Absolutely delighted to learn today that @notts-psych.bsky.social has been awarded #AthenaSwan GOLD by @advancehe.bsky.social.

Stage 2 report now out! Newborn Auditory Brainstem Response and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome doi.org/10.1002/jnr.... #OpenAccess

Im very excited about this work out from our recent infant ssVEP study! Led by postdoc Maeve Boylan! After infants learn about objects while reading a book with a parent, their brains prioritize the processing of familiarity. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...

New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le... #autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic

A short summary of our work @aimeetheyer.bsky.social in @notts-psych.bsky.social

New lab paper in DCN! 🧠 We conducted interviews with adolescents to better understand their perceptions of neuroscience research and barriers to participation, w/qualitative data that is shaping how we design lab studies & efforts to increase representation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This one looks intriguing. Arousal "embedding" whole-brain dynamics. 🤯 #neuroskyence #compneurosky doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Have you ever wondered whether going to school IN AND OF ITSELF improves children’s thinking skills? We found that it does! But not by much (about 1/4 standard deviations). Meta-analysis with Jamie Donenfeld and @erikblaser.bsky.social #DevPsySky #PsySciSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

About 30–40% of children born preterm (<34 weeks) develop cognitive problems, a rate unchanged for decades. We show these difficulties are related with distinct brain differences by gestational age, interventions should be tailored, not ‘one-size-fits-all’. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

October is an exciting month - it includes Dyslexia Awareness week (#DAW25), ADHD Awareness Month, and DLD Awareness Day - and I thought it was a great time to raise awareness of #neurodiversity - and talk about a new project thats close to my heart..

new preprint - do you use #fnirs to study cognition? do you want to learn how to design better studies? our primer aims to get you started on using #fnirs for real-world #cognitive #neuroscience osf.io/preprints/ps...

Black Maternal Mental Health Week begins today, returning for its 5th year, led by MMHA Member The Motherhood Group. This week is about more than awareness. We'll be highlighting new research, sharing insights from lived experiences, and discussing how we translate evidence into action. #BMMHW2025

🧠Out now @natcomms.nature.com ! Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵

Very excited to announce my student Andreas Arslan's first paper, "Causal coherence improves episodic memory of dynamic events" in Cognition! Out now open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Andreas isn't on bsky, but he very kindly wrote a summary thread for me to share. 🧵 (1/24)

📣 PhD opportunity with my colleague Marieke van der Schaaf, here at @tilburguniversity.bsky.social (in collaboration with @dondersinst.bsky.social). Analysis of #MRI, #cognitive, and #immunometabolic data in ppl w/ Myalgic encephalomyelitis or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. More: tinyurl.com/3dhkv5n6

Lazarus et al. (2025): A simple act with a lasting impact: Holding babies skin-to-skin in the NICU helped support their development and reduced differences linked to family income. Early touch can be a powerful way to promote equity from the very start #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

My second paper is out now! Interesting work with @drswijeakumar.bsky.social from our NeuroSync dataset looking at brain-behaviour associations during caregiver-infant play interactions. 🧠

We just published a new paper from our NeuroSync dataset in Infancy. Led by @aimeetheyer.bsky.social. We looked at brain function in caregivers and infants during joint and continued attention periods, and links to infant visual short-term/working memory. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Learned Predictiveness in Children. After 3 years of testing children at @notts-psych.bsky.social annual public engagement event "Summer Scientist week", we have finally collated all the data from 161 children between the ages of 4 and 14 who completed a "magical potions task"

I've made this pretty poster of my books, so far, for an upcoming event. Maybe one looks relevant to you? :)

❗️New brief report❗️Using data from our NeuroSync dataset, we showed that life stress moderates the link between caregiver metacognition and infant sustained attention. @ghadasaleem.bsky.social @linecaes.bsky.social @alexhendry.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Happy to share "The Dynamics of Caregiver Unpredictability Shape Moment-to-Moment Infant Looking During Dyadic Interaction," out now in Child Development thanks to a large team of people I worked on this with! srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

🔊 Final Call for Late Breaking Abstracts ▶️ Due to the extenuating circumstances of the current uncertainties surrounding travel and funding this year, FIT’NG is offering a final extension for abstract submissions. 🗓️ Submission deadline: July 24 fitng.org/late-breakin...

A new paper shows that pediatric deaths in the US are significantly higher than in comparable countries, but what is driving this? “Premature births, sudden unexpected infant deaths, congenital anomalies for infants; firearms, motor vehicle crashes, substance use, and homicide for ages 1-19”.

Abstract rule learning promotes cognitive flexibility in complex environments across species www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Want a summary of our new paper on the impact of delayed ADHD diagnosis in women? Well I have just the ticket! Perfect for people who don't have an academic background, or those looking for a lighter read :) otherprimates.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/u... #ADHD #DelayedDiagnosis #WomensHealth

Often autistic kids are put in challenging social situations where it's noisy & there's too many people They struggle & then are reprimanded for not "behaving" They shouldn't be punished for an adult's error in judgment Support them by understanding & accommodating their sensory needs #autism

Enjoyed being at #ECP2025. Got some really thoughtful questions at our talks on caregiver-infant interactions, cross-cultural findings in UK and India and computational modelling of caregiver and infant visual cognition.

Help me name a thing! I wrote an in-house #Python package for recording and analysing data from #OpenBCI boards. Primarily electrogastrography, but useful for all human electrophysiology. I’d like to open-source it for a tutorial, but it there are MANY "openbci"-named packages. Suggestions please!

Abstract rule learning promotes cognitive flexibility in complex environments across species www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Out now in Science Advances! We find that infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament. This has be so much fun to work on and ended up being my favourite personal paper! So excited it's out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cash Transfers and Their Effect on Maternal and Young Children’s Health: A Randomized Clinical Trial jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... "Cash transfer [...] did not improve measures of maternal physical or mental health or the physical health of their 4-year-old children."

Well done to @davidsonchri.bsky.social for passing her PhD viva today! Her work looked at longitudinal changes in different types of caregiver-infant play interactions and links to infant visual working memory.

Proud supervisor day. @aimeetheyer.bsky.social successfully defended her viva today. Her work focussed on infant visual neurocognition and caregiver-infant interactions.

🚨 Calling all colleagues who work on #workingmemory and #aging 🚨 Do you have any unpublished data on age differences in WM? 👴 👵 🧠 🌨️ We're working on a BIG meta-analysis, and I'd love any and all data that are currently not "out there" for us to find! 🔬 🤓 Please repost for reach, thanks! 🔁 😁

Delighted to share this new open access article which presents four amazing case studies showcasing coproduction methods in neurodevelopmental research Lots of people have published theory and there are some useful toolkits too, but its still rare to actually read what people did... rdcu.be/ebbgu

Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word recognition support language learning across early childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚀 Exciting News! 🚀 🎙️ We’re bringing the best minds to the FIT’NG Annual Conference, Sep 7—8, 2025! ✨ Join us in Dublin, Ireland as our invited speakers share their groundbreaking research on early brain development 🧠 🔗 Read their full bios at: fitng.org/speakers/ #FITNG2025

Inspired by my reading this week, I wrote a list of the resources I think every cognitive science researcher should read/listen to about theory development. It's in this google.doc (feel free to add your own suggestions) and in the thread below. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Sara Mosteller, Sobanawartiny Wijeakumar, and Sam Wass: Neural signatures of word learning during adult-child interactions direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

What a lovely end to the week - I have been promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, effective 1st August🎉🎉🥳. I look forward to this next stage of academic growth and many thanks to everyone at all stages who contributed to this journey!

The latest paper from my PhD is now out in Nature Human Behavior! rdcu.be/edRwQ

Nice throwback and first message here :-).

We have no memories for events from our earliest childhood years (aka infantile amnesia). Is it because we can't form them or can't keep them? Our Perspective on exciting new work from @tristansyates.bsky.social and colleagues. Babies form fleeting memories | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...