Gareth Gaskell

Early Talk for York: an accessible and effective programme to support communication - Nursery World An early speech, language and communication programme in York is improving the skills of children in need. Caroline Vollans reports.

What happens when a whole city commits to giving every child a better start to life?

🚀 Early Talk for York is transforming early years education—boosting speech & language skills, tackling inequality

Full article by CarolineVollans in NurseryWorld -

www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/feat...

After you fall asleep in the sleep lab, we can decide what you dream about — as Karen Konkoly showed in her PhD work and just published in this new paper:
“Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences”
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lWFU6TBG5...

***🚨 New Paper 🚨***

Both #sleep and eyes-closed waking rest improve memory. But sleep also increases FALSE recall in some paradigms.

Q: Does eyes-closed rest similarly increase false recall?

A: No.

Free access link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYgb3qNaA...

#sleeppeeps #psychscisky 🧠🟦

We have two permanent lectureships currently available at York - home and overseas applicants are welcome! Please share: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Excited to share our newly published paper! 👇 Massive thanks to @harrington-mo.bsky.social @sacairney.bsky.social @mggaskell.bsky.social

📣 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...

Glad to be joining @bsky.app. Follow me to read about research we are doing in #reading #dyslexia #learning and #language

New post for an SLT/SLP Research Associate/Assistant to work on an @edldproject.bsky.social project to validate a screening tool to identify #DevLangDis in adults! Please RT widely! @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @emilymayjackson.bsky.social @profnikkibotting.bsky.social www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

A typically brilliant talk from @jennirodd.bsky.social for her @exppsychsoc.bsky.social Mid-career Award

Hello world! 👋 We are the School & University Network for Research Across Yorkshire. We provide opportunities for schools and researchers to work together on understanding child development. Please do say hello, and find out more about joining the network here sunray.york.ac.uk

The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language Scientific Data - The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language

Inaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF

Congratulations Matthew, this is a lovely study! @yorkpsychology.bsky.social

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University - Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…

Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

Very happy to share our new preprint revealing no evidence for a targeted memory reactivation (TMR) effect on word-meaning priming (1/8): osf.io/preprints/ps...

For social psychologists looking for a more permanent home in the UK, Oxford Experimental Psychology Department @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Nobelists urge rethink on MRC unit funding changes Nobel laureates back calls to pause new system of Medical Research Council funding which threatens future of well-established research units

Should the Medical Research Council end sustained funding for its internationally renowned scientific units? 600 scientists don't think so.The UK needs sustained investment in basic science and challenge-led investments. #Neuroskyence @mrccbu.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nobelis...

Eleanor Maguire, who died 4 January at age 54, pioneered the famous London taxi-driver study and naturalistic approaches for studying spatial and episodic memory in people.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/memory/remem...

Bad Sleep Lets Intrusive Thoughts Flood In Findings reveal the memory-related brain processes that generate unwanted thoughts when people are sleep deprived

Why do we suffer from more intrusive thoughts when we're sleep deprived? Find out in this SciAm article on our latest work by @rachelnuwer.bsky.social, featuring @zarabergstrom.bsky.social and @marwimber.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-...

Excellent news for our students (and staff!)

Other societies are available 😳

*Probably

Welcome to Bluesky, @exppsychsoc.bsky.social. The best society in the world.*

Eleanor Maguire | 1970 - 2025 | Online-Tribute.com Learning and memory are so fundamental to us, so enmeshed throughout cognition, that ‘solving’ memory, unpacking its neural mechanisms and being able to conceptualise it fully will, I believe, res…

It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly.

www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire

❗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

Test-Retest Reliability of Two Computationally-Characterised Affective Bias Tasks | Computational Psychiatry Computational Psychiatry publishes original research articles and reviews that involve the application, analysis, or invention of theoretical, computational and statistical approaches to mental functi...

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...

Signed! Could not imagine a better place to do a PhD than the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

The MRC research units provide unique opportunities to advance our understanding. My postdoc at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit was foundational to my career. Please consider signing this letter!

Open letter to Sir Patrick Vallance To sign the letter, please complete the form here: https://forms.gle/eRydV6VpMQVFPtdF7 Please forward a link to this letter to any colleagues who you think may be interested in signing – we would li...

MRC Units across the UK have led the scientific world for generations, but are due to be closed with little consultation, for reasons that are largely unknown. Please sign this letter if you would like the MRC to reconsider. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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