Professor of developmental neuropsychology. Blog on https://t.co/PG9xSjEA3a Main focus #devlangdis, see: https://t.co/Y1y8Kk59JC
Feb 7, 2023 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
Just a little explanatory thread on my latest preprint: psyarxiv.com/6mbgv/
The focus is on paper mills: the commercial operations that sell authorship/articles/citations at scale, polluting the lilterature with fake or low-quality articles. /1
Paper mills have become such a big problem that major publishers are alarmed and have started to take countermeasures. This report summarises the background and current status publicationethics.org/resources/rese… /2
Feb 2, 2022 • 53 tweets • 8 min read
OK, so we're off. James Parry of UKRIO argues that funders better placed than his organisation (a charity) to enforce change
Ottoline Leyser of UKRI notes importance of ensuring culture encourages open discussion of lack of reproducibility, without assuming that it is due to fraud etc.
Dec 7, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
My take on latest announcement by Matt Hancock, who was himself diagnosed with dyslexia at university 1/n
I would like to see the details of what has been proposed, but the framing makes me uneasy. It sounds as if the underlying premise is that we have effective methods to diagnose and treat a distinct condition called dyslexia
May 26, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Having watched the Cummings statement, I have to say I was rather disappointed with the media, who just had their prepared questions and did not think on their feet and respond to some of the new information. So here's the questions I think need to be asked (thread)
1. When you rushed home because your wife had said she was too sick to care for your child, did you think she had coronavirus? 2. When you then returned to Downing Street, did you have any concerns that you might have infected other people there with the virus?
Feb 18, 2019 • 28 tweets • 6 min read
We've recently published a series of papers in @WellcomeOpenRes reporting findings from a study of the impact of an extra X or Y chromosome (ie. trisomy) on development. Data collection took 6 yrs! I'm going to try a mega-thread summarising the main findings
The children we studied included girls with trisomy X (XXX), boys with Klinefelter syndrome (XXY), and boys with an extra Y (XYY). These trisomies affect from 1/600 to 1/1000 births, but often go undetected bcs effects are relatively mild. /1
