@timjsmith.bsky.social
Science Geek, Dad and Professor of Cognitive Data Science at Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London. Posts on Film Cognition, Developmental Psychology, Technology, AI. Views are own.
At the House of Lords with @timjsmith.bsky.social to discuss the need for evidence-based #screentime guidance in the early years with Baroness Joanna Penn. @ukri.org #AnimatingMinds, @nuffieldfoundation.org #BedtimeBoost.
Really happy to see Claire Essex’s brilliant work on the immediate cognitive effects of kid’s TV published after a long journey during her PhD. Watch this space for her continued work on this in our @ukri.org funded #animatingminds project 🧠🎞️👶
Great opportunity to join our Animating Minds team and help us study the intersection of #animation, #devsci, #neuroimaging, #AI and #filmtheory
Fully funded PhD at Queen Mary University of London ‘Children’s Media and the Neurodivergent Mind’. More details and how to apply here:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
It was fantastic to contribute to the Early years Digital Media Literacy Review by @theparentszone with support from Nuffield Foundation
Find out more about the project and the recommendations for policy, practice and research:
parentzone.org.uk/article/supp...
Still time to apply for our 3 research positions on the new Animating Minds project.
Deadline this Friday (24th January).
#AI, #ML, #DevSci, #screentime, #animation, #Cogsci
David Lynch challenged everything I thought I knew about cinema. The juxtaposition of beauty/horror, mundane/surreal, profound/silly is an increasingly brilliant representation of life as I get older. “The sky is sure full of stars tonight.” 📽️💔 youtu.be/aCzAetSFRC8?...
Part-time Research Assistant on the Animating Minds project based at the Creative Computing Institute, UAL. Deadline 24th January.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ428/r...
Part-time Developmental Science/Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow the Animating Minds project based at the Creative Computing Institute, UAL. Deadline 24th January.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ455/p...
Part-time Machine Learning Research Fellow on the Animating Minds project based at the Creative Computing Institute, UAL. Deadline 24th January.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ467/p...
3 Research positions available in our UKRI Animating Minds 📺🧠🤖🧒project. See links in the thread. We're bring together #children's_media , #DevSci, #CogNeuro #Animation, #creative_computing and #machine_learning experts to develop tools to predict the neurocognitive impact of video clips on children
We are hiring a specialist research technician to run our new Nerve Lab, a unique facility combining the latest #neuroimaging/ #psychological #research_methods with #immersive #audiovisual #generativeAI technology. Apply by 3rd Feb or DM questions. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI173/n...
Here is a direct link to the open-access article as part of the new Handbook of Children & Screens link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
XR (#VR/AR/immersive tech) hold great promise for studying naturalistic #childdevelopment but what are the potential risks? In our new open-access article we review the latest #XR developmental research and a roadmap for future studies.
lnkd.in/e4Jum7_r
#childdevelopment #VR #XR #screentime
Do you research 🎬+🧠/🤔/🤖?
Come present your work at the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image 2025 Conference in beautiful Edmonton, Canada (June 4-7)🌍✨.
Abstract deadline: Dec 13, 2024. 📆🖋️
tinyurl.com/u5nhabfc
#SCSMI2025
I’m so happy that my first post on Bluesky is about coverage of our toddler bedtime screentime RCT on the wonderful Outside the Screen podcast. outsidethescreen.substack.com/p/toys-at-be.... Open access paper here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...