It’s conference season so in this episode Dan and James discuss the ins and outs of scientific conferences.
Here’s what they cover:
Research parasite award
How much do you save when you don’t run an fMRI study
They come up with an even better name than “Research parasite”
Could the GOP weaponise the open science movement?
Conspiracy theories
Attempts to slow down science by taking science out of context
The Black Goat Podcast
The conference backchannel
Contacting people at conferences
Sitting though seminars (and not falling asleep)
Twitter conferences
Good presentations vs. bad presentations
Starting collaborations at conferences
Do conference locations matter?
Periscoping conference presentations
Links
The research parasite award: http://researchparasite.com
The GOP and science reform https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/reproducibility-science-open-judoflip/521952/
The Crackpot index http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
The Brain Twitter conference https://brain.tc
Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/