Everything Hertz
Dan Quintana
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Methodology, scientific life, and bad language. Co-hosted by Dr. Dan Quintana (University of Oslo) and Dr. James Heathers (Cipher Skin)
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APR 3, 2024
179: Discovery vs. maintenance
Dan and James discuss how scientific research often neglects the importance of maintenance and long-term access for scientific tools and resources
48 MIN
FEB 29, 2024
178: Alerting researchers about retractions
Dan and James discuss the Retractobot service, which emails authors about papers they've cited that have been retracted. What should authors do if they discover a paper they've cited has been retracted after they published their paper?
49 MIN
JAN 31, 2024
177: Plagiarism
We discuss two recent plagiarism cases, one you've probably heard about and another that you probably haven't heard about if you're outside Norway. We also chat about the parallels between plagiarism and sports doping—would people reconsider academic dishonesty if they were reminded that future technology may catch them out?
42 MIN
DEC 29, 2023
176: Tracking academic workloads
We chat about a paper on the invisible workload of open science and why academics are so bad at tracking their workloads
36 MIN
DEC 7, 2023
175: Defending against the scientific dark arts
We chat about a recent blogpost from Dorothy Bishop, in which she proposes a Master course that will provide training in fraud detection—what should such a course specifically teach and where would these people work to apply their training? We also discuss whether open science is a cult that has trouble seeing outward.
38 MIN
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