Lynda Boothroyd

New longitudinal paper on body perception in children in rural Nicaragua! 📈 Children got better at sorting bodies by size with age. 📉 Girls who watched more TV had more accurate awareness of their own body size *and* wanted a thinner body when they grew up. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Wow, waking up to good news - thanks Brazil! Let's not waste the fact we will be getting continued protection of the Earth's lungs (the Amazon) for another 4 years though. Plenty to do at our end as well as theirs. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

My Little Pony Movie, 1985, Oakham. It was basically early life indoctrination into the environmental movement (/complimentary). I was singing the theme tune for weeks.

Just home from watching The Uprising and it is one of the best films I've ever seen. Even with the slightly odd epilogue. Major kudos to Paul Greengrass for recognising that the Peasants Revolt is a gripping story when told moreorless as it happened. And for a v plausible depiction of Richard II.

Again I find myself asking what regular users of LLMs and other gAI think their convenience is worth, in terms of the cost to orhers' lives...

BBS Target article accepted... !!!

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Psychologist: I had a baby and it turns out that my abstract models for division of labour and infant sleep both had a really poor fit to more ecologically valid data...

I mean, the answer is yes, obviously. We must educate and create knowledge *and* regenerate our communities. For less than cost price... 🤷‍♀️ #UKHE

Baffled that American Psychiatric Association is too scared to have slides saying “choose your leaders with wisdom & forethought”. Or is it just because it's a Butler quote? (I mean, I assume its cos its a Butler quote.) Anyway, read the thread. It is 😬😬😬.

Friends don't let friends use the AQ...

I am pleased to announce the launch of our new diamond open access journal Psychology Across Development (accepting submissions starting today!). We are a lifespan developmental journal. (1/3) escholarship.org/uc/psycdev

I have rarely been more happy than the day I was making a dress pattern and had to dig out my scientific calculator so I could calculate some angles of wedges and circumferences of curves. I lived GCSE and A Level maths but that's the only time I used the geometry components in real life.

Having had Facebook remove a video of me awkwardly playing Beethoven's Pathetique with my son balanced on my lap because it was apparently so good a performance it triggered automated copyright for a professional recording... 🙄 I do not get how copyright processes have such a poor hit/miss rate...

We have a fully functional website! Love body image research? Want to find other body image researchers from diverse disciplines all around the world? Want to get first news about the next PIBI conference? Here we are! www.perspectivesinbodyimage.com #PsychSciSky #BodyImage #EatingDisorders

Daily Tism on brutal form today... 😬😆

My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.

Deep male voices are perceived as more attractive and formidable, but does this hold up when a listener can actually see who's speaking? A new paper from #RSOS tested this: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @drboothroyd.bsky.social @jrut.bsky.social

This was also my take on the Vanderbilt State of Anthropology report. A mostly historical set of internecine wars, the bad handling of the Chagnon allegations, and a shift in balance across a subset of departments. Not quite what the umbrella report claimed to be epistemological rot.

Attempted to rescue the situation in Scotland at least. 😬😆 But thanks DM for spreading the completely wrong idea about the work. *slow hand clap*

Perfectly put. (The whole thread’s very good.)

Dear Daily Mail, No. No that's not what we found. Stop it.

Is everyone else getting human verification screens when they just open a normal journal article url? Not downloading the pdf, just clicking to the article from a TOC email say? I feel like this is new this year, and probably reflects what @carlbergstrom.com is talking about here.

Really, where else in the world would I get academic discussion and nerd discussion in such perfect harmony as here? (In this case: LLMs are the One Ring ... and it's a better analogy than chatbot lovers realise...)

Why, why, whyyyyy would anyone ever upload their original thinking to an online LLM chatbot if they don't want it to be used by that company? Sure, you toggle learning off. I don’t believe them when they say that's really not being stored.

Being PI of a 6-country intervention development/evaluation project is mainly a *lot* of admin and meetings and decisions. So, 8 days of training and piloting in Kenya has been a delight. Amazing local team, wonderful kids. A ray of sunshine to be doing actual research. #BIRES #IAmWhoIAm

Our research assistant John took a video when we had tea after a session in school this week, and captured me explaining British seasons to some very baffled Kenyans... ❄️🥶 🇰🇪

This 9/11 season, consider figuring out how many people who had not the slightest connection were killed in its memory

The certainty of a steady (or fast) slide into bankruptcy... Great. Thanks Jacqui. #UKHE

Yep. Also, like, if we look at the history of non violent civil disobedience it doesn’t look like this. It’s one thing to offer some leniency to NVCD and have appropriately escalating handling for escalatingly goonish behavior.