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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · Apr 17

Super happy end to the conference as my and @zannaclay.bsky.social 's student Georgia Tuohy wins best talk! And @amandinevisine.bsky.social who works with @sheinalew.bsky.social wins best poster (pic to follow).

@durhamdevsci.bsky.social on a roll! 😆

@durhampsych.bsky.social
#ehbea #ehbea2025

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Mary Hanley @mimhanley.bsky.social · Apr 17

The journey continues....with new research from our group ongoing - and with new developments for Triple-A, such as a focus on PE specifically, and with a whole-school in-person version of the training! Watch this space……

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Mary Hanley @mimhanley.bsky.social · Apr 17

Once again, thank you to all the wonderful children, young people, parents and teachers who took part in the underpinning research, and to our amazing team of autistic people, parents, teachers and academics who co-designed the training tool. @21andsensory.bsky.social

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Mary Hanley @mimhanley.bsky.social · Apr 17

It’s been such an interesting and worthwhile journey so far - with over 8000 users and considerable evidence of positive impact on understanding and practice. Here we share our new pre-print on the development of Triple-A, including analysis of its use and impact so far: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

OSF

doi.org

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Mary Hanley @mimhanley.bsky.social · Apr 17

It has been just over 3 years since we (@debbieriby.bsky.social & I) launched Triple-A (www.tripledurham.co.uk) - a training tool for educators for supporting autistic and neurodivergent pupils with attention, sensory arousal and anxiety.

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Debbie Riby @debbieriby.bsky.social · Apr 17

Pleased to contribute to this

Miranda Prynne @mirandaprynne.bsky.social · Apr 17

We asked academics and university staff around the world to share personal strategies for maintaining #wellbeing and balance in a sector in which #stress and #overwork are commonplace. Hear what they had to say in our latest podcast: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/podca... #academicsky #edusky

THE podcast: how to look after yourself in higher education

Personal insights from a range of higher education voices on how they preserve their own well-being

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · Mar 5

New paper!

V excited to have published my first #cognitive #DevelopmentalPsychology project. 😁

We demonstrated body weight after effects in 7-10yos, 11-12yos, 14-15yos, and adults. Data suggest that just like with faces, visual representations of bodies mature relatively young.

Body size aftereffects are adult-like from 7 years onward

There is considerable evidence that adults’ perception of body weight in others can be manipulated via visual exposure to multiple bodies at one or an…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · Mar 5

The 7-10yo data were collected at @durhamdevsci.bsky.social 's Junior Scientist community event. You'd think a big noisy hall, competing with cool VR studies, would be tough for good data collection but I've never seen an effect quite this clean!

#PsychSciSky

Schematic of the experimental procedure. Participants viewed a range of bodies, followed by a set of very high or low weight bodies, and then rated the original bodies for weight again.

Both children and adults show a clear drop in the heaviness ratings they give stimuli after viewing a series of high weight bodies

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Ben Alderson-Day @aldersonday.bsky.social · Jan 21

Presence on Presence: I watched Soderbergh's new film and wrote a bit for @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

Are you being watched? Soderbergh’s ghost voyeur movie taps strange truths

Presence, the story of a family haunting where the camera’s eye is the spectre’s point of view, draws on what are for many people all too palpable phenomena

www.theguardian.com

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Amy Orben @orbenamy.bsky.social · Jan 15

Great to see work from our team lead by the fantastic @fassiluisa.bsky.social being written up for a general audience by The Mental Elf! Worth a read if you are interested in the evidence base on social media and clinical anxiety/depression in young people ⬇️

The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · Jan 15

Critical lack of evidence about social media use and youth mental health in clinical populations www.nationalelfservice.net?p=209615

#SocialMedia #YouthMentalHealth #Research

Critical lack of evidence about social media use and youth mental health

Impact of social media use on internalising symptoms in adolescents from clinical and community samples.

www.nationalelfservice.net

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · Jan 15

So, I got another piece of good news yesterday too... 😊

EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · Jan 15

We're over the moon to announce this year's EHBEA Services to the Community Award goes to @drboothroyd.bsky.social!!! Many thanks also go to her nominators @sheinalew.bsky.social and @brucerawlings.bsky.social

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Durham Psychology @durhampsych.bsky.social · Jan 15

New article from Debbie Riby, @dramypearson.bsky.social and Jess Hirst from @durhampsych.bsky.social &
@durhamdevsci.bsky.social on how #universitiescan support #neurodivergentresearchers Read it here:
bit.ly/3CdlDcj #academia #highered #neurodiversity

How to support neurodivergent postgraduate researchers

How can universities ensure PhD students of all neurotypes can thrive? Here’s how to provide neurodiversity-affirmative supervision

bit.ly

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · Jan 15

Exciting times! After years of doing research with children and publishing it in topic-specialist outlets, I have finally got my first paper led by me unto a developmental journal!

Big thanks to @durhamdevsci.bsky.social !

Email headers showing a paper decision from Journal of Experimental Child Psychology and then an invitation to track my article's progress in the type setting and publishing process.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · Jan 10

Some big smiles despite the cold as current and previous lab members and Psycholgy Spanish conversation clubbers graduate with their PhDs/MRes.

@durhampsych.bsky.social
@durhamdevsci.bsky.social
@ninedtp.bsky.social

Psychologists represent in the staff procession.
(Ulrik, Liz, Amanda Debbie, me!)

Lucy and Oscar take a day off from their PhDs to graduate with their MRes

Charlie taking a day off from the PhD for the MA graduation.

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Amy Pearson @dramypearson.bsky.social · Jan 6

A lovely roundup of all the wonderful things going on in the @durhamdevsci.bsky.social group at Durham :) Here's to an awesome 2025! 🥳

Developmental Science - Durham Psychology @durhamdevsci.bsky.social · Dec 18

It's the most incredible time of the year: our inaugural roundup of Durham Dev Sci exciting stuff from 2024.

No.1 is @mimhanley.bsky.social winning her BPS Impact & Engagement Award!

Mary won for her work on autism & Williams Syndrome, inc. Triple A which supports neurodiversity in schools 1/n

National award for psychologist’s dedication, research impact and engagement - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Developmental Science - Durham Psychology @durhamdevsci.bsky.social · Dec 18

It's the most incredible time of the year: our inaugural roundup of Durham Dev Sci exciting stuff from 2024.

No.1 is @mimhanley.bsky.social winning her BPS Impact & Engagement Award!

Mary won for her work on autism & Williams Syndrome, inc. Triple A which supports neurodiversity in schools 1/n

National award for psychologist’s dedication, research impact and engagement - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · Dec 18

What amazing colleagues I have in @durhampsych.bsky.social and in the @durhamdevsci.bsky.social group in particular. It's been one hell of a year.

#DevelopmentalPsychology
#Interdisciplinarity
#ParticipatoryAction
#ActuallyAutistic research

Developmental Science - Durham Psychology @durhamdevsci.bsky.social · Dec 18

It's the most incredible time of the year: our inaugural roundup of Durham Dev Sci exciting stuff from 2024.

No.1 is @mimhanley.bsky.social winning her BPS Impact & Engagement Award!

Mary won for her work on autism & Williams Syndrome, inc. Triple A which supports neurodiversity in schools 1/n

National award for psychologist’s dedication, research impact and engagement - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · Dec 18

Check out our critical neurodiversity studies conference call for abstracts and save the date! ndhumanities.com/2024/12/17/c...

Call for Abstracts: Critical Neurodiversity Studies, 24–26 June 2025, Durham, UK – ND Hums

ndhumanities.com

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Developmental Science - Durham Psychology @durhamdevsci.bsky.social · Dec 18

That's us for this year... Now to other important things! 9/9

a man in a green elf costume is screaming in a room .

ALT: a man in a green elf costume is screaming in a room .

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Developmental Science - Durham Psychology @durhamdevsci.bsky.social · Dec 18

And last but not least, congratulations to @drboothroyd.bsky.social & @dr-liz-evans.bsky.social for their huge ERC Advanced Grant on body image in Latin America and Africa 8/9

www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

ERC grant announcement body image - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Developmental Science - Durham Psychology @durhamdevsci.bsky.social · Dec 18

In August @aldersonday.bsky.social got to interview Daniel Tammet at the Edinburgh International Book Festival about his stunning book, Nine Minds: Lives on the Spectrum 7/n

youtu.be/HcJSOxeGzk4?...

Daniel Tammet at the 2024 Edinburgh International Book Festival

YouTube video by Bjartur Sumarhus

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Developmental Science - Durham Psychology @durhamdevsci.bsky.social · Dec 18

No.6 is @dorothycowie.bsky.social who published this long-awaited neuroimaging preprint on motor remapping in children with limb differences 6/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Shaping the developing homunculus: the roles of deprivation and compensatory behaviour in sensory remapping

Some of the most dramatic examples of neuroplasticity in the human brain follow congenital sensory deprivation, though we have limited understanding of the plasticity mechanisms driving such large-sca...

www.biorxiv.org

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Developmental Science - Durham Psychology @durhamdevsci.bsky.social · Dec 18

And we were very excited to be joined by @drmbothapsych.bsky.social whose works spans so many facets of theory and practice when it comes to neurodiversity 5/n

www.durham.ac.uk/staff/moniqu...

Dr Monique Botha - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Developmental Science - Durham Psychology @durhamdevsci.bsky.social · Dec 18

We could have picked multiple crucial papers from @dramypearson.bsky.social this year, covering topics that are often neglected when it comes to autistic wellbeing. This one is no exception: the challenges of burnout for autistic mothers 4/m
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

“It Has Shown Me How Much I Am Capable Of”: An Exploration of Autistic Burnout Experiences in Motherhood | Autism in Adulthood

Background: Research has highlighted a relationship between autistic motherhood and autistic burnout, although autistic mothers’ experiences of autistic burnout have not been explored in depth. Method...

www.liebertpub.com

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Developmental Science - Durham Psychology @durhamdevsci.bsky.social · Dec 18

We are hugely proud of @sheinalew.bsky.social for her award of a Philip Leverhulme prize for her work on cross-cultural diversity in learning 3/n

www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2024PLP

www.leverhulme.ac.uk

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