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Cátia M. Oliveira

@catiamoliveira.bsky.social
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Interested in all things - language, memory, attention, sleep and neurodiversity, but mostly cats. Ex-York, now in Cardiff www.cardiff-babylab.com

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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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ingmarvisser.bsky.social @ingmarvisser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New paper 🍼📄 ManyBabies 3 is out (open access, registered report in Developmental Science). 30 labs, 33 languages, 839 infants set out to replicate a textbook finding: 7-month-olds learn abstract rules from speech (@garymarcus.bsky.social et al., 1999). We didn’t find it. 🧵
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ingmarvisser.bsky.social @ingmarvisser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This was a fantastic team effort across 30+ labs 🌍 Paper (open access), data & code all public. > 📄 doi.org/10.1111/desc... > 💻 github.com/manybabies/m... > #ManyBabies #InfantCognition #OpenScience #DevSci, lead team: Andreea Geambaşu, Melanie Soderstrom, and Claartje Levelt
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ManyBabies 3: A Multi‐Lab Study of Infant Algebraic Rule Learning
The ability to learn and apply rules lies at the heart of cognition. In a seminal study, Marcus et al. (1999) reported that 7-month-old infants learned abstract rules over syllable sequences and were...
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Cátia M. Oliveira @catiamoliveira.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you are attending #interspeech2026, please come and say hi!
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Dr Hannah Hobson @hannahhobson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Lovely demo by @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social of their TinyExplorer Gear! Lovely videos of young children exploring their everyday environments from their perspective. Totally different to what you get in the lab. #bpsdev26
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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 20/07/2026
Exciting news from Hypatia 🎊 we were lucky enough to win Best R&D Innovation at the Aussie INCITE Awards! Huge congrats to the team, and thanks to the judges for their confidence in us. ALSO: We're hiring 2 roles (research manager & business/ops developer) within Hypatia... 👇
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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.
Poster outlining the upcoming talks and posters by Cardiff Babylab, with timings and photos of lab members presenting.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Study (N=8,097) finds women more likely to finish a PhD before 30 & have children after 35. Men tended to become parents during doctoral studies & often had 3+ children by 40. Early-career mothers had lower citation rates; fathers had no such penalties. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Female Academics Increasingly Delay Motherhood Until Age 35
“Pronounced penalties” for those early-career staff with children may explain why Ph.D.s postpone becoming parents, a recent study finds.
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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What 5000 babies can tell us about developing minds and how to study them. New paper by Brianna T. M. McMillan & al. with @chbergma.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s44271-026-00477-w
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What 5000 babies can tell us about developing minds and how to study them - Communications Psychology
A decade of ManyBabies research, testing thousands of babies across hundreds of labs, has shown that some, but not all findings in infant research replicate well. Collectively, these projects have sho...
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Children in Wales @childreninwales.org.uk · 23/04/2026
As we mark Month of the Military Child, our spring magazine highlights an inspiring step forward for service families in Wales. Read more: isu.pub/3PxcECB #motmccymru
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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 05/03/2026
Excited to say that Hypatia has secured a second round of funding thanks to the @wellcometrust.bsky.social 💫 This milestone allows us to build the technology and team and conduct validation efforts across the UK and Australia to bridge the ecosystems.
Announcement from Hypatia regarding second-round investment from the Wellcome Trust and 2026 hiring for five roles: Project Coordinator, Backend Engineer, UXUI Engineer, Artist/Designer, and Director of Operations. The graphic showcases Hypatia's international presence in the UK and Australia, featuring team photos and logos of partner institutions including King's College London, UWA, C-FIT, Orygen, and Emyria.
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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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Cátia M. Oliveira @catiamoliveira.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Amazing work @teodorynikolov.bsky.social and Hana D' Souza! Congratulations 🎉
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BogaertsLab @bogaertslab.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Curious about the human ability to extract regularities from sensory input (i.e., “statistical learning”) and individual differences therein? #CognitiveScience #Learning Our #Consensus paper presents the collective insights of 27 researchers worldwide 🌎 💬 🌍 💬 🌏 💬: 🔗 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Our fantastic PhD student, Charlotte, will be running the Cardiff Half Marathon this October to help raise money for the amazing local charity, Seren Dwt 🌟
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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Early last week, Cardiff Babylab hosted LFRAZ, a free two day workshop, in collaboration with Université PSL & The Prairie Institute. Thanks to Niveen, @catiamoliveira.bsky.social and @sofiahryniv.bsky.social for running the sessions!
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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Cardiff Babylab is excited to launch a new, remote study for medical and allied health professionals in the UK! We are inviting professionals to give their thoughts on integrating wearable head cameras into their practice. Find out more: www.cardiff-babylab.com/tinyexplorer...
Dark blue background to the left of image with Cardiff University logo in top left corner, red Babylab dragon and ident to the centre. Cream box overlays the blue background. Centred dark blue text reads "are you a medical or allied health professional based in the UK? Do you work with children with Down syndrome under 5? We want to hear your thoughts on using wearable head-mounted cameras in your practice". A QR code to the bottom left with dark blue text that reads "Find out more about our new remote study using the QR code or link in the caption"

Right side of image shows a young child with Down syndrome in a light blue t-shirt with the Babylab Dragon and text reading “Little Scientist”. She is wearing a soft, light blue foam helmet with a small camera attached to the front, just above eye level.
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Cátia M. Oliveira @catiamoliveira.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Such a lovely way to return to work after annual leave! Thank you @lcicd.bsky.social for organising such a welcoming event!
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Sofia Hryniv @sofiahryniv.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Excited to be working with @catiamoliveira.bsky.social and Niveen Omar to deliver this workshop next month!
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Children in Wales @childreninwales.org.uk · 21/05/2025
Dr Liz Gregory has launched the Pledge for Babies, a vital step in making sure babies’ voices are at the forefront of decisions in policy, services and society. The first 1000 days matter – and today, we’re pledging to protect them. #First1000Days
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Cátia M. Oliveira @catiamoliveira.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Had so much fun today celebrating World Down Syndrome Day! #worlddownayndromeday #wdsd2025
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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Join our upcoming Babylab event to celebrate World Down Syndrome Day, 2025 With an exciting schedule in the works, the event is open to students, trainees, staff, and the wider community - please register to help us with planning! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We can’t wait to see you there!
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Dr Hannah Hobson @hannahhobson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
@bpsofficial.bsky.social would you share our video, made with clinicians and ppl with lived experience, about how mental health practitioners can make therapy more accessible for ppl with Developmental Language Disorder? Made for #childrensmentalhealthweek ! :) youtu.be/Ko6sFea3v0w?...
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Developmental Language Disorder (DLD): a guide for mental heath practitioners
YouTube video by RADLD
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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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...
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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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International Congress of Infant Studies @infantstudies.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
New on the Baby Blog - The ripple effect of early sleep: how childhood sleep patterns shape vocabulary, academic, and mental health outcomes by Catia M. Oliveira, Amy Atkinson, Michelle St Clair, Gareth Gaskell & Lisa Henderson infantstudies.org/the-ripple-e... #infantstudies #Research
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The ripple effect of early sleep: how childhood sleep patterns shape vocabulary, academic, and mental health outcomes - The International Congress of Infant Studies
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Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Happy New Year from the Cardiff Babylab! 🎊 We recently had the pleasure of following up with some of our wonderful participants from a few years back. A big thank you to everyone who has given their time to support our research. We can’t wait to work with all our wonderful families in 2025!
A cream background with yellow and blue swirls in the corner. At the top is the text ‘It's been lovely to follow up with some of our little scientists again!’ in blue. Above the text is the Embodied lab logo and the Cardiff Babylab logo. There are two photos of a child, one in which they are wearing a lab coat, labelled ‘2021’ and the other in which they are sitting in a car seat, labelled ‘2024’.
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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I think the last single author publication I had was my thesis, but in any case, here's another. An integrated framework for the learning, recognition and interpretation of words. 100% Gaskell, for better or for worse: doi.org/10.1177/1747...
Dual pathway cog/neuro account of word learning, repetition and integration
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