Explore a reproducibility study of PLAID in this 15-minute conference talk presented at SIGIR 2024. Delve into the findings of authors Sean MacAvaney and Nicola Tonellotto as they examine the reliability and replicability of the PLAID (Pretrained Language Models for Ad-hoc Information Retrieval) model. Gain insights into the challenges and importance of reproducibility in neural information retrieval research, and understand the implications of this study for future work in the field.