A very productive day of writing and editing 👩‍🎓 another section added to our open-source data paper and lots of revisions on our current drafts

Scouting and Guiding Initiative (SAGI)@sagi-uon.bsky.social · 3w ago

Writing retreat complete! ✅ First draft of our prosocial paper written ✅ Intro & methods drafted for our qualitative leaders paper ✅ Open-source paper expanded and reviewed ✅ SAGI dataset updated with this year's data ✅ Autumn planning underway Lots still to do, but great progress made today!

Today Nikki, Ellen, & Lee are spending the day together, with Aneeza joining virtually. We are focused on writing up research before ending the day with planning our activities for next term. We'll then round off the day with a well earned BBQ! Bright-eyed, bushy-tailed & ready to get stuck in!

My (very) short story 'The Faerie Feast' has just been published - fifty words of folk horror #microfiction #flashfiction #writesky fiftywordstories.com/2026/07/03/e...

ELLEN TAYLOR: The Færie Feast

When I was a child, I stepped into Færie. My life fit like hand-me-down clothes, so I wanted to find another. The færies served a feast of skewered hearts. The flesh was soft; it spread warmth thro…

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Bookings are now open for this years Summer Scientist Week! This will be a very special Summer Scientist event as it's our 20th anniversary. Follow the link to book on: psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/summerscient...

You can find my short story 'The Liar' in this latest edition of Pulse by @writingeastmidlands.com; a creative exploration of truth-telling from the perspective of a pathological people pleaser

Writing East Midlands@writingeastmidlands.com · 4mo ago

Read the fifth edition of Pulse here! ➡️ bit.ly/WEMPULSE The latest issue of our digital magazine has launched! 🎉 Exploring the theme 'Masks' and examining a writer's relationship to concealment in their writing. 🎭️ Featuring articles on AI, public persona, ND masking, trust and betrayal, and more.

Huge milestone for SAGI, our first publication! Led by Emily Mason, the paper highlights barriers to school‑based research and offers an alternative model using public engagement with Scouts & Guides to support recruitment and data collection. Read free: doi.org/10.14324/RFA...

An exciting day for @sagi-uon.bsky.social, our first paper has been published! This commentary explores the challenges of recruiting child participants, and proposes an innovative, public-engagement based data collection model. Read more here ⬇️ journals.uclpress.co.uk/r4a/article/...

Say hello to our new resident fantasy writer! 🧙‍♀️✨ Ellen Taylor is our 4th mentee, teaching Psychology at UoN by day and writing by night. ✍️🌕 She has been published in anthologies and literary magazines. Her short story 'Stella Polaris' was awarded runner-up for the Oxford-BNU Creative Writing Award.

Presenting at the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social Teaching and Learning Conference this morning! Our research explored ambiguous language in the teaching and learning of Psychology students.

I set up an account for our Scouting and Guiding Initiative Research Group today. A big welcome to @sagi-uon.bsky.social! If you are interested in our group coming to one of your pack nights then you can fill out an interest from here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... 📍Ideally close to Nottingham