It's time to get science back into policymaking Misunderstanding & hubris have broken public trust in governments’ use of science, but it can be restored. @michaelkenny.bsky.social & @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social discuss 'how' in their comment for @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Just finished my last class of the semester🎉Reminded of how much I love teaching this academic writing class for grad students. We focus on improving our writing but also reducing anxiety and becoming a more consistent & productive writer Some of the students favorite writing tips/learnings below:

We are hiring a @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk research assistant- deadline is 5 January www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

📣 Very happy to announce a new BBS target article with Nick Chater in which we propose a new theory of cultural evolution, highlighting the importance of bottom-up social interaction in explaining the emergence of cultural complexity 🧵 1/8 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If you want your work to be reproducible, you have to remember that others don't have the insider knowledge you have. You have to be explicit. This morning I was able to recreate a file made by someone else because they explicitly documented their definitions, calculations, and their assumptions. 🫶

🌍Yes! The UNC School of Education is searching for a 9-month, tenure-track faculty member for a position in teacher education with a focus on elementary grade multilingual learners! So exciting! 🗣️ Apply by 1/5/26! 👀 Details here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/309...

Applications open: New Generation Thinkers 2026 AHRC is partnering with BBC Radio 4 to offer five early-career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers, appear on air, and gain first-hand experience of how ideas make it to broadcast. Apply by Jan 2026

Join us for an exciting afternoon of three professorial lecture on Monday (10 Nov) from 1-3pm (UK time) in-person or online.

Join us at our virtual open day sessions this morning to find out about our two MPhil programmes running in 2026: 9am—MPhil in Public Policy w/ @terzibus.bsky.social 10am—MPhil in Digital Policy w/ @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Register for the joining link: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday

Talk in Cambridge this Friday at 4.30pm Trust in “Moral” Machines Prof Jim A.C. Everett, University of Kent Details below talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

Public health is under attack by a deluge of misinformation. We offer a consensus report from the American Psychological Association summarizing what we know & what interventions are effective in countering it. We provide 8 concrete recommendations. Open-access - awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Vivid memories are all over the BBC website front page! It takes just a few minutes to complete our public survey: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Brilliant episode of All in the Mind with @claudiahammond.bsky.social, who discusses autism with @utafrith.bsky.social, brain development with @catherineloveday.bsky.social, as well as memory, music and other interesting topics www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Make bite sized adjustments to what you're already doing with teaching tips from cognitive scientist Dr. Michelle Rivers

PsyArXiv is now down to only ~40% of the backlog we started with, thanks to our amazing moderators 🎉 To all mods: thank you so much for your hard work! Did one of your preprints get approved recently? Help us show our thanks by liking and sharing this post :) #PsyArXiv #PsychSciSky

Hey friends! Are you interested in the science of learning? Then check out all the cool SOL researchers in this starter pack! go.bsky.app/CBPm1dV #academicsky #edusky #psychsky

Want to help moderate preprints on PsyArXiv? We're hosting a training tomorrow morning. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/j/8114764450... More trainings are coming as well! Already registered using the other form? Check your spam folder -- some of our email invitations are going to spam. #PsychSciSky

More info about changes to moderation at PsyArXiv - improvingpsych.org/2025/08/20/c...

🌍 Glad to see our paper out! How researchers in developing countries & other resource-constrained contexts (can) practice #OpenScience, with free tools, training, success stories, & more. 🔓 doi.org/10.1177/2515... 🛠 osf.io/gu7v4 More in this thread by @hcp4715.bsky.social 👇 #AcademicSky #PsychSky

📚 Resources - a new section on our website reproducibilitea.org/resources This section includes resources published by ReproducibiliTea journal clubs: 📽️ video recordings of past events 📊 presentations 📄 reading lists ✍️ blogs

See the latest version here! datavizs25.classes.andrewheiss.com

Happy to contribute an article on #LanguageEvolution to the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science @oecs-bot.bsky.social Everything you ever wanted to know about language evolution in ~1K words—well just scratching the surface 😉 dig into the references for more info oecs.mit.edu/pub/18miikqb...

A month ago, I shared a draft of the teaching resources list for cog psych (& related) courses. Now that the fall semester is only 4 wks away 😱, I thought I'd ask you to share your favorite books, videos, demos, syllabi, etc., to make this list more complete & more useful for interested folks.

A JASP short course at the World Statistics Congress in The Hague. Deadline for registration: August 1st. Hope to see you there! jasp-stats.org/2025/07/16/j...

Happy birthday Brenda Milner! 🧠🎉 Today is her 107th birthday, she's a legend, a superhero.

Obituary for John Flavell, who passed away this spring. He was a wonderful guy. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Calling all university administrators! We're looking for a Teaching & Learning Coordinator to work at the new @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk 💻Lead teaching & course operations 👩🏽Manage a team ⚙️Help shape academic policies & processes Apply by 9 July 2025 www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/about-us/vac...

Can you believe that WMS2025 (July 8-11) is less than a week away? If you are interested in Working Memory Research, WMS2025 is THE BEST online conference with THE AWESOMEST community of researchers across the globe! So DON'T FORGET TO CHECK IT OUT! www.wmsymposium.org/home

Call for speakers for what looks like a very fun, FREE, online conference "Data, Behind the Scenes"! 👇 Tentatively planned for Wednesday, 2025-09-24. Reach out to @randyau.com if you need more info! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Fantastic BACN conference in beautiful Edinburgh 11-12 Sept- check out the excellent schedule of talks

Earlier, I posted a 🧵 about the articles that students liked in my graduate course on executive function (EF)👇. In this new 🧵 (the last one based on this class, I promise!), I thought I'd share some of the thoughts I had while teaching this course. If you’re interested in EF, read on. (1/12)

Thanks for all your interest in sharing cognitive psych teaching! There're 3 ongoing 🧵's now: 1️⃣ syllabus & general tips 👉 tinyurl.com/ktbrk7mm 2️⃣ useful videos 👉 tinyurl.com/z43hecdz 3️⃣ demos 👉 tinyurl.com/5n7pkp38 Check out these 🧵's & pls share your favorite resources! I'll share a complied list.

Here's the link to @mattcrumplab.bsky.social's amazing website for his introductory cognitive psychology class, which includes virtually everything, including the free textbook he's written: "Instances of Cognition." Check it out!

I am recruiting a postgraduate research assistant to work in the Cambridge Memory Lab, administering cognitive tasks and helping with lab administration. Would suit someone who's just finished their degree and wants to gain research experience before further study. Please apply!

Very sorry to learn of the passing of LouAnn Gerken, who had such an impact on our understanding of the acquisition of speech sounds and sound patterns obits.mlive.com/us/obituarie...

✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/

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...

I've recently learned about some handy {tidyverse} functions I didn't know about, so I thought I'd compile them (and some other favourites of mine) into a blog post. Let me know your favourite functions! #rstats benharrap.com/post/2025-05...

Interested in improving researcher's access to social media data? Kate Dommett and myself are hiring for a Research Fellow (1 year; based at Sheffield) for an exciting new project to be announced soon: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

How did I miss this great blog post (and Bluesky post) from @bharrap.bsky.social? As you might expect, I would have lots to say about variable naming conventions. 😄 My favorite line from the blog post: What makes a bad naming convention? #1 Not using a convention 😉 benharrap.com/post/2025-03...

My @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Fully funded for 2 years starting 01 October 2025. Application deadline is 01 June 2025. 👉🏻 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMX778/p... #fNIRS #hyperscanning #neuroskyence #DevSci #DevPsy #PsychSciSky #CogSci

What can you do to help get team buy-in around data management? ✔️ Talk about it in meetings! Share past mistakes, consequences, and what was learned ✔️ Learn together! Start a book club and discuss how the content can be applied ✔️ Build resources together! Get team input on manuals, SOPs, etc.

Registration for #CogSci2025 IS OPEN and you'll get the BEST RATE if you register before June 2! cognitivesciencesociety.org/registration/ If attending poses financial challenges, we're still offering financial hardship waiver and support for your additional family care costs! Apply by May 30!

Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑‍🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.

If you are wondering what types of checks you can do to "avoid errors in data before processing", check out #16 (Data Validation) in this section of DMLSER! datamgmtinedresearch.com/clean#clean-...

A new PSPI report shows that children learn arithmetic most effectively when instruction combines conceptual understanding and timed practice. #Teaching #Learning @nicolemmcneil.bsky.social, @numcog.bsky.social Read more: www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2025-ap...

If you study numerical cognition/math education or teach math to children, check out the latest issue of "Psychological Science in the Public Interest," written by @nicolemmcneil.bsky.social, @numcog.bsky.social, & colleagues. This piece offers useful evidence-based teaching/policy recommendations.

After an increased diversity of applicants, universities and award holders, @britishacademy.bsky.social has extended the innovative partial randomisation trial for BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/partial... @annavignoles.bsky.social

Academia is cool because if you're doing it right, every paper you published in the last 3 years feels inadequate now that you understand the topic better, but it'll take 3 years to get out the version where you get it more right, and you get to do that until one day you die! Isn't that cool

My sabbatical leave allowed me to reflect on my professional life. As I’ve stepped into more senior roles in academia (plus gotten a bit older), I often get asked: 
“How do you keep writing academic articles, policy work, opinion pieces, while juggling everything else?” My answer: skillpower 🧵