Science funding has a series of built in incentive structures, but what sort of science does this produce?
Some of the topics discussed:
- Feedback from our 'Public health and Pokemon' episode (#22)
- Incentive structures in science
- What we should be doing in science compared to what we are doing
- Quantity vs. Quality
- The analysis of Trump's tweets for negativity vs. positivity
- Pre-registration
- How much detail do you need to go into when it comes to pre-registering an analysis
- APS journal badges - they're working!
- Data sharing makes you more careful with your data
- Solutions to the incentive problem have to come from the policy level
- The grant funding lottery system proposal
- The PhD oversupply
- Gaming the system
- James wants to mandate science communication
- Dan wants to include replication studies in PhD programs
- Scientist names that suit their research area
Links
- The article on incentive structures
https://medium.com/the-spike/how-a-happy-moment-for-neuroscience-is-a-sad-moment-for-science-c4ba00336e9c#.x3sea13i1
http://observatory.brain-map.org
- Analysis of Trump's tweets
http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/
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