BJKS Podcast

A podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related. Long-form interviews with people whose work I find interesting.

BJKS Podcast is a science podcast hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith, with 119 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Benjamin James Kuper-Smith hosts BJKS Podcast, a science show with 119 episodes published.

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  119. This (audio only) podcast is dead - long live the podcast? With Dan Quintana

  Sep 29, 20251h 15mS0

  <p>This is a special episode: this podcast will change after this episode, from remote audio-only interviews to exclusively in-person video interviews. Dan Quintana, professor at the University of Oslo and host of the Everything Hertz podcast, joins me to discuss why and how I'm making this change, podcasting and science communication more broadly, time management as an academic and podcaster, and much more.</p><p>BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.<br/><br/>Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon<br/><br/>Timestamps</p><p>0:00:00: An obnoxious episode...

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  118. Lauren Ross: Causation, mechanism, and explanation in neuroscience

  Sep 22, 20251h 37mS0

  <p>Lauren Ross is a professor of logic and philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. We talk about her work on causation, mechanism, and explanation in neuroscience, Lauren's background in medicine, how to write clearly, and much more.<br/><br/>BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.<br/><br/>Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon<br/><br/>Timestamps</p><p>0:00:00: Why Lauren studied medicine</p><p>0:04:23: Differences between medicine and philosophy</p><p>0:21:19: Why Lauren switched to philosophy of science</p><p>0:25:30: How to learn to write clearly</p...

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  117. Kai Ruggeri: Global collaborations, Prospect Theory, and temporal discounting

  Sep 15, 20251h 37mS0

  <p>Kai Ruggeri is professor for health policy and management at Columbia University. We talk about his global collaborations, in which they studied various important decision-making aspects, including Prospect Theory and temporal discounting.<br/><br/>BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.<br/><br/>Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon<br/><br/>Timestamps<br/>0:00:00: Why Kai studied stats anxiety in his PhD, and then moved to broader policy questions</p><p>0:09:15: Replicating the original Prospect Theory paper across the world</p><p>0:30:01: Adversarial collaborations and choosing which findings are worth being replicated</p><...

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  116. Elsa Fouragnan: Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation, brain surgery, and French Polynesia

  Sep 8, 20251h 37mS0

  <p>Elsa Fouragnan is an Associate Professor and UKRI Future Leader Fellow at the University of Plymouth. We talk mainly about her work on focussed transcranial ultrasound stimulation, a new non-invasive way other stimulating (human) brains, including deep areas that can't be reached with TMS. We also discuss her childhood in French Polynesia, how she started doing research, what it's like seeing a brain during surgery, and much more.</p><p>This was the first episode I recorded in-person. The audio quality is really good, with the minor exception that I made a really silly error during editing, such that...

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  115. Melinda Baldwin: A triple history of Nature, scientific journals, and peer review

  Jun 24, 20251h 33mS0

  <p>Melinda Baldwin is an associate professor of history at the University of Maryland. We talk about her work studying the history of Nature, scientific journals more broadly, what it means to be a scientist, peer review, the Tyndall project, and much more.<br/><br/>BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.<br/><br/>Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon<br/><br/>Timestamps</p><p>0:00:00: Melinda's chemistry-history double major</p><p>0:03:42: Why Melinda did a PhD on the history of Nature</p><p>0:07:06: The glorious beginning of Nature and...

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