195: Living meta-analysis everythinghertz.com/195 We discuss how living meta‑analyses can cut research waste and keep evidence current. We also chat about how using synthetic research participants is a terrible idea and what researchers *really* mean when they call a study "recent".

Just wanted to say my password manager deals with the peer review systems I need to use quite well. Also, we took away free text response to invitation to review because James kept asking for money.

194: Author verification everythinghertz.com/194 We discuss whether preprint servers and journals should introduce author identity verification for submitting manuscripts. This would probably speed up the submission process, is this worth the potential downsides?

We did this eight (!?) years ago everythinghertz.com/44

44: Who’s afraid of the New Bad People? (with Nick Brown)

James and Dan are joined by Nick Brown (University of Groningen) to discuss how the New Bad People—also known as shameless little bullies, vigilantes, the self-appointed data police, angry nothings, s...

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A suggestion for Freakonomics and Sean Carroll: Interview Nick Brown statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/08/26/a...

Nope we're not kiwis, we're Aussies and OPTIMISTIC

Washington Irving@irvingwashington22.bsky.social · 12mo ago

When I first started listening to your podcast, I imagined you were the guys from flight of the conchords (because I’m childish and uncultured). And then I saw your photos and now I’m just despondent.

193: The pop-up journal everythinghertz.com/193 We chat about a a new 'pop-up journal' concept for addressing specific research questions. We also answer a listener question from a journal grammar editor and discuss a recent PNAS paper on paper mills

192: Outsourcing in academia everythinghertz.com/192 We answer listener questions on outsourcing in academia and differences in research culture between academic and commercial institutions

This episode auto-played after an @ologies.bsky.social episode and now I’m very excited about @jamesheathers.bsky.social’s new Medical Evidence Project! Too bad metascience doesn’t have an -ology name.

Everything Hertz podcast@everythinghertz.com · last yr.

191: Cleaning up contaminated medical treatment guidelines everythinghertz.com/191 @dsquintana.bsky.social and @jamesheathers.bsky.social discuss James' new 'Medical Evidence Project', whose goal is to find questionable medical evidence that is contaminating treatment guidelines

Dug back through the archives and found our first pandemic episode, which we released on March 16th 2020 everythinghertz.com/104

104: Now we'll discover which meetings could've been emails

Dan and James discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and how it's impacting academia

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Dr Vanessa@hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 3y ago

I have a morbid fascination with listening to podcasts as they transition through March 2020 and into the pandemic just to hear the live, no hindsight, experience of those months. It's fascinating and may also be the only reliable record we have.

Here is an interesting project, which - if it finds its way to the right people - has the potential to legitimately help improve public health. The approach to broadcasting the outcomes sounds a bit scary, but ultimately I think it's probably right 1/ #ScientificPublishing #ResearchIntegrity

Everything Hertz podcast@everythinghertz.com · last yr.

191: Cleaning up contaminated medical treatment guidelines everythinghertz.com/191 @dsquintana.bsky.social and @jamesheathers.bsky.social discuss James' new 'Medical Evidence Project', whose goal is to find questionable medical evidence that is contaminating treatment guidelines

191: Cleaning up contaminated medical treatment guidelines everythinghertz.com/191 In which we discuss whether scientists critiquing science reduces public trust in science

191: Cleaning up contaminated medical treatment guidelines everythinghertz.com/191 @dsquintana.bsky.social and @jamesheathers.bsky.social discuss James' new 'Medical Evidence Project', whose goal is to find questionable medical evidence that is contaminating treatment guidelines

Studies about paying peer reviewers!

Everything Hertz podcast@everythinghertz.com · last yr.

190: What happens when you pay reviewers? everythinghertz.com/190 We chat about two new studies that evaluated the impact of paying reviewers on peer review speed and quality. One of these studies had such massive effects on peer-review speed we had to double-take the figure.

190: What happens when you pay reviewers? everythinghertz.com/190 We chat about two new studies that evaluated the impact of paying reviewers on peer review speed and quality. One of these studies had such massive effects on peer-review speed we had to double-take the figure.

Great to catch up with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social during his visit to Oslo! I haven’t managed to meet many @everythinghertz.com guests in person but it’s always nice when this can happen

189: Crit me baby, one more time everythinghertz.com/189 We discuss a recent piece that proposes a *post-publication* peer review process, which is triggered by citation counts. We also cover how an altmetric trigger could be used for a more immediate post-publication critique

We just updated our handle to @everythinghertz.com. Thanks to @ikashnitsky.phd for the suggestion!

Strong start to 2025 from Everything Hertz #ScientificPublishing though did feel attacked towards the end there (is difficult if you're catty and occasionally mean)

Dan Quintana@dsquintana.bsky.social · 2y ago

We just released a new @hertzpodcast.bsky.social episode, in which we discuss a recent editorial on double-blind peer reviews. The editorial also covers the benefits of open peer review reports, which some people are against for what I think are unconvincing reasons everythinghertz.com/188

Our patrons get access to our bonus episodes (74 to date!), in which we share the bits that don't make our main episodes. In our latest bonus ep, we talk about how we edit episodes and the time James went to a hair salon because his hair was too long for a barber www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

We just released a new @hertzpodcast.bsky.social episode, in which we discuss a recent editorial on double-blind peer reviews. The editorial also covers the benefits of open peer review reports, which some people are against for what I think are unconvincing reasons everythinghertz.com/188

Make 👏 research 👏 data 👏 machine👏 readable everythinghertz.com/188

188: Double-blind peer review vs. scientific integrity everythinghertz.com/188 Here we discuss a recent editorial which argues that double-blind peer review is detrimental to scientific integrity and proposes some suggestions for improving peer review. Here's how the article begins ⬇️

This @hertzpodcast.bsky.social podcast is a great listen for those considering leaving academia. Recognizing the skills you've built up is key everythinghertz.com/112

112: Leaving academia

Dan and James chat about James' new industry job, why he quit academia, the biggest differences between academia and industry, and why it's crucial for early career researchers to have a plan B.

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Open University Press have kindly allowed me to share this chapter as a preprint: it outlines a recent history of the replication crisis & intertwined explanations. 🌎📖 osf.io/preprints/ps... ✨🚨 Interested in the full book? Code OPENUP20 gives 20% off the RRP: www.mheducation.co.uk/a-student-s-...

Everything Hertz podcast@everythinghertz.com · 2y ago

In our latest episode we put out the call for good write-ups on the history of the replication crisis. @drcpennington.bsky.social has delivered as this is covered in her book "A Student's Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis to Reform Psychology" www.mheducation.co.uk/a-student-s-...

How would you respond if an undergrad psychology student asked you, "How can I know if a paper is a *good* paper?" everythinghertz.com/186

In our latest episode we put out the call for good write-ups on the history of the replication crisis. @drcpennington.bsky.social has delivered as this is covered in her book "A Student's Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis to Reform Psychology" www.mheducation.co.uk/a-student-s-...

Hello new followers! Have a listen to our episode with @cfchabris.bsky.social and @profsimons.bsky.social, in which we chat about the fate of the gorilla costume, among other stuff like the science of cons everythinghertz.com/171

171: The easiest person to fool is yourself (with Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris)

We chat with Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris about the science of cons and how we can we can avoid being taken in. We also cover the fate of the gorilla suit from the 'invisible gorilla' study, ...

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Christopher Chabris@cfchabris.bsky.social · 2y ago

Pleased to see that the Yale Peabody Museum has included the invisible gorilla (by @profsimons.bsky.social and me) in their new exhibit on perception, attention, and memory! Other museums that have exhibited our work: American Museum of Natural History, Exploratorium, Wellcome Collection, & MONA.