Everything Hertz

We're back! We chat why it's been so long and discuss how much meta-science has changed over the past six months. We also talk about whether OSF materials are actually downloaded, what LLMs mean for grants, and why data provenance is now more important than ever, among lots of other things

We discuss how living meta‑analyses can cut research waste and keep evidence current. We also chat about how using synthetic research participants is a terrible idea and what researchers really mean when they call a study "recent".

We discuss whether preprint servers and journals should require author identity verification for submitting manuscripts. This would probably speed up the submission process, but is this worth the potential downsides? We also discuss the similarities and differences between academia and professional sports and a weird case of author identity theft.

Dan and James chat about a a new 'pop-up journal' concept for addressing specific research questions. They also answer a listener question from a journal grammar editor and discuss a recent PNAS paper on paper mills

Dan and James answer listener questions on outsourcing in academia and differences in research culture between academic and commercial institutions