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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.

Sunday, 30 January 2022

Why I am not engaging with the Reading Wars

I’m not sure whether to feel flattered or irritated by Jeff Bowers’ latest blogpost , where he expresses his disappointment in my failure to...

Thursday, 20 January 2022

Boris Johnson leads the world ....in the number of false facts he can squeeze into a session of PMQs

The first weeks of 2022 have had quite enough drama to last us the whole year. Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) on Wednesdays has develo...

Sunday, 16 January 2022

Response to Philip Ball's critique of scientific advisors

This week, Philip Ball wrote a piece in the New Statesman headlined: “ Muted and deferential, the UK’s scientists have failed the pandemic t...

Tuesday, 23 November 2021

Linking responsibility for climate refugees to emissions

I followed the COP summit in Glasgow with interest, particularly via Channel 4 News, which is good at reporting minority voices. There we...

Sunday, 14 November 2021

Universities vs Elsevier: who has the upper hand?

The academic publisher Elsevier is currently negotiating a deal with UK universities . In Oxford, as in other universities, there have be...

Saturday, 27 March 2021

Open data: We know what's needed - now let's make it happen

©Cartoonstock.com The week after then end of University term and before the Easter break is choc-a-bloc with conf...

Saturday, 13 March 2021

Time for publishers to consider the rights of readers as well as authors

© cartoonstock.com I've just been reading this piece entitled: " Publication ethics: Barriers in resolving figure corrections ...

Wednesday, 3 March 2021

University staff cuts under the cover of a pandemic: the cases of Liverpool and Leicester

I had a depressing sense of déjà vu last week on learning that two UK Universities, University of Liverpool and University of Leicester, ha...

Saturday, 23 January 2021

Time to ditch relative risk in media reports

The Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge has done some sterling work in developing guidelines f...

Sunday, 6 December 2020

Faux peer-reviewed journals: a threat to research integrity

Despite all its imperfections, peer review is one marker of scientific quality – it indicates that an article has been evaluated prior to ...

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