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BJKS Podcast

A podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related. Long-form interviews with people whose work I find interesting.

Life Sciences Science Social Sciences Education
Update frequency
every 9 days
Average duration
82 minutes
Episodes
117
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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17. Bianca Trovò: Ants-Review, rethinking peer review, and blockchain

17. Bianca Trovò: Ants-Review, rethinking peer review, and blockchain

Bianca Trovò is a PhD student at Neurospin and Sorbonne Université, where she studies self-initiated movements. Recently, she is a developer of Ants-Review, a blockchain-based protocol for incentivis…

01:48:50  |   Fri 14 May 2021
16. Brock Bastian: Pain, cooperation, and the benefits of difficulty

16. Brock Bastian: Pain, cooperation, and the benefits of difficulty

Brock Bastian is a professor of psychology at the University of Melbourne whose research focuses on pain, happiness, and morality.  

In this conversation, we talk about Brock's work on how and why pai…

01:08:53  |   Fri 30 Apr 2021
15. Kate Jeffery: A brief history of spatial navigation, place cells & grid cells in 3D, and brain evolution

15. Kate Jeffery: A brief history of spatial navigation, place cells & grid cells in 3D, and brain evolution

Kate Jeffery is a professor of behavioural neuroscience at University College London, where she works on spatial navigation. In this conversation, we talk about the history of spatial navigation, Kat…

01:58:30  |   Fri 16 Apr 2021
14. Tessa Rusch: COVID-Dynamic, an extremely variable year, and theory of mind

14. Tessa Rusch: COVID-Dynamic, an extremely variable year, and theory of mind

Tessa Rusch is a postdoc working on computational modelling of social interactions at Caltech in the labs of Ralph Adolphs and John O'Doherty. She is also part of COVID-Dynamic project, a large-scale…

01:48:29  |   Fri 02 Apr 2021
13. Joe Hilgard: Scientific fraud, reporting errors, and effects that are too big to be true

13. Joe Hilgard: Scientific fraud, reporting errors, and effects that are too big to be true

Joe Hilgard is Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at Illinois State University. In this conversation, we discuss his work on detecting and reporting scientific fraud. 

BJKS Podcast is a podcast …

01:28:14  |   Fri 19 Mar 2021
12. Eiko Fried: Being a generalist, theory building in psychology, and useful fictions

12. Eiko Fried: Being a generalist, theory building in psychology, and useful fictions

Eiko Fried is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Leiden University. He recently published a target article in Psychological Inquiry about the lack of theory building in network and fact…

01:42:10  |   Fri 05 Mar 2021
11. Jesse Geerts: Finding a good PhD project, reinforcement learning & cognitive maps, and deciding when a paper is ready

11. Jesse Geerts: Finding a good PhD project, reinforcement learning & cognitive maps, and deciding when a paper is ready

Jesse Geerts is a PhD student at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL, in the lab of Neil Burgess. We met a few years ago when we were in the same cohort of the Dual Masters in Brain and Mind Science…

01:50:22  |   Fri 19 Feb 2021
10. Hanne Watkins: From academia to behavioural insights in government, Registered Reports, and morality in war

10. Hanne Watkins: From academia to behavioural insights in government, Registered Reports, and morality in war

Hanne Watkins is an adviser for the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government. Previously, she was a PhD student and postdoc studying how humans think about morality in the context of w…

01:11:06  |   Fri 05 Feb 2021
9. Corinna Kühnapfel and Ian Stewart: EDGE, art & neuroscience, and empirical aesthetics

9. Corinna Kühnapfel and Ian Stewart: EDGE, art & neuroscience, and empirical aesthetics

This episode features two guests: Coco Kühnapfel and Ian Stewart, who are half of the team behind EDGE. EDGE is an organisation that tries to bring together neuroscientists and artists to enable comm…

01:43:38  |   Fri 22 Jan 2021
8. Paul Smaldino: Cubist chickens, formal models, and the psychology curriculum

8. Paul Smaldino: Cubist chickens, formal models, and the psychology curriculum

Paul Smaldino is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Merced. His research focus is broad and includes cultural and social evolution, cooperation, and philosophy of science.

In this…

01:19:16  |   Fri 08 Jan 2021
7. Jonathan Berman: Moral choice when harming is unavoidable, simple experiments, and open science

7. Jonathan Berman: Moral choice when harming is unavoidable, simple experiments, and open science

Jonathan Berman is Associate Professor of Marketing at the London Business School. His main research focus is on judgment and decision-making.

In this conversation, we talk predominately about Jonatha…

01:19:33  |   Fri 25 Dec 2020
6. Toby Wise: Risk perception about COVID-19, natural experiments, and open science

6. Toby Wise: Risk perception about COVID-19, natural experiments, and open science

Toby Wise is a postdoc at UCL and Caltech. He uses computational modelling and neuroimaging to study the mechanisms underlying anxiety and depression. I first encountered Toby when he and I published…

02:36:42  |   Fri 11 Dec 2020
5. Antonia Wesseloh: Fashion during COVID, Antonia's path as a fashion model, and tips for photographers

5. Antonia Wesseloh: Fashion during COVID, Antonia's path as a fashion model, and tips for photographers

Antonia Wesseloh is a fashion model who has worked with some of the most esteemed fashion brands (including Prada, Chanel, Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton, and Dior). We first met when Antonia did an inte…

01:10:32  |   Fri 27 Nov 2020
4. Cody Kommers: Podcasting as a PhD student, intuitive anthropology, and finding a good problem

4. Cody Kommers: Podcasting as a PhD student, intuitive anthropology, and finding a good problem

Cody Kommers is a PhD student in experimental psychology at the University of Oxford, focussing on social cognition. He also writes popular science and hosts two podcasts: Cognitive Revolution and No…

02:27:42  |   Fri 13 Nov 2020
3. Catherine Preston: Bodily illusions, eating disorders, and pregnancy

3. Catherine Preston: Bodily illusions, eating disorders, and pregnancy

Catherine Preston is a cognitive neuroscientist, studying body perception and self-awareness. Catherine and I first met in Stockholm in 2014 when I was doing an internship in Henrik Ehrsson's lab. Ca…

01:39:39  |   Fri 30 Oct 2020
2. Aaron Schurger: The readiness potential, auto-correlated noise, and the weather

2. Aaron Schurger: The readiness potential, auto-correlated noise, and the weather

Aaron is a cognitive neuroscientist, working on volition and consciousness. Aaron and I met in 2016 in Paris when I did my MSc thesis in his lab at Neurospin on decoding planned and spontaneous movem…

01:10:28  |   Fri 16 Oct 2020
1. Matthias Nau: MR-based eye-tracking, cognitive maps & vision, science communication

1. Matthias Nau: MR-based eye-tracking, cognitive maps & vision, science communication

Matthias Nau is a cognitive neuroscientist at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Trondheim, Norway. He finished his PhD recently in Christian Doeller's group at the Kavli, where he curre…

01:44:31  |   Fri 02 Oct 2020
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