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Fiona MacCallum

@fimaccallum.bsky.social
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Head of Psychology at the University of Warwick (@warwickpsych.bsky.social)

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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Thanks Dr Deborah Talmi @dtalmi.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social for such an interesting talk on Bayesian modelling of subjective pain experiences. Nice to see the integration of basic and clinical science. 🧪
Dr Deborah Talmi presenting
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Nicole Tang @nkytang.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
My department is moving to a new building. Last day in my soon-to-be -old office, taking a good look at the long windowless corridor, defunct letter boxes, 60s spiral stairwell and the Japanese garden.
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Fiona MacCallum @fimaccallum.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
An exciting week for @warwickpsych.bsky.social as we move into our new building. A new era for Psychology at University of Warwick!
Picture of white, grey and gold building
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Nicole Tang @nkytang.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A productive and energising afternoon at our termly Lifespan Health & Wellbeing Group meeting. Grateful to our @warwickpsych PGR students for their support, and to Jag Jutley-Nielson & Nick Thompson for sharing insights into the STREAM project and participatory research with the autistic community.
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Dr Ani Permana @dranipermana.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
#🧪 #AcademicSky #Primates #Anthropology #Ecology #Evolution #Fieldwork #Indonesia #Sumatra #Orangutans Sumatra has been devastated. Please help and donate. Please share 🙏
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Fiona MacCallum @fimaccallum.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
New article: ✨Relational dynamite: Engagements with kinship at the interface of donor conception & DNA testing Petra Nordqvist, Leah Gilman, Caroline Redhead, Marie Fox, Nicky Hudson @fimaccallum.bsky.social @lucyfrith.bsky.social from #ConnecteDNA www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Relational dynamite: Engagements with kinship at the interface of donor conception and DNA testing
This article investigates how Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (DTCGT) affects people impacted by donor conception by bringing empirical data on how…
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Anja Raneberg for best PhD impact paper @fimaccallum.bsky.social 👏🎉
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Hey #AcademicSky #PsySky. All is ready for the start of the PG Research Day @warwickpsych.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social we’ll be covering the event live from 10am UK time
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Nicole Tang @nkytang.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
A buzzing Lifespan Health & Wellbeing Group termly meeting today! 🍕🎉👏 Huge thanks to our brilliant speakers for sharing exciting updates on their projects - inspiring research all around. #Wellbeing #AcademicLife @warwickpsych.bsky.social
Warwick Lifespan Health & Wellbeing Group Term 3 meetingProfessor Robin Goodwin presenting Project CONTAINDrs Katy Stoke (left) and Marina MendoçaKatie Cuneen presenting her doctoral project.
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Hester Duffy @wordlessreader.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Not to be all that meme, but I have a book out today.
A screenshot from the Oxford university press website, showing details of "Child Development: Context, Culture and Cascades", by Catherine Tamis-Lemonda, Steffie van Der Steen, and Hester Duffy.
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Nicole Tang @nkytang.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Such a nice surprise to find that one of my papers is among the most-viewed in Journal of Sleep Research! Not a bad way to start the week 🙌 @warwickpsych.bsky.social #TopViewedArticle 🧪The paper is open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Top Viewed Article Badge, WileyFront page of the paper "Cognitive factors and processes in models of insomnia: A systematic review"
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A new driving intervention developed by Dr. Melina Kunar and Prof. Derrick Watson reduces inattention-related driving errors—now featured on the Road Safety GB news page! roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/change-... (1/4) #PsychSky #AcademicSky #RoadSafety
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‘Change Blindness’ intervention highlights the risks of distracted driving
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Andrew Camara @andrew-m-camara.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Was an absolute pleasure to host Dr. Nick Brown (@steamtraen.eu, Linnaeus University) for a Warwick @reproducibilitea.org workshop! We were introduced to the topic of statistical errors/fraud in scientific research, and shown how to check whether the statistics in a scientific paper "add up" 🧐
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Young lemurs sing like children -- new research from @chiaradg.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Baby lemurs sing like children, Warwick university study shows
The University of Warwick has found that young lemurs sing out of tune and improve as adults.
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We are recruiting for two 1-year teaching-focussed positions. We welcome applicants in a wide range of areas, with a particular focus on social psychology for one of the posts. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML866/a...
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Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) or Teaching Fellow (110378-0325) - (Two Posts) at University of Warwick
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) or Teaching Fellow (110378-0325) - (Two Posts) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply toda...
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Katie Cunneen @katiecunneen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Participant Recruitment! Looking for workers within the healthcare sector to take part in a 15-minute survey about workers' health and engagement in workplace mental health support (Prize draw to win up to £150 worth of shopping vouchers). Survey link - warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Poster participant recruitment for workers within the healthcare sector to take part in a 15-minute survey around workers' health and engagement in workplace mental health support.
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Anu Realo @arealo.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
📣Please share the word! We’re recruiting 4 fully funded PhD students and 3 postdocs—a unique opportunity to join our @sustainera.bsky.social interdisciplinary research team led by @arealo.bsky.social and Kai Pata! Apply by 16th April and be part of shaping a more sustainable future 🌏
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
How to measure the prevalence of detailed—yet false—autobiographical memories in lab-based studies is debated. @kimwade.bsky.social and colleagues explain why even low false memory rates in lab-based research can be practically important: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Still Lost in the Mall—False Memories Happen and That's What Matters
For more than 25 years, psychologists have explored how people can develop rich false memories. Murphy et al. (2023) replicated the original “lost in the mall” study (Loftus and Pickrell 1995), demon...
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Nicole Tang @nkytang.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Don’t miss out the opportunity to work with my amazing colleagues @alexdclarke.bsky.social @mmrobinson93.bsky.social @gambichiara.bsky.social! Up to 4 PhD scholarships on offer by @warwickpsych.bsky.social!
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
⏳Last chance to apply! Don’t miss out.
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Matthew Mak @matthewmakpsy.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Very proud of this latest paper, which shows that reading two unrelated words in a meaningful sentence will push these words closer in semantic space—an effect observed 5min, 20min, and 12 hrs after initial exposure. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Involvement of episodic memory in language comprehension: Naturalistic comprehension pushes unrelated words closer in semantic space for at least 12 h
Recent experience with a word significantly influences its subsequent interpretation. For instance, encountering bank in a river-related context biase…
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Tomorrow's department Brown Bag speaker is Dr. Zachary Horne from the Psychology Department at the University of Edinburgh! #AcademicSky #PsychSky
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Dr Chiara Gambi @gambichiara.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Only a bit old and @warwickpsych.bsky.social has just hit 💯 followers! #AcademicSky #PsychSky Lovely psych people out there 🙏 and keep coming!
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Welcome to Dr Katy Stokes, who has joined us to work on the interdisciplinary UKRI-funded CONTAIN project, which aims to better understand and model the notion of human “contact” in the context of emerging infectious disease.
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🎉 Congratulations to @michaelapawley.bsky.social, a PhD student of the Warwick Sleep and Pain Lab @nkytang.bsky.social, on being awarded a UK Data Impact Fellowship from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social! This competitive programme supports 5 early career researchers using UK Data Service resources.
Michaela Pawley is awarded a UK Data Impact Fellowship 2025-26. Congratulations!
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Nicole Tang @nkytang.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🎓 4 PhD Fellowships at Warwick Psychology for 25/26 entry www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI727/p... -1 open to applicants with their own choice of supervisor/ proposal. If you're interested in sleep and pain research, get in touch. 🧪 Closing date: 16 March 2025 at 23:59
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Great discussion following our departmental brown bag seminar, on mild traumatic brain injury and post concussion symptoms. Dr Nigel King fielded questions spanning from aetiology and management of MTBI, high-profile NFL cases🦉, to banning of headers in young footballers. ⚽️
Drs Fiona MacCallum and Nigel King
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Matthew Mak @matthewmakpsy.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Warwick Psychology is looking to appoint a permanent Assistant/Associate Professor, with a specific focus on leading an online MSc conversion programme. Come join us! warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
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Assistant or Associate Professor (Teaching & Online Programmes) (110079-0125) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant or Associate Professor (Teaching & Online Programmes) (110079-0125). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
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