The Effort Report

The Effort Report

By Elizabeth Matsui and Roger PengSociety & CultureScience
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The Effort Report episodes

  • 85 - Awkward Conversations

    Elizabeth and Roger discuss Venn diagrams, the end of science, and having awkward conversations with collaborators.

    Show notes:

    Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck

    Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpeng

    Elizabeth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elizabethmatsui

    Effort Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theeffortreport

    Get The Art of Data Science: https://leanpub.com/artofdatascience

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    Find past episodes: http://effortreport.libsyn.com

    Contact us at [email protected]

    1 hr 7 min
  • 84 - The Venn Diagram of Research and Education

    Elizabeth and Roger discuss the charged topic of who should be doing the teaching, and who should be teaching research skills and methods to students and trainees who are on a research track.

    Show notes:

    Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpeng

    Elizabeth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elizabethmatsui

    Effort Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theeffortreport

    Get The Art of Data Science: https://leanpub.com/artofdatascience

    Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://pcr.apple.com/id1133375717

    Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?authuser#/ps/Iz7gvpa3d6qro3btjmfk7g3l2gu

    Find past episodes: http://effortreport.libsyn.com

    Contact us at [email protected]

    53 min
  • 83 - Social Capital and the Peng Rule

    Elizabeth and Roger talk about the relative values of social capital and having a more tangible skill set or resource in career success.

    Show notes:

    I am an angry woman. From workplace bias to sexist politics, we have a lot to be angry about.

    Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpeng

    Elizabeth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elizabethmatsui

    Effort Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theeffortreport

    Get The Art of Data Science: https://leanpub.com/artofdatascience

    Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://pcr.apple.com/id1133375717

    Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?authuser#/ps/Iz7gvpa3d6qro3btjmfk7g3l2gu

    Find past episodes: http://effortreport.libsyn.com

    Contact us at [email protected]

    1 hr 1 min
  • 82 - Is Academia Toxic and Broken?

    Elizabeth and Roger tackle Elizabeth's annoyances, paper formatting, and a recent Twitter thread on whether academia is toxic and broken. And the return of Lessons from Space!

    Show notes:

    Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpeng

    Elizabeth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elizabethmatsui

    Effort Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theeffortreport

    Get The Art of Data Science: https://leanpub.com/artofdatascience

    Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://pcr.apple.com/id1133375717

    Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?authuser#/ps/Iz7gvpa3d6qro3btjmfk7g3l2gu

    Find past episodes: http://effortreport.libsyn.com

    Contact us at [email protected]

    46 min
  • 81 - Your Institutional Profile

    Elizabeth and Roger follow up on the lecture workout and discuss pre-meetings, maintaining your institutional profile, not giving up on an idea, and yearly themes.

    Show notes:

    Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpeng

    Elizabeth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elizabethmatsui

    Effort Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theeffortreport

    Get The Art of Data Science: https://leanpub.com/artofdatascience

    Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://pcr.apple.com/id1133375717

    Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?authuser#/ps/Iz7gvpa3d6qro3btjmfk7g3l2gu

    Find past episodes: http://effortreport.libsyn.com

    Contact us at [email protected]

    54 min
  • 80 - Opportunity Cost to Investment Potential Ratio

    Elizabeth and Roger talk about when the opportunity cost is worth the investment opportunity and managing an investigator team.

    Show notes:

    Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpeng

    Elizabeth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elizabethmatsui

    Effort Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theeffortreport

    Get The Art of Data Science: https://leanpub.com/artofdatascience

    Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://pcr.apple.com/id1133375717

    Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?authuser#/ps/Iz7gvpa3d6qro3btjmfk7g3l2gu

    Find past episodes: http://effortreport.libsyn.com

    Contact us at [email protected]

    57 min
  • 79 -Ignoring the Job Description When There Are Constraints

    Elizabeth and Roger revisit Al Sommer’s public health lesson: ignore the job description and also discuss being in the line of (bio)statistical fire.

    Show notes:

    Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpeng

    Elizabeth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elizabethmatsui

    Effort Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theeffortreport

    Get The Art of Data Science: https://leanpub.com/artofdatascience

    Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://pcr.apple.com/id1133375717

    Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?authuser#/ps/Iz7gvpa3d6qro3btjmfk7g3l2gu

    Find past episodes: http://effortreport.libsyn.com

    Contact us at [email protected]

     

    59 min
  • 78 - Soliciting Feedback About an Idea

    Elizabeth and Roger talk about feedback and a few of the things that make academic medicine different from most of the rest of the academic world.

    Show notes:

    Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpeng

    Elizabeth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elizabethmatsui

    Effort Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theeffortreport

    Get The Art of Data Science: https://leanpub.com/artofdatascience

    Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://pcr.apple.com/id1133375717

    Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?authuser#/ps/Iz7gvpa3d6qro3btjmfk7g3l2gu

    Find past episodes: http://effortreport.libsyn.com

    Contact us at [email protected]

    1 hr 7 min
  • 77 - Back From Globetrotting

    Elizabeth and Roger are now settled in their respective home cities to discuss the nuts and bolts of collaboration and the nature of research.

    Show notes:

    "Find your passion" is bad advice

    Episode 36 - Where's the Passion?

    Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpeng

    Elizabeth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elizabethmatsui

    Effort Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theeffortreport

    Get The Art of Data Science: https://leanpub.com/artofdatascience

    Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://pcr.apple.com/id1133375717

    Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?authuser#/ps/Iz7gvpa3d6qro3btjmfk7g3l2gu

    Find past episodes: http://effortreport.libsyn.com

    Contact us at [email protected]

    1 hr 5 min
  • 76 - Special Guest Frauke Kreuter

    Roger welcomes special guest co-host Frauke Kreuter to discuss time management, digging deep vs. being broad, chairing a meeting, and efficient advising of students. 

    Show notes:

    Frauke on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fraukolos

    Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rdpeng

    Elizabeth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elizabethmatsui

    Effort Report on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theeffortreport

    Get The Art of Data Science: https://leanpub.com/artofdatascience

    Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://pcr.apple.com/id1133375717

    Subscribe to the podcast on Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?authuser#/ps/Iz7gvpa3d6qro3btjmfk7g3l2gu

    Find past episodes: http://effortreport.libsyn.com

    Contact us at [email protected]

    1 hr 9 min

About The Effort Report

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Professors Elizabeth Matsui and Roger Peng talk about life in the academic trenches, telling it like it is.