BJKS Podcast
BJKS Podcast
Benjamin James Kuper-Smith
114: Steve Fleming: Lab culture, learning as a PI, and the allure of cognitive neuroscience
1 hour 40 minutes Posted May 26, 2025 at 6:00 am.
Steve ran his lab in London from Croatia for a few years
Lessons as a PI: students and postdocs are adults and will figure it out
Learning more skills as a postdoc vs. starting a lab
Contacting departments to apply for grants
Steve's background in music
What drew Steve to cognitive science? A brief discussion of the future of consciousness research
A book or paper more people should read
Something Steve wishes he'd learnt sooner
Advice for PhD students/postdocs
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Steve Fleming is a professor in psychology at University College London. I invited Steve to talk about his work on meta-cognition, but we ended up spending the entire episode talking about lab culture, starting a lab, applying for funding, Steve's background in music, and what drew him to do cognitive neuroscience. There's even a tiny discussion about consciousness research at the end. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin ...