We’re hiring a CORE and Stone Centre Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Economics Education and Inequality. More details and how to apply: tinyco.re/3618199

Staff and students of the Lab of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge ca1975. They are arranged in the forecourt of the Physiology Lab next door.

Following on from my comments about Alice Heim, here is a photo of the Cambridge Dept of Exp Psych from mid 1970s. The front row has the three people who changed my way thinking the most, including her.
They were Alice Heim (extreme left); Oliver Zangwill (centre); Paul Whittle (3rd from right).
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Good choice Sophie, lying in wait for the neighbourhood cat and the fox who stole your harness 😜

ADR UK Academic Lead 2026 to 2031: Better Economic Data (HMRC/DWP) Apply for funding to become an Academic Lead working in partnership with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), to deliver better economic data.

Social scientists📣 ESRC has funding for an academic team to work with the Department for Work and Pensions & HMRC to support two new linked economics datasets, as well as related public engagement activities.⏰ Closes 21 May 2026. Find out more➡️

Everyone should hear this: it is ALWAYS a privilege and a treat for professors to hear from former students and trainees. I love to hear what you have been up to since you were in my lab, class, whatever.

Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research.

Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required

Download our database of retrieval practice research in real classrooms Want a quick way to access classroom research on retrieval practice? Download our database of 50 experiments and read a detailed literature review by cognitive scientists.

Familiar with retrieval practice research? Your sources might be older than your students. A LOT of new research has shown that retrieval practice consistently benefits student learning in real classrooms. Check out this database of 50 research studies!

We're hiring! 4 New Job opportunities in Academia within the School of Psychology - scroll through to see the positions. Application deadlines mid April, learn more at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/

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Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher cognitive development

Job ad: Postdoc to work with me & @rogierk.bsky.social at the Donders on lifespan development questions from Sept onward!

Profile: independent, good quant skills, interested in theory-driven work

Please share widely

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#Postdoc #AcademicJobs

RDM Weekly - Issue 038 A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

Issue 38 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬

Includes:
➡️ Data Stewardship Handbook @elixir-europe.org
➡️ From CSV to Database with Python @brandonrohrer.com
➡️ Practicing Open Science with Qualitative Research in Education @drrachel.bsky.social @cnsyoung.com
and more!

rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Chapter 14 Data Cleaning | Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research Figure 14.1: Data cleaning in the research project life cycle. Even with the most well-designed data collection and capture efforts, data still require at least some additional processing before...

Data cleaning is often a personalized process — every dataset requires different wrangling steps. Yet, you can still use a list of common cleaning steps to guide your process and ensure those unique data sets are all wrangled consistently.

datamgmtinedresearch.com/clean

Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them. Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically different from what it does to a 14-year-old's.

"Developers who fully delegated to AI produced working code but failed conceptual quizzes afterward. They couldn't debug what the AI had written for them. They had the output without the understanding."

Funded PhD: Bringing high-density fNIRS into developmental science: The neural correlates of early executive functions and the mediating role of parent-child interaction at University of Bristol on Fi... PhD Project - Funded PhD: Bringing high-density fNIRS into developmental science: The neural correlates of early executive functions and the mediating role of parent-child interaction at University of...

Fully funded PhD supervised by me and Naomi Sweller: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

UK teenagers to trial social media bans and digital curfews The government will interview the young people and their parents before and after they try the limits to assess their impact.

Hiring! 🙌 Communications and Operations Coordinator to help share mu team's research and support a fast-moving, high-impact group.
Major rebrand ahead + real chance to build things from scratch in an area where there is high media interest ⬇️.
Closes 14 April. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/communi...

Teach neuroscience to undergraduates? Check out our "Implementing Open Neuroscience Teaching Tools" workshop!

Join us on July 19 at North Central College to get hands-on practice with inquiry-based activities using real #OpenScience resources.

🔗 https://bit.ly/46A5j15

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I've been coming across so many great open science initiatives in other fields that I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the efforts happening in the Education Sciences.
New blog post! 💡

cghlewis.com/blog/ed_open...

the process of writing People often refer to writing as thinking without necessarily knowing where and how this idea developed. It is in part from Linda Flower and John Hayes who published a paper in 1981 offering a…

Where does the idea of writing as thinking come from and what’s it actually mean … patthomson.net/2026/03/22/t...

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Yes!!

Wow - what a great plate! 🍽️

Get up close with brain cells with the MICrONS Explorer: https://lnkd.in/g2Pj-TKH

This #OpenScience data portal allows you to explore real connectivity and functional imaging data from the mouse visual cortex.

#BrainAwarenessWeek | @danafoundation.bsky.social

A 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 take on the cognitive sciences (with Richard Prather)

New ep! 🚨

We chat with Dr. Richard Prather (pratherlab.bsky.social) about his path into cognitive science, numerical development, & computational modeling—plus a deep dive into why the field needs a more 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 approach & what that actually means for researchers today.

itsinnate.fireside.fm/35

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels:

www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a...

Deadline: May 4th, 2026

Home This virtual workshop teaches students basic principles of computer programming for psychology and neuroscience. Specific emphasis is given on the skills needed to analyze data from cognitive tasks us...

Want to learn R? 📊 Join our NSF-funded "R Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience Workshop"! This virtual workshop is completely free and teaches junior scientists the basics of coding for data analysis.

Apply by May 15th!
rworkshop.missouri.edu

#RStats #Psychology #Neuroscience

Nice!! 🌺

Purple hellebores

Golden hellebores

Multicoloured hellebores

Various hellebores

Letting nature remind me that spring is beautiful. Hellebores. #BloomScrolling

Happy happy birthday! 🎂

Really lovely photo composition Diane! 📸

The Bennett School’s new MPhil in Digital Policy prepares early-career professionals to lead on AI & digital governance. The programme includes interdisciplinary study across economics, law, computer science & politics.
Apply now to start in Oct 2026: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-...

Tutorial - R for Beginners YouTube video by Emily Towner

Reminder about a couple of free online R tutorials for beginners by Dr @emilyanntowner.bsky.social

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=boJs...