The first daffodils of the year already blooming on the stunning @royalholloway.bsky.social campus, Spring is coming!

Lovely to see the delicate, intricate white camellias blooming on @royalholloway.bsky.social campus

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Asking big questions about the use of AI in asylum claims

Professor @aminamemon.bsky.social and Dr Zoe Given-Wilson from @rhulpsychology.bsky.social are investigating the ethical and practical implications of digital tools in the asylum process.

Read more: ow.ly/N1hi50XtBMq

We have four teaching-focused positions available, with a start date of early January. Please share widely and tag anyone who may be interested!

Teaching associates: Two permanent posts at 0.8 FTE

Postdoctoral teaching associates: Two full-time posts, one permanent, one for 12 months

Sunshine with autumn colours as another academic year begins. Nice to hear the excited chatter of our new students as they take in the surroundings @royalholloway.bsky.social

The Bees 🐝 and #CabbageWhites 🦋are loving the #Lavender at Ham House #NationalTrust
@nationaltrust.bsky.social

@rhulpsychology.bsky.social Results day! -Congratulations 🎉 to our finalists! Do keep in touch and join our Psychology Alumni Community @royalholloway.bsky.social and RHUL Psychology alumni LinkedIn group. All the best for the future.
🎓 Hope to see many of you at graduation later this month!

Special to be in Finland for midsummer solstice and yes I have had a dip, several actually!

SARMAC 2025 🇮🇪 ticked all the boxes -excellent talks, inspiring discussions, numerous student-ECR focused workshops and talent, stunning venue, fun socials & such warm hospitality, Thanks a million @gillian-murphy.bsky.social AND ‪@ciaragreene.bsky.social‬ #SARMAC2025 @officialsarmac.bsky.social

“Around the world…sexual violence is rarely prosecuted “ - in her important keynote Prof Heather Flowe explores the factors underpinning injustice, advocating for a gender lens approach and high quality investigative interviewing @officialsarmac.bsky.social #sarmac2025 @sarmac2025.bsky.social

Eyewitness Lineup Identity (ELI) database Hosted on the Open Science Framework

For anyone interested in conducting lineup identification research, check out this valuable database of research materials generously shared by #SARMAC2025 presenter Ryan Fitzgerald, Stefana Juncu, @evaribbers.bsky.social and @evarubinova.bsky.social osf.io/vrj3u @sarmac2025.bsky.social

#sarmac2025 Looking forward to Prof Heather Flowe's keynote @officialsarmac.bsky.social

The Teaching About Research in Memory & Cognition #sarmac2025 @officialsarmac.bsky.social was full of good examples of how to get students to engage E-portfolios puzzle boxes, using mobile phone tech learning to learn, to public science communication. Thanks for organising @drrobnash.bsky.social‬

#sarmac2025 Day 3: Great session on how we can enhance diagnostic face description with future applications in eyewitness ID context, nice job Abbie! @officialsarmac.bsky.social

Interesting research by Adele Quiqley-McBride illustrates the availability heuristic, base rate fallacy in latent fingerprint examination-examiners giving rarer features more weight, AND base rate variations across examiners and time @officialsarmac.bsky.social #sarmac2025

@officialsarmac.bsky.social Erin Robbins excellent provocative keynote -Diversifying the science of cognitive psychology.. Asks SARMAC: what has wrong with efforts to diversify and increase representation in psychological science? #sarmac2025

@officialsarmac.bsky.social #sarmac2025 Great to be in Ireland, warm welcome and fab venue hosting circa 450 delegates from across the globe. Lovely to catch up with dear friends and former colleagues and make new connections

@officialsarmac.bsky.social MyDay1 #sarmac2025 from Suymposia on Generation of illusory truth effects in questioning, false beliefs about sleep To perception of sexomania in courtroom To optimising self-regulated learning in University students TO cultural influences on memory reports So impressed!

Expert Witness Workshop about to start #sarmac2025

Calling all education professionals! Register now for our research and practice event - bringing together researchers and practitioners working to improve outcomes for children and young people! 27 June '25 - find out more & sign up now: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

A PhD studentship opportunity (October 25) to look at the use of Visually Recorded Interviews with adult victims of serious sexual crimes. To be supervised by Drs Julie Gawrylowicz & Penny Woolnough at Abertay University, Karen Goodhall and myself are external supervisors
tinyurl.com/TraumaandTech

Another exciting #JARMAC issue coming up, on timely topics @apajournals.bsky.social

Just 8 weeks till we welcome you to Ireland for #SARMAC2025! We can’t wait to kick things off on June 11th with workshops, a keynote from Prof. Richard McNally and a welcome bbq in the (hopefully sunny) grounds of Killashee House ☀️

Always a joy to see the daffodils out on the Royal Holloway University @royalholloway.bsky.social -every which way I look!

Deadline for applying: March 3rd 2025.

Call for the SARMAC Regional Meeting Grant has opened! Deadline for submissions is 30 April. Eligibility and further details on the website // mailchi.mp/185862b002bf...

My final year #psychology students are looking for volunteers to help with their online research #juries
#virtualcourtrooms and #decision-making
-an important part of their degree studies 🎓 if you can help go to: bit.ly/42pXx8V

Looks to be a great programme this year. Among the hands-on workshops we have the first international large scale collaboration Hackathon and a practical workshop offering advice and skills on how to be a good Expert Witness.

Life and death on the Bibby Stockholm: ‘No one wanted to go inside – but we had no choice’ From the moment it was announced that asylum seekers would be accommodated on this hulking, prison-like barge, the scheme was steeped in controversy. As it leaves British waters, here is the inside st...

"As the Bibby Stockholm is moved out of Portland, the asylum seekers who were forced to spend months living there say the scars remain."

The harm caused by such large sites is profound & long-lasting.

People seeking asylum need #CommunitiesNotCamps

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Deepfake porn: why we need to make it a crime to create it, not just share it The invisible threat of deepfake porn now pervades the lives of women and girls

The debate continues on BBC #WomansHour this morning.
I'll be discussing UK Gov't plans to criminalise *creating* sexually explicit deepfakes with @cathynewman.bsky.social
Why do we need this new criminal law? Read more in my comment @theconversation.com theconversation.com/deepfake-por...