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Nullius in Verba is a podcast about science—what it is and what it could be. Hosted by Smriti Mehta (@smritimehta.bsky.social) and Daniël Lakens (@lakens.bsky.social). nulliusinverba.podbean.com

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Episode 63: Experimenta Praematura | Nullius in Verba In this episode we discuss whether psychology is engaging in premature experimentation. Are experiments overused, and should we make greater use of other approaches to knowledge generation? If so, whi...

New episode on Premature Experimentation: nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/episode-63... Are experiments overused, and should we make greater use of other approaches to knowledge generation? If so, which methods should we use instead? Enjoy!

01.08.2025 17:49 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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No new episode this week! Smriti is busy teaching an introduction to psychology course, and Daniel is relaxing in his garden with a new puppy.

15.07.2025 18:58 — 👍 24    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Episode 62: Experimenta Exploratoria | Nullius in Verba In this episode we discuss exploratory experimentation, an iterative process used by scientists to better understand phenomena. We ask why exploratory research seems to be valued less in science, the ...

New episode of @nulliusinverba.bsky.social on exploratory experimentation. Why does exploratory research seem to be valued less? How can we do it well? nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/experiment...

04.07.2025 17:31 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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We are very happy that the content of our little podcast is resonating with fellow academics. Although, with more than a thousand listeners per episode, maybe we are not that little anymore 🤗

02.07.2025 14:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As a podcast that mainly tries to educate listeners about decade old papers, we very much agree!

02.07.2025 14:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

RE @nulliusinverba.bsky.social ep 59: Meehl seems to assume that research is harder than teaching; teachers should be paid less and if you can't do interesting research you're "demoted" to teaching. Why not the opposite? Why not pay teachers more and say "if you cannot teach, do"?

01.07.2025 13:33 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

It is clear Meehl thought he was much smarter than most other psychologist, so much is clear from his writing :)

24.06.2025 18:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He discusses the tendency of scientists to call other scientists racists with no good arguments in the book.

23.06.2025 03:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Episode 61: Septem Vacae Sacrae III | Nullius in Verba This is the final installment of the three-part series on Paul Meehl's unpublished book, The Seven Sacred Cows of Academia.

New episode! The 3rd and final part of our discussion of Paul Meehl's unpublished book 'The Seven Sacred Cows of Academia' nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/seven-sacr...

20.06.2025 16:22 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
Episode 60: Septem Vacae Sacrae II | Nullius in Verba This is the second part of a three-episode series on Paul Meehl's unpublished book, The Seven Sacred Cows of Academia.

Second part of @nulliusinverba.bsky.social discussing Paul Meehl's 7 sacred cows of academia. Meehl criticizes one of our favorite topics: The idea that all research professors do is worthwhile. nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/episode-60...

06.06.2025 18:30 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for letting us know. I fear you are right! We will fix it one day in the future. :)

07.06.2025 16:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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If you like our theme music, Grandbrothers will be releasing a new LP that you can pre-order: shop.grandbrothersmusic.com/products

24.05.2025 12:37 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks!

24.05.2025 12:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Episode 58: Communicatio Scientiae | Nullius in Verba In this episode, we discuss science communication. What is the purpose of science communication? Who does or should engage in it? Are there negative consequences of communicating science to the public...

A little late, but the new episode on science communication is out now!
We discuss the Carl Sagan effect, pop science books, science journalism, YouTube channels, podcasts... and coffee and sandwiches. nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/science-co...

11.05.2025 09:05 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

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05.04.2025 18:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Nullius in Verba | Smriti Mehta and Daniël Lakens Nullius in Verba is a podcast about science—what it is and what it could be. It is hosted by Smriti Mehta from UC Berkeley and Daniël Lakens from Eindhoven University of Technology. We draw inspira...

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Nullius in Verba investigates the roots of scientific ideals and practices. Why are some things called "scientific" and who decided that? (And a lot of Bacon quotes.)
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07.01.2025 02:22 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

The book that they discuss on the Nullius in verba podcast suggested in my googledoc is focussed on 8 steps to develop and test theories - these steps could perhaps be utilised to develop a theory of impact? Dubin 1969 Theory Building

28.03.2025 13:29 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Episode 29: Theoria Aedificans - Pars I | Nullius in Verba In this episode we discussed the 8-step method of theory building proposed by Robin Dubin in his classic 1969 book Theory Building.   Shownotes Dubin, R. (1969). Theory building. Free Press. http://c...

3. What does it mean to build a theory?
Nullius in verba episode 29: nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/theory-bui....

28.03.2025 07:17 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Episode 56: Cur Plerumque Investigation Publica Falsa Est | Nullius in Verba Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2005). Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. PLoS Medicine, 2(8), e124. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124 Neher, A. (1967). Probability Pyramiding, Research E...

New episode of @nulliusinverba.bsky.social ! We (very) critically discuss the classic paper by John Ioannidis 'Why most published research findings are false'. What did he get wrong, and why is it still interesting to read the paper? nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/episode-56...

04.04.2025 16:53 — 👍 36    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 4
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EP #14 | How can Social Media Affect Mental Health? | Amy Orben Cognitations · Episode

My PhD student @adigitaltanay.bsky.social released an episode of his podcast Cognitations interviewing ... me. One of the toughest interviewers I've had! You can listen to it here: open.spotify.com/episode/6L7q...

He will feature some other team members next, so do give the podcast a follow 🤳

31.03.2025 10:40 — 👍 28    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1

I often say 'this episode is one of our best ones'. But our discussion on the ways in which psychology mirrors a pseudoscience, and how we can learn from pseudosciences such as parapsychology which tricks psychologists will use now they can not get away with p-hacking is really good.

27.03.2025 15:09 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
Episode 55: Pseudoscientia In this episode, we discuss what separates science from pseudoscience and touch upon the demarcation problem, the recent controversial podcast called the Telepathy Tapes, and the movie Ghostbusters. E...

New episode on Pseudoscience www.podbean.com/ew/pb-yggka-... We discuss the demarcation problem, why we should not ignore Pseudoscience but teach students why it is so bad, and complain about the too popular Telepathy Tapes.

21.03.2025 19:45 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Thanks @colinhales.bsky.social for these kind words, we hope our little podcast is educational about what science is, and what it could be.

16.03.2025 05:39 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Episode 8: Scientia Cultus Sarcinarum | Nullius in Verba In this episode, we discuss physicist Richard Feynman’s famous speech ‘Cargo Cult Science,’ which refers to work that has all the affectations of science without the actual application of the scientif...

It's not pseudoscience. In the spectrum of science disorders it is formally a cargo-cult science. All of it, not just IIT. I can be more technically specific ... But you work it out! We should all be all over this glaring mess.

This podcast will clarify:

nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/scientia-c...

14.03.2025 06:11 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Part two...

22.02.2025 02:05 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Episode 52: Fraus - I | Nullius in Verba Babbage, C. (1830). Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes. B. Fellowes. Sokal, A. D. (1996). Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of...

New episode, the first of two, on scientific fraud: nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/episode-52...

07.02.2025 20:01 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

We will make a list! But it might take some time.

24.01.2025 18:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Do you know the @nulliusinverba.bsky.social podcast? They talk about science and philosophy (amongst other things)

15.01.2025 18:07 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1

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12.01.2025 11:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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