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It\u2019s conference season so in this episode Dan and James discuss the ins and outs of scientific conferences.

Here\u2019s what they cover:

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• Research parasite award
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• How much do you save when you don\u2019t run an fMRI study
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• They come up with an even better name than \u201cResearch parasite\u201d
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• Could the GOP weaponise the open science movement?
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• Conspiracy theories
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• Attempts to slow down science by taking science out of context
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• The Black Goat Podcast
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• The conference backchannel
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• Contacting people at conferences
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• Sitting though seminars (and not falling asleep)
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• Twitter conferences
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• Good presentations vs. bad presentations
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• Starting collaborations at conferences
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• Do conference locations matter?
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• Periscoping conference presentations
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Links

The research parasite award: http://researchparasite.com
\nThe GOP and science reform https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/reproducibility-science-open-judoflip/521952/
\nThe Crackpot index http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
\nThe Brain Twitter conference https://brain.tc

Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/

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