139: Open science from a funder's perspective (with Ashley Farley)
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 ...
6 Sep 202156min
138: Preprints in the time of coronavirus (with Michele Avissar-Whiting)
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 du...
16 Aug 20211h 6min
137: Ten rules for improving academic work-life balance
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 f...
2 Aug 202153min
136: Who peer-reviews the peer-reviewed journals?
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 ...
19 Jul 202150min
135: A loss of confidence
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 resear...
5 Jul 202150min
134: Paywalled questionnaires
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 me...
21 Jun 202156min
133: Manuscript submission fees
Some journals use nominal manuscript submission fees to discourage frivolous submissions. However, it has been suggested that increasing submission fees could reduce article processing charges. Dan an...
7 Jun 202149min
132: Post-pandemic academia
Dan and James discuss how academia should operate in a post-pandemic world. What pandemic practices should we keep and what should we abandon? Links and details: Quiz: Norwegian metal band or Norwegi...
17 Mai 202150min
