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.

Thursday, 22 December 2016

Controversial statues: remove or revise?

The Rhodes Must Fall campaign in Oxford ignited an impassioned debate about the presence of monuments to historical figures in our Uni...

Friday, 16 December 2016

When is a replication not a replication?

--> Replication studies have been much in the news lately, particularly in the field of psychology, where a great deal of...

Tuesday, 13 December 2016

When scientific communication is a one-way street

Together with some colleagues, I am reviewing a set of papers that combine genetic and neuroscience methods. We had noticed wide var...

Friday, 28 October 2016

The allure of autism for researchers

Data on $K spend on neurodevelopmental disorder research by NIH: from Bishop, D. V. M. (2010). Which neurodevelopmental disorders get rese...

Saturday, 1 October 2016

On the incomprehensibility of much neurogenetics research

Together with some colleagues, I am carrying out an analysis of methodological issues such as statistical power in papers in top neurosci...

Saturday, 3 September 2016

Some thoughts on the Statcheck project

Yesterday, a piece in Retractionwatch covered a new study, in which results of automated statistics checks on 50,000 psychology pape...

Thursday, 1 September 2016

Why I still use Excel

The Microsoft application, Excel, was in the news for all the wrong reasons last week. A paper in Genome Biology documented how nu...

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