So many of us love reading! But did you know it's actually good for our brains? 📖🧠 Falk Huettig's new book 'The Perks of Being a Bookworm' explores research in psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and education to explain how reading transforms the human mind.

New @srcdorg.bsky.social paper exploring links between statistical learning and executive functions in middle childhood! Link here: doi.org/10.1093/chid... w Nic Chevalier, Jess Dolan, and @nemeth.bsky.social See thread below...

Very proud to have worked on the 2026 update to the CRediT taxonomy with @rbly.bsky.social

Do you have any thoughts on systemic bottlenecks in science and how to fix them? Astera is running an essay competition! astera.org/essay-compet...

Join us in York! 12-month full-time *development-focused* psychology lectureship in our very friendly York St John team. Quant research methods too. Deadline 24th February. Please share: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL260/l...

12-month Psychology lectureship in a very friendly team at York St John - we're looking for qual methods, and would be especially great if you can teach health psychology from a qual perspective. Please share: tinyurl.com/ysjpsych

Out now 🎉 ‘The Folk Concept of Time’, written with @ruthjlee.bsky.social for the new Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time.

New paper in JECP with Patricia Ganea and Patrycia Jarosz: Young children's updating of mental representations of story characters and events based on verbal and pictorial information (open access) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁). drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

Please reach out to Shona or me if you or someone you know might be interested in delivering an R workshop to our psychology staff/PGRs in the next couple of months 📊

#YorkFestivalOfIdeas 2025 will be featuring an event #AboutTime exploring different aspects of #time, from #physics, to #art, and #philosophy! If you're in the area, on Sat 14th June, I will be delivering the opening talk "How Philosophers Think about Time" #YorkFesitvalOfIdeas #PhilosophyOfTime

Please share this PhD opportunity with your colleagues, students, and recent graduates. This is an exciting opportunity to study the role of cognitive stimulation in supporting the developmental outcomes of children growing up in linguistically diverse families.

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

I'm recruiting for an RA on a mixed methods project hoping to co-produce a more intersectional understanding of EDs. At the mo it will be 1.5 days a week for 9 months, with some flexibility on when/where. Please share widely and let me know if you have Qs! Link here shorturl.at/uoPOj

Developmental Psychology starter pack! I've included people doing child/adolescent research and as well as a few lifespan folks. Please share widely, and let me know if there is anyone who should be added! go.bsky.app/ECJtpXi #DevPsych #DevSci #PsychSciSky

[Please "rebsky"!] My paper, 'Cognitive Representations of Social Relationships and their Developmental Origins" has been accepted at Behavioral and Brain Sciences! I'm thrilled to be able to engage with people's commentary. Please consider writing one! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Are you a psychologist or neuroscientist who completed your PhD after 1st October 2022, or about to submit your thesis? Consider applying for the **4-year Career Research Development Fellowship** at St John's College, Oxford. Please share! #psychscisky #neuroskyence www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...

We have an open call for an early-career researcher (<10 yrs since PhD) to join the Center for Open Science's Board of Directors. This is a great opportunity to gain board experience with an amazing group of colleagues, and to help COS meet its mission. Apply! www.cos.io/call-for-ecr...

If you are a psychology researcher, please consider taking this survey about pilot studies: research.sc/participant/... Our team is hoping to learn how researchers approach the process of piloting. 20 randomly chosen participants will receive $50 gift cards! #PsychSciSky #MetaScience #OpenScience

Introducing LEVANTE, a project for measuring children's developmental and learning variability around the world! LEVANTE provides a measurement platform with data flowing to an open repository. In August, the Jacobs Foundation will make a call for proposals to use these tools! levante-network.org

Reminder to get in touch for a chat! PhD with me, Helgi Clayton-McClure, Jen Shevchenko at York St John. Explore factors influencing the way we value past and future events, such as beliefs about time, wellbeing, memory, identity - while gaining teaching experience. jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/021-24

Fully-funded PhD at York St John, UK exploring influences on time biases - e.g. beliefs, wellbeing, more. Please get in touch to discuss! More PhDs: future simulations, children’s cooperation, female offenders, body image compassion, imagery in language processing. jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/021-24

Come to York, UK to lead and support the Psychology team at York St John! Small, friendly team; university has a strong focus on social justice. Apply at Associate Prof or Prof level. Please share - contacts for informal enquiries here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEU695/a...

Join our lovely team at York St John Psychology! Three positions open for applications: jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Join us for EPS workshop Episodic Future Thinking: Twenty Years On at York St John, Dec 2! Keynotes: Cristina Atance, Karl Szpunar, Teresa McCormack, Lia Kvavilashvili, Arnaud D’Argembeau. Info: tinyurl.com/EFT-Workshop. Poster deadline Nov 20, ECRs esp welcome.