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Gareth Gaskell

@mggaskell.bsky.social
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Professor of psychology at the University of York. Interested in language, sleep, memory, learning. www.york.ac.uk/psychology/staff/aca…

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026
Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling.
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter
To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...
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Vanessa Keller @vanessakeller.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
My first first-author paper has just been published @JCgntn: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... - check it out below if you’re interested in prediction and/or word-meaning priming! ⬇️ Big thanks to my amazing co-authors/supervisors @mggaskell.bsky.social, @sacairney.bsky.social, @matthewmakpsy.bsky.social
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No Effects of Predictability on Word-Meaning Priming and Incidental Memory | Journal of Cognition
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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
We have three lectureships available at York Psychology (@yorkpsychology.bsky.social) with a broad remit for research/teaching areas. Home and overseas applications are welcome. Deadline for applications is early April - enquiries welcome. Come and join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
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Jobs - The University of York
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Helen Blank @helenblank.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Looking for a #PhD or #postdoc position on predictive processing? 🧠 Please, get in touch if you are the perfect fit to join my lab at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de
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Emma James @emljames.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Three! THREE!
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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
We have three lectureships available at York Psychology (@yorkpsychology.bsky.social) with a broad remit for research/teaching areas. Home and overseas applications are welcome. Deadline for applications is early April - enquiries welcome. Come and join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
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Jobs - The University of York
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Royal Holloway Sleep Lab @sleep-rhul.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This year @beckcrowley.bsky.social will represent the lab at #CNS2026. Don't miss her poster about adolescent sleep and learning on Sunday! If you're not going, read all about it below: www.cogneurosociety.org/poster/?id=6... @mggaskell.bsky.social @alice-gregory.bsky.social @cnsmtg.bsky.social
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Marcus O. Harrington @harrington-mo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
😴 Sleep stabilises old memories and supports new learning. Are these benefits of sleep causally linked, driven by a common underlying mechanism, or largely independent? Our new paper digs into this important question! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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Matthew Mak @matthewmakpsy.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Killing 'delve': We analysed 4,800+ student-authored reports across a decade to uncover how ChatGPT is shaping undergrad writing—style, sentiment, and quality. 📉📈 GenAI isn't just a tool. It's a co-author. 📝 #Preprint: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
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Style, Sentiment, and Quality of Undergraduate Writing in the AI Era: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analysis of 4,820 Authentic Empirical Reports
As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) becomes widespread in education, its influence on students’ academic practice raises concern. We conducted pre-registered analyses of 4,820 empirical repo...
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john sakon @johnsakon.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Excited to present our new work reading minds! Ok, not *that* kind of mind reading, but we have created a deep learning method capable of using single neuron recordings from people watching episodes of TV that can predict when they recall specific memories from the episode. 1/6
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...
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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
One last shout for these jobs - still plenty of time to apply!
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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We have two permanent lectureships currently available at York - home and overseas applicants are welcome! Please share: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
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Jobs - The University of York
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Dr Julian Grenier CBE @juliangrenier.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
What happens when a whole city commits to giving every child a better start to life? 🚀 Early Talk for York is transforming early years education—boosting speech & language skills, tackling inequality Full article by CarolineVollans in NurseryWorld - www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/feat...
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Early Talk for York: an accessible and effective programme to support communication - Nursery World
An early speech, language and communication programme in York is improving the skills of children in need. Caroline Vollans reports.
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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
After you fall asleep in the sleep lab, we can decide what you dream about — as Karen Konkoly showed in her PhD work and just published in this new paper: “Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences” authors.elsevier.com/c/1lWFU6TBG5...
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
***🚨 New Paper 🚨*** Both #sleep and eyes-closed waking rest improve memory. But sleep also increases FALSE recall in some paradigms. Q: Does eyes-closed rest similarly increase false recall? A: No. Free access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYgb3qNaA... #sleeppeeps #psychscisky 🧠🟦
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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We have two permanent lectureships currently available at York - home and overseas applicants are welcome! Please share: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
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Jobs - The University of York
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Anna á V. Guttesen @annaavali.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Excited to share our newly published paper! 👇 Massive thanks to @harrington-mo.bsky.social @sacairney.bsky.social @mggaskell.bsky.social
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Emma James @emljames.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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Jobs - The University of York
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Anne Castles @annecastles.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Glad to be joining @bsky.app. Follow me to read about research we are doing in #reading #dyslexia #learning and #language
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Michelle St Clair @michellestclair.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
New post for an SLT/SLP Research Associate/Assistant to work on an @edldproject.bsky.social project to validate a screening tool to identify #DevLangDis in adults! Please RT widely! @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @emilymayjackson.bsky.social @profnikkibotting.bsky.social www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
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ED12650 Research Assistant/Associate - Jobs at Bath
Research Associate
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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A typically brilliant talk from @jennirodd.bsky.social for her @exppsychsoc.bsky.social Mid-career Award
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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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Gabriella Vigliocco @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Inaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF
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The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language
Scientific Data - The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language
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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Congratulations Matthew, this is a lovely study! @yorkpsychology.bsky.social
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…
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Lewis Ball @lewis-ball.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Very happy to share our new preprint revealing no evidence for a targeted memory reactivation (TMR) effect on word-meaning priming (1/8): osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Asifa Majid @asifamajid.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
For social psychologists looking for a more permanent home in the UK, Oxford Experimental Psychology Department @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Michael C. Anderson @memorycontrol.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Should the Medical Research Council end sustained funding for its internationally renowned scientific units? 600 scientists don't think so.The UK needs sustained investment in basic science and challenge-led investments. #Neuroskyence @mrccbu.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nobelis...
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Nobelists urge rethink on MRC unit funding changes
Nobel laureates back calls to pause new system of Medical Research Council funding which threatens future of well-established research units
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Eleanor Maguire, who died 4 January at age 54, pioneered the famous London taxi-driver study and naturalistic approaches for studying spatial and episodic memory in people. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/memory/remem...
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Remembering Eleanor Maguire, ‘trailblazer’ of human memory
Maguire, mastermind of the famous London taxi-driver study, broadened the field and championed the importance of spatial representations in memory.
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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Why do we suffer from more intrusive thoughts when we're sleep deprived? Find out in this SciAm article on our latest work by @rachelnuwer.bsky.social, featuring @zarabergstrom.bsky.social and @marwimber.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-...
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Bad Sleep Lets Intrusive Thoughts Flood In
Findings reveal the memory-related brain processes that generate unwanted thoughts when people are sleep deprived
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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Excellent news for our students (and staff!)
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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Welcome to Bluesky, @exppsychsoc.bsky.social. The best society in the world.*
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly. www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
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Eleanor Maguire | 1970 - 2025 | Online-Tribute.com
Learning and memory are so fundamental to us, so enmeshed throughout cognition, that ‘solving’ memory, unpacking its neural mechanisms and being able to conceptualise it fully will, I believe, res…
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Lusine Grigoryan @grigolus.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
❗2-year postdoc at the University of York❗ I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC-funded project “The many faces of prejudice: the “what”, the “why”, and the “how” of inferences we make from membership in social groups”. To learn more and apply (by Jan 13): jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese... #psychjobs
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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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Giacomo Bignardi @bignardi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Signed! Could not imagine a better place to do a PhD than the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The MRC research units provide unique opportunities to advance our understanding. My postdoc at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit was foundational to my career. Please consider signing this letter!
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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
MRC Units across the UK have led the scientific world for generations, but are due to be closed with little consultation, for reasons that are largely unknown. Please sign this letter if you would like the MRC to reconsider. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Open letter to Sir Patrick Vallance
To sign the letter, please complete the form here: https://forms.gle/eRydV6VpMQVFPtdF7 Please forward a link to this letter to any colleagues who you think may be interested in signing – we would li...
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York Biomedical Research Institute @ybri-uoy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
We will share good news, public events, research opportunities & the latest publications from our members, all related to our research themes: 💉Immunology, Haematology, & Infection 🧠Neuroscience 🔬Molecular & Cellular Medicine Follow us to connect with our community of biomedical researchers! 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬
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QJEP @qjep.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Hello BlueSky. This is a new account for QJEP to share research and new papers in experimental psychology. Looking forward to finding more people to follow - do share starter packs
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Antoine Coutrot @antoinecoutrot.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
⚠️ New preprint ! « Social determinants of cognitive aging trajectories across 39 countries » Some people in their 80s have cognitive abilities similar to many 30-year-olds, others are severely diminished. 
How comes?
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Older women participating to a race at the Senior Games 2023.
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Sarah F. Schoch @sarahschoch.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I am currently trying to put together a symposium for WorldSleep on Open Science Practices in Sleep and Dream Research. If any of you are doing any (e.g., Many Labs, Citizen Science, Multiverse, etc.) in your research, please reach out or share and forward! #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social
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Psychology Department, University of York (UK) @yorkpsychology.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We've been awarded two ERC Consolidator Grants for projects on sleep and online misogyny. Congrats to PIs @sacairney.bsky.social and Harriet Over! www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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More than £3M awarded to psychologists in studies of sleep and online misogyny
Two psychologists from the University of York have been awarded more than £1.5 million each in ERC Consolidator Grants to study the impact of sleep on memory and the growing issue of online misogyny.
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Psychology Department, University of York (UK) @yorkpsychology.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
York researchers test impact of school smartphone ban in new Channel 4 documentary www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Researchers test impact of school smartphone ban in new Channel 4 documentary
Psychologists at the University of York will test the impact that smartphones have on children’s behaviour in a new two-part documentary series for Channel 4.
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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
It's wonderful to see funders investing heavily in such exciting/important research. Congratulations Scott - one of two winners in this round from @yorkpsychology.bsky.social, alongside the equally brilliant Harriet Over.
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Rob Hartsuiker @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
ESCoP @escop.bsky.social Executive Committee Seeks the Next Editor of the Journal of Cognition @jcgntn.bsky.social - Deadline for expressions of interest 31 December 2024 - Start date: 1 January 2026 - Contact Editor-in-Chief @candicemorey.bsky.social for more info and (self)nominations
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
New blogpost: deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
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Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...
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Martin Dresler @dresler.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Revised eLife version of our 'Fractal cycles of sleep' - a new aperiodic activity-based definition of sleep cycles: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... We have some plans how/where to apply the concept, but would be happy to receive additional ideas!
Figure 1: basic concept of fractal cycles of sleep.
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