The Um Game 🤔😅 Pop-Up Debates 📝💬 The Hot Seat 🔥🪑 While it might not be possible to completely quash students’ fear of public speaking, these 3 activities help normalize nervousness and celebrate student efforts along the way! #EduSky

3 Ways to Help Students Become Confident Public Speakers

By lowering the stakes and offering regular (fun) practice, even the most reluctant speakers can build this vital skill.

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In observance of #BrainAwarenessWeek I'm reposting the public lecture my friend @phdcomics.com and I gave last year at Harvard. We covered a lot of topics, and it was a ton of fun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVcZ... #neuroskyence #BrainWeek

The Biggest Mysteries of the Human Brain

YouTube video by Harvard Museum of Natural History

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New #CRAEresearchSummary @brianirvine.bsky.social considers the role of framing and reframing in Specialist Autism Mentoring at UK Universities

Mobilising Specialist Autism Mentoring in UK Universities

When entering higher education in the UK, students get offered a needs assessment through the Disabled Students Allowance. For autistic students, disclosure often results in the option for a Specia…

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When #GenAI leads 150 students to submit the same ‘creative’ work, something is afoot in arts and humanities education. Leah Henrickson and Luke Zaphir turn insights from cognitive science into ways to use AI to boost students’ creativity: https://ow.ly/k4eF50XjRAV #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

The Birth of the Transgenic Alzheimer's Model #neuroskyence #Alzheimer

Of Mice and Mechanisms: Part 1

The Birth of the Transgenic Alzheimer's Model

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Check out this new collection of essays looking back at education policy in England since 2010 Includes a chapter from CEPEO’s Jake Anders books.google.com/books/about/...

Education Policy in England 2010–2024

This text presents an informative overview of Conservative-led education policy over the last 14 years. The book provides a broad and detailed picture of the developing education landscape in England ...

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This essay is disappointing on multiple levels. Science is not "largely apolitical", as the author claims, and the separation of science from humanities will only lead to more scientists ignoring their responsibilities to society and the sociopolitical implications of their work. #AcademicSky 🧪

Matthew J Kuiper@matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 12mo ago

In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities. “scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”

"Now if you are a novice... you may be puzzled and not know what is so wrong about that [AI] ‘definition’ in the screenshot above. This is the crux. For experts it is obvious!" THIS. This is why AI in schools is a MAJOR problem! #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #SchoolLibrary #AIIsTheProblem

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 12mo ago

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

Delighted to announce that one of the original research studies from my PhD project is now available as a preprint! Anyone interested in bridging the research-practice gap would be interested in my findings on how educational intervention developers use evidence in their work: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Super interesting new publication with systemic implications for early education.

Ana Whitaker @anawhit.bsky.social · last yr.

Using data across 4 studies, we found that: • Structural features (like ratios, teacher ed) were linked to classroom quality only when regulations were low. • Once structural standards improved, those links weakened. • Classroom process quality didn’t significantly predict preschoolers’ outcomes.

Ok so this Pinheiro and Bates book - physical copy on my shelf having survived multiple international moves and downsizings - has been my bible on mixed effects models. But it's 25 years old, is there a modern (#rstats) equivalent i should upgrade to?

This is an interesting conversation. I think that when knowledge is surface level it manifests as fad chasing. Knowledge without understanding. Science of learning needs to become properly embedded in the philosophy and support structures of teaching in the U.K. - it’s on its way but not there yet 🌅

Shell@risu.bsky.social · last yr.

Stuff like this makes me laugh as someone who has worked in education all around the world. Nowhere is perfect. But to posit that U.K. schools and teachers are super far ahead in thinking on learning etc is ….interesting. I find U.K. teachers often “know” cogsci stuff as pop science only,

How can the government create better access to early education for disadvantaged children? Remove barriers to take-up, including those related to the working families entitlement – writes Claire Crawford on the IOE Blog: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/0... @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social

Long-term #MusicalTraining can provide neural resources to help cope with effects of #aging, but how? @leicogsci.bsky.social &co show that cognitive reserve acquired via music training holds back age-related neural recruitment during speech-in-noise perception @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/44NIkxZ

Newborn brains already show individual patterns of functional organization. 🧠✨ Using #fMRI for precision mapping, researchers at @washumedicine.bsky.social found that each baby's brain has a unique layout—already present just after birth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #MRI 🧪

Precision Functional Mapping of the Individual Human Brain Near Birth

Cortical areas are a fundamental organizational property of the brain, but their development in humans is not well understood. Key unanswered questions include whether cortical areas are fully establi...

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A shot of my poster at #QMiP2025 last week - this paper on educational intervention company leaders’ use of research is currently under review. QMiP was such a great experience and left me feeling up-skilled, can’t wait for the next one #edusky #academicsky

Staring at a blank page? 🧠✍️ Freewriting might be the cure. No pressure, no editing—just a timer and your thoughts. This TCEA blog dives into how a few minutes of messy writing can unlock creativity, speed, and student voice. Bonus: It’s easy to start tomorrow. ⬇️ buff.ly/Z4BMtTZ #edusky #writing

tell me how to make a kid hate reading without telling me how to make a kid hate reading....

Adrianna Cuevas@adriannacuevas.bsky.social · last yr.

Oof.

The jury is out. Just because a model can predict or mimic human responses in psych experiments doesn't mean that the model explains how people think. Cognitive psychologists have been grappling with model mimicry - that qualitatively different models can predict the same human data - for decades.

Ignoring different patterns of risk for brain-based conditions among males and females does us all a disservice, writes @bogglerapture.bsky.social. Part of our series on sex differences in the brain. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...

Males and females show different patterns of risk for brain-based conditions. Ignoring these differences does us all a disservice.

Although studying sex differences in the brain is complex, technically awkward and socioculturally loaded, it is absolutely essential.

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The brilliant @rastokke.bsky.social showing how shoddy evidence can spread like wildfire and how this has serious consequences #rEDTO25

"What psychology needs is methodological pluralism guided by theoretical sophistication."

Bob Lynn@boblynn.bsky.social · last yr.

Psychology's Reckoning: Confronting the Replication Crisis Without Losing Its Soul voxmeditantis.com/2025/06/05/p... #Replication #Psychology #Science #Research #Credibility

Opportunity to do a PhD in developmental science alongside some absolutely fantastic scientists!! Share widely!

Duncan Astle@duncanastle.bsky.social · last yr.

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁). drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

One final highlight from ENCoRE: Paul Howard-Jones on “the journey from neuroscience to education”, a fascinating commentary on the history and current state of efforts to bring education and the science of learning together. Thoroughly enjoyed. #edusky #edneurosky

Another highlight from ENCoRE: Gemma Goldenberg on the effects of learning outdoors on attention. Very striking findings - those students with the worst attentional difficulties and those who preferred working outdoors demonstrated greatest increases in on-task behaviour when working outside #edusky

Some highlights from the first ENCoRE conference in London - the first for me being my own lightning talk on challenges in evaluating educational interventions! It was super fun to deliver some key messages in 5 minutes and get people thinking about evaluation methods #edusky #edneurosky

If you are working in early years provision, UCL IoE researchers want to hear from you about the types of resources used for early maths skills and what you would like from new resources - please fill out our survey and share widely! qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... @eyalliance.bsky.social

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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Ready for an exciting couple of days at this packed ENCoRE conference hosted at Birkbeck UoL! #edusky #neuroskyence #edneurosky

🚨Paper alert!!🚨 Excited to share out latest research where we investigated avoidance, fear generalization and extinction learning using a modified platform-mediated avoidance procedure in male and female rats. rdcu.be/eesmc

Generalization and extinction of platform-mediated avoidance in male and female rats

Scientific Reports - Generalization and extinction of platform-mediated avoidance in male and female rats

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Standardisation or flexibility? Collaboration or competition? "This study is not simply about predicting the future, it is about shaping it in ways that ensure education across Europe remains both innovative and equitable" - @drleatongray.bsky.social blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/03/...

What will schools look like in 2040? A European view

Education is at a turning point, shaped by rapid technological advancement, climate change, demographic shifts and evolving labour market demands… (read more)

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