Exciting news from Hypatia 🎊 we were lucky enough to win Best R&D Innovation at the Aussie INCITE Awards! Huge congrats to the team, and thanks to the judges for their confidence in us. ALSO: We're hiring 2 roles (research manager & business/ops developer) within Hypatia... 👇

Cardiff Babylab are at #ICIS2026 @infantstudies.bsky.social! We had an amazing first day yesterday, and are excited to share more of our latest work over the next few days.

Study (N=8,097) finds women more likely to finish a PhD before 30 & have children after 35. Men tended to become parents during doctoral studies & often had 3+ children by 40. Early-career mothers had lower citation rates; fathers had no such penalties. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Female Academics Increasingly Delay Motherhood Until Age 35

“Pronounced penalties” for those early-career staff with children may explain why Ph.D.s postpone becoming parents, a recent study finds.

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What 5000 babies can tell us about developing minds and how to study them. New paper by Brianna T. M. McMillan & al. with @chbergma.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s44271-026-00477-w

What 5000 babies can tell us about developing minds and how to study them - Communications Psychology

A decade of ManyBabies research, testing thousands of babies across hundreds of labs, has shown that some, but not all findings in infant research replicate well. Collectively, these projects have sho...

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As we mark Month of the Military Child, our spring magazine highlights an inspiring step forward for service families in Wales. Read more: isu.pub/3PxcECB #motmccymru

Excited to say that Hypatia has secured a second round of funding thanks to the @wellcometrust.bsky.social 💫 This milestone allows us to build the technology and team and conduct validation efforts across the UK and Australia to bridge the ecosystems.

Young children usually understand more words than they can say: a “comprehension–production gap”. In a new study, we found that children with Williams syndrome (WS) have a unique profile: their gap is significantly reduced compared to other groups. 🧵 #LanguageDevelopment #WilliamsSyndrome #devpsyc

Amazing work @teodorynikolov.bsky.social and Hana D' Souza! Congratulations 🎉

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🎉 Big milestone! Over the last two years, with the incredible support of so many wonderful families, we’ve recorded nearly 38 million headcam video frames, capturing young children’s everyday experiences. www.youtube.com/shorts/dsF4Z...

Curious about the human ability to extract regularities from sensory input (i.e., “statistical learning”) and individual differences therein? #CognitiveScience #Learning Our #Consensus paper presents the collective insights of 27 researchers worldwide 🌎 💬 🌍 💬 🌏 💬: 🔗 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Our fantastic PhD student, Charlotte, will be running the Cardiff Half Marathon this October to help raise money for the amazing local charity, Seren Dwt 🌟

Early last week, Cardiff Babylab hosted LFRAZ, a free two day workshop, in collaboration with Université PSL & The Prairie Institute. Thanks to Niveen, @catiamoliveira.bsky.social and @sofiahryniv.bsky.social for running the sessions!

Cardiff Babylab is excited to launch a new, remote study for medical and allied health professionals in the UK! We are inviting professionals to give their thoughts on integrating wearable head cameras into their practice. Find out more: www.cardiff-babylab.com/tinyexplorer...

Such a lovely way to return to work after annual leave! Thank you @lcicd.bsky.social for organising such a welcoming event!

Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Last week, members of Cardiff Babylab attended the 9th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development (LCICD), organised by the brilliant Babylab team at Lancaster University.

Excited to be working with @catiamoliveira.bsky.social and Niveen Omar to deliver this workshop next month!

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Interested in collecting and processing naturalistic audio data using new AI tools? If so, join us for our free, two-day workshop; 'Long Form Audio Recordings: A to Z', generously supported by Cardiff University Doctoral Academy.

Dr Liz Gregory has launched the Pledge for Babies, a vital step in making sure babies’ voices are at the forefront of decisions in policy, services and society. The first 1000 days matter – and today, we’re pledging to protect them. #First1000Days

Had so much fun today celebrating World Down Syndrome Day! #worlddownayndromeday #wdsd2025

Cardiff Babylab @cardiffbabylab.bsky.social · last yr.

Cardiff Babylab is celebrating World Down Syndrome Day 2025! So lovely to have so many thoughtful discussions about our data and child development in general Looking forward to our guest speaker Q&A and quiz!

Join our upcoming Babylab event to celebrate World Down Syndrome Day, 2025 With an exciting schedule in the works, the event is open to students, trainees, staff, and the wider community - please register to help us with planning! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We can’t wait to see you there!

@bpsofficial.bsky.social would you share our video, made with clinicians and ppl with lived experience, about how mental health practitioners can make therapy more accessible for ppl with Developmental Language Disorder? Made for #childrensmentalhealthweek ! :) youtu.be/Ko6sFea3v0w?...

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD): a guide for mental heath practitioners

YouTube video by RADLD

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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...

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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New on the Baby Blog - The ripple effect of early sleep: how childhood sleep patterns shape vocabulary, academic, and mental health outcomes by Catia M. Oliveira, Amy Atkinson, Michelle St Clair, Gareth Gaskell & Lisa Henderson infantstudies.org/the-ripple-e... #infantstudies #Research

The ripple effect of early sleep: how childhood sleep patterns shape vocabulary, academic, and mental health outcomes - The International Congress of Infant Studies

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Happy New Year from the Cardiff Babylab! 🎊 We recently had the pleasure of following up with some of our wonderful participants from a few years back. A big thank you to everyone who has given their time to support our research. We can’t wait to work with all our wonderful families in 2025!

I think the last single author publication I had was my thesis, but in any case, here's another. An integrated framework for the learning, recognition and interpretation of words. 100% Gaskell, for better or for worse: doi.org/10.1177/1747...