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Everything Hertz

Methodology, scientific life, and bad language. Co-hosted by Dr. Dan Quintana (University of Oslo) and Dr. James Heathers (Cipher Skin)

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47:19

153: Shame shame shame

Everything Hertz ·

2022/04/18

We discuss a journal's new "wall of shame" page, which details unethical behaviours in an effort to discourage future misconduct. We also cover scientific ideas that won't die (but one idea that HAS died), and ECNP's "negative data" prize The audio quality of this recording isn't up to our usual standards as we were both travelling and without our normal recording gear. We'll be back with our normal gear next episode! Links * James’ letter to the editor/obituary

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55:46

152: Sorry Not Sorry

Everything Hertz ·

2022/04/04

James and Dan chat about apologies vs. non-apologies, how to decide when to call it quits on a paper, and governments vetoing research proposals recommended by their own funding agencies Links for stuff we mention * The tweet (https://twitter.com/seis_matters/status/1504456677176840195?s=20&t=26p1PhsNiUOaCVyAToadpg) from Chris Jackson that started it all * Chris Jackson's Hertz episode on the cumulative advantage of academic capital (https://everythinghertz.com/111) * The Science Diagrams that Look

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39:53

151: The dirty dozen

Everything Hertz ·

2022/03/21

Dan and James discuss a new preprint that details twelve p-hacking strategies and simulates their impact on false-positive rates. They also discuss the Great Resignation in academia and the academic job market. Links * The twitter discussion (https://twitter.com/EikoFried/status/1504374568357617666?s=20&t=u5-8GBwxmEyxOUGbHjt9cw) on Associate editor pay kicked off by Eiko Fried * The p-hacking paper (https://psyarxiv.com/xy2dk/) from Angelika Stefan and Felix Schönbrodt * The sample size preprint

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52:33

150: Why can't you do nothing?

Everything Hertz ·

2022/02/28

We discuss the latest paper to seriously use the Kardashian index, which is the discrepancy between a scientist's publication record and social media following, and a listener question on whether original authors should get the last word when a comment on an article is submitted Links * The paper (https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/2/e052891) on citation impact and social media visibility of Great Barrington and John Snow signatories for COVID-19 strategy * The Rapid Responses

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56:48

149: Medical misinformation (with Rohin Francis)

Everything Hertz ·

2022/02/14

Dan and James chat with cardiologist Rohin Francis about medical misinformation and how he uses YouTube for science communication via his 'Medlife Crisis' channel. Links to stuff that was mentioned: Rohin's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgRBRE1DUP2w7HTH9j_L4OQ) Rohin on Twitter (https://mobile.twitter.com/medcrisis) Can you be so fit that you die video (https://youtu.be/hT8GZlBBv5k)? Why does getting in the water want to make you pee video (https://youtu.be/A-1hPjGvf3U) What is

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51:47

148: Academic reference letters

Everything Hertz ·

2022/01/31

Dan and James chat about why academic reference letters are terrible, a recent position statement on preprints, and whether the "great resignation" is also happening in academia. Links to stuff that was mentioned: The tweet (https://twitter.com/eblissmoreau/status/1481784305911169027?s=20) from Dr. Eliza Bliss-Moreau on acedemic reference letter The tweet (https://twitter.com/giladfeldman/status/1483973974032007169?s=20&t=xVaPpN8q1v_bHNTvn-xrdQ) from Gilad Feldman about the 100 references he's

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54:27

147: The $7000 golden ticket

Everything Hertz ·

2022/01/17

We discuss the $7000 'accelerated publication' option for some Taylor & Francis journals that promises 3-5 week publication and a novel type of research fellowship. Details (https://taylorandfrancis.com/partnership/commercial/accelerated-publication/) for the accelerated publication The New Science 2022 Summer Fellowship (https://newscience.org/summer-fellowship/) We have new merch (https://everything-hertz-podcast.creator-spring.com/listing/metal-7594)! Use the discount code 'METAL' to get 20% off

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1:09:44

146: Skills pay bills

Everything Hertz ·

2021/12/27

We answer a series of questions from a listener on whether to start a PhD, what to ask potential supervisors, the financial perils of being a PhD student, the future of higher education, the importance of skills, what keeps us going, and more. Here are the specific questions that we answered in this episode (the background to these questions is shared in the episode): Would you have any advice on how I can even decide whether to commence a PhD? Are there any questions in particular that you think

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48:04

145: Our boat is sinking slightly slower

Everything Hertz ·

2021/12/13

We discuss the results from the cancer biology reproducibility project, the inevitable comparisons with reproducibility in psychology, and authorship expectations for posting public datasets. Links * The paper (https://elifesciences.org/articles/71601) investigating the replicability of preclinical cancer biology * The paper (https://academic.oup.com/ej/article-abstract/131/635/1250/5824166) on the impact of alphabetical order on career outcomes in economics (whose authorship order are

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53:57

144: The role of luck in academia

Everything Hertz ·

2021/11/15

If your child asked you whether they should pursue a career in academia, what would you say? We discuss this question plus three more quick-fire topics: the death of expertise, memorable presentations, and including internships in more graduate programs Links * Get a 30% discount on a Scite subscription for a year, just use the coupon code EVERYTHINGHERTZ via this link (https://scite.ai/?via=everythinghertz) * The “Remind me of this later” twitter bot (https://twitter.com/remindme_ofthis) * The

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54:32

143: A little less conversation, a little more action

Everything Hertz ·

2021/11/01

Dan and James discuss the differences between 'talk' and 'action' in scientific reform and why reforms are taking such a long time to be realised. They also chat about whether messy (but correct) code is worse than no code at all, and revisit the grad student who never said "no" (https://web.archive.org/web/20170312041524/http:/www.brianwansink.com/phd-advice/the-grad-student-who-never-said-no). Other links * Get a 30% discount on a Scite subscription for a year, just use the coupon code

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57:12

142: Red flags in academia [Live episode]

Everything Hertz ·

2021/10/18

In this live episode, Dan and James discuss red flags in academia, in terms of research fields, papers, and individuals. Thanks to everyone that participated in this live event! Links to stuff that was mentioned Get a 30% discount on a Scite subscription for a year, just use the coupon code EVERYTHINGHERTZ via this link (https://scite.ai/?via=everythinghertz) The p-hacker app (https://shinyapps.org/apps/p-hacker/) Burro racing on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pack_burro_racing) Everything

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57:09

141: Why we should diversify study samples (with...

Everything Hertz ·

2021/10/04

We chat with Sakshi Ghai (University of Cambridge) about why we should diversify sample diversity and retire the Western, educated, rich, industrialized and democratic (WEIRD) dichotomy in the behavioral sciences Links to stuff we discuss: Sakshi's piece (https://rdcu.be/cyKEQ) in Nature Human Behavior Many Labs 2 paper (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2515245918810225) The ‘helicopter' research piece (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01795-1) Joseph Heinrich’s recent

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1:01:23

140: You can’t buy cat biscuits with ‘thank you’ emails

Everything Hertz ·

2021/09/20

James proposes that peer review reports should be published as their own citable objects, provided that the manuscript author thinks that the peer review report is of sufficient quality and the peer reviewers agree Other links and things we discuss * An update on James’ start up job * The American service industry * Dan’s first outing since the pandemic started * The villlage of Hell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Norway), in Norway * The villiage of Fucking

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56:26

139: Open science from a funder's perspective (with...

Everything Hertz ·

2021/09/06

We chat with Ashley Farley about her background as an academic librarian, the underrecognised importance of copyright in academic publishing, and her work as a Program Officer at the Gates Foundation An academic librarian’s perpsective on the importance of open reseasch The importance of copyright in research and what it means signing over your copyright The PDF crisis! What does a program officer at a grant funding organsiation do? Why should funding organisations care about open science? Why

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1:06:52

138: Preprints in the time of coronavirus (with...

Everything Hertz ·

2021/08/16

We chat with Michele Avissar-Whiting about her role as the Editor-in-chief of the Research Square preprint platform and how she weighs up the benefits and costs of potentially problematic preprints during a pandemic. Notes, links, and stuff we cover: * The Journal Ghoul (https://twitter.com/jamesheathers/status/1425421173366693891?s=20) reference in the intro * Michele’s role as a the editor for a preprint server * How Research Square (https://researchsquare.com) works * Weighing up the urgency of

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53:21

137: Ten rules for improving academic work-life balance

Everything Hertz ·

2021/08/02

Dan and James share their thoughts on a recent paper (https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009124) that proposes ten rules for improving academic work-life balance for early career researchers and the figure from this paper that became a meme. Here are the rules: Long hours do not equal productive hours Examine your options for flexible work practices Set boundaries to establish your workplace and time Commit to strategies that increase your efficiency and

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50:29

136: Who peer-reviews the peer-reviewed journals?

Everything Hertz ·

2021/07/19

We discuss Journal Reviewer (journalreviewer.org), which is a website that provides a forum for researchers to share and rate their experiences with journal's peer review processes. We also cover how some journals negotiate the way in which their impact factors are calculated. Links The reference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Whittington) to James' mention of Dick Whittington James’ RIOT science talk (https://youtu.be/t733sc9xhtw) Nichola's Raihani's tweet

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50:53

135: A loss of confidence

Everything Hertz ·

2021/07/05

Dan Quintana and James Heathers chat about well-known psychology studies that we've now lost confidence in due to replication failures and the role of auxiliary assumptions in hypothesis-driven research. Other links The reversals in psychology website (https://www.gleech.org/psych) Anne Scheel and team's paper (https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1745691620966795) on whether you’re ready to test hypotheses Homer Simpson burning bridges meme (https://youtu.be/PnnXc3T_pK8) The paper

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56:39

134: Paywalled questionnaires

Everything Hertz ·

2021/06/21

We discuss a recent retraction triggered by the authors not paying a copyright fee to use a questionnaire (that also happened to be critical of the original questionnaire). Links for stuff that we mention: The paper (https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13229-021-00427-9) that was retracted for not getting the correct licence for a questionnaire The retraction notice (https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13229-021-00446-6) for this paper The Spectrum

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