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We answer a series of questions from a listener on whether to start a PhD, what to ask potential supervisors, the financial perils of being a PhD student, the future of higher education, the importance of skills, what keeps us going, and more. Here are the specific questions that we answered in this episode (the background to these questions is shared in the episode): Would you have any advice on how I can even decide whether to commence a PhD? Are there any questions in particular that you think are important to ask prospective supervisors? How do people make PhDs work financially? You are supposed to treat the degree like a regular 40 hour/ week job (and students commonly fail to do so). However, what full-time job pays ~$540 per week and expects this?! You are not supposed to work > 8 hours/ week outside of this?! I thought I could at least work 2-3 full days a week if I needed to. Why do people generally leave academia, or not continue, after their PhD, despite obvious potential? In what form do you

We discuss the results from the cancer biology reproducibility project, the inevitable comparisons with reproducibility in psychology, and authorship expectations for posting public datasets. Links * The paper (https://elifesciences.org/articles/71601) investigating the replicability of preclinical cancer biology * The paper (https://academic.oup.com/ej/article-abstract/131/635/1250/5824166) on the impact of alphabetical order on career outcomes in economics (whose authorship order are determinedby alphabetical order * That human sports science paper (https://pubpeer.com/publications/28EA24F1ABCFF6CD121B167A9A68BB) that inlcluded a cranionotomy Everything Hertz on social media - 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/) Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/hertzpodcast) and get

If your child asked you whether they should pursue a career in academia, what would you say? We discuss this question plus three more quick-fire topics: the death of expertise, memorable presentations, and including internships in more graduate programs Links * Get a 30% discount on a Scite subscription for a year, just use the coupon code EVERYTHINGHERTZ via this link (https://scite.ai/?via=everythinghertz) * The “Remind me of this later” twitter bot (https://twitter.com/remindme_ofthis) * The Chase, Chance, and Creativity book (https://www.amazon.com/Chase-Chance-Creativity-Lucky-Novelty/dp/0262511355) Everything Hertz on social media - 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/) Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/hertzpodcast) and get bonus stuff! $1 per month: A 20% discount

Dan and James discuss the differences between 'talk' and 'action' in scientific reform and why reforms are taking such a long time to be realised. They also chat about whether messy (but correct) code is worse than no code at all, and revisit the grad student who never said "no" (https://web.archive.org/web/20170312041524/http:/www.brianwansink.com/phd-advice/the-grad-student-who-never-said-no). Other links * Get a 30% discount on a Scite subscription for a year, just use the coupon code EVERYTHINGHERTZ via this link (https://scite.ai/?via=everythinghertz) * James' blog post on why he loves preprints (https://jamesheathers.medium.com/why-i-love-pre-prints-9d727eeb22b8) * The grad student who never said "no" (archived) blog post (https://web.archive.org/web/20170312041524/http:/www.brianwansink.com/phd-advice/the-grad-student-who-never-said-no) Everything Hertz on social media - Dan on twitter (https://www.twitter.com/dsquintana) - James on twitter (https://www.twitter.com/jamesheathers) - Everything Hertz on

In this live episode, Dan and James discuss red flags in academia, in terms of research fields, papers, and individuals. Thanks to everyone that participated in this live event! Links to stuff that was mentioned Get a 30% discount on a Scite subscription for a year, just use the coupon code EVERYTHINGHERTZ via this link (https://scite.ai/?via=everythinghertz) The p-hacker app (https://shinyapps.org/apps/p-hacker/) Burro racing on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pack_burro_racing) Everything Hertz on social media - 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/) Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/hertzpodcast) and get bonus stuff! $1 per month: A 20% discount on Everything Hertz merchandise, a monthly newsletter, access to the occasional bonus episode, and the the warm feeling

We chat with Sakshi Ghai (University of Cambridge) about why we should diversify sample diversity and retire the Western, educated, rich, industrialized and democratic (WEIRD) dichotomy in the behavioral sciences Links to stuff we discuss: Sakshi's piece (https://rdcu.be/cyKEQ) in Nature Human Behavior Many Labs 2 paper (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2515245918810225) The ‘helicopter' research piece (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01795-1) Joseph Heinrich’s recent book, The WEIRDest People in the World (https://www.amazon.com/WEIRDest-People-World-Psychologically-Particularly-ebook/dp/B07RZFCPMD) Everything Hertz on social media - 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/) Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/hertzpodcast) and get bonus stuff! $1 per m

James proposes that peer review reports should be published as their own citable objects, provided that the manuscript author thinks that the peer review report is of sufficient quality and the peer reviewers agree Other links and things we discuss * An update on James’ start up job * The American service industry * Dan’s first outing since the pandemic started * The villlage of Hell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Norway), in Norway * The villiage of Fucking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria) (now changed to Fugging) in Austria * The Hertz long term archive (https://osf.io/zj7y3/) on Open Science Framework * We’re up for doing a syllabus episodes that you can assign to your classes * Dan’s recent piece (https://rdcu.be/cx3H0) in Nature Human Behavior on replication projects for undergraduate research theses * What about a replication study as part of a PhD thesis? * The trope of, “future replications are needed’ * Collaborative Replications and Education Project (CREP (https://osf.

We chat with Ashley Farley about her background as an academic librarian, the underrecognised importance of copyright in academic publishing, and her work as a Program Officer at the Gates Foundation An academic librarian’s perpsective on the importance of open reseasch The importance of copyright in research and what it means signing over your copyright The PDF crisis! What does a program officer at a grant funding organsiation do? Why should funding organisations care about open science? Why open access is more than just about acacemic papers, but extends to posters and presentations Why can't academics collectively decide to push back against the big publishers? The difference between private funders vs. goverment funding agencies Other links Everything Hertz on social media - 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.faceb

We chat with Michele Avissar-Whiting about her role as the Editor-in-chief of the Research Square preprint platform and how she weighs up the benefits and costs of potentially problematic preprints during a pandemic. Notes, links, and stuff we cover: * The Journal Ghoul (https://twitter.com/jamesheathers/status/1425421173366693891?s=20) reference in the intro * Michele’s role as a the editor for a preprint server * How Research Square (https://researchsquare.com) works * Weighing up the urgency of preprints vs. potential danger * The preprint-to- hype pipeline * The Scholarly Kitchen piece (https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/02/24/open-access-conspiracy-theories-and-the-democratization-of-knowledge/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScholarlyKitchen+%28The+Scholarly+Kitchen%29) on knowledge democratization * Badges for preprints * The recent withdrawal of a preprint Other links Everything Hertz on social media - Dan on twitter (https://www.twitter.com/dsquintana) - James on tw

Dan and James share their thoughts on a recent paper (https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009124) that proposes ten rules for improving academic work-life balance for early career researchers and the figure from this paper that became a meme. Here are the rules: Long hours do not equal productive hours Examine your options for flexible work practices Set boundaries to establish your workplace and time Commit to strategies that increase your efficiency and productivity Have a long-term strategy to help with prioritization, and review it regularly Make your health a priority Regularly interact with family and friends Make time for volunteer work or similar commitments that are important and meaningful to you Seek out or help create peer and institutional support systems Open a dialogue about the importance of work–life balance and advocate for systemic change Dan mentioned an app he sometimes uses to track his time, called Timery (https://timeryapp.com/). Other links Everythi

We discuss Journal Reviewer (journalreviewer.org), which is a website that provides a forum for researchers to share and rate their experiences with journal's peer review processes. We also cover how some journals negotiate the way in which their impact factors are calculated. Links The reference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Whittington) to James' mention of Dick Whittington James’ RIOT science talk (https://youtu.be/t733sc9xhtw) Nichola's Raihani's tweet (https://twitter.com/nicholaraihani/status/1415308025179656194?s=20) https://journalreviewer.org/ The South Park Yelp episode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_Not_Yelping) Other links Everything Hertz on social media - 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/) Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/hertzpodcast) a

Dan Quintana and James Heathers chat about well-known psychology studies that we've now lost confidence in due to replication failures and the role of auxiliary assumptions in hypothesis-driven research. Other links The reversals in psychology website (https://www.gleech.org/psych) Anne Scheel and team's paper (https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1745691620966795) on whether you’re ready to test hypotheses Homer Simpson burning bridges meme (https://youtu.be/PnnXc3T_pK8) The paper (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2016.02.003) that suggests replications will make psychology too boring and nobody will want to study it Daniel Lakens’ blog post (http://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2017/07/impossibly-hungry-judges.html) on the hungry judges study Everything Hertz on social media - 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/everyth

We discuss a recent retraction triggered by the authors not paying a copyright fee to use a questionnaire (that also happened to be critical of the original questionnaire). Links for stuff that we mention: The paper (https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13229-021-00427-9) that was retracted for not getting the correct licence for a questionnaire The retraction notice (https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13229-021-00446-6) for this paper The Spectrum piece (https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/copyright-claim-prompts-retraction-of-study-on-alexithymia-in-autism/) that discusses this story Why most online recipes begin with some ridiculous story (https://copyrightalliance.org/are-recipes-cookbooks-protected-by-copyright/#:~:text=Recipes%20can%20be%20protected%20under,anecdotes%20alongside%20a%20recipe's%20ingredients) Libkey (https://libkey.io/), which provides one-click access to papers via your institutional library subscription Everything Hertz on social media -

Some journals use nominal manuscript submission fees to discourage frivolous submissions. However, it has been suggested that increasing submission fees could reduce article processing charges. Dan and James discuss this proposal, along with the recently released code of conduct for scientific integrity from the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. James’ Atlantic piece (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/microchipped-vaccines-15-minute-investigation/619081/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=2021-06-03T12%3A00%3A56&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_campaign=the-atlantic) Submission fees for mansucripts The scholarly kitchen blog post (https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/09/20/plan-t-scrap-apcs-and-fund-open-access-with-submission-fees/) We have a new partner: Paperpile! (http://paperpile.com/) Our PeerJ episode (https://everythinghertz.com/48) with Jason Hoyt The code of conduct (https://zenodo.org/record/4707560#.YLzReTaA4-Q) for scientific integrity from the Swiss Academies

Dan and James discuss how academia should operate in a post-pandemic world. What pandemic practices should we keep and what should we abandon? Links and details: Quiz: Norwegian metal band or Norwegian town? Things are slowly getting back to normal in some (but not alI) countries. So what academic practices and routines should we keep from the pandemic and what should we kiss goodbye? Would it be possible to be physically located at your local university but to be employed/educated at another university? Video abstracts are now an option is some journals, here's an example (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.13015) Presentations might be more convenient online, but it's hard to replicate a good poster session What is the actual point of academic conferences? The neuromatch academy https://academy.neuromatch.io/ The neuromatch academy paper (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661321000954?dgcid=author) in Trends in Cognitive Sciences Other links - Dan on twitter (www.twitte

Dan and James answer listener audio questions on indirect costs for research grants, the mind/body problem, and why many academics aren't trained to teach. They also profess their love for the overhead projector Some more details: * Should we require universities to justify overhead costs, like heating and electricity? * Overheads can inflate the costs of grants, some grants provide an additional percentage for overheads but others don’t allow this, which can eat into grants * Get to know the people in your local grant office! * Indirect costs at MIT (https://ras.mit.edu/facilities-and-administrative-fa-rates) * A primer (https://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/295/zuber.html) on indirect costs and why they are important to MIT * Does it matter that we address the mind body problem in psychology? * On the teaching of the history and philosophy of science (or lack thereof) in psychology courses * Why aren’t academics better equipped to teach? * The 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel (http://www.3blue1brown.com/) Other lin

Dan and James chat with Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford) about the importance of normalizing the retraction of scientific papers, publication ethics, and whether paper mills (companies that make fake papers at scale) are an issue in the psychological sciences Here are some links and stuff we covered: Dorothy's thoughts on how the adoption of open science practices has been progressing since we last had her on the show in June 2018 The European Research Council's new open access journal, which is free to publish in if you're ERC funded Dan's proposal of something similar in a 2019 The Chronicle piece (https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-bring-prestige-to-open-access-and-make-science-more-reliable) (free to read with email signup) Dorothy's recent blogpost (http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2021/03/time-for-publishers-to-consider-rights.html) on publication ethics The Society for Microbiology piece (https://asm.org/Articles/2021/March/Publication-Ethics-Barriers-in-Resolving-Figure-C) behind the blogpost

Dan and James discuss the recently proposed "transparency audit", why it received so much blowback, and the characteristics of successful reform schemes The specifics... The computational research integrity conference (https://cri-conf.org/) The transparancy leaderboard (https://etiennelebel.com/cs/t-leaderboard/t-leaderboard.html) proposed by Curate Science (https://curatescience.org/app/home) Our episode with Chris Jackson (https://everythinghertz.com/111), that James mentioned What about a transparency leaderboard for instiutions? What are the characteristics of grassroots reform schemes that worked? 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/) Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/hertzpodcast) and get bonus stuff! $1 a month: 20%

Dan and James chat about how they come up with new ideas, why everyone seems to be trying to monetise their hobbies, and why it's so hard for most labs to have a singular focus of research. We had some problems with James' mic so the quality of his audio wasn't up our usual standard. To make up for this we've added one of our older bonus episodes at the end of this conventional episode (this begins at 54:18). These bonus episodes are typically only made available for our Professor Fancypants Patreon patrons, but now you'll get to hear one! Other notes and links: The half-serious "Highlander" bounty program from Noah Haber (https://twitter.com/NoahHaber/status/1370045749287923715?s=20) The metapsy journal (https://open.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/about) How do we come up with new ideas? What James watches and listens to in his spare time The urge to monetise your hobby The "Let's do nothing (https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Do-Nothing-Tony-Fucile/dp/0763652695)" kids book "How to Do Nothing (https://www.amazon

We discuss when is the right time in your academic career to begin speaking up to critique your research field or whether the risk of retaliation means you should shut up and keep your head down. This was a recorded Clubhouse chat, which includes some audience interaction at the end. Links and details: Moin Syed's blogpost (http://getsyeducated.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-time-for-criticism-is-now.html), which was the inspiration for this topic The 'proper' letter to the editor critique vs. a social media critique What about retaliation for speaking out? Differences between industry and academia Thank you to Yan, Louis, Evan for their contribitions to our chat! 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/) Support us on Patreon (https://www.patre