BJKS Podcast
By Benjamin James Kuper-Smith
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Episodes: 96
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A podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related. Long-form interviews with people whose work I find interesting.
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96. Benjamin Ehrlich: Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the neuron doctrine, and combining art & science
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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95. Emily Finn: Neural fingerprinting, 'naturalistic' stimuli, and taking time before starting a PhD
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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94. David Van Essen: The Human Connectome Project, hierarchical processing, and the joys of collaboration
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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93. Nachum Ulanovsky: Bats, spatial navigation, and natural neuroscience
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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92. Tom Hardwicke: Meta-research, reproducibility, and post-publication critique
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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91. Jessica Polka: Preprints, publishing peer reviews, and the joys of pipetting
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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90. Brian Boyd: The life & works of Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, and writing biographies
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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89. Camillo Padoa-Schioppa: Value in the brain, orbitofrontal cortex, and causality in neuroscience
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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88. Juliana Schroeder: Talking to strangers, undersociality, and replicable field studies
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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87. Rick Betzel: Network neuroscience, generative modeling, and collaborations
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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86. Elisabeth Bik: Reporting scientific misconduct, the arms race between fraud & fraud detection, and the microbiome of dolphins
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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85. Peter Bandettini: The history, present, and future of fMRI
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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84. Brian Nosek: Improving science, the past & future of the Center for Open Science, and failure in science
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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83. Rachel Bedder: Rumination, teaching without grades, and managing yourself as a PhD student
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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82. Geoff Cumming: p-values, estimation, and meta-analytic thinking
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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81. Brooke Macnamara: Growth mindset, deliberate practice, and the benefits of diverse experiences
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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80. Simine Vazire: Scientific editing, the purpose of journals, and the future of psychological science
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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79. Nanthia Suthana: Invasive brain recordings in humans, learning as a PI, and the joys of mentorship
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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78. Gillian Coughlan: Dementia, spatial navigation, and menopause
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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77. Lynn Nadel: Collaboration, Hippocampal History, and clinical applications of hippocampal development
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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76. Adam Mastroianni: Paradigms in psychology, science as a strong-link problem, and The Psychology House
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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75. Paul Smaldino: Modeling Social Behavior, the value of false models, and research beyond traditional disciplines
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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74. Moin Syed: Glorious PNAS, editing a journal, and masterful procrastination
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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73. Tom Hostler: Open science, workload, and academic capitalism
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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72. Nico Schuck: Replay, cognitive maps, and multivariate decoding with fMRI
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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71. Lynn Nadel: Memory, The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map, and the importance of behaviour
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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70. Mona Garvert: Cognitive maps, fMRI adaptation, and computational psychiatry
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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69. Peter Gärdenfors: Conceptual spaces, knowledge representation, and semantics
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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68. Isabel Thielmann: Economic games, personality, and affordances
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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67. Daniela Schiller: Social spaces, cognitive maps, and clinical applications
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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66. Rafael Pérez y Pérez: Story Machines, Creative AI, and Mexian serenades
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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65. Adam Mastroianni: Conversational doorknobs, improv comedy, and a very dumb academic revolution
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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64. Gareth Barnes: MEG, OPM-MEG and the beauty of tinkering
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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63. Adeyemi Adetula: ManyLabs Africa, psychology should generalise from Africa, and multicultural collaborations
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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62. Nils Köbis: AI, corruption, and deepfakes
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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61. Eva Krockow: Social dilemmas, antimicrobial resistance, and the value of qualitative studies
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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60. Rickesh Patel: Mantis Shrimp navigation, walking bumblebees, and scientific illustrations
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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59. Chris Frith: Two Heads, social neuroscience, and the history of the FIL
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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58. Cameron Brick: climate change, pro-environmental behaviour, and illusory essences
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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57. Peter Vuust: music in the brain, predictive coding, and jazz
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May 28, 2022 |
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56. Mary Elizabeth Sutherland: scientific editing, behavioural sciences at Nature, and how to improve submissions
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May 21, 2022 |
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55. Angelika Stefan: p-hacking, simulations, and Shiny Apps
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May 01, 2022 |
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54. Jessica Kay Flake: Schmeasurement, making stats engaging, and the Psychological Science Accelerator
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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53. Chris Chambers: Registered Reports, scheduled peer-review, and science without journals
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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52. Postdoc fellowship applications (with Toby Wise)
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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51. Hugo Spiers: Taxi Brains, cognitive maps in humans, and working with humans and non-human animals
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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50th episode special: reviewing one year of the podcast, lessons learnt, and plans for the future
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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49. Book club: Conceptual Spaces by Peter Gärdenfors, chapters 7 & 8, & general discussion
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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48. Book club: Conceptual Spaces by Peter Gärdenfors, chapters 5 & 6
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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47. Book club: Conceptual Spaces by Peter Gärdenfors, chapters 3 & 4
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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46. Book club: Conceptual Spaces by Peter Gärdenfors, chapters 1 & 2
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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45. Michael Hornberger: Sea Hero Quest, developing games for science, and Alzheimer's disease
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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44. Dan Quintana: Synthetic datasets, science communication, and podcasting
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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43. Postdoc applications (with Matthias Stangl)
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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42. Matthias Stangl: grid cells in aging, path integration, and neural representations of actual physical movement in humans
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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41. Reviewing all books called "Prisoner's Dilemma" Part 2: The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma (Stewart), and Prisoner's Dilemma (Yardley)
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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40. Reviewing all books called "Prisoner's Dilemma" Part 1: A Prisoner's Dilemma (Karabache) and Prisoner's Dilemma (Feiklowicz)
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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39. Nikolai Axmacher: Reduced grid cells in Alzheimer's risk carriers, landmarks in abstract cognitive space, and clinical translation
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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38. Keno Juechems: Where does value (in RL) come from, optimality with finite computational resources, and learning as a PhD student
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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37. Jacob Bellmund: Deformed cognitive maps, abstract cognitive spaces, and how many dimensions can grid cells encode?
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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36. Book club: The Invention of Nature (Humboldt biography) by Andrea Wulf, part 5 & general discussion
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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35. Book club: The Invention of Nature (Humboldt biography) by Andrea Wulf, parts 3 & 4
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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34. Book club: The Invention of Nature (Humboldt biography) by Andrea Wulf, parts 1 & 2
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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33. Bryan Bruns: Applied sociology, 2x2 games, and how to transform tragedy into win-win
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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32. Book discussion: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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31. Stuart Ritchie: Science Fictions, fraud, and open science
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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30. Book club: Killing Floor by Lee Child, chapters 27-end
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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29. Anna Riedl: Cognitive science, effective altruism, and science communication
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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28. Book club: Killing Floor by Lee Child, chapters 15-21 & 22-26
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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27. Nichola Raihani: The evolution of punishment, ultimate & proximate explanations, and cleaner fish
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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26. Book club: Killing Floor by Lee Child, chapters 1-7 & 8-14
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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25. Désirée Brucks: Inequity aversion in dogs, ecologically realistic experiments, parrots help others obtain food rewards
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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24. Book club: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, epilogue & general discussion
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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23. Pete Trimmer: Croquet, from maths anxiety to maths degree, and ecological rationality
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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22. Book club: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Parts 5 & 6
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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21. Giuliana Spadaro: Cooperation Databank, payoff matrices, and meta-analyses
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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20. Book club: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Parts 3 & 4
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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19. Erik Wengström: Loss aversion when deciding for others, the relationship between economics & psychology, and prosociality during the COVID-19 pandemic
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May 28, 2021 |
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18. Book club: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Parts 1 & 2
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May 21, 2021 |
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17. Bianca Trovò: Ants-Review, rethinking peer review, and blockchain
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May 14, 2021 |
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16. Brock Bastian: Pain, cooperation, and the benefits of difficulty
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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15. Kate Jeffery: A brief history of spatial navigation, place cells & grid cells in 3D, and brain evolution
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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14. Tessa Rusch: COVID-Dynamic, an extremely variable year, and theory of mind
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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13. Joe Hilgard: Scientific fraud, reporting errors, and effects that are too big to be true
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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12. Eiko Fried: Being a generalist, theory building in psychology, and useful fictions
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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11. Jesse Geerts: Finding a good PhD project, reinforcement learning & cognitive maps, and deciding when a paper is ready
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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10. Hanne Watkins: From academia to behavioural insights in government, Registered Reports, and morality in war
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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9. Corinna Kühnapfel and Ian Stewart: EDGE, art & neuroscience, and empirical aesthetics
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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8. Paul Smaldino: Cubist chickens, formal models, and the psychology curriculum
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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7. Jonathan Berman: Moral choice when harming is unavoidable, simple experiments, and open science
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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6. Toby Wise: Risk perception about COVID-19, natural experiments, and open science
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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5. Antonia Wesseloh: Fashion during COVID, Antonia's path as a fashion model, and tips for photographers
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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4. Cody Kommers: Podcasting as a PhD student, intuitive anthropology, and finding a good problem
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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3. Catherine Preston: Bodily illusions, eating disorders, and pregnancy
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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2. Aaron Schurger: The readiness potential, auto-correlated noise, and the weather
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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1. Matthias Nau: MR-based eye-tracking, cognitive maps & vision, science communication
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Oct 02, 2020 |