Everything Hertz

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

Social media links

Dan on Bluesky

James on Bluesky

Everything Hertz on Bluesky

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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Dan on Bluesky

James on Bluesky

Everything Hertz on Bluesky

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

Social media links

Dan on Bluesky

James on Bluesky

Everything Hertz on Bluesky

Citation

Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2025, August 7). 193: The pop-up journal, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/2ZMQ7

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

James on Bluesky

Everything Hertz on Bluesky

Citation

Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2025, July 1). 192: Outsourcing in academia, Everything Hertz [Audio podcast], DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/3MC2R

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

Other links

Dan on Bluesky

James on Bluesky

Everything Hertz on Bluesky

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