BJKS Podcast

119. This (audio only) podcast is dead - long live the podcast? With Dan Quintana

This is a special episode: this podcast will change after this episode, from remote audio-only interviews to exclusively in-person video interviews. Dan Quintana, profess

118. Lauren Ross: Causation, mechanism, and explanation in neuroscience

Lauren Ross is a professor of logic and philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. We talk about her work on causation, mechanism, and explanation in neuroscienc

117. Kai Ruggeri: Global collaborations, Prospect Theory, and temporal discounting

Kai Ruggeri is professor for health policy and management at Columbia University. We talk about his global collaborations, in which they studied various important decisio

116. Elsa Fouragnan: Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation, brain surgery, and French Polynesia

Elsa Fouragnan is an Associate Professor and UKRI Future Leader Fellow at the University of Plymouth. We talk mainly about her work on focussed transcranial ultrasound st

115. Melinda Baldwin: A triple history of Nature, scientific journals, and peer review

Melinda Baldwin is an associate professor of history at the University of Maryland. We talk about her work studying the history of Nature, scientific journals more broadl

114: Steve Fleming: Lab culture, learning as a PI, and the allure of cognitive neuroscience

Steve Fleming is a professor in psychology at University College London. I invited Steve to talk about his work on meta-cognition, but we ended up spending the entire epi

113. Damian Blasi: Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science, linguistic diversity, and how to study a language you don't speak

Damian Blasi is a professor at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. We talk about his article 'Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science', linguis

112. Gordon Pennycook: From Carrot River to Cornell, misinformation, and reducing conspiracy beliefs

Gordon Pennycook is an Associate Professor at Cornell University. We talk about his upbringing in rural Northern Canada, how he got into academia, and his work on misinfo

111. Renzo Huber: Layer-fMRI, high-resolution fMRI, and the delicate balance between gourmet chef and janitor

Renzo Huber is a staff scientist at NIH. We talk about his work on layer-fMRI: what it  is, how Renzo got into it, how to do it, when it makes sense to do it, what the fu

110. Ella Marushchenko: Scientific illustrations, digital vs. classic art, and how to improve scientific figures

Ella Marushchenko is a scientific illustrator who runs a studio of artists and scientists that creates cover art, scientific and illustrations, and more. We talk about he

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, a

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 hi

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

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

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 journal

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, collabora

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

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 wor

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, conservatio

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 h