Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Has the Society for Neuroscience lost its way?

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The tl;dr version: The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) makes humongous amounts of money from its journal and meetings, but spends very little...
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Saturday, 13 October 2018

Working memories: a brief review of Alan Baddeley's memoir

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This post was prompted by Tom Hartley, who asked if I would be willing to feature an interview with Alan Baddeley on my blog.  This was ex...
Saturday, 15 September 2018

An index of neighbourhood advantage from English postcode data

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Screenshot from http://dclgapps.communities.gov.uk/imd/idmap.html Densely packed postcodes appear grey: you need to expand the map to ...
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Sunday, 26 August 2018

Should editors edit reviewers?

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How Einstein dealt with peer review: from http://theconversation.com/hate-the-peer-review-process-einstein-did-too-27405 This all star...
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Monday, 20 August 2018

Matlab vs open source: Costs and benefits to scientists and society

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An interesting twitter thread came along yesterday, started by this query from Jan Wessel (@wessel_lab): Quick thread of (honest) question...
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Saturday, 11 August 2018

More haste less speed in calls for grant proposals

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Helpful advice from the World Bank This blogpost was prompted by a funding call announced this week by the Economic and Social Resear...
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Friday, 20 July 2018

Standing on the shoulders of giants, or slithering around on jellyfish: Why reviews need to be systematic

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Yesterday I had the pleasure of hearing George Davey Smith (aka @mendel_random) talk. In the course of a wide-ranging lecture he recounted h...
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Thursday, 12 July 2018

One big study or two small studies? Insights from simulations

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At a recent conference, someone posed a question that had been intriguing me for a while: suppose you have limited resources, with the poten...
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Tuesday, 26 June 2018

Preprint publication as karaoke

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 Doing research, analysing the results, and writing it up is a prolonged and difficult process. Submitting the paper to a journal is an a...
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Saturday, 9 June 2018

Developmental language disorder: the need for a clinically relevant definition

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There's been debate over the new terminology for Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) at a meeting (SRCLD) in the USA. I've not got...
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Sunday, 27 May 2018

Sowing seeds of doubt: how Gilbert et al’s critique of the reproducibility project has played out

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In Merchants of Doubt , Eric Conway and Naomi Oreskes describe how raising doubt can be used as an effective wea...
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