We discuss how living meta‑analyses—meta‑analyses that are continuously updated as new studies appear—can cut research waste and keep evidence current. We also chat about how using synthetic research participants is a terrible idea.
Links
* The BMJ Christmas special paper on how recent is "recent" (https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj-2025-086941)
* The synthetic panel (https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/distributions-module/synthetic-panels/) service
* The paper (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2025.107713) describing a living meta-analysis platform for oxytocin research
* A preprint commentary (https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/udexg_v1) on living meta-analysis
Social media links
- Dan on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/dsquintana.bsky.social)
- James on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/jamesheathers.bsky.social)
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194: Author verification
lundi 10 novembre 2025 • Durée 44:22
We discuss whether preprint servers and journals should require author identity verification for submitting manuscripts. This would probably speed up the submission process, but is this worth the potential downsides? We also discuss the similarities and differences between academia and professional sports and a weird case of author identity theft.
Other links
* The BJKS podcast https://bjks.buzzsprout.com
Social media links
- Dan on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/dsquintana.bsky.social)
- James on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/jamesheathers.bsky.social)
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193: The pop-up journal
jeudi 7 août 2025 • Durée 59:03
Dan and James chat about a a new 'pop-up journal' concept for addressing specific research questions. They also answer a listener question from a journal grammar editor and discuss a new PNAS article on paper mills
Links
* The pop-up journal (https://popupjournal.com)
* The episode (https://everythinghertz.com/58) where Dan's wife went into labor
* The PNAS paper mill paper (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420092122)
* A blog post (https://reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a-do-or-die-moment-for-the-scientific-enterprise/) from the PNAS paper lead author, Reese Richardson.
* The Nature piece (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02446-5) on the paper
Social media links
- Dan on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/dsquintana.bsky.social)
- James on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/jamesheathers.bsky.social)
- Everything Hertz on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/hertzpodcast.bsky.social)
Citation
Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2025, August 7). 193: The pop-up journal, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/2ZMQ7
192: Outsourcing in academia
mardi 1 juillet 2025 • Durée 47:42
Dan and James answer listener questions on outsourcing in academia and differences in research culture between academic institutions and commercial institutions.
Social media links
- Dan on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/dsquintana.bsky.social)
- James on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/jamesheathers.bsky.social)
- Everything Hertz on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/hertzpodcast.bsky.social)
Citation
Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2025, July 1). 192: Outsourcing in academia, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/3MC2R
191: Cleaning up contaminated medical treatment guidelines
mardi 3 juin 2025 • Durée 48:24
James and Dan discuss James' newly funded 'Medical Evidence Project', whose goal is to find questionable medical evidence that is contaminating treatment guidelines.
Links
* James' blog post (https://jamesclaims.substack.com/p/how-should-we-fund-scientific-error) from last year
* The carthorse child blog post (https://medium.com/hackernoon/introducing-sprite-and-the-case-of-the-carthorse-child-58683c2bfeb)
* The blog post (https://jamesclaims.substack.com/p/introducing-the-medical-evidence) announcing the project
* A write up in Nature (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01739-z?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nature&linkId=14776408) about the project
Other links
- Dan on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/dsquintana.bsky.social)
- James on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/jamesheathers.bsky.social)
- Everything Hertz on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/hertzpodcast.bsky.social)
Citation
Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2025, June 4). 191: Cleaning up contaminated medical treatment guidelines Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/537BN
190: What happens when you pay reviewers?
mercredi 2 avril 2025 • Durée 44:25
We chat about two new studies that took different approaches for evaluating the impact of paying reviewers on peer review speed and quality.
Links
* James' 450 movement proposal (https://jamesheathers.medium.com/the-450-movement-1f86132a29bd)
* The paper (https://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/fulltext/9900/effect_of_monetary_incentives_on_peer_review.488.aspx) from Critical Care Medicine
* The preprint (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.18.644032v1) from Biology Open
Other links
- Dan on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/dsquintana.bsky.social)
- James on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/jamesheathers.bsky.social)
- Everything Hertz on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/hertzpodcast.bsky.social)
Citation
Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2025, April 2). 190: What happens when you pay reviewers?, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/PHQ2K
189: Crit me baby, one more time
dimanche 2 mars 2025 • Durée 53:40
Dan and James discuss a recent piece that proposes a post-publication review process, which is triggered by citation counts. They also cover how an almetrics trigger could be alternatively used for a more immediate post-publication critique.
Links
* The Chonicle piece (https://www.chronicle.com/article/social-science-is-broken-heres-how-to-fix-it?sra=true) by Andrew Gelman and Andrew King [Free to read with email registration]
* The paper (https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2022-14587-001.html) by Peder Isager and collegues on how to decide what papers we should replicate. Here is the preprint (https://files.de-1.osf.io/v1/resources/2gurz/providers/osfstorage/5f4f4314a392b9002f1d9576?action=download&direct&version=2).
* The ERROR project (https://error.reviews/about/)
Other links
Everything Hertz on Bluesky
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- James on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/jamesheathers.bsky.social)
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Citation
Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2025, Mar 2). 189: Crit me baby, one more time, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/3X5UR
188: Double-blind peer review vs. scientific integrity
jeudi 30 janvier 2025 • Durée 54:56
Dan and James discuss a recent editorial which argues that double-blind peer review is detrimental to scientific integrity.
Links
* The editorial from Christopher Mebane: https://doi.org/10.1093/etojnl/vgae046
Other links
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Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2025, Jan 30). Double-blind peer review vs. scientific integrity, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/6XS29
187: What started the replication crisis era?
mardi 3 décembre 2024 • Durée 55:08
We chat about the events that started the replication crisis in psychology and Dorothy Bishop's recent resignation from the Royal Society
Links
* The resignation blogpost (http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-i-have-resigned-from-royal-society.html) from Dorothy Bishop
* The bluesky post (https://bsky.app/profile/sarahwieten.bsky.social/post/3lbtsqc6jcs2z) from Sarah Weiten that asked the question, "If you had to cite an event that opened the "replication crisis" era, what would you point to?"
* The "Year of Horrors" paper (https://www.ejwagenmakers.com/2012/Wagenmakers2012Horrors.pdf) from Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
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Everything Hertz on Bluesky
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Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2024, Dec 3). 187: What started the replication crisis era?, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/EC7QH
186: Evaluating journal quality
mercredi 13 novembre 2024 • Durée 43:11
In this episode we chat about a Nordic approach for evaluating the journal quality and how we should be teaching undergraduates to evaluate journal and article quality
Links
* The Norwegian journal register (https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/en/informasjonsartikler/about-the-norwegian-register)
* The Finnish journal register (https://julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/publication-forum)
* Episode 22 (https://everythinghertz.com/22), where we played "Pokemon or Cholesterol medication?"
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Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2024, Nov 13). 186: Evaluating journal quality, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/KB37U
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