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salonikrishnan.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof @ UCL | I study brains, language, learning and development | I also like cocktails and beaches www.ncodelab.com
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Check out IJLCD's annual winter lecture by fantastic @cristinamckean and @paulinefrizelle: youtube.com/watch?v=0z_c... What makes language interventions work - exploring the active ingredients @susanebbels.bsky.social @salonikrishnan.bsky.social @telllab.bsky.social @emmapagnamenta.bsky.social

Please consider completing this student #psychology project - literally only 5 mins must be on a laptop. research.sc/participant/...

Exciting opportunities for talented early career researchers to lead an independent group at their Max Planck Institute of choice. The @maxplanck.de Lise Meitner Excellence Programme is designed to attract & promote exceptional female scientists. Apply before April 8th: www.mpg.de/lise-meitner... 🧪

How can learning environments be optimised for bilingual children? Hear from Dr Bonnie Wing-Yin Chow @ucl.ac.uk on March 25th, in the next Multilingualism and diversity seminar. Book your place!

3.5 year PhD studentship in cognitive computational neuroscience open in my MSN lab, @thechbh.bsky.social, co-supervised with @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social & @simonlittle.bsky.social. Deadline 23rd March. Only open to UK candidates. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Pls repost

I'm looking for someone with neuroimaging experience to join my lab for a year - please do repost! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Signature tally now closing in on 3000. Please keep discussing, sharing and signing to put as much pressure on the Royal Society to respond as possible. forms.gle/AuYvuWqytx8K...

Unspeakably excited about this meeting. Already getting emotional about the thought of giving an EPS prize lecture.

Dean D’Souza & I have a PhD position available for a project on parenting knowledge & behaviour in linguistically diverse families. The funding covers fees & stipend for EU & UK. Application deadline is March 3rd. Please share! #cogsci #devsci #psychscisky www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Thanks to the more than *1100* members of the scientific community who have signed the letter to insist that the Royal Society remains true to values that we all hold dear but that Musk FRS has ridden roughshod over. Please keep signing & sharing. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I’m teaming up with Verbo to offer a FREE online webinar on ‘Supporting Students with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)’ at 15:30 on Tues 25 Feb. A helpful intro for #Teachers #Schoolleaders #SENCOs, #Parents, #Carers #TeachingAssistants! Register: verboapp.co.uk/dld-webinar/ #SLCN #DevLangDis

I'm hiring a post-doc (planned start-date September 2025, for 18 months) on a @leverhulme.bsky.social project into children's perceptual decision-making. Ability to work with children and high analytical ability are essential. Closes 10th March. Pls share! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

For #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek we’ve made a video for mental health practitioners about Developmental Language Disorder! #DevLangDis affects 7% of ppl, and is over represented in MH settings. We introduce DLD and have tips for making MH support more accessible. Please share! youtu.be/Ko6sFea3v0w?...

JOB ADVERT Associate Professor of Social Psychology at University of Oxford + Fellowship at Christ Church. Can be appointed at Full Professor if suitably qualified. Come and join the best Psychology department there is! @oxexppsy.bsky.social Please share, and apply: tinyurl.com/OxSocialPsych

We’re hiring! We are looking for a postdoc in my lab, childvisionlab.co.uk to study how early vision loss & sight-rescuing treatments shape brain development. Join our Wellcome-funded project using advanced neuroimaging and behavioral methods! Deadline March 1st, start date flexible. t.ly/2Yoel

If you're a non-UK scientist who wants to come to the UK for a postdoc, this year's Newton Fellowships are now open. You'll need a lab to host you (which could be me, but truly, could be any PI, so get in touch with someone you'd like to work with!) royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

Well done Dr. Bahar! And beautiful 🧠 pavlova!

FUNDED PhD POSITIONS: Voice Communication Science (VoCS) is a Marie Curie funded doctoral training network offering 19 PhD positions for Autumn 2025 start. Applications are open! Check out vocs.eu.com for details (and read about my project at UCL here euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/311332)

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Plus PhD positions for April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky We had to re-start the process after our preferred candidate withdrew. Info 👇.

Hello Bluesky community, we’re new here! Cambridge Language Sciences is a virtual interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Cambridge. Follow us to stay updated on all things language sciences – events, funding, research, news, and more. Website: www.languagesciences.cam.ac.uk

The portals for the next EPS Meeting at Lancaster University, 2nd – 4th April, will be opening shortly! To submit for a talk or a poster for this meeting, please use the link below. The portals will open at 10am (UK time) on 20.01.25 and remain open for at least 24 hours. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

Does anyone have advice on how to structure an academic CV for slightly more senior levels? I have to upload mine for a grant application and it is currently long and unwieldy (lists of conference publications etc...). What do you feel you would need to see?

Are you a supervisor wondering how to better support your neurodivergent postgrads? Go read our latest article in @timeshighered.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-s...

We are hiring! We're looking for a great project manager to help with a large-scale Wellcome funded study. If you know of anyone that this might appeal to, please share. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49880/

My PhD student Hannah is looking for adults with #DevLangDis and #autistic adults for an interview about reading experiences. Do get in touch with her!

Please repost! Open PhD position on curiosity and metacognition across childhood and adolescence with the amazing @yanafandakova.bsky.social at the University of Trier (Germany). The project is part of a cool international collaboration. :-) #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #neurojobs

So pleased to have done this with my colleague @pripolles.bsky.social - one of the products of my visit to NYU! Thanks to TooledUp Education for featuring our work

Just ONE more adult with #DevLangDis needed to come to City University (in the new year or before #Christmas) and help us with a #study designing better graphs, maps and other #datavis. Please get in touch if you want more info and think you can help - no obligation / pressure 😊

Calling all #UK #SLTs! The brilliant @healthlibraryholly.bsky.social needs participants for her important #research on #accessible #information #easyread - what a great opportunity to help improve info access for ppl with #communication #disabilities @carohaw.bsky.social @abracabadger.bsky.social

We're excited to join BlueSky! Make sure to follow us for the latest news from the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences! We'll be posting about our cutting edge research, Faculty events and opportunities!

Sharing this alternative link to the Speech and Language Therapy starter pack. Let me know if you should be added! go.bsky.app/QKf7XWq

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student (Oct 2025 start) to work on a project looking at the range of cues that guide accurate sentence comprehension. Unfortunately the funding opportunity is just for students who would pay UK fees. If you know any suitable applicants please tell them to email me.

Check out this new Registered-Reports start-up grant from the British Neuropsychological Society! 🧠💸 One award is available per year (max £1,000). The call for applications is now open and the winner is announced at the Spring 2025 meeting. Visit our website for further details: the-bns.org

Here's a starter pack for people interested in the cognitive science and neuroscience of language. With all the new Bluesky arrivals, I'm sure I'm missing people—please let me know and I'll add! go.bsky.app/6iumPee

#SLTs in Scotland are eligible for the new CSO clinical academic fellowships which will fund up to band 7 salary while you study for a PhD. www.cso.scot.nhs.uk/fellowship-f... i'd be delighted to support someone with an application to this. Get I touch. #bskySPEECHIES

So lovely to see my feed going purple and yellow for #DLDday! #DLD is a neurodevelopmental condition where children struggle to learn their native language for no obvious reason. Imagine trying to learn, do job interviews, or make friends in a language you don't speak fluently...

On the eve of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) Awareness Day, listen to our special Podcast featuring some of our amazing students. www.moorhouseschool.co.uk/news/?pid=0&... Please listen & share to help us raise awareness #DLDday #DevLangDis #SpeakUpForDLD #CouldItBeLanguage #bskyspeechies

Thrilled to announce that I will be joining CiNet (Center for Information and Neural Networks; cinet.jp/english/) in Osaka Japan to start my lab in April/May 2025! We have postdoc positions (1 open NOW) & PhDs (Osaka U). Details👇, pls repost! Short 🧵 1/ #neuroskyence #psychscisky #compneurosky

Very excited to be visiting @pripolles.bsky.social in New York in November. My visit coincides with the election!

eps.ac.uk/kuppuraj-bis... Grant helps finance postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers from the ‘Global South’ working in experimental psychology to complete a study visit in a lab hosted by an EPS member Deadline is 1st December.