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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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 2h

this substack piece by @samfr.bsky.social really cheered me up - positive ideas for government to reduce daily hassles and make everyone less stressed. Sounds workable!
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Troubleshooters

How to get people believing in the state again

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 7h

maybe they should give him a BAFTA?

38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 7h

Trump is trying to bully the BBC with a $10 billion claim over a Panorama documentary, and we must not let public money be handed over!

Independent British journalism matters. Don’t give in. Don’t settle. Not a penny.

Join the 83,412 people standing up for our BBC.

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 7h

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop, Alan Richardson , and 1 more Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop, Alan Richardson, Virginia Sapiro

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 9h

“The United States will not let men steal trophies from women…”

- says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 9h

way beyond bounds of acceptability
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PEPIOPs – prolific editors who publish in their own publications

I recently reported on a method for identifying authors who contribute an unusually high proportion of papers to a specific journal. As I ...

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Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Steven French, Lesley A. Hall , and 8 more Dorothy Bishop, Steven French, Lesley A. Hall, Sabine Pahl, Jussi T. Eronen, Vincent Noël, Adrian Vickers, Amy W. Ando, Jonathan Birch, Maria Abreu, Richard Moorhead

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 10h

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition

The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away

What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse

The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

Count Mysterioso @mysteriosox.bsky.social · 11h

This is quite a post

www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 11h

Ancient origins of Apple pencil found

Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 14h

archaeology.org/news/2026/01... these communities had the knowledge, tools, and specialized strategies to hunt large whales thousands of years earlier than we had previously assumed,”

News - 5,000-Year-Old Evidence of Whaling Found in Brazil - Archaeology Magazine

BARCELONA, SPAIN—According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, people living some […]

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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 14h

archaeology.org/news/2026/01... these communities had the knowledge, tools, and specialized strategies to hunt large whales thousands of years earlier than we had previously assumed,”

News - 5,000-Year-Old Evidence of Whaling Found in Brazil - Archaeology Magazine

BARCELONA, SPAIN—According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, people living some […]

archaeology.org

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DGBassani @dgbassani.bsky.social · 15h

“Profoundly paraphrase in an intellectual manner” deserves to go into the prompting hall of shame.

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, John R. Hutchinson, Zen Faulkes

Jay Patel @infotainment.bsky.social · 15h

Shoutout to the heart-warming shoutout in this Acknowledgements section:

"We also thank Carolyn Gilbert, who in no way helped this paper get written, but is wonderful so she gets mentioned anyway."

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Jeffrey Brainard @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social · 15h

#SpecialIssues have fueled the growth of some of the largest #OpenAccess publishers. Does a journal that allows a #GuestEditor to both plan a special issue and write many articles in it have a conflict of interest? #scicomm #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...