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Emily Towner

@emilyanntowner.bsky.social
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Scientist / PhD in Progress 👇🏻 📍 UK 🇬🇧 @CambridgeUniversity 🎓 Gates-Cambridge Scholar 🧠 Studying psychology and brains ✉️ hello@emilytowner.com #psychology #neuroscience #development #learning #brain #adolescence www.emilytowner.com

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Article about Tim Dalgleish, the new Dawson Chair of Young People's Mental Health @campsydept.bsky.social @mrccbu.bsky.social www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/magazine/iss...
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Always on my mind
Coverage of mental health issues, particularly in the young, is on the rise – as is speculation that it’s being overdiagnosed. Now Tim Dalgleish, the inaugural Dawson Professor of Young People’s Menta...
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Ketika Garg @ketikagarg.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
New preprint w/ @fearbrain.bsky.social, Bo Zhang, @aanixel.bsky.social & @pandascholar.bsky.social where we examine online political debates to understand how interactions become hostile using data from Reddit, real-time online chat experiments & brain imaging during chats - osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵
schematic for study design
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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Reminder about a couple of free online R tutorials for beginners by Dr @emilyanntowner.bsky.social 1/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=boJs...
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Tutorial - R for Beginners
YouTube video by Emily Towner
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Livia Tomova @livia-tomova.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
🚨 1-year Research Assistant position 🚨 I’m delighted to share that my lab at Cardiff University is now recruiting a 1-year Research Assistant to work on a Wellcome funded project on the impacts of loneliness and social isolation on adolescents. krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Huge congratulations to Dr @emilyanntowner.bsky.social on passing her PhD viva @campsydept.bsky.social
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Emily Towner @emilyanntowner.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
PhD ✔️ After five amazing years at Cambridge, I'm thrilled to have completed my PhD in Psychology! Huge thanks to my incredible supervisor @sjblakemore.bsky.social for being a brilliant scientist and compassionate mentor and to my Blakemore Lab colleagues and Cambridge friends who became family. 💙
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Emily Towner @emilyanntowner.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
25 days until I submit my PhD thesis—and I truly couldn’t have made it here without the unwavering support of my incredible, kind and brilliant supervisor. @sjblakemore.bsky.social Thank you so much, Sarah, for the lovely shoutout!
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Maureen Kelleher @maureenkelleher.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
For my researcher friends here.
Advice from a scientist who completed a PhD in Brazil under Bolsonaro.
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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
WOMEN and FEMALE are red flag words. (Men, male are not on the list). Let that sink in.
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Emily Towner @emilyanntowner.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Recently sat down with CUNY SPS to reflect on my journey from communications student to research scientist. We discussed how my non-traditional education prepared me for academia, falling in love with science, and my upcoming postdoc. #academicjourney #womeninscience medium.com/@CUNY_SPS/fo...
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Following a Scientific Role Model
A CUNY SPS Alum Reflects Back On Her Extraordinary Educational Journey
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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
This is such a good example of how word choice matters! Many people use “increase” and “decrease” when interpreting regression coefficients. I teach that this is unacceptable and misleading when writing about correlational studies. Here’s my writing guide for linear regression osf.io/egm3c
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Emily Towner @emilyanntowner.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Created a starter pack for those in Psychology (and related departments) at the University of Cambridge. Please let me know who I've missed!
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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
**We are recruiting** Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/
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Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
When I will respond to your email
Histogram peaked at 3 minutes and 2 weeks since sent
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Amy Orben @orbenamy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
🌟 We're Hiring! 🌟 My team is looking for a Research Coordinator to support our portfolio of research activities. If you thrive organising complex projects and managing a range of activities, this is the role for you. 📢 More information: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49152/ 📄 Apply by: 29th November 2024
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Research Co-ordinator (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Co-ordinator (Fixed Term) in the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge.
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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I’ve written personal things before, but never about my feelings for someone else. So I’m nervous to have this out today, about a romantic relationship when I was 17. It had a huge impact on me, for a long time, & I hope this can start a conversation about the significance of teenage love affairs
Guardian article: Why we should take teenage love more seriously
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Valerie Karl @valeriekarl.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Associations between parent’s mental health and youth’s functional emotion regulation networks: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Associations between parental psychopathology and youth functional emotion regulation brain networks
Parental mental health is associated with children’s emotion regulation (ER) and risk for psychopathology. The relationship between parental psychopat…
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Emily Towner @emilyanntowner.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Our latest paper, published today in Royal Society Open Science, found that being alone heightens 'threat alert' in teenagers—even when they're connected on social media. 🧠📲 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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Increased threat learning after social isolation in human adolescents | Royal Society Open Science
In animal models, social isolation impacts threat responding and threat learning, especially during development. This study examined the effects of acute social isolation on threat learning in human a...
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