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What began as a fitness podcast slowly became host Tom J Deters' verbal journal. Through sharing his journey and all the aspects of his life that he's "gone through", get real world examples in each episode of how to shift your perspective to reflect, grow, improve and work on yourself to create the "best version of you". Hosted by Tom J Deters and Produced by Niko Ketsilis. Be sure to like Pro You on Facebook, follow along @ProYouPodcast on Twitter and check out @tomjdeters on Instagram for ...
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Hello and happy Thursday! It feels like it's been awhile for Tom, well, because it has! Tom's podcast was taken over by Canadian Assassins! For the past whole month! And Tom already misses them! Tom reflects on the 'Canadian Experience' and shares what it meant to him. Tom also shares another podcast where he listened twice and took notes on it. To…
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Laura Luebbert just finished her PhD in computational biology and will soon be a postdoc with Pardis Sabeti, to hunt some viruses. We talk about how she got into biology, how she created a widely-used software project (gget) with no prior coding experience, her recent reports when she discovered questionable data in key papers about honeybee dances…
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Hello and happy Thursday! It has truly been an amazing, fulfilling and rewarding experience for Tom. He is so very thankful for the Ketsilis brothers from Canada! It was a great moment in Tom's life; a long time quest came to fruition. But so much credit goes to Niko and Kosta. Such a wonderful display of will and commitment. A true example of what…
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Laura Wesseldijk works at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt at the Behavioral Genetics unit in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC. We talk about her research on the genetics of music and mental health, methods in behavioural genetics, the role of large samples, the importance of twins for b…
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Hello and happy Thursday! Wow. That's all Tom can say about this Canadian Experience. A wonderful thing is happening and it's happening to two very well deserving guys! Week One Niko and Kosta shared positive benefits. Week Two, the same. And Week Three was the best yet! These two guys on this journey and sharing their insights is immeasurable in T…
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Hello and happy Thursday! Part 3 of 'A Canadian Experience' is up and ready to be listened to and it just gets better each week! It is a true Pro You story! And something Tom has always wanted to achieve through sharing these experiments with real people. Take two really good guys who are both on paths of personal growth and add a little more 'unfa…
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Hello and happy Thursday! It took a little bit, but they got to Part 2 of "A Canadian Experience" (Technical Difficulties). But it was definitely worth the effort. What a wonderful first week for both of our Canadian Assassins, willing participants Niko and Kosta. Both Niko and Kosta share their first week experiences with a new food plan, logging …
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Hello and happy Thursday! Well, it's happening! "A Canadian Experience" took flight and here is Part 1 of a series of 5 parts. This is the introduction episode. Introduction of our two participants and their introduction to their next 4 weeks. Tom goes over their workout, their nutrition, logging their food and workouts using an app, and what he is…
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Hello and happy Thursday! Tom has 2 wonderful client moments and a big announcement to share. That's it! A few more things sprinkled in along the way of course. But the big news - the big announcement - Tom is bringing back "PYP LIVE EXPERIENCE"! Except not exactly. A little different, a little more successful (hopefully) and a lot more enjoyable! …
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Hello and happy Thursday! Today's episode title stems from a text exchange Tom had with a friend. This episode is full of moments #stickynotes Tom has experienced since the last episode of PYP. A few themes run consistently in Tom's life currently and he shares them. One of Tom's favorite client stories and Tom throws out more stuff. Enjoy, and as …
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Welcome to INCREASE YOUR IMPACT… where we have candid conversations with subject matter experts to break down their business model and understand why they are thriving. I’m Tom Healy and I’ve spent nearly two decades being a subject matter expert and helping hundreds of experts INCREASE THEIR IMPACT. We are here to LEARN, GROW and IMPLEMENT winning…
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Arne Ekstrom is a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, where he studies spatial navigation and memory. We talk about how he got into psychology, his unusual path to getting a PhD, his work on using single-cells recordings from people, the relationship between memory and spatial navigation, why he uses multiple methods, and much mor…
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Hello and happy Thursday! Tom is back at it with this jam packed episode! He has a very heart pulling opening book end in the beginning and a wonderful moment to book end the closing of this latest episode of PYP. Uncertainty. The root of all that is bad; stress, anxiety, fear, doubt, worry, depression. How does one overcome this? Can you overcome …
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Benjamin Ehrlich is the author of the recent biography of Santiago Ramon y Cajal (The brain in search of itself), and The Dreams of Santiago Ramon y Cajal. We talk about Cajal's life and work, Cajal's unlikely beginnings in a rural Spain, how he discovered that neurons were separate from each other, leading to the neutron doctrine, how Cajal became…
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Hello and happy Thursday! On the morning of March 25th Tom walked Zen from 5-5:30 am. He entered his complex and soon discovered a homeless dude chilling inside the gated complex. Immediately Tom had PTSD (if you heard the last episode you'll understand). Tom was standing with Zen and when he asked the man to leave, he did. A ton of weight dropped …
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Emily Finn is an assistant professor at Dartmouth College. We talk about her research on neural fingerprinting, naturalistic stimuli, how Emily got into science, the year she spent in Peru before her PhD, advice for writing well, and much more. There are occasional (minor) audio disturbances when Emily's speaking. Sorry about that, still trying to …
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Hello and happy Thursday! It is with great pride Tom presents to you the 471st episode of PYP on its 9 year anniversary. That was going to be the topic and title until... YUP! Tom was detained; and what a story it became for this anniversary episode! What Tom wanted to discuss was how different he is now compared to the version of himself that bega…
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David Van Essen is an Alumni Endowed Professor of Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In this conversation, we talk about David's path to becoming a neuroscientist, the Human Connectome project, hierarhical processing in the cerebral cortex, and much more. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, …
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Nachum Ulanovsky is a professor at the Weizman Institute. We talk about his research on spatial navigation in bats, how Nachum started working with bats, the importance of natural behaviour, how to build a 700m long tunnel for neuroscience, and much more. Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon Timestamps 0:00:00: How Nachum started working …
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Tom Hardwicke is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. We talk about meta-science, incuding Tom's work on post-publication critique and registered reports, what his new role as editor at Psychological Science entails, and much more. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjami…
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Hello and happy Thursday! The second episode of 2024 is up and ready to listen to! The other title was 'Zen is 9'. That time of year where it's Zen's birthday, then PYP's and then Tom's. Tom shares a podcast which he took notes on - means it resonated. Tom became aware of the word 'processing' while he was in the midst of a true challenge. So much …
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Jessica Polka is Executive Director of ASAPbio, a non-profit that promotes innovation and transparency in life science publishing. We talk about her work at ASAPbio, how she got into it, preprints, the many functions of peer review, and much more. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benj…
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Brian Boyd is a Distinguished Professor in English and Drama at the University of Auckland. We talk mainly about Vladimir Nabokov: Brian wrote the defining biography on Nabokov (in addition to books on more specific aspects about Nabokov), so we discuss Nabokov's life & work, Brian's approachh to writing biographies, with some hints of the new biog…
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Camillo Padoa-Schioppa is a Professor of Neuroscience at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In this conversation, we talk about Camillo's work on economic values in the brain, whether it is causally involved in choice, Camillo's career, working with different species, and much more. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscien…
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Hello, happy Thursday and happy New Year! Moving forward became the title of this episode because that is exactly what we're doing - moving forward into the new year. Tom had a couple of great stories jotted down on sticky notes before the actual end of the year. Then he filled out more and more sticky note observations from a spectacular end of th…
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Juliana Schroder is a professor at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. In this conversation, we talk about her research in which she asks people to talk to strangers, and how this experience is usually a lot more pleasant than people expect. We talk about how the research came to be, what they found, how culture and norms affect the results, h…
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Rick Betzel is an Associate professor at India University Bloomington. We talk about his research on network neuroscience, how to find good collaborators, Rick's path to network neuroscience, and much more. Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon Timestamps 0:00:00: What's the purpose of connectomics if understanding a species' entire connec…
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Elisabeth Bik is a science integrity consultant. In this conversation, we talk about her work on reporting scientific errors and misconduct, how one becomes a full-time scientific integrity consultant, her postdoc work on the microbiome of dolphins, reactions to her work (both positive and negative), how to deal with online abuse, the arms race bet…
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Hello, happy Thursday and welcome to the last PYP episode of 2023! And it's a good one! Good referring to how Tom is feeling and doing. It has been one of the most challenging and yet the most rewarding year of Tom's life. Tom loves doing the 'end of the year reflection' episodes; it's like a highlight reel of the past year. So, looking back at wha…
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Peter Bandettini is director of the fMRI core facility at the National Institute of Mental Health. In this episode, we talk about the history, present, and future of fMRI, alongside Peter's career. Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon Timestamps 0:00:00: How Peter got started working on fMRI in the early 1990s 0:05:48: What was possible i…
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Brian Nosek is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, and Co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Open Science. In this conversation, we discuss the Center for Open Science, Brian's early interest in improving science, how COS got started, what Brian would like to do in the future, and how to figure out whether ideas a…
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Rachel Bedder is a postdoc with Yael Niv at Princeton. In this conversation, we talk about her research on rumination and repetitive negative thinking (in the context of a partially observable Markov decision process), her work as a curator, why she enjoys teaching without grades, how to manage yourself as a PhD student, and much more. BJKS Podcast…
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Geoff Cumming is an Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University. In this conversation, we discuss his work on New Statistics: estimation instead of hypothesis testing, meta-analytic thinking, and many related topics. Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon Timestamps 0:00:00: A brief history of statistics, p-values, and confidence intervals 0:…
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Hello and happy Thursday! Tom was thinking he might have an episode a week after his last episode looking at his sticky notes. Then the tipping point; Tom remembered what happened nine years ago today. He knew he would record an episode that would come out on 'Thursday' (some folk call it Thanksgiving) which Tom doesn't celebrate. But what Tom will…
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Brooke Macnamara is an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University. In this conversation, we talk about her research on growth mindset and deliberate practice, whether deliberate practice is falsifiable, the benefits of diverse experiences, and much more. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely rela…
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Hello and happy Thursday! Tom explains what's behind the title and where it came from. The title and a pretty amazing story happened the day before Tom recorded this episode. So it's a full episode of Tom's experiences and they all seem to end 'good' (wink-wink). Personal growth is quiet and a reminder of the importance of focusing on what you can …
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Simine Vazire is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne. In this conversation, we talk about her work on meta-science, the purpose of journals and peer review, Simine's plans for being Editor-in-Chief at Psychological Science, the hidden curriculum of scienitic publishing, and much more. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscienc…
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Nanthia Suthana is an Associate Professor at UCLA. In this conversation, we talk about her research using invasive brain recordings from humans, how the technologies have changed and what might happen in the future. We also talk about how she runs her lab, how to learn as a PI, and what Nanthia enjoys about mentoring students and postdocs. We had s…
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Gillian Coughlan is a postdoc whose work focuses on the role of spatial navigation in dementia. In this conversation, we talk about how Gillian went from Ireland to doing a PhD in the UK, different ways for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease, what beta-amyloid and tau are, what spatial navigation has to do with dementia, and whether early menopause can…
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Lynn Nadel is an emeritus professor at the University of Arizona, where his research focuses on the role of the hippocampus in memory. This is our second conversation. We discuss how the Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map was received, Lynn's career, including his years as head of department at the University of Arizona, how to foster collaboration, wh…
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Hello and happy Thursday! Yes, it's been awhile. Tom almost had an episode ready to record prior to his producer, Niko, returning from his trip. But then something happened. As it does in life. But Tom's energy was now demanded in another area. As well as his focus and time. Once Tom was in the middle of it all, he didn't have the energy or clarity…
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Adam Mastroianni is a scientist who writes the Substack 'Experimental History'. This is our second conversation. We discuss science as a strong-link problem, why everyone is allowed to do science, and some of Adam's suggestions for how science can be done differently. Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon Timestamps 0:00:00: Adam's Substac…
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