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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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 7h

An addendum to today's post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-pro-...

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 19h

but also conceptual confusion

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 19h

v. interesting for the authors of this:
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, David Brady, Hugo Mercier , and 1 more Dorothy Bishop, David Brady, Hugo Mercier, David R. Miller

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23h

Has this been posted yet

2+7= _
I caNnot aNswer this qwestion, as it is agaiNst My reLigious principles.
٠١٨٨
IT'S WORTH A SHOT.
aMI,
7 january 1986
NAITION

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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 1d

I think every doctoral student in America shd just write up a dissertation citing beliefs of the Flying Spaghetti Monster as every source, for every quote, and as proof of all quantitative or qualitative analyses.

Then sue universities that refusal to confer upon them a PhD.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 1d

Ludwig Minelli, 92, died yesterday, before his 93rd birthday

“I am persuaded that we have to struggle in order to implement the last human right in our societies. The last human right is the right to make a decision on one's own end, & the possibility to have this end without risk & without pain."

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 1d

Great talk - so interesting to hear that condensed matter physics has similar issues to other sciences, with people selectively presenting data and failing to share raw data. #Reproducibility

Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 3d

A talk I gave a couple of weeks ago during Politecnico Milano Datathon. I discuss the Majorana controversy, how data sharing can mediate a lot of the ambiguities. And I begin discussing the controversial 2025 APS Buckley prize, which I will do more in months ahead...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3t0...

Sergey Frolov: Open science and the reproducibility crisis in quantum computing

YouTube video by Sergey Frolov

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 1d

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Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Steve Peers, Kelly Smith , and 4 more Dorothy Bishop, Steve Peers, Kelly Smith, Kris Inwood, Justin Lewis, Michael H. Whitworth, Richard Pettigrew

Ben Fletcher-Watson @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social · 1d

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view.
And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone.

"When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Dan Brockington, Jörg Oechssler , and 1 more Dorothy Bishop, Dan Brockington, Jörg Oechssler, Valerie Mueller

Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 1d

Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing.

Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this?

Background readings:
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy

An obviously AI-generated figure with AI slop and fake text all over it, recently published in Scientific Reports.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 1d

“A petition demanding a full inquiry into Russian influence in UK politics has surged past 100,000 signatures after being shared at remarkable speed across social media.”

Russian influence petition surges past 100,000 signatures

A petition demanding a full inquiry into Russian influence in UK politics has passed 100,000 signatures

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 1d

Stagecoach are introducing extra buses and extending services from today to take advantage of Oxford's temporary congestion charge. They claim faster journey times on routes from Barton, Blackbird Leys, and Kidlington, and are extending two routes to the Park & Ride at Oxford Parkway.

Oxford area stagecoach network map via Stagecoach
https://tiscon-maps-stagecoachbus.s3.amazonaws.com/Timetables/Oxford_Timetables/temp/Nov2025_Update/OxfordNetworkMap_301125.pdf

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 1d

I’m late to this, but spent most of a wet Saturday reading Doctored by Charles Piller
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Doctor...
It’s like one of those movies where you just settle down after one disaster (cassava) and a new one appears (Lesné), over and over (Masliah and more)

Doctored

An Economist Best Book of 2025 So Far For readers of Empire of Pain and Dopesick, a “gripping story of medical groupthink and warped incentives” (T...

www.simonandschuster.com

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Dorothy Bishop, Karen Benjamin Guzzo , and 6 more Kim L. Scheppele, Dorothy Bishop, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Robert C. Richards, David R. Miller, James Goodwin, Kate Starbird, Greg Linden, Élisabeth Vallet

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

How it started / How it’s going

The WHITE HOUSE
45
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K PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS
RESTORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ENDING FEDERAL
CENSORSHIP
The White House
January 20, 2025

The WHITE HOUSE
Offender Hall of Shame
A record of the media's false and misleading stories flagged by The White House. Scroll for the Truth.
The Washington Post
EXPOSED
OCBS
NEWS
EXPOSED
EXPOSED
i msnbc

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Colin Beveridge @icecolbeveridge.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Several newspapers are mourning the death of "Shakespeare in Love screenwriter Tom Stoppard" which, while technically true, is very much on the level of "Thomas The Tank Engine narrator Ringo Starr".

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 2d

thanks. confirms what I suspected about how the gobbledegook sandwich is made - take some weak piece of work such as student essay and insert complicated AI stuff with lots of formulae in the middle to make it look sciency so @springernature.com will publish it.

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 2d

noooooo!

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2d

I kinda love how deranged this feels — “your shoes are uncomfortable? Just apply a local anesthetic!”

www.glamour.com/story/lidoca...

I Used Lidocaine Spray on My Feet for Pain-Free High Heels

The topical anesthetic is a longtime Hollywood styling secret—but does it actually work?

www.glamour.com

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 2d

well, I think they’ve just jumped the shark - it is now so very easy to find nonsensical stuff just by scanning contents list.
not easy to see how their reputation can recover

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 2d

woof woof !

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 2d

One thing that really bugs me about the junk published in Scientific Reports is that Springer Nature have been giving libraries the hard sell about how much more investment they put into articles compared with born OA commercial publishers, which supposedly justifies the higher price.

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop , and 3 more Elizabeth Saunders, Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop, Tim Bale, Edgar Morgenroth, Alan Richardson

Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 2d

So... this just happened.

archive.ph/2025.11.29-1...

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Solal Pirelli @solalpirelli.bsky.social · 2d

The situation of the publisher's bank account balance increasing by one APC, that is

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 2d

I guess I may need to get on to Pubpeer at some point.
The infestation of nonsense is severe. This one has some spectacula equations
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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