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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Update on the transition to video: First 2 video episodes are recorded, the next one tomorrow. Will take some time to redo the podcast (including website), and start releasing video interviews from January. Will be published in normal venues, and as video on YouTube and Spotify

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Thanks @dsquintana.bsky.social for the shoutout on @everythinghertz.com, I was wondering why I've received more downloads than normal since Monday! Nervous what @jamesheathers.bsky.social was going to say, but when he described the podcast's name as 'serial killer', I knew he'd like it very much

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

New episode! My podcast is changing format, from remote audio-only, to exclusively in-person video interviews. To review the past & discuss its future, I talked to @dsquintana.bsky.social geni.us/bjks-new There'll be a bit of a gap. In a month or two, new episodes with the new format will drop.

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119. This (audio only) podcast is dead - long live the podcast? With Dan Quintana - BJKS Podcast

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 a...

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

New episode! I talked to @laurennross.bsky.social about causation, mechanisms, and explanations in neuroscience, her path from medicine to philosophy of science, causal structures and varieties, & much more. Thanks Lauren for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

New episode! I talked to Kai @ruggeri.bsky.social about his global collaborations on Prospect Theory and temporal discounting, how to run these global studies, how to run studies in languages you don't speak, & much more. Thanks Kai for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

New episode! I talked to @efouragnan.bsky.social about transcranial ultrasound stimulation: what it is, how it works, what you can do with it, etc. We also discuss seeing live brains during surgery, Elsa's childhood in French Polynesia, & much more. Thanks Elsa for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

New episode! I talked to @mbaldwin.bsky.social about the histories of @nature.com, scientific journals, peer review, and what it means to be a scientist, & much more. Thanks Melinda for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

New episode! I talked to @smfleming.bsky.social about how he ran his lab in London from Croatia for a few years, building a lab culture, learning new techniques as a PI, applying for funding, Steve's background in music, why he became a scientist, & much more. Thanks Steve for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

New episode! I talked to @damianblasi.bsky.social about his recent paper 'Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science', linguistic diversity, how to study languages you don't speak, why New Guinea is so diverse, Damian's career trajectory, & much more. Thanks Damian for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

New episode! I talked to @gordpennycook.bsky.social about his path from Carrot River to becoming a scientist, reducing misinformation & conspiracy beliefs, exploring vs exploiting research topics, the unmatched creativity of Canadian town names & much more. Thanks Gord for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

New episode! I talked to Renzo Huber (@layerfmri.bsky.social) about layer fMRI, how to make layer fMRI reproducible, high-resolution fMRI, Renzo's fine balance between being a gourmet chef and a janitor, differences between 3T and 7T MRI scanners, & much more. Thanks Renzo for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

New episode! I talked to @ella-maru.bsky.social about scientific illustrations, digital vs classic art, what not to ask from a scientific illustrator, how to improve scientific figures, & much more. Thanks Ella for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

New episode! I talked to Roberto Bottini about cognitive maps, image spaces, how blind people have altered grid-like coding, egocentric and all-centric perspectives, some tips for grant writing & much more. Thanks Roberto for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

New episode! I talked to @doctor-bob.bsky.social about his (w/ Anne Collins) 10 simple rules for computational modelling, the importance of a good experiment, how modelling can help with reproducibility, his recent work on phishing, & much more. Thanks Bob for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

New episode! I talked to @nhwise.bsky.social about publication fraud, tortured phrases, buying authorships and reviewers, 'special' issues, how he does his detective work, what we can do about it, & much more. Thanks Nick for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

New episode! Part 2 with @eugenie-reich.bsky.social, in which we discuss the legalities of scientific fraud, why fraudsters rarely go to prison, what whistleblowers are allowed to do, Eugenie's path from journalism to lawyer, & much more. Thanks again Eugenie for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

New episode! I talked to @eugenie-reich.bsky.social about Plastic Fantastic, her book about the biggest fraud case in physics (Jan Hendrick Schön) & what we can learn from it. Thanks @simine.com & @elisabethbik.bsky.social for recommend. the book on my pod. Thanks Eugenie for being a guest! 1/4

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

New episode! I talked to @macshine.bsky.social about using fMRI to integrate neuroscience, the role of great editors, collaboration and multidisciplinary, lessons from sports, the value of being annoyed (constructively, and with curiosity), & much more. Thanks Mac for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

New episode! I talked to Brandon Brown about his career columns in Nature & Science: how to have a career without large grants, different academic contributions, academic negotiations, his farm, sabbaticals, & much more. Thanks Brandon for being a guest! 1/2

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

New episode! I talked to Soledad Gonzalo Cogno about her work on ultraslow oscillatory sequences in medial entorhinal cortex, her journey from Argentina to Norway, interdisciplinary approaches to neuroscience, mentoring, & much more. Thanks Soledad for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Really liked the publishing schedule I did in the past 12 months, so will repeat it this year: - Weekly episodes from October until ~Easter - Only occasional episodes from ~Easter until October

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

New episode! I talked to Julie Old about Wombats, saving critically endangered species, threats to wombats, working with wild animals, translocating wombats colonies, Australian mammals, & much more. Thanks Julie for being a guest! 1/2

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

New episode! I talked to @tomchivers.bsky.social about his new book (Everything is Predictable) on Thomas Bayes, Bayesian statistics, the history of probability, how Bayes can help with the replication crisis, science journalism, & much more. Thanks Tom for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

New episode! I talked to Laura Luebbert about finding & reporting questionable data in classic honeybee-dance studies, how she developed gget with no prior coding experience, her work hunting viruses, & much more. Thanks Laura for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

New episode! I talked to Laura Wesseldijk about her work on the behavioural genetics of music, critical periods in music acquisition, methods in behavioural genetics, why geneticists love twins, gene x environment interactions, & much more. Thanks Laura for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 25/05/2024

New episode! I talked to @adekstreme.bsky.social about his work on spatial navigation & memory, invasive recordings in humans, the advantages of using multiple methods, his unusual path to a PhD, the problem with simple stories in cognitive neuro, & much more. Thanks Arne for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

New episode! I talked to Ben Ehrlich about the life & work of Santiago Ramon y Cajal: unlikely beginnings, his passion for art, discovering the neuron, Cajal's father, the Nobel Prize, the dispute with Golgi, & much more: bjks.buzzsprout.com/1390924/1461... Thanks Ben for being a guest!

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

New episode! I talked to @esfinn.bsky.social about neural fingerprinting, naturalistic stimuli, how she got into science, her year in Peru, uncertainties about doing a PhD, how to write good papers, and much more. Thanks Emily for being a guest! 1/4

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

New episode! I talked to David Van Essen about his career, the Human Connectome Project, hierarchical processing in (visual) cortex, collaboration, quantitative vs qualitative analyses, and much more. Thanks David for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

New episode! I talked to Nachum Ulanovsky about his work on spatial navigation in bats, the ethology of bats, the dis/advantages of working with unusual species, how to build a 700m-long tunnel for neuroscience, natural neuroscience, & much more. Thanks Nachum for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

New episode! I talked to @tomhardwicke.bsky.social about meta-science/research, his work on post-publication critique and registered reports, how he got into meta-science, Foamhenge, his new editorial role at Psychological Science, and much more. Thanks Tom for being a guest! 1/4

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

New episode! I talked to @jessicapolka.bsky.social about preprints, peer review (& why we should publish them), @asapbio.bsky.social, how Jessica got into her line of work, what that works entails on a daily basis, the joys of pipetting, and much more. Thanks Jessica for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

New episode! This one's special: As a teenager, I randomly found Brian Boyd's biography of Nabokov (whom I hadn't read at the time) and really loved it. Now, 15 years later, I talked to Brian about Nabokov's life & work, how he wrote the bio, Lolita, & much more. 1/2

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

New episode! I talked to Camillo Padoa-Schioppa about his work on value in the brain, whether value is causally involved in decision-making, how Camillo became a neuroscientist, whether neuroscience adds anything to economics, and much more. Thanks Camillo for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

New episode! I talked to @julianaschroeder.bsky.social about her work on making strangers talk to each other, undersociality, cultural differences in talking to strangers, how to make field studies robust and replicable, and much more. Thanks Juliana for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

New episode! I talked to @richardfbetzel.bsky.social about his work on network neuroscience, future directions (generative models, network control, & edge-centric connectomics), his not-partcularly straight path to working in network neuro, & much more. Thanks Rick for being a guest! 1/4

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

New episode! I talked to @elisabethbik.bsky.social about how she became a full-time scientific integrity consultant, what to do when you spot inconsistencies in a paper, how to deal with online abuse, the microbiome of dolphines, and much more. Thanks Elisabeth for being a guest! 1/4

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

New episode! I talked to Peter Bandettini @fmri-today.bsky.social about all things fMRI: how it got started, how it developed over the past 30 years, exciting future possibilities, how Peter started working on fMRI, structural MRI, and much more. Thanks Peter for being a guest! 1/4

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

New episode! I talked to @briannosek.bsky.social about improving science: his early influences, how @cos.io got started & funded, whether Brian is a scientist or an entrepreneur, the future of the Center for Open Science, and much more! Thanks to Brian for being a guest! 1/3

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BJKS Podcast @bjkspod.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

1/n Trying out Blue Sky Would be fantastic if some former guests could retweet/whatever you call it here, so I'm not starting from scratch again @matthiasnau.bsky.social @jzberman.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social @katejj.bsky.social @erikwengstrom.bsky.social @jacobbellmund.bsky.social

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