I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

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“Perhaps the methods that work best are not always the ones that make us feel that they work.“ This article really chimed with what I have found in my research too. Just because we believe songs are super effective for learning languages, does not mean they actually are - we should check!

I wrote about dictation again, based on my year 10 Germanists in the classroom today. I hope it is useful to some - and it's not just relevant to those teaching or learning German! learninglisteninglanguages.blogspot.com/2025/07/gett...

Do songs help primary school children learn French or are they just a bit of fun? Answers in a new Deanery Digest about my PhD project below! ⬇️ #primarymfl #songs #languagelearning

Do you teach children with English as an Additional Language (EAL)? Join #OxfordEdDeanery's workshop on 10 July to explore the research evidence around EAL to inform policy and practice 💡 Get your ticket now (scholarships available) ➡️ bit.ly/OxEAL2025 #Edusky #TeachersofBluesky

Thank you to my wonderful colleagues for the support and nomination, and to our incredible students for their tenacity and thirst for learning! What an honour it is to teach @education.ox.ac.uk 💙

From today, every paper submitted to Nature -if published - will be accompanied by peer reviewers comments & authors rebuttal. We started the trial in 2020; we now want to open up the review process & showcase its role in shaping & improving papers 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

well done Lior. There seems a subset of scientists who don’t understand probability and are convinced that statisticians are just pedantic killjoys determined to take their significant results away from them.

Classic night-before-it’s-due homework request from teen: mum, I need loo rolls to build the Brandenberg gate in German tomorrow. The Brandenberg gate:

We are hiring a dream team of doctoral and post-doctoral research fellows in applied sociolinguistics, education and related fields to work on "Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the Lifespan" @uni-hamburg.de www.languageonthemove.com/hiring-a-dre...

📢 Looking for a #PhD in #languageeducation & #socialjustice? Join us at @yorkstjohn.bsky.social to explore the impact of community language schooling on #languagelearning and #teaching with @mattinshambles.bsky.social & Dr Indu Vibha Meddegama! 🗓️ Apply by 9 June 25 🔗 www.yorksj.ac.uk/study/postgr...

PhDone ✔️ Passed my viva voce examination with no corrections yesterday! Thanks to my wonderful supervisors, examiners and colleagues for their support and care (and judicious pedantry!) on this incredible DPhil journey. Let the post-doc era commence! 💐📖👩🏻‍🎓🎉 #phdone #phd #postdoc

PhD viva voce exam prep in full swing. Any hot tips, academia? What have I not thought of, that you wish you’d known before you did yours?! (Ps it’s in the UK, so no slides - just a conversation about thesis with two examiners.) #phdlife

No time to read the #research around good #EAL practice? No problem! In the latest #NALDIC EAL Journal, we have summarised 12 research papers for you! Read it on pages 12-13! naldic.org.uk/publications...

One of our MSc applied linguistics students is looking for UK teachers to take part in a survey about working with multilingual/EAL students. Please complete the survey if you can here: qualtricsxmd56r9tjxj.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... and share with teaching colleagues. Thanks!

🎧 New pod episode! How do adults and children interact while using touchscreen apps? Dr Sandra Mathers discusses her research on how shared digital experiences can enhance both learning and connection. Listen now ➡️ podcasts.ox.ac.uk/adult-child-... #Edusky #OxfordEdDeanery

@oxforddeptofed.bsky.social Kicking off the Quantitative Methods Hub seminar series on April 28 with a talk from Katherin Barg from the University of Bristol. Details here: www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/discre... Please do join in person if you can!

PhD thesis? 📓 Submitted it, mate! 🎉🥳

🚨🚨🚨 I'm hiring a Postdoc for a 3-year position to come work with me at the University of Oslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. Please share widely. 🔴 Deadline is May 31st '25 ⏲️ Desired starting date is Fall '25 shorturl.at/vSTZx

herbal language processing had me laughing out loud

Great read from 2019 about abandoning the use of p-values in a dichotomous way and what we can do instead. More thinking, and less relying on significance tests to decide things for us! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The next stage of the Curriculum and Assessment Review will look to create a more inclusive and fair system, address subject-specific challenges, and assess available pathways beyond GCSEs. Find out more ➡️ www.gov.uk/government/p...

Hot off the press: my review of Csaba Szabo's book Unreliable; deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/03/book...

‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research By Anna Abalkina, René Aquarius, Elisabeth Bik, David Bimler, Dorothy Bishop, Jennifer Byrne, Guillaume Cabanac, Adam Day, Cyril Labbé & Nick Wise @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The goal of direct replication studies is first of all to identify Type 1 or Type 2 errors in the literature. This is an important part of having a reliable scientific knowledge base. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

💡 This article explores the reproducibility crisis in #science through insights from experts across disciplines, including psychology, biology, chemistry & physics, highlighting diverse perspectives on its causes & solutions. 🔓 Learn more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #OpenScience #OpenAccess

This Registered Report masterpiece just dropped at BMC Biology, brilliantly led by a great team with the help of 300+ analysts & reviewers Same question, same data: go figure! tl;dr: Substantial heterogeneity among results comes from differences among analytical choices 🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s129...

🎵 SEMINAR ON TUESDAY 11th MARCH 🎶 I’m presenting my #PhD #research (about the extent to which songs are effective for teaching primary pupils foreign #languages compared to other teaching approaches) on Tuesday, 1-2pm GMT. Hybrid session: DM me for link. www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/invest...

Flowers & words. My two faves 🌸📚

‘Having a linguistic superpower on the doorstep helped to form a uniquely English set of linguistic neuroses, but over the last century the situation has reversed.’ @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on the influence of French on medieval English: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

📢 Join Professor Cristina Mckean for her inaugural lecture on 3 March, 'Creating the conditions for robust early language development' 📅 3 March ⌚ 5pm Register for in-person attendance ➡️ https://buff.ly/3XdF389 Or join us online ➡️ https://buff.ly/41dhD3Y

Is your school taking part in #WorldBookDay? Support multilingual pupils (all other pupils, too) by creating a River of Multilingual Reading. Download here buff.ly/3EPrIfZ or here: www.multilingualism-in-schools.net/rivers-of-re... - and do tag me if you share any! #langsky

Creatives! It's the last day to appeal the upcoming AI legislation. The website is here: ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/consulta... and the key bit is the section below. TICK OPTION 1. Strengthen copyright! Option 3 - which the government prefer - is no good for us.

For those who missed it: Elon Musk, the Royal Society, and me deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

Great writing about great writing! RIP Tim.

The @bmj.com’s response to Trump’s ludicrous forbidden words directive. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

FREE workshop: How should we teach about disasters? Join this free in-person workshop on Tues 18 Feb to develop appropriate strategies for teaching about the Grenfell Tower disaster. Spaces limited so register for free now ➡️ bit.ly/GrenfellCPD

Delighted to announce Jérôme Nogues will be speaking in Oxford on Friday 28th Feb @oxforddeptofed.bsky.social. Come and join us either online or in-person to discuss great ideas for teaching listening skills using AI! bit.ly/ALLOxford2025 #MFLBluesky #LangSky @all4languages.bsky.social

Jérôme! Cate! Robert! Me! A whole afternoon talking about second language listening. What a treat! 😻 Hope to see you there in person or online. @robertwoore.bsky.social @cateh.bsky.social

The word 'symposium' comes from a Greek term for a drinking party, should you be looking for a truthful excuse to knock off early.

This new multilevel meta-analysis reviews which features of digital media best facilitate adult-child interaction and shared attention, and thus help children’s language development ➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Awesome work from the LiFT Project team @oxforddeptofed.bsky.social.

Join us at our One World Family Festival!  Celebrate the many communities and faiths of Oxfordshire through a dazzling array of activities, performances, talks and crafts for all ages in this free weekend festival.   📆 22 & 23 Feb, 11am–4.30pm View the programme: www.ashmolean.org/event/one-wo...

Our Department has been ranked third in the world and first in the UK for another consecutive year, by the THE. The Times Higher Education Subject Rankings for 2025 were recently released and highlighted us in these top spots. Read the story on our website: www.education.ox.ac.uk/news/departm...

POV: you used to be excited about staying up late because of bands and poems and now it’s just the thrill of knitting the 1000-line R markdown file you’ve spent all day writing and getting no errors first time that keeps you up with no one awake in the house to celebrate with 😂

📢 The AIEOU team are recruiting a part-time Research Assistant! The RA will play a crucial role in helping to create a dynamic, global community of practice for AI in Education, led by @sararatner.bsky.social Apply now (Deadline 14 Feb) ➡️ www.education.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Cool project by @drhollyjoseph.bsky.social about the languages spoken in Reading. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One leetle tiny chapter to go… Come on, PhD thesis, let’s be having you! #phdlife