BJKS Podcast

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 Telegram channels in which people sell authorships on papers, how 'Special' issues can be exploited, and what we can do about this.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: How Nick got involved with publication fraud: tortured phrases0:18:26: Why do people try to publish nonsense papers?0:24:27: The ecosystem of fraudulent publishing0:30:22: 'Special' issues0:49:02: How does Nick do this detective work?1:00:37: What can we do about publication fraud?1:38:52: There are practically no jobs to work full-time on fraud detection1:49:37: A book or paper more people should read1:55:13: Something Nick wishes he'd learnt sooner1:57:21: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtNick's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/n-wise-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/n-wise-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/n-wise-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & linksEpisodes with Eugenie Reich: https://geni.us/bjks-reichEpisode with Elisabeth Bik: https://geni.us/bjks-bikEpisode with Adam Mastroianni: https://geni.us/bjks-mastroianni_2Dorothy Bishop awards 2024: https://www.ukrn.org/2024/03/28/winners-of-the-2024-dorothy-bishop-prize/Nick's guest blog post on Dorothy Bishop's blog: http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2022/10/what-is-going-on-in-hindawi-special.htmlNick's talk at Cambridge: https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4117618Everything Hertz podcast: https://everythinghertz.com/James Heathers's series of posts on Hindawi: https://jamesclaims.substack.com/p/the-hindawi-files-part-1-the-timelineCoffeezilla: https://www.youtube.com/@CoffeezillaBarnaby Jack's talk at DefCon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkteGFfvwJ0Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov (2021). Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science. Evidence of critical issues affecting established journals. arXiv.Mastroianni & Ludwin-Peery (2022). Things could be better. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2uxwkReich (2009). Plastic fantastic: How the biggest fraud in physics shook the scientific world.

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 of scientific fraud: why fraudsters rarely go to prison, what whistleblowers are legally allowed to do, how and when to seek legal advice, and much more. Obviously, none of this is legal advice, but hopefully it provides some useful pointers.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: How Eugenie went from science journalist to being a lawyer and defending whistleblowers0:13:15: Why do most people who commit scientific fraud not go to prison?0:32:36: What are whistleblowers allowed to do?0:48:24: What if I get sued for reporting scientific misconduct?0:56:32: How do fraudsters try to intimidate whistleblowers?1:01:24: What if I can't afford legal help?1:06:18: Eugenie's plans for the futurePodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtEugenie's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/reich-webTwitter: https://geni.us/reich-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksWoo-Suk Hwang affair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_affairTheranos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheranosCassava: https://www.science.org/content/article/company-misled-investors-possible-alzheimer-s-drug-sec-chargesEric Poehlman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_PoehlmanLuk van Parijs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luk_Van_ParijsThe Scientific Integrity Fund: https://scientificintegrityfund.org/Reich (2009). Plastic fantastic: How the biggest fraud in physics shook the scientific world.Reich (2011). Fraud case we might have seen coming. Nature News.

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 fraud cases in physics, the case of Jan-Hendrik Schön. We'd planned to also discuss Eugenie's current work as an attorney, but spent all our time on the Schön case. Eugenie kindly agreed to do another interview, in which we cover the legal aspects of fraud, which will be the next episode (#106).BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: One of the biggest fraud cases in physics/all of science0:05:47: How and why Eugenie started writing about the Schön case0:09:26: Why did Schön commit fraud?0:19:30: Schön's PhD: he never saved any original data0:30:05: Bell Labs vs. Schön's PhD lab: long-term revolutions vs. short-term applications0:36:42: Schön's first work at Bell Labs was 'unpublishable'0:41:42: How to get away with fraud: pretend you collected data in another lab0:47:45: Bertram Batlogg and the role of the supervisors of fraudsters0:56:20: How the bursting of the Dot-Com Bubble and 9/11 may (indirectly) have exacerbated Schön's fraud1:01:09: How to use your colleagues' ideas to commit better fraud1:05:05: How Schön's fraud unraveled1:13:45: What is Schön doing now?1:18:11: A book or paper more people should read1:20:20: Something Eugenie wishes she'd learnt sooner1:22:58: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtEugenie's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/reich-webTwitter: https://geni.us/reich-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksEpisode with Simine Vazire: https://geni.us/bjks-vazireEpisode with Elisabeth Bik: https://geni.us/bjks-bikBell Labs (2002). The Schon report: https://media-bell-labs-com.s3.amazonaws.com/pages/20170403_1709/misconduct-revew-report-lucent.pdfReich (2009). Plastic fantastic: How the biggest fraud in physics shook the scientific world.Shapin & Schaffer (1985). Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life.

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, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Mac's sporting background0:07:46: Overview of Mac's review in Nature (w/ Emily Finn and Russell Poldrack)0:14:03: The role of great editors in improving scientists and their work0:32:53: Connecting different levels of description0:40:07: Integration and specialisation0:48:49: You can scan any animal with fMRI - but they're usually anaesthetised0:54:13: The transfer from human fMRI to animal electrophysiology1:01:53: N=1 studies and layer-fMRI in clinical neuroscience1:16:17: Collaboration and building a multidisciplinary lab1:26:52: The magic formula in science: annoyance, excitement, and a constructive mindset1:34:51: Writing grants as a test to oneself, and the art of reframing1:41:52: A book or paper more people should read1:43:37: Something Mac wishes he'd learnt sooner1:45:43: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtMac's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/shine-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/shine-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/shine-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksOHMB interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucDj_94ovaUBoyden, ... & Deisseroth (2005). Millisecond-timescale, genetically targeted optical control of neural activity. Nature Neuroscience.Finn, Poldrack & Shine (2023). Functional neuroimaging as a catalyst for integrated neuroscience. Nature.Friston, ... (2017). Active inference: a process theory. Neural Computation.Munn, ... Larkum & Shine (2023). A thalamocortical substrate for integrated information via critical synchronous bursting. PNAS.Newbold, ... & Dosenbach (2020). Plasticity and spontaneous activity pulses in disused human brain circuits. Neuron.Pezzulo & Cisek (2016). Navigating the affordance landscape: feedback control as a process model of behavior and cognition. TiCS.Poldrack, ... (2015). Long-term neural and physiological phenotyping of a single human. Nature Communications.Rao & Ballard (1999). Predictive coding in the visual cortex: a functional interpretation of some extra-classical receptive-field effects. Nature Neuroscience.Shine, ... (2011). Visual misperceptions and hallucinations in Parkinson's disease: dysfunction of attentional control networks?. Movement Disorders.Shine, ... & Poldrack (2016). The dynamics of functional brain networks: integrated network states during cognitive task performance. Neuron.Shine, ... & Poldrack (2016). Temporal metastates are associated with differential patterns of time-resolved connectivity, network topology, and attention. PNAS.Shine & Poldrack (2018). Principles of dynamic network reconfiguration across diverse brain states. NeuroImage.

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 and working a farm, different types of grants and contributions in academia, and much moreBJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Brandon's path to becoming a scientist0:20:39: Start discussing Brandon's career columns in Nature0:32:17: Grant applications: small vs. big0:41:36: Postdoc-phase: is my plan crazy?0:55:32: Different types of contribution/recognition in academia1:09:22: Negotiation in academia1:22:47: Contributing to team science1:30:30: Sabbaticals1:39:19: Brandon's farm1:48:15: A book or paper more people should read1:49:33: Something Brandon wishes he'd learnt sooner1:51:43: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtBrandon's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/brown-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/brown-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/brown-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksCAMP: https://www.campstatewide.org/truEvolution: https://www.truevolution.org/Brandon's columns (most of which we discussed):https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02390-whttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03184-8https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00381-5https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.364.6447.1306https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.372.6548.1358Coelho (1988). The Alchemist.

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 approaches to neuroscience, why researchers should give their research animals a nice life, mentorship, and discuss her recent Nature paper on ultraslow oscillatory sequences in medial entorhinal cortex.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Studying physics in Argentina0:12:30: The advantages of a physics background - interdisciplinarity in neuroscience0:27:31: How Soledad ended up in Trondheim0:32:46: Rodent heaven in Norway0:36:19: Start discussing Soledad's paper on ultraslow oscillatory sequences1:03:12: So what do those ultraslow oscillatory sequences do?1:16:18: A book or paper more people should read1:22:30: Something Soledad wishes she'd learnt sooner1:30:51: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtSoledad's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/gonzalo_cogno-webTwitter: https://geni.us/gonzalo_cogno-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesEpisode about Ramon y Cajal: https://geni.us/bjks-ehrlichBrun, Solstad, Kjelstrup, Fyhn, Witter, Moser & Moser (2008). Progressive increase in grid scale from dorsal to ventral medial entorhinal cortex. Hippocampus.Constantinou, Gonzalo Cogno, Elijah, Kropff, Gigg, Samengo & Montemurro (2016). Bursting neurons in the hippocampal formation encode features of LFP rhythms. Frontiers in computational neuroscience.Dayan & Abbott (2005). Theoretical neuroscience: computational and mathematical modeling of neural systems.Gonzalo Cogno, Obenhaus, Lautrup, Jacobsen, Clopath, Andersson, ... & Moser (2024). Minute-scale oscillatory sequences in medial entorhinal cortex. Nature.Hastie, Tibshirani & Friedman (2009). The elements of statistical learning: data mining, inference, and prediction.Kropff, Carmichael, Moser & Moser (2015). Speed cells in the medial entorhinal cortex. Nature.MacKay (2003). Information theory, inference and learning algorithms.

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 hairy-nosed wombat's critically endangered status and efforts to translocate them safely, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: How Julie got into working with wombats0:03:14: What are wombats?0:11:40: How Julie started researching wombats0:15:34: Sarcoptic mange in wombats0:25:22: Saving the critically endangered Northern hairy-nosed wombat0:36:00: How to prevent wombats from becoming roadkill0:41:46: How do I know a wombat was there without seeing the wombat directly?0:44:11: What research could I do on wombats and (social) decision-making?0:47:51: How do wombats navigate in burrows?0:52:42: How the Australian wildfires in 19/20 affected wombats0:55:41: WomSAT0:59:29: The Wombat Foundation1:01:06: How to translocate a population of wombats1:08:35: A book or paper more people should read1:10:53: Something Julie wishes she'd learnt sooner1:12:11: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtJulie's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/old-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/old-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/old-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & linksThe scientific park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epping_Forest_National_ParkThe Wombat Foundation: https://www.wombatfoundation.com.au/WomSAT: https://www.womsat.org.au/womsat/French & Whatley (2002). Diary of a Wombat.Mayadunnage, Stannard, West & Old (2024). Spatial and temporal patterns of sarcoptic mange in wombats using the citizen science tool, WomSAT. Integrative Zoology.Old, Hunter & Wolfenden (2018). Who utilises bare-nosed wombat burrows?. Australian Zoologist.Old, Sengupta, Naraya, & Wolfenden (2018). Sarcoptic mange in wombats—A review and future research directions. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases.Old & Deane (2003). The detection of mature T‐and B‐cells during development of the lymphoid tissues of the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). Journal of Anatomy.Old & Deane (2000). Development of the immune system and immunological protection in marsupial pouch young. Developmental & Comparative Immunology.Park (1962). The Adventures of the Muddle-headed Wombat.Stannard, Wynan, Wynan, Dixon Mayadunnage & Old (2021). Can virtual fences reduce wombat road mortalities?. Ecological Engineering.Strahan's mammals of Australia (2023).Woodford (2002). The secret life of wombats.

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 crisis, how Tom became a journalist, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Tom's book about Bayes & Bayesian statistics relates to many of my previous episodes and much of my own research0:03:12: A brief biography of Thomas Bayes (about whom very little is known)0:11:00: The history of probability theory 0:36:23: Bayesian songs0:43:17: Bayes & the replication crisis0:57:27: How Tom got into science journalism1:08:32: A book or paper more people should read1:10:05: Something Tom wishes he'd learnt sooner1:14:36: Advice for PhD students/postdocs/people in a transition periodPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtTom's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/chivers-webTwitter: https://geni.us/chivers-twtPodcast: https://geni.us/chivers-podBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksEpisode with Stuart Ritchie: https://geni.us/bjks-ritchieScott Alexander: https://www.astralcodexten.com/Bayes (1731). Divine benevolence, or an attempt to prove that the principal end of the divine providence and government is the happiness of his creatures. Being an answer to a pamphlet entitled Divine Rectitude or an inquiry concerning the moral perfections of the deity with a refutation of the notions therein advanced concerning beauty and order, the reason of punishment and the necessity of a state of trial antecedent to perfect happiness.Bayes (1763). An essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.Bellhouse (2004). The Reverend Thomas Bayes, FRS: a biography to celebrate the tercentenary of his birth. Project Euclid.Bem (2011). Feeling the future: experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. Journal of personality and social psychology.Chivers (2024). Everything is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World.Chivers & Chivers (2021). How to read numbers: A guide to statistics in the news (and knowing when to trust them).Chivers (2019). The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future.Clarke [not Black, as Tom said] (2020). Piranesi.Goldacre (2009). Bad science.Goldacre (2014). Bad pharma: how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients.Simmons, Nelson & Simonsohn (2011). False-positive psychology: Undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant. Psychological Science.

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 coding experience, her recent reports when she discovered questionable data in key papers about honeybee dances, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Why Laura studied biology in Leiden/the Netherlands (and the importance of early scientific training)0:13:41: How Laura ended up doing a PhD at Caltech with Lior Pachter (and how to choose one project if you're interested in many things)0:22:00: gget: Developing and maintaining a software tool with no prior programming experience0:54:07: Laura's future postdoc (with Pardis Sabeti): global virus-hunter0:59:34: Finding and reporting questionable data in published papers about honeybee dances1:36:43: A book or paper more people should read1:38:55: Something Laura wishes she'd learnt sooner1:40:38: Advice for PhD students/postdocs1:44:02: Bonus: should I learn Catalan?Podcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtLaura's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/luebbert-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/luebbert-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/luebbert-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksEpisode with Jessica Polka: https://geni.us/bjks-polkaEpisode with Elisabeth Bik: https://geni.us/bjks-bikEpisode with Joe Hilgard: https://geni.us/bjks-hilgardPrototype fund Germany: https://prototypefund.de/en/PubPeer: https://pubpeer.com/Aaronovitch (2014-). Rivers of London series.Frisch (1927). Aus dem Leben der Bienen.Luebbert, Sullivan, Carilli, Hjörleifsson, Winnett, Chari & Pachter (2023). Efficient and accurate detection of viral sequences at single-cell resolution reveals putative novel viruses perturbing host gene expression. bioRxiv.Luebbert & Pachter (2023). Efficient querying of genomic reference databases with gget. Bioinformatics.Luebbert & Pachter (2024). The miscalibration of the honeybee odometer. arXiv.https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2024/07/02/the-journal-of-scientific-integrity/

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 and mental health, methods in behavioural genetics, the role of large samples, the importance of twins for behavioural genetics, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Did Beethoven have bad genetics for music - or are there problems with applying (some) genetic methods to individuals?0:11:51: Different methods in behavioural genetics0:24:20: Gene x environment interactions and the difficulty of disentangling them0:30:30: 23andMe in genetics research0:37:26: Can you ask an interesting question if you need millions of people to have done a measurement?0:42:08: How to measure musicality (at scale)0:47:56: Geneticists really love twins0:50:41: Do critical periods in music exist?1:03:30: How Laura got interested in the genetics of music1:12:07: A book or paper more people should read1:16:17: Something Laura wishes she'd learnt sooner1:17:49: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtLaura's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/wesseldijk-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/wesseldijk-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/wesseldijk-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesBegg, ... & Krause (2023). Genomic analyses of hair from Ludwig van Beethoven. Current Biology.Harden (2021). The genetic lottery: Why DNA matters for social equality.Hjelmborg, ... & Kaprio, J. (2017). Lung cancer, genetic predisposition and smoking: the Nordic Twin Study of Cancer. Thorax.Rutherford (2020). How to argue with a racist: History, science, race and reality.Rutherford (2022). Control: the dark history and troubling present of eugenics.Ullén, Mosing, Holm, Eriksson & Madison (2014). Psychometric properties and heritability of a new online test for musicality, the Swedish Musical Discrimination Test. Personality and Individual Differences.Wesseldijk, Ullén & Mosing (2019). The effects of playing music on mental health outcomes. Scientific reports.Wesseldijk, Mosing & Ullén (2021). Why is an early start of training related to musical skills in adulthood? A genetically informative study. Psychological Science.Wesseldijk, Ullén & Mosing (2023). Music and genetics. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.Wesseldijk, Abdellaoui, Gordon, Ullén & Mosing (2022). Using a polygenic score in a family design to understand genetic influences on musicality. Scientific reports.Wesseldijk, ... & Fisher (2024). Notes from Beethoven’s genome. Current Biology.

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 people, the relationship between memory and spatial navigation, why he uses multiple methods, and much more.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: How Arne ended up studying psychology and neuroscience0:06:23: Arne's route to a PhD recording single-cells in humans (via political activism in Central America)0:20:18: The state of using VR-like tasks in the early 2000s0:24:32: The status of spatial navigation research in the early 2000s0:29:45: Collecting data from unusual populations0:33:59: Why record from amygdala for a spatial navigation task?0:41:35: Combining memory and navigation in hippocampus1:02:04: Should I use one method or many?1:11:29: A book or paper more people should read1:13:51: Something Arne wishes he'd learnt sooner1:14:51: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtArne's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/ekstrom-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/ekstrom-scholarBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & linksEpisode with Lynn Nadel: https://geni.us/bjks-nadelEpisode with Nanthia Suthana: https://geni.us/bjks-suthana Episode with Nikolai Axmacher: https://geni.us/bjks-axmacherEpisode with Nachum Ulanovsky: https://geni.us/bjks-ulanovskyArgyropoulos ... & Butler (2019). Network-wide abnormalities explain memory variability in hippocampal amnesia. Elife.Ekstrom, .. & Fried (2003). Cellular networks underlying human spatial navigation. Nature.Ekstrom ... & Kahana (2005). Human hippocampal theta activity during virtual navigation. Hippocampus.Ekstrom ... & Bookheimer (2009). Correlation between BOLD fMRI and theta-band local field potentials in the human hippocampal area. J neurophys.Ekstrom ... & Starrett (2017). Interacting networks of brain regions underlie human spatial navigation: a review and novel synthesis of the literature. J neurophys.Ekstrom & Ranganath (2018). Space, time, and episodic memory: The hippocampus is all over the cognitive map. Hippocampus.Hassabis ... & Maguire (2009). Decoding neuronal ensembles in the human hippocampus. Current Biology.Iaria & Burles (2016). Developmental topographical disorientation. TiCS.Kunz ... & Axmacher (2015). Reduced grid-cell–like representations in adults at genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Science.Logothetis ... & Oeltermann (2001). Neurophysiological investigation of the basis of the fMRI signal. Nature.Watrous ... & Ekstrom (2013). Frequency-specific network connectivity increases underlie accurate spatiotemporal memory retrieval. Nat Neuro.Zhang & Ekstrom (2013). Human neural systems underlying rigid and flexible forms of allocentric spatial representation. Human brain mapping.

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 he discovered that neurons were separate from each other, leading to the neutron doctrine, how Cajal became famous seemingly overnight, Cajal's rivalry with Camillo Golgi, the relationship between art and science, how to write a biography of someone whose autobiographical writings were heavily influenced by picaresque novels, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Why Cajal is worth talking about0:01:42: Cajal's father 0:04:48: Cajal's childhood0:17:22: Cajal's early work on the brain, and the status of neuroscience in the 1880s0:23:45: The conference that made Cajal famous0:29:42: Cajal's years as a famous scientist0:35:33: Cajal's personality0:41:14: Cajal & Golgi's rivalry0:45:48: del Rio and the discovery of glia cells0:49:13: Picaresque novels and the difficulty of trusting Cajal's stories of himself1:02:52: A book or paper more people should read1:04:14: Something Ben wishes he'd learnt sooner1:04:57: Advice for PhD students/postdocs - people in a transitory periodPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtBen (Ehrlich)'s linksWebsite: http://www.benehrlich.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/benehrlich11Ben (Kuper-Smith)'s linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & linksKölliker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_von_K%C3%B6llikerGolgi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camillo_Golgidel Rio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%ADo_del_R%C3%ADo_HortegaCalvino (1972). Invisible cities.Ehrlich (2017). The Dreams of Santiago Ramón y Cajal.Ehrlich (2022). The brain in search of itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the story of the neuron.Pitlor & Lee (editors). The Best American Short Stories 2023 .

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.There are occasional (minor) audio disturbances when Emily's speaking. Sorry about that, still trying to figure out where they came from so that it won't happen again.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Supportive peer review0:03:25: Why study linguistics?0:11:05: Uncertainties about doing a PhD/taking time off0:18:05: Emily's year-and-a-half in Peru0:25:17: Emily's PhD0:29:34: Neural fingerprints0:49:25: Naturalistic stimuli in neuroimaging1:24:01: How to write good scientific articles1:30:55: A book or paper more people should read1:34:58: Something Emily wishes she'd learnt sooner1:39:20: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtEmily's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/finn-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/finn-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/finn-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksEpisode w/ Nachum Ulanovsky: https://geni.us/bjks-ulanovskyByrge & Kennedy (2019). High-accuracy individual identification using a “thin slice” of the functional connectome. Network Neuroscience.Burkeman (2021). Four thousand weeks: Time management for mortals.Finn, ... & Constable (2014). Disruption of functional networks in dyslexia: a whole-brain, data-driven analysis of connectivity. Biological psychiatry.Finn, Shen, ... & Constable (2015). Functional connectome fingerprinting: identifying individuals using patterns of brain connectivity. Nature Neuroscience.Finn, ... & Constable (2018). Trait paranoia shapes inter-subject synchrony in brain activity during an ambiguous social narrative. Nature Communications.Finn, ... & Bandettini (2020). Idiosynchrony: From shared responses to individual differences during naturalistic neuroimaging. NeuroImage.Finn & Bandettini (2021). Movie-watching outperforms rest for functional connectivity-based prediction of behavior. NeuroImage.Finn (2021). Is it time to put rest to rest?. Trends in cognitive sciences.Finn & Rosenberg (2021). Beyond fingerprinting: Choosing predictive connectomes over reliable connectomes. NeuroImage.Grall & Finn (2022). Leveraging the power of media to drive cognition: A media-informed approach to naturalistic neuroscience. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.Hasson, ... & Malach (2004). Intersubject synchronization of cortical activity during natural vision. Science.Hedge, Powell & Sumner (2018). The reliability paradox: Why robust cognitive tasks do not produce reliable individual differences. Behavior research methods.Sava-Segal, ... & Finn (2023). Individual differences in neural event segmentation of continuous experiences. Cerebral Cortex.

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 processing in the cerebral cortex, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: David's childhood: ravens, rockets, and radios0:05:00: From physics to neuroscience (via chemistry)0:13:55: Quantitative and qualitative approaches to science0:19:17: Model species in neuroscience0:31:35: Hierarchical processing in the cortex0:46:54: The Human Connectome Project0:55:00: A book or paper more people should read0:58:01: Something David wishes he'd learnt sooner1:00:31: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtDavid's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/VanEssen-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/VanEssen-scholarBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & linksDavid's autobiographical sketch for the Society for Neuroscience (in Volume 9): https://www.sfn.org/about/history-of-neuroscience/autobiographical-chaptersFelleman & Van Essen (1991). Distributed hierarchical processing in the primate cerebral cortex. Cerebral Cortex.Glasser, Coalson, Robinson, Hacker, Harwell, Yacoub, ... & Van Essen (2016). A multi-modal parcellation of human cerebral cortex. Nature.Hubel & Wiesel (1962). Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex. The Journal of physiology.Maunsell & Van Essen (1983). The connections of the middle temporal visual area (MT) and their relationship to a cortical hierarchy in the macaque monkey. Journal of Neuroscience.Sheldrake (2021). Entangled life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures.Van Essen & Kelly (1973). Morphological identification of simple, complex and hypercomplex cells in the visual cortex of the cat. In Intracellular Staining in Neurobiology (pp. 189-198).Van Essen & Maunsell (1980). Two‐dimensional maps of the cerebral cortex. Journal of Comparative Neurology.Van Essen (2012). Cortical cartography and Caret software. Neuroimage.Van Essen, Smith, Barch, Behrens, Yacoub, Ugurbil & WU-Minn HCP Consortium. (2013). The WU-Minn human connectome project: an overview. Neuroimage.Wooldridge (1963). The machinery of the brain.

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 much more.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: How Nachum started working with bats0:09:29: The technical difficulties of working with bats and in a new species0:16:03: The Egyptian Fruit Bat0:19:42: Wild bats vs lab-born bats / spatial navigation in very large spaces0:26:28: How to build a 700m long tunnel for neuroscience0:44:30: 2 random questions about bats0:53:48: The social lives of bats & social place cells1:05:09: Why are there so many types of cells for spatial navigation?1:13:01: Natural neuroscience1:17:33: A book or paper more people should read1:20:39: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtNachum's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/ulanovsky-webBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & linksBracken Cave in Texas, with millions of bats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNPioS_roREThe Onion video on scientist who wasted life studying anteaters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXD9HnrNrvkEilam-Altstadter ... (2021). Stereotaxic brain atlas of the Egyptian fruit bat.Eliav ... (2021). Multiscale representation of very large environments in the hippocampus of flying bats. Science.Finkelstein ... (2015). Three-dimensional head-direction coding in the bat brain. Nature.Geva-Sagiv ... (2015). Spatial cognition in bats and rats: from sensory acquisition to multiscale maps and navigation. Nat Rev Neuro.Geva-Sagiv ... (2016). Hippocampal global remapping for different sensory modalities in flying bats. Nat Neuro.Hafting ... (2005). Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex. Nature.Hodgkin & Huxley (1952). A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve. The J phys.Hubel & Wiesel (1962). Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex. The J phys.Lettvin... (1959). What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain. Proceedings of IRE.Miller (1956). The magical number seven, plus or minus two ... Psych Rev.O'Keefe & Dostrovsky (1971). The hippocampus as a spatial map ... Brain research.Omer ... (2018). Social place-cells in the bat hippocampus. Science.Sarel ... (2017). Vectorial representation of spatial goals in the hippocampus of bats. Science.Sarel ... (2022). Natural switches in behaviour rapidly modulate hippocampal coding. Nature.Tsoar ... (2011). Large-scale navigational map in a mammal. PNAS.Ulanovsky ... (2003). Processing of low-probability sounds by cortical neurons. Nature neuroscience.Ulanovsky & Moss (2007). Hippocampal cellular and network activity in freely moving echolocating bats. Nat Neuro.Yartsev & Ulanovsky (2013). Representation of three-dimensional space in the hippocampus of flying bats. Science.

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 more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: What is meta-science/meta-research?0:03:15: How Tom got involved in meta-science0:21:51: Post-publication critique in journals0:39:30: How Tom's work (registered reports) led to policy changes at journals0:44:08: Tom is now the STAR (statistics, transparency, and rigor) editor at Psychological Science0:48:17: How to best share data that can be used by people with different backgrounds0:54:51: A book or paper more people should read0:56:36: Something Tom wishes he'd learnt sooner1:00:13: Jobs in meta-science1:03:29: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtTom's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/hardwicke-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/hardwicke-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/hardwicke-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & linksEpisodes w/ Nosek, Vazire, & Chambers: https://geni.us/bjks-nosekhttps://geni.us/bjks-vazirehttps://geni.us/bjks-chambersFoamhenge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoamhengeMETRICS: https://metrics.stanford.edu/AIMOS: https://www.youtube.com/@aimosinc4164Chambers & Mellor (2018). Protocol transparency is vital for registered reports. Nature Human Behaviour.Hardwicke, Jameel, Jones, Walczak & Weinberg (2014). Only human: Scientists, systems, and suspect statistics. Opticon1826.Hardwicke & Ioannidis (2018). Mapping the universe of registered reports. Nature Human Behaviour.Hardwicke, Serghiou, Janiaud, Danchev, Crüwell, Goodman & Ioannidis (2020). Calibrating the scientific ecosystem through meta-research. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.Hardwicke, Thibault, Kosie, Tzavella, Bendixen, Handcock, ... & Ioannidis (2022). Post-publication critique at top-ranked journals across scientific disciplines: a cross-sectional assessment of policies and practice. Royal Society Open Science.Hardwicke & Vazire (2023). Transparency Is Now the Default at Psychological Science. Psychological Science.Kidwell, Lazarević, Baranski, Hardwicke, Piechowski, Falkenberg, ... & Nosek (2016). Badges to acknowledge open practices: A simple, low-cost, effective method for increasing transparency. PLoS biology.Nosek, Hardwicke, Moshontz, Allard, Corker, Dreber, ... & Vazire (2022). Replicability, robustness, and reproducibility in psychological science. Annual review of psychology.Ritchie (2020). Science fictions: Exposing fraud, bias, negligence and hype in science.

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 much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: The Jessica-Polka0:01:25: What is ASAPbio?0:03:53: Do we still need to convince people to use preprints in 2024? / Different uses for preprints0:17:53: Are preprints really that beneficial?0:24:05: Peer review's many functions and audiences0:36:36: Do we still need journals?0:41:27: Why should we publish peer review?0:54:08: What can we do as individual scientists (other than hope for systemic change)?0:56:55: How Jessica got involved with ASAPbio, and her day-to-day work1:08:20: A book or paper more people should read1:11:13: Something Jessica wishes she'd learnt sooner1:13:18: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtJessica's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/polka-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/polka-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/polka-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtLinks mentionedThe Jessica-Polka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=lDdnQytp2eY(there seem to be many versions)ASAPbio: https://asapbio.org/Review Commons: https://www.reviewcommons.org/Jessica's interview with Everything Hertz: https://everythinghertz.com/51The Ingelfinger rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingelfinger_ruleCrowd preprint review: https://asapbio.org/crowd-preprint-reviewPeer Community in Registered Reports: https://rr.peercommunityin.org/cOAlition S: Towards Responsible Publishing: https://www.coalition-s.org/towards-responsible-publishing/https://scite.aiPublish your reviews: https://asapbio.org/publishyourreviewsASAPbio fellows program: https://asapbio.org/fellows References Abbott (1884). Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.Cialdini (1984). Influence: The psychology of persuasion.Eckmann & Bandrowski (2023). PreprintMatch: A tool for preprint to publication detection shows global inequities in scientific publication. Plos One.Moran & Lennington (2013). The 12 Week Year: Get more Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months.Penfold & Polka (2020). Technical and social issues influencing the adoption of preprints in the life sciences. PLoS Genetics.Polka, Kiley, Konforti, Stern & Vale (2018). Publish peer reviews. Nature.

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 we discuss Nabokov's life & work, Brian's approachh to writing biographies, with some hints of the new biography Brian is writing about Karl Popper.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Why this is a special episode for me0:07:02: Nabokov's family & childhood0:15:54: The Russian Revolution, starting in 19170:19:52: Nabokov's study years in Cambridge and emigre years in Berlin in the 1920s and 30s0:30:19: Nabokov's early American years: teaching and butterflies0:35:56: Nabokov's Russian vs English works, and the problem of translations0:41:48: Lolita0:50:13: Pale Fire1:02:46: Nabokov's writing process1:07:26: Nabokov's reception1:10:00: Writing Nabokov's biography: how it started, meeting Nabokov's family, researching and writing, and the responsibility of writing the defining work on someone1:28:26: Which Nabokov book should new readers read first?1:30:58: A book or paper more people should read1:35:03: Something Brian wishes he'd learnt sooner1:38:47: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtBrian's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/boyd-webBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksThe estate Nabokov inherent and immediately lost in th revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozhdestveno_Memorial_EstateAda online, Brian's line-by-line annotations to Nabokov's Ada: https://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/ Boyd (1985/2001). Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness. Boyd (1990). Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years. Boyd (1991). Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years.Boyd & Pyle (eds) (2000).  Nabokov’s Butterflies .Boyd (2001). Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery.Grass (1959). Die Blechtrommel.James (1897). What Maisie Knew. Machado de Assis (1882). The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. [The 2 new translations are by Thomson-DeVeaux (Penguin Classics), and by Jull Costa & Patterson (Liveright)]Nabokov (1929). The (Luzhin) Defense. Nabokov (1936). Invitation to a Beheading. Nabokov (1947). Bend Sinister. Nabokov (1955). Lolita. Nabokov (1957). Pnin. Nabokov (1962). Pale Fire. Nabokov (1967). Speak, Memory. Nabokov (1969). Ada or Ardor.Tarnowsky (1908). Les femmes homicides. [Nabokov's great-aunt; see also:  Huff-Corzine & Toohy (2023). The life and scholarship of Pauline Tarnowsky: Criminology's mother. Journal of Criminal Justice]Vila, Bell, Macniven, Goldman-Huertas, Ree, Marshall, ... & Pierce (2011). Phylogeny and palaeoecology of Polyommatus blue butterflies show Beringia was a climate-regulated gateway to the New World. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

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, Camillo's career, working with different species, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: The historic background of economic value0:12:31: How Camillo became a neuroeconomist0:38:50: What does neuroscience add to our understanding of behaviour?0:47:52: Value in the brain / discussing Camillo's 2006 Nature paper1:05:47: Does the brain even need to compute value?1:11:59: Causality in neuroscience / discussing Camillo's 2020 Nature paper1:27:19: Trivial decisions1:31:26: Is it wise to do neuroscience in humans and in animals, or should I focus on one approach?1:40:15: A book or paper more people should read1:43:19: Something Camillo wishes he'd learnt sooner1:45:53: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtCamillo's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/padoa-schioppa-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/padoa-schioppa-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/padoa-schioppa-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesBallesta ... & Padoa-Schioppa (2020). Values encoded in orbitofrontal cortex are causally related to economic choices. Nature.Bentham (1780). An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation.Gigerenzer & Gaissmaier (2011). Heuristic decision making. Annual review of psychology.Hayden & Niv (2021). The case against economic values in the orbitofrontal cortex (or anywhere else in the brain). Behavioral Neuroscience.Homer. Iliad.Homer. Odyssey.Padoa-Schioppa (2009). Range-adapting representation of economic value in the orbitofrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience.Padoa-Schioppa (2011). Neurobiology of economic choice: a good-based model. Annual review of neuroscience.Padoa-Schioppa & Assad (2006). Neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex encode economic value. Nature.Padoa-Schioppa & Conen (2017). Orbitofrontal cortex: a neural circuit for economic decisions. Neuron.Padoa-Schioppa ... & Visalberghi (2006). Multi-stage mental process for economic choice in capuchins. Cognition.Padoa-Schioppa, Li & Bizzi (2002). Neuronal correlates of kinematics-to-dynamics transformation in the supplementary motor area. Neuron.Smith (1759). The theory of moral sentiments.Salzman ... & Newsome (1990). Cortical microstimulation influences perceptual judgements of motion direction. Nature.Salzman ... & Newsome (1992). Microstimulation in visual area MT: effects on direction discrimination performance. Journal of Neuroscience.Visalberghi & Trinca (1989). Tool use in capuchin monkeys: Distinguishing between performing and understanding. Primates. Episode w/ Smaldino: https://geni.us/bjks-smaldino_2

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 expect. We talk about how the research came to be, what they found, how culture and norms affect the results, how to create robust and replicable field studies, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps00:00: The origin of Juliana's studies on talking to strangers02:15: Why don't people talk to strangers (during commutes)?05:46: What happens when strangers are forced to talk to each other?08:47: How to start a conversation13:31: Cultural differences in talking to strangers31:19: How to create robust and replicable field studies48:04: What's next for this line of research?54:14: A book or paper more people should read55:26: Something Juliana wishes she'd learnt sooner57:13: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtJuliana's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/schroeder-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/schroeder-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/schroeder-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesBoothby, Cooney, Sandstrom & Clark (2018). The liking gap in conversations: Do people like us more than we think? Psychological Science.Epley (2015). Mindwise: Why we misunderstand what others think, believe, feel, and want.Epley, Kardas, Zhao, Atir & Schroeder (2022). Undersociality: Miscalibrated social cognition can inhibit social connection. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.Epley & Schroeder (2014). Mistakenly seeking solitude. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.Kardas, Schroeder & O'Brien (2022). Keep talking: (Mis) understanding the hedonic trajectory of conversation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.Roy (1997). The god of small things.Sandstrom, Boothby & Cooney (2022). Talking to strangers: A week-long intervention reduces psychological barriers to social connection. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Sandstrom & Boothby (2021). Why do people avoid talking to strangers? A mini meta-analysis of predicted fears and actual experiences talking to a stranger. Self and Identity.Schroeder, Lyons & Epley (2022). Hello, stranger? Pleasant conversations are preceded by concerns about starting one. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.