Dan and James discuss a few academic horror stories sent in by their listeners.

Links:

The Gawker story on leaving academia

http://gawker.com/i-left-my-ph-d-program-in-chemistry-a-few-years-back-wh-1774236393

Equator network

http://www.equator-network.org

Jack Johnson (the singer, not the boxer from the turn of the century)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seZMOTGCDag

Abominable Putridity (the band James mentioned)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JYFgoaEeaQ

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Heart rate variability is becoming incredibly popular in the biobehavioral sciences yet there's no standard for how this research is reported. In this episode, Dan and James discuss their latest paper where they propose heart rate variability reporting guidelines. They also talk about saunas (why not?) and why 'sympathovagal balance' should be abandoned.

Links:

Dan and James' guidelines paper

http://www.nature.com/tp/journal/v6/n5/abs/tp201673a.html

Dan and Gail's heart rate variability meta-analysis

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26447819

Quora

https://www.quora.com

Whole body hyperthermia study

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27172277

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In this episode, James and Dan discuss issues surrounding the placebo effect.

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https://soundcloud.com/startup-scientist-podcast

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In this episode, James and Dan talk about failure. What's the benefit of openly sharing your failures - is this an antidote to the imposter syndrome or something only the privileged few can afford to do?

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In this episode, James and Dan discuss what happens if your research is wrong. They talk about the recent controversy surrounding tDCS, why many people don't hold negative results to the same scrutiny as positive results, and the hype cycle of research.

Links:

Dan's new Startup Scientist podcast

https://soundcloud.com/startup-scientist-podcast

Vestibular stimulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanic_vestibular_stimulation

The one slide on the tDCS presentation that Dan found

https://twitter.com/nomorewires/status/717384486888022016

The hype cycle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

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In this episode, James and Dan discuss how to navigate the PhD to Postdoc transition. They provide advice to a hypothetical first-year graduate student and discuss the realities of the postdoc job market.

Links:

Propel Careers - https://www.propelcareers.com

James' blog post - https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/12-thing-you-should-know-before-you-start-a-phd-9c064a979e8#.iqqwzf55s

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How do you write a lot and do it well? In this episode, James and Dan discuss the writing process and the tools they use to get things done.

Links:

The Conversation

https://theconversation.com

BreakTime app

http://breaktimeapp.com

Tomato timer

http://tomato-timer.com

Jelte Wichert's paper

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0026828

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In this episode, James and Dan talk about getting from research idea to publication. They discuss the ethical approval process, getting research published, and share tips for running experiments. They also cover some of the software that they use in their own research: JASP and Papers.

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JASP - https://jasp-stats.org

Papers - http://www.papersapp.com

Authorea - https://www.authorea.com

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In this episode, James and Dan talk about replication in science, self-control, and the file-drawer problem in oxytocin research.

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Meta-analysis has become an increasingly popular tool used by many scientists to synthesise data. However, it's not without its detractors — from H. J. Eysenck, Ph.D., calling it "an exercise in mega-silliness" in 1978, to J. A. J. Heathers Ph.D., describing its use as a "profound moral failing" (he's half-serious) in 2016.

In this episode, Dan defends meta-analysis against more recent criticisms put forward by James and offers suggestions on how meta-analysis can be improved.

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PRISMA statement - http://www.prisma-statement.org/

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