Saturday, 2 May 2020

Stepping back a level: stress management for academics in the pandemic

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In my last blogpost , I suggested some things scientists could do if the pandemic prevented them conducting planned studies. Here I devel...
Wednesday, 11 March 2020

What can scientists do in an emergency shutdown?

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More and more universities are closing as a precaution against coronavirus.   Scientists who work on educational interventions are seeing wh...
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Saturday, 29 February 2020

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in relation to DSM-5

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The tl;dr (too long, didn't read) message in this post is that for all intents and purposes, Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), as d...
Sunday, 23 February 2020

Changing terminology for children's language disorders: reflections on special issue of Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups

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In 2016-7, I joined with expert colleagues to try to tackle the thorny issue of terminology for children who had difficulties speaking or un...
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Tuesday, 18 February 2020

Why eugenics is wrong

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I really didn't think I would need to write a blogpost on this topic, but it seems eugenics is having a resurgence in the UK, so here we...
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Sunday, 9 February 2020

Stemming the flood of illegal external examiners

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On 21st January, the Times Higher Education published a short piece about Professor Eric Barendt, an academic lawyer at UCL, who had be...
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Sunday, 12 January 2020

Should I stay or should I go? When debate with opponents should be avoided

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Suppose you are invited to speak at a conference where some of the other speakers have views very different from yours. What do you do? My g...
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Wednesday, 1 January 2020

Research funders need to embrace slow science

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Uta Frith courted controversy earlier this year when she published an opinion piece in which she advocated for Slow Science, including t...
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Sunday, 20 October 2019

Harry Potter and the Beast of Brexit

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The People's Vote march yesterday was a good opportunity to catch up on family news with my brother, Owen, as we shuffled along from Hyd...
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Tuesday, 15 October 2019

The sinister side of French psychoanalysis revealed

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Peak pseudoprofound bullshit* from Jacques Lacan; a proof that Woman does not exist Sophie Robert, who created controversy in 2011 with ...
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