After an unplanned summer hiatus Julia and Jonathan are back to talk about errors in research, and specifically how we can make fewer of them. Julia talks about her Error Tight project for implementing some culture changes, including standardization, how to cultivate a sense of shared responsibility in a research lab. Research mistakes reflect a failure of systems rather than a failure of people—so let’s improve our systems!

Theme music courtesy of The Bobby Dazzlers

Links:

• The juice and the squeeze Episode 38: Big picture teaching
• The juice and the squeeze Episode 39: The syllabus, and why it must be read
• The juice and the squeeze Episode 40: Teaching nitty gritty
• PsyArXiv Preprints | Error Tight: Exercises for Lab Groups to Prevent Research Mistakes
• Scientists Make Mistakes. I Made a Big One.
• Error Tight – Perception Lab – Carleton College
• The juice and the squeeze Episode 17: Self correcting
• Mistaken Identifiers: Gene name errors can be introduced inadvertently when using Excel in bioinformatics | BMC Bioinformatics | Full Text
• Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature | Genome Biology | Full Text
• Diffchecker - Compare text online to find the difference between two text files