Everything Hertz
Methodology, scientific life, and bad language. Co-hosted by Dr. Dan Quintana (University of Oslo) and Dr. James Heathers (Cipher Skin)
Episodes
November 10, 2025 • 44 mins
We discuss whether preprint servers and journals should require author identity verification for submitting manuscripts. This would probably speed up the submission process, but is this worth the potential downsides? We also discuss the similarities and differences between academia and professional sports and a weird case of author identity theft.
Other links
* The BJKS podcast https://bjks.buzzsprout.com
Social media links
- Dan o...
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August 7, 2025 • 59 mins
Dan and James chat about a a new 'pop-up journal' concept for addressing specific research questions. They also answer a listener question from a journal grammar editor and discuss a new PNAS article on paper mills
Links
* The pop-up journal (https://popupjournal.com)
* The episode (https://everythinghertz.com/58) where Dan's wife went into labor
* The PNAS paper mill paper (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420092122)
* A blo...
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July 1, 2025 • 47 mins
Dan and James answer listener questions on outsourcing in academia and differences in research culture between academic institutions and commercial institutions.
Social media links
- Dan on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/dsquintana.bsky.social)
- James on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/jamesheathers.bsky.social)
- Everything Hertz on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/hertzpodcast.bsky.social)
Citation
Quintana, D. S., & He...
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June 3, 2025 • 48 mins
James and Dan discuss James' newly funded 'Medical Evidence Project', whose goal is to find questionable medical evidence that is contaminating treatment guidelines.
Links
* James' blog post (https://jamesclaims.substack.com/p/how-should-we-fund-scientific-error) from last year
* The carthorse child blog post (https://medium.com/hackernoon/introducing-sprite-and-the-case-of-the-carthorse-child-58683c2bfeb)
* The blog post (https:/...
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April 2, 2025 • 44 mins
We chat about two new studies that took different approaches for evaluating the impact of paying reviewers on peer review speed and quality.
Links
* James' 450 movement proposal (https://jamesheathers.medium.com/the-450-movement-1f86132a29bd)
* The paper (https://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/fulltext/9900/effect_of_monetary_incentives_on_peer_review.488.aspx) from Critical Care Medicine
* The preprint (https://www.biorxiv.org/conte...
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March 2, 2025 • 53 mins
Dan and James discuss a recent piece that proposes a post-publication review process, which is triggered by citation counts. They also cover how an almetrics trigger could be alternatively used for a more immediate post-publication critique.
Links
* The Chonicle piece (https://www.chronicle.com/article/social-science-is-broken-heres-how-to-fix-it?sra=true) by Andrew Gelman and Andrew King [Free to read with email registration]
* Th...
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January 30, 2025 • 54 mins
Dan and James discuss a recent editorial which argues that double-blind peer review is detrimental to scientific integrity.
Links
* The editorial from Christopher Mebane: https://doi.org/10.1093/etojnl/vgae046
Other links
Everything Hertz on Bluesky
- Dan on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/dsquintana.bsky.social)
- James on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/jamesheathers.bsky.social)
- Everything Hertz on Bluesky (https://bsky.a...
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December 3, 2024 • 55 mins
We chat about the events that started the replication crisis in psychology and Dorothy Bishop's recent resignation from the Royal Society
Links
* The resignation blogpost (http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-i-have-resigned-from-royal-society.html) from Dorothy Bishop
* The bluesky post (https://bsky.app/profile/sarahwieten.bsky.social/post/3lbtsqc6jcs2z) from Sarah Weiten that asked the question, "If you had to cite an event ...
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November 13, 2024 • 43 mins
In this episode we chat about a Nordic approach for evaluating the journal quality and how we should be teaching undergraduates to evaluate journal and article quality
Links
* The Norwegian journal register (https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/en/informasjonsartikler/about-the-norwegian-register)
* The Finnish journal register (https://julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/publication-forum)
* Episode 22 (https://everythinghertz.com/22), where we playe...
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October 4, 2024 • 68 mins
We discuss the recent retraction of a paper that reported the effects of rigour-enhancing practices on replicability. We also cover James' new estimate that 1 out of 7 scientific papers are fake.
Links
* The story (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02907-3) about data integrity concerns in 130 women’s health papers
* James' new preprint (https://osf.io/23zcr) with the estimate that 1 out of 7 scientific papers are fake
* ...
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September 5, 2024 • 48 mins
Open access articles have democratized the availability of scientific research, but are author-paid publication fees undermining the quality of science?
The preprint by Morgan and Smaldino - https://osf.io/preprints/osf/3ez9v
Paul Smaldino's text book - Modeling social behavior (https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691224145/modeling-social-behavior)
Main edisode takeaways (AI-assisted summary)
There is a wide variabili...
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August 3, 2024 • 45 mins
Dan and James discuss a paper describing a journal editor's efforts to receive data from authors who submitted papers with results that seemed a little too beautiful to be true
Main edisode takeaways (AI generated summary)
* This editorial on the reproducibility crisis emphasizes the importance of providing raw data in scientific publications and highlights the need for transparency and accountability in the research process
* The ...
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Dan and James answer a listener question on what practices should the behavioural sciences borrow (and ignore) from other research fields.
Here are the main takeaways:
Keeping laboratory records and using electronic lab management software is beneficial practices biology that would benefit the behavioral sciences
The rate of pre-registration of meta-analysis in psychology is low, unlike other fields, which have a higher pre-registr...
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June 3, 2024 • 42 mins
We discuss how following citation chains in psychology can often lead to unexpected places, and how this can contribute to unreplicable findings. We also discuss why team science has taken longer to catch on in psychology compared to other research fields.
Here is the preprint that we mentioned authored by Andrew Gelman and Nick Brown - https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ekmdf
Our episode with Nick Brown - https://everythinghertz.c...
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May 2, 2024 • 50 mins
Dan and James discuss why innovation in scientific publishing is so hard, an emerging consortium peer review model, and a recent replication of the 'refilling soup bowl' study.
Other things they cover and links:
* Which studies should we spend time replicating?
* The business models of for-profit scientific publishers
* How many tacos can you buy with the money it costs to publish open access in Nature?
* The original soup bowl st...
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April 2, 2024 • 48 mins
Dan and James discuss how scientific research often neglects the importance of maintenance and long-term access for scientific tools and resources.
Other things they cover:
Should there be an annual limit on publications (even if this were somehow possible)?
The downsides of PhD by publication
The Gates Foundation's new Open Access policy
Other links
Everything Hertz on social media
- Dan on twitter (https://www.twitter.com/dsquint...
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February 29, 2024 • 49 mins
Dan and James discuss the Retractobot service, which emails authors about papers they've cited that have been retracted. What should authors do if they discover a paper they've cited has been retracted after they published their paper?
Other things they chat about
A listener question about including examiner's comments in thesis
The different types of retractions and thier impact
Why aren't versioning systems more common in scienti...
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January 31, 2024 • 42 mins
We discuss two recent plagiarism cases, one you've probably heard about and another that you probably haven't heard about if you're outside Norway. We also chat about the parallels between plagiarism and sports doping—would people reconsider academic dishonesty if they were reminded that future technology may catch them out?
Here are some of the takeaways from the episode (generated with the help of AI):
Plagiarism cases can range ...
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December 29, 2023 • 36 mins
We chat about a paper on the invisible workload of open science and why academics are so bad at tracking their workloads.
This episode was originally recorded in May 2023 in a hotel room just before our live recording of Episode 169, which is why we refer to the paper as a 'new' paper near the start of the episode.
Links
* The paper (https://journal.trialanderror.org/pub/the-invisible-workload/release/1) on the invisible workload o...
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December 7, 2023 • 38 mins
We chat about a recent blogpost from Dorothy Bishop, in which she proposes a Master course that will provide training in fraud detection—what should such a course specifically teach and where would these people work to apply their training? We also discuss whether open science is a cult that has trouble seeing outward.
Links
* The blog post (https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2023/11/defence-against-dark-arts-proposal-for.html) on the M...
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