This week Joe and Eric interview someone who actually worked on their dissertation instead of making a podcast about it. Lisa is a first gen college student mere weeks away from getting a fancy robe, hood, and hat. 

This week Joe and Eric talk about some fairly common advice about dissertations and grad classes that may not be particularly useful. 

This week Joe and Eric talk about impostor syndrome and how to partially combat it with effective communication. 

A brief interlude as we wander into finals week. 

This week Joe and Eric talk about the importance of taking breaks. 

Also, the researcher mentioned in the podcast is, in fact, Robert Sternberg. 

This week Joe and Eric give a little advice and commiserate on the difficulty of dealing with friends and family while in grad school.  

This week Joe and Eric talk about the importance, and difficulty, of reproducing research in the social sciences. 

If you are interested in the replication initiatives mentioned in the podcast from the Association for Psychological Science either follow this link or copy and paste the url  https://www.psychologicalscience.org/uncategorized/aps-reproducibility-and-replication-initiatives.html 

Joe and Eric talk about Open Science and how it can help reshape the field of the social sciences. 

If you are interested in your own account on the Open Science Framework or ORCID follow these links:  https://osf.io and  https://orcid.org 

Joe and Eric have a brief discussion about how research should be handled and how it often manifests. 

This week Joe and Eric discuss some of the perils of publication for graduate students.