BJKS Podcast

119. This (audio only) podcast is dead - long live the podcast? With Dan Quintana

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a special episode: this podcast will change after this episode, from remote audio-only interviews to exclusively in-person video interviews. D...

118. Lauren Ross: Causation, mechanism, and explanation in neuroscience

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lauren Ross is a professor of logic and philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. We talk about her work on causation, mechanism, and expla...

117. Kai Ruggeri: Global collaborations, Prospect Theory, and temporal discounting

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kai Ruggeri is professor for health policy and management at Columbia University. We talk about his global collaborations, in which they studied vario...

116. Elsa Fouragnan: Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation, brain surgery, and French Polynesia

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elsa Fouragnan is an Associate Professor and UKRI Future Leader Fellow at the University of Plymouth. We talk mainly about her work on focussed transc...

115. Melinda Baldwin: A triple history of Nature, scientific journals, and peer review

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Melinda Baldwin is an associate professor of history at the University of Maryland. We talk about her work studying the history of Nature, scientific ...

114: Steve Fleming: Lab culture, learning as a PI, and the allure of cognitive neuroscience

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Fleming is a professor in psychology at University College London. I invited Steve to talk about his work on meta-cognition, but we ended up spe...

113. Damian Blasi: Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science, linguistic diversity, and how to study a language you don't speak

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Damian Blasi is a professor at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. We talk about his article 'Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive sc...

112. Gordon Pennycook: From Carrot River to Cornell, misinformation, and reducing conspiracy beliefs

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gordon Pennycook is an Associate Professor at Cornell University. We talk about his upbringing in rural Northern Canada, how he got into academia, and...

111. Renzo Huber: Layer-fMRI, high-resolution fMRI, and the delicate balance between gourmet chef and janitor

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Renzo Huber is a staff scientist at NIH. We talk about his work on layer-fMRI: what it  is, how Renzo got into it, how to do it, when it makes sense ...

110. Ella Marushchenko: Scientific illustrations, digital vs. classic art, and how to improve scientific figures

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ella Marushchenko is a scientific illustrator who runs a studio of artists and scientists that creates cover art, scientific and illustrations, and mo...

109. Roberto Bottini: Cognitive maps, visual impairment, and image spaces

08 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Roberto Bottini is an Associate Professor at the University of Trento. We talk about his recent work on unusual cognitive maps in blind people, image ...

108. Robert Wilson: 10 simple rules for computational modelling, phishing, and reproducibility

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Robert (Bob) Wilson is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgia Tech. We talk about his tutorial paper (w/ Anne Collins) on computational model...

107. Nick Wise: Publication fraud, buying authorships, and tortured phrases

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Wise is a postdoc in fluid dynamics at Cambridge University. We talk about his 'detective work' on publication fraud which has gotten m...

106. Eugenie Reich (Part 2): The legalities of scientific fraud, why fraudsters rarely go to prison, and what whistleblowers are allowed to do

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is the 2nd part of my interview with Eugenie Reich, who is a lawyer who represents scientific whistleblowers, and a former investigative science ...

105. Eugenie Reich (Part 1): Plastic Fantastic, scientific fraud, and institutional norms

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Eugenie Reich is an attorney who represents scientific whistleblowers, and a former investigative science journalist. We talk about her previous work ...

104. James Shine: Integrating neuroscience with fMRI, collaboration, and the importance of dumb questions

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

James (Mac) Shine is a PI and fellow at the University of Sydney. We talk about his background in sports, using fMRI to integrate various parts of neu...

103. Brandon Brown: Farms not grants, academic negotiations, and unusual academic contributions

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brandon Brown is a professor at University of California Riverside, where he studies global health and ethics. He also writes career columns for Natur...

102: Soledad Gonzalo Cogno: Sloooow oscillations in entorhinal cortex, mentoring, and the physics approach to neuroscience

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Soledad Gonzalo Cogno is a group leader at the Kavli Institute for Science Neuroscience in Trondheim. We talk about how she went from studying physics...

101. Julie Old: Wombats, saving endangered species, and the difficulties of studying wild animals

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Julie Old is as Associate Professor at Western Sydney University. We talk about her experiences and research with wombats, various aspects of wombat b...

100. Tom Chivers: Thomas Bayes, Bayesian statistics, and science journalism

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Chivers is a journalist who writes a lot about science and applied statistics. We talk about his new book on Bayesian statistics, the biography of...

99. Laura Luebbert: gget, hunting viruses, and questionable honeybee dances

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Laura Luebbert just finished her PhD in computational biology and will soon be a postdoc with Pardis Sabeti, to hunt some viruses. We talk about how s...

98. Laura Wesseldijk: Behavioural genetics, music, and the importance of twins

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Laura Wesseldijk works at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt at the Behavioral Genetics unit in collaboration with the Dep...

97. Arne Ekstrom: Spatial navigation, memory, and invasive recordings in humans

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Arne Ekstrom is a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, where he studies spatial navigation and memory. We talk about how he got into ...

96. Benjamin Ehrlich: Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the neuron doctrine, and combining art & science

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Benjamin Ehrlich is the author of the recent biography of Santiago Ramon y Cajal (The brain in search of itself), and The Dreams of Santiago Ramon y C...

95. Emily Finn: Neural fingerprinting, 'naturalistic' stimuli, and taking time before starting a PhD

02 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Finn is an assistant professor at Dartmouth College. We talk about her research on neural fingerprinting, naturalistic stimuli, how Emily got in...

94. David Van Essen: The Human Connectome Project, hierarchical processing, and the joys of collaboration

18 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

David Van Essen is an Alumni Endowed Professor of Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In this conversation, we talk...

93. Nachum Ulanovsky: Bats, spatial navigation, and natural neuroscience

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nachum Ulanovsky is a professor at the Weizman Institute. We talk about his research on spatial navigation in bats, how Nachum started working with ba...

92. Tom Hardwicke: Meta-research, reproducibility, and post-publication critique

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

 Tom Hardwicke is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. We talk about meta-science, incuding Tom's work on post-publication critique...

91. Jessica Polka: Preprints, publishing peer reviews, and the joys of pipetting

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jessica Polka is Executive Director of ASAPbio, a non-profit that promotes innovation and transparency in life science publishing. We talk about her w...

90. Brian Boyd: The life & works of Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, and writing biographies

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Boyd is a Distinguished Professor in English and Drama at the University of Auckland. We talk mainly about Vladimir Nabokov: Brian wrote the def...

89. Camillo Padoa-Schioppa: Value in the brain, orbitofrontal cortex, and causality in neuroscience

13 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Camillo Padoa-Schioppa is a Professor of Neuroscience at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In this conversation, we talk abou...

88. Juliana Schroeder: Talking to strangers, undersociality, and replicable field studies

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Juliana Schroder is a professor at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. In this conversation, we talk about her research in which she asks people ...

87. Rick Betzel: Network neuroscience, generative modeling, and collaborations

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rick Betzel is an Associate professor at India University Bloomington. We talk about his research on network neuroscience, how to find good collaborat...

86. Elisabeth Bik: Reporting scientific misconduct, the arms race between fraud & fraud detection, and the microbiome of dolphins

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Elisabeth Bik is a science integrity consultant. In this conversation, we talk about her work on reporting scientific errors and misconduct, how one b...

85. Peter Bandettini: The history, present, and future of fMRI

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Bandettini is director of the fMRI core facility at the National Institute of Mental Health. In this episode, we talk about the history, present...

84. Brian Nosek: Improving science, the past & future of the Center for Open Science, and failure in science

08 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Nosek is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, and Co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Open Science. In this ...

83. Rachel Bedder: Rumination, teaching without grades, and managing yourself as a PhD student

03 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Bedder is a postdoc with Yael Niv at Princeton. In this conversation, we talk about her research on rumination and repetitive negative thinking...

82. Geoff Cumming: p-values, estimation, and meta-analytic thinking

24 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Geoff Cumming is an Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University. In this conversation, we discuss his work on New Statistics: estimation instead of hypo...

81. Brooke Macnamara: Growth mindset, deliberate practice, and the benefits of diverse experiences

17 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Brooke Macnamara is an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University. In this conversation, we talk about her research on growth mindset and ...

80. Simine Vazire: Scientific editing, the purpose of journals, and the future of psychological science

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Simine Vazire is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne. In this conversation, we talk about her work on meta-science, the purpose o...

79. Nanthia Suthana: Invasive brain recordings in humans, learning as a PI, and the joys of mentorship

03 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nanthia Suthana is an Associate Professor at UCLA. In this conversation, we talk about her research using invasive brain recordings from humans, how t...

78. Gillian Coughlan: Dementia, spatial navigation, and menopause

27 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Gillian Coughlan is a postdoc whose work focuses on the role of spatial navigation in dementia. In this conversation, we talk about how Gillian went f...

77. Lynn Nadel: Collaboration, Hippocampal History, and clinical applications of hippocampal development

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Lynn Nadel is an emeritus professor at the University of Arizona, where his research focuses on the role of the hippocampus in memory. This is our sec...

76. Adam Mastroianni: Paradigms in psychology, science as a strong-link problem, and The Psychology House

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Mastroianni is a scientist who writes the Substack 'Experimental History'. This is our second conversation. We discuss science as a str...

75. Paul Smaldino: Modeling Social Behavior, the value of false models, and research beyond traditional disciplines

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Smaldino is an Associate Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences at UC Merced, where he studies the evolution of behavior in response to ...

74. Moin Syed: Glorious PNAS, editing a journal, and masterful procrastination

11 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Moin Syed is a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, where he studies identity and personality development. Our conversation focuses...

73. Tom Hostler: Open science, workload, and academic capitalism

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Hostler is a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. In this conversation, we focus on his recent article on the increased workload...

72. Nico Schuck: Replay, cognitive maps, and multivariate decoding with fMRI

04 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nico Schuck is Professor and head of the research group 'Mechanisms of learning and change' at the University of Hamburg, where his research...

71. Lynn Nadel: Memory, The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map, and the importance of behaviour

23 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Lynn Nadel is an emeritus professor at the University of Arizona, where his research focuses on the role of the hippocampus in memory. In this convers...

70. Mona Garvert: Cognitive maps, fMRI adaptation, and computational psychiatry

08 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mona Garvert is Lead Research Scientist at Alena where she uses her background in cognitive neuroscence to advance computational psychiatry. In this e...

69. Peter Gärdenfors: Conceptual spaces, knowledge representation, and semantics

01 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Gärdenfors is an Emeritus Professor at Lund University at the Department of Philosophy. His work is at the intersection of philosophy, cognitiv...

68. Isabel Thielmann: Economic games, personality, and affordances

19 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Isabel Thielmann is a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the study of crime, security and law. In this conversation, we talk about ...

67. Daniela Schiller: Social spaces, cognitive maps, and clinical applications

12 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Daniela Schiller is a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she studies the neural mechanisms of emoti...

66. Rafael Pérez y Pérez: Story Machines, Creative AI, and Mexian serenades

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rafael Pérez y Pérez is a professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa, where he studies computational creativity, in particular...

65. Adam Mastroianni: Conversational doorknobs, improv comedy, and a very dumb academic revolution

10 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Mastroianni is a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia Business School. In this conversation, we talk about his work on conversations, his Su...

64. Gareth Barnes: MEG, OPM-MEG and the beauty of tinkering

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Gareth Barnes is a professor at University College London, where he is Head of  Magnetoencephalography. We talk about how Gareth randomly stumbled in...

63. Adeyemi Adetula: ManyLabs Africa, psychology should generalise from Africa, and multicultural collaborations

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adeyemi Adetula is a PhD student at the University of Grenoble, where he is leading the ManyLabs Africa project. In this conversation, we talk about t...

62. Nils Köbis: AI, corruption, and deepfakes

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nils Köbis is a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, where he studies the intersection of AI and corruption. In this...

61. Eva Krockow: Social dilemmas, antimicrobial resistance, and the value of qualitative studies

13 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Eva Krockow is a lecturer in psychology at the University of Leicester, where her research focusses on the psychology of antimicrobial resistance. We ...

60. Rickesh Patel: Mantis Shrimp navigation, walking bumblebees, and scientific illustrations

03 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ricky Patel is a postdoc at Lund University, where he studies the neural basis of navigation behaviours in arthropods. In this conversation, we talk a...

59. Chris Frith: Two Heads, social neuroscience, and the history of the FIL

19 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Frith is an Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at University College London. His research has spanned several topics, including social cognit...

58. Cameron Brick: climate change, pro-environmental behaviour, and illusory essences

12 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cameron Brick is an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the psychological aspects of clim...

57. Peter Vuust: music in the brain, predictive coding, and jazz

28 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Vuust is a Professor at the Center for Music in the Brain in Aarhus, a jazz musician, and composer. In this conversation , we talk about his rec...

56. Mary Elizabeth Sutherland: scientific editing, behavioural sciences at Nature, and how to improve submissions

21 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mary Elizabeth Sutherland is senior editor at Nature, where she edits submissions in the behavioural sciences and cognitive neuroscience. In this conv...

55. Angelika Stefan: p-hacking, simulations, and Shiny Apps

01 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Angelika Stefan is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam in the Psychological Methods group (lead by Eric-Jan Wagenmakers). In this conversatio...

54. Jessica Kay Flake: Schmeasurement, making stats engaging, and the Psychological Science Accelerator

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jessica Flake is Assistant Professor for quantitative psychology and modeling at McGill University, where she studies measurement. In this conversatio...

53. Chris Chambers: Registered Reports, scheduled peer-review, and science without journals

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Chambers is professor at Cardiff University where he is Head of Brain Stimulation. He is also one of the pioneers behind Registered Reports, a t...

52. Postdoc fellowship applications (with Toby Wise)

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this conversation, I talk with Toby Wise about applying for postdoc fellowships. Toby has received and completed the Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctora...

51. Hugo Spiers: Taxi Brains, cognitive maps in humans, and working with humans and non-human animals

19 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hugo Spiers is professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London.  His research explores how our brain constructs representations of t...

50th episode special: reviewing one year of the podcast, lessons learnt, and plans for the future

31 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the 50th episode of this podcast and we're doing something a little different: Cody Kommers, PhD student, fellow podcaster, and one of th...

49. Book club: Conceptual Spaces by Peter Gärdenfors, chapters 7 & 8, & general discussion

24 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the fourth and final episode of a book club series on Peter Gärdenfors's book Conceptual Spaces. In this episode, we will discuss chapte...

48. Book club: Conceptual Spaces by Peter Gärdenfors, chapters 5 & 6

17 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the third episode of a book club series on Peter Gärdenfors's book Conceptual Spaces. In this episode, we will discuss chapters 5 and 6,...

47. Book club: Conceptual Spaces by Peter Gärdenfors, chapters 3 & 4

10 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second episode of a book club series on Peter Gärdenfors's book Conceptual Spaces. In this episode, we will discuss chapters 3 and 4...

46. Book club: Conceptual Spaces by Peter Gärdenfors, chapters 1 & 2

03 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first episode of a book club series on Peter Gärdenfors's book Conceptual Spaces. In this episode, we will discuss chapters 1 and 2,...

45. Michael Hornberger: Sea Hero Quest, developing games for science, and Alzheimer's disease

26 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Hornberger is a professor of applied dementia research at the University of East Anglia who developed Sea Hero Quest, a mobile game for studyi...

44. Dan Quintana: Synthetic datasets, science communication, and podcasting

19 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Quintana is a senior researcher at the University of Olso, where his research focuses on oxytocin, autism,  and meta-analyses. In this conversati...

43. Postdoc applications (with Matthias Stangl)

12 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 42 I interviewed Matthias Stangl about his work on spatial navigation. I wanted to ask him a few questions about postdoc applications, but ...

42. Matthias Stangl: grid cells in aging, path integration, and neural representations of actual physical movement in humans

05 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Matthias Stangl is a postdoc at UCLA, where he studies the neural representations of spatial navigation in social situations. In this conversation, we...

41. Reviewing all books called "Prisoner's Dilemma" Part 2: The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma (Stewart), and Prisoner's Dilemma (Yardley)

29 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second episode of an experiment: I'll be reviewing all books called "Prisoner's Dilemma". Today I'm reviewing The...

40. Reviewing all books called "Prisoner's Dilemma" Part 1: A Prisoner's Dilemma (Karabache) and Prisoner's Dilemma (Feiklowicz)

22 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is the start of an experiment: I'll be reviewing all books called "Prisoner's Dilemma", and today I'm starting w...

39. Nikolai Axmacher: Reduced grid cells in Alzheimer's risk carriers, landmarks in abstract cognitive space, and clinical translation

15 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nikolai Axmacher is professor at the Institue for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Ruhr University Bochum where his research focuses on memory, spatial n...

38. Keno Juechems: Where does value (in RL) come from, optimality with finite computational resources, and learning as a PhD student

08 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Keno Juechems is a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College in Oxford. He studies how humans make decisions, using computational modelling, be...

37. Jacob Bellmund: Deformed cognitive maps, abstract cognitive spaces, and how many dimensions can grid cells encode?

01 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jacob Bellmund is a postdoc at the Max Planck in Leipzig, studying spatial navigation, cognitive maps, and episodic memory. In this conversation, we t...

36. Book club: The Invention of Nature (Humboldt biography) by Andrea Wulf, part 5 & general discussion

24 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the third and final episode of our discussion of  Andrea Wulf's biography of Alexander von Humboldt, The Invention of Nature. In this ep...

35. Book club: The Invention of Nature (Humboldt biography) by Andrea Wulf, parts 3 & 4

17 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second episode of our discussion of  Andrea Wulf's biography of Alexander von Humboldt, The Invention of Nature. In this episode, we...

34. Book club: The Invention of Nature (Humboldt biography) by Andrea Wulf, parts 1 & 2

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first episode of the third edition of the book club. This time, we're reading Andrea Wulf's biography of Alexander von Humboldt,...

33. Bryan Bruns: Applied sociology, 2x2 games, and how to transform tragedy into win-win

03 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bryan Bruns is an independent consultant sociologist, working mainly on water irrigation systems in southeast Asia. He also publishes academic papers ...

32. Book discussion: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

27 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we discuss Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. Unlike the book club episodes (in which we read around 100 pages per week of t...

31. Stuart Ritchie: Science Fictions, fraud, and open science

20 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Stuart Ritchie is Lecturer at King's College London, where he studies behavioural genetics in relation to personality and cognitive ability. In ...

30. Book club: Killing Floor by Lee Child, chapters 27-end

13 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the third and final episode of our book club on Lee Child's first novel Killing Floor, the novel that introduced Jack Reacher. As always ...

29. Anna Riedl: Cognitive science, effective altruism, and science communication

06 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Anna Riedl is a cognitive scientist, currently finishing her MSc in cognitive science in Vienna. She is also founder of Effective Altruism Austria, an...

28. Book club: Killing Floor by Lee Child, chapters 15-21 & 22-26

30 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second episode of our book club on Lee Child's first novel Killing Floor, the novel that introduced Jack Reacher. As always with the ...

27. Nichola Raihani: The evolution of punishment, ultimate & proximate explanations, and cleaner fish

23 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nichola Raihani is a professor of evolution and behaviour at University College London. Her research focuses on the evolution of punishment and parano...

26. Book club: Killing Floor by Lee Child, chapters 1-7 & 8-14

16 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first episode of our book club on Killing Floor by Lee Child, his first novel, the novel that introduced Jack Reacher. As always with the ...

25. Désirée Brucks: Inequity aversion in dogs, ecologically realistic experiments, parrots help others obtain food rewards

09 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Désirée Brucks is a postdoc at the University of Giessen and studies social cognition in animals, having worked with dogs, wolves, parrots, and a fe...

24. Book club: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, epilogue & general discussion

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the final episode of our discussion of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (Oliver Ready's translation for Penguin Classics), i...

23. Pete Trimmer: Croquet, from maths anxiety to maths degree, and ecological rationality

25 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pete Trimmer is a behavioural scientist who works as a senior teaching fellow at the University of Wawrick. His research, almost exclusively theoretic...

22. Book club: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Parts 5 & 6

18 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we discuss part 5 and then part 6 of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (Oliver Ready's translation for Penguin Class...

21. Giuliana Spadaro: Cooperation Databank, payoff matrices, and meta-analyses

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Giuliana Spadaro is a postdoc in the Amsterdam Cooperation Lab, directed by Daniel Balliet. Her research focuses on cooperation and prosociality. In t...

20. Book club: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Parts 3 & 4

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we discuss part 3 and then part 4 of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (Oliver Ready's translation for Penguin Class...