Kids learning to use language remind us that meaning is negotiated and not static 😍

PhD - Lancaster University

Fully funded PhD on the "Origins of Infant Word Learning" @lancasteruni.bsky.social

Supervisor team: Jill Lany, Perrine Brusini, @alissaferry.bsky.social, & @gertwestermann.bsky.social

#PsycSci #DevPsyc #PhDSky #AcademicSky 🧪

This has to be one of my favourite reads of all time

Admittedly inherited from family 😉

Perfectly normal. These are pairs of spatulas for completely different purposes. I will out myself as having additionally some only for serving 🙈

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Excited to showcase our 🐒 research at the #scienceiswonderful 2025 science fair organised by the #EuropeanCommission #MSCA.
See you in March in Brussels 😃 with @jmicheletta.bsky.social, @teresa-romero.bsky.social, @francescadp.bsky.social

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Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

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Any questions please don’t hesitate to drop me a dm or email (sophie.milward@port.ac.uk)

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more of this, indeed!!!

A reflection of a figure on the wet sand

And a tidal reflection cuz it was fun

Beach landscape . In the back two figures in front of the water and their reflection on the wet sand

Gotte love beach life. Admittedly even more in the winter.

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I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models.

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This feels so familiar. I am sure we all have very similar examples 🤪

I think we should be collecting these fantastic examples of how reactive, short-sighted universities are... problem is... it's everywhere....

Post-it note on wall saying I am happy today

Gotta love the notes my 6-year-old leaves in my study 🌞

Apparently he has been mastering the art of bubble writing

I think leaving hand-cut home made chips on the plate should count as a deadly sin!

Great news for the end of the week.

What a pleasure to have been an examiner for @gaddasalhab.bsky.social, or Dr. Salhab should I say, PhD Thesis on

Promoting Honesty with Child Witnesses.

Lovely discussion and some great research coming out of this project!!!

This popped up while scrolling…

I felt quite emotional I must say for a number of reasons i cannot outline here.

But mostly i think because I have probably invested a lot of energy arguing for slow research and not the “lighting fast”

Nothing like being a parent and having the flu….🤒 🤧

Partner away, one kid healthy, one kid poorly… one second you can’t move, the next second you are in the car doing a school run…

a very fine line between desperation and superhero

I used olive oil to repair the stuck radiator valve. I think this probably counts as a case of:

“Tell me you are Greek without telling me you are Greek” 😎 🇬🇷

I am a man…

UK HE shrinking This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…

The number of UK universities now actively making redundancies has risen to 85. That number will be will over 100 by spring. I'm afraid this is happening faster, and will be worse, than even I thought. Solidarity and thoughts with and to all affected. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

Leaving Linköping with a head buzzing with ideas, a heart warmed by data sessions, giggles and chats.

An antidote to my frustration with academia.

Thanks to the LIU Child Interaction Group (Olga , Asta ☺️ ) for hosting.

Also @emdoesca.bsky.social @profsalwiggins.bsky.social Hannah Pelikan ❤️

There I was, having completely disengaged from social media and then I just happen to check this account after months and BAM… 😊

🤚 yes please!!

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“I am working on my balanced diet” he (5) said and attacked a sausage roll….

Oh the joy of improvised cooking to use up all the tiny forgotten leftover vegetables in the fridge 🪄🤩😍 one of a kind cuisine… a good use of the word „irreproducible“

Some inspiration for word-mapping experiments from year 1 phonics. (Most probably not my experiments)

I actually hadn’t realised nonwords were actually used in early years education before I had kids…