63. Adeyemi Adetula: ManyLabs Africa, psychology should generalise from Africa, and multicultural collaborations

09/28/22 • 67 min

Adeyemi Adetula is a PhD student at the University of Grenoble, where he is leading the ManyLabs Africa project. In this conversation, we talk about that project, his recent commentary 'Psychology should generalize from - not just to - Africa', how Western researchers can best collaborate with African researchers, and much more.
Timestamps
0:00:05: How Adeyemi went from psychology student in Nigeria to PhD student in France
0:13:27: ManyLabs Africa
0:18:54: Synergy between the Credibility Revolution and research development in Africa
0:25:26: How and why Adeyemi crowdfunded his PhD
0:36:42: Psychology should generalize from - not just to - Africa
0:54:47: How can Western researchers test their theories in more diverse samples?
1:03:47: Pounded yam with Egusi soup and bushmeat
Podcast links

Website: https://geni.us/bjks-pod
Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt

Adeyemi's links

Google Scholar: https://geni.us/adetula-scholar
Twitter: https://geni.us/adetula-twt

Ben's links

Website: https://geni.us/bjks-web
Google Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholar
Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt

References and links
ManyLabs Africa: https://osf.io/vh6td/
Collaborative Replications and Education Project: https://www.crep-psych.org/
CREP Africa: https://osf.io/kvhzg/
Sci-Hub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
Adeyemi's GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-african-scholar-in-financial-distress
Adeyemi's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/support_adeyemi_adetula_dream
Adetula, ... IJzerman (2022). Psychology should generalize from—not just to—Africa. Nat Rev Psych.
Adetula, ... IJzerman (2021). Synergy Between the Credibility Revolution and Human Development in Africa. AfricArXive.
Adetula, ... IJzerman, H. (2021). The Evaluation of Harm and Purity Transgressions in Africans: A Paradigmatic Replication of Rottman and Young (2019). AfricArXive
Klein, ... Nosek (2014). Investigating variation in replicability: A “many labs” replication project. Soc Psych.
Rottman & Young (2019). Specks of dirt and tons of pain: Dosage distinguishes impurity from harm. Psych Sci.
The 5 shortlisted African papers for the ManyLabs Africa replication:
Bevan-Dye & Akpojivi (2016). South African Generation Y students’ self-disclosure on Facebook. South African J of Psych.
Kombo, S. (n.d.). Using behavioural informed communication to drive civic engagement. [Unpublished paper] https://busaracenter.org/case_studies/behaviorally-informed-communication-to-drive-civic-engagement/
Mgbokwere, Esienumoh & Uyana (2015). Perception and attitudes of parents towards teenage pregnancy in a rural community of Cross river state, Nigeria. Global J of Pure & Applied Sci.
Ojedokun (2015). Extramarital affair as correlate of reproductive health and home instability among couples in Ibadan, Nigeria. African J of Social Work.
Teye-Kwadjo, Kagee & Swart (2018). Condom use negotiation among high school adolescents in Ghana: The role of gender. South African J of Psych.

Website: https://geni.us/bjks-pod
Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt

Adeyemi's links

Google Scholar: https://geni.us/adetula-scholar
Twitter: https://geni.us/adetula-twt

Ben's links

Website: https://geni.us/bjks-web
Google Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholar
Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt

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62. Nils Köbis: AI, corruption, and deepfakes

Nils Köbis is a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, where he studies the intersection of AI and corruption. In this conversation, we talk about how Nils got into working on this topic, and some of his recent papers on AI, corruption, deepfakes, and AI poetry.
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month.
Timestamps
0:00:04: Moral Games
0:13:09: How Nils started working at the intersection of AI and corruption
0:30:12: Start discussing 'Bad machines corrput good morals'
1:01:00: Start discussing Nils's papers on whether people can detect AI-generated poems and videos
1:25:59: Learning to say no and to not get sidetracked
1:31:05: Writing a PhD thesis
Podcast links

Website: https://geni.us/bjks-pod
Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt

Nils's links

Website: https://geni.us/koebis-web
Google Scholar: https://geni.us/koebis-scholar
Twitter: https://geni.us/Koebis-twt

Ben's links

Website: https://geni.us/bjks-web
Google Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholar
Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt

References & links
Moral Games (in German): https://geni.us/moral-games
Nils's podcast KickBack: https://www.icrnetwork.org/what-we-do/kickback-global-anticorruption-podcast/
Replika AI app: https://replika.com/
Science fiction science: https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/chm/guiding-concepts/concept-2-science-fiction-science
Collingridge dilemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collingridge_dilemma
GPT-3: https://openai.com/api/
Fotos of people who don't exist: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
Abdalla & Abdalla 2021. The Grey Hoodie Project: Big tobacco, big tech, .... Proc of 2021 AAAI/ACM Conf.
Crandall ... 2018. Cooperating with machines. Nat Comm.
Goffman 1959. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Harari 2016. Homo Deus: A brief history of tomorrow.
Hawking 2018. Brief answers to the big questions.
Kehlmann 2021: Mein Algorithmus und ich.
Köbis ... 2021. Bad machines corrupt good morals. Nat Hum Behav.
Köbis ... 2021. Fooled twice: People cannot detect deepfakes but think they can. Iscience.
Köbis & Mossink, 2021. Artificial intelligence versus Maya Angelou... . Comp in hum behav.
Köbis ... 2022. The promise and perils of using artificial intelligence to fight corruption. Nat Mach Intell.
Leib ... 2021. The corruptive force of AI-generated advice. arXiv.
Leib ... 2021. Collaborative dishonesty: A meta-analytic review. Psych Bull.
Mnih ... 2015. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning. Nature.
Rahwan ... 2019. Machine behaviour. Nature.
Silver ... 2016. Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search. Nature.
Tegmark 2017. Life 3.0: Being human in the age of artificial intelligence.

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64. Gareth Barnes: MEG, OPM-MEG and the beauty of tinkering

Gareth Barnes is a professor at University College London, where he is Head of Magnetoencephalography. We talk about how Gareth randomly stumbled into working on MEG, what MEG is, and some of his recent projects, including the exciting new generation of MEG scanners: OPM-MEG.
BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes appear roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.).
Timestamps
0:00:03: How I found out about Gareth's work
0:02:31: What is MEG?
0:07:04: Flexible headcasts for MEG
0:19:49: How Gareth accidentally started working on MEG (after writing fiction in France)
0:28:46: The early days of MEG at Aston University (starting with a single channel)
0:40:58: The new generation of MEG: Optically pumped magnetometers (OPM-MEG)
1:13:33: Mouth MEG and measuring hippocampus with MEG
1:21:06: The relationship between methods development and discovery in basic science
Podcast links

Website: https://geni.us/bjks-pod
Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twt

Gareth's links

Website: https://geni.us/barnes-web
Google Scholar: https://geni.us/barnes-scholar

Ben's links

Website: https://geni.us/bjks-web
Google Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholar
Twitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twt

Links
MEG in the UK: https://meguk.ac.uk/
MEG image: https://biomaglaboratory.fi/wp-content/themes/biomagille/images/meg_image_20210422b.jpg
Cerca MEG: https://www.cercamagnetics.com/
Fieldline MEG: https://fieldlineinc.com/
Young Epilepsy: https://www.youngepilepsy.org.uk/
Sphenoidal electrodes: https://www.epilepsybehavior.com/article/S1525-5050(03)00023-4/fulltext
References
Boto, ... & Brookes (2018). Moving magnetoencephalography towards real-world applications with a wearable system. Nature.
Boto, ... & Brookes (2019). Wearable neuroimaging: Combining and contrasting magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography. NeuroImage.
Hill, ... & Brookes (2019). A tool for functional brain imaging with lifespan compliance. Nature Communications.
Meyer, ... & Barnes (2017). Flexible head-casts for high spatial precision MEG. Journal of neuroscience methods.
Sander, ... & Knappe (2012). Magnetoencephalography with a chip-scale atomic magnetometer. Biomedical optics express.
Seymour, ... & Maguire (2021). Using OPMs to measure neural activity in standing, mobile participants. NeuroImage.
Stangl, ... & Suthana (2021). Boundary-anchored neural mechanisms of location-encoding for self and others. Nature.
Tierney, ... & Barnes (2019). Optically pumped magnetometers: From quantum origins to multi-channel magnetoencephalography. NeuroImage.
Tierney, ... & Barnes (2021). Mouth magnetoencephalography: A unique perspective on the human hippocampus. NeuroImage.
Vivekananda, ... & Walker (2020). Optically pumped magnetoencephalography in epilepsy. Annals of clinical and translational neurology.

BJKS Podcast - 63. Adeyemi Adetula: ManyLabs Africa, psychology should generalise from Africa, and multicultural collaborations

Transcript

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Benjamin James Kuper-Smith: Yeah, I thought we could, uh, maybe start by, uh, kind of talking about kind, just generally how you got interested in psychology and Yeah. Doing kind of basically how you got to doing what you're doing today. And I was curious, you mentioned on your, on your patron, you mentioned, uh, kind of how your father and your uncle both worked as psychologist and inspired