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Ewan Murray

@ewanmurray.bsky.social
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Psychology PhD student at the University of York Looking at using spaced retrieval practice in mathematics. He/Him

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Happy publication day to first author @ewanmurray.bsky.social! A lot of hard work by Ewan went into this, so it is great to see if fully published. A Meta-analytic Review of the Effectiveness of Spacing and Retrieval Practice for Mathematics Learning #cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence
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A Meta-analytic Review of the Effectiveness of Spacing and Retrieval Practice for Mathematics Learning - Educational Psychology Review
Spaced retrieval practice harnesses two well-studied phenomena: the spacing effect, where spacing out practice over several sessions leads to a gain in retention compared to massed practice in one ses...
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SUNRAY @sunray-york.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Do you want to get your school involved in #research? Perhaps you want to get hands on with the latest evidence & contribute to new developments on a particular topic? We'd love to chat about your interests! You can let us know here, or reach out to us directly :) sunray.york.ac.uk/join-the-net...
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SUNRAY @sunray-york.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Hello world! 👋 We are the School & University Network for Research Across Yorkshire. We provide opportunities for schools and researchers to work together on understanding child development. Please do say hello, and find out more about joining the network here sunray.york.ac.uk
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Someone in my dept. made a data wrangling in Gorilla tutorial back in 2020, if that helps with any inspiration for the gorilla side of things: emljames.github.io/GorillaR/Gor...
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Part 1: From Gorilla to Tidy Data in 5 Easy Steps
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I think Gorilla can combine all the questionnaires for you now, so maybe Big 5, demo Qs and a simple task like digit span would make different files you’d have to combine? There’s lots of open source tasks you could use for the example to set it up quick app.gorilla.sc/openmaterials
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Gorilla Experiment Builder
We help ambitious behavioural scientists run novel online experiments easily
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A couple of months ago they put out an option to have all the tasks go to a single file - which makes it a bit easier! But, still needs plenty of wrangling - I wouldn’t want to do it by hand
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Maybe Qualtrics versus Gorilla would be a good comparison of wrangling data in a wide versus long format? Could show how to change between the two
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Congrats!! 🎉
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Landed back in the UK. Definitely learnt a lot working with Steven Pan’s lab on our pretesting project. Also, managed to eat exceptionally well on a budget in the Hawker Centres too!
Me and Steven in front of a big NUS sign. Lush greenery, stereotypical of the campus, surround the sign.Waterfall in Changi Airport.A picture of the best ramen I ever had. Spent my evening googling best ramen in Singapore, I found this guy who goes round hundreds in Sg and Japan - he uses a machine to measure salt levels and “brix” which is a measure of the amount of dissolved solids in a liquid to test for quality. Pagoda exhibit at the Asian Civilisations Museum
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Thanks for sharing Jeremy!! Your lab website really nicely designed! Clicking “reinstate context” to get back to the top of the page is a great touch 😂
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Congrats!!
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
No help sorry, but I hope you get some good suggestions! I’ve wanted to reimplement some of the classic models to get a better understanding, but never found any easy to access datasets - my few emails asking for data “available upon request” always read unanswered too 😅
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Jeremy Manning @jeremyrmanning.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Memory-sky: I'm going to be teaching a new (open!) grad course in the spring, where we read about and implement some memory models (and ideally for them to some small datasets). Looking for suggestions to include! I could go "classic" (Hopfield nets, SAM, TCM, etc.), or "modern" with newer stuff 🤔
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I had an old copy of the the brothers karamazov that had a few of kind of pages, I didn’t know what was going on. Couldn’t bring myself to cut them so I just read them at a really weird angle 😅
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Having a great time on a EPS study visit to the National University of Singapore - this cat is permanently chilling outside the Psychology building - many signs saying not to feed him as he’s getting too chonky
A black and white cat lies lazily in a sunbeam outside the NUS Psychology department
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Dr Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel @drckt.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Call for teachers to participate in online survey: My dissertation student is exploring the experiences of Additional Support Needs (ASN) teachers on using learning strategies in everyday classrooms. Survey takes 30 minutes and is anonymous. uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_.... Thanks. #edusky
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I audited Mike’s Models & modelling in science & technology course it was really great!
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I really enjoyed talking to all three! A lot of great work being done in your lab!
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Psychonomics was awesome! Now just gotta fit two musicals into my final afternoon in NYC
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
It was great to meet you too! Your poster was really interesting!
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Had an amazing time presenting my poster at Psychonomics! A lot of interesting conversations!! I met so many people doing really great research #psynom24 #spacingeffect
A picture of me next to my poster entitled: more steps same effect spacing increases the retention of mathematics procedures of varying complexity A picture of me explaining my poster
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I’m afraid I’ll be no help unless you need someone to throw out phrases like”did you see that ludicrous display last night” and “the problem with Scotland is they always try to walk it in” m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sask...
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Roy & Moss Pretend To Like Football | The IT Crowd
YouTube video by Channel 4
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I’d like to be added!
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Really looking forward to attending Psychonomics for the first time next week! I’d love to talk to anyone interested the #spacing, #testing or #pretesting effects or more generally #memory and #learning at my poster! #Psynom24 @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Thanks!
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Hi Jeff, I’d love to be added to the list!
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Thanks!!
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
Submitted my first paper today and released it as a preprint! Murray, E., Goebel, S. M., & @aidanhorner.bsky.social (2024). More Steps, Same Effect: Spacing Increases the Retention of Mathematics Procedures of Varying Complexity. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Great list! Linking your first and last two points, I found it useful to explicitly let students know that retrieval practice can (and should be) effortful. It might feel difficult, but the more effort you have to expend the more effective it will be in the long run.
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Congrats!!
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
Maths undergrad into teacher training to teach Maths. Taught for a while then switched to a masters Psychology in Education (conversion course) and now a PhD in Psychology looking at spaced retrieval practice
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
Focaccia from the bread baker's apprentice book - has garlic in the herb oil
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
Gotta love some bread and soup - a healthy 20 cloves of Garlic in the soup with more for the bread
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
Congratulations! 🎉
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
Microsoft has quickly learned that I think of nothing but sheep. After several iterations, I got it to show me a closed box, with a sheep painted on it, which may contain a sheep. I'd say the painted sheep is a representation of the sheep, not the sheep itself, so the sheep isn't visible.
Four more pictures of sheep, each with their head sticking out the top or side of the box.A closed box with a painting of a sheep on it. Ceci n'est pas une brebis.
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
If you tell Microsoft Co-pilot that you can see the sheep it asks to move to a different topic.
A screenshot of the output of microsoft copilot when I asked it to repeat Tomer's chat-GPT prompt:
Me:
"I would like an image of a closed box with a sheep inside, you cannot see the sheep"
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"I’ll try to create that."
Four pictures of sheep in boxes, each sheep is visible to varying degrees, but always visible. The first box is very similar to the chat-GPT one, the second is more ornate and has my favourite sheep in as he looks mischievous. The other two are similar variations.

You
"I can see the sheep, I should not be able to see the sheep."
Copilot
"Hmm…let’s try a different topic. Sorry about that. What else is on your mind?"
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
Looks amazing!
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 13/05/2024
I thought your tips were great!
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 13/05/2024
Barbara Sarnecka has a book on academic writing I’ve found really useful during my PhD so far. It’s available for free on the OSF if that’s something that would be a helpful link to add osf.io/n8pc3/
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The Writing Workshop: Write More, Write Better, Be Happier in Academia
Self-published book on academic writing by Barbara W. Sarnecka. Hosted on the Open Science Framework
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
Keeper of the Graph is my new career goal
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
Can highly recommend Aidan’s lab! A great environment to do a PhD!
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Jamie Cockcroft @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
Great lab, great supervisor (Aidan) and using lots of techniques from behavioural experiments to computational modelling to understand memory… join us!!
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
Fully funded PhD position to work with me & @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social on the Leverhulme funded project: Boosting long-term memory via environmental structure in virtual reality Funding covers PhD stipend and UK fees. Please email me with a cover letter and CV. #neuroskyence #psychscisky
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Boosting long-term memory via environmental structure in virtual reality at University of York on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Boosting long-term memory via environmental structure in virtual reality at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Official launch of our prejudice modeling competition. -We give you some data, you build a model, and we test it on new data -$2k for winning teams, and authorship for all Sign up and more info here: hehmanlab.org/competition Would appreciate sharing widely! #SocialPsyc #PrejudiceResearch
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
interviewer: and under goals I see you put down "be Giles from Buffy the vampire slayer"? me: yes interviewer: so, like, a librarian? me (adjusting fake glasses): oh dear, it seems you, uh, misunderstand
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
Exciting day of memory talks at the Greatest Yorkshire Memory Meeting (GYMM), this year held in Newcastle. First up the amazing @amyatkinson.bsky.social! #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition
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Veronica Yan @veronicayan.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
New pub with @pcarvalho.bsky.social and Faria Sana in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, "No Simple Solutions to Complex Problems: Cognitive Science Principles Can Guide but Not Prescribe Educational Decisions" (1/2) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #psycscisky #edusky
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No Simple Solutions to Complex Problems: Cognitive Science Principles Can Guide but Not Prescribe Ed...
Cognitive science of learning points to solutions for making use of existing study and instruction time more effectively and efficiently. However, solutions are...
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Great talk from @akiraoc.bsky.social yesterday on jamais vu, winning the Ig Nobel award, and who does(n't) enter the psychological "canon". He even has a book out about the latter topic, so get buying and reading! #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition
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Colonised Minds: Narratives That Shape Psychology a book by Akira O′connor and Erin Robbins
Psychology, as it is taught in the Global North, strives to be an objective science beyond reproach - but what happens when we examine the discipline critically, through an anti-colonial lens? This ...
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
famous moments in psychology / cog-sci as lego sets, a thread. 1. Pavlov's dogs.
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Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
A photo with me next to Ebbinghaus' desk, which I saw while at the Würzburg International Autumn School for Lasting Learning seems a great first post here #psychscisky #cogpsyc
A picture of me next to Ebbinghaus' desk
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