BishopBlog

Ramblings on academic-related matters. For information on my research see https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/oxford-study-of-children-s-communication-impairments. Twin analysis blog: http://dbtemp.blogspot.com/ . ERP time-frequency analysis blog: bishoptechbits.blogspot.com/ . For tweets, follow @deevybee.

Sunday, 16 March 2025

Book Review: Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research

by Csaba Szabo, Columbia University Press, 2025 This is a rollicking good read, written in an informal style, and enlivened by cartoons, wh...

Saturday, 22 February 2025

IEEE Has a Pseudoscience Problem

Guest post by Solal Pirelli The IEEE, full name Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is one of the main scientific publisher...

Wednesday, 12 February 2025

Seven reasons for keeping Elon Musk as a Fellow of the Royal Society

Last November, I wrote a blogpost explaining why I had resigned as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). In brief, over the summer a group ...

Saturday, 18 January 2025

Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine: another embarrassing paper for MDPI

Many publishers are getting nervous about infiltration by paper mills, who can torpedo a journal's reputation when they succeed in pu...

Wednesday, 1 January 2025

Retrospective look at blog highlights of 2024: What happened next?

It's always interesting for a blogger to look back to see which posts have garnered most attention. In 2024 there were three standout ...

Monday, 23 December 2024

Finland vs. Germany: the case of MDPI

It's been an odd week for the academic publisher MDPI. On 16th December, Finland's Publication Forum (known as JUFO) announced tha...

Monday, 25 November 2024

Why I have resigned from the Royal Society

The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...

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