Bishopblog catalogue (updated 26th Sept 2014)

Source: http://www.weblogcartoons.com/2008/11/23/ideas/

Those of you who follow this blog may have noticed a lack of
thematic coherence. I write about whatever is exercising my mind at the time,
which can range from technical aspects of statistics to the design of bathroom
taps. I decided it might be helpful to introduce a bit of order into this
chaotic melange, so here is a catalogue of posts by topic.

Language impairment, dyslexia and related disorders

The common childhood disorders that have been left out in the cold (1 Dec 2010)
What's in a name? (18 Dec 2010)
Neuroprognosis in dyslexia (22 Dec 2010)
Where commercial and clinical interests collide: Auditory processing disorder (6 Mar 2011)
Auditory processing disorder (30 Mar 2011)
Special educational needs: will they be met by the Green paper proposals? (9 Apr 2011)
Is poor parenting really to blame for children's school problems? (3 Jun 2011)
Early intervention: what's not to like? (1 Sep 2011)
Lies, damned lies and spin (15 Oct 2011)
A message to the world (31 Oct 2011)
Vitamins, genes and language (13 Nov 2011)
Neuroscientific interventions for dyslexia: red flags (24 Feb 2012)
Phonics screening: sense and sensibility (3 Apr 2012) What Chomsky doesn't get about child language (3 Sept 2012) Data from the phonics screen (1 Oct 2012)
Auditory processing disorder: schisms and skirmishes (27 Oct 2012)
High-impact journals (Action video games and dyslexia: critique) (10 Mar 2013) Overhyped genetic findings: the case of dyslexia (16 Jun 2013) The arcuate fasciculus and word learning (11 Aug 2013) Changing children's brains (17 Aug 2013)
Raising awareness of language learning impairments (26 Sep 2013) Good and bad news on the phonics screen (5 Oct 2013)
What is educational neuroscience? (25 Jan 2014)
Parent talk and child language (17 Feb 2014)
My thoughts on the dyslexia debate (20 Mar 2014)
Labels for unexplained language difficulties in children (23 Aug 2014)
International reading comparisons: Is England really do so poorly? (14 Sep 2014)

Autism

Autism diagnosis in cultural context (16 May 2011)
Are our ‘gold standard’ autism diagnostic instruments fit for purpose? (30 May 2011)
How common is autism? (7 Jun 2011)
Autism and hypersystematising parents (21 Jun 2011) An open letter to Baroness Susan Greenfield (4 Aug 2011)
Susan Greenfield and autistic spectrum disorder: was she misrepresented? (12 Aug 2011)

Psychoanalytic treatment for autism: Interviews with French analysts (23 Jan 2012)
The ‘autism epidemic’ and diagnostic substitution (4 Jun 2012)
How wishful thinking is damaging Peta's cause (9 June 2014)

Developmental disorders/paediatrics

The hidden cost of neglected tropical diseases (25 Nov 2010)
The National Children's Study: a view from across the pond (25 Jun 2011)
The kids are all right in daycare (14 Sep 2011) Moderate drinking in pregnancy: toxic or benign? (21 Nov 2012) Changing the landscape of psychiatric research (11 May 2014)

Genetics

Where does the myth of a gene for things like intelligence come from? (9 Sep 2010)
Genes for optimism, dyslexia and obesity and other mythical beasts (10 Sep 2010)
The X and Y of sex differences (11 May 2011)
Review of How Genes Influence Behaviour (5 Jun 2011)
Getting genetic effect sizes in perspective (20 Apr 2012) Moderate drinking in pregnancy: toxic or benign? (21 Nov 2012) Genes, brains and lateralisation (22 Dec 2012) Genetic variation and neuroimaging (11 Jan 2013) Have we become slower and dumber? (15 May 2013) Overhyped genetic findings: the case of dyslexia (16 Jun 2013)

Neuroscience

Neuroprognosis in dyslexia (22 Dec 2010) Brain scans show that… (11 Jun 2011) 
Time for neuroimaging (and PNAS) to clean up its act (5 Mar 2012)
Neuronal migration in language learning impairments (2 May 2012)
Sharing of MRI datasets (6 May 2012)
Genetic variation and neuroimaging (1 Jan 2013) The arcuate fasciculus and word learning (11 Aug 2013) Changing children's brains (17 Aug 2013)
What is educational neuroscience? ( 25 Jan 2014) Changing the landscape of psychiatric research (11 May 2014)

Statistics

Book review: biography of Richard Doll (5 Jun 2010)
Book review: the Invisible Gorilla (30 Jun 2010)
The difference between p < .05 and a screening test (23 Jul 2010)
Three ways to improve cognitive test scores without intervention (14 Aug 2010)
A short nerdy post about the use of percentiles (13 Apr 2011)
The joys of inventing data (5 Oct 2011)
Getting genetic effect sizes in perspective (20 Apr 2012) Causal models of developmental disorders: the perils of correlational data (24 Jun 2012) Data from the phonics screen (1 Oct 2012)Moderate drinking in pregnancy: toxic or benign? (1 Nov 2012) Flaky chocolate and the New England Journal of Medicine (13 Nov 2012) Interpreting unexpected significant results (7 June 2013) Data analysis: Ten tips I wish I'd known earlier (18 Apr 2014) Data sharing: exciting but scary (26 May 2014)
Percentages, quasi-statistics and bad arguments (21 July 2014)

Journalism/science communication

Orwellian prize for scientific misrepresentation (1 Jun 2010)
Journalists and the 'scientific breakthrough' (13 Jun 2010)
Science journal editors: a taxonomy (28 Sep 2010)
Orwellian prize for journalistic misrepresentation: an update (29 Jan 2011)
Academic publishing: why isn't psychology like physics? (26 Feb 2011)
Scientific communication: the Comment option (25 May 2011)
Accentuate the negative (26 Oct 2011)
Publishers, psychological tests and greed (30 Dec 2011)
Time for academics to withdraw free labour (7 Jan 2012)
Novelty, interest and replicability (19 Jan 2012)
2011 Orwellian Prize for Journalistic Misrepresentation (29 Jan 2012)
Time for neuroimaging (and PNAS) to clean up its act (5 Mar 2012)
Communicating science in the age of the internet (13 Jul 2012) How to bury your academic writing (26 Aug 2012)
High-impact journals: where newsworthiness trumps methodology (10 Mar 2013)
Blogging as post-publication peer review (21 Mar 2013) A short rant about numbered journal references (5 Apr 2013) Schizophrenia and child abuse in the media (26 May 2013) Why we need pre-registration (6 Jul 2013)
On the need for responsible reporting of research (10 Oct 2013)
A New Year's letter to academic publishers (4 Jan 2014)

Social Media

A gentle introduction to Twitter for the apprehensive academic (14 Jun 2011)
Your Twitter Profile: The Importance of Not Being Earnest (19 Nov 2011)
Will I still be tweeting in 2013? (2 Jan 2012)
Blogging in the service of science (10 Mar 2012) Blogging as post-publication peer review (21 Mar 2013)
The impact of blogging on reputation ( 27 Dec 2013) WeSpeechies: A meeting point on Twitter (12 Apr 2014)

Academic life

An exciting day in the life of a scientist (24 Jun 2010)
How our current reward structures have distorted and damaged science (6 Aug 2010)
The challenge for science: speech by Colin Blakemore (14 Oct 2010)
When ethics regulations have unethical consequences (14 Dec 2010)
A day working from home (23 Dec 2010)
Should we ration research grant applications? (8 Jan 2011)
The one hour lecture (11 Mar 2011)
The expansion of research regulators (20 Mar 2011)
Should we ever fight lies with lies? (19 Jun 2011)
How to survive in psychological research (13 Jul 2011)
So you want to be a research assistant? (25 Aug 2011)
NHS research ethics procedures: a modern-day Circumlocution Office (18 Dec 2011)
The REF: a monster that sucks time and money from academic institutions (20 Mar 2012)
The ultimate email auto-response (12 Apr 2012)
Well, this should be easy…. (21 May 2012) Journal impact factors and REF2014 (19 Jan 2013)  An alternative to REF2014 (26 Jan 2013) Postgraduate education: time for a rethink (9 Feb 2013) High-impact journals: where newsworthiness trumps methodology (10 Mar 2013)
Ten things that can sink a grant proposal (19 Mar 2013)Blogging as post-publication peer review (21 Mar 2013) The academic backlog (9 May 2013) Research fraud: More scrutiny by administrators is not the answer (17 Jun 2013) Discussion meeting vs conference: in praise of slower science (21 Jun 2013) Why we need pre-registration (6 Jul 2013)
Evaluate, evaluate, evaluate (12 Sep 2013)
High time to revise the PhD thesis format (9 Oct 2013)
The Matthew effect and REF2014 (15 Oct 2013)
Pressures against cumulative research (9 Jan 2014)
Why does so much research go unpublished? (12 Jan 2014) The University as big business: the case of King's College London (18 June 2014)
Should vice-chancellors earn more than the prime minister? (12 July 2014)

Replication and reputation: Whose career matters? (29 Aug 2014)


 

Celebrity scientists/quackery

Three ways to improve cognitive test scores without intervention (14 Aug 2010) What does it take to become a Fellow of the RSM? (24 Jul 2011)
An open letter to Baroness Susan Greenfield (4 Aug 2011)
Susan Greenfield and autistic spectrum disorder: was she misrepresented? (12 Aug 2011)
How to become a celebrity scientific expert (12 Sep 2011) The kids are all right in daycare (14 Sep 2011) 
The weird world of US ethics regulation (25 Nov 2011)
Pioneering treatment or quackery? How to decide (4 Dec 2011) Psychoanalytic treatment for autism: Interviews with French analysts (23 Jan 2012) Neuroscientific interventions for dyslexia: red flags (24 Feb 2012)

Women

Academic mobbing in cyberspace (30 May 2010)
What works for women: some useful links (12 Jan 2011)

The burqua ban: what's a liberal response (21 Apr 2011) C'mon sisters! Speak out! (28 Mar 2012)
Psychology: where are all the men? (5 Nov 2012)
Men! what you can do to improve the lot of women ( 25 Feb 2014) Should Rennard be reinstated? (1 June 2014)

Politics and Religion

Lies, damned lies and spin (15 Oct 2011) A letter to Nick Clegg from an ex liberal democrat (11 Mar 2012)
BBC's 'extensive coverage' of the NHS bill (9 Apr 2012)
Schoolgirls' health put at risk by Catholic view on vaccination (30 Jun 2012)
A letter to Boris Johnson (30 Nov 2013)
How the government spins a crisis (floods) (1 Jan 2014)






Humour and miscellaneous

Orwellian prize for scientific misrepresentation (1 Jun 2010)
An exciting day in the life of a scientist (24 Jun 2010)
Science journal editors: a taxonomy (28 Sep 2010)
Parasites, pangolins and peer review (26 Nov 2010)
A day working from home (23 Dec 2010)
The one hour lecture (11 Mar 2011)
The expansion of research regulators (20 Mar 2011)
Scientific communication: the Comment option (25 May 2011)
How to survive in psychological research (13 Jul 2011)
Your Twitter Profile: The Importance of Not Being Earnest (19 Nov 2011)
2011 Orwellian Prize for Journalistic Misrepresentation (29 Jan 2012)
The ultimate email auto-response (12 Apr 2012)
Well, this should be easy…. (21 May 2012)
The bewildering bathroom challenge (19 Jul 2012) Are Starbucks hiding their profits on the planet Vulcan? (15 Nov 2012) Forget the Tower of Hanoi (11 Apr 2013) How do you communicate with a communications company? ( 30 Mar 2014)
Noah: A film review from 32,000 ft (28 July 2014)