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February 01, 2021125: Upon reasonable request
Dan has a blue-sky proposal to increase data sharing—that funders mandate scholars to store and analyse data on their servers for which the funder decides what constitutes a reasonable data request (among other benefits)
Other stuff covered:
We return with part 2 of "overrated/underrated/appropately rated", in which James throws nouns at Dan and he responds with whether these things are overrated, underrated, or appropately rated.
Joe Hilgard's blog post
Dan' proposal that funders should require all funded researchers to store and perform their analysis on a central server, which would make it easier to share data, and then the funder could decide what "upon reasonable request" means, not the reseacher or the instution
Long term vs. short term reform efforts
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Music credits: [Lee Rosevere](freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/)
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Episode citation
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2021, February 1) "125: Upon reasonable request ", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/HR5JA
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47 min
January 18, 2021124: From Ptolemy to Takeshi's Castle
We discuss under which circumstances retracting decades-old articles is worth the time. We also chat about why LinkenIn is underrated (yes, really) and special journal issues are overrated.
A more specific list of topics and links:
We play a game of "overated/underated", in which Dan has a list of stuff that he asks James whether these things are overrated or underated (or appropiated rated)
Why LinkedIn is underated
Graphical abstracts are underrated
Online conferences are underrated
Authors should have the chance to wildly speculate (as long as it's marked as wild speculation)
Sourdough bread is so gorgeous that even hipsters can't ruin it
Special journal themes are overrated
Should we bother putting the energy into retracting old studies?
The retracted article that Eysenck co-authored, entitled “Coffee-Drinking and Personality as Factors in the Genesis of Cancer and Coronary Heart Disease”
THIS is Takeshi's Castle
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Music credits: [Lee Rosevere](freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/)
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Episode citation
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2021, January 18) "124: From Ptolemy to Takeshi's Castle", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/DG3PY
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52 min
January 04, 2021123: Authenticated anonymity (with Michael Eisen)
Part two of our chat with Michael Eisen (eLife Editor-in-Cheif), in which we discuss the pros and cons of collaborative peer review, journal submission interfaces, Michael's take on James' proposal that peer reviewers should be paid $450 dollars, why negative comments on peer reviews need to be normalised, plus much more.
Some more details:
The pros and cons of collaborative peer review (in which all peer reviewers discuss the paper after all individual peer reviews have been submitted
How technology can constrain journal operations
The strange engineered delay in paper reviews (I doesn't take 2-3 weeks to review a paper)
Michael's proposal for a system in which people can nominate they have time in the near future to review a paper and then papers can be sent to them so they're rapidly reviewed
Journal submission interfaces
Michael's take on paying peer reviewers
Who owns peer reviews?
Would negative (anonomous or not) comments on an open peer review report penalise authors in the future?
Every paper gets negative peer-review comments, this doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad paper
Michael proposes an explicit "speculation" section for papers, where authors get free reign to basically say whatever they want
Other links
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Music credits: [Lee Rosevere](freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/)
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Episode citation
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54 min
December 21, 2020122: Reoptimizing scientific publishing for the internet age (with Michael Eisen)
The internet should have transformed science publishing, but it didn't. We chat with Michael Eisen (Editor-in-Chief of eLife) about reoptimizing scientific publishing and peer review for the internet age.
Here what we cover and some links:
How Michael co-founded PLOS
The book Dan mentioned on the history of the scientific journal
Why did eLife launch? What did it offer that other journals didn't?
Nature's recently proposed $11k article processing fee proposal
eLife's new "author-driven publishing" approach, in which all submitted papers have to be posted as preprints
Part two of our conversation will be released on January 4, 2021
Other links
Dan [on twitter](www.twitter.com/dsquintana)
James [on twitter](www.twitter.com/jamesheathers)
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Our merch store, with mugs, shirts, hoodies + more
Music credits: [Lee Rosevere](freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/)
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Episode citation
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2020, December 21) "122: Reoptimizing scientific publishing for the internet age (with Michael Eisen)", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/USYFC
Special Guest: Michael Eisen.
Sponsored By:
Scite: Scite is a new tool that helps researchers quickly see how a research paper has been cited and if it has been supported or disputed by subsequent research. Instead of just a list of titles, Scite shows you an excerpt of text from each citing article so you can easily see what each citing paper says.
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41 min
December 07, 2020121: Transparent peer review
Dan and James discuss the pros and cons of transparent peer-review, in which peer review reports are published alongside manuscripts, as a keynote feature at the recent Munin Conference on scholarly publishing.
Here's what they cover and some links:
Watch the video of this episode on the Everything Hertz YouTube page
What is transparent peer-review?
The permanancy of open peer review reports
CLOCKSS provides a sustainable dark archive to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly content
Open peer reviews provide additional info for historians
What changes when you know that your review is going to be public?
A Motte-and-bailey castle
An update and summary of the 450 movement
Involving patients/user representatives in the peer review and disemination process
The GRIM test
What about the publication of peer review reports for papers that are rejected?
The mega-analysis paper that Dan and James were co-authors on
Thank you to the organisers of the Munin conference for the invitation!
Other links
[Dan on twitter](www.twitter.com/dsquintana)
[James on twitter](www.twitter.com/jamesheathers)
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Music credits: [Lee Rosevere](freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/)
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Episode citation
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2020, December 7) "121: Transparent peer review", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/S2948
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58 min
November 16, 2020120: How false beliefs spread in science (with Cailin O'Connor)
Dan and James chat with Cailin O'Connor (University of California, Irvine) about the how false beliefs spread in science and remedies for this issue
Here's what they cover:
Why should psychologist scientists learn about the philosophy of science?
Cailin's new preprint on error propogation that she co-authrored
Boyd and Richerson's "Culture and the Evolutionary Process" book
Episode 91 with Kristin Sainani that discussed magnitude based inference
Christie Aschwanden on Magnitude Based Inference
The Misinformation age, co-authored by Cailin
Cailin's paper on the retraction of scientific papers
With Scite, you can be alterted whether a given paper has been retracted
Where should you start if you're interested in the philosophy of science?
Science as social knowledge, by Helen Longino
Cailin's on Twitter and you should also check out her website
Other links
[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/)
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Episode citation
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2020, November 16) "120: How false beliefs spread in science (with Cailin O'Connor", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/6S8TB
Special Guest: Cailin O'Connor.
Sponsored By:
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48 min
November 02, 2020119: Rules of thumb
Dan and James discuss how rules of thumbs in science, such as those often applied to sample sizes and effect sizes, lead to mindless research evaluation.
More info and links:
Is there any justifcation for holding back the public posting of data becuase you're not done with your analyses
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Lake Wobegon, were all the children are above average
The tweet from Marco Altini about his desk-rejected manuscript
Sample size rules-of-thumb
Effect size rules-of-thumb
Dan's effect size distribution paper (Here's the preprint if you don't have access to the paywalled version)
We have a live episode scheduled for the 18 November (4pm CET) as part of the Munin Conference on Scholarly Publising
Other links
[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/)
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Episode citation
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2020, November 2) "119: Rules of thumb", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/UMXR7
Sponsored By:
Scite: Scite is a new tool that helps researchers quickly see how a research paper has been cited and if it has been supported or disputed by subsequent research. Instead of just a list of titles, Scite shows you an excerpt of text from each citing article so you can easily see what each citing paper says.
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57 min
October 19, 2020118: Evidence-free gatekeeping
Dan and James answer audio listener questions on the worst review comments they've received (and how the responded), their thoughts on the current state of preprints, and how institutional prestige influences researcher evaluations.
Other points and links:
Send in your audio question at our website
Listen to our episode with Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti, on memes, TikTok, and science communication
The worst peer reviewers we have received
How do we respond to bad peer review comments
The Research Square preprint server
The current state of preprints
The 'readiness scale' paper at Nature Human Behavior
How the prestige of one's institition affects how they are assessed
The mathematician Grigori Perelman, who declined the Fields medal
The Laboratory Life book
Double-blinded peer-review
Other links
[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/)
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Episode citation
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2020, October 19) "118: Evidence-free gatekeeping", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/RAVXK
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1 hr 5 min
October 05, 2020117: How we peer-review papers
Dan and James choose a preprint and walk through how they would peer-review it. James also provides an update on his recent proposal that scientists should be paid for performing peer reviews for journals published by for-profit companies
Specific links and topics:
An update on the 450 movement, which proposes that scientists should be paid for performing peer reviews for journals published by for-profit companies
You should follow Overly Honest Editor on Twitter
The Volkswagen fellowships
Emma Mills, from Lancaster University, asks us how we review papers
We review this paper: "Direct perception of other people’s heart rate"
The tweet from Maarten van Smeeden on data simulation
Other links
[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/)
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Episode citation
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2020, October 5) "117: How we peer-review papers", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/7JHFP
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1 hr 5 min
September 21, 2020116: In my opinion
Dan and James chat about a recent twitter discussion on open science funding and the benefits of Editors sharing their opinions online. James also shares three project proposals that he thinks deserves funding, which Dan ranks.
Other stuff...
The Twitter thread from Tage Rai on conflicts of interest in funding on science
The Raytheon Amphitheater at Northeastern University
How Nature Human Behavior evaluates your mansucripts, from episode 105.
Good and bad experiences with Frontiers journals
A contract for getting paid for reviews
Get access to our Patreon newsletter
The peer-review process at eLife
James' three grant proposal ideas
The taxi story [Story in Norwegian but Google translate does a good enough job]
PsycoPy
The eyetracker that's 100x cheaper than commercial eyetrackers
Ads in R package load up messages
Chat about this episode on the Git Gud Science Discord server
Other links
[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/)
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Episode citation
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2020, September 21) "116: In my opinion", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/WT46Z
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