🧵So, what works when teaching reading comprehension in the classroom? To a whole class? I dedicated a entire chapter of my Phd thesis to exploring the literature on this. In fact, we do not know a lot about what works when teachers teach, to whole classes. 1/8

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...

🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update. On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R 📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K... #RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪

Calling #primary schools in/around #York! We've got a brand new project investigating how learning and memory for new words changes over development 🧠 We're looking for Year 4/5 classes to take part in game-like activities. Please email ([email protected]) for more info & to discuss 🙂🎓

The York Open Research Awards are back for 2026! 🎉 The call for submissions is open until Monday 27 April 📆 We are keen to recognise and reward a diverse range of projects, and this year we are offering additional prizes to ensure that all researchers at York have the opportunity to participate...

New paper by PD student Bob Kapteijns (not on bsky) How do reading, math, and various cognitive skills "grow together" in early childhood? 🧠📚 osf.io/preprints/ps...

The 1.3.0 version of my {brms} + {tidyverse} translation of Kruschke's "Doing Bayesian data analysis" is up! solomon.quarto.pub/dbda2 #rstats 1/8

Short-term fellowships for 2026 at the University of Potsdam, Germany (linguistics and psychology): linguistlist.org/issues/36/38...

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

*New paper* showing that adults’ morpheme knowledge in English is shaped by what readers can readily pick up from spelling, even when this means relying on cues that don’t accurately reflect morphological structure or overlooking informative exemplars doi.org/10.3758/s134...

🚨 Funded PhD on ageing, social cognition & self/other differentiation! 🚨 🧠 Supervised by myself (University of St Andrews) & Prof. Louise Phillips (University of Aberdeen), the project includes EEG & eye-tracking training. 🌍 Open to UK + international students! 📅 Deadline: 15th Dec 2025

I'm surprised I only came across it now, but this review on improving communication in data visualization is excellent. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Two-group pre/post data are deceptively simple, and you could analyze them in many different ways, depending on your goals. Here are three blog posts on the topic: solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2022-06... solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2020-12... solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2023-06...

The meeting programme for EPS London 2026 is now live on our website! Please use the link below to see all the exciting planned presentations. 😄 eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/

The #cogsci of reading, shared by the people who actually do the research. This will be spectacular! #ReconstructingReading bsky.app/profile/jonn...

Are you thinking of starting a #PhD in 2026? 🎓 I'm keen to hear from potential applicants interested in #language, #learning, or #literacy! Visit the website to find out more about developing a proposal ahead of the January deadline sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

A short piece on #CelebrityTraitors and defending yourself from accusations of lying. Very fun to write! Thanks to @uk.theconversation.com for editing and publishing. theconversation.com/the-celebrit...

Are you thinking of starting a #PhD in 2026? 🎓 I'm keen to hear from potential applicants interested in #language, #learning, or #literacy! Visit the website to find out more about developing a proposal ahead of the January deadline sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

Today is Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day #DLDDay! ~2 children in every classroom have significant difficulties with language, yet these often go undetected. Last year we recorded short videos to introduce DLD and put the spotlight on wellbeing youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I had the BEST time soaking up all the stats discussions at SMLP this year, can highly recommend.

This is a nice paper. It faces down a common problem: in order to explain to why a common approach cannot work even in theory, we first need to teach a framework in which regression is not magic that tells us which variables on right cause the variable on left. It's exhausting. Anyway great paper!

Cat Davies reports to the UK covid-19 inquiry this week "early childhood .... was significantly disrupted...Normally, when one support system falters, families can turn to alternatives... the pandemic removed almost all options simultaneously". medium.com/@ahcresearch...

🧩Learning to talk & read isn’t just about effort or teaching—it’s shaped by biology, experience & context 🧠Our new review links genetics, neuroscience, psychology & education to show why some children find language or reading easier. 📖 doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🖼️genes→brain→cognition→behaviour 🧵👇

** New ** Seeking Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3 yrs) for ESRC project on skilled reading in Arabic. Based in my lab at @rhulpsychology.bsky.social and collaborating with @denisdrieghe.bsky.social (Soton) and Sami Boudelaa (UAE). Please share! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Plus this week our very own @hannahhobson.bsky.social will be giving an online talk on camouflaging in developmental language disorder. It's a ticketed event (£10) to raise money for a good cause, and you can watch live or access the recording!

Does anyone know of any generalised additive mixed models courses running over the next ~year? Ideally in person, pref UK/Europe #rstats #gam #gamm

Too many children with speech and language challenges are being left out and left behind at school. Today, we’ve launched our own white paper – because Government must get SEND reform right. Share it with your MP today👇 https://speechandlanguage.org.uk/the-issue/our-campaigns/transforming-send/

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭 anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

I'm looking for secondary schools in the Yorkshire area to take part in an intervention to help children critically engage with sexist content online! If you know any teachers or schools that might be interested, please ask them to drop me an email on [email protected] for more information :)

Please check out the Top 10 Research Priority Questions for #DevLangDis. Newly launched after extensive consultations involving people with DLD, families and professionals. www.rcslt.org/news/top-que...

"In summary, there isn't a specific "McDonald's Omega value" associated with the McDonald's brand itself." ...thanks for the clarification Google AI summary, there was I getting my fast food and statistical coefficients all confused. 🤷‍♀️🍟

The portals for the next EPS scientific meeting (University College London, between 7th – 9th January 2026) are now open! The portals for this meeting opened on Monday 8th September at 10am (UK time) and will remain open for at least 24 hours. eps.ac.uk/next-meeting/ eps.ac.uk/submit-an-ab...

Grace Wahba was just recently awarded for her work on smoothing splines. www.statprize.org They're wicked cool. If you want to give them a look there's no better place to start than Wood's book on GAMs (the 2017 2nd Ed is a must)

Awwwww Yeah -- it's official

If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

It's not too late to spend next year gearing up for #datascience! The deadline is 29th August for overseas applicants, 5th September for home applicants. Come and learn #rstats with us in lovely York :)

I'm looking forward to getting stuck into #julialang next week but not enjoying the feeling of being completely clueless again 😅 Think I might need to keep this handy!

In case you missed it, there's just over one week left to apply for this RA post! Very grateful for all the shares, thank you 🙌 The last reminder from me now as I'm running away to Italy until the deadline 🇮🇹☀️

We are seeking an Editor-in-Chief for @qjep.bsky.social, to lead a team of associate editors and manage the journal. The new EiC will start shadowing the current role from July 2026 and will take over fully in January 2027. The term is initially for 4 years. eps.ac.uk/an-open-call...

Hi there! If you're a teacher in/near York, we'd really love your input on a research event we're considering for 2026. We want to know whether it would be of interest, & what should be included. If you have 5 mins to spare, please let us know via this short survey! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/ www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Neat little article on using Quarto and creating course materials: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10..... Resonates nicely with our experiences creating all our workbooks in R Markdown / Quarto.

📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Today I’ll be sharing some of my favorite Quarto learning resources 💻✨ Most of what I know, I learned thanks to the amazing work of others. So this thread is a small tribute to open educational content and the people behind it. Let’s go! 👇 #QuartoPub #RLadies #RStats

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

📣 We are still accepting applications for our brand new shiny MSc in Data Science (Human Behaviour), designed to upskill psych/social sci grads for careers working with data 🎓@yorkpsychology.bsky.social www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr... #datascience #rstats #statistics

New paper day 🎉 In this secondary data registered report with ALSPAC data, we looked at preschool predictors of comprehension weaknesses at age 9 📚https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.70048