Science of Doing Science

Apr 29 2024 6 ep. 47 mins 5

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A podcast series of the new meta-research lab of UCY "SinnoPSis" with researcher-led discussions on various scientific topics. The aim of the series is to introduce scientific researchers to the public and to connect science and society, by presenting the latest scientific insights on meta-research, reproducibility, open science and evidence-based policy. https://linktr.ee/sinnopsis

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Science of Doing science 6: A conversation with Renos Vakis

Apr 29 2024 17 mins

In today's Episode, Zach Interviews Renos Vakis, Lead Economist for the World Bank. They discussed Renos' life as an economics researcher working toward better good for people in situation of poverty and issues around reproducibility and the special place of Cyprus. Renos Profile: https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/people/r/renos-vakis

Episode 5: Economics games, voting behavior and democracy, with Philippos Louis

Jun 30 2023 73 mins

In today's Episode, Adrien Interviews Philippos Louis, Assistant professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Cyprus. They discussed the impact of research on the influence of information on voting behavior, how economics experiments can help improve the voting system to make democracy more efficient, and how people integrate new information to summarize them i

Episode 4: Evidence-base communication with Georgios Nikolopoulos

May 31 2023 37 mins

In today's Episode, Zach Interviews Georgios Nikolopoulos, professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Medical School of the University of Cyprus. They discussed how best to communicate with policy-makers, convey uncertainty in scientific findings to the general audience, and how meta-analyses can guide recommendations in health and psychological sciences.

Episode 3: Mario Gollwitzer fighting for data sharing, META-REP and the improvement of replicability.

Apr 26 2023 63 mins

In today's episode, Adrien interviews Mario Gollwitzer, Professor of social psychology at the University of Munich. He is also the coordinator of META-REP, a meta-scientific programme to analyse and optimise replicability in the behavioral, social and cognitive sciences.

Episode 2: Psychometrics and replication crisis, with Michalis Michaelides

Mar 31 2023 68 mins

In today's episode, Adrien interviews Michalis Michaelides, Associate Professor of Research Methodology at the University of Cyprus to talk about how the replication crisis changed his way of conducting experiments, teaching statistics to students, and how he envisions the future of scale-based studies.

Episode 1: What is Meta-science?

Mar 16 2023 25 mins

In this First episode, Adrien interviews Zacharias Maniadis, the ERA chair holder of SInnoPSis, to talk about his vision of meta-science and how SInnoPSis can contribute to the improvement of science.