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BERA @beranews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

📝 NEW BLOG POST More than content: Imagining primary citizenship education in England By Rebecca Simpson-Hargreaves, The University of Manchester Read here: www.bera.ac.uk/blog/more-than-conte…

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Gabriel Velez @gmvelez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

These are a really great resource to check out for anyone teaching psychology!

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Dr Heather Ellis @heatherlwellis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This week sees the publication of new School Food Standards for England. Our @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social research shows that school meals are never just about nutrition. I spoke to the Yorkshire Post about why school meals should be seen as social & educational infrastructure. 🍉 🥦 🌮 🍽️ #histed

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Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Meet Professor Michelle Phillips, Creative Manchester’s new Director & Professor of Music in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at The University of Manchester. In our spotlight interview, Michelle shares what excites her about joining Creative Manchester and more👉 ow.ly/GRRo50ZNqin

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 08/09/2026

Finally received my editor copies today! Always a special feeling to hold a book you have contributed to in your hands. So grateful to my fellow editors, all the authors, reviewers of the chapters & the full volume, as well as the whole @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social team! @channel-view.bsky.social

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Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast (ARC NWC) @arcnwc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

📢 Funded PhD opportunity at Lancaster University Interested in mental health research, co-production and public involvement? This PhD will explore how to increase diversity in Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) across mental health research in the UK. 🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Increasing Diversity in Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) for Mental Health Research across the UK at Lancaster University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Increasing Diversity in Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) for Mental Health Research across the UK at Lancaster University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Now exhibiting in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor: Housing with care and creativity with older LGBTQ people 📅 Exhibiting until 30 September 📍Glass Corridor, Samuel Alexander Building. Open to the public 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday. Find out more about the project: ow.ly/USnP50ZIy3K

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Heida Maria Sigurdardottir @heidasigurdar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Please talk to me or @arnig.bsky.social at #ecvp2026 if you know of an interested potential Ph.D. student -- or are that interested student ;) #ECVP #visionscience #neuroskyence #psychscisky #psychology #imagery #visualimagery #phd #cogsci

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Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#HigherEd #science #sciencesky #EduSky having difficulty complying w/ #openscience #openaccess mandates? Particularly as an #ECR or limited-funding researcher? Looking for a couple of panelists for a conference who can share their experience. DM me and share! #PublicHealth #publicPolicy

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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Our study of autism community perspectives about Open Data has now been published at @collabrapsychology.bsky.social (🔓) online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... Participants were generally optimistic about open data to advance autism research and reduced participant burden. But,

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Open Data in Autism Research: The Views of Autistic People and Parents of Autistic Children

Open data has been promoted as a tool to improve the transparency, robustness, and efficiency of scientific research. However, the perspectives of participant communities, particularly those who are m...

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A Review of the Guardian’s Review of Channel 4’s ‘The Great ADHD Myth?’ theneuroscienceofeve... I reviewed the Guardian's review of The Great ADHD Myth, and found it... well, lacking doesn't really do it justice. #ADHD #Channel4 #Guardian #Neurodivergence

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Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

📢 NEWS: Centre for Women's Mental Health at Oxford to be established. The interdisciplinary research centre will be led by a new Professor of Women's Mental Health (applications now open!). Find out more about the Centre & apply: www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/new-oxf... @medsci.ox.ac.uk

Picture and quote from Professor Belinda Lennox, Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. Quote reads: "The urgent global need and interest in improving women’s mental health has never been greater. Our centre will be at the forefront of this work, harnessing Oxford’s unique breadth of expertise, and fostering collaboration and innovation, to accelerate research in this area for the benefit of patients."

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

yeah i'm a gamer

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Jess Rohmann @jlrohmann.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

📣 Job alert: We are looking for a PhD Candidate in causal inference & health data science🔎 📍 Berlin (Responsible Health Data Analysis Team, BIH-QUEST) 📅 Starting: Oct 1, 2026 (3 years) 💼 100% E13 position 🔗 Read more and apply (deadline Aug 17): karriere.charite.de/en/job-vacan... Please share!

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PhD Candidate (all genders) BIH QUEST Center (Team “Responsible Health Data Analysis”)

full-time | 17.08.2026 | BIH Berlin Mitte

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Sarah MacQuarrie @smqpsych.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The most amusing thread of the day....

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🔺Psychology Job 🔺 Assistant Professor in Psychology (Grade 8) at Durham Uni to support our new MSc Psychology (Conversion) You should use computational approaches, incl machine learning and artificial intelligence Closing date 30th Aug Please share! #Psychology #AcademicSky #PhDSky More info 👇

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Assistant Professor (Research %26 Education)

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 09/07/2026

Plug for the excellent seminar series run by my research group, LCD-PSYC at University of Manchester, in collaboration with LuCID. All your language development interests catered for! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @childstudycentre.bsky.social

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LCD-PSYC in collaboration with LuCid Seminar Series (2025-2026) - YouTube

Welcome to the official playlist for the Seminar Series presented by The Centre for Language, Communication and Developmental Psychology (LCD-PSYC) at the Un...

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Sarah MacQuarrie @smqpsych.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Signed A terrible proposition and baseless argument

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Sarah MacQuarrie @smqpsych.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Please share and celebrate sharingstudentprojects.manchester.ac.uk A new look for this website making student work made more accessible across a range of thematic categories. Thanks @uomresearchit.bsky.social and many others for making this a reality. @uomhums.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social

Banner promoting "Sharing Student Projects." The banner features the headline "Sharing Student Projects" with the subheading: "Explore inspiring research projects, fresh ideas and diverse voices that bring learning and impact together." A yellow "Explore Projects" button appears on the left. On the right are previews of student project posters from The University of Manchester, including a QR code and illustrated project thumbnails. The background shows a blurred university campus building.he background shows a blurred university campus building.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"My message to the people of the UK is that I'll train the new guy but you're going to have to stick with one of them eventually."

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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.

These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need.

In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.

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CELCIS @celcis.org · 14/07/2026

Our Research Fellow will need to take a flexible and responsive approach within a fast-paced environment where needs can change and develop rapidly and will also have a strong understanding of what it takes influence policy and practice through high-quality research. Interested? buff.ly/rOa7nnB

A graphic to promote a vacancy at CELCIS for a Research Fellow. The vacancy closes 24 July 2026.

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School of Environment, Education, and Development @uomseed.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Congratulations to all the winners at last night's @manchester.ac.uk Distinguished Achievement Awards, particularly SEED winners Pamela Qualter (Researcher of the Year - Humanities), Miri Firth (Teacher of the Year - Humanities) and Freddie Jones (Postgraduate Researcher of the Year - Humanities)

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I want to shout out www.outdoormobility.org - an amazing oganisation making the beautiful outdoors accessible to those who can't walk far with their bookable Trampers :-) Also to @nationaltrust.org.uk who offer similar at many of their sites! My mother has had the *best* weekend in the Lakes!

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Language and Linguistic Science @ UoY @uoylangling.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Registration is open for YorCCA 2026, the York Conference on Conversation Analysis run by PhD researchers at York. Join on 17 July in person or online, with optional skills workshops on 18 July led by two invited professors. Register now sites.google.com/yor...

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Emma Wilson @emmawilson.eurosky.social · 03/06/2026

What does it mean to lead with curiosity in research culture? 🤔 I wrote a blog about why I think curiosity is a key value and skill for research leaders along with some thoughts on how to be more curious. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Illustration of a woman holding a magnifying glass up to her face. There are colourful doddles of speech bubbles, exclamation points and question marks around her.

Illustration made by myself in Canva. No generative AI was used.

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Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Delighted to launch Arts Council-funded creative writing workshops for late-diagnosed neurodivergent adults. Online and in person, with pay-what-you-can places and bursaries available. No experience needed. More info: helenkara.com/2026/06/02/r... #CreativeWriting #Neurodivergent #ArtsCouncil

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Reclaiming Space For Neurodivergent Creativity

I am delighted to announce that I have been awarded funding from the Arts Council to work with Kate Fox to offer (deep breath) creative writing opportunities for late-diagnosed neurodivergent adult…

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Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

📚 Explore children's literature through taste at 'Tasting Children’s Literature: An Edible Read-A-Thon' as part of the #FestivalofLibraries. ️11 June⏰10am📍Z-arts, Hulme, Manchester 🎟️Free For young children up to the age of 8. School of Arts, Languages and Cultures @manclibraries.bsky.social

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Rachel Carson was born 119 years ago today. Her 1962 book Silent Spring was responsible for revitalizing American interest in ecology after the consumption-driven 1950s, just as her books of the 1950s rekindled enthusiasm for marine biology. tinyurl.com/47bf62k4 #WomenInSTEM #Ecology #BioSky

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The Voice from the Silent Spring: Rachel Carson

“Hunger, hunger, are you listening, To the words from Rachel’s pen? Words which taken at face value, Place lives of birds ‘bove those of men..” • W.E. McCauleyThe first half of the twentieth century w...

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Fully funded PhD position @sussex.ac.uk, at the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. Stipend plus fees for 3.5 years, kindly supported by the School of Engineering & informatics. Apply by May 31st. More details here: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

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The Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science (SCCS) 2026 Studentship : University of Sussex

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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Why are adolescent school transitions important? Discover how primary to secondary #school transition can affect adolescent #wellbeing, #anxiety, belonging, & motivation, & explore ways schools can support students through change. Blog by Mason Mi Zhou. bit.ly/3RrMTuM

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Adolescent school transition: How moving school impacts teenage wellbeing

Discover how primary to secondary school transition can affect adolescent wellbeing, anxiety, belonging, and motivation, and explore ways schools can support students through change.

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T-FΨN (Teaching-Focused University Network) @t-fun.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

We are writing to share happy news. One of the co-founders of this network, @katyburgess.bsky.social, has just been awarded @bps-dartp.bsky.social's Higher Education Psychology Teacher of the Year Award! We hope you'll join us in congratulating Katy warmly. Congratulations Dr Burgess! 🥳🎉👏

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Enrique Neblett @eneblett.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

📢 CFP Deadline Extended: Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology Special Section: Open Science in Multicultural Psychology Empirical, conceptual, tutorial & methodological contributions welcome 📅 LOI due June 15, 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/CDEMP-OpenScience #OpenScience #MulticulturalPsychology

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CDEMP Special Section CFP - Open Science

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology (CDEMP) Call for Papers Special Section on Transparency, Credibility, and Accountability in Context: Open Science as Psychological Inquiry in Ethnic M...

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Sarah MacQuarrie @smqpsych.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

New paper - out now: doi.org/q6k4 Children and young people's voices are being overlooked. We call for urgent changes to how children and young people are asked to take part in research. #ResearchEthics #ChildRights #InclusiveResearch #ChildParticipation #EduSky #AcademicSky

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 13/05/2026

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

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Katie Cebula @katiecebula.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

⭐ Seeking members for a small research Community Advisory Group. ⭐ Project focuses on the school experiences of care experienced neurodivergent children

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 06/05/2026

Sara and Mandy are two of the most committed and loveliest educators I have ever met. The work they do (together and separately) is so impactful.

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Dr. Laura M. König @lauramkoenig.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

5 PhD positions in @univie.ac.at's new interdisciplinary research platform Trustworthy Science Communication. Areas include communication science, STS and health psychology. Apply by 14 May to join our amazing team. More info: sci-comm.univie.ac.at/phd-positions #PhDLife #PhDJobs #BehSci #SciComm

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The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk · 05/05/2026

Professor Cecilia Wong has been awarded the Gold Medal by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). ⭐ Her work focuses on developing spatial analysis and policy monitoring, helping policymakers better understand people, place and economic change www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/p...

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Laura Crane @lauramaycrane.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Really enjoyed contributing to this new BBC Bitesize article on stimming in neurodivergent children and young people www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/art...

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What is stimming in ADHD, autism and other neurodivergent conditions? - BBC Bitesize

Bitesize Parenting looks at why children stim and whether it's something that parents should be worried about.

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BERA @beranews.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

📣 Call for Convenor: Arts Based Educational Research SIG We are recruiting a SIG Convenor for the BERA Arts Based Educational Research SIG to help lead the SIG over the next 3 years. 🎨 Find out more and apply: www.bera.ac.uk/opportunity/call-for…

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bpspes.bsky.social @bpspes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

1/4💰 Attention Early Career Researchers! Worried about conference costs? The BPS Early Career Conference Bursary Scheme can help fund your attendance at our 2026 Annual Conference. 🧵⏰ Deadline to apply: 22nd June 2026 #BPSPES2026

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Sarah MacQuarrie @smqpsych.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Two conversations today, two different people. Both torn and deflated by the UK HE depressing environment.

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Research of today is a team sport. Much of it depends on scientists in research-support roles who remain largely unseen, uncredited and frequently underpaid. Research is an ecosystem; every niche needs to be recognised 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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How hidden contributions power modern research

The people who work behind the scenes to keep research moving say that there should be more recognition for their roles.

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