45: Conferences and conspiracy theories

It’s conference season so in this episode Dan and James discuss the ins and outs of scientific conferences.

Here’s what they cover:

• Research parasite award
• How much do you save when you don’t run an fMRI study
• They come up with an even better name than “Research parasite”
• Could the GOP weaponise the open science movement?
• Conspiracy theories
• Attempts to slow down science by taking science out of context
• The Black Goat Podcast
• The conference backchannel
• Contacting people at conferences
• Sitting though seminars (and not falling asleep)
• Twitter conferences
• Good presentations vs. bad presentations
• Starting collaborations at conferences
• Do conference locations matter?
• Periscoping conference presentations

Links

The research parasite award: http://researchparasite.com
The GOP and science reform https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/reproducibility-science-open-judoflip/521952/
The Crackpot index http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
The Brain Twitter conference https://brain.tc

Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/

Support Everything Hertz