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Psychology Department, University of York (UK) @yorkpsychology.bsky.social · 6d

Dr David Pitcher and PhD student Emek Kucuk will appear in the BBC Documentary called Secrets of the Brain. Watch on BBC2 on Monday October 6th at 9pm or iPlayer (link below).
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Secrets of the Brain - Series 1: Episode 2

From playing computer games with chimpanzees to studying modern relationships, Jim Al-Khalili investigates how the brain evolved and how it differs from AI.

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Psychology Department, University of York (UK) @yorkpsychology.bsky.social · Jul 7

More acknowledgement of amazing researchers at the Department of Psychology, University of York. Prof. Elizabeth Jeffries is awarded the 2025 British Psychological Society President's Award!

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Psychology Department, University of York (UK) @yorkpsychology.bsky.social · Jul 1

Yet another award to celebrate! Our own Dr Angela De Bruin has been awarded the 2025 Early Career Award from the Psychonomic Society.

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Psychology Department, University of York (UK) @yorkpsychology.bsky.social · Jun 30

Psychology Department's own Prof. Mike Burton awarded the Research Board’s Lifetime Achievement award 2025. Congratulations!

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Psychology Department, University of York (UK) @yorkpsychology.bsky.social · Jun 12

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Psychology Department, University of York (UK) @yorkpsychology.bsky.social · Jun 9

Dr Silvia Gennari, Ramya Balakrishnan and Nicoleta Gavrila from the Psychology Department promoting science and women in science at the 2025 Soapbox Science in York on Parliament Street. This is the fifth year in a row our female researchers have made us proud.

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Psychology Department, University of York (UK) @yorkpsychology.bsky.social · Jun 9

YNiC celebrates its 20th Anniversary

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Psychology Department, University of York (UK) @yorkpsychology.bsky.social · Apr 28

Psychology's own Dr Scott Cairney has been awarded the Senior Translational Research Award by the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) for his academic career to-date in improving understanding of the neurocognitive mechanisms linking sleep to mental health.

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Psychology Department, University of York (UK) @yorkpsychology.bsky.social · Mar 10

A research fellow at the Psychology Department, Dr Sophie Meekings has been profiled by the British Science Association as part of Smashing Stereotypes campaign for British Science Week (7th-16th March).

Smashing Stereotypes - British Science Week

Smashing Stereotypes

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Psychology Department, University of York (UK) @yorkpsychology.bsky.social · Mar 10

Interested in doing a postdoctoral fellowship @york? With a number of deadlines in Autumn 2025, now is the perfect time to contact your sponsor. Check out the opportunities here: www.york.ac.uk/psychology/r...

Fellowships - Psychology, University of York

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Psychology Department, University of York (UK) @yorkpsychology.bsky.social · Feb 11

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. In support of all the women who work and pursue the study in STEM the Psychology Department would like to acknowledge their invaluable contribution to the advancement of science.

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Psychology Department, University of York (UK) @yorkpsychology.bsky.social · Jan 31

On the 5-year anniversary since the first COVID-19 cases in the UK, Dr Heidi Baseler (Psychology Department, University of York) talks with ITV, airing on Friday, 31st January 2025 at 6pm about research on effects of long COVID on working memory and other brain changes.

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Psychology Department, University of York (UK) @yorkpsychology.bsky.social · Jan 30

A new opening at Psychology Department, University of York
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLP599/r...

Research Associate (Social Neuroscience using fMRI & TMS) at University of York

An academic position as a Research Associate (Social Neuroscience using fMRI & TMS) is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

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Psychology Department, University of York (UK) @yorkpsychology.bsky.social · Jan 30

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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · Jan 2

Out now in @pnas.org "Memory control deficits in the sleep-deprived human brain" doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Memory control deficits in the sleep-deprived human brain | PNAS

Sleep disturbances are associated with intrusive memories, but the neurocognitive mechanisms underpinning this relationship are poorly understood. ...

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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · Jan 2

Late post due to Christmas vacation, but more great work from @emmacsullivan.bsky.social showing that good quality sleep and adaptive emotion regulation strategies independently reduce the persistence of negative affect doi.org/10.1080/0269...

Emotional inertia is independently associated with cognitive emotion regulation strategies and sleep quality*

Emotional inertia (i.e. the tendency for emotions to persist over time) is robustly associated with lower wellbeing. Yet, we know little about the mechanisms underlying this relationship. Good qual...

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cejpreston.bsky.social @cejpreston.bsky.social · Jan 2

New paper! A validation of BUMPs in Italian as well as demonstrating that pregnancy body dissatisfaction can have an impact postnatally. Yet more evidence that better support should be provided for perinatal body changes. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
@yorkpsychology.bsky.social

ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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cejpreston.bsky.social @cejpreston.bsky.social · Dec 24

A lovely Christmas gift indeed! I love this paper as we learned so much about how to improve accessibility for chronic pain participants of taking part in research. (Many of the points raised are probably true for most participants). Great work @kirrraliseh.bsky.social! @yorkpsychology.bsky.social

Kirsten McKenzie @mcfrenzie.bsky.social · Dec 23

Very pleased to have received this for Christmas: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1... Thanks very much @kirrraliseh.bsky.social !

Understanding barriers and facilitators to non-pharmaceutical chronic pain research engagement among people living with chronic pain in the UK: a two-phase mixed-methods approach

Objectives Chronic pain treatment engagement is dominated by pharmaceutical methods, while previous research has assessed barriers to uptake of non-pharmaceutical treatments, there has not been resear...

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · Dec 19

Little pre-holiday reminder: I'm recruiting for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...) - deadline is January the 12th, so think about it over the break and then apply in the New Year! Do get in touch if you have any questions (though bear in mind I'll be OOO too 🎄)

Jobs - The University of York

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Angela de Bruin @angeladebruin.bsky.social · Dec 19

Looking forward to this - hopefully replicable - first workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences!

Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · Dec 18

Excited to be Invited Speaker next to @angeladebruin.bsky.social and @timoroettger.bsky.social for the 1st Workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences (WoReLa 1) in Frankfurt a. M. on 3-4th of July 2025

Should be a fun event!

Abstract submission open till Feb 28:
sites.google.com/view/worela1

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Dec 17

Woohoo! Just found out we've been given an internal grant for an almost complete refresh of IT infrastructure at YNiC! Particularly exciting will be new PCs to allow us to do real-time analysis of fMRI and MEG data for neurofeedback experiments.

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · Dec 18

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...

Test-Retest Reliability of Two Computationally-Characterised Affective Bias Tasks | Computational Psychiatry

Computational Psychiatry publishes original research articles and reviews that involve the application, analysis, or invention of theoretical, computational and statistical approaches to mental functi...

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Lusine Grigoryan @grigolus.bsky.social · Dec 16

❗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

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Dr Nina Higson-Sweeney @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social · Dec 11

Wanted to highlight what an incredibly useful paper this is by @lucysta02475610.bsky.social @alexandrapike.bsky.social & co on the use of AI in qualitative research: doi.org/10.1177/1609...

Invaluable insights, including how to spot AI-generated text & ideas for monitoring! Thanks all! 🙌

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Psychology Department, University of York (UK) @yorkpsychology.bsky.social · Dec 10

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...

More than £3M awarded to psychologists in studies of sleep and online misogyny

Two psychologists from the University of York have been awarded more than £1.5 million each in ERC Consolidator Grants to study the impact of sleep on memory and the growing issue of online misogyny.

www.york.ac.uk

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