BJKS Podcast
103 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago -A podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related. Long-form interviews with people whose work I find interesting.
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95. Emily Finn: Neural fingerprinting, 'naturalistic' stimuli, and taking time before starting a PhD
March 02, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBEmily 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 re...
94. David Van Essen: The Human Connectome Project, hierarchical processing, and the joys of collaboration
February 18, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBDavid 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-patreon Timestamps 0:00:00: David's ...
93. Nachum Ulanovsky: Bats, spatial navigation, and natural neuroscience
February 09, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBNachum 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-patreon Timestamps 0:00:00: How Nachum started working with bats 0:09:29: The technical difficulties of working with bats and in a new species 0:16:03: The Egyptian Fruit Bat 0:19:42: Wild bats vs la...
92. Tom Hardwicke: Meta-research, reproducibility, and post-publication critique
February 02, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBTom 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-patreon Timestamps 0:00:00: What is meta-science/meta-research? 0:03:15: How Tom g...
91. Jessica Polka: Preprints, publishing peer reviews, and the joys of pipetting
January 26, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 52.4 MBJessica 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-patreon Timestamps 0:00:00: The Jessica-Polka 0:01:25: What is ASAPbio? 0:03:53...
90. Brian Boyd: The life & works of Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, and writing biographies
January 19, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 69.1 MBBrian 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 Benja...
89. Camillo Padoa-Schioppa: Value in the brain, orbitofrontal cortex, and causality in neuroscience
January 13, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 77.1 MBCamillo 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-patreon Timestamps 0...
88. Juliana Schroeder: Talking to strangers, undersociality, and replicable field studies
January 05, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBJuliana 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 r...
87. Rick Betzel: Network neuroscience, generative modeling, and collaborations
January 01, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBRick 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: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon Timestamps 0:00:00: What's the purpose of connectomics if understanding a species' entire connectome (as in C elegans) doesn't allow us to fully understand its behaviour? 0:03:57: Rick's very very linear path to network neuroscience 0:19:41...
86. Elisabeth Bik: Reporting scientific misconduct, the arms race between fraud & fraud detection, and the microbiome of dolphins
December 22, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBElisabeth 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 dolphins, reactions to her work (both positive and negative), how to deal with online abuse, the arms race between fraudsters and fraud detectors, and much more. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hoste...
85. Peter Bandettini: The history, present, and future of fMRI
December 15, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBPeter Bandettini is director of the fMRI core facility at the National Institute of Mental Health. In this episode, we talk about the history, present, and future of fMRI, alongside Peter's career. Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon Timestamps 0:00:00: How Peter got started working on fMRI in the early 1990s 0:05:48: What was possible in neuroimaging in the late 80s 0:18:44: Major advances in fMRI in the 1990s 0:26:39: History of structural MRI 0:29:02: Major advances in fMRI s...
84. Brian Nosek: Improving science, the past & future of the Center for Open Science, and failure in science
December 08, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 42.7 MBBrian Nosek is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, and Co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Open Science. In this conversation, we discuss the Center for Open Science, Brian's early interest in improving science, how COS got started, what Brian would like to do in the future, and how to figure out whether ideas are working. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. Suppor...
83. Rachel Bedder: Rumination, teaching without grades, and managing yourself as a PhD student
December 03, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 66 MBRachel Bedder is a postdoc with Yael Niv at Princeton. In this conversation, we talk about her research on rumination and repetitive negative thinking (in the context of a partially observable Markov decision process), her work as a curator, why she enjoys teaching without grades, how to manage yourself as a PhD student, 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...
82. Geoff Cumming: p-values, estimation, and meta-analytic thinking
November 24, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBGeoff Cumming is an Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University. In this conversation, we discuss his work on New Statistics: estimation instead of hypothesis testing, meta-analytic thinking, and many related topics. Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon Timestamps 0:00:00: A brief history of statistics, p-values, and confidence intervals 0:32:02: Meta-analytic thinking 0:42:56: Why do p-values seem so random? 0:45:59: Are p-values and estimation complementary? 0:47:09: How do I kno...
81. Brooke Macnamara: Growth mindset, deliberate practice, and the benefits of diverse experiences
November 17, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBBrooke Macnamara is an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University. In this conversation, we talk about her research on growth mindset and deliberate practice, whether deliberate practice is falsifiable, the benefits of diverse experiences, 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-patreon Timestamps 0:00:00: How Brooke started working on min...
80. Simine Vazire: scientific editing, the purpose of journals, and the future of psychological science
November 10, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBSimine Vazire is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne. In this conversation, we talk about her work on meta-science, the purpose of journals and peer review, Simine's plans for being Editor-in-Chief at Psychological Science, the hidden curriculum of scienitic publishing, 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-patreon Timestamps 0:...
80. Simine Vazire: Scientific editing, the purpose of journals, and the future of psychological science
November 10, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBSimine Vazire is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne. In this conversation, we talk about her work on meta-science, the purpose of journals and peer review, Simine's plans for being Editor-in-Chief at Psychological Science, the hidden curriculum of scienitic publishing, 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-patreon Timestamps 0:...
79. Nanthia Suthana: Invasive brain recordings in humans, learning as a PI, and the joys of mentorship
November 03, 2023 07:00 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MBNanthia Suthana is an Associate Professor at UCLA. In this conversation, we talk about her research using invasive brain recordings from humans, how the technologies have changed and what might happen in the future. We also talk about how she runs her lab, how to learn as a PI, and what Nanthia enjoys about mentoring students and postdocs. We had some minor audio issues, so Nanthia switched her recording setup twice during the conversation. Sound should still be good though. Support the sh...
78. Gillian Coughlan: Dementia, spatial navigation, and menopause
October 27, 2023 06:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBGillian Coughlan is a postdoc whose work focuses on the role of spatial navigation in dementia. In this conversation, we talk about how Gillian went from Ireland to doing a PhD in the UK, different ways for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease, what beta-amyloid and tau are, what spatial navigation has to do with dementia, and whether early menopause can affect women's spatial navigation performance and risk of getting dementia. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anythi...
77. Lynn Nadel: Collaboration, Hippocampal History, and clinical applications of hippocampal development
October 20, 2023 06:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBLynn Nadel is an emeritus professor at the University of Arizona, where his research focuses on the role of the hippocampus in memory. This is our second conversation. We discuss how the Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map was received, Lynn's career, including his years as head of department at the University of Arizona, how to foster collaboration, why Lynn started the Hippocampal History project, and the development and clinical aspects of the hippocampus. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neur...
76. Adam Mastroianni: Paradigms in psychology, science as a strong-link problem, and The Psychology House
October 13, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBAdam Mastroianni is a scientist who writes the Substack 'Experimental History'. This is our second conversation. We discuss science as a strong-link problem, why everyone is allowed to do science, and some of Adam's suggestions for how science can be done differently. Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon Timestamps 0:00:00: Adam's Substack is now his main thing 0:05:32: Paradigms in psychology 0:16:40: Who's allowed to do science? Science as a strong-link problem 0:36:41: A fleet...
75. Paul Smaldino: Modeling Social Behavior, the value of false models, and research beyond traditional disciplines
October 06, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBPaul Smaldino is an Associate Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences at UC Merced, where he studies the evolution of behavior in response to social, cultural, and ecological pressures. In this conversation, we talk about his new book Modeling Social Behavior, everything related to formal models of social behaviour, and Paul's path to where he is today. Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon Timestamps 0:00:00: Paul's new book 'Modeling Social Behavior' 0:04:42: Paul's some...
74. Moin Syed: Glorious PNAS, editing a journal, and masterful procrastination
August 11, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 65.1 MBMoin Syed is a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, where he studies identity and personality development. Our conversation focuses on his work in meta-science, especially the role of journals and editors in the scientific process. 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-patreon Timestamps 0:00:00: The silliness of prestige journals (especially PN...
73. Tom Hostler: Open science, workload, and academic capitalism
June 23, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBTom Hostler is a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. In this conversation, we focus on his recent article on the increased workload caused by open science. 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-patreon Timestamps 0:00:00: Start discussing Tom's paper 'The Invisible Workload of Open Research' 0:29:22: Does open science actually increase workload?...
72. Nico Schuck: Replay, cognitive maps, and multivariate decoding with fMRI
June 04, 2023 15:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBNico Schuck is Professor and head of the research group 'Mechanisms of learning and change' at the University of Hamburg, where his research focuses on the neuroscience of learning, memory, and cognitive maps. In this conversation, we discuss his work on cognitive maps and replay in Orbitofrontal Cortex and Hippocampus, decoding even brief events with fMRI, and much more. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-S...
71. Lynn Nadel: Memory, The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map, and the importance of behaviour
April 23, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBLynn Nadel is an emeritus professor at the University of Arizona, where his research focuses on the role of the hippocampus in memory. In this conversation, we talk about the early years of Lynn's career: why he chose to do chemistry, how a course with Donald Hebb made him switch to psychology, how his postdoc was disrupted by the Soviet invasion during the Prague Spring, John O'Keefe's discovery of place cells, how Lynn and O'Keefe wrote The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map, and much more. B...
70. Mona Garvert: cognitive maps, fMRI adaptation, and computational psychiatry
April 08, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBMona Garvert is Lead Research Scientist at Alena where she uses her background in cognitive neuroscence to advance computational psychiatry. In this episode, we talk about her academic research on the neural basis of cognitive maps, how she got into this topic, fMRI adaptation , and her recent move from academia to working at Alena. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. Support the show: https://www.pat...
70. Mona Garvert: Cognitive maps, fMRI adaptation, and computational psychiatry
April 08, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBMona Garvert is Lead Research Scientist at Alena where she uses her background in cognitive neuroscence to advance computational psychiatry. In this episode, we talk about her academic research on the neural basis of cognitive maps, how she got into this topic, fMRI adaptation , and her recent move from academia to working at Alena. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. Support the show: https://www.pat...
69. Peter Gärdenfors: Conceptual spaces, knowledge representation, and semantics
April 01, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBPeter Gärdenfors is an Emeritus Professor at Lund University at the Department of Philosophy. His work is at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive, psychology, and linguistics. In this conversation, we discuss his book Conceptual spaces and many of the topics discussed therein (convexity, prototypes, metrics), whether the theory is falsifiable, how it can explain aspects of semantics and of how children learn, and much more. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and ...
68. Isabel Thielmann: Economic games, personality, and affordances
March 19, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 76.7 MBIsabel Thielmann is a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the study of crime, security and law. In this conversation, we talk about her background as a competitive sprinter, her research on prosocial behaviour and personality, the role of affordances, how game theory and interdependence theory can helpus understand human social behaviour, and Isa's experiences in having started a lab. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, h...
67. Daniela Schiller: Social spaces, cognitive maps, and clinical applications
February 12, 2023 15:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBDaniela Schiller is a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she studies the neural mechanisms of emotional control and flexibility. In this conversation, we talk about her work on cognitive maps for social behaviour, the importance of power and affiliation for our social lives, the difficulties of measuring spatial navigation with fMRI, and potential psychiatric applications of cognitive maps. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psyc...
66. Rafael Pérez y Pérez: Story Machines, Creative AI, and Mexian serenades
February 05, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBRafael Pérez y Pérez is a professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa, where he studies computational creativity, in particular in relation to computer programs that can write stories. In this conversation, we talk about MEXICA, the story generator he has been working on for most of his career, his newly released book Story Machines (with Mike Sharples), the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to creating stories with AI, what the future holds, whether la...
65. Adam Mastroianni: Conversational doorknobs, improv comedy, and a very dumb academic revolution
December 10, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBAdam Mastroianni is a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia Business School. In this conversation, we talk about his work on conversations, his Substack/blog, his article Things Could Be Better and why he chose to publish it this way, improv comedy, and much more. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all ...
64. Gareth Barnes: MEG, OPM-MEG and the beauty of tinkering
November 17, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBGareth Barnes is a professor at University College London, where he is Head of Magnetoencephalography. We talk about how Gareth randomly stumbled into working on MEG, what MEG is, and some of his recent projects, including the exciting new generation of MEG scanners: OPM-MEG. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes appear roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcastin...
63. Adeyemi Adetula: ManyLabs Africa, psychology should generalise from Africa, and multicultural collaborations
September 28, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 46.2 MBAdeyemi Adetula is a PhD student at the University of Grenoble, where he is leading the ManyLabs Africa project. In this conversation, we talk about that project, his recent commentary 'Psychology should generalize from - not just to - Africa', how Western researchers can best collaborate with African researchers, and much more. Timestamps 0:00:05: How Adeyemi went from psychology student in Nigeria to PhD student in France 0:13:27: ManyLabs Africa 0:18:54: Synergy between the Credibility ...
62. Nils Köbis: AI, corruption, and deepfakes
September 13, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBNils Köbis is a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, where he studies the intersection of AI and corruption. In this conversation, we talk about how Nils got into working on this topic, and some of his recent papers on AI, corruption, deepfakes, and AI poetry. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. Timest...
61. Eva Krockow: Social dilemmas, antimicrobial resistance, and the value of qualitative studies
August 13, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 50.8 MBEva Krockow is a lecturer in psychology at the University of Leicester, where her research focusses on the psychology of antimicrobial resistance. We talk about her educational background, her work on the Centipede Game, social dilemmas, antimicrobial resistance, and the value of qualitative studies. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month....
60. Rickesh Patel: Mantis Shrimp navigation, walking bumblebees, and scientific illustrations
July 03, 2022 20:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBRicky Patel is a postdoc at Lund University, where he studies the neural basis of navigation behaviours in arthropods. In this conversation, we talk about his work on spatial navigation in Mantis Shrimp and bumblebees, the difficulty of recording from moving insects, science communication, and scientific illustrations. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, rough...
59. Chris Frith: Two Heads, social neuroscience, and the history of the FIL
June 19, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 43.3 MBChris Frith is an Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at University College London. His research has spanned several topics, including social cognition, schizophrenia, volition, and consciousness. We talk about Two Heads (a book co-written with his wife and son), his career, and the history of the FIL. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per mo...
58. Cameron Brick: climate change, pro-environmental behaviour, and illusory essences
June 12, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 48.5 MBCameron Brick is an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the psychological aspects of climate change. In this conversation, we talk about climate change, the psychological aspects behind it, the difficulty of defining pro-environmental behaviour, and his recent article on Illusory Essences in psychological (and neuroscientific) research. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted ...
57. Peter Vuust: music in the brain, predictive coding, and jazz
May 28, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBPeter Vuust is a Professor at the Center for Music in the Brain in Aarhus, a jazz musician, and composer. In this conversation , we talk about his recent review in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, how he got to where he is, active inference in music, jazz improvisation, and much more. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the po...
56. Mary Elizabeth Sutherland: scientific editing, behavioural sciences at Nature, and how to improve submissions
May 21, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 48 MBMary Elizabeth Sutherland is senior editor at Nature, where she edits submissions in the behavioural sciences and cognitive neuroscience. In this conversation, we talk about how she became an editor, what editors do all day, how to improve your submissions, the future of publishing at Nature, the harp, and much more. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly...
55. Angelika Stefan: p-hacking, simulations, and Shiny Apps
May 01, 2022 13:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBAngelika Stefan is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam in the Psychological Methods group (lead by Eric-Jan Wagenmakers). In this conversation, we talk about her preprint 'Big little lies: A Compendium and Simulation of p-Hacking Strategies', which she just uploaded to PsyArXiv. We also discuss how she created the Shiny App that allows users to play around with the simulations and run simulations that didn't make it into the paper. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psyc...
54. Jessica Kay Flake: Schmeasurement, making stats engaging, and the Psychological Science Accelerator
April 07, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBJessica Flake is Assistant Professor for quantitative psychology and modeling at McGill University, where she studies measurement. In this conversation, we talk about her recent paper 'Measurement Schmeasurement: Questionable measurement practices and how to avoid them' (with former guest of the podcast Eiko Fried), how she makes stats lectures interesting, and her work on the Psychological Science Accellarator. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely...
53. Chris Chambers: Registered Reports, scheduled peer-review, and science without journals
March 16, 2022 18:00 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MBChris Chambers is professor at Cardiff University where he is Head of Brain Stimulation. He is also one of the pioneers behind Registered Reports, a type of article where researchers receive peer review and in-principle acceptance before the results are known. In this conversation, we focus on Registered Reports and talk about how Chris got Registered Reports started at Cortex, how the review process differs between Registered Reports and regular papers, whether they are suited for scientist...
52. Postdoc fellowship applications (with Toby Wise)
March 06, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBIn this conversation, I talk with Toby Wise about applying for postdoc fellowships. Toby has received and completed the Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship, where he worked with Ray Dolan and Dean Mobbs. He answers some of the questions I have about applying for postdoc fellowships in general, such as how to write a proposal, how to contact potential supervisors/sponsors for your application, when to start, and what kind of scientist a fellowship is even for. BJKS Podcast is a podcas...
51. Hugo Spiers: Taxi Brains, cognitive maps in humans, and working with humans and non-human animals
February 19, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 62 MBHugo Spiers is professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London. His research explores how our brain constructs representations of the world and uses them to recall the past, navigate the present and imagine the future. In this episode, we talk about his work on Sea Hero Quest (with Michael Hornberger, former guest of this podcast), his new research project Taxi Brains, the difficulties and joys of working with more than one species, and cognitive maps in humans. Time stamp...
50th episode special: reviewing one year of the podcast, lessons learnt, and plans for the future
December 31, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBThis is the 50th episode of this podcast and we're doing something a little different: Cody Kommers, PhD student, fellow podcaster, and one of the first guests of my podcast, interviewed me about the first year of my podcast: what did I learn, what went differently than expected, and what do I plan on changing in the future? We also discuss podcasting more generally and use Cody's experience in running his podcasts as a counterexample in our discussion. Time stamps 0:00:05: Cody's introduct...
49. Book club: Conceptual Spaces by Peter Gärdenfors, chapters 7 & 8, & general discussion
December 24, 2021 10:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBThis is the fourth and final episode of a book club series on Peter Gärdenfors's book Conceptual Spaces. In this episode, we will discuss chapters 7 and 8, in which Gärdenfors discusses computational aspects his theory of conceptual spaces, and provides a general discussion of the topics covered in the book. For this series, I'm joined by Koen Frolichcs, who was already my cohost for the books club series on Lee Child's Killing Floor. Koen and I are PhD students in the same lab. Podcast li...
48. Book club: Conceptual Spaces by Peter Gärdenfors, chapters 5 & 6
December 17, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBThis is the third episode of a book club series on Peter Gärdenfors's book Conceptual Spaces. In this episode, we will discuss chapters 5 and 6, in which Gärdenfors explains how semantics and induction fit into his theory of conceptual spaces. For this series, I'm joined by Koen Frolichcs, who was already my cohost for the books club series on Lee Child's Killing Floor. Koen and I are PhD students in the same lab. Podcast links Website: https://geni.us/bjks-pod Twitter: https://geni.us/b...