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Deadline for applying: March 3rd 2025.

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Call for the SARMAC Regional Meeting Grant has opened! Deadline for submissions is 30 April. Eligibility and further details on the website // mailchi.mp/185862b002bf...

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My final year #psychology students are looking for volunteers to help with their online research #juries #virtualcourtrooms and #decision-making -an important part of their degree studies 🎓 if you can help go to: bit.ly/42pXx8V

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Looks to be a great programme this year. Among the hands-on workshops we have the first international large scale collaboration Hackathon and a practical workshop offering advice and skills on how to be a good Expert Witness.

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"As the Bibby Stockholm is moved out of Portland, the asylum seekers who were forced to spend months living there say the scars remain." The harm caused by such large sites is profound & long-lasting. People seeking asylum need #CommunitiesNotCamps www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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The debate continues on BBC #WomansHour this morning. I'll be discussing UK Gov't plans to criminalise creating sexually explicit deepfakes with @cathynewman.bsky.social Why do we need this new criminal law? Read more in my comment @theconversation.com theconversation.com/deepfake-por...

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Congratulations @neuranne.bsky.social for our first 2025 paper! "By focusing on 6 key areas—format, environment, delivery, instruction, support, & research—the framework provides educators & policymakers with a structured approach to creating more inclusive & accessible online learning environments"

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📖 Starting 2025 on a high note with a new book chapter on the Myth of "Body Language" w/ Vincent Denault, Miles Paterson, and Victoria Talwar #bodylanguage #nonverbalbehavior #myths #research link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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✅ 2024 highlight: Our partners @publicbooks.bsky.social published a transcript of a CASBS podcast episode on "Developing AI Like Raising Kids." @alisongopnik.bsky.social, who leads our project on The Social Science of Caregiving, chats w/sci-fi luminary Ted Chiang www.publicbooks.org/developing-a...

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Reposting this important critique of van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score, because I should have tagged the author @eminietfeld.bsky.social and @motherjones.com #therapistsky #psychscisky

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Gisèle Pelicot stood with her head held high in a courtroom in Avignon, France, on Thursday as the verdicts in the four-month rape trial of her ex-husband and 50 other men were read. Her image has become a symbol of female strength around the world, our critic writes. Read more: nyti.ms/49MwR3U

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New Family Justice Council guidance to judges where mothers report domestic violence and abusive fathers counter alleging ‘parental alienation’ to force children to see them. FJC recognises “parental alienation syndrome” has no evidential basis and is a harmful pseudo-science. shorturl.at/njgsG

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🚨New in Nature Computational Science! 🚨 Do large language models (LLMs) exhibit social identity biases like humans? (co-lead by @tiancheng.bsky.social, together with @steverathje.bsky.social, Nigel Collier, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, and Jon Roozenbeek) 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s43...

submitted 78 days ago • 4 comments

Media organisations reached out this week (pending conclusion of the Sara Sharif case) to get my take 'on why these failures continue to happen'. An issue I highlight is the cost of perpetuating reductionist narratives that child protection is simply about 'common sense': doi.org/10.1080/0265...

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We need help from adults aged 40+ with Down's syndrome and family/carers to make a film together to train health & social care staff. We want you to share your experiences of falling & ideas about what helps you to move safely, to help staff to support you. Please get in touch! 📍London, UK

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

My final year #psychology students are looking for volunteers to help with their online research #memory #asylum #decision-making -an important part of their degree studies 🎓 link below

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Informative thread about seeking safety, asylum as legal recognition of that safety, and the ways the current general policy direction is counterproductive and expensive.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

A pleasure to present to an interdisciplinary group doing such important work on law and human mobility across geographical and social divides

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Lies and Allies is tomorrow at 4-5pm UK time. See you there!

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Wishing everyone a BERRY nice #FlyDay 🍒

submitted 91 days ago • 8 comments

Don't forget that the abstract deadline for SARMAC 2025 is this Sunday! #sarmac2025 #academicsky #cognition #memory

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Apply for a PhD position in our Politics department at @rhulpirp.bsky.social! Happy to supervise thesis in social media and politics, legislative politics, and/or computational methods. Hit me up if you're interested! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKW353/p...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Published today: An Evidence-Based Plan for Addressing Childhood Vulnerability, Crime & Justice report from @vp-centre.bsky.social & partners @n8research.bsky.social @cfyounglives.bsky.social @childofthenorth.bsky.social vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/news/new-rep...

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Dr Gwen Adshead forensic psychiatrist, psychotherapist with 40 years work in prisons/secure hospitals asks Are we all capable of violence? Discussing real cases -motivations, actions risk factors with compassion and insight. Not easy listening but timely with crisis in our prisons shorturl.at/O7umR

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Open access: Segmenting the Rape and Serious Sexual Offence (RASSO) investigator workforce: implications for wellbeing and burnout www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Can eyewitnesses help each other remember? Together with @anneliesvrede.bsky.social, I conducted a field study revealing that collaborative #witness interviews can uncover new and highly relevant details. Proud to see this work published after 5 years of dedication! #LegalPsy doi.org/10.1108/JCP-...

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NEW study on how various individual and event-level factors influence police officers’ decision to activate their body-worn cameras (BWCs) across both community member-initiated services and officer-initiated activities. Links to article at end.

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Posting on behalf of my partner Mark -could you help his PhD project either by donating a pre-loved camera you no longer have a use for or just by amplifying this message? Details of the project are below. Many thanks!

submitted 120 days ago • 4 comments

New paper! Ethical considerations for the use of brain-computer interfaces for cognitive enhancement. Co-authored with Emma Gordon, and out now in @plos.bsky.social Biology. We should think for ourselves, while we still can journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

Our paper with showing that memory control improves immediate emotions of autobiographical memories just got published. Massive thanks to @robinhellerstedt.bsky.social, @memorycontrol.bsky.social and @zarabergstrom.bsky.social 🙏😁 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Been attending this Psychology Day @ the UN for many years now representing the EHPS. These are engaging events that aim to disseminate psychological knowledge for a better society. 2025, April! Online and free of charge. More info to follow. @coensharon.bsky.social is co-chairing the SC

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There is still time to apply for a funded PhD at UCL but funding deadlines are approaching fast. I am keen to supervise students on Palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoecology, ZooMS, stable isotopes, radiocarbon dating projects. Get in touch soon! www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/...

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

What strategies can you use to provide effective peer reviews? Join us for a virtual workshop with @blackinneuro.bsky.social! We'll discuss the structure & content of peer reviews & provide advice about how to write your first review. Register here: blackinneuro47.wildapricot.org/event-5883989

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Our recently peer-reviewed paper on the current Strain on Scientific Publishing is covered by The @economist.com today. I'm not surprised by Frontiers and MDPI continuing to champion the virtues of rapid publishing. 🧪 www.economist.com/science-and-... QSS paper here: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

Fantastic opportunity here for anyone interested in pursing a #PhD in violence against women #VAWG. Fully funded PhD based at Nottingham Trent and working with the wonderful Juno Women's Aid ufncollaboratory.ac.uk/volunteering...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Hot off the press! New open access article from us out of #OperationSoteria on the unintended consequences of changes to police recording on rape. Read, enjoy, and weep at the cycle of one step forward two steps back in criminal justice reform academic.oup.com/policing/art...

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

New paper in Nature Human Behaviour shows that pupils in low- and middle-income countries #LMICs are failing to acquire the most basic skills needed for reading comprehension. Evidence-aligned #phonics instruction needed to meet global literacy goals #SDGs www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

The Butler did it, familiarity influences eyewitness identification @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/the-butler-d...

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AI voice assistants have become an integral part of many people's everyday life. Do people talk to AI as if it were another human? Read more about how speakers use prosody to focus important words when talking to AI devices in our new paper! psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

New job opening for a PhD student in my group in Marburg (Germany) in a project investigating the cognitive and emotional processes involved in deception: www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb04/ae-s... Happy to answer any questions about it!

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

SARMAC (Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition) is now over on the Blue side! Give them a follow if you're interested in memory or cognition

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A cold frosty morning, one of the first this winter but a beautiful day for stroll on the Royal Holloway University Egham campus (Yes bluesky this is where I work)!

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The new US Surgeon General's report on tobacco is out, and it is worth a read, not only if you are a tobacco researcher but also if you are interested in health disparities. For those who don't know, these are well-researched reports that come out every year. www.cdc.gov/tobacco-surg...

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Sharing my expertise on the Cognitive Interview for interviewing victims & eyewitnesses with students studying #Psychology at A Level #SciTeachUK for full article shorturl.at/eIfla I can share here the @rhulpsychology.bsky.social "Psychology Brief" video which accompanies it

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

NEW RESEARCH 🙉 Spreading of misinformation: People don’t pretend, they sincerely believe in fake news doi.org/10.1093/pnas... The misinformation policy challenge is less about inducing good behavior but one of correcting false beliefs

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A reminder that we're recruiting for an experienced postdoctoral behavioural researcher to support national capability-building in behavioural research as part of @behaviourresuk.bsky.social, working with @susanmichie.bsky.social & other BR-UK partners. Apply by 30 Nov: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Global patterns of gender disparities in STEM and explanations for their persistence Review by Sapna Cheryan (@scheryan.bsky.social), Ella J. Lombard, Fasika Hailu, Linh N. H. Pham & Katherine Weltzien 🚨FREE🚨to access until Dec 2! go.nature.com/4fRjkdb #psychology #psychscisky

submitted 102 days ago • 4 comments

Come join as a Lecturer in Psychology @RHULPsychology at Royal Holloway University of London, its a fab department to develop your career in research and teaching! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ640/l...

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