We're almost a week away from ‘Playful Pedagogies: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Constructing Meaning’! 🧩 If you are a practitioner, researcher or student who is interested in finding out more about play-based pedagogies, join us at the Department of Education (@education.ox.ac.uk) on 25/03/2026!

📣 Delighted that our article reporting the findings of a pilot study investigating the effectiveness of a novel oral language intervention conducted through the medium of #drama, has now been published #openaccess at First Language: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @oxforddeptofed.bsky.social 🥳

🚨🚨 Out TODAY in Psych Bulletin!! 🚨🚨 After 5 long years, the NSF meta-analysis I led on children's gender stereotypes about STEM and verbal abilities just came out today in Psych Bulletin!! In the words of great cultural critic Stefon, it has everything... doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

Informative & thoughtful thread about international students' proficiency, university requirements, and academic attainment 👇🏼

Excited to share a new paper offering guidance for demographic reporting for authors, editors, and reviewers in developmental research. An enjoyable collaboration with the MB Demographics group! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

We have just launched two online, part time Postgraduate Diplomas at Oxford. One in English as an Additional language and the other in Early Childhood Education. Perfect for in service teachers wishing to gain formal qualifications in these areas. EAL: bit.ly/3Y5FceH ECE: bit.ly/4emVV35 #EduSky

So happy to be speaking to @hwc001.bsky.social about our little drama-based oral language intervention pilot! To find out if using drama activities can help develop primary-school children's oral language, have a listen to the new episode of the Oxford Education Deanery Podcast! 🎧🎭🤓

GOOD MORNING BLUESKY! Very excited about this new paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300671120 Key Q: what predicts how much young kids (👶)talk? How much 🗣 kids heard predicted how much 👶talked, but other factors, e.g. mom’s education, didn’t. #PsychSci #DevPsy 🗣💬 INCOMING SUMMARY🧵ALERT 1/14

Really useful blog about picking colours for data visualisation blog.datawrapper.de/beautifulcol... #dataviz

I made a coloring sheet for some reading week de-stressing for my #Linguistics / composition students

📢 Our paper (w/ the brilliant Hamish Chalmers & Victoria Murphy) reporting on a Priority Setting Partnership in which users of EAL research (teachers, support staff, parents) were asked to decide the Top 10 priorities for future research on EAL, is 🔓 & out now! Have a read & tell us your thoughts!👇🏼

I totally agree! And to add to that, learning science tells us that reducing stress, anxiety, and alienation is critical for learning. So anyone teaching in a way that heightens those negative emotions in students is not practicing learning science.

Censorship does happen in science. It's just not happening to the people who think they are being censored.

Chuffed to have co-presented our paper on the #Lex15, a new test for assessing productive #vocabulary in young (multilingual) children, at #LTF2023 organised by UKALTA at the British Council this morning! Impressed by all the interesting talks, the supportive crowd & thought-provoking discussions! 🤗

Structural priming = facilitation of sentence structure by recent exposure to that structure. Production & comprehension are hard to compare, as data types different: choices vs. RTs. We therefore used the MAZE task to gather both types of data in both modalities: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZFZXZ...

"The perception of rhythm in language" by Anne Cutler. It's short but you won't forget it :) Here's a blog post explaining why it's great. It contains a link to the paper. www.kith.org/words/2022/0...

New #linguistics paper out with Annie Holtz in Infant & Child Development: “Examining the female-talker default in experimental language acquisition research”! In this paper, we examine the practice of using women’s voices in stimuli designed to test children’s language abilities

The linguistic elephant in scientific publishing: http://osf.io/5zxaf/

Are you going to the #NALDIC31 conference? If so, catch the brilliant Dr Sophie Liggins presenting our poster on 'Developing Oral Language through Drama', to find out about the project we just completed! We look forward to your comments & questions! 🤗

Hello, I have some new science! @emilymyers.bsky.social, Cristal Giorio, and @uconnlablab.bsky.social and I asked whether people expend more effort when listening to clear or casual speech by measuring the size of their pupils. A brief 🧵. Read the full paper here: journals.lww.com/ear-hearing/...