hr 1 min
It’s conference season so in this episode Dan and James discuss the ins and outs of scientific conferences
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44: Who’s afraid of the New Bad People? (with Nick Brown)
May 19th, 2017 | 1 hr 8 mins
James and Dan are joined by Nick Brown (University of Groningen) to discuss how the New Bad People—also known as shameless little bullies, vigilantes, the self-appointed data police, angry nothings, scientific McCarthyites, second-stringers, whiners, the Stasi, destructo-critics, and wackaloons—are trying to improve science