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Dorothy Bishop

@deevybee.bsky.social

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Retired professor of psychology at University of Oxford. Interests in developmental neuropsychology and improving science. Blogs at deevybee.blogspot.com

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Dorothy Vera Margaret Bishop is a British psychologist specialising in developmental disorders specifically, developmental language impairments. She is Emeritus Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at the University of Oxford, where she worked from 1998 until her retirement in 2022. She is an honorary fellow of St John's College, Oxford. .. more

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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.bsky.social · 4h

Voor wie nu in een slecht humeur mocht zijn.

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Badinerie (Bach) - Stride version - Sheet Music (PDF+Midi) Available - Victor Demange

YouTube video by Victor Demange - Pianiste

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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 6h

one thing i'm very happy for our daughter is that she has artists and musicians in her life. one of our crafty friends sends her hand-illustrated letters, and this week's came with a sweet watercolor. 🐈

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 8h

sorry Joe- I can remove the comment as I wouldn’t want it misconstrued. it was intended as an in-joke for sleuths

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you, @deevybee.bsky.social.
Every number here is traceable.
Sources cited, methods open, and all observations welcome.
Sources of official data:
ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/respiratory-...
www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/s...
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 9h

"The government have actively avoided looking for evidence Russia interfered."

The Intelligence & Security Committee's Stewart Hosie said the government didn't investigate alleged Russian interference in the Brexit vote, and no one wanted to touch this "with a ten-foot pole".

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10h

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 11h

Regent parrot chicks getting weighed are just so absurdly adorable and undignified 😂😭😇

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 11h

Data for England show COVID levels up
Little likelihood that these data have peaked
Chart independently produced. Sources cited, methods open, observations welcome.
Source of official data:
ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/respiratory-...
www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/s...
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 12h

Heron surveys the world and is unimpressed

The head and body of a heron looking cross. Its body is grey, with white lower breast and throat. The beak is yellow underneath and black and grey above. Its eye has a yellow ring round a black centre.

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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 12h

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 13h

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 14h

A Roman fibula shaped like a panther with a human rider on its back, crafted in bronze with colorful enamel inlay.
Panthers were linked to the god Dionysus/Bacchus, often depicted as his favored mounts, suggesting a symbolic or protective function for fibulae ...🧵1/2

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology

Roman bronze fibula shaped like a panther with a human rider on its back. The panther’s body features small enamel inlays, and the piece rests on display in a museum case.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17h

"I will never know Diane Keaton, but she had a wonderful quality about her that made me think she’d always offer the best life advice and a damn good laugh while passing the joint back on a summer evening."

charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/a-toast-to...

A Toast to Diane Keaton

The patron saint of cool women.

charlotteclymer.substack.com

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"How" @myoneandonlykat.bsky.social · 23h

Timeline cleanse!

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 1d

Accurate.

#academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 1d

An inspiring story to brighten a dark morning--
www.inquirer.com/health/demon...

‘Demon Copperhead’ author lays foundation for women in Appalachia to beat addiction

Author Barbara Kingsolver opened the facility in January with royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Demon Copperhead,” whose plot revolves around Appalachia’s opioid crisis.

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JJ @jjodx.bsky.social · 1d

One of my two last (ever) papers on tDCS:
Does anodal tDCS over M1 really enhance motor sequence learning? A non-replication of earlier findings in a double-blind, pre-registered large-sample study in humans
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Does anodal tDCS over M1 really enhance motor sequence learning? A non-replication of earlier findings in a double-blind, pre-registered large-sample study in humans

Background Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is one of the most widely used noninvasive neuromodulation methods. Despite its popularity, some recent studies highlighted issues about the r...

www.medrxiv.org

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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Jacqui Young and @bmj.com for discussing this important subject with myself and @dralig.bsky.social

www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Covid-19: Excluding doctors from vaccination programme puts patients at risk, clinicians warn

Doctors have warned that the government’s decision to exclude health and social care workers from its covid vaccination programme is putting patients at risk and will have a major impact on an overstr...

www.bmj.com

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who thinks about standards of evidence for detecting research misconduct, I found this lecture by Frederick Schauer on his 2022 book The Proof very thought-provoking. He approaches it from perspective of a lawyer looking at use of evidence in everyday life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB6q...

‘The Proof’ With Frederick Schauer

YouTube video by University of Virginia School of Law

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 1d

Hundred of large well done studies from all across the world vs 1 deeply flawed assoc study? www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Amazing how antivaxxers ignore large body of evidence & expert opinion, but when they find something that they think supports their view?

Cognitive bias fest.

COVID Vaccines and Cancer Risk: Experts Dissect Flawed Study

Retrospective study from Korea proves nothing about COVID shots and cancer, experts say

www.medpagetoday.com

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 1d

Dr. Oransky warned of consequences for self-governance failure: "If you don't self-police, if you don't correct the record, if you don't sanction people who commit fraud, [...] someone else will come in and do that. And it very well could be a government that you don't like."

Is Science Retracting Enough Papers?

As paper mills and fraud proliferate, experts warn the retraction rate should reach 2% of published literature—ten times current levels.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 2d

New paper alert! Rare DNA changes in the SETBP1 gene are linked to speech problems & diverse syndromes affecting brain development. Work led by ace postdoc @maggiemkwong.bsky.social uncovered impact of different gene variants, coupling clinical/speech evaluation to molecular & cellular readouts.🧬🗣️🔬🧪

SETBP1 variants outside the degron disrupt DNA-binding, transcription and neuronal differentiation capacity to cause a heterogeneous neurodevelopmental disorder - Nature Communications

Different types of SETBP1 variants cause variable developmental syndromes with only partial clinical and functional overlaps. Here, the authors report that SETBP1 variants outside the degron region impair DNA-binding, transcription, and neuronal differentiation capacity and morphologies.

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 2d

drawing samples from someone’s posterior? 😳

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 2d

Hope to see you there! ICYMI: thousands of design registrations have been sold as “patents” as an explicit ploy for academics to pad their CVs. This is still happening! For example, here's a design registration filed 20 Sep 2025 for "MACHINE LEARNING BASED SECURITY DEVICE FOR CLOUD COMPUTING":

A green computer monitor mounted to a box. The box features numerous buttons and panels, oversized ethernet ports and a panel of every type of USB recievers. The whole assembly is mounted on four spindly-looking robot legs with wheels.

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 2d

'Most people now know someone in bed with COVID. If someone says they are in bed with flu, it’s almost certainly COVID, given the number of people admitted to hospital for COVID last week was 50 times higher than the number admitted for flu!' @chrischirp.bsky.social
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England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

Prof Christina Pagel breaks down the latest Covid and NHS stats

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d

The one Oxfordshire newsletter you need! Featuring this week:
🚍 Free Park & Ride buses
🍕 Food court closes
🪑 Mystery statue explained
😇 St Frideswide’s priory unearthed?
✉️ Council writes letters… again
🗞 Being nice about the Oxford Mail
Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...

Clarion Weekly, 10 October 2025

Happy weekend to all our readers! We have a gloriously varied newsletter for you this week: historical mysteries, bonus buses, and geeking out about council reorganisation. Put the kettle on and settl...

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible vision on Alfred Nobel’s part to use the money he earned inventing dynamite to create the world’s greatest trolling opportunity

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DORA @dorassessment.bsky.social · 2d

NASEM is doing a Consensus Study on Corrections and Retractions. Join the Europe Regional Learning Session on Tuesday, 14 October, from 2:00–5:00 PM CEST to share your views on improvements to the processes used to correct errors in scientific articles. 👉 www.nationalacademies.org/event/45836_...

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