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In this episode, Dan and James chat with microbiologist Elisabeth Bik about about the detection of problematic images in scientific papers, the state of microbiome research, and making the jump from academia to industry. More info on what they cover: How Elisabeth get into error detection of scientific images The process of detecting errors in images How groups of authors tend to publish multiple papers with problematic images The association between journal prestige and problematic images Providing monetary incentives for publications Making the jump from academia to industry The current state of microbiome research Links Patreon: www.patreon.com/hertzpodcast Elisabeth on Twitter:  www.twitter.com/microbiomdigest Elisabeth online: https://microbiomedigest.com The problematic image paper: https://mbio.asm.org/content/7/3/e00809-16.short Pubpeer: https://pubpeer.com Dan on twitter: www.twitter.com/dsquintana James on twitter: www.twitter.com/jamesheathers Everything Hertz on twitter: www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast Everything Hertz on Facebook: www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/ Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/ Support us on Patreon and get bonus stuff! $1 a month or more: Monthly newsletter + Access to behind-the-scenes photos & video via the Patreon app + the the warm feeling you're supporting the show $5 a month or more: All the stuff you get in the $1 tier PLUS a bonus mini episode every month (extras + the bits we couldn't include in our regular episodes) Special Guest: Elisabeth Bik.Support Everything Hertz

Dan and James discuss what's missing from biobehavioral science course syllabi. Here's the episode lowdown: A thank you to our new Patron supporters The (supposed)CRISPR baby SPSS vs. R: What should be used for instruction? What would Dan and James include in a new syllabus? Should students be taught scientific communication? If we’re going to add new stuff to a syllabus, what gets removed? Are courses too big these days? Should students be taught how to set up a side hustle to apply their research skills outside of academia? Links Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hertzpodcast CRISPR baby story: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/11/30/18119589/crispr-technology-he-jiankui Dan on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/dsquintana James on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/jamesheathers Everything Hertz on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast Everything Hertz on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/ Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/ Support us on Patreon and get bonus stuff! $1 a month or more: Monthly newsletter + Access to behind-the-scenes photos & video via the Patreon app + the the warm feeling you're supporting the show $5 a month or more: All the stuff you get in the $1 tier PLUS a bonus mini episode every month (extras + the bits we couldn't include in our regular episodes) Support Everything Hertz

Dan and James discuss a new journal of "controversial ideas" that will allow authors to publish articles anonymously. They also launch their Patreon page, in which listeners can support the show and get bonus features. Here's the episode lowdown James describes his first experience eating a “ding dong” Why James and Dan do the show What is Patreon? The Journal of Controversial Ideas The link between a vaccine batch and narcolepsy in Norway Can you “claim” our anonymous article a few years into the future? What’s the difference between anonymous blogging and anonymous journal articles? The new Neurons, Behavior, Data analysis and Theory journal Links Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hertzpodcast Narcolepsy paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389945713001548 Journal of Controversial ideas story: https://www.bbc.com/news/education-46146766 PsyBrief twitter account: twitter.com/psybrief NBDT journal: nbdt.scholasticahq.com Dan on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/dsquintana James on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/jamesheathers Everything Hertz on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast Everything Hertz on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/ Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/ Support us on Patreon and get bonus stuff! $1 a month or more: Monthly newsletter + the warm feeling you're supporting the show $5 a month or more: Monthly newsletter + bonus audio (extras + the bits we couldn't include in our regular episodes) Support Everything Hertz

In this episode, we chat about whether it’s necessary to move for an academic job to demonstrate “independence”. Here's a rundown of the other stuff we cover: James' appearance at the “Sound education” conference Dan’s first day of school as a latino in a white neighbourhood Our thoughts on the restrictive social media policy at the SfN (Society for Neuroscience)conference Why and how Dan and James moved overseas from Australia Do you really need to move overseas to demonstrate independence? The two-body problem Can you demonstrate independence with sole-author papers? Links SFN social media policy https://twitter.com/fedeadolfi/status/1058760331747581953 Dan on twitter https://www.twitter.com/dsquintana James on twitter https://www.twitter.com/jamesheathers Everything Hertz on twitter https://www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast Everything Hertz on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/ Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Support Everything Hertz

Dan and James discuss the recent "grievance studies" hoax, whereby three people spent a year writing twenty-one fake manuscripts for submission to various cultural studies journals. They also discuss a new proposal to shift publication culture in which researchers pledge to publish exclusively in community-run journals but only when a pre-specified threshold of support for this commitment by the research community has been met. Here's an overview of the episode: It’s fat bear week! The new proposal to fix the stranglehold of commercial publishers in academia Flipping journals to open access The ‘grievance studies’ hoax When James first came across the “dog rape” paper What if you were to design the dog study properly? Should we systematically try and hoax journals? Astronomy already injects fake data, can we learn from this? Should these new hoaxes all be associated with Sokal? Links Brian Resnick’s fat bear week story: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/10/9/17955432/fat-bear-week-katmai-national-park-409-747-salmon https://freeourknowledge.org Paywall the movie: https://paywallthemovie.com The ‘grievance studies’ hoax: https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/ James’ thread on the “dog-rape” study: https://twitter.com/jamesheathers/status/1048313273563668486 The proposal for systematic hoaxing: https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1047507838493499392 A tweet from one of the reviewers of the dog paper: https://twitter.com/dwschieber/status/1047497301021798400 Fake (a.k.a. blind) injection in astronomy: https://www.ligo.org/news/blind-injection The original Sokal paper: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html Dan on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/dsquintana James on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/jamesheathers Everything Hertz on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast Everything Hertz on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/ Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Support Everything Hertz

We’re joined by Brian Nosek (Centre for Open Science and University of Virginia) to chat about building technology to make open science easier to implement, and shifting the norms of science to make it more open. We also discuss his recent social sciences replication project in which researchers accurately predicted which studies would replicate. Here’s what we cover: What is the Centre for Open Science? How did Brian go from Psychology professor to the director of tech organisation? How can researchers use the Open Science Framework (OSF)? How does OSF remove friction for conducting open science? Registered reports (now available at 131 journals!) What factors converged to cause the emerging acceptance of open science? The social sciences replication project Can researchers anticipate which findings can replicate? What happened when Brian and his team tried to submit their replication attempts of Science papers to Science? The experience of reviewing registered reports Links: Centre for open science https://cos.io Open Science Framework https://osf.io Project Implicit https://www.projectimplicit.net/index.html The social sciences replication project paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0399-z Brian on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/briannosek Dan on twitter https://www.twitter.com/dsquintana James on twitter https://www.twitter.com/jamesheathers Everything Hertz on twitter https://www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast Everything Hertz on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/ Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Special Guest: Brian Nosek.Support Everything Hertz

This episode includes part two of a chat with Nathan Hall (McGill University), who is the person behind the ’Shit academics say’ account (@AcademicsSay), which pokes fun of all the weird stuff that academics say. Before getting to the discussion, James and Dan answer two listener questions on grants and data cleaning. Here’s what is covered in the episode: People talk about papers all the time, but the grant process is not discussed openly—why? Speaking to your funding body’s relevant program officer Assembling a team that complements your weaknesses Data carpentry and the tidyverse Outlier analysis Nathan Hall on big publishing Upending the publication system by getting journals to bid for papers Using peer review quality to judge the quality of journals Debunking learning styes Academics chasing after celebrity and hype The cost of chasing academic prestige Using twitter hashtags like #PhDChat and #ECRchat to learn more about the experiences of other people Links Data carpentry https://datacarpentry.org/ The paper with detailed code https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03811-x The podcast conference https://www.soundeducation.fm/ Cern and comic sans https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-comic-sans-higgs-boson Shit Academics Say on twitter https://www.twitter.com/AcademicsSay Nathan on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/prof_nch Dan on twitter https://www.twitter.com/dsquintana James on twitter https://www.twitter.com/jamesheathers Everything Hertz on twitter https://www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast Everything Hertz on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/ Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Special Guest: Nathan Hall.Support Everything Hertz

We’re joined by Nathan Hall (McGill University) to chat about the role of humour in academia. Nathan is the person behind the ’Shit academics say’ Twitter account (@AcademicsSay), which pokes fun of all the weird stuff that academics say. Here’s what we cover: How Nathan got started with the account The story behind Nathan's 'Research Wahlberg' Twitter account (@ResearchMark) The risk of social media usage being perceived as “unprofessional” The amount of free labor that academics are pressured to do How alcohol is becoming an unspoken coping strategy in academia Academic guilt and glamorising overwork Why Nathan changed his mind about making Imposter Syndrome jokes Leaving tweets in your draft folder Links Nein Quarterly https://twitter.com/NeinQuarterly Shit my Dad says https://twitter.com/shitmydadsays Cern and comic sans https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-comic-sans-higgs-boson Ate the onion https://www.reddit.com/r/AteTheOnion/ Shit Academics Say on twitter https://www.twitter.com/AcademicsSay Nathan on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/prof_nch Dan on twitter https://www.twitter.com/dsquintana James on twitter https://www.twitter.com/jamesheathers Everything Hertz on twitter https://www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast Everything Hertz on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/ Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Special Guest: Nathan Hall.Support Everything Hertz

Dan and James answer listener questions on tips for starting your PhD and the role of statistics in exploratory research. Other stuff they cover: James new paper on people that voluntarily give themselves goosebumps Dan’s new podcast: Physiology and Behavior A preview of next weeks guest, Nathan Hall When things are taken out of context on Twitter What do you do when people are angry with you on the internet? Tips for people starting a PhD Can inferential statistics play a role in exploratory research? Why don’t journals publish peer review reports? Why is PsycNet so bad? Links James’ paper https://peerj.com/articles/5292/ Physiology and Behavior podcast from Dan https://shows.pippa.io/dsquintana The tweet we discuss https://twitter.com/andpru/status/1024005699737509888?s=21 Dan on twitter https://www.twitter.com/dsquintana James on twitter https://www.twitter.com/jamesheathers Everything Hertz on twitter https://www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast Everything Hertz on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/ Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Support Everything Hertz

Dan and James chat with Jon Brock (Cognitive scientist at Frankl) about the use of blockchain technology for open science. Here's what they cover: What is the blockchain? Why Jon made the jump from academia to Frankl A cryptocurrency for open science What do institutional review boards think about using blockchain for data collection and storage? Autism heterogeneity How will this approach scale to biological signals and genetics data? What’s something that Jon’s changed him mind about in regards to academia? Links Frankl https://frankl.io Five reasons Frankl has a token https://medium.com/franklopenscience/why-does-frankl-need-a-frankl-token-4129d718ab74 Bjoern Brembs blog post http://bjoern.brembs.net/2018/05/after-24-years-when-will-academic-culture-finally-shift/ An explainer on cryptographic hashes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function#Illustration Frankl in a nutshell https://medium.com/franklopenscience/frankl-in-a-nutshell-9b488c554dea Frankl for autism https://medium.com/franklopenscience/frankl-for-autism-e74f0108bf5a Rethinking Innateness https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/rethinking-innateness Jon on Twitter twitter.com/DrBrocktagon Dan on Twitter twitter.com/dsquintana James on Twitter twitter.com/jamesheathers Everything Hertz on Twitter twitter.com/hertzpodcast Everything Hertz on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Special Guest: Jon Brock.Support Everything Hertz