OPEN SCIENCE & ITS ENEMIES, PART III ⏱51:32
in this episode i conclude my critique of - some parts of - the open science movement by focusing on the positive reforms that might actually work
episode #41, 1st October 2024 
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OPEN SCIENCE & ITS ENEMIES, PART II ⏱01:04:26
in this episode i continue discussing the failure of some parts of the open science movement to deliver change for the people. i focus on populist podcasters
episode #40, 31st July 2024 #openscience #reform #critique #commentary image source transcript
OPEN SCIENCE & ITS ENEMIES, PART I ⏱26:50
in this episode, i cover all the brain news i've read this month, & present the first of a 3-part essay criticising some sections of the open science movement
episode #39, 20th May 2024 #openscience #reform #critique #commentary image source transcript
JUST DIE ALREADY ⏱15:14
in this episode we find out how motivational talk makes you run faster & i ponder on the history of science & the death of ideas long, long after their time
episode #38, 5th April 2024 #progress #idea #kuhn #death #revolution image source transcript
YOUR SAMPLE IS SMALL ⏱14:20
my name's nick holmes and this is the error bar: a podcast about brain science & statistics nothing like any other podcast about brain science & statistics
episode #37, 15th March 2024 #brain #sex #small #sample #size image source transcript
DON'T LOOK BACK ⏱16:21
my name's nick holmes and this is the error bar, where no drinks are served, which has only one song on the jukebox & one programme on the telly: the brain news
episode #36, 9th February 2024 #history #research #meta #analysis #review image source transcript
SEASON THREE PREVIEW ⏱06:27
my name's nick holmes and this is the error bar, a podcast by a middle age man who likes statistics, for middle aged men who like statistics
episode #35, 1st December 2023 #podcast #return #season #three #brains #stats image source transcript
BIAS, FATIGUE, FRAUD? TAKE A HIKE ⏱13:23
how learning to play the piano improves perception, why the brain needs a break, image manipulation & the wonder of winter walking
episode #34, 11th December 2022 #bias #perception #break #stress #fraud #walk image source transcript
EYES WIDE SHUT ⏱08:51
how different people see the world of colour differently, the study of love that triggered a studied hate & the annual review of the error bar's existence.
episode #33, 7th November 2022 #colour #love #hate #difference #ReasonsToBe image source transcript
EMOTIONAL FISH FOOD ⏱09:40
how the largest part of the brain gets emotional, why older adults don't get emotion, how goldfish can swim 70cm for food & free energy forever!
episode #32, 21st October 2022 #cerebellum #emotion #goldfish #food #pong image source transcript
THE SHAVING FOAM FIRE HOSE OF BRAIN NEWS ⏱11:45
how the mouse eye tells the mouse brain that a mouse is scratching itself, how dogs are everywhere & the two scientific cultures of simplifiers & complificators
episode #31, 10th October 2022 #mouse #itch #dogs #Occam #parsimony #SCN image source transcript
CLIMBING MOUNT THETA ⏱12:22
how to massively improve your memory in old age after just a few hours, why scientists won't change their mind, & how the brain is not made of light bulbs.
episode #30, 24th September 2022 #memory #stimulation #electromagnetic #light image source transcript
HOLDING PATTERN ⏱07:05
bringing you the brain science news before it happens. or sometimes a long, long time afterwards. & sometimes it's not really news at all. more opinion really.
episode #29, 10th September 2022 #job #news #revamp #advert image source transcript
BIG, WRONG AND BORING ⏱09:52
the biggest brain scanning study ever, how the error bar was wrong, how magnetically stimulating the head is distracting & some vaguely-interesting news stories
episode #28, 23rd May 2022 #big #data #brain #scan #correction #language image source transcript
IS IT BIG ENOUGH? ⏱10:19
how the visual brain controls blind people's feet & how every single brain scanning study ever done needed thousands more participants to be reliable.
episode #27, 25th March 2022 #movement #blind #scanning #size #matters image source transcript
FINDING THE CLITORIS ⏱08:03
how to find the clitoris, how covid shrinks some very important parts of the brain & the canadian brain disease that isn't. still.
episode #26, 11th March 2022 #clitoris #mapping #COVID #brain #shrink image source transcript
FLATTENING THE CURVE ⏱08:27
how your brain is just as good at age 60 as age 30, the neural correlates of near death experience & the most interesting questions in the whole of science
episode #25, 25th February 2022 #mental #speed #reaction #time image source transcript
THE FACETIME ILLUSION ⏱07:43
how your brain lives in the past, the virus causing multiple sclerosis, consciousness explained three times, the scanner that talks scots & a news dump
episode #24, 11th February 2022 #illusion #face #MS #consciousness #MRI #dump image source transcript
2021: A YEAR IN ERROR ⏱12:21
how rocket scientists & brain surgeons are just as clever as you, how to publish anything in medical journals, how music affects the brain & 2021 has ended
episode #23, 7th January 2022 #rocket #brain #bogus #music #year #2021 #error image source transcript
POO, VOMIT, WIND ⏱10:16
how smelling bodily odour stops men from killing & makes women warriors, how alcoholic binges shrink your brain & the wind farms that make you sick
episode #22, 10th December 2021 #poo #vomit #wind #baby #booze #error image source transcript
TIME FOR A HUG ⏱08:06
how long to hug someone for, how to make many labs make the right work, an update on canada's mysterious brain disease, & three neuroscientists pass
episode #21, 26th November 2021 #hug #meta #manylabs #canada image source transcript
TOOLS IN THE BRAIN: THE FIRST 25 YEARS ⏱41:59
on the 25th anniversary of an influential neuroscience paper, the error bar talks to drs marie martel & luke miller about how using tools changes our brain
episode #20, guests: Dr Luke Miller & Dr Marie Martel, 12th November 2021 #tool #brain #hand #silver #iriki #birthday image source transcript
DARWINIAN OVULATION ⏱09:54
how women are more creative when ovulating, how to treat autism, and the error bar receives a rebuttal
episode #19, 29th October 2021 #ovulation #Darwin #autism #therapy #balls image source transcript
SONGS AND GONGS ⏱09:59
the neuroscience of birdsong, nobel gongs for sensory neuroscientists, the corporate world of brain-hacking and the neuroscience universe loses three stars
episode #18, 15th October 2021 #bird #song #sensation #brainhacking #loss image source transcript
HAVANA SYNDROME ⏱09:42
the microwaves in cuba that cook spies' brains & make them hear things, dogs hearing their owners' voices in brain scanners & consciousness explained. again.
episode #17, 1st October 2021 #havana #microwave #cuba #dogs #consciousness image source transcript
A JOURNAL FOR TRIAL AND ERROR ⏱21:58
the error bar talks to the journal of trial and error, a journal which gives scientists a platform to talk about error, failure & rejected grant applications
episode #16, guests: Valentine Delrue & Sean Devine, 3rd September 2021 #trial #error #journal #failure #rejection image source transcript
RABBIT HOLES AND P-VALUES ⏱10:39
as silly season continues, newspapers & science websites re-hash stories told decades ago, making more of the same errors, about p, alcohol, rabbits & divorce
episode #15, 20th August 2021 #stats #p #alcohol #heart #rabbit #divorce image source transcript
SILLY SEASON ⏱08:46
how mirror neurons and physics can explain everything about the human brain, the correct way to eat chocolate biscuits & the error bar takes a break
episode #14, 16th July 2021 #mirrorneuron #physics #biscuit #summer image source transcript
LOSING CONFIDENCE ⏱09:45
how scientists lose confidence in their own work, the mega corporations who infiltrate our dreams & music to listen to in the gym after work, you know,
episode #13, 2nd July 2021 #confidence #error #dreams #inception #music image source transcript
THE ECHOLOCATION CHAMBER ⏱09:59
can humans learn to echolocate? the hostile media effect, the spread of fake news on twitter & whether brain chemicals predict maths education
episode #12, 18th June 2021 #echolocation #fakenews #bias #MRS #GABA image source transcript
HAND, FOOT, MOUTH, BALLS ⏱09:40
how the visual brain processes hands & cutlery, the worst study ever, mirror neurons, alcohol, zombies & the amazing jane goodall
episode #11, 4th June 2021 #hand #tool #football #mouth #booze #zombie image source transcript
THE RUBBER HAND DELUSION ⏱39:59
dr peter lush from sussex & dr regine zopf from sydney discuss a recent controversy about rubber hands, bodily illusions & hypnotic suggestion
episode #10, guests: Dr Peter Lush & Dr Regine Zopf, 21st May 2021 #fake #hand #RHI #body #hypnosis #suggestion image source transcript
MISINFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY ⏱10:15
the psychology of misinformation, what we can do to fight fake news & neuromyths, brain size, a new brain disease in canada & dementia - again...
episode #9, 7th May 2021 #fakenews #neuromyth #atrophy #Bonhoeffer image source transcript
BRAIN GROOVOLUTION ⏱09:59
explaining how the human brain evolved & develops, the sensitivity of our fingertip nerves, dementia, elon musk, horses, inflammation, shamanism & not much more
episode #8, 23rd April 2021 #evolution #development #touch #dementia image source transcript
SEX, CRIME & DRUGS: THE SIN EPISODE ⏱09:52
the brain differences between men & women, how neuroscience can reduce murders, why adults drink wine and why children shouldn't eat sugar
episode #7, 9th April 2021 #sex #murder #gun #wine #sugar #pimple #drugs image source transcript
OF CUTTLEFISH AND MEN ⏱10:09
are cuttlefish better at delaying rewards than crows & kids? neuroscience manipulation, bullying & failure, & the millions in prize money for migraine research
episode #6, 26th March 2021 #cuttlefish #cognition #openscience #scihub image source transcript
DO CHICKENS SEE GREEN STARS? ⏱31:39
discussing the claim there are no green stars, astrophysicist dr ulrike kuchner & psychophysicist dr christopher taylor describe green valleys flares & chickens
episode #5, guests: Dr Ulrike Kuchner & Dr Christopher Taylor, 12th March 2021 #rod #cone #astro #psycho #chicken #truth image source transcript
EXTREME DREAM ARGUMENTS ⏱15:34
how your brain does maths while you dream, the brain differences between agreeing and disagreeing with someone, & why extreme opinions slow down decisions
episode #4, 26th February 2021 #sleep #lucid #agreement #FNIRS #EEG #stats image source transcript
THE BRAIN: A L❤VE STORY ⏱16:52
how social media posts betray relationship breakdown, how lonely brains are different, and the quest for the brain's beauty centre
episode #3, 12th February 2021 #breakups #loneliness #beauty #musk #wolpert image source transcript
ELECTROCOMPULSIVE THERAPY ⏱10:05
how electrocuting the face & brain reduces obsessive behaviour, how nose-pumping helps with sleep hygiene, & the monkeys who'll swap your iphone for food
episode #2, 29th January 2021 #brainstim #sleep #fly #monkey #vision image source transcript
GREEN PATHS TO BRAIN HEALTH ⏱17:57
the vegetables & vitamins that stop cognitive decline & parkinson's, how city life slows you down, & the continuing failure of computers to be like the brain
episode #1, 15th January 2021 #vegetables #vitamins #brain #health #telly image source transcript
CANNABIS BURGERS FOR DEMENTIA ⏱09:48
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why cannabis doesn't make you inject cocaine, how burgers don't give you dementia, & whether going into space expands your mind, or your brain
episode #0, 1st January 2021 #cannabis #cocaine #burgers #dementia #space image source transcript