Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!

Really happy to see Claire Essex’s brilliant work on the immediate cognitive effects of kid’s TV published after a long journey during her PhD. Watch this space for her continued work on this in our @ukri.org funded #animatingminds project 🧠🎞️👶

Team meeting for our Animating Minds project, followed by leaving celebrations for our amazing placement students at the Crystal Maze!

Post-doc position available from Sept 2025 for 18 months on a @leverhulme.bsky.social project into children's perceptual decision-making using diffusion models. Closes 10th March. Pls share! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #VisionScience #PsychSciSky

Advertising 2 new positions in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. A postdoc & an RA at Queen Mary University of London as part of our UKRI-funded Animating Minds Project. More details and how to apply here: Postdoc: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX749/p... RA: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

Fully funded PhD at Queen Mary University of London ‘Children’s Media and the Neurodivergent Mind’. More details and how to apply here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

3 new positions - postdoc & RAs - based at UAL, as part of our new Animating Minds project. See links to apply in the thread:

I’m so happy that my first post on Bluesky is about coverage of our toddler bedtime screentime RCT on the wonderful Outside the Screen podcast. outsidethescreen.substack.com/p/toys-at-be.... Open access paper here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🚨New publication alert: In this editorial my PhD students and I reflect on our challenges and relative successes in incorporating community involvement in our autism research. The editorial is openly available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New paper, and it only took two years 🫠! In this systematic review, we aimed to identify the mediators and moderators in the association of SES with EF, language ability, and academic achievement. Now published as an Annual Research Review in JCPP! acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

@lauracrucianelli.bsky.social At Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences seminar next week!!!!!!! In person (1-2PM) and online (link on request). Don't miss it! @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social