BJKS Podcast, podcast de Benjamin James Kuper-Smith - Statistiques, épisodes et classements - My Podcast Data
119. This (audio only) podcast is dead - long live the podcast? With Dan Quintana
lundi 29 septembre 2025 • Durée 01:14:57
This is a special episode: this podcast will change after this episode, from remote audio-only interviews to exclusively in-person video interviews. Dan Quintana, professor at the University of Oslo and host of the Everything Hertz podcast, joins me to discuss why and how I'm making this change, podcasting and science communication more broadly, time management as an academic and podcaster, and much more.
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
Latour & Woolgar (1979). Laboratory life: The construction of scientific facts.
Morris (1979). The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.
Todes (2014). Ivan Pavlov: A Russian life in science.
118. Lauren Ross: Causation, mechanism, and explanation in neuroscience
lundi 22 septembre 2025 • Durée 01:36:32
Lauren Ross is a professor of logic and philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. We talk about her work on causation, mechanism, and explanation in neuroscience, Lauren's background in medicine, how to write clearly, and much more.
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
117. Kai Ruggeri: Global collaborations, Prospect Theory, and temporal discounting
lundi 15 septembre 2025 • Durée 01:36:54
Kai Ruggeri is professor for health policy and management at Columbia University. We talk about his global collaborations, in which they studied various important decision-making aspects, including Prospect Theory and temporal discounting.
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
116. Elsa Fouragnan: Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation, brain surgery, and French Polynesia
lundi 8 septembre 2025 • Durée 01:37:24
Elsa Fouragnan is an Associate Professor and UKRI Future Leader Fellow at the University of Plymouth. We talk mainly about her work on focussed transcranial ultrasound stimulation, a new non-invasive way other stimulating (human) brains, including deep areas that can't be reached with TMS. We also discuss her childhood in French Polynesia, how she started doing research, what it's like seeing a brain during surgery, and much more.
This was the first episode I recorded in-person. The audio quality is really good, with the minor exception that I made a really silly error during editing, such that quiet parts are sometimes not entirely audible. A few words are not audible, but this shouldn't affect comprehension.
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
1:34:51: Advice for PhD students/postdocsPodcast links
115. Melinda Baldwin: A triple history of Nature, scientific journals, and peer review
mardi 24 juin 2025 • Durée 01:32:54
Melinda Baldwin is an associate professor of history at the University of Maryland. We talk about her work studying the history of Nature, scientific journals more broadly, what it means to be a scientist, peer review, the Tyndall project, and much more.
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
114: Steve Fleming: Lab culture, learning as a PI, and the allure of cognitive neuroscience
lundi 26 mai 2025 • Durée 01:40:59
Steve Fleming is a professor in psychology at University College London. I invited Steve to talk about his work on meta-cognition, but we ended up spending the entire episode talking about lab culture, starting a lab, applying for funding, Steve's background in music, and what drew him to do cognitive neuroscience. There's even a tiny discussion about consciousness research at the end.
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
113. Damian Blasi: Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science, linguistic diversity, and how to study a language you don't speak
lundi 10 mars 2025 • Durée 01:41:09
Damian Blasi is a professor at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. We talk about his article 'Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science', linguistic diversity, how to study across the world's languages, his career path, and much more.
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
0:06:31: How to deal with small, sparse, incomplete, imbalanced, noisy, and non-independent observational data
0:09:38: Evolutionary advantages of different languages
0:14:01: How Damian started doing research on linguistics
0:20:09: How to study a language you don't speak
0:28:58: Start discussing Damian's paper 'Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science'
0:48:25: What can experimental scientists do about the vast differences between cultures, especially of difficult to reach peoples? And how different are languages and cultures really?
1:10:15: Why is New Guinea so (linguistically) diverse?
1:17:34: Should I learn a common or a rare language? And where?
112. Gordon Pennycook: From Carrot River to Cornell, misinformation, and reducing conspiracy beliefs
lundi 17 février 2025 • Durée 01:50:21
Gordon Pennycook is an Associate Professor at Cornell University. We talk about his upbringing in rural Northern Canada, how he got into academia, and his work on misinformation: why people share it and what can be done about it.
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
111. Renzo Huber: Layer-fMRI, high-resolution fMRI, and the delicate balance between gourmet chef and janitor
vendredi 17 janvier 2025 • Durée 01:36:54
Renzo Huber is a staff scientist at NIH. We talk about his work on layer-fMRI: what it is, how Renzo got into it, how to do it, when it makes sense to do it, what the future holds, and much more.
Timestamps 0:00:00: How Renzo got into high-resolution fMRI 0:11:28: The difference between 3T and 7T fMRI 0:22:46: Is a bigger fMRI scanner always better? 0:33:35: Layer-fMRI 0:56:28: For what types of research is layer-fMRI most useful? 1:02:35: How to do layer-fMRI and make it reproducible 1:19:21: The future of layer-fMRI 1:27:02: A book or paper more people should read 1:30:37: Something Renzo wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:33:11: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
References and links mentionedEpisode with Peter Bandettini: Episode with Emily Finn: Renzo's blog about layer fMRI: YouTube channel on layer fMRI: Bastos, ... & Friston (2012). Canonical microcircuits for predictive coding. .Bollmann & Barth (2021). New acquisition techniques and their prospects for the achievable resolution of fMRI. .Boulant, ... & Le Bihan (2024). In vivo imaging of the human brain with the Iseult 11.7-T MRI scanner. .Finn, ... & Bandettini (2019). Layer-dependent activity in human prefrontal cortex during working memory. .Feynman (1985). .Haarsma, Kok & Browning (2022). The promise of layer-specific neuroimaging for testing predictive coding theories of psychosis. .Huber, ... & Bandettini (2017). High-resolution CBV-fMRI allows mapping of laminar activity and connectivity of cortical input and output in human M1. .Huber, ... & Möller (2019). Non-BOLD contrast for laminar fMRI in humans: CBF, CBV, and CMRO2. .Huber, ... & Bandettini (2020). Sub-millimeter fMRI reveals multiple topographical digit representations that form action maps in human motor cortex. .Huber, ... & Kronbichler (2023). Evaluating the capabilities and challenges of layer-fMRI VASO at 3T. .Huber, ... & Horovitz (2023). Laminar VASO fMRI in focal hand dystonia patients. .Persichetti, ... & Martin (2020). Layer-specific contributions to imagined and executed hand movements in human primary motor cortex. .Polimeni, ... & Wald (2010). Laminar analysis of 7 T BOLD using an imposed spatial activation pattern in human V1. .
110. Ella Marushchenko: Scientific illustrations, digital vs. classic art, and how to improve scientific figures
mercredi 18 décembre 2024 • Durée 01:32:11
Ella Marushchenko is a scientific illustrator who runs a studio of artists and scientists that creates cover art, scientific and illustrations, and more. We talk about her unlikely path from artist in Russia to scientific illustrator in the US, digital vs classic art, how to interact as scientists with illustrators, how to improve scientific figures, and much more.
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
Timestamps 0:00:00: Ella's unlikely path to doing scientific illustrations 0:33:17: Running a studio for scientific illustrations 0:36:30: The process of commissioning a scientific figure 0:46:44: The changing landscape of scientific publications and communication 0:50:15: Unhelpful things to avoid when interacting with a science illustrator 0:59:06: Who are scientific illustrations for? 1:06:36: The purpose of illustrations in science 1:16:09: How to learn to improve scientific figures 1:22:30: How to become a scientific illustrator 1:26:10: A book or paper more people should read 1:27:48: Something Ella wishes she'd learnt sooner 1:29:10: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
Folloni, Verhagen, Mars, Fouragnan, ... & Sallet (2019). Manipulation of subcortical and deep cortical activity in the primate brain using transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation. Neuron.
Liptrot (2015). The Outrun.
Murphy & Fouragnan (2024). The future of transcranial ultrasound as a precision brain interface. PLoS Biology.
Yoo, Mittelstein, Hurt, Lacroix & Shapiro (2022). Focused ultrasound excites cortical neurons via mechanosensitive calcium accumulation and ion channel amplification. Nature Communications.
Yaakub, ... & Fouragnan (2024). Non-invasive Ultrasound Deep Neuromodulation of the Human Nucleus Accumbens Increases Win-Stay Behaviour. BioRxiv.
Example paper by Josh Mcdermott on music: McDermott, Schultz, Undurraga & Godoy (2016). Indifference to dissonance in native Amazonians reveals cultural variation in music perception. Nature.
Carter (2002). Consciousness.
Chalmers (1995). Facing up to the problem of consciousness. Journal of consciousness studies.
Dehaene, Al Roumi, Lakretz, Planton & Sablé-Meyer (2022). Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Isaacson (2021). The code breaker.
Marr (1982). Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information.
Pinker (1997). How the mind works.
Tononi (2004). An information integration theory of consciousness. BMC neuroscience.
Blasi ... Neubig (2021). Systematic inequalities in language technology performance across the world's languages. arXiv.
Blasi ... Bickel (2019). Human sound systems are shaped by post-Neolithic changes in bite configuration. Science.
Blasi ... Majid (2022). Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science. Trends in cognitive sciences.
Everett (2023). A myriad of tongues.
Floyd ... Enfield (2018). Universals and cultural diversity in the expression of gratitude. Royal Society Open Science.
Gordon (2004). Numerical cognition without words: Evidence from Amazonia. Science.
Hossenfelder (2018). Lost in math.
Koyama & Rubin (2022). How the world became rich.
Nettle (1998). Explaining global patterns of language diversity. Journal of anthropological archaeology.
Pica ... Dehaene (2004). Exact and approximate arithmetic in an Amazonian indigene group. Science.
Skirgård ... Gray (2023). Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss. Science Advances.
Costello, Pennycook & Rand (2024). Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI. Science.
Dawkins (2006). The God Delusion.
MacLeod, ... & Ozubko (2010). The production effect: delineation of a phenomenon. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
Nowak & Highfield (2012). Supercooperators: Altruism, evolution, and why we need each other to succeed.
Pennycook, ... & Fugelsang (2012). Analytic cognitive style predicts religious and paranormal belief. Cognition.
Pennycook, Fugelsang & Koehler (2015). What makes us think? A three-stage dual-process model of analytic engagement. Cognitive Psychology.
Pennycook, Cheyne, Barr, Koehler & Fugelsang (2015). On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit. Judgment and Decision making.
Pennycook & Rand (2019). Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning. Cognition.
Pennycook & Rand (2021). The psychology of fake news. Trends in cognitive sciences.
Rand (2016). Cooperation, fast and slow: Meta-analytic evidence for a theory of social heuristics and self-interested deliberation. Psychological Science.
Stanovich (2005). The robot's rebellion: Finding meaning in the age of Darwin.
Tappin, Pennycook & Rand (2020). Thinking clearly about causal inferences of politically motivated reasoning: Why paradigmatic study designs often undermine causal inference. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.
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