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85: GWAS big teeth you have, grandmother (with Kevin Mitchell) Jun 03, 2019

Show notes

We chat with Kevin Mitchell (Trinity College Dublin) about what the field of psychology can learn from genetics research, how our research theories tend to be constrained by our research tools, and his new book, "Innate".

Other stuff we cover:

Kevin's book, "Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are"
The story with link between Serotonin transporter gene 5-HTTLPR variation and it’s link to depression
Gene wide association studies (GWAS) vs. candidate gene studies
Correcting for multiple tests in GWAS
What can psychology learn from genetics when it comes to improving methods?
When did people lose faith in candidate gene studies?
Common vs. rare gene mutations
How our theories are shaped by our technology and resources
The third overlooked area of genetic variation (other than nature and nurture): How the developmental program plays out
Why intelligence is just an index of how well your brain is put together
What happened to identifying new therapeutic targets via genetics?
What Kevin has changed his mind about
A few papers on mice behavior relevant to what Kevin mentioned, Matias et al (2017), Menegas et al (2018), Zalocusky et al (2016), Miyazaki et al (2018), Bercovici et al (2018), Orsini et al (2018)
Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems (Wagner, A)
The Strategy of the Genes (Waddington, C)
Cybernetics : Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Wiener, N)

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[Dan on twitter](www.twitter.com/dsquintana)
[James on twitter](www.twitter.com/jamesheathers)
[Everything Hertz on twitter](www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast)
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Music credits: [Lee Rosevere](freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/)

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Episode citation and permanent link
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2019, June 3) "GWAS big teeth you have, grandmother (with Kevin Mitchell)", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/RS4HX

Special Guest: Kevin Mitchell.

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84: A GPS in the Garden of Forking Paths (with Amy Orben) May 21, 2019

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We chat with Amy Orben, who applies "multiverse" methodology to combat and expose analytical flexibility in her research area of the impact of digital technologies on psychological wellbeing. We also discuss ReproducibiliTea, an early career researcher-led journal club initiative she co-founded, which helps young researchers create local open science groups.

Here are some more details and links:

The tweet pointing our Dan's gramatical error in his usual introduction. THANKS DENIS
Is Twitter melting our brains?
The history of "new technology" panic
What's the next panic?
Moral entrepreneurs: profiting from moral panic
Specification curve analysis: a way to run all theoretically defensible analysis options on a given dataset
Amy's Nature Human Behavior paper
Amy's PNAS paper
The longitudincal effect of social media use on life satisfaction
How should scientists speak out against dodgy science?
The story behind Reproducabilitea
The ReproducibiliTea podcast
ReproducibiliTea stickers!
The UK Reproducibility network
Daniel Lakens' Coursera course
A multiverse of multiverses
Press releasing every paper might not be the best idea
Amy's book recommendation: The long way to a small angry planet

Other links

Amy on Twitter
[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 and permanent link
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2019, May 21) "A GPS in the Garden of Forking Paths (with Amy Orben)", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/38KPE

Special Guest: Amy Orben.

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83: Back to our dirty unwashed roots May 08, 2019

Show notes

By popular demand, Dan and James are kicking it old school and just shooting the breeze. They cover whether scientists should be on Twitter, if Fortnite is ruining our youth, book recommendations, and null oxytocin studies.

Stuff they cover and links to obsure references

Should scientists be on twitter?
James runs a Twitter experiment
Scite has now gone live, listen to our episode on this platform
Our dreams of a live Hertz episode
Is Fortnite killing our youth and the parallels with the “heavy metal” scare
Amy Orben’s screen time study
Multiverse analysis
Book recommendations: Kevin Mitchell’s "Innate", Gareth Leng's "Heart of the brain"
Daryl dug a hole reference, from the Aussie classic, "The Castle"
A new null oxytocin paper and the twitter response, and Dan's response
The SANS meeting venue
QR codes on posters
The slides to Dan’s oxytocin talk at SANS
The Hertz Hype Cycle
Dan recollects one of the first conversations he had with James

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 and permanent link
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2019, May 8) "Back to our dirty unwashed roots", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/N9BGX

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82: More janitors and fewer architects Apr 15, 2019

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We answer a listener question on the possible negative consequences of the open science movement—are things moving too quickly?

Links and things we discuss in the episode:

We have a new logo, if you haven't already noticed...
Contact us via our website form!
Considering the potential downsides of open science
Here come dat boi meme explination
The dangers of open access by fiat
The role of commercial entities in open science
The “University of Oslo fancy Norway people-pay-taxes oil money bloody library”
Dropping the success rate of grants to increase the quality of evaluation
Reframing open science reform efforts to a mission of equity and fairness
We don’t know the process behind university sexual harassment/misconduct investigations
Does transparency even matter if people won’t follow up on problems?
James' prediction: If someone starts a journal that ONLY does Registered Report, this will be very successful
The milkshake duck tweet and an explanation
Paul Roos and his “no dickheads” policy
Linking DOIs
We can't let edge case scenarios, which may not even play out, hobble progress

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 and permanent link
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2019, April 15) "More janitors and fewer architects" Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/7ZR9J

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81: Too Young To Know, Too Old To Care Apr 01, 2019

Show notes

We answer our first audio question, on whether academia is too broken to fix, and a second question on whether we’ve ever worried about the possible repercussions of our public critiques and commentary on academia.

Show details:

Our first audio question is from Erin Williams (@DrErinWill), who asks whether academia is too broken to fix
The letter to the editor that got rejected, despite the publication of the response to the letter
Harassment in academia
Have we ever been worried that someone might say, "I'd never hire those dudes" because of what we say?
Other stuff that has happened to us as a result of the podcast
Fahrenheit vs. Celsius
Supply and demand for academic jobs
The criticism that comes with putting yourself out there

Links

@ReproRocks: for those working in reproduction to share their work through twitter
The Steven Pinker book - The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Twitter thread from @drderringer
Me too Stem blog
Gideon on Twitter: @GidMK

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 and permanent link
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2019, April 1) "Too Young To Know, Too Old To Care" Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/W6MER

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80: Cites are not endorsements (with Sean Rife) Mar 17, 2019

Show notes

We chat with Sean Rife, who the co-founder of scite.ai, a start-up that combines natural language processing with a network of experts to evaluate the veracity of scientific work.

Here's what we cover and links for a few things we mention

What is scite.ai?
The Winnower
Why is there no good (and free) plagiarism detector?
Grobid - A machine learning library for extracting, parsing and re-structuring PDFs
Meta-analysis can prop up flawed bodies of literature
The "Too meta" XKCD cartoon
What’s the end game for scite?
The 80,000 hours game
Spooner, a utility that allows authors of scientific publications to make their work available to the general public (probably) without violating publishing agreements

Other links

[Sean on twitter](www.twitter.com/seanrife)
[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 and permanent link
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2019, March 18) "Cites are not endorsements", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/Q9EYG

Special Guest: Sean Rife.

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79: Clinical trial reporting (with Henry Drysdale) Mar 03, 2019

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We chat with Henry Drysdale (University of Oxford), co-founder of the COMPare trials project, which compared clinical trial registrations with reported outcomes in five top medical journals and qualitatively analysed the responses to critical correspondence.

Discussion points and links galore:

The history behind the COMPare project
The two papers that were published: a prospective cohort study correcting and monitoring 58 misreported trials and a qualitative analysis of researchers’ responses to critical correspondence
Ben Goldacre's books
What is outcome switching?
What were some of the responses to query letters from the authors and journals?
Misreporting trials (usually) doesn't lead to patient harm, but it harms the evidence base
Where should the buck stop with outcome switching?
Would Registered Reports solve this problem?
The CONSORT guidelines
Have the journals changed their practices?
COMPare on twitter
The COMPare website
Here is Henry on Twitter - @HenryMDrysdale
Here is Ben Goldacre on Twitter - @bengoldacre

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 and permanent link
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2019, March 4) "Clinical trial reporting (with Henry Drysdale)", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/HBX8R

Special Guest: Henry Drysdale.

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78: Large-scale collaborative science (with Lisa DeBruine) Feb 17, 2019

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In this episde, we chat with Lisa DeBruine (University of Glasgow) about her experience with large-scale collaborative science and how her psychology department made the switch from SPSS to R.

Discussion points and links galore:

Deborah Apthorp's tweet on having to teach SPSS, "because that's what students know"
People who are involved with teaching R for psychology at the University of Glasgow: @Eavanmac @dalejbarr @McAleerP @clelandwoods @PatersonHelena @emilynordmann
Why the #psyTeachR started teaching R for reproducible science
Data wrangling vs. statistical analysis
The psyTeachR website
Danielle Navarro, and her R text book that you should read
Lisa's "faux" package for data simulation
Sometimes you can't share data, simulations are a good way around this problem
"synthpop" is the name of the package that Dan mentioned that can simulate census data
Power analysis can be hard once you go beyond the more conventional statistical tests (e.g., t-tests, ANOVAs etc...)
Lisa's OSF page
Dirty code is always better than no code (but the cleaner the better)
Live coding is terrifying but a useful teaching tool. Here's Dan live coding how to build a website in R, typos and all
Using a Slack group for help
The psychological science accelerator
Chris Chartier (Psych Science Accelerator Director) on Twitter
A few of the other (hundreds) of folks involved with the Psych Science Accelerator Director: @PsySciAcc: @CRChartier @Ben_C_J @JkayFlake @hmoshontz
Lisa's Registered Report project on face rating
The challenges associated with collaborating with 100+ labs
Authorship order
Author contributions: CRediT taxonomy
The DARPA-funding project on using AI to determine reproducibility
Interacting Minds workshop in Denmark in March on open science and reproducibility
Lisa shares what Glasgow is like
Lisa has changed her mind about the importance of research metrics (h-index, impact factors etc...)
Lisa thinks you should read this paper on equivalence testing, which includes two former guests, Daniel Lakens, Anne Scheel, and friend of the show Peder Isager.
Here's the latest episode from Psych Soc O'Clock

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 and permanent link
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2019, February 18) "Large-scale collaborative science (with Lisa DeBruine)", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/JDT6F

Special Guest: Lisa DeBruine.

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77: Promiscuous expertise Feb 04, 2019

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Dan and James discuss how to deal with the problem of scientists who start talking about topics outside their area of expertise. They also discuss what they would do differently if they would do their PhDs again

Here's what they cover...

The podcast will now be permanently archived on Open Science Framework
James did a talk at the Sound Education conference on podcasting for early career researchers. Here's the video if you want to see him squirm uncomfortably in his chair for 20 minutes and/or hear his thoughts our approach to podcasting
The temptation for academics to believe their own press and to have their thoughts reinforced by the praise they get
Keeping a handle on what you know and don't know
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has FANS
The "Pete Evans" effect, James' solution, that we should eat Pete Evans, pesca-pescaterianism, and the spectacularly bad advice that we should stare into the sun
You should follow gynecologist Jennifer Gunter on Twitter
How much money would you pay for 100,000 engaged twitter followers? Here's the tweet James was referring to
Should researchers have something like a Hippocratic Oath? How would we police this?
Researchers are not good at admitting they're wrong, do we need to approach retractions differently?
Would a bounty system, in which journals offer rewards, for finding errors in their papers, work well?
The "Loss of confidence" project, and Rebecca Willen's CV
The "Nobel disease"

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 and permanent link
Quintana, D.S., Heathers, J.A.J. (Hosts). (2019, February 4) "Promiscuous expertise", Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/VYCAH

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76: Open peer review Jan 21, 2019

Show notes

Peer review is typically conducted behind closed doors. There's been a recent push to make open peer review standard, but what's often left out of these conversations are the potential downsides. To illustrate this, Dan and James discuss a recent instance of open peer review that led to considerable online debate.

Here's what they cover...

How should we navigate the open review of preprints?
Gate keepers gonna gate keep, but is this better out in the open?
Weaponising openness
Some people don't realise that some data can’t be shared
Should the reviewers of rejected papers follow them to the next journal?
When bad papers that you reject pop up in another journal, unchanged
Does the venue and timing of the open peer review matter?
Signing your reviews
Using publons to track your reviews

Links

Brad Love’s blog post: http://bradlove.org/blog/open-review
Niko’s blog post: https://nikokriegeskorte.org/2019/01/09/whats-the-best-measure-of-representational-dissimilarity/
Publons: https://publons.com
Dan on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/dsquintana
James on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/jamesheathers
Everything Hertz on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast
Everything Hertz on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/

Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/

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