One of my student's has an online 12 min study on leadership and needs non-student participants. It explores how factors e.g. birth order, leadership confidence, and personality relate to leadership roles. Please help!😍 standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Reposts would be great too!

Friday (13th Feb) at 1 pm in the Old Library. We are delighted to welcome Dr Dieter Lukas from MPI Leipzig, who will be delivering a talk titled "Linking behaviour to reproductive success: the role of life history in mammalian social evolution".

Big day tomorrow with LiftOff2Success and 100 of their young people!

Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

We are looking forward to tomorrow when we see around 100 young people as part of the www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/access... and maybe we will have a little St. Andrews Uni Rap together.

Friday (6th Feb) at 1 pm in the Old Library, Dr Mahesh Miikael Karnani (Uni of Edinburgh) a talk titled "Cortical control of the hypothalamus" - Understanding the neural control of feeding by 'cognitive' circuits e.g. £6B NHS is spent on the health consequences of obesity.

Featuring the work of DISI director, Erica Cartmill!

many congratulations I am a huge fan of your work @drboothroyd.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social

PhD opportunity! CPop is opening a fully funded three year PhD position on lifespan inequalities. Apply here 👇 fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

sparqs’ jobs board exists to create a platform for student engagement roles in Scotland, bringing together recruiters and those interested in careers in student engagement. To submit your vacancy, email Ali McDade - [email protected] with a link www.sparqs.ac.uk/sector.php?p...

A great job opportunity @standrewsanthro.bsky.social: Lecturer in Social Anthropology - deadline for applications 06 March 2026 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

When protection feels like punishment… Mental Health and Wellbeing practitioner Isabella Neergaard reflects on the impact of guardianship decisions on people with alcohol-related brain damage. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Researchers from the School of Psychology and Neuroscience have developed a new AI tool which hopes to remove the bottleneck in animal movement analysis 🪲🖥️🥳 Read more... 👇 https://ow.ly/GYv550Y147z #EverToExcel

Please complete and/or share my PhD student Mohammad Ali Siyadat's survey!📝 🔗 Study link: standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... The study is on perceptions of AI-assisted leadership💻 Prize Draw for gift cards🎁 #Leadership #AI #Management #Psychology #SocialIdentity #CFBR #Research #Survey

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

A new academic term is ramping up. Have you considered putting our episodes on your syllabi? Conversations offer an accessible and engaging format—your students will thank you! We have 100+ episodes to choose from, covering many forms of mind from all disciplinary angles. disi.org/manyminds/

EMPATHY: In a new article out in Behaviour "The Evolutionary & Developmental Origins of Empathy: Honouring Frans de Waal’s Legacy", I consider how processes like mimicry, contagion and early social experiences shape later social-emotional development. #OpenAccess here👉: brill.com/view/journal...

A new study in @nature.com demonstrates the prevalence of same-sex sexual behaviour in primates (59 species) and its possible ecological and social functions. My comments on the study feature at the end of this coverage in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/science/2026...?

@brittri.bsky.social @runnersworld.bsky.social @parkrunstats.bsky.social We'd be grateful if you would consider reposting. Best wishes, Jen Clark

I'm inviting you to participate in a project, which looks at the link between psychological factors and overuse injuries. Your participation is really valuable. Over-18 in the UK who exercises more than 4 hours per week (no overuse injury required). standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I'm sure that it is a lot worse elsewhere but here is our little dusting of snow in St Mary's Quad

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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.