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rachaelbedford.bsky.social @rachaelbedford.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

At the House of Lords with @timjsmith.bsky.social to discuss the need for evidence-based #screentime guidance in the early years with Baroness Joanna Penn. @ukri.org #AnimatingMinds, @nuffieldfoundation.org #BedtimeBoost.

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Centre for Brain and Behaviour, QMUL @queenmarycbb.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!

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Tim Smith @timjsmith.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Really happy to see Claire Essex’s brilliant work on the immediate cognitive effects of kid’s TV published after a long journey during her PhD. Watch this space for her continued work on this in our @ukri.org funded #animatingminds project 🧠🎞️👶

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rachaelbedford.bsky.social @rachaelbedford.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Team meeting for our Animating Minds project, followed by leaving celebrations for our amazing placement students at the Crystal Maze!

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Cathy Manning @cmanning.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Post-doc position available from Sept 2025 for 18 months on a @leverhulme.bsky.social project into children's perceptual decision-making using diffusion models. Closes 10th March. Pls share! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #VisionScience #PsychSciSky

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rachaelbedford.bsky.social @rachaelbedford.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Advertising 2 new positions in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. A postdoc & an RA at Queen Mary University of London as part of our UKRI-funded Animating Minds Project. More details and how to apply here: Postdoc: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX749/p... RA: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate at Queen Mary University of London

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rachaelbedford.bsky.social @rachaelbedford.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

3 new positions - postdoc & RAs - based at UAL, as part of our new Animating Minds project. See links to apply in the thread:

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Tim Smith @timjsmith.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I’m so happy that my first post on Bluesky is about coverage of our toddler bedtime screentime RCT on the wonderful Outside the Screen podcast. outsidethescreen.substack.com/p/toys-at-be.... Open access paper here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Ep 53: Toys at bedtime?

Plus a squeakquel, and device contracts

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Prof Rosa Hoekstra @rosahoekstra.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

🚨New publication alert: In this editorial my PhD students and I reflect on our challenges and relative successes in incorporating community involvement in our autism research. The editorial is openly available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Screenshot of the title of the editorial, published in the journal Autism. The editorial title is: "Community involvement in PhD students’ autism research projects: Challenges and opportunities"

Paragraph setting out the main challenges relating to community involvement in PhD student projects, as follows:

Community involvement is not without challenge and difficulties are commonly reported in recruiting representatives, building meaningful connections, maintaining engagement, funding community partners and implementing their recommendations. These challenges can be more pronounced in PhD student projects. The primary focus of a PhD is to independently complete a specific, often narrowly defined research project that contributes new knowledge to the field, within a specific timeframe and often with limited research funding. The independence requirement of PhD work may seem at odds with the requirements of active collaboration with community members, making it hard to strike a balance between leading the project and allowing collaborators to feel ownership of it. The limited timeline, of just three full-time years in some countries, can make it difficult for PhD students to ensure meaningful community engagement and to follow community advisors’ suggestions within the narrow scope and timeframe. Without funding, PhD students may also find it difficult to conduct community-engaged research that pays people appropriately for their contributions and time (Pickard et al., 2022). Finally, the early career stage of PhDs means that connections with community experts are often formed during, rather than prior to, the PhD, limiting the scope for early engagement.

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Divyangana Rakesh @divyangana.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

New paper, and it only took two years 🫠! In this systematic review, we aimed to identify the mediators and moderators in the association of SES with EF, language ability, and academic achievement. Now published as an Annual Research Review in JCPP! acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Associations of socioeconomic status with cognitive function, language ability, and academic achievement in youth: a systematic review of mechanisms and protective factors

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Silvia Seghezzi @silviaseghezzi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

@lauracrucianelli.bsky.social At Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences seminar next week!!!!!!! In person (1-2PM) and online (link on request). Don't miss it! @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

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