BJKS Podcast

Peter Gärdenfors is an Emeritus Professor at Lund University at the Department of Philosophy. His work is at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive, psychology, and linguistics. In this conversation, we discuss his book Conceptual spaces and many of the topics discussed therein (convexity, prototypes, metrics), whether the theory is falsifiable, how it can explain aspects of semantics and of how children learn, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:04: Where is the neuroscience (especially about spatial navigation) in Conceptual Spaces?0:04:54: What are conceptual spaces?0:14:53: How Peter went from decision theory to knowledge representation0:20:25: Dimensions and metrics in conceptual spaces0:35:29: Is the theory of conceptual spaces falsifiable?0:38:41: Conceptual spaces of semantics0:51:54: 3 levels of representation across evolution0:55:41: The future of conceptual spaces1:01:09: Something Peter wishes he'd learned sooner1:04:31: A paper or book Peter thinks more people should readPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtPeter's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/gardenfors-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/gardenfors-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/gardenfors-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesBellmund, Gärdenfors, Moser & Doeller (2018). Navigating cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking. Science. Gardenfors (2004). Conceptual spaces: The geometry of thought. MIT press.Gardenfors (2014). The geometry of meaning: Semantics based on conceptual spaces. MIT press. Marr (1982). Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information. MIT press. Zwarts & Gärdenfors (2016). Locative and directional prepositions in conceptual spaces: The role of polar convexity. Journal of Logic, Language and Information. First episode of our discussion of Conceptual Spaces as part of this podcast's book club series: https://geni.us/bjks-concept-space-1

Isabel Thielmann is a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the study of crime, security and law. In this conversation, we talk about her background as a competitive sprinter, her research on prosocial behaviour and personality, the role of affordances, how game theory and interdependence theory can helpus understand human social behaviour, and Isa's experiences in having started a lab.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:04: Isa used to be a pretty good sprinter0:11:03: Lessons from athletics0:16:40: How Isa got into psychology and doing science0:26:47: Breadth vs depth in research topics0:33:32: Start discussing Isa's review article 'Economics Games: an introduction and guide for research'0:46:06: What are game theory and interdependence theory?0:59:06: Affordances and economic games1:10:44: Personality and economic games1:34:20: Isa's experiences starting her lab and becoming a PIPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtIsa's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/thielmann-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/thielmann-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/Thielmann-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesAmir, Rand & Gal (2012). Economic games on the internet: The effect of $1 stakes. PloS one. Cameron (1999). Raising the stakes in the ultimatum game: Experimental evidence from Indonesia. Econ Inquiry.Columbus, Münich & Gerpott (2020). Playing a different game: Situation perception mediates framing effects on cooperative behaviour. J Exp Soc Psych.Diehl, Thielmann, Thiel, Mayer, Zipfel & Schneider (2014). Possibilities to support elite adolescent athletes in improving performance: Results from a qualitative content analysis. Science & sports.Galizzi & Navarro-Martinez (2019). On the external validity of social preference games: a systematic lab-field study. Management Science.Halevy, Chou & Murnighan (2012). Mind games: the mental representation of conflict. J perso and soc psych.Kuper-Smith, Voulgaris, Briken, Fuss & Korn (2022). Social preferences and psychopathy in a sample of male prisoners. PsyArXiv.Liebrand (1984). The effect of social motives, communication and group size on behaviour in an N‐person multi‐stage mixed‐motive game. Eur J soc psych.Peysakhovich, Nowak & Rand (2014). Humans display a ‘cooperative phenotype’that is domain general and temporally stable. Nat Comm.Thielmann, Böhm, Ott & Hilbig (2021). Economic games: An introduction and guide for research. Collabra: Psych.Thielmann & Hilbig (2015). Trust: An integrative review from a person–situation perspective. Review of Gen Psych. Thielmann, Spadaro & Balliet (2020). Personality and prosocial behavior: A theoretical framework and meta-analysis. Psych Bull.Adam Mastroianni's article on conversational doorknobs: https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobs

Daniela Schiller is a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she studies the neural mechanisms of emotional control and flexibility. In this conversation, we talk about her work on cognitive maps for social behaviour, the importance of power and affiliation for our social lives, the difficulties of measuring spatial navigation with fMRI, and potential psychiatric applications of cognitive maps.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/bjks_podcastTimestamps00:04: Daniela's drumming03:31: How Daniela started working on (social) cognitive maps08:42: The 2 perspectives on the hippocampus: spatial navigation and episodic memory for relational learning and cognitive maps15:22: Power and affiliation as fundamental social dimensions19:24: Start discussing Daniela's paper 'A map for social navigation in the human brain'28:45: The difficulty of measuring spatial navigation with fMRI42:51: Clinical applications of cognitive mapsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtDaniela's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/schiller-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/schiller-scholarBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksThe Amygdaloids: https://www.youtube.com/@theamygdaloidsBellmund, De Cothi, Ruiter, Nau, Barry & Doeller (2020). Deforming the metric of cognitive maps distorts memory. Nature Human Behaviour.Constantinescu, O’Reilly & Behrens (2016). Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a gridlike code. Science.Doeller, Barry & Burgess (2010). Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network. Nature.Jacobs, ... & Kahana (2013). Direct recordings of grid-like neuronal activity in human spatial navigation. Nature Neuroscience.Montagrin, Saiote & Schiller (2018). The social hippocampus. Hippocampus.Schafer & Schiller (2018). Navigating social space. Neuron.Schafer, Kamilar-Britt, Sahani, Bachi & Schiller (2022). Hippocampal Place-like Signal in Latent Space. bioRxiv. Schiller, Eichenbaum, Buffalo, Davachi, Foster, Leutgeb & Ranganath (2015). Memory and space: towards an understanding of the cognitive map. Journal of Neuroscience. Tavares, Mendelsohn, Grossman, Williams, Shapiro, Trope & Schiller (2015). A map for social navigation in the human brain. Neuron.Tolman (1948). Cognitive maps in rats and men. Psychological Review.Yartsev, Witter & Ulanovsky (2011). Grid cells without theta oscillations in the entorhinal cortex of bats. Nature.

Rafael Pérez y Pérez is a professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa, where he studies computational creativity, in particular in relation to computer programs that can write stories. In this conversation, we talk about MEXICA, the story generator he has been working on for most of his career, his newly released book Story Machines (with Mike Sharples), the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to creating stories with AI, what the future holds, whether large companies like Amazon are working on these topics, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/bjks_podcastTimestamps00:05: How Rafael ended up doing his PhD on artificial creativity in Sussex07:00: Why did Rafael create MEXICA? / A more human system for generating stories24:45: Many approaches of generating stories30:46: Is a combination of symbolic and connectionist approaches  (neuro-symbolic AI)  the solution to creating machines that write stories?33:23: Why might GPT-3 not work for stories or The risk of singing a Mexican sereneade to a Norwegian43:38: Are there fundamental barries for AI writing convincing fiction without actually living in the real world?47:54: Is Amazon developing AI to write fiction?53:59: What will happen in the next 5-10 years of AI writing stories?Podcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtRafael's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/perez-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/perez-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/perez-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksChat GPT: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ Mnih, Kavukcuoglu, Silver, ... & Hassabis (2015). Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning. Nature. Mueller (1990). Daydreaming in humans and machines: a computer model of the stream of thought. Intellect Books. Pérez y Pérez & Sharples (2004). Three computer-based models of storytelling: BRUTUS, MINSTREL and MEXICA. Knowledge-based systems.Propp (1968). Morphology of the Folktale. University of Texas Press.Sharples &  Pérez y Pérez (2022). Story Machines: How Computers Have Become Creative Writers. Routledge. Sharples &  Pérez y Pérez (2023). Introduction to narrative generators. Oxford University PressTurner (1993). MINSTREL: A computer model of creativity and storytelling, PhD Dissertation, University of California LA. 

Adam Mastroianni is a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia Business School. In this conversation, we talk about his work on conversations, his Substack/blog, his article Things Could Be Better and why he chose to publish it this way, improv comedy, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Timestamps0:01:20: Did Adam fake having a girlfriend when he appeared on Come Dine With Me?0:08:51: Adam's Substack called 'Experimental History'0:10:51: Good conversations have lots of doorknobs0:15:33: What can people learn from improv comedy?0:23:10: Why did Adam start his Substack? / A discussion of academia, alternative ways of doing science, and the problems with academic publishing1:12:26: Start discussing Adam's paper 'Do conversations end when people want them to?'1:27:28: What makes for a good conversation?1:29:59: Some words of advice from AdamPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtAdam's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/mastroianni-webSubstack: https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/Google Scholar: https://geni.us/mastroianni-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/mastroianni-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtLinksRowan Atkinson saying words in a funny way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UhHrtKx8-sSubstack article on conversational doorknobs: https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobshttps://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/02/10/the-scientific-virtues/Episode with Joe Hilgard about scientific fraud: https://geni.us/bjks-hilgardGet me off your mailing list: https://www.vox.com/2014/11/21/7259207/scientific-paper-scamDan Quintana's YouTube with Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/@dsquintanaAdam's Rhodes speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H68w3543lkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlineshttps://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/style/no-37-big-wedding-or-small.htmlReferencesGilbert (2009). Stumbling on happiness.Mastroianni, Gilbert, Cooney, & Wilson (2021). Do conversations end when people want them to? PNAS.Mastroianni, AM & Ludwin-Peery, EJ. (2022). Things could be better. https://psyarxiv.com/2uxwkSchwartz (2008). The importance of stupidity in scientific research. Journal of Cell Science.

Gareth Barnes is a professor at University College London, where he is Head of  Magnetoencephalography. We talk about how Gareth randomly stumbled into working on MEG, what MEG is, and some of his recent projects, including the exciting new generation of MEG scanners: OPM-MEG.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes appear roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Timestamps0:00:03: How I found out about Gareth's work0:02:31: What is MEG?0:07:04: Flexible headcasts for MEG0:19:49: How Gareth accidentally  started working on MEG (after writing fiction in France)0:28:46: The early days of MEG at Aston University (starting with a  single channel)0:40:58: The new generation of MEG:  Optically pumped magnetometers (OPM-MEG)1:13:33: Mouth MEG and measuring hippocampus with MEG1:21:06: The relationship between methods development and discovery in basic sciencePodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtGareth's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/barnes-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/barnes-scholarBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtLinksMEG in the UK: https://meguk.ac.uk/MEG image: https://biomaglaboratory.fi/wp-content/themes/biomagille/images/meg_image_20210422b.jpgCerca MEG: https://www.cercamagnetics.com/Fieldline MEG: https://fieldlineinc.com/Young Epilepsy: https://www.youngepilepsy.org.uk/Sphenoidal electrodes: https://www.epilepsybehavior.com/article/S1525-5050(03)00023-4/fulltextReferencesBoto, ... & Brookes (2018). Moving magnetoencephalography towards real-world applications with a wearable system. Nature.Boto, ... & Brookes (2019). Wearable neuroimaging: Combining and contrasting magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography. NeuroImage.Hill, ... & Brookes (2019). A tool for functional brain imaging with lifespan compliance. Nature Communications.Meyer, ... & Barnes (2017). Flexible head-casts for high spatial precision MEG. Journal of neuroscience methods.Sander, ... & Knappe (2012). Magnetoencephalography with a chip-scale atomic magnetometer. Biomedical optics express.Seymour, ... & Maguire (2021). Using OPMs to measure neural activity in standing, mobile participants. NeuroImage.Stangl, ... & Suthana (2021). Boundary-anchored neural mechanisms of location-encoding for self and others. Nature.Tierney, ... & Barnes (2019). Optically pumped magnetometers: From quantum origins to multi-channel magnetoencephalography. NeuroImage.Tierney, ... & Barnes (2021). Mouth magnetoencephalography: A unique perspective on the human hippocampus. NeuroImage.Vivekananda, ... & Walker (2020). Optically pumped magnetoencephalography in epilepsy. Annals of clinical and translational neurology.

Adeyemi Adetula is a PhD student at the University of Grenoble, where he is leading the ManyLabs Africa project. In this conversation, we talk about that project, his recent commentary 'Psychology should generalize from - not just to - Africa', how Western researchers can best collaborate with African researchers, and much more. Timestamps0:00:05: How Adeyemi went from psychology student in Nigeria to PhD student in France0:13:27: ManyLabs Africa0:18:54: Synergy between the Credibility Revolution and research development in Africa0:25:26: How and why Adeyemi crowdfunded his PhD0:36:42: Psychology should generalize from - not just to - Africa0:54:47: How can Western researchers test their theories in more diverse samples?1:03:47: Pounded yam with Egusi soup and bushmeatPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtAdeyemi's linksGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/adetula-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/adetula-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksManyLabs Africa: https://osf.io/vh6td/Collaborative Replications and Education Project: https://www.crep-psych.org/CREP Africa: https://osf.io/kvhzg/Sci-Hub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-HubAdeyemi's GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-african-scholar-in-financial-distressAdeyemi's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/support_adeyemi_adetula_dreamAdetula, ... IJzerman (2022). Psychology should generalize from—not just to—Africa. Nat Rev Psych.Adetula, ... IJzerman (2021). Synergy Between the Credibility Revolution and Human Development in Africa. AfricArXive.Adetula, … IJzerman, H. (2021). The Evaluation of Harm and Purity Transgressions in Africans: A Paradigmatic Replication of Rottman and Young (2019). AfricArXiveKlein, ... Nosek (2014). Investigating variation in replicability: A “many labs” replication project. Soc Psych.Rottman & Young (2019). Specks of dirt and tons of pain: Dosage distinguishes impurity from harm. Psych Sci.The 5 shortlisted African papers for the ManyLabs Africa replication:Bevan-Dye & Akpojivi (2016). South African Generation Y students’ self-disclosure on Facebook. South African J of Psych.Kombo, S. (n.d.). Using behavioural informed communication to drive civic engagement. [Unpublished paper] https://busaracenter.org/case_studies/behaviorally-informed-communication-to-drive-civic-engagement/Mgbokwere, Esienumoh & Uyana (2015). Perception and attitudes of parents towards teenage pregnancy in a rural community of Cross river state, Nigeria. Global J of Pure & Applied Sci.Ojedokun (2015). Extramarital affair as correlate of reproductive health and home instability among couples in Ibadan, Nigeria. African J of Social Work. Teye-Kwadjo, Kagee & Swart (2018). Condom use negotiation among high school adolescents in Ghana: The role of gender. South African J of Psych.

Nils Köbis is a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, where he studies the intersection of AI and corruption. In this conversation, we talk about how Nils got into working on this topic, and some of his recent papers on AI, corruption, deepfakes, and AI poetry.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month.Timestamps0:00:04: Moral Games0:13:09: How Nils started working at the intersection of AI and corruption0:30:12: Start discussing 'Bad machines corrput good morals'1:01:00: Start discussing Nils's papers on whether people can detect AI-generated poems and videos1:25:59: Learning to say no and to not get sidetracked1:31:05: Writing a PhD thesisPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtNils's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/koebis-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/koebis-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/Koebis-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & linksMoral Games (in German): https://geni.us/moral-gamesNils's podcast KickBack: https://www.icrnetwork.org/what-we-do/kickback-global-anticorruption-podcast/Replika AI app: https://replika.com/Science fiction science: https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/chm/guiding-concepts/concept-2-science-fiction-scienceCollingridge dilemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collingridge_dilemmaGPT-3: https://openai.com/api/Fotos of people who don't exist: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/Abdalla & Abdalla 2021. The Grey Hoodie Project: Big tobacco, big tech, .... Proc of 2021 AAAI/ACM Conf.Crandall ... 2018. Cooperating with machines. Nat Comm.Goffman 1959. The Presentation of Self in Everyday LifeHarari 2016. Homo Deus: A brief history of tomorrow.Hawking 2018. Brief answers to the big questions.Kehlmann 2021: Mein Algorithmus und ich.Köbis ... 2021. Bad machines corrupt good morals. Nat Hum Behav.Köbis ... 2021. Fooled twice: People cannot detect deepfakes but think they can. Iscience.Köbis & Mossink, 2021. Artificial intelligence versus Maya Angelou... . Comp in hum behav.Köbis ... 2022. The promise and perils of using artificial intelligence to fight corruption. Nat Mach Intell.Leib ... 2021. The corruptive force of AI-generated advice. arXiv.Leib ... 2021. Collaborative dishonesty: A meta-analytic review. Psych Bull.Mnih ... 2015. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning. Nature.Rahwan ... 2019. Machine behaviour. Nature.Silver ... 2016. Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search. Nature.Tegmark 2017. Life 3.0: Being human in the age of artificial intelligence.

Eva Krockow is a lecturer in psychology at the University of Leicester, where her research focusses on the psychology of antimicrobial resistance. We talk about her educational background, her work on the Centipede Game, social dilemmas, antimicrobial resistance, and the value of qualitative studies.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. Timestamps0:00:04: How Eva ended up studying psychology in Leicester0:07:16: Before her PhD, Eva worked in international relations0:13:06: The Centipede Game/Eva's PhD work0:23:49: What is 'antimicrobial resistance' and why is it a problem?0:41:52: The social dilemma of antimicrobial resistance0:52:05: The benefits of qualitative studies1:04:53: What can we do about antimicrobial resistance?Podcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtEva's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/krockow-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/krockow-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/krockow-twtBlog: https://geni.us/krockow-blogBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences/linksThe Centipede Game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede_gameAMR studio podcast: https://www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/Colman, ... (2019). Medical prescribing and antibiotic resistance: a game-theoretic analysis of a potentially catastrophic social dilemma. PloS one.Flood (1958). Some experimental games. Management Sci.Hardin (1968). The tragedy of the commons. Science.Harring & Krockow (2021). The social dilemmas of climate change and antibiotic resistance: an analytic comparison and discussion of policy implications. Humanities and Soc Sci Comm.Krockow, ... (2022). Prosociality in the social dilemma of antibiotic prescribing. Cur Op in Psych.Krockow (2020). Nomen est omen: why we need to rename ‘antimicrobial resistance’. JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance.Krockow, ... (2016). Exploring cooperation and competition in the Centipede game through verbal protocol analysis. Euro J of Soc Psych.Krockow, ... (2016). Cooperation in repeated interactions: A systematic review of Centipede game experiments, 1992–2016. Euro Rev of Soc Psych.Pulford, ... (2016). Social value induction and cooperation in the Centipede game. PloS one.Pulford, ... (2017). Reasons for cooperating in repeated interactions: Social value orientations, fuzzy traces, reciprocity, and activity bias. Decision. Pulford, ... (2021). A five-factor integrative model of strategic reasoning in dyadic games. Eur J of Soc Psych. Rosenthal (1981). Games of perfect information, predatory pricing and the chain-store paradox. J of Econ theo.Tarrant, ... (2021). Drivers of Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Overuse across Diverse Hospital Contexts—A Qualitative Study of Prescribers in the UK, Sri Lanka and South Africa. Antibiotics.Tarrant, ... (2020). Moral and contextual dimensions of “inappropriate” antibiotic prescribing in secondary care: a three-country interview study. Front

Ricky Patel is a postdoc at Lund University, where he studies the neural basis of navigation behaviours in arthropods. In this conversation, we talk about his work on spatial navigation in Mantis Shrimp and bumblebees, the difficulty of recording from moving insects, science communication, and scientific illustrations.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Timestamps00:04: What is a Mantis Shrimp?09:53: How Ricky started studying Mantis Shrimp navigation16:00: Start discussing Ricky's 2020 Current Biology paper on path integration in Mantis Shrimp25:03: A hierarchy of compass cues34:10: Start discussing Ricky's 2020 Proceedings B paper on landmark navigation in Mantis Shrimp38:11: Complex behaviour doesn't require a large brain40:16: Start discussing Ricky's 2022 Current Biology paper about path integration in walking bumblebees46:14: How well can we record neural activity from moving insects?49:54: Twitter in academia53:51: Rickesh's work as a scientific illustrator57:57: There really has been a rich history of studying navigation in non-mammalsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtRicky's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/patel-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/patel-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/patel-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesBeetz, Kraus, Franzke, Dreyer, Strube-Bloss, Rössler, Warrant, Merlin, & El Jundi, B. (2022). Flight-induced compass representation in the monarch butterfly heading network. Current Biology.O'Keefe & Dostrovsky (1971). The hippocampus as a spatial map: Preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat. Brain research.Patel, Kempenaers & Heinze. (2022). Vector navigation in walking bumblebees. Current Biology.Patel & Cronin (2020). Mantis shrimp navigate home using celestial and idiothetic path integration. Current Biology.Patel & Cronin (2020). Landmark navigation in a mantis shrimp. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.Patel & Cronin (2020). Path integration error and adaptable search behaviors in a mantis shrimp. Journal of Experimental Biology. Santschi (1911). Obervations et remarques critiques sur le mécanisme de l'orientation chez les fourmis. Rév Suisse Zool.Tolman (1948). Cognitive maps in rats and men. Psychological review. Wehner (1990). On the brink of introducing sensory ecology: Felix Santschi (1872–1940) — Tabib-en-Neml. Behav Ecol Sociobiol .