Helpful umbrella terms or too broad to mean anything? 'Neurodivergent' and 'neurodiverse' as labels. theconversation.com/what-autisti...

I’m teaching #rstats to #appliedlinguists @education.ox.ac.uk so this is fr fr a vibe. Thanks @hadley.nz 🌟My fave is vibe_check() instead of mutate() 😂

Have you heard about the UK Linguistics Olympics? The UK Linguistics Olympiad is a national language-analysis competition for students in KS2-KS5. Free to enter! Want to know more? Sign up to our webinar: Monday 10th November at 7:30: Book here: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/intro...

Our @education.ox.ac.uk Applied Linguistics Lunchtime Seminars continue Tues 4th Nov 13-14:00GMT with a review of the research on Arabic as an additional language by Drs @robertwoore.bsky.social and Anna-Maria Ramezanzadeh. Join us online via Teams - details: www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/review...

Who did this?!

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Thought-provoking piece by Kelly Webb-Davies about assessment in the age of AI. www.linkedin.com/pulse/proof-...

💬 Around 1 in 14 people live with Developmental Language Disorder. On #DLDDay, Natalie Waters shares how the Intervention Consensus for Language Disorder (TICLD) project is ensuring people with DLD have a voice in research. Read the blog: www.education.ox.ac.uk/news/you-can... #Edusky

How does movement shape learning and development in early childhood education? The latest Deanery Digest by Professor Iram Siraj shares insights from the MOVERS research, showing how movement-rich environments boost both cognitive & motor skills 🧠🤸 Read more ➡️ bit.ly/3KQmxj0 #Edusky #EarlyYears

✏️ Get your tickets: Preparing Children for Excellence in Learning Literacy in the Early Years. Join Professor Iram Siraj in a day of learning and exploring the evidence around the central role of oral language and how it underpins early literacy. 📅20 March 2026 Register: shorturl.at/ED4GX

This is very cool - @hwc001.bsky.social look: micro RCTs! (Not mirco - oops!)

The Art Gallery game please, Santa. And a mini Egyptian cat.

"The curriculum must be updated so that young people are well prepared - for their future lives but also the changes we already see around us in our climate, technology and world events." Prof Becky Francis writing in TES on forthcoming Curriculum Review www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

The study found that when populations that speak unrelated languages have children together, their languages become 4 to 9 percent more likely to share linguistic features. www.scientificamerican.com/article/gene...

When is it appropriate to deviate from a pre-registration?" WRONG ANSWERS ONLY Cc @lakens.bsky.social

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

Our first #appliedlinguistics lunchtime seminar @education.ox.ac.uk is on 21st Oct, 1-2pm, with @dkcayado.bsky.social talking to us about morphology in Tagalog. Join us in person or online! Details ➡️ www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/tracki...

Great to see this new work on Arabic learners’ motivation published in System by my colleagues Anna-Maria Ramezanzadeh, @robertwoore.bsky.social and Lars-Erik Malmberg. 🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Teaching is the best job in the world, especially with such amazing colleagues and students @education.ox.ac.uk 🥰 Honoured to have my teaching recognised with this award, and looking forward to the new term starting!

I have just left a lengthy Pubpeer comment on the autism/Tylenol study being cited by the Trump administration. There appear to be a number of fairly straightforward errors in the paper. pubpeer.com/publications...

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

How can we assess risk of bias in education research? ⚖️ Our free online course teaches all the basics of how to assess trustworthiness of experiments and quasi-experiments in education. Start the free training ➡️ bit.ly/RoBTraining #OxEdDeanery @theeef.bsky.social

Elevate your education practice with our part-time courses 🧑‍🏫 Our courses in Educational Assessment, Learning and Teaching, Teacher Education, Early Childhood Education and English as an Additional Language are open for Autumn 2025 entry. Apply now ➡️ www.education.ox.ac.uk/study/courses/ #Edusky

“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...