@icca2026.bsky.social thanks you lovely bunch of people. Had to unexpectedly leave early!!! What a lovely week it’s been!!! See you all at the next one #icca2026

Fully funded PhD on the "Origins of Infant Word Learning" @lancasteruni.bsky.social Supervisor team: Jill Lany, Perrine Brusini, @alissaferry.bsky.social, & @gertwestermann.bsky.social #PsycSci #DevPsyc #PhDSky #AcademicSky 🧪

Excited to showcase our 🐒 research at the #scienceiswonderful 2025 science fair organised by the #EuropeanCommission #MSCA. See you in March in Brussels 😃 with @jmicheletta.bsky.social, @teresa-romero.bsky.social, @francescadp.bsky.social marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/science-is-w...

Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

You can now apply for our 3 year postdoc looking at the role of culture and group size in social coordination and collaboration in the UK, Uganda and Republic of Korea! Any questions please don’t hesitate to drop me a dm or email ([email protected]) mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web...

more of this, indeed!!!

And a tidal reflection cuz it was fun

Gotte love beach life. Admittedly even more in the winter.

I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This feels so familiar. I am sure we all have very similar examples 🤪

Gotta love the notes my 6-year-old leaves in my study 🌞 Apparently he has been mastering the art of bubble writing

I think leaving hand-cut home made chips on the plate should count as a deadly sin!

Great news for the end of the week. What a pleasure to have been an examiner for @gaddasalhab.bsky.social, or Dr. Salhab should I say, PhD Thesis on Promoting Honesty with Child Witnesses. Lovely discussion and some great research coming out of this project!!!

This popped up while scrolling… I felt quite emotional I must say for a number of reasons i cannot outline here. But mostly i think because I have probably invested a lot of energy arguing for slow research and not the “lighting fast”

Nothing like being a parent and having the flu….🤒 🤧 Partner away, one kid healthy, one kid poorly… one second you can’t move, the next second you are in the car doing a school run… a very fine line between desperation and superhero

I used olive oil to repair the stuck radiator valve. I think this probably counts as a case of: “Tell me you are Greek without telling me you are Greek” 😎 🇬🇷

The number of UK universities now actively making redundancies has risen to 85. That number will be will over 100 by spring. I'm afraid this is happening faster, and will be worse, than even I thought. Solidarity and thoughts with and to all affected. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

Leaving Linköping with a head buzzing with ideas, a heart warmed by data sessions, giggles and chats. An antidote to my frustration with academia. Thanks to the LIU Child Interaction Group (Olga , Asta ☺️ ) for hosting. Also @emdoesca.bsky.social @profsalwiggins.bsky.social Hannah Pelikan ❤️

There I was, having completely disengaged from social media and then I just happen to check this account after months and BAM… 😊

“I am working on my balanced diet” he (5) said and attacked a sausage roll….

Oh the joy of improvised cooking to use up all the tiny forgotten leftover vegetables in the fridge 🪄🤩😍 one of a kind cuisine… a good use of the word „irreproducible“

Some inspiration for word-mapping experiments from year 1 phonics. (Most probably not my experiments) I actually hadn’t realised nonwords were actually used in early years education before I had kids…

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

I am delighted to have been invited at the the next Language Culture and Mind conference in Brno, Czech Republic this summer. 👉 lcm2024.phil.muni.cz The conference will be followed by what looks like an exciting summer school. See attachment for info. DEADLINE is MAY 1st so there's still time!

Back to reality now, and must say the best thing about holidays is the constant cooking. We were 10 in our house this year for a week and I probably spent half of that in the kitchen cooking. Oh the amazing food and the variety because there were many mouths to eat it. I feel so renewed.

Just a little under a month to go to apply to 12 PhD and 2 postdoc positions in the new RTG on Curiosity. Positions available with foci in developmental psychology, behavioural biology, systems, computational and theoretical neuroscience: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi...

It is time

Call for papers! 📢 Special Issue on the Autistic Rights Movement and Social Model in Autism Research and Practice. 🗓️ Deadline: December 15th ✏️ Editors: Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Damian Milton, Georgia Pavlopoulou and Amy Pearson ❓ Info: shorturl.at/kpsw2