24: Incentive structures in science

Science funding has a series of built in incentive structures, but what sort of science does this produce?

Some of the topics discussed:

• Feedback from our 'Public health and Pokemon' episode (#22)
• Incentive structures in science
• What we should be doing in science compared to what we are doing
• Quantity vs. Quality
• The analysis of Trump's tweets for negativity vs. positivity
• Pre-registration
• How much detail do you need to go into when it comes to pre-registering an analysis
• APS journal badges - they're working!
• Data sharing makes you more careful with your data
• Solutions to the incentive problem have to come from the policy level
• The grant funding lottery system proposal
• The PhD oversupply
• Gaming the system
• James wants to mandate science communication
• Dan wants to include replication studies in PhD programs
• Scientist names that suit their research area

Links

• The article on incentive structures

https://medium.com/the-spike/how-a-happy-moment-for-neuroscience-is-a-sad-moment-for-science-c4ba00336e9c#.x3sea13i1

• The Allen brain atlas

http://observatory.brain-map.org

• Analysis of Trump's tweets

http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/

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