Saturday, 15 October 2011

Lies, damned lies, and spin

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©www.cartoonstock.com The Department for Education (DfE) issued a press report this week entitled “ England's 15-year-olds' ...
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Wednesday, 5 October 2011

The joys of inventing data

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Have I gone over to the dark side? Cracked under pressure from the REF to resort to fabrication of results to secure that elusive Nature p...
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Monday, 12 September 2011

How to become a celebrity scientific expert

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Maybe you’re tired of grotting away at the lab bench. Or finding it hard to get a tenured job. Perhaps your last paper was rejected and you ...
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Thursday, 1 September 2011

Early intervention: What's not to like?

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If a child has language problems, when would be the best age to intervene? At 18 months of age, when they’re just at the outset of learning...
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Thursday, 25 August 2011

So you want to be a research assistant? Advice for psychologists

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©CartoonStock.com The dire state of the academic jobs market was brought home to me recently. I’d advertised for someone to act a...
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Friday, 12 August 2011

Susan Greenfield and autistic spectrum disorder: was she misrepresented?

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I have had many emails in response to my open letter to Baroness Greenfield . All but one have been approving. The one exception is an emine...
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Thursday, 4 August 2011

An open letter to Baroness Susan Greenfield

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©CartoonStock.com As a contemporary of yours, I have followed your career with interest over the years. I was delighted when in 19...
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Sunday, 24 July 2011

What does it take to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine?

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According to Andy Lewis, aka @lecanardnoir, the answer is around £356 for a London resident*. He revealed this discovery in a blogpost a...
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Wednesday, 13 July 2011

How to survive in psychological research

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A Handbook of Skills and Methods in Behavioural Research is not the place you’d expect to find something to make you smile, but many years a...
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Saturday, 25 June 2011

The National Children’s Study: a view from across the pond

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The National Institutes of Health , the major government funding agency for medical research in the US, is in trouble. Although a threat of ...
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