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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 14/01/2026

195: Living meta-analysis everythinghertz.com/195 We discuss how living meta‑analyses can cut research waste and keep evidence current. We also chat about how using synthetic research participants is a terrible idea and what researchers *really* mean when they call a study "recent".

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 10/11/2025

194: Author verification everythinghertz.com/194 We discuss whether preprint servers and journals should introduce author identity verification for submitting manuscripts. This would probably speed up the submission process, is this worth the potential downsides?

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 07/08/2025

Nope we're not kiwis, we're Aussies and OPTIMISTIC

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 07/08/2025

193: The pop-up journal everythinghertz.com/193 We chat about a a new 'pop-up journal' concept for addressing specific research questions. We also answer a listener question from a journal grammar editor and discuss a recent PNAS paper on paper mills

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 01/07/2025

192: Outsourcing in academia everythinghertz.com/192 We answer listener questions on outsourcing in academia and differences in research culture between academic and commercial institutions

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 04/06/2025

191: Cleaning up contaminated medical treatment guidelines everythinghertz.com/191 In which we discuss whether scientists critiquing science reduces public trust in science

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 04/06/2025

191: Cleaning up contaminated medical treatment guidelines everythinghertz.com/191 @dsquintana.bsky.social and @jamesheathers.bsky.social discuss James' new 'Medical Evidence Project', whose goal is to find questionable medical evidence that is contaminating treatment guidelines

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 02/04/2025

190: What happens when you pay reviewers? everythinghertz.com/190 We chat about two new studies that evaluated the impact of paying reviewers on peer review speed and quality. One of these studies had such massive effects on peer-review speed we had to double-take the figure.

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 02/03/2025

189: Crit me baby, one more time everythinghertz.com/189 We discuss a recent piece that proposes a *post-publication* peer review process, which is triggered by citation counts. We also cover how an altmetric trigger could be used for a more immediate post-publication critique

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 31/01/2025

Our patrons get access to our bonus episodes (74 to date!), in which we share the bits that don't make our main episodes. In our latest bonus ep, we talk about how we edit episodes and the time James went to a hair salon because his hair was too long for a barber www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 30/01/2025

Make 👏 research 👏 data 👏 machine👏 readable everythinghertz.com/188

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 30/01/2025

188: Double-blind peer review vs. scientific integrity everythinghertz.com/188 Here we discuss a recent editorial which argues that double-blind peer review is detrimental to scientific integrity and proposes some suggestions for improving peer review. Here's how the article begins ⬇️

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 06/12/2024

How would you respond if an undergrad psychology student asked you, "How can I know if a paper is a *good* paper?" everythinghertz.com/186

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 06/12/2024

In our latest episode we put out the call for good write-ups on the history of the replication crisis. @drcpennington.bsky.social has delivered as this is covered in her book "A Student's Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis to Reform Psychology" www.mheducation.co.uk/a-student-s-...

2005: loannidis publishes "Why most published research findings are false".

2011: Across 9 experiments, Bem provides 'evidence of pre-cognition; Stapel is found to have committed academic fraud. Simmons et al.
show how researchers can present 'anything as significant'.

2012: John and colleagues reveal that researcher QRPs are prevalent. Talks about a 'crisis' start emerging in a special issue led by
Pashler & Wagenmakers in the journal PoPs.

2014: 'Many Labs 1' publish the results of their large-scale replication efforts in a special issue on 'replications of important results in
Social Psychology.'

2015: The Open Science Collaboration (2015) publish results from 100
replications, showing a 36% success rate.

2016: Baker (2016) encourages 1,500 scientists to lift the lid on the crisis.

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 04/12/2024

PhDs in Australia are a little different... everythinghertz.com/187

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 04/12/2024

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“James, a few days ago, former guest and good friend of the show, Dorothy Bishop wrote a very interesting blog post, which has gotten a ton of attention, both with social media, but also with more traditional media outlets. And this describes her resignation from the Royal Society, which is a society of, it's been around since the 1600s, didn't realize it was this old, and she was a member of this society, but she was describing something I didn't know, which was that another member of the society is Elon Musk, who is not based in the UK, but like many other”

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 03/12/2024

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 03/12/2024

187: What started the replication crisis era? everythinghertz.com/187 In our latest full episode, we discuss the events that kicked off the replication crisis era

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 03/12/2024

We just released our latest BONUS episode [21 mins] on academic hoaxes www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 14/11/2024

Which ranking is more meaningless? University rankings or journal impact factor rankings? everythinghertz.com/186

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 13/11/2024

In our latest episode, we also play the game "Is this word an MDPI journal title or something that I can see in my room right now?" everythinghertz.com/186

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 13/11/2024

186: Evaluating journal quality everythinghertz.com/186 We chat about a Nordic approach for evaluating the journal quality, where expert panels rank journals, and how we should be teaching the evaluation of journal and article quality to undergraduate psychology students

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 04/10/2024

185: The Retraction everythinghertz.com/185 We discuss the recent retraction of a paper that reported the effects of rigour-enhancing practices on replicability. We also cover James' new estimate that 1 out of 7 scientific papers are fake.

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 29/12/2023

176: Tracking academic workloads everythinghertz.com/176 We chat about a paper on the invisible workload of open science and why academics are so bad at tracking their workloads

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Everything Hertz podcast @everythinghertz.com · 01/11/2023

174: Smug missionaries with test tubes everythinghertz.com/174 James proposes a new type of consortium paper that could provide collaborative opportunities for researchers from countries that are underrepresented in published research papers

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