- 1 hour 11 minutes196: Every public dataset is now a data ATM
We're back! After a long break, we catch up on why it's been so long: Dan's promotion and James's new venture capital gig at Helena where he can argue about science for a living. Then it's on to how much meta-science has changed in the past six months. Dan talks about using MetaCheck and local LLMs to find out whether shared materials on OSF actually get downloaded (mostly yes) and James argues that reanalysing public data is now so cheap it barely counts as a paper. We also get into why real human data is gaining value, how to disclose AI use (Disclosure: AI was used to help create these notes, based on the recording), and why open-weight models at "temperature zero" make reproducibility of LMM output easier. We also cover the worry about outsourcing thinking, what LLMs mean for grants, and why data provenance is going to matter.
Other links
- Helena
- The metacheck R package
- Dan's OSF downloads preprint
- Ollama for local LLM use
- The OpenAlex scholarly database
2 November 2026, 11:00 am - 37 minutes195: Living meta-analysis
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"
- The synthetic panel service
- The paper describing a living meta-analysis platform for oxytocin research
- A preprint commentary on living meta-analysis
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14 January 2026, 12:00 pm - 44 minutes 22 seconds194: Author verification
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
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10 November 2025, 12:00 pm - 59 minutes 3 seconds193: The pop-up journal
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
- The episode where Dan's wife went into labor
- The PNAS paper mill paper
- A blog post from the PNAS paper lead author, Reese Richardson.
- The Nature piece on the paper
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Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2025, August 7). 193: The pop-up journal, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/2ZMQ7
7 August 2025, 6:00 am - 47 minutes 42 seconds192: Outsourcing in academia
Dan and James answer listener questions on outsourcing in academia and differences in research culture between academic institutions and commercial institutions.
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Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2025, July 1). 192: Outsourcing in academia, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/3MC2R1 July 2025, 5:00 pm - 48 minutes 24 seconds191: Cleaning up contaminated medical treatment guidelines
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 from last year
- The carthorse child blog post
- The blog post announcing the project
- A write up in Nature about the project
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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
3 June 2025, 11:00 am - 44 minutes 25 seconds190: What happens when you pay reviewers?
We chat about two new studies that took different approaches for evaluating the impact of paying reviewers on peer review speed and quality.
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Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2025, April 2). 190: What happens when you pay reviewers?, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/PHQ2K2 April 2025, 6:00 pm - 53 minutes 40 seconds189: Crit me baby, one more time
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 by Andrew Gelman and Andrew King [Free to read with email registration]
- The paper by Peder Isager and collegues on how to decide what papers we should replicate. Here is the preprint.
- The ERROR project
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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
2 March 2025, 6:00 pm - 54 minutes 56 seconds188: Double-blind peer review vs. scientific integrity
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
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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
30 January 2025, 8:00 am - 55 minutes 8 seconds187: What started the replication crisis era?
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 from Dorothy Bishop
- The bluesky post 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 from Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
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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
3 December 2024, 10:45 am - 43 minutes 11 seconds186: Evaluating journal quality
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
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- The Norwegian journal register
- The Finnish journal register
- Episode 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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