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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

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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Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Rebecca Solnit, Nandita Sharma , and 22 more Michael E. Mann, Rebecca Solnit, Nandita Sharma, Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop, Kimberly A. Prather, Will Jennings, Jon Pierre, Steve Peers, Brian Young, Rosemary A. Joyce, Diane Ravitch, Paul Davies, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Robert B. Reich, James Goodwin, David Szakonyi, Karen O’Leary, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Gerry Hassan, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Sylvia Perry, Timothy D. McBride, David Darmofal

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 6h

these Art Nouveau doors by Ernest Delune in Brussels, Belgium, from the 1900s.

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 9h

Did a double-take when I read this in my inbox, but it turns out the preview cut off the word “anxiety”

Screenshot of email: McGraw Hill
10:01
Let's get rid of research methods and stats...

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Caroline Krafft

Nick Holmes @thehandlab.bsky.social · 9h

ahhh, that MANDATORY stress-relief training really hits the spot

Dear colleague,

Creating a healthy, supportive working environment is a shared priority, and we are pleased to introduce a new Stress Management Policy and Stress Awareness Training for all staff.

Following the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspection and associated action plan, these developments will help us strengthen the way we identify, prevent and manage work-related stress, while ensuring colleagues have access to the support, tools and guidance they need to thrive at work.

What you need to do
Complete the mandatory Stress Awareness Training via My Learning.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Dorothy Bishop, Brigitte Nerlich , and 27 more Anna O. Law, Dorothy Bishop, Brigitte Nerlich, Steve Peers, John McLaren, Tim Bale, Diane Ravitch, Philip Nel, Anders Nilsson, Ryan Enos, Trevon D. Logan, David R. Miller, Julia Lynch, Andrew L. Whitehead, Scott A. Imberman, Graham Webster, Samantha Brennan, Glenn H. Shepard, Michael D. McDonald, James Goodwin, Sarah Roberts, Matthew Lebo, Daniel Kuehn, Cynthia Miller‐Idriss, Feargal Cochrane, Karen L. Cox, Kathleen Kennedy, Daxton R. Stewart, Stuart Shapiro, David Darmofal

Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said.

It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX:
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 10h

PsyArXiv can deliver preprint posting and reading services to its users at no charge thanks to the generous support of member institutions!

Let's give them a round of applause for their support and encourage others to follow suit!👏👏👏
buff.ly/4T8ynCI

Thank you for all your support!❤️

PsyArXiv Member Institutions – PsyArXiv Blog

The PsyArXiv Scientific Advisory Board would like to express deepest gratitude to all of our member institutions.

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 17h

🔥 This video is approaching 1 million views collectively across social media.

Pretty please use this tool to write to your MP - whoever they are - it all counts.

And then share this link everywhere to family, friends, groups —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 1d

v relieved to hear this, Martin. Sounds like a nightmare. hope you can rest up and regain strength.

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Margot C. Finn, Nicole Guenther Discenza

Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 1d

I have not responded to the email that you sent me

and which you probably spent awhile writing

Forgive me
it was so long
and my executive functioning is completely shot

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 1d

but it's much worse now. Any idiot can generate publishable nonsense and find a journal that will publish it if you pay the APC

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting! But I noticed that you say "“That a result was obtained in the K562 leukemia cell line, for example, is not itself uncertain". But it may be uncertain if you have fraudulent articles in the database - or even genuine studies with misidentified cell lines?

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 1d

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks @richardsever for drawing attention to this. It's happening in my area but a lot of what we get is full of errors. Interesting to see how it pans out when AI uses that stuff as input - or maybe it will learn to discriminate?

Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 1d

"All corners of academia will soon be flooded with AI-generated research....Maths and CS go first because their entire output is symbol manipulation...Biology comes later not because biologists are cleverer but because the rate-limiting step is physical" giorgio.gilest.ro/the-weimar-o...

The Weimar of knowledge – la bottega

giorgio.gilest.ro

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Peter Thorne, Margot C. Finn

Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 1d

"All corners of academia will soon be flooded with AI-generated research....Maths and CS go first because their entire output is symbol manipulation...Biology comes later not because biologists are cleverer but because the rate-limiting step is physical" giorgio.gilest.ro/the-weimar-o...

The Weimar of knowledge – la bottega

giorgio.gilest.ro

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Elwys De Stefani

Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 1d

Today I'm posting a video about Neurodigitech LLC which has provided clearly photoshopped neurons to research teams that published these images in Nature, JBC, and more. A year after I uncovered this only one paper has been corrected. It's in Frontiers. youtu.be/4g_1_AWOVpI

Faked Images of Neurons in Major Journals

YouTube video by Sholto David

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 1d

This is a scary prospect, Dan

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 1d

Me & John & Shiloh out protesting AGAIN.
Maybe it does nothing. But maybe one person thinks: If these guys can be out here every Saturday I should take action as well, by checking my voter registration, asking my friends to do same, making a plan to vote early, supporting competitive candidates.....

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 1d

🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control

The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.

www.politico.com

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 1d

Chiltern Railways enters state ownership today. The operator runs trains to Marylebone from Oxford, Bicester and Banbury, but not yet from Oxford to Milton Keynes. The Government says “Public ownership provides a fresh opportunity to deliver East West Rail and its benefits for passengers.”

Chiltern "Explorer" train at Marylebone in headache-inducing Great British Railways livery

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 1d

Botley Road has reopened at the railway bridge after 1,258 days. The new bridge includes cycleways on each side and enough headroom for a full-height double decker to pass. An extra rail span on the western side will give access to a forthcoming Platform 5 at Oxford station.

Botley Road rail bridge seen this morning (from the carriageway) with a bus about to pass underneath

Botley Road rail bridge seen this morning (from the cycleway)

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Travesty-Account Holder 77 @rebussy.bsky.social · 1d

I'm aware that it's something I keep banging on about, but IMHO we are extremely vulnerable to Musk (especially, but umpteen others too) manipulating our next GE because our enforcement is so slow

A 6-8 week campaign is a blink of the eye wrt the glacial pace of action, no matter how clear the law🤦

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 1d

isn’t that, erm, illegal?

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 8d

Vote Safe dot org (avoiding link creation) is an Elon Musk funded site that claims to register you to vote but just steals your information. AVOID

www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Elon Musk is Running a Fake Voter Registration Site Designed to Steal and Sell Data

Musk's "VoteSafe.org" is a scam that doesn't actually register voters

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 1d

Last week - when all the front pages headlines were about Farage and his £72m - Farage fronted his own GB News show ….to talk about Farage! He compared his critics to communists and then interviewed other guests - about himself! app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...

Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed

GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing

app.prospectmagazine.co.uk

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

Andi Fugard @andifugard.info · 1d

The latest from @bbcstever.bsky.social – worth a watch as ever

youtu.be/SebfRk_0jzg

Russia's "Special Election Operation" and growing pessimism in Russia

YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Antje Wiener

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 WRITE TO YOUR MP!

On Oct 12th, Parliament will debate the UK JOINING THE EU!

Use this page to send an email to your MP.

In the context of Canada-EU, Rejoin polling at 61%, and devolved leaders saying the future is the EU...

...Westminster needs to catch up. Sign & share everywhere please. 👇

Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe

On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?

www.europeanmovement.co.uk

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Beatrice de Graaf, Margot C. Finn

Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 1d

Unless he’s raising an army in the Spanish Netherlands and claim the throne for himself with support of France and the Habsburg powers, this should not be leading the BBC headlines for the third day in a row.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Earl Spencer tells BBC Harry and Meghan's media treatment echoes what happened to Diana

Princess Diana's brother says she was "really brought low by all that criticism" and he saw her in "tears of despair".

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

gjabberbox.bsky.social @gjabberbox.bsky.social · 1d

At The Atlantic Festival, the historian Timothy W. Ryback spoke with the Atlantic editor Scott Stossel about contemporary lessons of Hitler’s rise. #TAF26

www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

Hitler Could Have Been Stopped

Timothy W. Ryback explains the contemporary lessons of Hitler’s rise.

www.theatlantic.com

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 1d

US biomed research just keeps taking harder & harder hits:

"The proposed board would represent a significant escalation in the administration’s effort to exert political control over federal grant-making for health research. For decades, NIH grant applications have

www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control

The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.

www.politico.com

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Philip Cowley

Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1d

I was looking something up on Google Maps, and I think I might have found out why successive governments have been so bad at delivery.

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop

Layla Moran MP 🔶🕊️ @laylamoran.bsky.social · 1d

After 41 long months, Botley road is finally open.