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 🧠🎞️👶

Great opportunity to join our Animating Minds team and help us study the intersection of #animation, #devsci, #neuroimaging, #AI and #filmtheory

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...

It was fantastic to contribute to the Early years Digital Media Literacy Review by @theparentszone with support from Nuffield Foundation
Find out more about the project and the recommendations for policy, practice and research:
parentzone.org.uk/article/supp...

Still time to apply for our 3 research positions on the new Animating Minds project.

Deadline this Friday (24th January).

#AI, #ML, #DevSci, #screentime, #animation, #Cogsci

David Lynch challenged everything I thought I knew about cinema. The juxtaposition of beauty/horror, mundane/surreal, profound/silly is an increasingly brilliant representation of life as I get older. “The sky is sure full of stars tonight.” 📽️💔 youtu.be/aCzAetSFRC8?...

Part-time Research Assistant on the Animating Minds project based at the Creative Computing Institute, UAL. Deadline 24th January.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ428/r...

Part-time Developmental Science/Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow the Animating Minds project based at the Creative Computing Institute, UAL. Deadline 24th January.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ455/p...

Part-time Machine Learning Research Fellow on the Animating Minds project based at the Creative Computing Institute, UAL. Deadline 24th January.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ467/p...

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

We are hiring a specialist research technician to run our new Nerve Lab, a unique facility combining the latest #neuroimaging/ #psychological #research_methods with #immersive #audiovisual #generativeAI technology. Apply by 3rd Feb or DM questions. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI173/n...

Here is a direct link to the open-access article as part of the new Handbook of Children & Screens link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

XR (#VR/AR/immersive tech) hold great promise for studying naturalistic #childdevelopment but what are the potential risks? In our new open-access article we review the latest #XR developmental research and a roadmap for future studies.

lnkd.in/e4Jum7_r

#childdevelopment #VR #XR #screentime

Do you research 🎬+🧠/🤔/🤖?

Come present your work at the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image 2025 Conference in beautiful Edmonton, Canada (June 4-7)🌍✨.

Abstract deadline: Dec 13, 2024. 📆🖋️

tinyurl.com/u5nhabfc

#SCSMI2025

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...