BJKS Podcast
A podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related. Long-form interviews with people whose work I find interesting.
Episodes
109 episodes
109. Roberto Bottini: Cognitive maps, visual impairment, and image spaces
Roberto Bottini is an Associate Professor at the University of Trento. We talk about his recent work on unusual cognitive maps in blind people, image spaces, metaphors, and he gives me some advice for writing successful grant applications.<...
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1:24:08
108. Robert Wilson: 10 simple rules for computational modelling, phishing, and reproducibility
Robert (Bob) Wilson is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgia Tech. We talk about his tutorial paper (w/ Anne Collins) on computational modelling, and some of his recent work on detecting phishing.BJKS Podcast is a podcast abou...
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1:50:45
107. Nick Wise: Publication fraud, buying authorships, and tortured phrases
Nick Wise is a postdoc in fluid dynamics at Cambridge University. We talk about his 'detective work' on publication fraud which has gotten more than 800 papers retracted to date, including tortured phrases, discovering Facebook groups and Teleg...
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2:01:05
106. Eugenie Reich (Part 2): The legalities of scientific fraud, why fraudsters rarely go to prison, and what whistleblowers are allowed to do
This is the 2nd part of my interview with Eugenie Reich, who is a lawyer who represents scientific whistleblowers, and a former investigative science journalist. We talk about her transition from journalism to law, and discuss the legal aspects...
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1:09:35
105. Eugenie Reich (Part 1): Plastic Fantastic, scientific fraud, and institutional norms
Eugenie Reich is an attorney who represents scientific whistleblowers, and a former investigative science journalist. We talk about her previous work as a science journalist, in particular her book Plastic Fantastic about one of the biggest fra...
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1:26:32
104. James Shine: Integrating neuroscience with fMRI, collaboration, and the importance of dumb questions
James (Mac) Shine is a PI and fellow at the University of Sydney. We talk about his background in sports, using fMRI to integrate various parts of neuroscience, collaboration, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, ...
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1:48:03
103. Brandon Brown: Farms not grants, academic negotiations, and unusual academic contributions
Brandon Brown is a professor at University of California Riverside, where he studies global health and ethics. He also writes career columns for Nature and Science, which we talk about: negotiations in academia, his sabbatical, his life owning ...
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1:53:13
102: Soledad Gonzalo Cogno: Sloooow oscillations in entorhinal cortex, mentoring, and the physics approach to neuroscience
Soledad Gonzalo Cogno is a group leader at the Kavli Institute for Science Neuroscience in Trondheim. We talk about how she went from studying physics in Argentina to working on the brain in Norway, the importance of interdisciplinary approache...
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1:37:51
101. Julie Old: Wombats, saving endangered species, and the difficulties of studying wild animals
Julie Old is as Associate Professor at Western Sydney University. We talk about her experiences and research with wombats, various aspects of wombat behavior, conservation efforts, challenges such as sarcoptic mange and roadkill, the Northern h...
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1:14:18
100. Tom Chivers: Thomas Bayes, Bayesian statistics, and science journalism
Tom Chivers is a journalist who writes a lot about science and applied statistics. We talk about his new book on Bayesian statistics, the biography of Thomas Bayes, the history of probability theory, how Bayes can help with the replication cris...
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1:19:46
99. Laura Luebbert: gget, hunting viruses, and questionable honeybee dances
Laura Luebbert just finished her PhD in computational biology and will soon be a postdoc with Pardis Sabeti, to hunt some viruses. We talk about how she got into biology, how she created a widely-used software project (gget) with no prior codin...
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1:51:48
98. Laura Wesseldijk: Behavioural genetics, music, and the importance of twins
Laura Wesseldijk works at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt at the Behavioral Genetics unit in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC. We talk about her research on the genetics of music an...
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1:20:54
97. Arne Ekstrom: Spatial navigation, memory, and invasive recordings in humans
Arne Ekstrom is a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, where he studies spatial navigation and memory. We talk about how he got into psychology, his unusual path to getting a PhD, his work on using single-cells recordings from ...
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1:17:01
96. Benjamin Ehrlich: Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the neuron doctrine, and combining art & science
Benjamin Ehrlich is the author of the recent biography of Santiago Ramon y Cajal (The brain in search of itself), and The Dreams of Santiago Ramon y Cajal. We talk about Cajal's life and work, Cajal's unlikely beginnings in a rural Spain, how h...
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1:06:09
95. Emily Finn: Neural fingerprinting, 'naturalistic' stimuli, and taking time before starting a PhD
Emily Finn is an assistant professor at Dartmouth College. We talk about her research on neural fingerprinting, naturalistic stimuli, how Emily got into science, the year she spent in Peru before her PhD, advice for writing well, and much more....
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1:43:43
94. David Van Essen: The Human Connectome Project, hierarchical processing, and the joys of collaboration
David Van Essen is an Alumni Endowed Professor of Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In this conversation, we talk about David's path to becoming a neuroscientist, the Human Connectome project, hierarhical pr...
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1:01:39
93. Nachum Ulanovsky: Bats, spatial navigation, and natural neuroscience
Nachum Ulanovsky is a professor at the Weizman Institute. We talk about his research on spatial navigation in bats, how Nachum started working with bats, the importance of natural behaviour, how to build a 700m long tunnel for neuroscience, and...
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1:25:56
92. Tom Hardwicke: Meta-research, reproducibility, and post-publication critique
Tom Hardwicke is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. We talk about meta-science, incuding Tom's work on post-publication critique and registered reports, what his new role as editor at Psychological Science entails, and much...
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1:06:48
91. Jessica Polka: Preprints, publishing peer reviews, and the joys of pipetting
Jessica Polka is Executive Director of ASAPbio, a non-profit that promotes innovation and transparency in life science publishing. We talk about her work at ASAPbio, how she got into it, preprints, the many functions of peer review, and m...
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1:16:13
90. Brian Boyd: The life & works of Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, and writing biographies
Brian Boyd is a Distinguished Professor in English and Drama at the University of Auckland. We talk mainly about Vladimir Nabokov: Brian wrote the defining biography on Nabokov (in addition to books on more specific aspects about Nabokov), so w...
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1:40:38
89. Camillo Padoa-Schioppa: Value in the brain, orbitofrontal cortex, and causality in neuroscience
Camillo Padoa-Schioppa is a Professor of Neuroscience at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In this conversation, we talk about Camillo's work on economic values in the brain, whether it is causally involved in choice, C...
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1:52:19
88. Juliana Schroeder: Talking to strangers, undersociality, and replicable field studies
Juliana Schroder is a professor at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. In this conversation, we talk about her research in which she asks people to talk to strangers, and how this experience is usually a lot more pleasant than people expec...
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1:02:24
87. Rick Betzel: Network neuroscience, generative modeling, and collaborations
Rick Betzel is an Associate professor at India University Bloomington. We talk about his research on network neuroscience, how to find good collaborators, Rick's path to network neuroscience, and much more.Support the show:
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86. Elisabeth Bik: Reporting scientific misconduct, the arms race between fraud & fraud detection, and the microbiome of dolphins
Elisabeth Bik is a science integrity consultant. In this conversation, we talk about her work on reporting scientific errors and misconduct, how one becomes a full-time scientific integrity consultant, her postdoc work on the microbiome of dolp...
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