Science of Doing Science

In today's episode, Zach and Adrien interview Mark A. Hanson, Pablo Gómez Barreiro, and Paolo Crosetto to discuss their paper 'The Strain on Scientific Publishing.' The conversation explores the challenges posed by the exponential growth in academic articles, the pressures of 'publish or perish,' and how publishing models and impact metrics contribute to systemic strain. Tune in to learn about the implications for researchers, publishers, and funders, and potential solutions to create a sustainable academic publishing ecosystem. For more details, visit the paper's website at https://the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/

In today's Episode, Zach Interviews Renos Vakis, Lead Economist for the World Bank. They discussed Renos' life as an economics researcher working toward better good for people in situation of poverty and issues around reproducibility and the special place of Cyprus. Renos Profile: https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/people/r/renos-vakis

In today's Episode, Adrien Interviews Philippos Louis, Assistant professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Cyprus. They discussed the impact of research on the influence of information on voting behavior, how economics experiments can help improve the voting system to make democracy more efficient, and how people integrate new information to summarize them into a unidimensional spectrum, such as the left and the right political spectrum.

In today's Episode, Zach Interviews Georgios Nikolopoulos, professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Medical School of the University of Cyprus. They discussed how best to communicate with policy-makers, convey uncertainty in scientific findings to the general audience, and how meta-analyses can guide recommendations in health and psychological sciences.

In today's episode, Adrien interviews Mario Gollwitzer, Professor of social psychology at the University of Munich. He is also the coordinator of META-REP, a meta-scientific programme to analyse and optimise replicability in the behavioral, social and cognitive sciences.

In today's episode, Adrien interviews Michalis Michaelides, Associate Professor of Research Methodology at the University of Cyprus to talk about how the replication crisis changed his way of conducting experiments, teaching statistics to students, and how he envisions the future of scale-based studies.

In this First episode, Adrien interviews Zacharias Maniadis, the ERA chair holder of SInnoPSis, to talk about his vision of meta-science and how SInnoPSis can contribute to the improvement of science.