Monday, 17 February 2014

Parent talk and child language

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© www.CartoonStock.com There's been a lot in the media lately about the impacts of parental talk on children's language developm...
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Saturday, 25 January 2014

What is educational neuroscience?

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©CartoonStock.com As someone who works at the interface of child development and neuroscience, I've been struck by the relentless r...
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Sunday, 12 January 2014

Why does so much research go unpublished?

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As described in my last blogpost , I attended an excellent symposium on waste in research this week. A recurring theme was research that...
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Thursday, 9 January 2014

Off with the old and on with the new: the pressures against cumulative research

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  Yesterday I escaped a very soggy Oxford to make it down to London for a symposium on "Increasing value, reducing waste" in Res...
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Friday, 3 January 2014

A New Year's letter to academic publishers

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My relationships with journals are rather like a bad marriage: a mixture of dependency and hatred. Part of the problem is that journal edi...
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Wednesday, 1 January 2014

How the government spins a crisis: the blame game

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from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkHb9q-jpDU Thousands of people in the UK had a truly miserable Christmas, with extreme weather lea...
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Friday, 27 December 2013

The impact of blogging on reputation

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I was alerted this morning on Twitter to this blogpost by Brian LePort on the first of 5 reasons why students shouldn't blog . Its cen...
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Saturday, 30 November 2013

A letter to Boris Johnson

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Dear Boris, Last week you   created a media storm with your speech at the Centre for Policy Studies in London. As a self-publicist, y...
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