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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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 10h

"Chat GPT is not hallucinating, it’s bullshitting,"

ChatGPT is that guy in law school, dangerously wrong, deeply uninformed, and totally sure Debate Team is real life.

Except now, in 2025? Everyone trusts him. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/10/a...

By @cragcrest.bsky.social

The Last Word On Nothing | AI is Full of Bullshit. Now It’s Faking Science

www.lastwordonnothing.com

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 11h

Ok President Trump, if you sue the BBC for $1bn for spreading lies, I’ll sue you for the same amount. I reckon Planet Earth would crowdfund that. Then I’ll buy Mar A Largo, turn it into a climate change research centre, free Melania, and put a 1000% tariff on orange face paint.

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 12h

please name the journal - it would be a public service

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HuffPost UK @huffpost.co.uk · 16h

The US president has sent a letter to the corporation threatening legal action.

Donald Trump Preparing To Sue BBC Over Panorama Speech Row

The US president has sent a letter to the corporation threatening legal action.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Dignity in Dying @dignityindying.org.uk · 16h

Here are the 5 things you need to know about what happened in the House of Lords Select Committee looking at the assisted dying bill in 60 seconds.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16h

It can be hard to do math in your head, while standing up, on national television. Nerve-wracking, too. But even so, in twenty seconds on the air, I did a better job than the President in costing his latest idea and figuring out whether his new idea of a $2,000 rebate check will work. (It won't.)

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 17h

Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.

Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!

2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

The image shows detail from a floor mosaic of a brown mouse on a pale background facing left with its nose close to half a walnut in its shell. The mouse has a long thin tail stretched out behind. The mosaicist has used a mix of lighter and darker brown tiles for the mouse’s body to hint at fur. The walnut is created with warmer light and dark brown tiles. Slightly darker background tiles have been used beneath the mouse and walnut to create subtle shadows

Reposted by Martin McKee, Dorothy Bishop, Stephan Lewandowsky , and 9 more Martin McKee, Dorothy Bishop, Stephan Lewandowsky, Brigitte Nerlich, Will Jennings, Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers, Tim Bale, Marcus Grant, Ailsa Cameron, Stephen Ryan, Ian Loader

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 19h

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 20h

For those who missed it at the w/e: how paper mills operate.
tldr; these days they are more likely than a regular journal to check for image duplication, and they charge "authors" $300 if they find it!

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 2d

New guest post on my blog: Csaba Szabo plays cat and mouse with a paper mill
deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
#fraud #publishing

The inner workings of a paper mill:

My Wuxi sting operation Guest post by Csaba Szabo Chair of Pharmacology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland After the limited success of...

deevybee.blogspot.com

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop, Zen Faulkes

Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 22h

"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."

Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.

OUP acquires Karger's long tail

Hello fellow journalologists,

newsletter.journalology.com

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pentathlos.bsky.social @pentathlos.bsky.social · 1d

@springer.springernature.com produces another example for my presentation subtitled "what to be aware of when you decide where to publish" to academics and researchers.

www.linkedin.com/posts/guilla...

In 2025, Springer Nature sells a chapter titled “Detection of **Autism** in Children Using Face Recognition” riddled with tortured phrases such as ‘prior intercession’ instead of ‘prior intervention’…...

www.linkedin.com

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LizW @cave-malum.bsky.social · 1d

Research cardiologist Dr Peter Wilmshurst is on fire
pubpeer.com/publications...

PubPeer - Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart fail...

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial (P...

pubpeer.com

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 1d

Just seen Bugonia. Clever, topical, and witty. Only had to hide from the violent bits a couple of times.

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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 1d

The Manger at Uffington, with the White Horse beneath heavy clouds.

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David Lea Kenney Wildlife Photography @davidleakenney.bsky.social · 1d

A Barn Owl perched in the perfect position for a picture. Always a great day when you see them before it gets too dark!

#birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

After a fourth successive heavy annual defeat for Restore Trust, we should (but won't) have Telegraph reporters descending on the scone-eaters at historic properties to ask why they weren't in touch

This is an assymetry between the liberal left and the culture warriors of the metropolitan right

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Flups @flups.bsky.social · 1d

WORD OF THE DAY.

Excellent.

To give up spreadsheets for forty days.

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 1d

hmm. Data availability statement just says “no”.

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 1d

Please do add a comment!

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LizW @cave-malum.bsky.social · 1d

Your last comment/query is spot on: how do UK physicians perform percutaneous cardiac procedures in Iran?

Long arms?

There's no NHS waiting list at Bart's, right?

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 1d

Two women. Fucked off with the state of politics. So we started a podcast in our bedrooms…

And today we sit in the charts snuggled up against The Times, Sky News, The Financial Times, etc

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Robert Ramsay @robertramsay.org · 1d

This is the one I saw :-)

The cats have been fed
Don't listen to their bullshit

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciate @bmj.com follows a formal process, but just how much evidence do they need before adding an Expression of Concern.
Numerous PubPeer comments for stem cell for heart disease paper - which had huge media attention hailing it as a medical breakthrough.
pubpeer.com/publications...

PubPeer - Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart fail...

pubpeer.com

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 1d

my favourite was that you’d get fined $300 if there were duplicate images in the article. Seems sleuths are getting to them

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestine🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 2d

Because everything is shit, I give you ... Puggles. #Platypus #AustralianWildlife

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Gemma Geary @ggeary.bsky.social · 2d

My friend Kristina and I were driving down the coast from Astoria and pulled off the road and ran to the beach when we saw these colors! Cape Kiwanda at Pacific City, Oregon. #BlueSkyArtShow #Evening

Photograph of haystack rock against a tangerine and violet sunset over the ocean reflected in a wet beach. Two walkers are silhouetted against indigo waves. Cape Kiwanda, Pacific City, Oregon.

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 2d

New guest post on my blog: Csaba Szabo plays cat and mouse with a paper mill
deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
#fraud #publishing

The inner workings of a paper mill:

My Wuxi sting operation Guest post by Csaba Szabo Chair of Pharmacology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland After the limited success of...

deevybee.blogspot.com

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 2d

retraction doesn’t create a hole in the literature. The publication remains but with a retraction notice.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 2d

It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄

Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆

1/15
🧵

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

Marxist/Leninist Mamdani: buses should be cheaper
Capitalist icon Trump: YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR CHAINS

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