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BishopBlog
Personal blog · deevybee.blogspot.comscience
BishopBlog is a personal blog at deevybee.blogspot.com about science. Since 2015, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “An open letter regarding Scientific Reports”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Ramblings on academic-related matters. For information on my research see https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/oxford-study-of-children-s-communication-impairments. Twin analysis blog: http://dbtemp.blogspot.com/ . ERP time-frequency analysis blog: bishoptechbits.blogspot.com/ . For tweets, follow
Most-linked posts?
- An open letter regarding Scientific Reports2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-16
- Fraudulent research is an accelerating problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-17
What Hacker News says?
Yes, sort of, for example: http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2012/09/what-chomsky-didnt-get-... It depends a lot too on what exactly you mean by innate .
Comment linking /2012/09/what-chomsky-didnt-get-about-child.html
on “Neuroscientists find new support for Chomsky’s “internal grammar” thesis”Submitted Why I have resigned from the Royal Society as a story · 138 points
HN discussionSome suggestions for peer reviewers, from someone at the front line: https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/08/acceleration-of-arms-r...
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on “Incentives in Academic Research”Submitted Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine as a story · 132 points
HN discussionNobody questions that arXiv is a publisher. They even have a moderation. Preprint publishers are not peer-reviewed publications, arXiv does just basic moderation and requires registration to sumbit. The emergence of low selectivity megajournals like Nature Scientific Reports and their low quality of peer review, blurs the difference in the low end. IMHO arXiv is in par with "Nature Scientific Reports" as credibility…
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on “a thread”Submitted H-index: editors behaving badly? as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted IEEE Has a Pseudoscience Problem as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fraudulent research is an accelerating problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is going on at the Journal of Psycholinguistic Research? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Acceleration of the arms race between fraudsters and honest researchers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Inner Workings of a Paper Mill: My Norxin Sting Operation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An open letter regarding Scientific Reports as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An open letter regarding Scientific Reports as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An (intellectually?) enriching opportunity for affiliation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Defence against the dark arts: a proposal for a new MSc course as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should I stay or should I go? When debate with opponents should be avoided as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to bury your academic writing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pratiques de publication and predatory publishing as a story · 1 points
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