Sunday, 5 March 2017

Advice for early career researchers re job applications: 1. Work 'in preparation'

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Image from: https://fdudhwala.wordpress.com/2017/01/05/first-time-publishing-woerries/ I posted a couple of tweets yesterday giving my ...
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Thursday, 23 February 2017

Barely a good word for Donald Trump in Houses of Parliament

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--> I am beginning to develop an addiction to Hansard, the public record of debates in Parliament and the House of Lords. It...
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Saturday, 18 February 2017

The alt-right guide to fielding conference questions

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After watching this interview between BBC Newsnight's Evan Davies and Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to Donald Trump, I r...
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Friday, 17 February 2017

We know what's best for you: politicians vs. experts

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--> I regard politicians as a much-maligned group. The job is not, after all, particularly well paid, when you consider the hour...
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Sunday, 8 January 2017

A common misunderstanding of natural selection

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--> --> © cartoonstock.com My attention was drawn today to an article in the Atlantic , entitled ‘Why Do Human...
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Monday, 2 January 2017

My most popular posts of 2016

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The end of the year is a good time to look over the blog, to see which posts garnered most attention. Perhaps not surprisingly, among the si...
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Thursday, 22 December 2016

Controversial statues: remove or revise?

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The Rhodes Must Fall campaign in Oxford ignited an impassioned debate about the presence of monuments to historical figures in our Uni...
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Friday, 16 December 2016

When is a replication not a replication?

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--> 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

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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

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Data on $K spend on neurodevelopmental disorder research by NIH: from Bishop, D. V. M. (2010). Which neurodevelopmental disorders get rese...
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Saturday, 1 October 2016

On the incomprehensibility of much neurogenetics research

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Together with some colleagues, I am carrying out an analysis of methodological issues such as statistical power in papers in top neurosci...
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Saturday, 3 September 2016

Some thoughts on the Statcheck project

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