Dorothy Bishop

Retired psychologist with an interest in neurdevelopmental disorder, laterality and research integrity.

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2024-09-04 06:42:15

Polish papermills exposed by Alexander Magazinov
https://forbetterscience.com/2024/09/04/the-papermilling-den-of-gliwice/

2024-09-03 08:13:52

I’m proud to be one of 1,176 letter co-signatories calling on MPs to back the #CANBill in this week’s private members’ bill ballot. The time for science-led legislation to tackle the climate-nature crisis is now. https://www.zerohour.uk/scientist_letter

2024-08-28 14:47:03

That thing when you set out to do a systemativ review only to stumble across a network of fraudsters
https://retractionwatch.com/2024/08/28/first-time-scientific-sleuths-prompt-nine-retractions-for-neurosurgery-group/
#researchintegrity #fraud #papermills

2024-08-23 17:22:58

I suspect the Royal Society is regretting the day they made Elon Musk a Fellow
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/23/royal-society-facing-calls-to-expel-elon-musk-amid-concerns-about-conduct

2024-08-23 17:22:58

2024-08-14 09:13:42

For the small number of people interested in cerebral lateralization, a little analysis showing that we need to measure it in individuals including a confidence interval around the estimate - if you do that, then what looks like bilateral processing turns out to be misleading: most people are lateralized but without bias to left or right.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.240495
#laterality #brain #language #neuroscience

2024-08-10 18:31:50

dispute about data sharing for #superconductivity paper picked up by Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02061-w
By refusing to share raw data authors make themselves look ridiculous at best, and suspicious at worst
#opendata

2024-08-01 08:37:29

Just stop paying lip service on publication integrity
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02449-8
#research #integrity #publishing #COPE

2024-07-17 05:56:36

how researchers use (and misuse) G*power
Important preprint by Thibault et al
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.15.24310458v1

2024-06-20 21:30:33

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@npub1dc9…5t7a
what? 😵‍💫 why? how?

2024-06-20 21:30:33

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@npub1dc9…5t7a
what? 😵‍💫 why? how?

2024-06-19 12:25:10

Good to see RetractionWatch featuring #Elsevier's shameful failure to retract a flawed #Raoult paper on hydroxychloroquine years after the flaws documented. https://retractionwatch.com/2024/06/19/elsevier-reopens-investigation-into-controversial-hydroxychloroquine-covid-paper/
Now "reopening the investigation" - that's usually code for kicking into the long grass, but perhaps pressure from scientists and adverse publicity will work this time?
#retraction #misconduct

2024-05-14 17:21:01

Just out: Excellent and v readable article on the recent history of the big scientific publishers Mills, D. (2024). One index, two publishers and the global research economy. Oxford Review of Education, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2024.2348448
#publishing #science #metrics

2024-04-27 06:54:51

sad to hear that most people think ALCS is a scam. It seems too good to be true, but, for once , it isn’t. Sign up and you get sent money from royalties you probably didn’t know about
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01246-7

2024-04-05 23:26:08

good piece on academic mental health, as UK unis run out of money
https://voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/its-not-your-fault-that-academic-life-is-getting-harder-by-glen-ohara/

2024-03-27 17:44:58

My thoughts on eLife's publishing model, one year on.
http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/03/some-thoughts-on-elifes-new-model-one.html
#publishing #academic #journals #peerReview #preprints

2024-03-24 09:00:08

A small rant about zombie ideas and the tendency to keep looking for modifications of study methods to avoid concluding that a null result is really null. http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/03/just-make-it-stop-when-will-we-say-that.html
#research #nullresults #laterality #handedness #publicationbias

2024-03-19 17:55:34

Another shout out for our new preprint,
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/vzg3e
which we think is interesting for 3 reasons:
a) Acts as a tutorial to introduce DeclareDesign, an excellent #simulation package in R
b) Uses it to compare 2 competing analyses of a RCT run by EEF on GraphoGame
c) Argues for simulation as way forward in the 'multiple analysts' problem
#Rlanguage #RCT

2024-02-05 05:19:07

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@npub1skv…aky3 @npub19d9…f02p
100% agree with Nicole!
but thanks for raising this - it comes up a lot and it’s good to have the arguments aired, even if it makes me tetchy. will try to write something more considered about it at some point

2024-02-05 05:14:21

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@npub19d9…f02p @npub1skv…aky3
science is not some kind of game you play to get a career.
of course unfunded researchers are at a disadvantage compared to funded researchers- that’s life
Maybe I need to write a blogpost about this - i have very strong views as you may gather

2024-01-25 07:22:39

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/stop-hocusing-your-western-blots-maybe
Some thoughts on the latest high-profile fraud scandal in science
#researchintegrity #fraud #science

2024-01-07 17:15:51

this is what happens when corrupt editors are appointed
https://www.duvarenglish.com/ms-disease-is-punishment-from-god-turkish-medical-professor-argues-in-academic-publication-news-63610

2023-11-26 11:55:25

Further evidence that the pressure in MDPI for fast turnaround is compromising article quality: https://pubpeer.com/publications/411821120F65A4609F4665C967E782#2

2023-11-22 07:02:44

science #fraud piece by Anjana Ahuja in FT!
https://www.ft.com/content/c88634cd-ea99-41ec-8422-b47ed2ffc45a
V glad that others take concerns seriously

2023-11-21 06:49:20

nice portrait of science sleuth Elisabeth Bik
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/science-sleuth-looks-to-expose-research-fraud
#fraud #researchintegrity #misconduct #science #publishers

2023-10-07 13:45:13

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@npub139m…6cf9 fantabulous shot 😎

2023-09-28 08:31:51

A great blogpost for word nerds everywhere - the etymological puzzle of words beginning with squ-
https://blog.oup.com/2023/09/on-squashing-and-occasional-squeezing/
#etymology #words #linguistics

2023-09-27 07:54:19

Journals that won't publish replications: Stuart Buck argues they aren't serious
https://goodscience.substack.com/p/journals-that-ban-replications-are
#journals #science #replication #ethics

2023-09-15 17:18:36

Philip Ball on that weird story about an author who said Nature demanded simplistic narrative re a climate study, when the review record showed the opposite
https://philipball.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-new-climategate-that-wasnt.html
#climate #publishing #Nature

2023-08-16 13:17:34

Data Colada are being sued for documenting fraudulent data on their blog.
Help Data Colada's legal defense
https://gofund.me/70c497b1

2023-07-06 06:34:15

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@npub18qs…0s8s well, it’s a lot more complicated than i realised.
thanks for the info