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Centre for Brain and Behaviour, QMUL @queenmarycbb.bsky.social · 9d

Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!

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Tim Smith @timjsmith.bsky.social · Mar 17

Really happy to see Claire Essex’s brilliant work on the immediate cognitive effects of kid’s TV published after a long journey during her PhD. Watch this space for her continued work on this in our @ukri.org funded #animatingminds project 🧠🎞️👶

Teea Gliga @teeagliga.bsky.social · Mar 17

Children media is rich in fantasy, including violations of physical laws. Claire Essex @timjsmith.bsky.social @rachaelbedford.bsky.social show that a high frequency and diversity of these events may initially tax children's attention control.

Toddlers Viewing Fantastical Cartoons: Evidence of an Immediate Reduction in Endogenous Control Without an Increase in Stimulus‐Driven Exogenous Control

Empirical studies have shown immediate detrimental effects of TV viewing on children's executive functions (EFs). Existing theories of TV viewing have proposed that such depletion could occur due to ...

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rachaelbedford.bsky.social @rachaelbedford.bsky.social · Jun 12

Team meeting for our Animating Minds project, followed by leaving celebrations for our amazing placement students at the Crystal Maze!

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Cathy Manning @cmanning.bsky.social · Feb 24

Post-doc position available from Sept 2025 for 18 months on a @leverhulme.bsky.social project into children's perceptual decision-making using diffusion models. Closes 10th March. Pls share! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #VisionScience #PsychSciSky

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rachaelbedford.bsky.social @rachaelbedford.bsky.social · Feb 24

Advertising 2 new positions in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. A postdoc & an RA at Queen Mary University of London as part of our UKRI-funded Animating Minds Project. More details and how to apply here:
Postdoc: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX749/p...
RA: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

Postdoctoral Research Associate at Queen Mary University of London

Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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rachaelbedford.bsky.social @rachaelbedford.bsky.social · Feb 13

Fully funded PhD at Queen Mary University of London ‘Children’s Media and the Neurodivergent Mind’. More details and how to apply here:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Children’s Media and the Neurodivergent Mind at Queen Mary University of London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Children’s Media and the Neurodivergent Mind at Queen Mary University of London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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rachaelbedford.bsky.social @rachaelbedford.bsky.social · Jan 15

3 new positions - postdoc & RAs - based at UAL, as part of our new Animating Minds project. See links to apply in the thread:

Tim Smith @timjsmith.bsky.social · Jan 10

3 Research positions available in our UKRI Animating Minds 📺🧠🤖🧒project. See links in the thread. We're bring together #children's_media , #DevSci, #CogNeuro #Animation, #creative_computing and #machine_learning experts to develop tools to predict the neurocognitive impact of video clips on children

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Tim Smith @timjsmith.bsky.social · Dec 7

I’m so happy that my first post on Bluesky is about coverage of our toddler bedtime screentime RCT on the wonderful Outside the Screen podcast. outsidethescreen.substack.com/p/toys-at-be.... Open access paper here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Ep 53: Toys at bedtime?

Plus a squeakquel, and device contracts

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Prof Rosa Hoekstra @rosahoekstra.bsky.social · Dec 2

🚨New publication alert:
In this editorial my PhD students and I reflect on our challenges and relative successes in incorporating community involvement in our autism research.
The editorial is openly available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Screenshot of the title of the editorial, published in the journal Autism. The editorial title is: "Community involvement in PhD students’ autism research projects: Challenges and opportunities"

Paragraph setting out the main challenges relating to community involvement in PhD student projects, as follows:

Community involvement is not without challenge and difficulties are commonly reported in recruiting representatives, building meaningful connections, maintaining engagement, funding community partners and implementing their recommendations. These challenges can be more pronounced in PhD student projects. The primary focus of a PhD is to independently complete a specific, often narrowly defined research project that contributes new knowledge to the field, within a specific timeframe and often with limited research funding. The independence requirement of PhD work may seem at odds with the requirements of active collaboration with community members, making it hard to strike a balance between leading the project and allowing collaborators to feel ownership of it. The limited timeline, of just three full-time years in some countries, can make it difficult for PhD students to ensure meaningful community engagement and to follow community advisors’ suggestions within the narrow scope and timeframe. Without funding, PhD students may also find it difficult to conduct community-engaged research that pays people appropriately for their contributions and time (Pickard et al., 2022). Finally, the early career stage of PhDs means that connections with community experts are often formed during, rather than prior to, the PhD, limiting the scope for early engagement.

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Divyangana Rakesh @divyangana.bsky.social · Dec 3

New paper, and it only took two years 🫠! In this systematic review, we aimed to identify the mediators and moderators in the association of SES with EF, language ability, and academic achievement. Now published as an Annual Research Review in JCPP!

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Associations of socioeconomic status with cognitive function, language ability, and academic achievement in youth: a systematic review of mechanisms and protective factors

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Silvia Seghezzi @silviaseghezzi.bsky.social · Nov 21

@lauracrucianelli.bsky.social At Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences seminar next week!!!!!!! In person (1-2PM) and online (link on request). Don't miss it! @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

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