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ESRC funded PhD in Psychology @ Uni of York ⭐ researching the manosphere📱
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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 :)
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Looking for schools in the Yorkshire area to take part in my research! From next year, it will be compulsory for schools to teach about online misogyny! 📱
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SUNRAY
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Does your school want to be ahead of the game in trialling a new intervention lesson for online misogyny?
@ellenrlavender.bsky.social
is looking for Year 7 classes in/around York to participate in an "Understanding Sexism" lesson in the new year. Find out more at
sunray.york.ac.uk/research-opp...
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Emma Tecwyn
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What an incredible woman and life well lived ❤️ A childhood inspiration and role model for so many of us who have gone on to study animal minds & behaviour 🐵🦍🦧
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TEP Emma
4 months ago
Searching for participants! If you could please share with your schools I’d be very grateful!
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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 :)
4 months ago
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Getting ready for data collection at the end of September has me revisiting my revision days! Catch me delivering a manosphere intervention in schools 📱👩🏫
4 months ago
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Lucy Stafford
7 months ago
Trying to wrap these up before September- so close now! 😮💨Looking for people based in York to take part in an interoceptive lab experiment and/or an MEG experiment. Reimbursement for both. See details:
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...
@cejpreston.bsky.social
@alexandrapike.bsky.social
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Lucy Stafford - Take part in my research
⬇️Scroll down for links to the BODY experiment and the online surveys.⬇️
https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/lucy-stafford/take-part-in-my-research
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Emma James
6 months ago
📣 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...
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Jobs - The University of York
https://jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/research-trainee-590936.html
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Ola Demkowicz
6 months ago
New report on understanding the drivers of declining youth mental health To effectively respond to worsening mental health, we need to understand not just what is happening, but *why* We used an evidence-based approach to unpack common explanations 1/🧵
youthfuturesfoundation.org/publication/...
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Understanding drivers of recent trends in young people’s mental health - Youth Futures Foundation
Research report exploring the reasons for the recent decline in mental health among 14 to 24-year-olds in England
https://youthfuturesfoundation.org/publication/report-understanding-drivers-of-recent-trends-in-young-peoples-mental-health/
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Jess Deighton
6 months ago
Very important report out today from the Youth Futures Foundation exploring factors accounting for escalating mental health problems in young people. Lead by fantastic colleagues from the University of Manchester (
@olademk.bsky.social
et al). Report here:
youthfuturesfoundation.org/what-we-do/f...
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Understanding young people’s declining mental health - Youth Futures Foundation
Exploring drivers of worsening mental health among 14-24 year olds through a first-of-its-kind study for England
https://youthfuturesfoundation.org/what-we-do/flagship-programmes/evidence-and-research-on-youth-employment/understanding-young-peoples-declining-mental-health
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Delayed post due to travelling down to Glastonbury straight after, but excited to share that I attended my first conference as a PhD student! I presented a poster of my proposed methodology at the Annual Psychology PGR Conference for the University of York and York St John.
6 months ago
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Veronika Koller
7 months ago
When your team's work - based on six years of research - gets cited but the core message is ignored, because 38 men say it's no big deal 😡
@mantrap.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say
Many who engage are ‘discriminating and value-driven’, with a minority consuming ‘extremely misogynistic content’, study for Ofcom suggests
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/13/study-manosphere-ofcom
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Jess Aiston
7 months ago
"[MGTOW] been described as misogynistic, but Ofcom’s interviewees insisted it was not because it was about choosing to live without women, not hating them." Fun fact: there is rather a lot of woman hating source: I literally wrote a book about this group
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SUNRAY
7 months ago
If you're interested in
@ellenrlavender.bsky.social
's work more broadly, you can sign up to be contacted about future opportunities via the QR code below.
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SUNRAY
7 months ago
Two new research opportunities!
@ellenrlavender.bsky.social
& team have developed a lesson to encourage adolescents to critically engage with sexist social media content. They are looking for (a) teacher feedback via focus groups, & (b) Year 7 classes to trial. See
sunray.york.ac.uk/research-opp...
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SUNRAY - Research Opportunities
Research opportunities York has active research in children’s language and literacy, mathematics, learning and memory, mental health and wellbeing, neurodevelopmental disorders, sleep, social develop...
https://sunray.york.ac.uk/research-opportunities
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Hello! I'm looking for teachers to take part in upcoming research projects for my PhD. If you're a teacher interested in taking part the link is here:
york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
I'd appreciate it if you could share with any teachers you know too who might be interested!
7 months ago
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Georgie - PhD student
9 months ago
Late to the party due to forgetting BlueSky exists but! I'm super proud of this piece and look forward to taking this train of thought further in the future TL;DR of it: BMI should be used with careful and specifc consideration, nuance, and contextual acknowledgement
#BMI
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Body Representation Network – BRNet
10 months ago
New
#ECR
blog posts! 🔥 Georgie Burton
@gburton221.bsky.social
dives into the (in)appropriateness of Body Mass Index (#BMI), exploring its history, its role in discrimination, and whether these measures should even be used. Read her thought-provoking analysis here:
shorturl.at/sPq7y
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Rakoen Maertens
10 months ago
|| New Publication (Nature Communications) Psychological Booster Shots Targeting Memory Increase Long-Term Resistance Against Misinformation
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Press Release
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03...
Key Findings * Inoculation works * Effects dissipate * Booster shots remedy this (1/10)
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Holly Myers👩🏼💻🧠
10 months ago
Hello I am still looking for people to participate in my first PhD project. If you are someone who struggles with disordered eating or supports individuals with disordered eating your help would be much appreciated. Please email me at
[email protected]
for the link to take part 😊
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Open Research at York
10 months ago
A new study by
@yorkpsychology.bsky.social
has shown that 90% of secondary school teachers and 68% of primary teachers strongly feel that schools would benefit from teaching material addressing online misogyny
#Openaccess
paper available in
@plosone.org
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doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299339
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Understanding the influence of online misogyny in schools from the perspective of teachers
Young people are increasingly exposed to toxic online misogyny through social media. However, to date, it is not clear how exposure to online misogyny might be influencing the behaviour and experience...
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299339
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