83: Back to our dirty unwashed roots
By popular demand, Dan and James are kicking it old school and just shooting the breeze. They cover whether scientists should be on Twitter, if Fortnite is ruining our youth, book recommendations, and...
8 Touko 201959min
82: More janitors and fewer architects
We answer a listener question on the possible negative consequences of the open science movement—are things moving too quickly? Links and things we discuss in the episode: * We have a new logo, if you...
15 Huhti 20191h 11min
81: Too Young To Know, Too Old To Care
We answer our first audio question, on whether academia is too broken to fix, and a second question on whether we’ve ever worried about the possible repercussions of our public critiques and commentar...
1 Huhti 201956min
80: Cites are not endorsements (with Sean Rife)
We chat with Sean Rife, who the co-founder of scite.ai (https://scite.ai), a start-up that combines natural language processing with a network of experts to evaluate the veracity of scientific work. H...
17 Maalis 201951min
79: Clinical trial reporting (with Henry Drysdale)
We chat with Henry Drysdale (University of Oxford), co-founder of the COMPare trials project (http://compare-trials.org), which compared clinical trial registrations with reported outcomes in five top...
3 Maalis 201955min
78: Large-scale collaborative science (with Lisa DeBruine)
In this episde, we chat with Lisa DeBruine (University of Glasgow) about her experience with large-scale collaborative science and how her psychology department made the switch from SPSS to R. Discuss...
17 Helmi 201958min
77: Promiscuous expertise
Dan and James discuss how to deal with the problem of scientists who start talking about topics outside their area of expertise. They also discuss what they would do differently if they would do their...
4 Helmi 201955min
76: Open peer review
Peer review is typically conducted behind closed doors. There's been a recent push to make open peer review standard, but what's often left out of these conversations are the potential downsides. To i...
21 Tammi 201948min
