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119. This (audio only) podcast is dead - long live the podcast? With Dan Quintana
29 sept. 2025
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
22 sept. 2025
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.
Barack, Miller, Moore, Packer, Pessoa, Ross, & Rust (2022). A call for more clarity around causality in neuroscience. Trends in neurosciences.
Forsyth (2013). The elements of eloquence: How to turn the perfect English phrase.
Hempel (1965). Aspects of scientific explanation.
Ross (2021). Causal concepts in biology: How pathways differ from mechanisms and why it matters. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
Ross & Bassett (2024). Causation in neuroscience: keeping mechanism meaningful. Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
117. Kai Ruggeri: Global collaborations, Prospect Theory, and temporal discounting
15 sept. 2025
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.
Macher, ... Ruggeri, ... (2013). Statistics anxiety, state anxiety during an examination, and academic achievement. British J Edu Psych.
Mellers, Hertwig & Kahneman (2001). Do frequency representations eliminate conjunction effects? An exercise in adversarial collaboration. Psych Sci.
Parks, Joireman & Van Lange (2013). Cooperation, trust, and antagonism: How public goods are promoted. Psych sci in the public interest.
Ruggeri, ... & Folke (2020). Replicating patterns of prospect theory for decision under risk. Nat Hum Behav.
Ruggeri, ... & Folke (2021). The general fault in our fault lines. Nat Hum Behav.
Ruggeri, ... & Toscano (2022). The globalizability of temporal discounting. Nat Hum Behav.
Ruggeri (Ed.). (2018). Behavioral insights for public policy: concepts and cases.
Thaler (2015). Misbehaving.
116. Elsa Fouragnan: Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation, brain surgery, and French Polynesia
08 sept. 2025
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.
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.
115. Melinda Baldwin: A triple history of Nature, scientific journals, and peer review
24 juin 2025
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.
Baldwin (2017). In referees we trust? Physics Today.
Baldwin (2018). Scientific autonomy, public accountability, and the rise of “peer review” in the Cold War United States. Isis.
Baldwin (2019). Making" Nature" The History of a Scientific Journal.
Gordin (2012). The pseudoscience wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the birth of the modern fringe.
Poehler (2014). Yes please.
Zuckerman & Merton (1971). Patterns of evaluation in science: Institutionalisation, structure and functions of the referee system. Minerva.
114: Steve Fleming: Lab culture, learning as a PI, and the allure of cognitive neuroscience
26 mai 2025
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.
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.
113. Damian Blasi: Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science, linguistic diversity, and how to study a language you don't speak
10 mars 2025
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?
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.
112. Gordon Pennycook: From Carrot River to Cornell, misinformation, and reducing conspiracy beliefs
17 févr. 2025
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.
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.
111. Renzo Huber: Layer-fMRI, high-resolution fMRI, and the delicate balance between gourmet chef and janitor
17 janv. 2025
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
Bastos, ... & Friston (2012). Canonical microcircuits for predictive coding. Neuron. Bollmann & Barth (2021). New acquisition techniques and their prospects for the achievable resolution of fMRI. Progress in Neurobiology. Boulant, ... & Le Bihan (2024). In vivo imaging of the human brain with the Iseult 11.7-T MRI scanner. Nature Methods. Finn, ... & Bandettini (2019). Layer-dependent activity in human prefrontal cortex during working memory. Nature Neuroscience. Feynman (1985). "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!": adventures of a curious character. Haarsma, Kok & Browning (2022). The promise of layer-specific neuroimaging for testing predictive coding theories of psychosis. Schizophrenia Research. Huber, ... & Bandettini (2017). High-resolution CBV-fMRI allows mapping of laminar activity and connectivity of cortical input and output in human M1. Neuron. Huber, ... & Möller (2019). Non-BOLD contrast for laminar fMRI in humans: CBF, CBV, and CMRO2. Neuroimage. Huber, ... & Bandettini (2020). Sub-millimeter fMRI reveals multiple topographical digit representations that form action maps in human motor cortex. Neuroimage. Huber, ... & Kronbichler (2023). Evaluating the capabilities and challenges of layer-fMRI VASO at 3T. Aperture Neuro. Huber, ... & Horovitz (2023). Laminar VASO fMRI in focal hand dystonia patients. Dystonia. Persichetti, ... & Martin (2020). Layer-specific contributions to imagined and executed hand movements in human primary motor cortex. Current Biology. Polimeni, ... & Wald (2010). Laminar analysis of 7 T BOLD using an imposed spatial activation pattern in human V1. Neuroimage.
110. Ella Marushchenko: Scientific illustrations, digital vs. classic art, and how to improve scientific figures
18 déc. 2024
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
109. Roberto Bottini: Cognitive maps, visual impairment, and image spaces
08 déc. 2024
01:24:08
Roberto Bottini is an Associate Professor at the University of Trento. We talk about his recent work on unusual cognitive maps in blind people, image spaces, metaphors, and he gives me some advice for writing successful grant applications.
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
Timestamps 0:00:00: Roberto's background 0:03:20: Start discussing Roberto's paper on altered grid cells in visually impaired people: theoretical background 0:16:28: Methods & results: walking on a clock face / altered grid cells: fourfold symmetry 0:47:48: Start discussing Roberto's paper on cognitive maps and image spaces (TiCS) 0:52:05: Egocentric and allocentric perspectives 0:55:27: Metaphors and analogies 1:00:08: Tips for grant applications 1:14:18: A book or paper that more people should read 1:18:38: Something Roberto wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:20:30: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
References Aronov, ... & Tank (2017). Mapping of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit. Nature. Bisiach & Luzzatti (1978). Unilateral neglect of representational space. Cortex. Bottini & Doeller (2020). Knowledge across reference frames: Cognitive maps and image spaces. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Casasanto (2009). Embodiment of abstract concepts: good and bad in right-and left-handers. Journal of experimental psychology: General. Constantinescu, ... & Behrens (2016). Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a gridlike code. Science. Derdikman, ... & Moser (2009). Fragmentation of grid cell maps in a multicompartment environment. Nature neuroscience. Eichenbaum (2014). Time cells in the hippocampus: a new dimension for mapping memories. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Gardenfors (2004). Conceptual spaces: The geometry of thought. Gentner (1983). Structure-mapping: A theoretical framework for analogy. Cognitive science. He & Brown (2019). Environmental barriers disrupt grid-like representations in humans during navigation. Current Biology. Horner, ... & Burgess (2016). Grid-like processing of imagined navigation. Current Biology. Jaynes (1976). The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Park, ... & Boorman (2021). Inferences on a multidimensional social hierarchy use a grid-like code. Nature Neuroscience. Sigismondi, ... & Bottini (2024). Altered grid-like coding in early blind people. Nature Communications. Stangl, ... & Wolbers (2018). Compromised grid-cell-like representations in old age as a key mechanism to explain age-related navigational deficits. Current Biology. Tolman (1948). Cognitive maps in rats and men. Psychological Review. Whittington, ... & Behrens (2022). How to build a cognitive map. Nature Neuroscience.
108. Robert Wilson: 10 simple rules for computational modelling, phishing, and reproducibility
22 nov. 2024
01:50:45
Robert (Bob) Wilson is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgia Tech. We talk about his tutorial paper (w/ Anne Collins) on computational modelling, and some of his recent work on detecting phishing.
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
Timestamps 0:00:00: Bob's strange path through computational cognitive neuroscience 0:07:37: Phishing: a computational model with real-life applications 0:25:46: Start discussing Bob's paper 10 simple rules for computational modeling of behavioral data 0:32:15: Rule 0: Why even do computational modelling? 0:46:24: Rules 1 & 2: Design a good experiment & Design a good model 1:02:51: Rule 3: Simulate! 1:05:48: Rules 4 & 5: Parameter estimation and recovery 1:18:28: Rule 6: Model recovery 1:25:55: Rules 7 & 8: Collect data and validate the model 1:33:15: Rule 9: Latent variable analysis 1:36:24: Rule 10: Report your results 1:37:46: Computational modelling and the open science movement 1:40:17: A book or paper more people should read 1:43:35: Something Bob wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:47:18: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
Bechara, Damasio, Damasio, & Anderson (1994). Insensitivity to future consequences following damage to human prefrontal cortex. Cognition. Feng, Wang, Zarnescu & Wilson (2021). The dynamics of explore–exploit decisions reveal a signal-to-noise mechanism for random exploration. Scientific Reports. Grilli, ... & Wilson (2021). Is this phishing? Older age is associated with greater difficulty discriminating between safe and malicious emails. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. Hakim, Ebner, ... & Wilson (2021). The Phishing Email Suspicion Test (PEST) a lab-based task for evaluating the cognitive mechanisms of phishing detection. Behavior research methods. Harootonian, Ekstrom & Wilson (2022). Combination and competition between path integration and landmark navigation in the estimation of heading direction. PLoS Computational Biology. Hopfield (1982). Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities. PNAS. MacKay (2003). Information theory, inference and learning algorithms. Miller, Eugene & Pribram (1960). Plans and the Structure of Behaviour. Sweis, Abram, Schmidt, Seeland, MacDonald III, Thomas, & Redish (2018). Sensitivity to “sunk costs” in mice, rats, and humans. Science. Walasek & Stewart (2021). You cannot accurately estimate an individual’s loss aversion using an accept–reject task. Decision. Wilson & Collins (2019). Ten simple rules for the computational modeling of behavioral data. Elife.
107. Nick Wise: Publication fraud, buying authorships, and tortured phrases
15 nov. 2024
02:01:05
Nick Wise is a postdoc in fluid dynamics at Cambridge University. We talk about his 'detective work' on publication fraud which has gotten more than 800 papers retracted to date, including tortured phrases, discovering Facebook groups and Telegram channels in which people sell authorships on papers, how 'Special' issues can be exploited, and what we can do about this.
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
Timestamps 0:00:00: How Nick got involved with publication fraud: tortured phrases 0:18:26: Why do people try to publish nonsense papers? 0:24:27: The ecosystem of fraudulent publishing 0:30:22: 'Special' issues 0:49:02: How does Nick do this detective work? 1:00:37: What can we do about publication fraud? 1:38:52: There are practically no jobs to work full-time on fraud detection 1:49:37: A book or paper more people should read 1:55:13: Something Nick wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:57:21: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov (2021). Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science. Evidence of critical issues affecting established journals. arXiv. Mastroianni & Ludwin-Peery (2022). Things could be better. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2uxwk Reich (2009). Plastic fantastic: How the biggest fraud in physics shook the scientific world.
106. Eugenie Reich (Part 2): The legalities of scientific fraud, why fraudsters rarely go to prison, and what whistleblowers are allowed to do
08 nov. 2024
01:09:35
This is the 2nd part of my interview with Eugenie Reich, who is a lawyer who represents scientific whistleblowers, and a former investigative science journalist. We talk about her transition from journalism to law, and discuss the legal aspects of scientific fraud: why fraudsters rarely go to prison, what whistleblowers are legally allowed to do, how and when to seek legal advice, and much more. Obviously, none of this is legal advice, but hopefully it provides some useful pointers.
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
Timestamps 0:00:00: How Eugenie went from science journalist to being a lawyer and defending whistleblowers 0:13:15: Why do most people who commit scientific fraud not go to prison? 0:32:36: What are whistleblowers allowed to do? 0:48:24: What if I get sued for reporting scientific misconduct? 0:56:32: How do fraudsters try to intimidate whistleblowers? 1:01:24: What if I can't afford legal help? 1:06:18: Eugenie's plans for the future
Reich (2009). Plastic fantastic: How the biggest fraud in physics shook the scientific world. Reich (2011). Fraud case we might have seen coming. Nature News.
Eugenie Reich is an attorney who represents scientific whistleblowers, and a former investigative science journalist. We talk about her previous work as a science journalist, in particular her book Plastic Fantastic about one of the biggest fraud cases in physics, the case of Jan-Hendrik Schön. We'd planned to also discuss Eugenie's current work as an attorney, but spent all our time on the Schön case. Eugenie kindly agreed to do another interview, in which we cover the legal aspects of fraud, which will be the next episode (#106).
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
Timestamps 0:00:00: One of the biggest fraud cases in physics/all of science 0:05:47: How and why Eugenie started writing about the Schön case 0:09:26: Why did Schön commit fraud? 0:19:30: Schön's PhD: he never saved any original data 0:30:05: Bell Labs vs. Schön's PhD lab: long-term revolutions vs. short-term applications 0:36:42: Schön's first work at Bell Labs was 'unpublishable' 0:41:42: How to get away with fraud: pretend you collected data in another lab 0:47:45: Bertram Batlogg and the role of the supervisors of fraudsters 0:56:20: How the bursting of the Dot-Com Bubble and 9/11 may (indirectly) have exacerbated Schön's fraud 1:01:09: How to use your colleagues' ideas to commit better fraud 1:05:05: How Schön's fraud unraveled 1:13:45: What is Schön doing now? 1:18:11: A book or paper more people should read 1:20:20: Something Eugenie wishes she'd learnt sooner 1:22:58: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
104. James Shine: Integrating neuroscience with fMRI, collaboration, and the importance of dumb questions
25 oct. 2024
01:48:03
James (Mac) Shine is a PI and fellow at the University of Sydney. We talk about his background in sports, using fMRI to integrate various parts of neuroscience, collaboration, 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: Mac's sporting background 0:07:46: Overview of Mac's review in Nature (w/ Emily Finn and Russell Poldrack) 0:14:03: The role of great editors in improving scientists and their work 0:32:53: Connecting different levels of description 0:40:07: Integration and specialisation 0:48:49: You can scan any animal with fMRI - but they're usually anaesthetised 0:54:13: The transfer from human fMRI to animal electrophysiology 1:01:53: N=1 studies and layer-fMRI in clinical neuroscience 1:16:17: Collaboration and building a multidisciplinary lab 1:26:52: The magic formula in science: annoyance, excitement, and a constructive mindset 1:34:51: Writing grants as a test to oneself, and the art of reframing 1:41:52: A book or paper more people should read 1:43:37: Something Mac wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:45:43: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
Boyden, ... & Deisseroth (2005). Millisecond-timescale, genetically targeted optical control of neural activity. Nature Neuroscience. Finn, Poldrack & Shine (2023). Functional neuroimaging as a catalyst for integrated neuroscience. Nature. Friston, ... (2017). Active inference: a process theory. Neural Computation. Munn, ... Larkum & Shine (2023). A thalamocortical substrate for integrated information via critical synchronous bursting. PNAS. Newbold, ... & Dosenbach (2020). Plasticity and spontaneous activity pulses in disused human brain circuits. Neuron. Pezzulo & Cisek (2016). Navigating the affordance landscape: feedback control as a process model of behavior and cognition. TiCS. Poldrack, ... (2015). Long-term neural and physiological phenotyping of a single human. Nature Communications. Rao & Ballard (1999). Predictive coding in the visual cortex: a functional interpretation of some extra-classical receptive-field effects. Nature Neuroscience. Shine, ... (2011). Visual misperceptions and hallucinations in Parkinson's disease: dysfunction of attentional control networks?. Movement Disorders. Shine, ... & Poldrack (2016). The dynamics of functional brain networks: integrated network states during cognitive task performance. Neuron. Shine, ... & Poldrack (2016). Temporal metastates are associated with differential patterns of time-resolved connectivity, network topology, and attention. PNAS. Shine & Poldrack (2018). Principles of dynamic network reconfiguration across diverse brain states. NeuroImage.
103. Brandon Brown: Farms not grants, academic negotiations, and unusual academic contributions
18 oct. 2024
01:53:13
Brandon Brown is a professor at University of California Riverside, where he studies global health and ethics. He also writes career columns for Nature and Science, which we talk about: negotiations in academia, his sabbatical, his life owning and working a farm, different types of grants and contributions in academia, 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: Brandon's path to becoming a scientist 0:20:39: Start discussing Brandon's career columns in Nature 0:32:17: Grant applications: small vs. big 0:41:36: Postdoc-phase: is my plan crazy? 0:55:32: Different types of contribution/recognition in academia 1:09:22: Negotiation in academia 1:22:47: Contributing to team science 1:30:30: Sabbaticals 1:39:19: Brandon's farm 1:48:15: A book or paper more people should read 1:49:33: Something Brandon wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:51:43: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
102: Soledad Gonzalo Cogno: Sloooow oscillations in entorhinal cortex, mentoring, and the physics approach to neuroscience
11 oct. 2024
01:37:51
Soledad Gonzalo Cogno is a group leader at the Kavli Institute for Science Neuroscience in Trondheim. We talk about how she went from studying physics in Argentina to working on the brain in Norway, the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to neuroscience, why researchers should give their research animals a nice life, mentorship, and discuss her recent Nature paper on ultraslow oscillatory sequences in medial entorhinal cortex.
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
Timestamps 0:00:00: Studying physics in Argentina 0:12:30: The advantages of a physics background - interdisciplinarity in neuroscience 0:27:31: How Soledad ended up in Trondheim 0:32:46: Rodent heaven in Norway 0:36:19: Start discussing Soledad's paper on ultraslow oscillatory sequences 1:03:12: So what do those ultraslow oscillatory sequences do? 1:16:18: A book or paper more people should read 1:22:30: Something Soledad wishes she'd learnt sooner 1:30:51: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
Brun, Solstad, Kjelstrup, Fyhn, Witter, Moser & Moser (2008). Progressive increase in grid scale from dorsal to ventral medial entorhinal cortex. Hippocampus. Constantinou, Gonzalo Cogno, Elijah, Kropff, Gigg, Samengo & Montemurro (2016). Bursting neurons in the hippocampal formation encode features of LFP rhythms. Frontiers in computational neuroscience. Dayan & Abbott (2005). Theoretical neuroscience: computational and mathematical modeling of neural systems. Gonzalo Cogno, Obenhaus, Lautrup, Jacobsen, Clopath, Andersson, ... & Moser (2024). Minute-scale oscillatory sequences in medial entorhinal cortex. Nature. Hastie, Tibshirani & Friedman (2009). The elements of statistical learning: data mining, inference, and prediction. Kropff, Carmichael, Moser & Moser (2015). Speed cells in the medial entorhinal cortex. Nature. MacKay (2003). Information theory, inference and learning algorithms.
101. Julie Old: Wombats, saving endangered species, and the difficulties of studying wild animals
04 oct. 2024
01:14:18
Julie Old is as Associate Professor at Western Sydney University. We talk about her experiences and research with wombats, various aspects of wombat behavior, conservation efforts, challenges such as sarcoptic mange and roadkill, the Northern hairy-nosed wombat's critically endangered status and efforts to translocate them safely, 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: How Julie got into working with wombats 0:03:14: What are wombats? 0:11:40: How Julie started researching wombats 0:15:34: Sarcoptic mange in wombats 0:25:22: Saving the critically endangered Northern hairy-nosed wombat 0:36:00: How to prevent wombats from becoming roadkill 0:41:46: How do I know a wombat was there without seeing the wombat directly? 0:44:11: What research could I do on wombats and (social) decision-making? 0:47:51: How do wombats navigate in burrows? 0:52:42: How the Australian wildfires in 19/20 affected wombats 0:55:41: WomSAT 0:59:29: The Wombat Foundation 1:01:06: How to translocate a population of wombats 1:08:35: A book or paper more people should read 1:10:53: Something Julie wishes she'd learnt sooner 1:12:11: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
French & Whatley (2002). Diary of a Wombat. Mayadunnage, Stannard, West & Old (2024). Spatial and temporal patterns of sarcoptic mange in wombats using the citizen science tool, WomSAT. Integrative Zoology. Old, Hunter & Wolfenden (2018). Who utilises bare-nosed wombat burrows?. Australian Zoologist. Old, Sengupta, Naraya, & Wolfenden (2018). Sarcoptic mange in wombats—A review and future research directions. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. Old & Deane (2003). The detection of mature T‐and B‐cells during development of the lymphoid tissues of the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). Journal of Anatomy. Old & Deane (2000). Development of the immune system and immunological protection in marsupial pouch young. Developmental & Comparative Immunology. Park (1962). The Adventures of the Muddle-headed Wombat. Stannard, Wynan, Wynan, Dixon Mayadunnage & Old (2021). Can virtual fences reduce wombat road mortalities?. Ecological Engineering. Strahan's mammals of Australia (2023). Woodford (2002). The secret life of wombats.
100. Tom Chivers: Thomas Bayes, Bayesian statistics, and science journalism
16 août 2024
01:19:46
Tom Chivers is a journalist who writes a lot about science and applied statistics. We talk about his new book on Bayesian statistics, the biography of Thomas Bayes, the history of probability theory, how Bayes can help with the replication crisis, how Tom became a journalist, 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: Tom's book about Bayes & Bayesian statistics relates to many of my previous episodes and much of my own research 0:03:12: A brief biography of Thomas Bayes (about whom very little is known) 0:11:00: The history of probability theory 0:36:23: Bayesian songs 0:43:17: Bayes & the replication crisis 0:57:27: How Tom got into science journalism 1:08:32: A book or paper more people should read 1:10:05: Something Tom wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:14:36: Advice for PhD students/postdocs/people in a transition period
Bayes (1731). Divine benevolence, or an attempt to prove that the principal end of the divine providence and government is the happiness of his creatures. Being an answer to a pamphlet entitled Divine Rectitude or an inquiry concerning the moral perfections of the deity with a refutation of the notions therein advanced concerning beauty and order, the reason of punishment and the necessity of a state of trial antecedent to perfect happiness. Bayes (1763). An essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Bellhouse (2004). The Reverend Thomas Bayes, FRS: a biography to celebrate the tercentenary of his birth. Project Euclid. Bem (2011). Feeling the future: experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. Journal of personality and social psychology. Chivers (2024). Everything is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World. Chivers & Chivers (2021). How to read numbers: A guide to statistics in the news (and knowing when to trust them). Chivers (2019). The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future. Clarke [not Black, as Tom said] (2020). Piranesi. Goldacre (2009). Bad science. Goldacre (2014). Bad pharma: how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients. Simmons, Nelson & Simonsohn (2011). False-positive psychology: Undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant. Psychological Science.
99. Laura Luebbert: gget, hunting viruses, and questionable honeybee dances
02 août 2024
01:51:48
Laura Luebbert just finished her PhD in computational biology and will soon be a postdoc with Pardis Sabeti, to hunt some viruses. We talk about how she got into biology, how she created a widely-used software project (gget) with no prior coding experience, her recent reports when she discovered questionable data in key papers about honeybee dances, 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: Why Laura studied biology in Leiden/the Netherlands (and the importance of early scientific training) 0:13:41: How Laura ended up doing a PhD at Caltech with Lior Pachter (and how to choose one project if you're interested in many things) 0:22:00: gget: Developing and maintaining a software tool with no prior programming experience 0:54:07: Laura's future postdoc (with Pardis Sabeti): global virus-hunter 0:59:34: Finding and reporting questionable data in published papers about honeybee dances 1:36:43: A book or paper more people should read 1:38:55: Something Laura wishes she'd learnt sooner 1:40:38: Advice for PhD students/postdocs 1:44:02: Bonus: should I learn Catalan?
Aaronovitch (2014-). Rivers of London series. Frisch (1927). Aus dem Leben der Bienen. Luebbert, Sullivan, Carilli, Hjörleifsson, Winnett, Chari & Pachter (2023). Efficient and accurate detection of viral sequences at single-cell resolution reveals putative novel viruses perturbing host gene expression. bioRxiv. Luebbert & Pachter (2023). Efficient querying of genomic reference databases with gget. Bioinformatics. Luebbert & Pachter (2024). The miscalibration of the honeybee odometer. arXiv. https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2024/07/02/the-journal-of-scientific-integrity/
98. Laura Wesseldijk: Behavioural genetics, music, and the importance of twins
19 juil. 2024
01:20:54
Laura Wesseldijk works at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt at the Behavioral Genetics unit in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC. We talk about her research on the genetics of music and mental health, methods in behavioural genetics, the role of large samples, the importance of twins for behavioural genetics, 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: Did Beethoven have bad genetics for music - or are there problems with applying (some) genetic methods to individuals? 0:11:51: Different methods in behavioural genetics 0:24:20: Gene x environment interactions and the difficulty of disentangling them 0:30:30: 23andMe in genetics research 0:37:26: Can you ask an interesting question if you need millions of people to have done a measurement? 0:42:08: How to measure musicality (at scale) 0:47:56: Geneticists really love twins 0:50:41: Do critical periods in music exist? 1:03:30: How Laura got interested in the genetics of music 1:12:07: A book or paper more people should read 1:16:17: Something Laura wishes she'd learnt sooner 1:17:49: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
References Begg, ... & Krause (2023). Genomic analyses of hair from Ludwig van Beethoven. Current Biology. Harden (2021). The genetic lottery: Why DNA matters for social equality. Hjelmborg, ... & Kaprio, J. (2017). Lung cancer, genetic predisposition and smoking: the Nordic Twin Study of Cancer. Thorax. Rutherford (2020). How to argue with a racist: History, science, race and reality. Rutherford (2022). Control: the dark history and troubling present of eugenics. Ullén, Mosing, Holm, Eriksson & Madison (2014). Psychometric properties and heritability of a new online test for musicality, the Swedish Musical Discrimination Test. Personality and Individual Differences. Wesseldijk, Ullén & Mosing (2019). The effects of playing music on mental health outcomes. Scientific reports. Wesseldijk, Mosing & Ullén (2021). Why is an early start of training related to musical skills in adulthood? A genetically informative study. Psychological Science. Wesseldijk, Ullén & Mosing (2023). Music and genetics. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. Wesseldijk, Abdellaoui, Gordon, Ullén & Mosing (2022). Using a polygenic score in a family design to understand genetic influences on musicality. Scientific reports. Wesseldijk, ... & Fisher (2024). Notes from Beethoven’s genome. Current Biology.
97. Arne Ekstrom: Spatial navigation, memory, and invasive recordings in humans
24 mai 2024
01:17:01
Arne Ekstrom is a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, where he studies spatial navigation and memory. We talk about how he got into psychology, his unusual path to getting a PhD, his work on using single-cells recordings from people, the relationship between memory and spatial navigation, why he uses multiple methods, and much more.
Timestamps 0:00:00: How Arne ended up studying psychology and neuroscience 0:06:23: Arne's route to a PhD recording single-cells in humans (via political activism in Central America) 0:20:18: The state of using VR-like tasks in the early 2000s 0:24:32: The status of spatial navigation research in the early 2000s 0:29:45: Collecting data from unusual populations 0:33:59: Why record from amygdala for a spatial navigation task? 0:41:35: Combining memory and navigation in hippocampus 1:02:04: Should I use one method or many? 1:11:29: A book or paper more people should read 1:13:51: Something Arne wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:14:51: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
Argyropoulos ... & Butler (2019). Network-wide abnormalities explain memory variability in hippocampal amnesia. Elife. Ekstrom, .. & Fried (2003). Cellular networks underlying human spatial navigation. Nature. Ekstrom ... & Kahana (2005). Human hippocampal theta activity during virtual navigation. Hippocampus. Ekstrom ... & Bookheimer (2009). Correlation between BOLD fMRI and theta-band local field potentials in the human hippocampal area. J neurophys. Ekstrom ... & Starrett (2017). Interacting networks of brain regions underlie human spatial navigation: a review and novel synthesis of the literature. J neurophys. Ekstrom & Ranganath (2018). Space, time, and episodic memory: The hippocampus is all over the cognitive map. Hippocampus. Hassabis ... & Maguire (2009). Decoding neuronal ensembles in the human hippocampus. Current Biology. Iaria & Burles (2016). Developmental topographical disorientation. TiCS. Kunz ... & Axmacher (2015). Reduced grid-cell–like representations in adults at genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Science. Logothetis ... & Oeltermann (2001). Neurophysiological investigation of the basis of the fMRI signal. Nature. Watrous ... & Ekstrom (2013). Frequency-specific network connectivity increases underlie accurate spatiotemporal memory retrieval. Nat Neuro. Zhang & Ekstrom (2013). Human neural systems underlying rigid and flexible forms of allocentric spatial representation. Human brain mapping.
96. Benjamin Ehrlich: Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the neuron doctrine, and combining art & science
16 avr. 2024
01:06:09
Benjamin Ehrlich is the author of the recent biography of Santiago Ramon y Cajal (The brain in search of itself), and The Dreams of Santiago Ramon y Cajal. We talk about Cajal's life and work, Cajal's unlikely beginnings in a rural Spain, how he discovered that neurons were separate from each other, leading to the neutron doctrine, how Cajal became famous seemingly overnight, Cajal's rivalry with Camillo Golgi, the relationship between art and science, how to write a biography of someone whose autobiographical writings were heavily influenced by picaresque novels, 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: Why Cajal is worth talking about 0:01:42: Cajal's father 0:04:48: Cajal's childhood 0:17:22: Cajal's early work on the brain, and the status of neuroscience in the 1880s 0:23:45: The conference that made Cajal famous 0:29:42: Cajal's years as a famous scientist 0:35:33: Cajal's personality 0:41:14: Cajal & Golgi's rivalry 0:45:48: del Rio and the discovery of glia cells 0:49:13: Picaresque novels and the difficulty of trusting Cajal's stories of himself 1:02:52: A book or paper more people should read 1:04:14: Something Ben wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:04:57: Advice for PhD students/postdocs - people in a transitory period
Calvino (1972). Invisible cities. Ehrlich (2017). The Dreams of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Ehrlich (2022). The brain in search of itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the story of the neuron. Pitlor & Lee (editors). The Best American Short Stories 2023 .
95. Emily Finn: Neural fingerprinting, 'naturalistic' stimuli, and taking time before starting a PhD
02 mars 2024
01:43:43
Emily 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 related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
Timestamps 0:00:00: Supportive peer review 0:03:25: Why study linguistics? 0:11:05: Uncertainties about doing a PhD/taking time off 0:18:05: Emily's year-and-a-half in Peru 0:25:17: Emily's PhD 0:29:34: Neural fingerprints 0:49:25: Naturalistic stimuli in neuroimaging 1:24:01: How to write good scientific articles 1:30:55: A book or paper more people should read 1:34:58: Something Emily wishes she'd learnt sooner 1:39:20: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
Byrge & Kennedy (2019). High-accuracy individual identification using a “thin slice” of the functional connectome. Network Neuroscience. Burkeman (2021). Four thousand weeks: Time management for mortals. Finn, ... & Constable (2014). Disruption of functional networks in dyslexia: a whole-brain, data-driven analysis of connectivity. Biological psychiatry. Finn, Shen, ... & Constable (2015). Functional connectome fingerprinting: identifying individuals using patterns of brain connectivity. Nature Neuroscience. Finn, ... & Constable (2018). Trait paranoia shapes inter-subject synchrony in brain activity during an ambiguous social narrative. Nature Communications. Finn, ... & Bandettini (2020). Idiosynchrony: From shared responses to individual differences during naturalistic neuroimaging. NeuroImage. Finn & Bandettini (2021). Movie-watching outperforms rest for functional connectivity-based prediction of behavior. NeuroImage. Finn (2021). Is it time to put rest to rest?. Trends in cognitive sciences. Finn & Rosenberg (2021). Beyond fingerprinting: Choosing predictive connectomes over reliable connectomes. NeuroImage. Grall & Finn (2022). Leveraging the power of media to drive cognition: A media-informed approach to naturalistic neuroscience. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Hasson, ... & Malach (2004). Intersubject synchronization of cortical activity during natural vision. Science. Hedge, Powell & Sumner (2018). The reliability paradox: Why robust cognitive tasks do not produce reliable individual differences. Behavior research methods. Sava-Segal, ... & Finn (2023). Individual differences in neural event segmentation of continuous experiences. Cerebral Cortex.
94. David Van Essen: The Human Connectome Project, hierarchical processing, and the joys of collaboration
18 févr. 2024
01:01:39
David 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.
Timestamps 0:00:00: David's childhood: ravens, rockets, and radios 0:05:00: From physics to neuroscience (via chemistry) 0:13:55: Quantitative and qualitative approaches to science 0:19:17: Model species in neuroscience 0:31:35: Hierarchical processing in the cortex 0:46:54: The Human Connectome Project 0:55:00: A book or paper more people should read 0:58:01: Something David wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:00:31: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
Felleman & Van Essen (1991). Distributed hierarchical processing in the primate cerebral cortex. Cerebral Cortex. Glasser, Coalson, Robinson, Hacker, Harwell, Yacoub, ... & Van Essen (2016). A multi-modal parcellation of human cerebral cortex. Nature. Hubel & Wiesel (1962). Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex. The Journal of physiology. Maunsell & Van Essen (1983). The connections of the middle temporal visual area (MT) and their relationship to a cortical hierarchy in the macaque monkey. Journal of Neuroscience. Sheldrake (2021). Entangled life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures. Van Essen & Kelly (1973). Morphological identification of simple, complex and hypercomplex cells in the visual cortex of the cat. In Intracellular Staining in Neurobiology (pp. 189-198). Van Essen & Maunsell (1980). Two‐dimensional maps of the cerebral cortex. Journal of Comparative Neurology. Van Essen (2012). Cortical cartography and Caret software. Neuroimage. Van Essen, Smith, Barch, Behrens, Yacoub, Ugurbil & WU-Minn HCP Consortium. (2013). The WU-Minn human connectome project: an overview. Neuroimage. Wooldridge (1963). The machinery of the brain.
93. Nachum Ulanovsky: Bats, spatial navigation, and natural neuroscience
09 févr. 2024
01:25:56
Nachum 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.
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 lab-born bats / spatial navigation in very large spaces 0:26:28: How to build a 700m long tunnel for neuroscience 0:44:30: 2 random questions about bats 0:53:48: The social lives of bats & social place cells 1:05:09: Why are there so many types of cells for spatial navigation? 1:13:01: Natural neuroscience 1:17:33: A book or paper more people should read 1:20:39: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
Eilam-Altstadter ... (2021). Stereotaxic brain atlas of the Egyptian fruit bat. Eliav ... (2021). Multiscale representation of very large environments in the hippocampus of flying bats. Science. Finkelstein ... (2015). Three-dimensional head-direction coding in the bat brain. Nature. Geva-Sagiv ... (2015). Spatial cognition in bats and rats: from sensory acquisition to multiscale maps and navigation. Nat Rev Neuro. Geva-Sagiv ... (2016). Hippocampal global remapping for different sensory modalities in flying bats. Nat Neuro. Hafting ... (2005). Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex. Nature. Hodgkin & Huxley (1952). A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve. The J phys. Hubel & Wiesel (1962). Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex. The J phys. Lettvin... (1959). What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain. Proceedings of IRE. Miller (1956). The magical number seven, plus or minus two ... Psych Rev. O'Keefe & Dostrovsky (1971). The hippocampus as a spatial map ... Brain research. Omer ... (2018). Social place-cells in the bat hippocampus. Science. Sarel ... (2017). Vectorial representation of spatial goals in the hippocampus of bats. Science. Sarel ... (2022). Natural switches in behaviour rapidly modulate hippocampal coding. Nature. Tsoar ... (2011). Large-scale navigational map in a mammal. PNAS. Ulanovsky ... (2003). Processing of low-probability sounds by cortical neurons. Nature neuroscience. Ulanovsky & Moss (2007). Hippocampal cellular and network activity in freely moving echolocating bats. Nat Neuro. Yartsev & Ulanovsky (2013). Representation of three-dimensional space in the hippocampus of flying bats. Science.
92. Tom Hardwicke: Meta-research, reproducibility, and post-publication critique
02 févr. 2024
01:06:48
Tom 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.
Timestamps 0:00:00: What is meta-science/meta-research? 0:03:15: How Tom got involved in meta-science 0:21:51: Post-publication critique in journals 0:39:30: How Tom's work (registered reports) led to policy changes at journals 0:44:08: Tom is now the STAR (statistics, transparency, and rigor) editor at Psychological Science 0:48:17: How to best share data that can be used by people with different backgrounds 0:54:51: A book or paper more people should read 0:56:36: Something Tom wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:00:13: Jobs in meta-science 1:03:29: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
Chambers & Mellor (2018). Protocol transparency is vital for registered reports. Nature Human Behaviour. Hardwicke, Jameel, Jones, Walczak & Weinberg (2014). Only human: Scientists, systems, and suspect statistics. Opticon1826. Hardwicke & Ioannidis (2018). Mapping the universe of registered reports. Nature Human Behaviour. Hardwicke, Serghiou, Janiaud, Danchev, Crüwell, Goodman & Ioannidis (2020). Calibrating the scientific ecosystem through meta-research. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. Hardwicke, Thibault, Kosie, Tzavella, Bendixen, Handcock, ... & Ioannidis (2022). Post-publication critique at top-ranked journals across scientific disciplines: a cross-sectional assessment of policies and practice. Royal Society Open Science. Hardwicke & Vazire (2023). Transparency Is Now the Default at Psychological Science. Psychological Science. Kidwell, Lazarević, Baranski, Hardwicke, Piechowski, Falkenberg, ... & Nosek (2016). Badges to acknowledge open practices: A simple, low-cost, effective method for increasing transparency. PLoS biology. Nosek, Hardwicke, Moshontz, Allard, Corker, Dreber, ... & Vazire (2022). Replicability, robustness, and reproducibility in psychological science. Annual review of psychology. Ritchie (2020). Science fictions: Exposing fraud, bias, negligence and hype in science.
91. Jessica Polka: Preprints, publishing peer reviews, and the joys of pipetting
26 janv. 2024
01:16:13
Jessica 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.
Timestamps 0:00:00: The Jessica-Polka 0:01:25: What is ASAPbio? 0:03:53: Do we still need to convince people to use preprints in 2024? / Different uses for preprints 0:17:53: Are preprints really that beneficial? 0:24:05: Peer review's many functions and audiences 0:36:36: Do we still need journals? 0:41:27: Why should we publish peer review? 0:54:08: What can we do as individual scientists (other than hope for systemic change)? 0:56:55: How Jessica got involved with ASAPbio, and her day-to-day work 1:08:20: A book or paper more people should read 1:11:13: Something Jessica wishes she'd learnt sooner 1:13:18: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
References Abbott (1884). Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Cialdini (1984). Influence: The psychology of persuasion. Eckmann & Bandrowski (2023). PreprintMatch: A tool for preprint to publication detection shows global inequities in scientific publication. Plos One. Moran & Lennington (2013). The 12 Week Year: Get more Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months. Penfold & Polka (2020). Technical and social issues influencing the adoption of preprints in the life sciences. PLoS Genetics. Polka, Kiley, Konforti, Stern & Vale (2018). Publish peer reviews. Nature.
90. Brian Boyd: The life & works of Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, and writing biographies
19 janv. 2024
01:40:38
Brian 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 Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
Timestamps 0:00:00: Why this is a special episode for me 0:07:02: Nabokov's family & childhood 0:15:54: The Russian Revolution, starting in 1917 0:19:52: Nabokov's study years in Cambridge and emigre years in Berlin in the 1920s and 30s 0:30:19: Nabokov's early American years: teaching and butterflies 0:35:56: Nabokov's Russian vs English works, and the problem of translations 0:41:48: Lolita 0:50:13: Pale Fire 1:02:46: Nabokov's writing process 1:07:26: Nabokov's reception 1:10:00: Writing Nabokov's biography: how it started, meeting Nabokov's family, researching and writing, and the responsibility of writing the defining work on someone 1:28:26: Which Nabokov book should new readers read first? 1:30:58: A book or paper more people should read 1:35:03: Something Brian wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:38:47: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
Boyd (1985/2001). Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness. Boyd (1990). Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years. Boyd (1991). Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years. Boyd & Pyle (eds) (2000). Nabokov’s Butterflies . Boyd (2001). Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery. Grass (1959). Die Blechtrommel. James (1897). What Maisie Knew. Machado de Assis (1882). The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. [The 2 new translations are by Thomson-DeVeaux (Penguin Classics), and by Jull Costa & Patterson (Liveright)] Nabokov (1929). The (Luzhin) Defense. Nabokov (1936). Invitation to a Beheading. Nabokov (1947). Bend Sinister. Nabokov (1955). Lolita. Nabokov (1957). Pnin. Nabokov (1962). Pale Fire. Nabokov (1967). Speak, Memory. Nabokov (1969). Ada or Ardor. Tarnowsky (1908). Les femmes homicides. [Nabokov's great-aunt; see also: Huff-Corzine & Toohy (2023). The life and scholarship of Pauline Tarnowsky: Criminology's mother. Journal of Criminal Justice] Vila, Bell, Macniven, Goldman-Huertas, Ree, Marshall, ... & Pierce (2011). Phylogeny and palaeoecology of Polyommatus blue butterflies show Beringia was a climate-regulated gateway to the New World. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
89. Camillo Padoa-Schioppa: Value in the brain, orbitofrontal cortex, and causality in neuroscience
13 janv. 2024
01:52:19
Camillo 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.
Timestamps 0:00:00: The historic background of economic value 0:12:31: How Camillo became a neuroeconomist 0:38:50: What does neuroscience add to our understanding of behaviour? 0:47:52: Value in the brain / discussing Camillo's 2006 Nature paper 1:05:47: Does the brain even need to compute value? 1:11:59: Causality in neuroscience / discussing Camillo's 2020 Nature paper 1:27:19: Trivial decisions 1:31:26: Is it wise to do neuroscience in humans and in animals, or should I focus on one approach? 1:40:15: A book or paper more people should read 1:43:19: Something Camillo wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:45:53: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
References Ballesta ... & Padoa-Schioppa (2020). Values encoded in orbitofrontal cortex are causally related to economic choices. Nature. Bentham (1780). An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation. Gigerenzer & Gaissmaier (2011). Heuristic decision making. Annual review of psychology. Hayden & Niv (2021). The case against economic values in the orbitofrontal cortex (or anywhere else in the brain). Behavioral Neuroscience. Homer. Iliad. Homer. Odyssey. Padoa-Schioppa (2009). Range-adapting representation of economic value in the orbitofrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. Padoa-Schioppa (2011). Neurobiology of economic choice: a good-based model. Annual review of neuroscience. Padoa-Schioppa & Assad (2006). Neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex encode economic value. Nature. Padoa-Schioppa & Conen (2017). Orbitofrontal cortex: a neural circuit for economic decisions. Neuron. Padoa-Schioppa ... & Visalberghi (2006). Multi-stage mental process for economic choice in capuchins. Cognition. Padoa-Schioppa, Li & Bizzi (2002). Neuronal correlates of kinematics-to-dynamics transformation in the supplementary motor area. Neuron. Smith (1759). The theory of moral sentiments. Salzman ... & Newsome (1990). Cortical microstimulation influences perceptual judgements of motion direction. Nature. Salzman ... & Newsome (1992). Microstimulation in visual area MT: effects on direction discrimination performance. Journal of Neuroscience. Visalberghi & Trinca (1989). Tool use in capuchin monkeys: Distinguishing between performing and understanding. Primates.
88. Juliana Schroeder: Talking to strangers, undersociality, and replicable field studies
05 janv. 2024
01:02:24
Juliana 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 related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
Timestamps 00:00: The origin of Juliana's studies on talking to strangers 02:15: Why don't people talk to strangers (during commutes)? 05:46: What happens when strangers are forced to talk to each other? 08:47: How to start a conversation 13:31: Cultural differences in talking to strangers 31:19: How to create robust and replicable field studies 48:04: What's next for this line of research? 54:14: A book or paper more people should read 55:26: Something Juliana wishes she'd learnt sooner 57:13: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
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87. Rick Betzel: Network neuroscience, generative modeling, and collaborations
01 janv. 2024
01:23:30
Rick 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.
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: Multi-scale brain networks 0:43:40: Collaborations (between people who collect data and people who analyse data) 0:52:33: The future of network neuroscience: generative modeling, network control, and edge-centric connectomics 1:13:15: A book or paper more people should read 1:15:55: Something Rick wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:18:01: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
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86. Elisabeth Bik: Reporting scientific misconduct, the arms race between fraud & fraud detection, and the microbiome of dolphins
22 déc. 2023
01:32:49
Elisabeth 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, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
Timestamps 0:00:00: How Elisabeth became a full-time science integrity consultant 0:04:45: The microbiome of dolphins 0:12:02: What should I do if Ifind errors or fraud in a paper? 0:28:58: Reactions to Elisabeth's work: awards, online abuse, and lots of silence from journals 0:52:23: Should you report misconduct if you're in a vulnerable position? 0:58:19: What problems are worth reporting? 1:05:51: How does one become a (full-time) research integrity consultant? 1:13:21: The arms race between people commiting fraud and people detecting fraud 1:22:49: A book or paper more people should read 1:25:26: Something Elisabeth wishes she'd learnt sooner 1:29:09: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
Bik, Casadevall & Fang (2016). The prevalence of inappropriate image duplication in biomedical research publications. MBio. Bik, Costello, Switzer, Callahan, Holmes, Wells, ... & Relman (2016). Marine mammals harbor unique microbiotas shaped by and yet distinct from the sea. Nature Communications. Brown & Heathers (2017). The GRIM test: A simple technique detects numerous anomalies in the reporting of results in psychology. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Reich (2009): Plastic fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific
85. Peter Bandettini: The history, present, and future of fMRI
15 déc. 2023
01:23:44
Peter 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.
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 since 2000 0:40:11: The future of fMRI 0:58:19: What is Peter working on? 1:06:31: A book or paper more people should read 1:14:36: Something Peter wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:21:52: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
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84. Brian Nosek: Improving science, the past & future of the Center for Open Science, and failure in science
08 déc. 2023
01:02:09
Brian 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.
Timestamps 00:00: Brian's early interest in improving science 15:24: How the Center for Open Science got funded (by John and Laura Arnold) 26:08: How long is COS financed into the future? 29:01: What if COS isn't benefitting science anymore? 35:42: Is Brian a scientist or an entrepreneur? 40:58: The future of the Center for Open Science 51:13: A book or paper more people should read 54:42: Something Brian wishes he'd learnt sooner 58:53: Advice for PhD students/postdocs
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83. Rachel Bedder: Rumination, teaching without grades, and managing yourself as a PhD student
03 déc. 2023
01:36:05
Rachel 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.
Timestamps 0:00:00: Teaching maths in prison 0:06:40: Teaching without grades 0:15:42: Working as a full-time research assistant (after BSc) and dealing with lots of rejections 0:25:51: How Rachel ended up doing a postdoc with Yael Niv 0:32:08: Discussing Rachel's conference proceedings 'Modelling Rumination as a State-Inference Process' (featuring partially observable Markov decision processes) 0:56:49: Rachel's background in art and curation 1:10:58: How to not turn hobbies into a stressful thing you need to get done 1:14:46: A book or paper more people should read 1:16:47: Something Rachel wishes she'd learnt sooner 1:19:05: Advice for PhD students/postdocs, with a twist: 5 tips for managing yourself during a PhD
Bedder, Pisupati & Niv (2023) Modelling Rumination as a State-Inference Process. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tfjqn Burkeman (2021). Four thousand weeks: Time management for mortals. McCullers (1940). The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Montague, Dolan, Friston & Dayan (2012). Computational psychiatry. Trends in cognitive sciences.
82. Geoff Cumming: p-values, estimation, and meta-analytic thinking
24 nov. 2023
01:12:41
Geoff 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.
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 know how many participants I need (without a power calculation)? 0:50:27: Problems of the estimation approach (big data) 1:00:08: A book or paper more people should read 1:02:50: Something Geoff wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:04:52: Advice for PhD students and postdocs
Coulson, ...(2010). Confidence intervals permit, but don't guarantee, better inference than statistical significance testing. Front in Psychol. Cumming & Calin-Jageman (2016/2024). Introduction to the new statistics: Estimation, open science, and beyond. Cumming (2014). The new statistics: Why and how. Psychol Sci. Cumming & Finch (2005). Inference by eye: confidence intervals and how to read pictures of data. American Psychol. Errington, ... (2021) Reproducibility in Cancer Biology: Challpenges for assessing replicability in preclinical cancer biology. eLife. Errington, ... (2021) Investigating the replicability of preclinical cancer biology. eLife. Finch & Cumming (2009). Putting research in context: Understanding confidence intervals from one or more studies. J of Pediatric Psychol. Hedges (1987). How hard is hard science, how soft is soft science? The empirical cumulativeness of research. American Psychologist. Hunt (1997). How science takes stock: The story of meta-analysis. Ioannidis (2005). Why most published research findings are false. PLoS Medicine. Loftus (1996). Psychology will be a much better science when we change the way we analyze data. Curr direct psychol sci. Maxwell, ... (2008). Sample size planning for statistical power and accuracy in parameter estimation. Annu Rev Psychol. Oakes (1986). Statistical inference: A commentary for the social and behavioural sciences. Pennington (2023). A Student's Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis Reform Psychology. Rothman (1986). Significance questing. Annals of Int Med. Schmidt (1996). Statistical significance testing and cumulative knowledge in psychology: Implications for training of researchers. Psychol Methods.
81. Brooke Macnamara: Growth mindset, deliberate practice, and the benefits of diverse experiences
17 nov. 2023
01:06:02
Brooke 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.
Timestamps 0:00:00: How Brooke started working on mindset and deliberate practice 0:02:10: (Growth) mindset: does it matter? 0:21:10: Mindset interventions 0:36:48: Deliberate practice 0:47:06: Benefits of diverse experiences 0:56:20: Is the theory of deliberate practice unfalsifiable? 0:59:36: What can we take practically from the growth mindset and deliberate pratice research? 1:01:06: A book or paper more people should read 1:02:10: Something Brooke wishes she'd learnt sooner 1:04:32: Advice for PhD students and postdocs
Burgoyne, Hambrick, & Macnamara (2020). How firm are the foundations of mind-set theory? The claims appear stronger than the evidence. Psychol Science. Dweck (2006). Mindset-Changing the way you think to fulfil your potential. Epstein (2021). Range: Why generalists triumph in a specialized world. Ericsson & Harwell (2019). Deliberate practice and proposed limits on the effects of practice on the acquisition of expert performance. Frontiers in Psychol. Ericsson, Krampe & Tesch-Römer (1993). The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance. Psychol Rev. Gladwell (2008). Outliers: The story of success. Macnamara & Burgoyne (2023). Do growth mindset interventions impact students’ academic achievement? A systematic review and meta-analysis with recommendations for best practices. Psychol Bull. Macnamara, Hambrick & Oswald (2014). Deliberate practice and performance in music, games, sports, education, and professions: A meta-analysis. Psychol Science. Macnamara & Maitra (2019). The role of deliberate practice in expert performance: Revisiting Ericsson, Krampe & Tesch-Römer (1993). Royal Society Open Science. Macnamara, Moreau & Hambrick (2016). The relationship between deliberate practice and performance in sports: A meta-analysis. Perspec Psychol Science. Macnamara, Prather & Burgoyne (2023). Beliefs about success are prone to cognitive fallacies. Nat Rev Psychol. Sisk, Burgoyne, Sun, Butler & Macnamara (2018). To what extent and under which circumstances are growth mind-sets important to academic achievement? Two meta-analyses. Psychol Science.
80. Simine Vazire: Scientific editing, the purpose of journals, and the future of psychological science
10 nov. 2023
01:21:29
Simine 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.
Timestamps 0:00:00: What is SIPS and why did Simine cofound it? 0:05:10: Why Simine resigned from the NASEM Reproducibility & Replicability committee 0:13:07: Do we still need journals and peer review in 2023? 0:28:04: What does an Editor-in-Chief actually do? 0:37:09: Simine will be EiC of Psychological Science 0:59:44: The 'hidden curriculum' of scientific publishing 1:04:03: Why Siminie created a GoFundMe for DataColada 1:15:10: A book or paper more people should read 1:17:10: Something Simine wishes she'd learnt sooner 1:18:44: Advice for PhD students and postdocs
Holcombe (during dogwalk). On peer review. Personal communication to Simine. Open Science Collaboration (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science. Reich (2009): Plastic fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific
79. Nanthia Suthana: Invasive brain recordings in humans, learning as a PI, and the joys of mentorship
03 nov. 2023
00:49:02
Nanthia 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.
Timestamps 00:00: Was it good that Nanthia finished school so young? 01:27: How invasive recordings in humans have changed over the past 15 years 10:45: The future of invasive recordings in humans 19:29: Mentorship in academia 30:01: Learning as a PI 36:02: Book or paper more people should read 40:53: Something Nanthia wishes she'd learnt sooner 45:42: Advice for PhD students and postdocs
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78. Gillian Coughlan: Dementia, spatial navigation, and menopause
27 oct. 2023
00:57:28
Gillian 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 anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
Timestamps 00:00: Playing the piano 07:13: How Gillian ended up doing her PhD with Michael Hornberger in Norwich 14:02: How to find a good mentor 16:48: Sea Hero Quest 22:28: Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease 32:37: The role of Beta-Amyloid and tau in dementia 34:41: Spatial navigation, the entorhinal cortex, and dementia 44:14: Does menopause affect spatial navigation and risk of dementia? 50:31: Book or paper more people should read 52:37: Something Gillain wishes she'd learnt sooner 55:31: Advice for PhD students and postdocs
Coughlan, DeSouza, Zhukovsky, Hornberger, Grady & Buckley (2023). Spatial cognition is associated with levels of phosphorylated-tau and β-amyloid in clinically normal older adults. Neurobiology of Aging. Coughlan, ... Buckley (2023). Association of age at menopause and hormone therapy use with tau and β-amyloid positron emission tomography. JAMA Neurology. Coughlan, Coutrot, Khondoker, Minihane, Spiers & Hornberger (2019). Toward personalized cognitive diagnostics of at-genetic-risk Alzheimer’s disease. PNAS. Coughlan, Laczó, Hort, Minihane & Hornberger (2018). Spatial navigation deficits—overlooked cognitive marker for preclinical Alzheimer disease?. Nature Reviews Neurology. Eger (2017). The Choice. Pertesi, Coughlan, Puthusseryppady, Morris & Hornberger (2019). Menopause, cognition and dementia–A review. Post reproductive health.
77. Lynn Nadel: Collaboration, Hippocampal History, and clinical applications of hippocampal development
20 oct. 2023
00:48:38
Lynn 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 neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
Timestamps 00:00: Who was A. Black? 03:38: How was The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map received? 08:08: Lynn's wandering years 15:46: At the University of Arizona 21:24: How to foster collaboration 28:29: Being a head of department 38:22: The Hippocampal History project 42:56: Lynn's developmental work
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76. Adam Mastroianni: Paradigms in psychology, science as a strong-link problem, and The Psychology House
13 oct. 2023
01:21:57
Adam 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.
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 of ships, The Psychology House, and Dan Gilbert's supervsion 1:06:53: How to cultivate good feedback 1:13:20: A book, paper, or blog post more people should read 1:16:26: Something Adam wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:18:34: Any advice for PhD students or postdocs?
References Cosmides & Tooby (2015). Neurocognitive adaptations designed for social exchange. The handbook of evo psych. Gilbert (2006). Stumbling on happiness. Hesse (1922). Siddhartha. Mastroianni, AM & Ludwin-Peery, EJ. (2022). Things could be better. https://psyarxiv.com/2uxwk Richerson & Boyd (1978). A dual inheritance model of the human evolutionary process. J of Soc and Bio Structu
75. Paul Smaldino: Modeling Social Behavior, the value of false models, and research beyond traditional disciplines
06 oct. 2023
01:46:07
Paul 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.
Timestamps 0:00:00: Paul's new book 'Modeling Social Behavior' 0:04:42: Paul's somewhat circuitous route to doing what he does today 0:25:54: Why so interdisciplinary? 0:36:58: The importance of (metaphorical) violence in modeling 0:46:26: Newton's model of gravitation ignores almost everything 0:52:11: Exact vs inexact sciences 1:00:02: From simple to complex models of cooperation, and the complementarity of simulations and equations 1:11:48: When is formal modeling appropriate and when is it too soon? 1:27:47: A book or paper Paul thinks more people should read 1:32:46: What Paul wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:36:20: Any advice for PhD students or postdocs?
Axelrod & Hamilton (1981). The evolution of cooperation. Science. Boyd & Richerson (1988). Culture and the evolutionary process. Friston (2012). The history of the future of the Bayesian brain. NeuroImage. Giraldeau & Caraco (2000). Social foraging theory. Princeton University Press. Giraldeau & Gillis (1985). Optimal group size can be stable: a reply to Sibly. Animal Behaviour. Gleick (2004). Isaac Newton. Glimcher (2004). Decisions, uncertainty, and the brain: The science of neuroeconomics. Hamilton (1964). The genetical evolution of social behaviour. Journal of theoretical biology. Kauffman (1970). Articulation of parts explanation in biology and the rational search for them. PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. Kay (2010). Obliquity. Nowak & May (1992). Evolutionary games and spatial chaos. Nature. Smaldino (2023). Modeling social behavior: Mathematical and agent-based models of social dynamics and cultural evolution. Princeton University Press. Smaldino (2017). Models are stupid, and we need more of them. Computational social psychology. Smaldino, Pickett, Sherman & Schank (2012). An agent-based model of social identity dynamics. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. Turchin (2003). Historical dynamics: Why states rise and fall. Wimsatt (1987). False models as means to truer theories. Neutral models in biology. Wimsatt (2007). Re-engineering philosophy for limited beings: Piecewise approximations to reality. Zukav (2012). The dancing Wu Li masters: An overview of the new physics.
74. Moin Syed: Glorious PNAS, editing a journal, and masterful procrastination
11 août 2023
01:34:49
Moin 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.
Timestamps 0:00:00: The silliness of prestige journals (especially PNAS) 0:18:45: Deep description are necessary for science and theory 0:29:43: Where should I submit my paper? 0:35:51: Why would one want to be an editor at a journal? 0:55:27: Cover letters 1:03:44: Should I sign my peer reviews? 1:13:03: A book/paper Moin thinks more people should read 1:19:23: Something Moin wishes he'd learnt earlier 1:29:22: Moin's advice to PhD students/postdocs
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73. Tom Hostler: Open science, workload, and academic capitalism
23 juin 2023
01:18:49
Tom 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.
Timestamps 0:00:00: Start discussing Tom's paper 'The Invisible Workload of Open Research' 0:29:22: Does open science actually increase workload? 0:44:26: How open science changes the research process 0:54:02: Are open science requirements especially time consuming for labs without lots of funding? 1:01:44: What are the most effective open science practices? 1:06:31: Book or paper Tom thinks more people should read 1:09:39: Something Tom wishes he'd learnt sooner 1:13:32: Tom's advice for PhD students and postdocs
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72. Nico Schuck: Replay, cognitive maps, and multivariate decoding with fMRI
04 juin 2023
00:58:52
Nico 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-Smith.
Timestamps 00:00: Nico's work elicits 'limited enthusiasm' 04:36: Multivariate decoding with fMRI 13:23: Start discussing Nico's paper 'Human OFC represents a cognitive map of state space' 19:39: Weird tasks in computational neuroscience 27:30: Start discussing Nico's paper ' Sequential replay of nonspatial task states in the human hippocampus' 36:45: How can the slow fMRI signal pick up on very fast neural dynamics? 43:02: What is Orbitofrontal Cortex and what does it do? 49:24: Some books and papers more people should read 55:17: Something Nico wishes he'd learnt sooner 56:40: Advice for young scientists
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71. Lynn Nadel: Memory, The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map, and the importance of behaviour
23 avr. 2023
01:01:53
Lynn 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.
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.
Timestamps 00:00: How Lynn went from studying chemistry to doing a PhD on memory 08:35: What was it like working Donald Hebb? 15:16: The golden era of cognitive neuroscience at McGill in the 50s and 60s 23:14: Lynn's postdoc in Prague was interrupted by the Soviet invasion during Prague Spring 36:29: The discovery of place cells and the writing of The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map 50:59: A paper or book Lynn thinks more people should read 54:55: Something Lynn wishes he'd learnt sooner 57:38: Advice for early career scientists
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70. Mona Garvert: Cognitive maps, fMRI adaptation, and computational psychiatry
08 avr. 2023
01:06:28
Mona 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.
Timestamps 00:00: How Mona started working on cognitive maps 15:28: Repetition suppression/fMRI adaptation 28:49: Start discussing Mona's paper 'A map of abstract relational knowledge in the human hippocampal-entorhinal cortex' 40:07: Are discrete and continuous maps different in the brain? 43:37: Start discussing Mona's paper ' Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization' 55:50: Mona now works for Alena, doing computational psychiatry
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