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Amina Memon

@aminamemon.bsky.social
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Prof Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Memory, Credibility, Eyewitnesses, Emotion & Law are some of my topics. Outside work, I seek the sea, a mountain top, a sampling of wine, a good book!

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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The first daffodils of the year already blooming on the stunning @royalholloway.bsky.social campus, Spring is coming!
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Lovely to see the delicate, intricate white camellias blooming on @royalholloway.bsky.social campus
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Royal Holloway @royalholloway.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Asking big questions about the use of AI in asylum claims Professor @aminamemon.bsky.social and Dr Zoe Given-Wilson from @rhulpsychology.bsky.social are investigating the ethical and practical implications of digital tools in the asylum process. Read more: ow.ly/N1hi50XtBMq
"Read more about how digital technology and artificial intelligence are used in asylum claims" with an arrow pointing to infographic.
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Royal Holloway Psychology @rhulpsychology.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We have four teaching-focused positions available, with a start date of early January. Please share widely and tag anyone who may be interested! Teaching associates: Two permanent posts at 0.8 FTE Postdoctoral teaching associates: Two full-time posts, one permanent, one for 12 months
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Sunshine with autumn colours as another academic year begins. Nice to hear the excited chatter of our new students as they take in the surroundings @royalholloway.bsky.social
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
The Bees 🐝 and #CabbageWhites 🦋are loving the #Lavender at Ham House #NationalTrust @nationaltrust.bsky.social
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
@rhulpsychology.bsky.social Results day! -Congratulations 🎉 to our finalists! Do keep in touch and join our Psychology Alumni Community @royalholloway.bsky.social and RHUL Psychology alumni LinkedIn group. All the best for the future. 🎓 Hope to see many of you at graduation later this month!
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Special to be in Finland for midsummer solstice and yes I have had a dip, several actually!
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
SARMAC 2025 🇮🇪 ticked all the boxes -excellent talks, inspiring discussions, numerous student-ECR focused workshops and talent, stunning venue, fun socials & such warm hospitality, Thanks a million @gillian-murphy.bsky.social AND ‪@ciaragreene.bsky.social‬ #SARMAC2025 @officialsarmac.bsky.social
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Lorraine Hope @lorrainehope.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
“Around the world…sexual violence is rarely prosecuted “ - in her important keynote Prof Heather Flowe explores the factors underpinning injustice, advocating for a gender lens approach and high quality investigative interviewing @officialsarmac.bsky.social #sarmac2025 @sarmac2025.bsky.social
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Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) @officialsarmac.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
For anyone interested in conducting lineup identification research, check out this valuable database of research materials generously shared by #SARMAC2025 presenter Ryan Fitzgerald, Stefana Juncu, @evaribbers.bsky.social and @evarubinova.bsky.social osf.io/vrj3u @sarmac2025.bsky.social
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Eyewitness Lineup Identity (ELI) database
Hosted on the Open Science Framework
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#sarmac2025 Looking forward to Prof Heather Flowe's keynote @officialsarmac.bsky.social
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The Teaching About Research in Memory & Cognition #sarmac2025 @officialsarmac.bsky.social was full of good examples of how to get students to engage E-portfolios puzzle boxes, using mobile phone tech learning to learn, to public science communication. Thanks for organising @drrobnash.bsky.social‬
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#sarmac2025 Day 3: Great session on how we can enhance diagnostic face description with future applications in eyewitness ID context, nice job Abbie! @officialsarmac.bsky.social
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Interesting research by Adele Quiqley-McBride illustrates the availability heuristic, base rate fallacy in latent fingerprint examination-examiners giving rarer features more weight, AND base rate variations across examiners and time @officialsarmac.bsky.social #sarmac2025
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
@officialsarmac.bsky.social Erin Robbins excellent provocative keynote -Diversifying the science of cognitive psychology.. Asks SARMAC: what has wrong with efforts to diversify and increase representation in psychological science? #sarmac2025
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
@officialsarmac.bsky.social #sarmac2025 Great to be in Ireland, warm welcome and fab venue hosting circa 450 delegates from across the globe. Lovely to catch up with dear friends and former colleagues and make new connections
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
@officialsarmac.bsky.social MyDay1 #sarmac2025 from Suymposia on Generation of illusory truth effects in questioning, false beliefs about sleep To perception of sexomania in courtroom To optimising self-regulated learning in University students TO cultural influences on memory reports So impressed!
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Expert Witness Workshop about to start #sarmac2025
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Royal Holloway Psychology @rhulpsychology.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Calling all education professionals! Register now for our research and practice event - bringing together researchers and practitioners working to improve outcomes for children and young people! 27 June '25 - find out more & sign up now: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
A PhD studentship opportunity (October 25) to look at the use of Visually Recorded Interviews with adult victims of serious sexual crimes. To be supervised by Drs Julie Gawrylowicz & Penny Woolnough at Abertay University, Karen Goodhall and myself are external supervisors tinyurl.com/TraumaandTech
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Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) @officialsarmac.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Another exciting #JARMAC issue coming up, on timely topics @apajournals.bsky.social
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SARMAC 2025 - Ireland @sarmac2025.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Just 8 weeks till we welcome you to Ireland for #SARMAC2025! We can’t wait to kick things off on June 11th with workshops, a keynote from Prof. Richard McNally and a welcome bbq in the (hopefully sunny) grounds of Killashee House ☀️
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Always a joy to see the daffodils out on the Royal Holloway University @royalholloway.bsky.social -every which way I look!
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Deadline for applying: March 3rd 2025.
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Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) @officialsarmac.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Call for the SARMAC Regional Meeting Grant has opened! Deadline for submissions is 30 April. Eligibility and further details on the website // mailchi.mp/185862b002bf...
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SARMAC Regional Meeting 2025 - Call for proposals OPEN!
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
My final year #psychology students are looking for volunteers to help with their online research #juries #virtualcourtrooms and #decision-making -an important part of their degree studies 🎓 if you can help go to: bit.ly/42pXx8V
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Looks to be a great programme this year. Among the hands-on workshops we have the first international large scale collaboration Hackathon and a practical workshop offering advice and skills on how to be a good Expert Witness.
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Helen Bamber Foundation 🧡 @helenbamber.org · 08/01/2025
"As the Bibby Stockholm is moved out of Portland, the asylum seekers who were forced to spend months living there say the scars remain." The harm caused by such large sites is profound & long-lasting. People seeking asylum need #CommunitiesNotCamps www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Life and death on the Bibby Stockholm: ‘No one wanted to go inside – but we had no choice’
From the moment it was announced that asylum seekers would be accommodated on this hulking, prison-like barge, the scheme was steeped in controversy. As it leaves British waters, here is the inside st...
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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The debate continues on BBC #WomansHour this morning. I'll be discussing UK Gov't plans to criminalise *creating* sexually explicit deepfakes with @cathynewman.bsky.social Why do we need this new criminal law? Read more in my comment @theconversation.com theconversation.com/deepfake-por...
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Deepfake porn: why we need to make it a crime to create it, not just share it
The invisible threat of deepfake porn now pervades the lives of women and girls
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Vincent Giampietro @vincentgiampietro.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Congratulations @neuranne.bsky.social for our first 2025 paper! "By focusing on 6 key areas—format, environment, delivery, instruction, support, & research—the framework provides educators & policymakers with a structured approach to creating more inclusive & accessible online learning environments"
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Frontiers | Cognitive load and neurodiversity in online education: a preliminary framework for educational research and policy
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Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🌺🌞🍃 @mzloteanu.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
📖 Starting 2025 on a high note with a new book chapter on the Myth of "Body Language" w/ Vincent Denault, Miles Paterson, and Victoria Talwar #bodylanguage #nonverbalbehavior #myths #research link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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The Myth of Body Language and the Fallacies of Body Language Analysis and Training Programs
In general, “body language” refers to one or more nonverbal cues that indicate something specific about people’s personal characteristics, including their character, intentions, emot...
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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
✅ 2024 highlight: Our partners @publicbooks.bsky.social published a transcript of a CASBS podcast episode on "Developing AI Like Raising Kids." @alisongopnik.bsky.social, who leads our project on The Social Science of Caregiving, chats w/sci-fi luminary Ted Chiang www.publicbooks.org/developing-a...
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Developing AI Like Raising Kids
“In terms of the machine learning programs or robots that we have now, I basically think of them as being comparable to thermostats.”
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Liz Roemer @lizroemer.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Reposting this important critique of van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score, because I should have tagged the author @eminietfeld.bsky.social and @motherjones.com #therapistsky #psychscisky
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/12/2024
Gisèle Pelicot stood with her head held high in a courtroom in Avignon, France, on Thursday as the verdicts in the four-month rape trial of her ex-husband and 50 other men were read. Her image has become a symbol of female strength around the world, our critic writes. Read more: nyti.ms/49MwR3U
ALT: Gisèle Pelicot is seen in close-up, smiling. She wears her light brown hair in a short bob. She has on a black zip-front jacket with a white scarf at her neck. Text reads: "The Face of Courage." Photo credit: Clement Mahoudeau/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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Ryan Jefferies @ryanjefferies.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Please message me if you are interested in taking part on a day in December or January and I will share the details. Thanks!

DO YOU DRIVE?
DRIVE AN ELECTRIC CAR AROUND RHUL'S OMNIDROME USING A SIMULATOR-STYLE WORKSTATION. ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE HAVE FUN AND GET PAID!
REQUIREMENTS?
Driving licence - at least 3 years driving experience - normal or corrected-to-normal vision and hearing.
TIME?
Approximately 90 minutes.
MONEY?
15 pound Amazon voucher.
INTERESTED?
Contact ryan.jefferies@rhul.ac.uk
to get an information sheet outlining the study objectives
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
*New* Family Justice Council guidance to judges where mothers report domestic violence and abusive fathers counter alleging ‘parental alienation’ to force children to see them. FJC recognises “parental alienation syndrome” has no evidential basis and is a harmful pseudo-science. shorturl.at/njgsG
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A Xmas gift for mothers and children: family court guidance finally debunks ‘parental alienation’
PRESS RELEASE: 11 December 2024. Contact: 0207 482 2496/07958152171 Today the Family Justice Council has issued guidance to family court judges in cases where mothers report domestic violence and a…
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Yara Kyrychenko @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
🚨New in Nature Computational Science! 🚨 Do large language models (LLMs) exhibit social identity biases like humans? (co-lead by @tiancheng.bsky.social, together with @steverathje.bsky.social, Nigel Collier, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, and Jon Roozenbeek) 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Generative language models exhibit social identity biases - Nature Computational Science
Researchers show that large language models exhibit social identity biases similar to humans, having favoritism toward ingroups and hostility toward outgroups. These biases persist across models, trai...
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Dr Phoebe Averill @phoebeaverill.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
We need help from adults aged 40+ with Down's syndrome and family/carers to make a film together to train health & social care staff. We want you to share your experiences of falling & ideas about what helps you to move safely, to help staff to support you. Please get in touch! 📍London, UK
The poster is for adults with Down's syndrome aged 40 years old or above, who live near London. It invites you and your family or carers to get involved with a project about falling over and moving around safely. If you get involved, we will have some meetings together. We want to hear your stories about falling. We also want to hear what helps you to move around safely. We will make a film together to train healthcare staff, like doctors or nurses. You and your family or carers will be paid £25.00 per hour for helping. Please contact Phoebe Averill on 020 7594 9038 to talk about it.
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
My final year #psychology students are looking for volunteers to help with their online research #memory #asylum #decision-making -an important part of their degree studies 🎓 link below
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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Informative thread about seeking safety, asylum as legal recognition of that safety, and the ways the current general policy direction is counterproductive and expensive.
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A pleasure to present to an interdisciplinary group doing such important work on law and human mobility across geographical and social divides
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Deception Research Society @deceptionrs.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Lies and Allies is tomorrow at 4-5pm UK time. See you there!
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Wishing everyone a BERRY nice #FlyDay 🍒
A stunning male Bullfinch with a vivid pink-orange breast and black cap spreads its wings mid-movement, to perch among clusters of bright red berries - it's beak appears already full with a mouthful. The crisp blue sky contrasts with the soft grey of its wings, capturing a moment of graceful flight.
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Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) @officialsarmac.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Don't forget that the abstract deadline for SARMAC 2025 is this Sunday! #sarmac2025 #academicsky #cognition #memory
An image of the conference venue
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Andreu Casas @andreucasas.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Apply for a PhD position in our Politics department at @rhulpirp.bsky.social! Happy to supervise thesis in social media and politics, legislative politics, and/or computational methods. Hit me up if you're interested! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKW353/p...
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PhD Studentship in Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London
jobs.ac.uk are now advertising a PhD Studentship in Politics and International Relations. Discover exciting PhD opportunities on jobs.ac.uk.
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Adam Crawford @adamcrawford.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Published today: An Evidence-Based Plan for Addressing Childhood Vulnerability, Crime & Justice report from @vp-centre.bsky.social & partners @n8research.bsky.social @cfyounglives.bsky.social @childofthenorth.bsky.social vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/news/new-rep...
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New report warns thousands of vulnerable children at risk of criminal exploitation - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre
A report by the Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre warns thousands of vulnerable children are at risk of criminal exploitation.
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Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Dr Gwen Adshead forensic psychiatrist, psychotherapist with 40 years work in prisons/secure hospitals asks Are we all capable of violence? Discussing real cases -motivations, actions risk factors with compassion and insight. Not easy listening but timely with crisis in our prisons shorturl.at/O7umR
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Is Violence Normal?
Podcast Episode · The Reith Lectures · 26/11/2024 · 58m
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Professor Laura Huey @drlaurahuey.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Open access: Segmenting the Rape and Serious Sexual Offence (RASSO) investigator workforce: implications for wellbeing and burnout www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Segmenting the Rape and Serious Sexual Offence (RASSO) investigator workforce: implications for wellbeing and burnout
There is increasing awareness of police investigators’ wellbeing and the rising prevalence of burnout symptoms, creating long-term difficulties for policing. We utilized Maslach and Leiter’s approa...
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