163: eLife's new peer review model
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...
7 Nov 202254min
162: Status bias in peer review
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://...
17 Okt 202250min
161: The memo (with Brian Nosek)
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, i...
12 Sep 202247min
160: Whistleblowing
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/Strategiclawsu...
31 Aug 202250min
159: Peer review isn't working (with Saloni Dattani)
Dan and James are joined by Saloni Dattani for a chat about the history of peer review, a reimagination of what peer review could look like, what happens when you actually pay peer reviewers, peer re...
15 Aug 202251min
158: Word limits
By popular demand, Dan and James chat about journal word and page limits.They also the debate around a recent meta-analysis on nudge interventions. Links * The PNAS nudge meta-analysis (https://doi.or...
1 Aug 202245min
157: Limitations
Dan and James discuss a new preprint that examined the types of limitations authors discuss in their published articles and whether these limitation types has changed over the past decade, especially ...
11 Jul 202246min
156: Looking for seeders
Dan and James discuss a recent paper that concluded (again) that most researchers aren't compliant with their published data sharing statement and whether torrents (remember them?) are a viable altern...
21 Jun 202250min
