Dorothy Bishop

Retired psychologist with an interest in neurdevelopmental disorder, laterality and research integrity.

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Last Notes

2026-03-07 08:03:11 UTC

An interesting development in CNRS - changing from metrics to review researchers
https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-breaking-free-web-science

2026-02-01 16:19:30 UTC

thanks to Andy Tattersall for inviting me to ventilate on his new podcast
https://youtu.be/35dcokugAjc?si=9iQ57RaB8JxhctUm
My views on Elon Musk, Royal Society, research fraud and the weather

2026-01-11 08:16:29 UTC

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but it’s a meta analysis 😵‍💫

2026-01-11 08:10:11 UTC

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Disappointing to see ‘Data may be made available on request by email….’
Why no open data?

2026-01-08 09:17:26 UTC

Sleuths getting impatient with the BMJ taking its time to retract a paper with clearly fabricated data.
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/01/an-open-letter-to-bmj-editorial-board.html
#dataintegrity #fraud #retraction

2025-02-20 15:33:11 UTC

Meeting on academic fraud in Oxford, 7-9th April.
https://www.sjcfairsmeeting.com/ (turn VPN off if it doesn't load!)
With Anna Abalkina, Stephan Lewandowsky, Jennifer Byrne, Ivan Oransky, Alison Avenell, Nancy Olivieri, Raphael Levy, Elisabeth Bik, Nick Brown, Rachael Gooberman-Hill, Patricia Murray, Eugenie Reich, Patricia Kingori, Liz Perkins, Peter Wilmshurst, Li Tang, Marin Innes, Till Bruckner, Guillaume Cabanac, John Carlisle, Uri Simonsohn, Csaba Szabo, Rory Collins, Jaideep Pandit, and me.

2025-02-07 08:30:09 UTC

I'm pleased to say that the MDPI paper in Logistics about tomatoes roaming the fields has been retracted. I've added a PS to my blogpost.
No indication whether anything done re the editors or peer reviewers who accepted this nonsense. I have asked for information about that.
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/01/tomatoes-roaming-fields-and-canaries-in.html

2024-11-25 07:49:26 UTC

New blogpost:
http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-i-have-resigned-from-royal-society.html

2024-09-07 08:58:00 UTC

Rather chilling study showing high volume of #chatGPT generated papers on Google Scholar in subject areas with policy implications - and these are the ones that were picked up on a v simple phrase search.
https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation/
#disinformation #publication #policy

2024-08-08 08:36:03 UTC

Guest post on my blog by René Aquarius, documenting interesting experiences reviewing for #MDPI journals.
http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/guest-post-my-experience-as-reviewer.html
#peerreview

2024-08-04 16:36:37 UTC

Dear Taylor & Francis. Please fix your website:
Trying to read an old article.
Get to webpage. Says I must log in via institution
Type in institution details
Taken to institution login, requiring username, password, text to phone
Taken back - NOT TO THE ARTICLE I STARTED WITH - but to generic website.
Enter DOI for the article
Says I must log in via institution.....
All this for an article where I want to check one tiny detail.
University of Oxford is paying for access to this stuff. Grrr