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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, 12 January 2020

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

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...

Wednesday, 1 January 2020

Research funders need to embrace slow science

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

Sunday, 20 October 2019

Harry Potter and the Beast of Brexit

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...

Tuesday, 15 October 2019

The sinister side of French psychoanalysis revealed

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

Tuesday, 10 September 2019

Responding to the replication crisis: reflections on Metascience2019

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

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 ...

Saturday, 10 August 2019

A day out at 10 Downing Street

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

Saturday, 3 August 2019

Corrigendum: a word you may hope never to encounter

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

Saturday, 20 July 2019

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

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...

Sunday, 26 May 2019

The Do It Yourself (DIY) conference

This blogpost was inspired by a tweet from Natalie Jester, a PhD student at the School for Sociology, Politics and International Studies a...

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