To spread a little holiday cheer, the Psychology Department is thrilled to share the great news that Dr Angela de Bruins has been awarded the 2025 Psychonomic Society Early Career Award.

Dr David Pitcher and PhD student Emek Kucuk will appear in the BBC Documentary called Secrets of the Brain. Watch on BBC2 on Monday October 6th at 9pm or iPlayer (link below). www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

More acknowledgement of amazing researchers at the Department of Psychology, University of York. Prof. Elizabeth Jeffries is awarded the 2025 British Psychological Society President's Award!

Yet another award to celebrate! Our own Dr Angela De Bruin has been awarded the 2025 Early Career Award from the Psychonomic Society.

Psychology Department's own Prof. Mike Burton awarded the Research Board’s Lifetime Achievement award 2025. Congratulations!

Dr Silvia Gennari, Ramya Balakrishnan and Nicoleta Gavrila from the Psychology Department promoting science and women in science at the 2025 Soapbox Science in York on Parliament Street. This is the fifth year in a row our female researchers have made us proud.

YNiC celebrates its 20th Anniversary

Psychology's own Dr Scott Cairney has been awarded the Senior Translational Research Award by the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) for his academic career to-date in improving understanding of the neurocognitive mechanisms linking sleep to mental health.

A research fellow at the Psychology Department, Dr Sophie Meekings has been profiled by the British Science Association as part of Smashing Stereotypes campaign for British Science Week (7th-16th March).

Interested in doing a postdoctoral fellowship @york? With a number of deadlines in Autumn 2025, now is the perfect time to contact your sponsor. Check out the opportunities here: www.york.ac.uk/psychology/r...

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. In support of all the women who work and pursue the study in STEM the Psychology Department would like to acknowledge their invaluable contribution to the advancement of science.

On the 5-year anniversary since the first COVID-19 cases in the UK, Dr Heidi Baseler (Psychology Department, University of York) talks with ITV, airing on Friday, 31st January 2025 at 6pm about research on effects of long COVID on working memory and other brain changes.

A new opening at Psychology Department, University of York www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLP599/r...

Out now in @pnas.org "Memory control deficits in the sleep-deprived human brain" doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Late post due to Christmas vacation, but more great work from @emmacsullivan.bsky.social showing that good quality sleep and adaptive emotion regulation strategies independently reduce the persistence of negative affect doi.org/10.1080/0269...

New paper! A validation of BUMPs in Italian as well as demonstrating that pregnancy body dissatisfaction can have an impact postnatally. Yet more evidence that better support should be provided for perinatal body changes. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F... @yorkpsychology.bsky.social

A lovely Christmas gift indeed! I love this paper as we learned so much about how to improve accessibility for chronic pain participants of taking part in research. (Many of the points raised are probably true for most participants). Great work @kirrraliseh.bsky.social! @yorkpsychology.bsky.social

Little pre-holiday reminder: I'm recruiting for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...) - deadline is January the 12th, so think about it over the break and then apply in the New Year! Do get in touch if you have any questions (though bear in mind I'll be OOO too 🎄)

Looking forward to this - hopefully replicable - first workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences!

Woohoo! Just found out we've been given an internal grant for an almost complete refresh of IT infrastructure at YNiC! Particularly exciting will be new PCs to allow us to do real-time analysis of fMRI and MEG data for neurofeedback experiments.

Test-retest paper out! This one has been some time in the works (thanks to other co-authors for bearing with me as I moved institutions and then went on maternity leave). With @olijrobinson.bsky.social, Katrina Tan, Hoda Tromblee and Michelle Wing. doi.org/10.5334/cpsy...

❗2-year postdoc at the University of York❗ I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC-funded project “The many faces of prejudice: the “what”, the “why”, and the “how” of inferences we make from membership in social groups”. To learn more and apply (by Jan 13): jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese... #psychjobs

Wanted to highlight what an incredibly useful paper this is by @lucysta02475610.bsky.social @alexandrapike.bsky.social & co on the use of AI in qualitative research: doi.org/10.1177/1609... Invaluable insights, including how to spot AI-generated text & ideas for monitoring! Thanks all! 🙌

We've been awarded two ERC Consolidator Grants for projects on sleep and online misogyny. Congrats to PIs @sacairney.bsky.social and Harriet Over! www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

York researchers test impact of school smartphone ban in new Channel 4 documentary www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

I'm recruiting a 23-month postdoc! If you're interesting in #ComputationalPsychiatry or #EatingDisorders research please apply and/or get in touch - very happy to have informal chats with potential applicants, and put you in touch with existing members of my lab. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

It's wonderful to see funders investing heavily in such exciting/important research. Congratulations Scott - one of two winners in this round from @yorkpsychology.bsky.social, alongside the equally brilliant Harriet Over.

Interested in computational psychiatry? My brilliant colleague @alexandrapike.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc to join her team @yorkpsychology.bsky.social on a 2-year post jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

@yorkpsychology.bsky.social is amazing: with @sacairney.bsky.social and Harriet Over receiving ERC consolidator grants, we now hold 4(!!) ERC grants in our department 🙃😎🥳

Ecstatic to receive an ERC Consolidator Grant to lead “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep” @yorkpsychology.bsky.social Stay tuned for job ads in 2025! #ERCCoG erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Congrats to all, but shout-out to @yorkpsychology.bsky.social's very own @alexanderreid.bsky.social who goes above and beyond day in day out for our students!

We are delighted to announce the finalists for our Higher Education Psychology Teacher of the Year Award! Nilu Ahmed (Bristol Dental School) Zayba Ghazali-Mohammed (University of Glasgow) Andrew Holliman (UCL) Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel (University of Glasgow) Alex Reid (University of York)

This is a great resource from UKRN, which includes links to a few York-based initiatives and groups (IRIS, OASIS, EROS @uoyeducation.bsky.social), and project case studies (Open Autism Research @yorkpsychology.bsky.social) 👇

Psychonomics done and dusted, so it's time to explore NY before heading back to the original York. Thanks for an unbelievably interesting and utterly exhausting conference! #psynom24

Paper accepted!!! The holistic forgetting of events and the (sometimes) fragmented forgetting of objects osf.io/preprints/ps... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

Another follower shout-out - @aidanhorner.bsky.social, and an article I wrote with him in 2016 about growing up with Psychologists as parents… www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

New research highlights how diverse frontoparietal brain connectivity supports semantic prediction and integration during sentence comprehension. A fascinating step in understanding how our brains process language! #Neuroscience #LanguageProcessing #CognitiveScience

Fun afternoon looking round the York Art Gallery and Museums thinking about designing some real-world memory studies for our @leverhulme.bsky.social funded project on how spatial environments shape memory

We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky! It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide... >> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024... 🧵 below

Join us on 20 November to find out about our new MSc in Data Science (Human Behaviour)! Book now: bit.ly/4hYByLR

I was thinking today that maybe we need to figure out how to make democracy attractive. Authoritarianism seems to be genuinely appealing to a lot of people. Perhaps because democracy means you have responsibilities, while authoritarianism means someone else is taking care of things.

Some stellar detective-style work from Lucy into a problem we didn’t know existed - AI use in qualitative focus groups. @yorkpsychology.bsky.social (with Catherine Preston) 🕵️‍♀️

Turns out, Daron Acemoğlu is an ethnic Armenian AND a graduate of the University of York. I have never felt closer to a Nobel prize 🙃

York Minster glowing in the morning sun today

We offer a range of postgraduate courses that’ll help you broaden your knowledge of mental health. Join us on 30 October for an online session to find out more. events.unibuddy.co/university-o...