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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

#Multilingual families! Please consider taking part in this MSc student #research investigating how children’s friendships & family experiences with their home language are linked to how they feel about speaking that language...see the flyer & contact Isabelle for more info! Merci! Shukran! Danke!

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Looking forward to welcoming Dr Gerardo Ortega to our Applied Linguistics seminar on Tues 27 January, 1-2pm GMT. All welcome online via: www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/the-ro... How do hearing adults with spoken L1 use existing knowledge of iconic gesture to acquire form-meaning links in signed L2?

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The role of gesture in the acquisition of a sign language as a second language

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Thanks to @deevybee.bsky.social and colleagues for this careful, insightful piece of scholarship. It is a masterclass on how to scrutinise studies rigorously and appraise what valid/reliable evidence (if any!) exists, as well as being highly enjoyable to read. Bravo. www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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Conceptual and methodological flaws undermine claims of a link between the gut microbiome and autism

Claims that the gut microbiome causally contributes to autism regularly appear in the scientific literature and popular press. Mitchell et al. critically examine influential studies underpinning these...

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

so I just commented on that paper in Cell Host and Microbe that is cited as evidence that the autism/microbiome link is solid: pubpeer.com/publications... (not sure what the word “precision” is supposed to mean in the title) tldr; looks p-hacked 🫤 and I couldn’t find the ethics approval 🤔

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PubPeer - Precision microbial intervention improves social behavior bu...

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Precision microbial intervention improves social behavior but not autism severity: A pilot double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial (2023)

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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() 😂

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Leeds City of Languages @leedscitylanguages.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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...

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

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...

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Reviewing Research on the Teaching and Learning of Arabic as an Additional Language: Challenges, Opportunities and Implications

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

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.

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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 17/10/2025

💬 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

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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 16/10/2025

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

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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 21/10/2025

✏️ 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

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

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

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

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

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Steve Brace @stevebracegeog.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

"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...

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Becky Francis: 5 reflections on the curriculum and assessment review

With the curriculum and assessment review due to publish its recommendations ‘very soon’, chair Becky Francis writes exclusively for Tes about what she has learned through the process

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 13/10/2025

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...

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Languages Have Mixed through History. Our Genes Can Reveal How

New research shows that wherever human populations mix, their languages blend as well

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 18/08/2025

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/...

For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.

Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation.
https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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...

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Tracking the Untrackable: How the Human Mind Recognizes Broken, Obscured, and Shape-Shifting Morphemes in Tagalog

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

We’re looking forward to your talk, @dkcayado.bsky.social - it will also be online, and there is a Teams link for people to join on the website you shared. 🙂

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

This is a great read, thanks Hamish.

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

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!

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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...

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PubPeer - Evaluation of the evidence on acetaminophen use and neurodev...

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Evaluation of the evidence on acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders using the Navigation Guide methodology (2025)

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 11/09/2025

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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ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 30/07/2025

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

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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 24/07/2025

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

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

“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!

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

It was INSANE right up to the last second!!! 😥🎉

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Yes indeed, there is lots of other research we can do about what types of songs are effective and for what purposes. Pretty sure if the song is enjoyed, it would be more effective than if not enjoyable…seems intuitive!

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Another side theory/hunch I have is that we don’t do enough listening as adults (perhaps spending more time on reading/writing). So if listening to songs encourages more time on the task of learning French sounds, that is good. It is bound to be better than less time on task.

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Cool. The evidence I’ve gathered (from 7yo total beginners) might not automatically apply to adult learners. But it seems reciting songs, chants and stories are all effective at helping learn French. Whatever you do on repeat will probably be helpful: repetition is pretty effective, so sing on!

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

In this experiment (with 7yo beginners), songs, chants and stories all had a similarly positive effect on learning how to listen to and repeat French sentences. So yes, songs can help! Just no evidence here of them being superlatively effective in comparison to chants/stories. All groups improved.

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Dr Kedi Simpson @kedisimpson.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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...

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Getting dictatorial about dictation

My year 10 Germanists have their listening mock exam tomorrow, so they wanted to ‘do listening’ today. Poor sods not knowing this is my abso...

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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

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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 11/06/2025

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

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

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 💙

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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...

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Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers

From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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.

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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:

Brandenberg gate. Image from https://img.locationscout.net/images/2018-05/brandenburg-gate-berlin-germany_l.jpeg

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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...

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Hiring a dream team in linguistic diversity and social participation

Visit the post for more.

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