142: Red flags in academia [Live episode]
In this live episode, Dan and James discuss red flags in academia, in terms of research fields, papers, and individuals. Thanks to everyone that parti...
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A podcast by scientists, for scientists. Methodology, scientific life, and bad language. Co-hosted by Dr. Dan Quintana (University of Oslo) and Dr. James Heathers (Northeastern University)
141: Why we should diversify study samples (with Sakshi Ghai)
We chat with Sakshi Ghai (University of Cambridge) about why we should diversify sample diversity and retire the Western, educated, rich, industrializ...
140: You can’t buy cat biscuits with ‘thank you’ emails
James proposes that peer review reports should be published as their own citable objects, provided that the manuscript author thinks that the peer rev...
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 ...
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...
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 te...
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 j...
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...
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 or...
133: Manuscript submission fees
Some journals use nominal manuscript submission fees to discourage frivolous submissions. However, it has been suggested that increasing submission fe...