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Dorothy Bishop
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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
That was in 2024! They replied to say they were straining every sinew to address problems (or words to that effect).

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 3h
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o... it’s a sign of corrupt editors
An open letter regarding Scientific Reports
16th October 2024  to: Mr Chris Graf Research Integrity Director, Springer Nature and Chair Elect of the World Conference...
deevybee.blogspot.com

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 7h
📽️ Paper Mills: Parallels with a Virus / with Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social

www.helsinki.fi/fi/unitube/v...

The event was organised by ReproducibiliTea UniHelsinki
ReproducibiliTea_UniHelsinki webinar: Paper Mills: Parallels with a Virus | Helsingin yliopisto
www.helsinki.fi

Reposted by Elizabeth Pisani

deevybee.bsky.social
Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 9h
Hello @springernature.com - you’ve just published another bit of nonsense in Scientific Reports 🙁
jacksonwryan.com Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 13h
Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.

This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪

(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
Text says: This section provides a comprehensive description of the methodology employed in this study to develop an explainable XAI framework for ASD diagnosis and parental support. The proposed framework integrates the TabPFNMix regressor, a state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) model for tabular data, with SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) to ensure both high predictive accuracy and interpretability. The methodology is structured into five subsections: (1) Dataset Description, (2) TabPFNMix Overview, (3) SHAP for Explainability, (4) Framework Design, and (5) Evaluation Metrics. Figure 1 shows the overall methodology. Informed consent was obtained from all participants involved in the study, and, where applicable, consent was obtained from legal guardians for minor participants as approved by the IRB. And then Figure 1 is shown with lots of AI errors on the image. An absolutely totally fine this can be published in a science journal image that purports to show how the study was carried out but instead is just AI slop.

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Paolo Crosetto

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Jack Ryan 🙏🧪 @jacksonwryan.com · 13h
Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.

This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪

(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
Text says: This section provides a comprehensive description of the methodology employed in this study to develop an explainable XAI framework for ASD diagnosis and parental support. The proposed framework integrates the TabPFNMix regressor, a state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) model for tabular data, with SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) to ensure both high predictive accuracy and interpretability. The methodology is structured into five subsections: (1) Dataset Description, (2) TabPFNMix Overview, (3) SHAP for Explainability, (4) Framework Design, and (5) Evaluation Metrics. Figure 1 shows the overall methodology. Informed consent was obtained from all participants involved in the study, and, where applicable, consent was obtained from legal guardians for minor participants as approved by the IRB. And then Figure 1 is shown with lots of AI errors on the image. An absolutely totally fine this can be published in a science journal image that purports to show how the study was carried out but instead is just AI slop.

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Clark Gray

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 13h
One of the fun southern #CostaRica specialties, the Speckled Tanager. In San Vito, Puntarenas.

#birds #green #nature
Small green and yellow songbird with heavily speckled black-and-white chest, perched on a leafy branch against a soft green background.

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 13h
#ToucanButtoftheDay

Something away from Bijagua (finally!), a Fiery-billed Aracari (Pteroglossus frantzii) at San Vito, Puntarenas #CostaRica

#toucans #birds #nature
Colorful toucan perched on a branch, showing its bright orange-red bill, dark body, and red tushy against a soft green forest background.

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, David Darmofal

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 17h
i’m so happy for him

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 18h
The Ashmolean has, this week, welcomed its millionth visitor in 2025. This will be the first time the Museum has reached a million visitors since the reopening of the Ashmolean in 2009. This is 14% ahead of this time last year - visitor numbers to the Ashmolean have grown steadily in recent years.
Ashmolean Museum (c) Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Nicola J. Cooper

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19h
🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 65,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 70,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 19h
Someone should send that diagram to Chris Graf

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, David A. Ellis, Ian Hussey , and 1 more

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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 20h
My time as Editor of AMPPS is coming to an end-- here are some parting thoughts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... .
Taking Stock of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science at the End of the Beginning - David A. Sbarra, 2025
journals.sagepub.com

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 21h
If you'd like to learn more about how OpenSAFELY works - and how we solved the privacy and efficiency challenges, to make national GP data securely accessible - here's a 5 minute video!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjR...
OpenSAFELY in a nutshell
YouTube video by Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
www.youtube.com

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop, Brigitte Nerlich , and 8 more

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 21h
Rate your score on Factor Fexcectorn.

Well done, Scientific Reports. pubpeer.com/publications...

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

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🧡🐀 venus 🐀❤️ @venuslovesrats.bsky.social · 1d
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
A tiny polished wooden carving of a rounded rodent with detailed ears, paws, textured fur and glossy beady eyes resting on a light surface. Netsuke is a type of miniature ornament initially used to secure containers or kimonos. This sculpture is 2.5cm tall, tiny! 🥹

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d
I think AI might have been a bit... overhyped.
It's just Clippy on steroids and even more annoying.

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

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Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences @oxprimarycare.bsky.social · 1d
Huge news: The OpenSAFELY team has been awarded a Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further Education! 🏆

The prize recognises the platform's revolutionary approach to secure NHS data analysis, protecting privacy while unlocking life-saving research.

Read more: www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/opensaf...
OpenSAFELY team awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further Education
Oxford’s OpenSAFELY team wins the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for revolutionising secure NHS data research, protecting patient privacy while unlocking life-saving health insights.
www.phc.ox.ac.uk

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Brigitte Nerlich, Jonathan Wolff

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 1d
RFKJr has cut ALL mRNA vax research in the USA where all the work discussed in this thread was developed. Other countries can step in. But the rhetoric about mRNA vax from the likes of him are HUGELY harming the trust in mRNA vaccine technology. We address common questions n myths here
independentsage.org

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Lucy @leftliblucy.bsky.social · 1d

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 1d
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

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Uchronik @uchronik451.bsky.social · 1d
You are in there @elisabethbik.bsky.social !!!

www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
Bidouillages en série d’images dans des articles de neurosciences
Une équipe néerlandaise a constaté qu’au moins 40 % des 600 publications portant sur la prévention des lésions cérébrales après hémorragies méningées contenaient des visuels d’expériences manipulées o...
www.lemonde.fr

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Edmund Heery, Manuel Puppis , and 1 more

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"

Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Dorothy Bishop, Simon L. Lewis , and 13 more

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 1d
best possible publicity for Reith Lectures!
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."

BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Brendan Nyhan, John Horgan , and 8 more

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."

BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Matti Vuorre

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Ben Bolker @bbolker.bsky.social · 2d
A colleague is looking for an open-source/online (pref. peer-reviewed) reference for properties of probability distributions. Any ideas? (NIST gives *very* basic properties e.g. www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handb... but I think they're looking for something more complete ...)
I’m working on a manuscript that mentions a fair number of standard distributions and their properties, and I’ve been wondering if there’s an equally standard reference. For context for my question, while Wikipedia often has what I need if I want to appeal to some function and its properties, the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (https://dlmf.nist.gov/) provides a peer-reviewed standard alternative. Is there someplace similar where I could point for properties of a Gumbel, Dirichlet-multinomial distribution, etc.

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

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Robert “The Baste God” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 2d
THEN I SAID “MAYBE THIS YEAR THE TURKEY SHOULD’VE PARDONED ME” AND MY LAWYERS JUST SHOOK THEIR HEADS AND LEFT THE ROOM.
The well known photo of Trump trying to yell over the sound of a lawnmower as a boy mows the White House lawn.

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d
anyway my favorite channel of late is the BBC Archive. they don't make lads like this anymore youtu.be/NKPApAsJbj4...
1979: Steeplejack FRED DIBNAH takes down a MASSIVE chimney BRICK by BRICK | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 2d
Finally, an Olympic sport I can get behind!

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 2d
[SATIRE] "I swear to god, if you start reading me your reservation number out loud, I will shut you down and send you out of here on a bicycle. Since you brought it up, can you ride a bicycle? I ask because we have no cars." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
I’m in Charge at This Hertz Location, and Buddy, You’re Not Getting a Car Today
Here’s how this is gonna go: First, you will step up to the rental counter only when I give you The Look. The Look is not markedly different from m...
www.mcsweeneys.net