Dan and James celebrate their 50th episode with a live recording! They cover a blog post that argues grad students shouldn’t be publishing, what’s expected of today’s postdocs, and the ‘tone’ debate in psychology.
BONUS: You can also watch the video of this episode on the Everything Hertz podcast channel (link below)
Other stuff they cover:
James offends a sociologist, as is his wont
The argument for why grad students shouldn’t publish
Gatekeepers controlling what’s being published
Editors that Google authors before sending papers out for review
Judging researchers on their institution’s location
James on networking
How do you challenge reviewers when they say you are "too junior"
The standards of Frontiers papers
Writing review papers for the wrong reasons
Why are there so many meta-analyses?
Pre-registering your meta-analysis
Registered reports vs. pre-registration
What’s expected of today’s postdocs
How many papers should you peer review?
How James tried to ward off review requests
Things that millennials are ruining
The role of humour in the tone debate
Links
Episode video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj3WsTiUuLo&t=3s
The “should grad students publish" article: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/08/23/renewed-debate-over-whether-graduate-students-should-publish#.WaGAeN_v8jI.link
Prospero meta-analysis registration: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/
Eiko Fried’s tweet on postdoc expectations: https://twitter.com/eikofried/status/902470702892290048
James’ publons profile: https://publons.com/author/1171358/james-aj-heathers#profile
JANE: http://jane.biosemantics.org
Anonymous PubPeer comments: https://pubpeer.com/publications/0E0DAEBEC6183646F18F4FAED03B1A#7
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