It's the last day of exams - winter break is almost here! 🎉❄️ Wishing a Merry Christmas and Season’s Greetings to our staff, students, alumni, and friends in St Andrews and around the world! 🎄✨ See you in 2026! #EverToExcel

As 2025 draws to a close, the team at the GRCDI would like to wish you all a very festive holiday season and a fantastic start to the new year! diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/15/h...

Exam season started on Saturday so best of luck to everyone!

Today is PerrettFest. A celebration of the life and work of Professor David Perrett. Pictures to follow later!

It could be my lack of reach from this account but no-one seems to have offered any help or resources so if you happen to know somebody who might know something (or somebody) I would be really grateful.

PLEASE SHARE 🚨🚨 6-month RA position available at the Univ. of St Andrews to work with Sue Healy (@cogwild.bsky.social), Simone Meddle (@simonemeddle.bsky.social) and I on the behavioural neuroendocrinology of early reproduction in zebra finches. tinyurl.com/577cx9tj Deadline: 03/12/2025 ⬇️

I know little about dyscalculia and have done a bit of google scholar research and I am not much wiser. I have a student on a stats course with this so I'd be grateful to hear of any resources and guidance on teaching and assessment that would help them.

Excited to share our new paper! We call for the field to adopt a more inclusive understanding of rigor. One that values diverse epistemological lenses and research designs @allisonzengilowski.bsky.social (and the rest of the team is not on blue sky) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our annual Reading Party to the Highlands @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social

It's that time of year again for The Reading Party with our third year students and the Conversion Course students. We are very much looking forward to travelling to Loch Insh and enjoying Highland weather and scenery.

The irrepressible Pamela Dobson (Principal's Office) leading on the project that gathered some community voices on Scotland's Future @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

Professor Tom Brown kicking off our Visualising Scotland's Future exhibition and symposium visualisingscotlandsfuture.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

Visualising Scotland's Future. Exhibition and Discussion. Parliament Hall, South Street, St. Andrews. 24th October, 10.45-14.00. Book a place: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/visua...

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Analyzing the academic trajectories of 78,216 psychology researchers, we demonstrate a persistent gender attrition gap, with women psychologists dropping out of academia at consistently higher rates than men psychologists. Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.13273

A beautiful day in St. Andrews for our visitors!

We are looking forward to our Visiting Day on Saturday and welcoming lots of guests and potential students to the University.

It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful #cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs

Friday, 3 October 2025 at 1pm in Seminar Room 1. We are delighted to welcome Dr Wolf Huetteroth from University of Northumbria, who will be delivering a talk titled "Voluntary passive movement in flies appears to be play - what could it be good for? "

Big day out at the BPS Scottish Postgraduate Conference in Perth Concert Hall. @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social

Media coverage of research from Jamie Ainge's lab in @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Day 1, Semester 1, 2025. Sun is shining in St. Andrews. Have a great first week!

Psychology and Neuroscience picnic in the quad with students from across the years is filling up.

St Andrews top in Scotland and second in the UK in the @theguardian.com University Guide 2026 🎉 Maths, History, and International Relations take the top spot in the new rankings with a further 16 subjects ranking in the top 10 🎉 Read more 👇 ow.ly/hzCj50WWe9R #EverToExcel

The welcome event in Psychology and Neuroscience is starting to fill up

A bit of a dreich day for the arrival of our students today. This afternoon we have the formal opening of the academic session with receptions for those are dropping their loved one(s) off into our safe hands.

A nice day to arrive in St. Andrews so welcome (or welcome back). Don't worry, you don't need to make friends, you will discover them. A good start is to knock on your neighbour's door though.

New study reveals cognitive costs of LLM-assisted essay writing. EEG shows weaker brain connectivity in LLM users vs. Search Engine & Brain-only groups. LLM users also reported lower essay ownership & struggled with quoting. Findings urge caution in AI reliance in education arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Two exciting PhD positions at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social on predicting health outcomes at the population level and natural language of health and social care! Apply to work in a wonderful team.

I'm looking forward to talking to our entrant students on the Pathways programmes tomorrow www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/underg... My topic is "Hurdling for Beginners"

Orientation starts Mon 8 Sep. Joining us in St Andrews for the first time? Download the app👇 builder.guidebook.com/g/#/guides/s... We can't wait to meet new students & welcome back returners. Town's been too quiet without you. 😶 #EverToExcel

Our PhD student Chloe O’Rourke also represented the @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social and @uniofstandrews.bsky.social with a fab talk on leptin receptor clustering and motility at the plasma membrane #sng2025

And we are finishing up with the keynote named after @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social Professor Keith Sillar who as always entertained us with his intro before a great talk from ex-St Andrean Prof Dave McLean #sng2025

Lovely to see new colleague Su Han from @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social presenting at Scottish Neuroscience Dundee. Interesting work on functional imaging of hormone cycles

We are looking forward to attending www.bps.org.uk/event/scotti...

Course guides updated, rooms booked, Advisor training today, welcome email sent to entrant students, welcome back email sent to current students. Now what have I forgotten to do ...

Two weeks to Orientation Week here in St. Andrews. If you or someone you know is joining us in Psychology and Neuroscience please feel free to connect and we will be happy to help if we can.

A level results day. Congratulations to all who took part and if you got your expected grades or better that's great. There's more than one path if you didn't and your grades don't define you.

📢📢 We are hiring 3 postdocs to join us in our new Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research on an exciting new project to develop a strengths-based assessment toolkit to support neurodivergent children and young people:    my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...    my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Interested in starting EEG Research? Join Our Hands-On Workshop This December! ✍️ Before we finalise plans, we’d love to hear from you. Please fill out our short Expression of Interest form — even if you can't attend, your feedback will help shape future events. run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/sur...

Lammas Fair is in town so it is going to be a noisy weekend and an evening noisier Monday and Tuesday. Difficult to believe they can erect building-size fairground rides in these small streets but it's great for the young and not so young.

Whether you've changed your mind, or didn't get the results you expected, we've got lots of Clearing places available at UWS! Call our helpful team to have a chat: 0800 027 1000. #Clearing2025

Best of luck with those exam results in Scotland and remember there is more than one path - grades don't define you.

Storm Floris looks likely to be a little testing for Scotland today (and even worse for my internet connection). Stay safe.

Another big day today. Graduation for the Lift Off 2 Success Residential Course. Some amazing young people from across Fife and Tayside celebrating their achievements over the past year and especially this week of intensive work.

We have two permanent lectureships currently available at York - home and overseas applicants are welcome! Please share: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

CALL FOR SPEAKERS! We're planning our TILE Network speaker series for 25-26 and are looking for inspiring speakers from diverse disciplines to share their insights on pressing topics in education. We feature research and best practice talks. (Self-)nomination form here: forms.office.com/e/X6TC36HGR5

I'm happy to share our latest manuscript "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience", coauthored with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman.

We are really looking forward to welcoming Lift Off 2 Success next week. See you all on Monday, bring a pencil and a sense of humour. www.lift-off.org.uk/lo2s-residen...

What contagious crying and comforting in infants tell us about the roots of emotional connection We wrote a piece in @psyche.co magazine about our research on #empathy in infants @durhampsych.bsky.social psyche.co/ideas/were-l...

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...