Everything Hertz
Methodology, scientific life, and bad language. Co-hosted by Dr. Dan Quintana (University of Oslo) and Dr. James Heathers (Cipher Skin)
Episodes
April 3, 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Dan and James discuss the Retractobot service, which emails authors about papers they've cited that have been retracted. What should authors do if they discover a paper they've cited has been retracted after they published their paper?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?
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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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November 1, 2023 • 53 mins
James proposes proposes a new type of consortium paper that could provide collaborative opportunities for researchers from countries that are underrepresented in published research papers. We also talk about computational reproducibility and paper publication bonuses.
Links
The paper from Steve Lindsay on computational reproducbility: A Plea to Psychology Professional Societies that Publish Journals: Assess Computational Reproduc...
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October 1, 2023 • 35 mins
Dan and James discuss a recent paper that investigated how science journalists evaluate psychology papers. To answer this question, the researchers presented science journalists with fictitious psychology studies and manipulated sample size, sample representativeness, p-values, and institutional prestige
Links
* The paper (https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459231183912) on how science journalists evaluate psychology papers
* The preprin...
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August 31, 2023 • 35 mins
Dan and James discuss a recent proposal to do away with discussion sections and suggest other stuff they'd like to get rid of from academic publishing.
Links
* The paper (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04267-3) on the proposed elimiation of the discussion section
* The paper (https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245920970949) on machine readable hypothesis tests
* Our episodes (https://everythinghertz.com/guests/daniel-lakens) with Dani...
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July 20, 2023 • 55 mins
We chat with Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris about the science of cons and how we can we can avoid being taken in. We also cover the fate of the gorilla suit from the 'invisible gorilla' study, why scientists are especially prone to being fooled, plus more!
Buy Daniel and Christopher's new book, Nobody's fool, from your favourite bookseller here (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/daniel-simons/nobodys-fool/978154160223...
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June 23, 2023 • 50 mins
We discuss evidence of data tampering in a series of experiments investigating dishonesty revealed via excel spreadsheet metadata and how traditional peer review is not suited for the detection of data tampering.
Links
Data colada post 1 (https://datacolada.org/109)
The conceptual replication attempt (https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/7/2/28) in Guatemalan taxpayers
The paper (https://rdcu.be/dfdS8) on using caution when applying beh...
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May 31, 2023 • 43 mins
In our first ever live and in-person episode, we chat with Sandra Matz about the opportunities and challenges for using big data to understand human behavior
Links
Everybody lies book (https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/dp/0062390856), by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
A paper (https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-015-0630-z) on "Born open" data
Other links
Everything Hertz on social media
- Dan on t...
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April 27, 2023 • 48 mins
Dan and James discuss a new paper that reviews potential issues in metascience practices. They also talk about their upcoming live show in May in Frankfurt.
Links
Our upcoming show on May 8th, which will be a part of the at the 4th symposium on big data and research syntheses in psychology symposium (https://conference-service.com/ressyn-bigdata-2023/xpage.html?xpage=243&lang=en) to be held in Frankfurt, Germany
The paper (https://...
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March 16, 2023 • 43 mins
Dan and James chat about a new study that uses homeopathy studies to evaluate bias in biomedical research, a new-ish type of authorship fraud, and the potential for Chat GPT peer-review.
Links
The Chat GPT paper library tweet (https://twitter.com/michelnivard/status/1625786225725526016?s=20)
The Homeopathy paper (https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(23)00010-0/fulltext)
The David Grimes paper (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2042-...
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January 25, 2023 • 52 mins
Dan and James discuss a recent paper that claims that science is becoming less disruptive over time and the suggested causes for this decline.
Links
* Our prior episode (https://everythinghertz.com/165), which discussed PhD defences
* The paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x) on disruption in science
* The news piece (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04577-5) on the paper
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December 30, 2022 • 41 mins
Dan and James chat about self-promotion in academia, how they both wish they had doctoral defences (these aren't a thing in Australia), and replacing error bars with the letter "t".
Links and stuff
* The now retracted paper (https://www.hindawi.com/journals/amse/2022/3802603/) with the error bars as "t"s
* A direct link (https://www.hindawi.com/journals/amse/2022/3802603/fig9/) to the figure
* The blog post on self-promotion, tit...
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November 28, 2022 • 49 mins
James and Dan discuss the recent migration of scientists from Twitter to Mastodon and the pros and cons of sharing the prior submission history of manuscripts
The Mastodon thread (https://mas.to/@SteinbockGroup/109385540133459884) discussion the submission history policy in American Chemical Society Journals
The "Weekend at Bernies" film (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_at_Bernie%27s)
Our new Mastodon account: @hertzpodcast...
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November 7, 2022 • 54 mins
Dan and James discuss eLife's new peer review model, in which they no longer make accept/reject decisions at the end of the peer-review process. Instead, papers invited for peer review will receive an assessment from eLife and the peer reviews will be shared on eLife's website. It's up to author if they would like revise their manuscript or publish their paper as the version of record.
eLife's announment (https://elifesciences.org...
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October 17, 2022 • 50 mins
We chat about a recent preprint describing an experiment on the role of author status in peer-review, dodgy conference proceedings journals, and authorships for sale.
Links
* James' blogpost (https://jamesheathers.medium.com/publication-laundering-95c4888afd21) on conference proceedings journals
* The preprint/working paper (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4190976) on status bias
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September 12, 2022 • 47 mins
Dan and James are joined by Brian Nosek (Co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Open Science) to discuss the recent White House Office of Science Technology & Policy memo ensuring free, immediate, and equitable access to federally funded research. They also cover the implications of this memo for scientific publishing, as well as the mechanics of culture change in science.
Open Science Framework hits half a million use...
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August 31, 2022 • 50 mins
Dan and James share ten rules for whistleblowing academic misconduct.
The Safe Faculty Project (https://www.safefacultyproject.org/) website
SLAPP statues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategiclawsuitagainstpublicparticipation
Other links
Everything Hertz on social media
- Dan on twitter (https://www.twitter.com/dsquintana)
- James on twitter (https://www.twitter.com/jamesheathers)
- Everything Hertz on twitter (https://www.twit...
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