🟢 World Mental Health Day @ De Montfort Student's Union Friday, 10 October 10:30 - 14:30 BST Join in on World Mental Health day in Collaboration with DMU’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Postgraduates, Welfare student voice lead and DMU Wellbeing Group.  events.demontfortsu.com/event/world-...

Happy European Day of Languages from the Language Scientists Podcast! Today is a great day to celebrate the languages in Europe and listen to a podcast that tells you the science behind #languagelearning. the-language-scientists.captivate.fm #podcast #language

🤩 Welcome new DMU #Psychology students! You might be wondering what to expect. We’ve all been there! That's why we've compiled our best advice to help you navigate your first year with confidence. What's the one thing you're most excited or nervous about? #DMU #dmupsychology #leicester #uni

The academic year is kicking off now! 😅

I needed a bit of music to work alongside, so I said, "Alexa, play music I would like." Skipped the first one only to be greeted with, "LA LA LA LAVA CHI CHI CHI CHICKEN" 😂😑 Thanks, kiddos.... 🫠

It's that time of year: students are starting their final year projects! What is the best piece of advice you'd offer them?

Looking forward to celebrating our Psychology students next week! 🥰

It's gonna be a good day! The sun is out, it's not hot 🙌 I've got coffee and datasets that need cleaning with my AMAZING RAs and writing time later today. 🥰 I hope you have a lovely day!

It's the last week of summer in my house as school starts up next week. What's the best part of your summer been? I think I have to say that it's been slowing down a bit! 🤣 What about you?

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. — Carl Sagan 📷: Max Claret

No offense to the other journals, but I think Frontiers for Young Minds might be my favourite. I'm a Science Mentor and work with children to be science reviewers for these articles. Check ours out! kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

And just like that, I'm back! ✨ Feeling refreshed and ready to jump back into things after a wonderful week off. Soaking up that much-needed time off was exactly what I needed. Let's do this! 💪

My middle child was thoughtful enough to collect this little flower on the walk home from school to share with me. It was so small and so pretty and made such an impact on my day. What tiny thing made a positive impact on your day?

Theatre nerd here: OMG THAT HAMILTON PERFORMANCE 😍🤩 It was like a SuperBowl version of Hamilton. AHMAZING.

✨ Highlight of the week ✨ Thank you to the student who nominated me for the students choice teacher awards! I've received the comments from the student's nomination, but these are anonymous, so I can't thank them properly. 😍 😭 💖 Thank you! You made my week!

28 June is just around the corner! DMU Open Days are a great opportunity to meet staff and students, experience the campus, and even enjoy a Taster session. Sign up today!

Ignite your career! 🚀 DMU's final PG Open Evening for Health Psych & Mental Wellbeing is May 29th, 3-6pm. Catch the special Psychology talk included from 4-4.30pm! Meet experts, find your path. 🔗 www.dmu.ac.uk/study/postgr... #DMU #Postgraduate #PsychologyTalk #FutureLeaders #psychology

Linguistics could make language learning more relevant – and attractive – for school pupils. As a trained linguist, I couldn't agree more! Linguistics can help bridge the gap between languages, essentially providing you with the hidden links underneath. theconversation.com/linguistics-...

Our division is really lovely - consider being welcomed as one of our incoming students!

I would love to see what's being done to help the HE sector. This immigration white paper is not it. Certainly not when REF emphasises international research collaboration.

SLRF 2025 is looking for reviewers! Volunteers will be asked to review ~3-5 abstracts by April 30. Sign up by Thursday, April 10 at forms.gle/eEWontcNiNA3....

🌷🌞 Traveling for your holiday? Why not download a few episodes of "The Language Scientists" Podcast to listen to en route? 🧵 1/3 #podcast #learning #languagelearning #podcastrecommendation

🎊 Happy Friday! May your Friday be peaceful and productive and your weekend a fully recharging couple of days. 🌞 #academia #Friday

What a great few days in Edinburgh at the Bilingualism Matters Symposium! Loads of fab talks, great interactions with researchers and practitioners, and I even won a free ticket to next year's conference 🤯 what more could a girl ask for?! See you all in Milan!

It's poster time at Bilingualism Matters Symposium! What insights have we found from our podcast data? the-language-scientists.captivate.fm/listen

Day 2 at Bilingualism Matters Symposium. Starting off with the plenary on the future of neuroscientific research in the field of bilingualism. 🧠 🗣 👂

⭐New blog post⭐ In this blog ✍️ for our good growth hub, Dr Philippa Carr, drsimongoodman.bsky.social, @dradamjowett.bsky.social & Dr Jackie Abell explore how the media portrays inequality & wealth and the impact this has on economic growth. Read here ➡️ acss.org.uk/rethinking-e...

1/3 🏫 Last week for #BritishScienceWeek, I had the pleasure of being invited back to a local primary school to hold assemblies all day (!) for years 1-6. We did the Stroop task - and even tried it in different languages to test our hypotheses!

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🧪Attending your first scientific #conference? Thinking about what to pack, or just looking to make sure you prepared all the essentials? Have a look at The Beginner’s Guide to Scientific Conferences I got to publish for @the-node.bsky.social, out now! ☺️☺️ thenode.biologists.com/the-beginner...

Getting ready for outreach assemblies for British Science Week! 🧠 My primary school scientists love the Stroop task.

Happy International Mother Language Day! Languages are beautiful and more languages only strengthen our world instead of weaken it.

Just in case you were worried that 'nobody is doing anything' or 'all hope is lost' 🧵👇

FYI, Long COVID event run by a wonderful colleague of mine.

🎊 Today is International Mother Language Day It is so important to keep encouraging "mother languages". Whilst it's great to learn additional languages, this does NOT need to be at the expense of the first language. 🎧🎙 the-language-scientists.captivate.fm/listen #multilingualism #podcast

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What a cool experience! Congrats on a successful livestream, Meredith! In case you missed it, watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKbd... #psychology #dmu #university #dmuleicester

Day 4 writing streak! Nearly a full set 🎊

2 day writing streak!

🎉 Psychology Careers Day is tomorrow! Did you know there is such a wide variety of career options you can lead into from your psychology course at DMU? We have former students, experts, and inspiring speakers who will share their experiences on Wednesday. #employability #psychology

Canada, Australia, UK, really any English-speaking country, has a great opportunity right now.

In the grand scheme of things, it feels little, but it was big to me..... I prioritised writing today! 🙌 🎊 ✔️ Day 1 of however long I can keep this streak up

To celebrate our 100th Episodiversary we put together 100 of our favourite fun facts about linguistics, including this one about gesture. You can listen to the other 99 here: https://episodes.fm/1186056137/episode/dGFnOnNvdW5kY2xvdWQsMjAxMDp0cmFja3MvMjAxMDg1Njk3MQ

This is really interesting. I mean, there's something to be said for the benefit in evaluating others' work for REF (absolutely!) but maybe this could help? ... at least in Psyc where that correlation looks decent (compared to others)

It was a blustery rushed Friday for us and we were very nearly not à l’heure.

Le mot du jour à l’heure [ a lœʀ ] on time #learnFrenchwithArnaud #vocabulary #motdujour #oneaday

I love this article - full of enthusiasm for the benefits of multilingualism and loads of science facts.

👋 Hello, Bluesky! 🧠 We're the psychology division at De Montfort University. We've got a new account here at Bluesky and looking for accounts to follow. You can expect updates on the #research and #teaching we do, as well as some interesting #scienceoutreach and #sciencecommunication.

Oh my goodness, I am loving Bluesky. It's so new and shiny and I'm kinda stoked I can pick my own feeds to follow. 🤔 What else am I missing? What's you're favourite feature?

👋 Hello, Bluesky! 👩‍🔬 I'm a psycholinguist who studies language production (speech errors) for multilingual speakers. 🎙️ I'm co-host of "The Language Scientists" #podcast, where we discuss all things to encourage language learning! 🎧 the-language-scientists.captivate.fm/listen #bilingual #science