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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📢 We’re hiring! The University of Cambridge Department of Psychology is looking for a PA to the Head of Department & Departmental Administrator. 📍 Cambridge | 💷 max£35,608 | 📅 Closes 18 Oct 2026 Apply 👇 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/pa-to-h... @cam.ac.uk @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social #CamJobs #WeAreHiring
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PA to HoD and DA
We are looking for an experienced PA to support the Head of Department and the Departmental Administrator in the Department of Psychology, based in historic central Cambridge. We offer a welcoming, fr...
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Learn more about our Department!
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🌟 We're getting ready to welcoming new students, researchers and professional services colleagues to our Department this autumn! 🍂 It's an exciting time to join our community! 🎉 The Department has been ranked #1 in the world in the 2026 Times Higher Education Subject Rankings for Psychology 🎉
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
🎓 Thank you to everyone who visited the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge at our #UndergraduateOpenDays! It was a pleasure to welcome so many prospective students and their supporters to the Department. #Psychology #UniversityOfCambridge #CambridgeOpenDays #StudentExperience
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Deadline 👉 23 July 2026
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A wonderful afternoon celebrating the end of the academic year! ☀️ It was great to see all our Department members come together for our Department Summer Party💃 Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make it such a lovely event🙌 Photo credit: Roberto Mecca – Imago ltd.
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
New podcast alert 🎧👶 The Baby Fact Check sees science communicator Greg Foot (BBC's Sliced Bread) investigate popular claims about babies and parenting, separating evidence from myth in an accessible and engaging way. #BabyFactCheck #Parenting #ChildDevelopment #Psychology
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
🚨Important update from our own Prof @dtalmi.bsky.social on her project investigating the use of AI in university marking 👀 The results were discussed at a workshop by the @bpsofficial.bsky.social last week. Read this feature by @thetimes.com to learn more👉 www.thetimes.com/article/81c4...
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Why AI can’t mark university essays: it’s fooled by flowery language
Research shows artificial intelligence tends to reward undergraduates’ verbosity rather than quality of thought
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Victor Ajuwon @victorajuwon1.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Very excited to have been featured on the BBC OneShow last night discussing our team's research at the @thembauk.bsky.social on cephalopod curiosity and intelligence! You can access the clip on Iplayer here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... @campsydept.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Did you catch us on BBC One Show this bank holiday Monday? 👀 @cam.ac.uk's very own Dr @victorajuwon1.bsky.social shared his research on cuttlefish curiosity, in collaboration with the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth (@thembauk.bsky.social🫍) Catch it here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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The One Show - 04/05/2026
Comedian Ardal O’Hanlon and stars of Amandaland, Philippa Dunne and Samuel Anderson, join Roman Kemp and JB Gill on the sofa.
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
From Bradford to Cambridge and back 💙 🧵1/2 We’re proud to celebrate our student Arcellia Sasu-Twum, featured in Cambridge to Careers. Her journey reflects key themes in psychology: resilience, identity, and self-belief. “You set your own path.” Link below👇
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social and his team uncovered real costs of creating a bot army. It's unnervingly low👀 Read @cam.ac.uk press release below👇 The story also featured in @reuters.com & @financialtimes.com The original article in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Mapping the online manipulation economy
A market perspective on digital manipulation may help improve online trust and safety
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Looking for an interesting read over the winter holidays? ❄️📚 Try this new paper by @gregserapio.bsky.social &Co 👇 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42... Ask yourself, what is the personality of *your* favourite chat bot?🤔 #psychology #personality #ai #language #models #deepmind #cambridge
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A psychometric framework for evaluating and shaping personality traits in large language models - Nature Machine Intelligence
Serapio-García, Safdari and colleagues develop a method based on psychometric tests to measure and validate personality-like traits in LLMs. Large, instruction-tuned models give reliable personality m...
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
📍 Did you spot us on #BBC #InsideScience the other week? If not, do not worry! The episode is available for another 26 days: 🎧 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Featuring the fresh article by Greg Davis &Co on paying #attention to zebra stripes 🦓 Share your thoughts below👇 #Radio4 #vision #eyetracking
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BBC Inside Science - Would our ancestors have benefited from early neanderthals making fire? - BBC Sounds
New evidence shows that early neanderthals made fire 350 thousand years before we thought.
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
We are incredibly proud! Congratulations on this achievement!👏👏👏
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
🧵1/3 📢 BioSci researchers! Submit your abstract for the Research Café (theme: Biological Sciences Unleashed). 🗓️ 6 Feb 2026 📝 Deadline: 9 Jan 📍 Sainsbury Lab Share your work, connect across disciplines & spark new collabs. #cambridgeuniversity @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
👏 Congratulations to our researchers @mmontagnese.bsky.social & Richard Bethlehem on securing the @acceleratescience.bsky.social funding for their exciting new #CogMap project 👏 Overwhelmed when looking through brainscans and at a loss what to look for? CogMap will be there to help you soon!🧠🗺️
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
How vivid are your memories?🤔 Tune in to learn more about the When Memories Come Alive project with Kasia Mojescik and Martha McGill 💃 🔗 eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... 💡A truly collaborative interdisciplinary team ft the head of the @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social &Co
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All in the Mind - Are there multiple subtypes of autism, and how vivid are your memories? - BBC Sounds
A new study suggests that autism’s genetic profile differs with age at diagnosis.
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Who's the good boy? 🐶🐦‍⬛ Our #ComparativeCognition Lab shares their insights into rooks' intelligence 👀⚙️ Watch what Prof Nicky Clayton and her team have been up to👉 youtu.be/aLy9e03mUhk @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social #cambridge #cambridgeuni #psychology #research #comparative #cognition #corvid
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Can an old rook learn new tricks?
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
🤔No plans this eve? Join in to listen to an exciting discussion panel!👇
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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 05/09/2025
Teenagers are especially sensitive to loneliness, new #research has found. But when social reconnection isn’t possible, this can drive them to seeking harmful rewards like alcohol or drugs. Study by @campsydept.bsky.social @sjblakemore.bsky.social @livia-tomova.bsky.social bit.ly/464WGKS
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Teen loneliness triggers ‘reward seeking’ behaviour
A study has found that adolescents become highly motivated to seek rewards after just a few hours of social isolation. This may be beneficial in driving them
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ai@cam @ai.cam.ac.uk · 20/05/2025
What value could #AI offer in university assessment and marking? Find out how Dr Deborah Talmi, experimental psychologist at the @campsydept.bsky.social, is leading our AI-deas project to develop a new framework for the role of #AI in #studentevaluation. ➡️ ai.cam.ac.uk/blog/the-fut...
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🎙️Lunch-break podcast idea! Catch Dr Amy Milton on #BBC #Radio4 very own The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry—exploring all things memory from consolidation to implanted memories 🧠✨ 🎧Listen now: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #Psychology #Neuroscience #Memory #BBCSounds @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social
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BBC Radio 4 - Curious Cases, Series 23, Memory Swap
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain probe the science of memory.
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Join our #NewBONDS study at #Cambridge #Babylab ✨ Expectant and young parents are invited take part investigating what effect early interactions have on developing brain🔎🧠🐣 📨Get in touch to learn more! #developmental #psychology #neuroscience #research #family #interaction
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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 17/07/2025
How can AI fast-track the search for better Alzheimer’s treatments? Zoe Kourtzi from @campsydept.bsky.social used AI to reanalyse a clinical trial and found a group of patients who responded – showing 46% slower cognitive decline. Find out more 👇 bit.ly/3GPUgHu
MRI brain scan of a patient progressing rapidly to Alzheimer’s disease.
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🚨 Funded PhD @mrccbu.bsky.social! Work with top minds — @duncanastle.bsky.social & @sjblakemore.bsky.social on the impact of #developmental differences on #education!🧠📚 A month to apply ⏰ For details see👇 🔗 drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg... Newnham-based 👩‍🎓💅 #psychology #cambridge #research
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🙌 #CamFest2025 🙌 Paul Bays, Prof of #Computation and #Cognition, on the nature of #visual #illusions 😵‍💫 📖Start with this interview 👉 bit.ly/3DEKc2v 🚶‍♂️Come for the talk in person this Sunday, March 30th 👉 www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/seein... @cambridgefestival.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social
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Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Professor Paul Bays
Paul Bays is a Professor of Computation and Cognition in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He investigates the nature of the internal representations our brains construct an...
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🌸Cambridge Festival 2025 is upon us🌸 📆Come join the Department of #Psychology for the #Family Weekend (March 29-30) 🔗For details, have a look on the website: www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events 🔎 Enter "Psychology" and "Old Cavendish" to see our events! @cambridgefestival #CamFest2025
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Hear more from our Department from Amy Milton 🙌
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Read the testimonies by the brilliant women of @cambridgeuni.bsky.social's #SBS, including our Department's Becky Lawson (#PALlab) 🌷♀️✊
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Our very own @sjblakemore.bsky.social will be delivering her talk exploring the intersection of #gender and #mentalhealth in #adolescence for the International Women's Day #IWD2025🎆 Join us this coming Monday in-person or online🙌
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
👀We are seeking candidates with an outstanding #research record of international stature in young people's #mentalhealth and the vision, experience and enthusiasm to lead on mental health science for young people in #Cambridge, foster #collaboration and promote #innovative thinking and practice🙌 🔗👇
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Cambridge fellowship will 'accelerate' mental health research
A professorship at the University of Cambridge will advance science and offer support to young people.
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Pleased to announce that our Department featured🥈in the World University Ranking by Subject 2025🎊 The assessed disciplines included #Clinical, #Educational, #Sport, #Business, and #Animal #Psychology🧠📚🥍🖋️🐀 Congratulations on the outstanding performance to all members🎆 @uniofcam.bsky.social
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
📢Shoutout to the Student Union @uniofcam.bsky.social for organising the ReFreshers' Fair this past Monday and to everyone who came for supporting psychological research!🤝 👀 Keep up to date with the ongoing studies at the Department via our online Notice Board 👉 www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/services/trc...
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Congratulations to our very own @dtalmi.bsky.social and her collaborators on their new exciting project! 👏 Do you still swear by human evaluation of assessments? Share your thoughts!👇 🤖📝 #psychology #research #evaluation #ai #academia #assessments #multidisciplinary
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
✨Happy New Year one and all✨ We invite you to start off 2025 with the Newnham College Family Forum🙌 They are back for their annual discussion of contemporary issues affecting families. Participation is free, details below👇 #FamilyForum2025 #FamiliesAndNature #CambridgeEvents #CambridgeUniversity
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Our Department wishes you a very Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 Rest well and see you in the new year for more research excitement 🧠✨ @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social #psychology #cognitive #science #christmas2024
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Yesterday our #Library hosted a beautifully curated display of the #archives available to our staff&students✨ Fantastic old editions of great #psychology folios and absolutely illegible handwritten notes of famous Department members👀 Something for everyone! @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social #research
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
📖New Book Alert Mike Rampton ( @mikerampton.bsky.social ) the author of ✨There is no such thing as a silly question✨ has spoken to our very own #BabyLab Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox about toddlers' endless questions🤔 Check out the piece below with some handy insights 👀
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Sharing #Christmas spirit across Downing Site, Uni of #Cambridge tonight✨ A great initiative, - the #SBS Caroling Choir performing to raise funds for Jimmy's homeless charity 🙌 jimmyscambridge.org.uk Donate if you can🌲🌨️ #charity #homelessness
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
👀 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/orchard-oc... This Saturday, 30 November, The Royal Institution, London is hosting their first ever Orchard OCD Research Conference for Patients and Families🙌 A day filled with the latest #research, #inspirational stories, and #collaborative discussions on #OCD✨
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Orchard OCD Research Conference for Patients and Families
Come join us at The Royal Institution in London for our first OCD Research Conference for Patients and Families!
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
🎉University of Cambridge Virtual Tour is now live! 🚀Step inside and explore our incredible facilities! Feel free to browse the platform and visit your favourite places! virtualtour.study.cam.ac.uk 👀 Let us know what you think and spread the word! For all curious people🙌
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University of Cambridge Virtual Tour | Explore in 360°
Stunning, interactive experience created by The Virtual Tour Experts.
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Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
👀 A couple of Psychology Department opportunities, University of Cambridge Deadlines fast approaching! #1 lnkd.in/eu7U7XU9 (closing date 5th Dec, 2024) -> Research Associate for the Bayslab, aka Computational Cognition Group 🔌 Prof Paul Bays See #2 below👇
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