Everything Hertz

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Everything Hertz episodes

December 30, 2022165: Self-promotion
Dan and James chat about self-promotion in academia, how they both wish they had doctoral defences (these aren't a thing in Australia), and replacing error bars with the letter "t".
Links and stuff
The now retracted paper with the error bars as "t"s
A direct link to the figure
The blog post on self-promotion, titled "The End of Decency: When Self-Promotion Goes Too Far" https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2022/12/09/why-too-much-public-self-promotion-academics-damaging-opinion
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Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2022, December 30) "165: Self-promotion", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/U2N9Q
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November 28, 2022164: The great migration
James and Dan discuss the recent migration of scientists from Twitter to Mastodon and the pros and cons of sharing the prior submission history of manuscripts
The Mastodon thread discussion the submission history policy in American Chemical Society Journals
The "Weekend at Bernies" film
Our new Mastodon account: @[email protected]
James' leaf blower man haiku
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Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2022, November 28) "164: The great migration", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/ZBJQS
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November 07, 2022163: eLife's new peer review model
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 the internet age (with Michael Eisen)
Episode 123: Authenticated anonymity (with Michael Eisen)
A paper describing p-rep
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Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2022, November 7) "163: eLife's new peer review model", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/XYBU5
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October 17, 2022162: Status bias in peer review
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
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Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2022, October 17) "162: Status bias in peer review", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 110.17605/OSF.IO/WX2A7
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September 12, 2022161: The memo (with Brian Nosek)
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
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Citation
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2022, August 31) "161: The memo (with Brian Nosek)", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/A7D86
Special Guest: Brian Nosek.
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August 31, 2022160: Whistleblowing
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
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Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2022, August 31) "160: Whistleblowing", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/NFUJQ
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August 15, 2022159: Peer review isn't working (with Saloni Dattani)
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 Elisabeth Bik
PCI registered reports
Saloni on Twitter
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Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2022, August 15) "159: Peer review isn't working (with Saloni Dattani)", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/PZS97
Special Guest: Saloni Dattani.
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August 01, 2022158: Word limits
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
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Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2022, August 1) "158: Word limits", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/3DY9J
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46 min
July 11, 2022157: Limitations
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 and robust statistical methods
The tweet thread explainer from Beth Clarke
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Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2022, July 11) "157: Limitations", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/APCU3
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47 min
June 21, 2022156: Looking for seeders
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
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Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2022, June 21) "156: Looking for seeders", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/4Q6JY
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