Sunday, 12 January 2020

Should I stay or should I go? When debate with opponents should be avoided

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Suppose you are invited to speak at a conference where some of the other speakers have views very different from yours. What do you do? My g...
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Wednesday, 1 January 2020

Research funders need to embrace slow science

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Uta Frith courted controversy earlier this year when she published an opinion piece in which she advocated for Slow Science, including t...
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Sunday, 20 October 2019

Harry Potter and the Beast of Brexit

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The People's Vote march yesterday was a good opportunity to catch up on family news with my brother, Owen, as we shuffled along from Hyd...
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Tuesday, 15 October 2019

The sinister side of French psychoanalysis revealed

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Peak pseudoprofound bullshit* from Jacques Lacan; a proof that Woman does not exist Sophie Robert, who created controversy in 2011 with ...
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Wednesday, 9 October 2019

Attempting to communicate with the BBC: it's not just politicians who refuse to answer questions

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A couple of weeks ago there was an outburst of public indignation after it emerged that the BBC had censured their presenter Naga Munchetty....
Tuesday, 10 September 2019

Responding to the replication crisis: reflections on Metascience2019

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Talk by Yang Yang at Metascience 2019 I'm just back from MetaScience 2019. It was an immense privilege to be invited to speak at suc...
Sunday, 8 September 2019

Voting in the EU Referendum: Ignorance, deceit and folly

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As a Remainer, I am baffled as to what Brexiteers want. If you ask them, as I sometimes do on Twitter, they mostly give you slogans such as ...
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Saturday, 10 August 2019

A day out at 10 Downing Street

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Yesterday, I attended a meeting at 10, Downing Street with Dominic Cummings, special advisor to Boris Johnson, for a discussion about scienc...
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Saturday, 3 August 2019

Corrigendum: a word you may hope never to encounter

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I have this week submitted a 'corrigendum' to a journal for an article published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics B (B...
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Saturday, 20 July 2019

A call for funders to ban institutions that use grant capture targets

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I  caused unease on Twitter this week when I criticised a piece in the Times Higher Education on ' How to win a research grant '. As...
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Wednesday, 12 June 2019

Bishopblog catalogue (updated 12 June 2019)

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Source: http://www.weblogcartoons.com/2008/11/23/ideas/ Those of you who follow this blog may have noticed a lack of thematic coheren...