HeyJaredThe Epistemic Alchemy Podcast
The podcast covers research, academic writing, and scholarship within the social sciences/ humanities.
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Good Theories Require Good Metatheories (opens the original)
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What would it take for educational research to serve both truth and welfare? In this episode, Jean-Luc Patry (professor emeritus of educational research, University of Salzburg) traces a lifelong project organized around a single hierarchy: good theories require good metatheories, theories must be studied with adequate methods, and no amount of statistical sophistication can rescue a weak theory or a poor assessment. He introduces VaKE (Values and Knowledge Education), a constructivist, collabor
Beyond Journal Prestige: Rebuilding Peer Review and Scholarly Publishing (opens the original)
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In this episode of Epistemic Alchemy, Mohammed Raei speaks with neuroscientist Dr. Björn Brembs about the limits of journal prestige, impact factors, and conventional peer review. Brembs explains why high-status publication venues may not reliably signal higher-quality research, how editorial selection can privilege novelty and perceived interest over methodological rigor, and why the growing demand for peer review has created an unsustainable burden across science. The conversation then turns t
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