Gareth Gaskell

We have three lectureships available at York Psychology (@yorkpsychology.bsky.social) with a broad remit for research/teaching areas. Home and overseas applications are welcome. Deadline for applications is early April - enquiries welcome. Come and join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling.

The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My first first-author paper has just been published @JCgntn: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... - check it out below if you’re interested in prediction and/or word-meaning priming! ⬇️ Big thanks to my amazing co-authors/supervisors @mggaskell.bsky.social, @sacairney.bsky.social, @matthewmakpsy.bsky.social

Three! THREE!

This year @beckcrowley.bsky.social will represent the lab at #CNS2026. Don't miss her poster about adolescent sleep and learning on Sunday! If you're not going, read all about it below: www.cogneurosociety.org/poster/?id=6... @mggaskell.bsky.social @alice-gregory.bsky.social @cnsmtg.bsky.social

😴 Sleep stabilises old memories and supports new learning. Are these benefits of sleep causally linked, driven by a common underlying mechanism, or largely independent? Our new paper digs into this important question! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Killing 'delve': We analysed 4,800+ student-authored reports across a decade to uncover how ChatGPT is shaping undergrad writing—style, sentiment, and quality. 📉📈 GenAI isn't just a tool. It's a co-author. 📝 #Preprint: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Excited to present our new work reading minds! Ok, not *that* kind of mind reading, but we have created a deep learning method capable of using single neuron recordings from people watching episodes of TV that can predict when they recall specific memories from the episode. 1/6

🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

One last shout for these jobs - still plenty of time to apply!

We have two permanent lectureships currently available at York - home and overseas applicants are welcome! Please share: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

What happens when a whole city commits to giving every child a better start to life? 🚀 Early Talk for York is transforming early years education—boosting speech & language skills, tackling inequality Full article by CarolineVollans in NurseryWorld - www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/feat...

After you fall asleep in the sleep lab, we can decide what you dream about — as Karen Konkoly showed in her PhD work and just published in this new paper: “Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences” authors.elsevier.com/c/1lWFU6TBG5...

We have two permanent lectureships currently available at York - home and overseas applicants are welcome! Please share: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Excited to share our newly published paper! 👇 Massive thanks to @harrington-mo.bsky.social @sacairney.bsky.social @mggaskell.bsky.social

📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Glad to be joining @bsky.app. Follow me to read about research we are doing in #reading #dyslexia #learning and #language

New post for an SLT/SLP Research Associate/Assistant to work on an @edldproject.bsky.social project to validate a screening tool to identify #DevLangDis in adults! Please RT widely! @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @emilymayjackson.bsky.social @profnikkibotting.bsky.social www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

A typically brilliant talk from @jennirodd.bsky.social for her @exppsychsoc.bsky.social Mid-career Award

Hello world! 👋 We are the School & University Network for Research Across Yorkshire. We provide opportunities for schools and researchers to work together on understanding child development. Please do say hello, and find out more about joining the network here sunray.york.ac.uk

Inaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF

Congratulations Matthew, this is a lovely study! @yorkpsychology.bsky.social

Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

Very happy to share our new preprint revealing no evidence for a targeted memory reactivation (TMR) effect on word-meaning priming (1/8): osf.io/preprints/ps...

For social psychologists looking for a more permanent home in the UK, Oxford Experimental Psychology Department @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Should the Medical Research Council end sustained funding for its internationally renowned scientific units? 600 scientists don't think so.The UK needs sustained investment in basic science and challenge-led investments. #Neuroskyence @mrccbu.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nobelis...

Eleanor Maguire, who died 4 January at age 54, pioneered the famous London taxi-driver study and naturalistic approaches for studying spatial and episodic memory in people. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/memory/remem...

Why do we suffer from more intrusive thoughts when we're sleep deprived? Find out in this SciAm article on our latest work by @rachelnuwer.bsky.social, featuring @zarabergstrom.bsky.social and @marwimber.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-...

Excellent news for our students (and staff!)

It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly. www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire

❗2-year postdoc at the University of York❗ I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC-funded project “The many faces of prejudice: the “what”, the “why”, and the “how” of inferences we make from membership in social groups”. To learn more and apply (by Jan 13): jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese... #psychjobs

Test-retest paper out! This one has been some time in the works (thanks to other co-authors for bearing with me as I moved institutions and then went on maternity leave). With @olijrobinson.bsky.social, Katrina Tan, Hoda Tromblee and Michelle Wing. doi.org/10.5334/cpsy...

Signed! Could not imagine a better place to do a PhD than the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

The MRC research units provide unique opportunities to advance our understanding. My postdoc at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit was foundational to my career. Please consider signing this letter!

MRC Units across the UK have led the scientific world for generations, but are due to be closed with little consultation, for reasons that are largely unknown. Please sign this letter if you would like the MRC to reconsider. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Hello BlueSky. This is a new account for QJEP to share research and new papers in experimental psychology. Looking forward to finding more people to follow - do share starter packs

⚠️ New preprint ! « Social determinants of cognitive aging trajectories across 39 countries » Some people in their 80s have cognitive abilities similar to many 30-year-olds, others are severely diminished. 
How comes?
 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... A short 🧵👇 1/7

I am currently trying to put together a symposium for WorldSleep on Open Science Practices in Sleep and Dream Research. If any of you are doing any (e.g., Many Labs, Citizen Science, Multiverse, etc.) in your research, please reach out or share and forward! #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social

We've been awarded two ERC Consolidator Grants for projects on sleep and online misogyny. Congrats to PIs @sacairney.bsky.social and Harriet Over! www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

York researchers test impact of school smartphone ban in new Channel 4 documentary www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

It's wonderful to see funders investing heavily in such exciting/important research. Congratulations Scott - one of two winners in this round from @yorkpsychology.bsky.social, alongside the equally brilliant Harriet Over.

ESCoP @escop.bsky.social Executive Committee Seeks the Next Editor of the Journal of Cognition @jcgntn.bsky.social - Deadline for expressions of interest 31 December 2024 - Start date: 1 January 2026 - Contact Editor-in-Chief @candicemorey.bsky.social for more info and (self)nominations

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