Dan and James discuss eLife's new peer review model, in which they no longer make accept/reject decisions at the end of the peer-review process. Instead, papers invited for peer review will receive an assessment from eLife and the peer reviews will be shared on eLife's website. It's up to author if they would like revise their manuscript or publish their paper as the version of record. eLife's announment A editorial from Michael Eisen and team Episode 122 : Reoptimizing scientific publishing for...
Nov 07, 2022•55 min
We chat about a recent preprint describing an experiment on the role of author status in peer-review, dodgy conference proceedings journals, and authorships for sale. Links James' blogpost on conference proceedings journals The preprint/working paper on status bias Everything Hertz on social media Dan on twitter James on twitter Everything Hertz on twitter Everything Hertz on Facebook Support us on Patreon and get bonus stuff! $1 per month: A 20% discount on Everything Hertz merchandise, access ...
Oct 17, 2022•51 min
Dan and James are joined by Brian Nosek (Co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Open Science) to discuss the recent White House Office of Science Technology & Policy memo ensuring free, immediate, and equitable access to federally funded research. They also cover the implications of this memo for scientific publishing, as well as the mechanics of culture change in science. Open Science Framework hits half a million users The White house memo Brian on Twitter Other links Everythi...
Sep 12, 2022•48 min
Dan and James share ten rules for whistleblowing academic misconduct. The Safe Faculty Project website SLAPP statues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation Other links Everything Hertz on social media Dan on twitter James on twitter Everything Hertz on twitter Everything Hertz on Facebook Support us on Patreon and get bonus stuff! $1 per month: A 20% discount on Everything Hertz merchandise, access to the occasional bonus episode, and the the warm feeling yo...
Aug 31, 2022•51 min
Dan and James are joined by Saloni Dattani for a chat about the history of peer review, a reimagination of what peer review could look like, what happens when you actually pay peer reviewers, peer reviewer specialisation, post publication peer review, annual paper limits for authors, automation in peer review, and Big Cheese. Links Works in Progress magazine One of the many news stories about the Jarsberg cheese study The actual study Saloni's peer review piece The F1000 format Our episode with ...
Aug 15, 2022•52 min
By popular demand, Dan and James chat about journal word and page limits.They also the debate around a recent meta-analysis on nudge interventions. Links The PNAS nudge meta-analysis The response letter The paper on adjectives and adverbs in life sciences Other links Everything Hertz on social media Dan on twitter James on twitter Everything Hertz on twitter Everything Hertz on Facebook Support us on Patreon and get bonus stuff! $1 per month: A 20% discount on Everything Hertz merchandise, acces...
Aug 01, 2022•45 min
Dan and James discuss a new preprint that examined the types of limitations authors discuss in their published articles and whether these limitation types has changed over the past decade, especially in light of methodological reform efforts. Links The Genetic Lottery by Kathryn Paige Harden The limitations preprint by Beth Clarke and collegues Simine Vazire’s episode (also known as the one where Dan's wife starts going into labor) The heartbeat paper from Galvez-Pol and collegues Rand Wilcox an...
Jul 11, 2022•47 min
Dan and James discuss a recent paper that concluded (again) that most researchers aren't compliant with their published data sharing statement and whether torrents (remember them?) are a viable alternative for sharing large datasets. Links The data request paper The paper Dan and James co-authored led by Julian Koenig Our episode with Henry Drysdale Our episode with Chris Chambers The meta-psychology journal Other links Everything Hertz on social media Dan on twitter James on twitter Everything ...
Jun 21, 2022•51 min
We chat about appeals to authority when responding to scientific critique, university ranking systems, Goodhart’s law (and its origin), and private institutional review boards. Links The history of Goodhart's law The original psychadelics paper in Nature Medicine The critique The response to the critique Everything Hertz on social media Dan on twitter James on twitter Everything Hertz on twitter Everything Hertz on Facebook Support us on Patreon and get bonus stuff! $1 per month: A 20% discount ...
May 30, 2022•46 min
We chat about the Theranos story and the parallels with academic research, as well as Twitter's new owner and whether academics will actually leave the platform Links Mastodon (the band) Elon Musk’s Onion article The Dropout podcast The Juicero Bad Blood: The Final Chapter podcast by John Carreyrou "Macho Man" Randy Savage Everything Hertz on social media Dan on twitter James on twitter Everything Hertz on twitter Everything Hertz on Facebook Support us on Patreon and get bonus stuff! $1 per mon...
May 09, 2022•51 min
We discuss a journal's new "wall of shame" page, which details unethical behaviours in an effort to discourage future misconduct. We also cover scientific ideas that won't die (but one idea that HAS died), and ECNP's "negative data" prize The audio quality of this recording isn't up to our usual standards as we were both travelling and without our normal recording gear. We'll be back with our normal gear next episode! Links James’ letter to the editor/obituary on sympathovagal balance The Mirror...
Apr 18, 2022•47 min
James and Dan chat about apologies vs. non-apologies, how to decide when to call it quits on a paper, and governments vetoing research proposals recommended by their own funding agencies Links for stuff we mention The tweet from Chris Jackson that started it all Chris Jackson's Hertz episode on the cumulative advantage of academic capital The Science Diagrams that Look Like Shitposts twitter account Everything Hertz on social media Dan on twitter James on twitter Everything Hertz on twitter Ever...
Apr 04, 2022•56 min
Dan and James discuss a new preprint that details twelve p-hacking strategies and simulates their impact on false-positive rates. They also discuss the Great Resignation in academia and the academic job market. Links The twitter discussion on Associate editor pay kicked off by Eiko Fried The p-hacking paper from Angelika Stefan and Felix Schönbrodt The sample size preprint from Daniel Lakens Everything Hertz on social media Dan on twitter James on twitter Everything Hertz on twitter Everything H...
Mar 21, 2022•40 min
We discuss the latest paper to seriously use the Kardashian index, which is the discrepancy between a scientist's publication record and social media following, and a listener question on whether original authors should get the last word when a comment on an article is submitted Links The paper on citation impact and social media visibility of Great Barrington and John Snow signatories for COVID-19 strategy The Rapid Responses comments on the paper The peer review reports for the paper Send us a...
Feb 28, 2022•53 min
Dan and James chat with cardiologist Rohin Francis about medical misinformation and how he uses YouTube for science communication via his 'Medlife Crisis' channel. Links to stuff that was mentioned: Rohin's YouTube channel Rohin on Twitter Can you be so fit that you die video ? Why does getting in the water want to make you pee video What is the stupidest nerve in the body video Can you legally buy a human skeleton video The Tibbies YouTube channel Up and atom YouTube Channel Belinda Carr YouTub...
Feb 14, 2022•57 min
Dan and James chat about why academic reference letters are terrible, a recent position statement on preprints, and whether the "great resignation" is also happening in academia. Links to stuff that was mentioned: The tweet from Dr. Eliza Bliss-Moreau on acedemic reference letter The tweet from Gilad Feldman about the 100 references he's submitted in 2020 alone The AMWA-EMWA-ISMPP joint position statement paper on medical publications, preprints, and peer review, Everything Hertz on social media...
Jan 31, 2022•52 min
We discuss the $7000 'accelerated publication' option for some Taylor & Francis journals that promises 3-5 week publication and a novel type of research fellowship. Details for the accelerated publication The New Science 2022 Summer Fellowship We have new merch ! Use the discount code 'METAL' to get 20% off (valid until January 31st, 2022). Everything Hertz on social media Dan on twitter James on twitter Everything Hertz on twitter Everything Hertz on Facebook Support us on Patreon and get b...
Jan 17, 2022•54 min
We answer a series of questions from a listener on whether to start a PhD, what to ask potential supervisors, the financial perils of being a PhD student, the future of higher education, the importance of skills, what keeps us going, and more. Here are the specific questions that we answered in this episode (the background to these questions is shared in the episode): Would you have any advice on how I can even decide whether to commence a PhD? Are there any questions in particular that you thin...
Dec 27, 2021•1 hr 10 min
We discuss the results from the cancer biology reproducibility project, the inevitable comparisons with reproducibility in psychology, and authorship expectations for posting public datasets. Links The paper investigating the replicability of preclinical cancer biology The paper on the impact of alphabetical order on career outcomes in economics (whose authorship order are determinedby alphabetical order That human sports science paper that inlcluded a cranionotomy Everything Hertz on social med...
Dec 13, 2021•48 min
If your child asked you whether they should pursue a career in academia, what would you say? We discuss this question plus three more quick-fire topics: the death of expertise, memorable presentations, and including internships in more graduate programs Links Get a 30% discount on a Scite subscription for a year, just use the coupon code EVERYTHINGHERTZ via this link The “Remind me of this later” twitter bot The Chase, Chance, and Creativity book Everything Hertz on social media Dan on twitter J...
Nov 15, 2021•54 min
Dan and James discuss the differences between 'talk' and 'action' in scientific reform and why reforms are taking such a long time to be realised. They also chat about whether messy (but correct) code is worse than no code at all, and revisit the grad student who never said "no" . Other links Get a 30% discount on a Scite subscription for a year, just use the coupon code EVERYTHINGHERTZ via this link James' blog post on why he loves preprints The grad student who never said "no" (archived) blog ...
Nov 01, 2021•55 min
In this live episode, Dan and James discuss red flags in academia, in terms of research fields, papers, and individuals. Thanks to everyone that participated in this live event! Links to stuff that was mentioned Get a 30% discount on a Scite subscription for a year, just use the coupon code EVERYTHINGHERTZ via this link The p-hacker app Burro racing on Wikipedia Everything Hertz on social media Dan on twitter James on twitter Everything Hertz on twitter Everything Hertz on Facebook Support us on...
Oct 18, 2021•57 min
We chat with Sakshi Ghai (University of Cambridge) about why we should diversify sample diversity and retire the Western, educated, rich, industrialized and democratic (WEIRD) dichotomy in the behavioral sciences Links to stuff we discuss: Sakshi's piece in Nature Human Behavior Many Labs 2 paper The ‘helicopter' research piece Joseph Heinrich’s recent book, The WEIRDest People in the World Everything Hertz on social media Dan on twitter James on twitter Everything Hertz on twitter Everything He...
Oct 04, 2021•57 min
James proposes that peer review reports should be published as their own citable objects, provided that the manuscript author thinks that the peer review report is of sufficient quality and the peer reviewers agree Other links and things we discuss An update on James’ start up job The American service industry Dan’s first outing since the pandemic started The villlage of Hell , in Norway The villiage of Fucking (now changed to Fugging) in Austria The Hertz long term archive on Open Science Frame...
Sep 20, 2021•1 hr 1 min
We chat with Ashley Farley about her background as an academic librarian, the underrecognised importance of copyright in academic publishing, and her work as a Program Officer at the Gates Foundation An academic librarian’s perpsective on the importance of open reseasch The importance of copyright in research and what it means signing over your copyright The PDF crisis! What does a program officer at a grant funding organsiation do? Why should funding organisations care about open science? Why o...
Sep 06, 2021•56 min
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 and costs of potentially problematic preprints during a pandemic. Notes, links, and stuff we cover: The Journal Ghoul reference in the intro Michele’s role as a the editor for a preprint server How Research Square works Weighing up the urgency of preprints vs. potential danger The preprint-to- hype pipeline The Scholarly Kitchen piece on knowledge...
Aug 16, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Dan and James share their thoughts on a recent paper that proposes ten rules for improving academic work-life balance for early career researchers and the figure from this paper that became a meme. Here are the rules: Long hours do not equal productive hours Examine your options for flexible work practices Set boundaries to establish your workplace and time Commit to strategies that increase your efficiency and productivity Have a long-term strategy to help with prioritization, and review it reg...
Aug 02, 2021•53 min
We discuss Journal Reviewer (journalreviewer.org), which is a website that provides a forum for researchers to share and rate their experiences with journal's peer review processes. We also cover how some journals negotiate the way in which their impact factors are calculated. Links The reference to James' mention of Dick Whittington James’ RIOT science talk Nichola's Raihani's tweet https://journalreviewer.org/ The South Park Yelp episode Other links Everything Hertz on social media Dan on twit...
Jul 19, 2021•50 min
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 auxiliary assumptions in hypothesis-driven research. Other links The reversals in psychology website Anne Scheel and team's paper on whether you’re ready to test hypotheses Homer Simpson burning bridges meme The paper that suggests replications will make psychology too boring and nobody will want to study it Daniel Lakens’ blog post on the hungry ...
Jul 05, 2021•51 min
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 original questionnaire). Links for stuff that we mention: The paper that was retracted for not getting the correct licence for a questionnaire The retraction notice for this paper The Spectrum piece that discusses this story Why most online recipes begin with some ridiculous story Libkey , which provides one-click access to papers via your institutio...
Jun 21, 2021•57 min
