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10 episodes
An absolutely irreproducible conversation with Nicole Nelson
What happens when we can't reproduce our work- or someone else's? What does it mean about the science- and ourselves?Today on the podcast, we're talking to Nicole C. Nelson,...
A balanced diet of machine learning education with Carrie Diaz Eaton
Welcome back to season 2 of HDYK! Today we're talking about how our positionality and the assumptions we make affect our approaches in science, but also thinking about how we turn that positionality into a strength by incorporating dive...
HDYK Episode 8: Eminent ladybugologists and zombie ideas with Kaitlin Stack Whitney and Sara Hermann
What happens to public understanding when science communication goes wrong? Experts go on the media to talk about their work, and somehow, something doesn’t connect. This misinterpretation gains steam, and soon it becomes an outright conspir...
HDYK Episode 7: Data spaces, data places- With Deondre Smiles
Science often treats data and information as a resource that can be extracted. Like colonists coming to conquer new lands, scientists trained in the dominant paradigm often frame data-driven discovery with the same language on the frontier m...
HDYK Episode 6: We've Got History- With Sarah Qidwai
And now, as Monty Python would say, for something completely different. Or is it? Is it data, is it science? The humanities produce knowledge. Yet, they’re not generally considered part of STEMM. So, what about humanities research on STEMM? ...
HDYK Episode 5: Who’s asking? With Leon Walls
Sometimes, when researchers ask what seems to be a simple question, they get a lot of different answers. When they look closer, they see that their simple question may be made up of many questions, and how you ask them depends on how-and who- y...
HDYK Episode 4: It's not me, it's the machine with Jason Williams
Hey! How are you? We’re ok. Keepin’ on, keepin’ on. Are you ready for a new HDYK episode?Some of the most dynamic and influential scientists I know are the connectors. These are the people who can see things from multiple perspect...
HDYK Episode 3: Remap with Kirstie Whitaker
Episode 3 is the place to be! After a brief hiatus to record a bunch more episodes (we're in post-production, baby!) the HDYK crew is back in the saddle and talking more data, and science, and data science. Stay tuned for much more quality cont...