Saturday, 7 April 2018

Should research funding be allocated at random?

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Earlier this week, a group of early-career scientists had an opportunity to quiz Jim Smith, Director of Science at the Wellcome Trust. The...
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Friday, 9 February 2018

Improving reproducibility: the future is with the young

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I've recently had the pleasure of reviewing the applications to a course on Advanced Methods for Reproducible Science that I'm ru...
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Friday, 12 January 2018

Do you really want another referendum? Be careful what you wish for

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Many people in my Twitter timeline have been calling for another referendum on Brexit. Since most of the people I follow regard Brexit as an...
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Tuesday, 26 December 2017

Using simulations to understand p-values

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Intuitive explanations of statistical concepts for novices #4 The p-value is widely used but widely misunderstood. I'll demonstrate th...
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Thursday, 21 December 2017

Using simulations to understand the importance of sample size

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Intuitive explanations of statistical concepts for novices #3 I'll be focusing here on the kinds of stats needed if you conduct an in...
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Monday, 27 November 2017

Reproducibility and phonics: necessary but not sufficient

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Over a hotel breakfast at an unfeasibly early hour (I'm a clock mutant) I saw two things on Twitter that appeared totally unrelated but ...
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Friday, 24 November 2017

ANOVA, t-tests and regression: different ways of showing the same thing

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Intuitive explanations of statistical concepts for novices #2 In my last post , I gave a brief explainer of what the term 'Analysis of...
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Monday, 20 November 2017

How Analysis of Variance Works

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Intuitive explanations of statistical concepts for novices #1 Lots of people use Analysis of Variance (Anova) without really understanding...
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Friday, 3 November 2017

Prisons, developmental language disorder, and base rates

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There's been some interesting discussion on Twitter about the high rate of developmental language disorder (DLD) in the prison populatio...
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Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Citing the research literature: the distorting lens of memory

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Corticogenesis: younger neurons migrate past older ones using radial glia as a scaffolding. Figure from https://en.wikipedia....
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Sunday, 1 October 2017

Pre-registration or replication: the need for new standards in neurogenetic studies

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This morning I did a very mean thing. I saw an author announce to the world on Twitter that they had just published this paper , and I tweet...
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Tuesday, 25 July 2017

Breaking the ice with buxom grapefruits: Pratiques de publication and predatory publishing

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Guest blogpost by  Ryan McKay, Department of Psychology,  Royal Holloway University of London and Max Coltheart, Department of Cognit...
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