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Cátia M. Oliveira @catiamoliveira.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who visited me during the show and tell! Had a wonderful time and great discussions! #interspeech2026

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We are very excited to attend #interspeech2026! 🥳 @catiamoliveira.bsky.social will be presenting: "The TinyExplorer Ecosystem: Open tools for studying infants’ auditory and visual experiences" 📍 Show and Tell 3 — Speech and Language Processing for Health and Accessibility

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Slide with details about the event: 👶 The TinyExplorer Ecosystem: Open tools for studying infants’ auditory and visual experiences
📄 Paper ID: 3597
📅 Wednesday, 30 September 2026
🕘 09:00–11:00
📍 Show and Tell 3 — Speech and Language Processing for Health and Accessibility

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ready to attend and soak up all the amazing talks at #ICDL2026

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Congratulations to Dr Hana D'Souza for winning the Margaret Donaldson Award! We’re incredibly proud to see Dr Hana D'Souza's outstanding contribution to developmental psychology recognised with this award. Congratulations, Dr Hana D'Souza! @bpsdevsection.bsky.social @cardiffuni.bsky.social

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Last week, the Cardiff Babylab attended the BPS Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference 2026, held at Durham University. Dr Hana D’Souza gave a keynote talk - Stop trying to carve Nature at its joints! Towards a process-based science of early neurodiversity. #BPS #developmentalscience

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BPS Developmental Section @bpsdevsection.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We start the 2nd day of our conference with Margaret Donaldson Award winner, Hana D'Souza from @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social. Many congratulations, Hana!

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Thank you so much for coming along and for the lovely discussions! 😊 #bpsdev26

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Cardiff Babylab had a great time at the 10th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development! Hana D'Souza and Dean D'Souza both gave brilliant presentations about the work we do. Thank you for having us, we look forward to next year!

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Congratulations to Rae-Marie on completing her BSc in Psychology with Professional Placement degree along with achieving the Hywell Murrell Prize and BPS Undergraduate Award!🎓 Well done for this incredible achievement! We’re excited to see what more you will accomplish with us!🎉

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A huge congratulations to Becky Hardiman on passing her DClin viva last week! 🎉🎉 We’re very proud of her incredible achievement and all the wonderful work and collaboration towards making our work relevant to practitioners!

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Big Psychology Challenge recap! 🧠📸 We had an amazing time taking part. Huge thanks to the presenters, helpers, and all the students who took part. 👉✨

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Cardiff Babylab are at #ICIS2026 @infantstudies.bsky.social! We had an amazing first day yesterday, and are excited to share more of our latest work over the next few days.

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Przemek Tomalski @tomalski.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

New paper alert! doi.org/10.1111/infa... Object Identifier (DOI) Our BabylabPAN & @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social asked how do 9 mo infants interact with objects during lab-based play with their caregivers when no one places them in predefined body positions or hands them objects to manipulate? 1/2

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

☀️ SUMMER 2026 CAMPS ARE HERE! ☀️ We are thrilled to announce that registration is officially open for the 21 Plus SALT Camps this summer! 🎉 If you are interested in attending, follow this link: tinyurl.com/21Plus-Day-C... tinyurl.com/21-Plus-Resi...

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Happy Volunteers’ Week! 💙 A massive thank you to all the volunteers who have supported the Cardiff Babylab over the years. Your time, enthusiasm and dedication is invaluable to our research and we are really grateful for all you do!

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Congratulations to @teodorynikolov.bsky.social and Dr Hana D’Souza for their recent publication in Developmental Science ‘Making Machine Learning Accessible for Developmental Science: The Case of Automated Face Detection’. 🎉 Read more at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

On the 15th of June, NHS Wales will be holding an accessible online talk about how we can keep our brains healthy! 🧠 link to sign up: forms.office.com/pages/respon... Resources used in this post are from NHS Wales and are credited to them.

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

As part of our Towards Complexity Seminar Series, we are delighted to advertise Complexity & Cake, a free, relaxed mini-conference taking place in Cardiff, UK. Register by 1st June 2026 to attend and, if you would like, submit a poster! Click the link to register: tinyurl.com/3ema8xzn

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The next speaker in our Towards Complexity Seminar Series is Antonio Monaco from Indiana University. We are very excited to listen to his talk titled ‘Emergence in Complex Adaptive Symptoms!’ Join us on 4th June at 1pm in the Psychology Tower Building at Cardiff University!

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This month is William’s Syndrome awareness month! ❤️💙 Be sure to check out the brilliant work that organisations such as William’s Syndrome Foundation UK do to fundraise and raise awareness for the condition. #williamssyndromeawarenessmonth #williamssyndrome #shareyourheart

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Last Thursday, Yueyan, one of our visiting PhD students, gave a brilliant talk about her PhD research in preparation for her defence. Her research explores how babies and caregivers learn to share attention in everyday life using wearable devices and machine learning.

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Last Thursday the Babylab attended a talk by Mitzi, one of our visiting PhD students! 📖 The talk explored how linguistic anticipation and rhythm intertwine to shape real-time comprehension, and how this reveals key differences between typical development and Down syndrome.

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

We are excited to welcome Dr Sarah Berger from City University of New York for the next seminar in our Towards Complexity Seminar Series! Her talk is titled ‘Embodied Cognition in Infancy’ The seminar is open to all – join us on 7th May at 1pm in the Psychology Tower Building at Cardiff University!

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LCICD @lcicd.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

LCICD 2026 is on! The 10th Lancaster International Conference on Infant and Early Child Development will be held in Lancaster, UK on 26-28 August, 2026. Abstract submission deadline: 24th April 2026: wp.lancs.ac.uk/lcicd/

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Last Wednesday the Babylab headed over to Abacws for Hana and Craig’s talks about our TinyExplorer headcams and how our research integrates developmental science and machine learning. Thank you to everyone who attended! And a massive thank you to Hana and Craig for giving amazing presentations!

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Happy World Down Syndrome Day from Cardiff Babylab! 💛 This year's theme is 'Together Against Loneliness' - check out our YouTube video that brings this message to life! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlOu... #WorldDownSyndromeDay #TogetherAgainstLoneliness

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Recently, Craig, one of our PhD students presented his research at Blas ar Ymchwil/ A Taste of Research, which gave researchers the opportunity to present their work in Welsh! Well done from everyone at the Babylab!🎉

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

🚨Calling everyone living in Wales! The Welsh government has launched an open consultation on the plans to extend the Talk With Me Speech, Language and Communication Delivery Plan to include children ages 5 to 11! 📅 Deadline: April 30th 2026

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The Cardiff BabyLab is looking forward to the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) 2026 this September in Kyoto, Japan! Last chance to submit your papers! The submission deadline is Friday, 13th March (23:59 AoE)— don’t miss out!

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We are so happy to share that Craig Thompson and Dr Hana D’Souza are doing a talk at Abacws in Cardiff University! 🗓 Wednesday 18th March 2026 🕒 12:05pm - 1:00pm 📍 Abacws (3:38) Senghennydd Rd, Cardiff, CF24 4AG #Head-mountedCameras #MachineLearning #DevelopmentalResearch

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Our Towards Complexity Seminar Series returns on 12th March with a talk about “Edge-AI and Precision Sensors: Enabling novel intelligence and senses for next generations of embedded systems” by Dr Nick Pham This is open to all – join us at 1pm in the Psychology Tower Building at Cardiff University!

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

We’re delighted to share that Hana will be presenting the upcoming research seminar at the Centre for Speech, Hearing and Communication Research at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Everyone is very welcome to attend – we hope to see you there!

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Job opportunities at Cardiff Babylab! We are looking to hire two research assistants to join two projects funded by UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships. Find out more Information on our website! 📅 Closing date for applications: 19th February 2026 #CardiffBabylab #ResearchAssistant #JobOpportunity

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Teodor Y. Nikolov @teodorynikolov.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Pleased to share a Cardiff University news feature on our work with Hana D’Souza. Using baby-worn headcams and AI face detection, we found non-linear changes with age in face availability from babies’ point of view during everyday play. Thanks to @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social and families involved.

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Baby headcams reveal how babies encounter faces during development

Baby-worn headcams and AI shows non-linear changes in how babies see faces as they grow.

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Julien Mayor @julienmayor.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Young children usually understand more words than they can say: a “comprehension–production gap”. In a new study, we found that children with Williams syndrome (WS) have a unique profile: their gap is significantly reduced compared to other groups. 🧵 #LanguageDevelopment #WilliamsSyndrome #devpsyc

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Do you work with children with Down syndrome under the age of 5? We are inviting health care practitioners to share their views in a short online survey. Your insights will help explore how headcams could support and enhance clinical practice. To find out more visit: tinyurl.com/tinyexplorer...

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

🎉 Big milestone! Over the last two years, with the incredible support of so many wonderful families, we’ve recorded nearly 38 million headcam video frames, capturing young children’s everyday experiences. www.youtube.com/shorts/dsF4Z...

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Baby headcams reveal how babies encounter faces during development

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Improving Speech Outcomes for VP-Born Children in Wales(PROSPER) @prosperstudy.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

📣 We are inviting #parents of #preterm born children in #Wales to join our Expert Parent Group and guide #research to improve #speech #outcomes for preterm born #children! 📣 🙏 Please share with your networks and friends :)

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Merideth Gattis @meridethgattis.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

How to make outdoor learning accessible and inclusive for all children 💡Design activities based on Universal Design for Learning 👍 Provide staff training 📣 Share good practice 🪶 Identify opportunities for flexible participation #OutdoorLearning #Psychology #DevSci www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Making outdoor learning accessible and inclusive for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND): a case study

Outdoor learning enhances children’s academic performance, social communication, and well-being. Accessible and inclusive opportunities for outdoor learning are essential for children with Special ...

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

📄 New research paper out! Children usually understand more words than they can say – but in Williams syndrome, this gap is smaller. Using computational models, we explore why. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LanguageDevelopment #Neurodiversity #DevelopmentalScience

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Happy New Year from all of us at Cardiff Babylab! 🎉 🎆 We would like to say a huge thank you to all the little scientists and families who took part last year! Our research would not be possible without you! We’ve got exciting things planned for the year ahead! Keep an eye on our socials for more!

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Wishing you all a joyful and relaxing festive season from everyone at Cardiff Babylab! 🎄✨ Thank you for being part of our community, here’s to a bright and happy new year!

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

🚨New PhD studentship🚨 Do you want to know what everyday play really looks like to young children? Are you interested in how children’s daily experiences shape early development? Click on the link below to find out more! 📅Closing date: February 13, 2026 📅Start date: October 2026

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Children in Wales @childreninwales.org.uk · 10/12/2025

On Human Rights Day we recognise the rights of babies, children and young people in Wales. Children’s rights, part of human rights, help build safer, fairer and more inclusive communities.

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Children in Wales @childreninwales.org.uk · 25/11/2025

We’re launching ‘Power to the Dads’, exploring dads’ experiences, involvement & awareness of children’s rights in Wales. Dads want to be heard & supported www.childreninwales.org.uk/news/Childre...

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Children in Wales launches new research spotlighting dads’ voices

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Niwrowahaniaeth Cymru/Neurodivergence Wales @ndwales.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Join our Community of Practice webinar: Social Model of Disability; What it is and why it matters. Speaker: Vicky, Disabled People’s Employment Champion for Welsh Government, brings personal insight and extensive experience supporting disabled people of all ages.

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Mel Green @melalygreen.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

🌟 Exciting news! My book "Mothering at the Margins: Black Mothers Raising Autistic Children in the UK" (co-authored with Dr Claire Malcolm) is coming out on 8th July! With a foreword by Professor Jason Arday! Available for pre-order now! #BlackMothers #AutismCommunity amzn.eu/d/djSyVzs

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Are you interested in Speech, Language and Communication in early years, or the policies surrounding it? Cardiff Babylab will be attending the annual Study Day as part of the Welsh Government’s Talk With Me Campaign on Tuesday the 14th of October, and you can join too!

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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

October is Down syndrome awareness month! 💙💛 At Cardiff Babylab, we’re proud to work with all the amazing families, charities, and organisations who make our research possible. Look out for more opportunities for little scientists to take part in our studies!

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