BJKS Podcast
A podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related. Long-form interviews with people whose work I find interesting.
Podcasting since 2020 • 101 episodes
BJKS Podcast
Latest Episodes
101. Julie Old: Wombats, saving endangered species, and the difficulties of studying wild animals
Julie Old is as Associate Professor at Western Sydney University. We talk about her experiences and research with wombats, various aspects of wombat behavior, conservation efforts, challenges such as sarcoptic mange and roadkill, the Northern h...
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100. Tom Chivers: Thomas Bayes, Bayesian statistics, and science journalism
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 Thomas Bayes, the history of probability theory, how Bayes can help with the replication cris...
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1:19:46
99. Laura Luebbert: gget, hunting viruses, and questionable honeybee dances
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 she got into biology, how she created a widely-used software project (gget) with no prior codin...
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98. Laura Wesseldijk: Behavioural genetics, music, and the importance of twins
Laura Wesseldijk works at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt at the Behavioral Genetics unit in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC. We talk about her research on the genetics of music an...
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97. Arne Ekstrom: Spatial navigation, memory, and invasive recordings in humans
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 psychology, his unusual path to getting a PhD, his work on using single-cells recordings from ...
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