🎉 Join our Conference and you’ll automatically be entered into our end-of-day prize draw if you’re still with us at the close of the event. 🥇 1st Prize: £50 voucher John Lewis 🥈 2nd Prize: £25 voucher Waterstones 🥉 3rd Prize: £15 voucher Costa Coffee www.patoss-dyslexia.org/Live-Webinar...

Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience. #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

📘 Cawley et al. argue there are significant gaps & inconsistencies in the national curriculum guidance on the teaching of #spelling, which in turn leads to a lack of teacher confidence in spelling tuition and non-optimal teaching strategies. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0013... @jelliclecat.bsky.social

We are looking for student participants for a survey looking at links between early language experiences and alexithymia. If you are a UK university student, please consider completing this: qualtricsxm2dp9n2bz8.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

New postdoc position with the LEVANTE project! We're looking for someone with language development / reading knowledge to help work on our international adaptations of language assessments. Please forward to interested candidates

THREAD The first full year of tracking research on @bsky.app Hi, we are Altmetric, and we track how research is communicated across the web. We now have one full calendar year of Bluesky research data and thought we'd have a looksie.

This week is Dyslexia Awareness Week #DAW25 and #WorldMentalHealthDay. We found that mental health and self-esteem are top priorities for the dyslexia community, but little UK research funding goes to this area. doi.org/10.1002/dys.70004 Research funding must be targeted to support mental health.

What Are the Research Priorities for the Dyslexia Community in the United Kingdom and How Do They Align With Previous Research Funding?

Targeting research towards areas that matter to dyslexic people and their families is essential for improving dyslexic people's lives. However, we do not know what the dyslexia community's research p...

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Fantastic news about the PALS reading programme here

Education Endowment Foundation@theeef.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Two new programmes added to our Promising Programmes list! 📈 🧮 Counting Collections – Boosts number sense in Reception via hands-on, discussion-based counting. 📖 PALS-UK – Improves reading fluency + comprehension in KS2 through peer tutoring. 🔗 Explore the full list: tinyurl.com/593eppav

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Dr van Tilburg@drvantilburg.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The Trump administration has stopped funding of PubMed, not considering a vital service. Your doctor will not know the newest information that affects your health. This will cost lives.

Are you interested in studying longitudinal developmental trajectories of children with developmental disabilities in Ethiopia and Kenya? Please consider applying for a PhD! More information about the project is here: kcl-mrcdtp.com/project/2026... #AutRes

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

Interesting.... www.timeshighereducation.com/news/patrick...

Patrick Vallance hits pause on Research Excellence Framework

Science minister announces review of controversial changes to research environment assessment

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Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go

Anyone looking for a great postdoctoral position? Here's one at Oxford University and they would love to have someone great! It's even out of the US -- a special bonus. Post-doctoral position in developmental/cognitive psychology at Oxford Brookes, UK my.corehr.com/pls/oburecru...

If you are a neurodivergent person over 16, please complete this survey! It can potentially impact recommendations made to the government.

Charlotte Brooks@thegoo.se · last yr.

Are you a neurodivergent person over 16? Share your views to help improve support for neurodivergent young people in schools. Our survey supports the work of the Neurodivergence Task and Finish Group, and may influence recommendations to Government. Take part here: https://thegoo.se/survey

Calling all ITE/ECTs and those involved. This is a £10 BARGAIN. bsky.app/profile/word...

Word Aware@wordaware.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us on July 14th for a @radld.bsky.social fundraiser. Word Aware whole school vocabulary course for teaching and SaLT trainees. Just £10. We are looking for a balance of teachers and SaLT, so please help us reach more trainee teachers. thinkingtalking.co.uk/finding-a-wo...

🔎 The Patoss Tutor Index offers FREE access to one of the UK’s largest listings of qualified specialists for teaching, assessments, exam arrangements, and more. Search today: www.patoss-dyslexia.org/Tutor-Index-... #SpLD #DyslexiaSupport #SpecialistTeachers #Patoss

🎉 It’s SEND Leaders' Appreciation Day! 💚 A big THANK YOU to all SEND leaders for your dedication, compassion & impact. We're proud to support you through our training & CPD. You truly change lives! 🙌💜 #SLAD2024 #SEND #PatossDyslexia #SENCO #Inclusion #Neurodiversity

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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🎬Inside Our Minds – a powerful BBC series led by Chris Packham. ✨ We’re especially proud that Patoss Board member Professor Julia Carroll was a consultant for Inside Our Dyslexic Minds! Read more 👇 www.patoss-dyslexia.org/News/inside-... #InsideOurMinds #Neurodiversity #Dyslexia #ADHD #Autism

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

Very excited that the new SASC Spld report format based on the Delphi Definition cites my books as useful sources of information regarding evidence based interventions! And look whose names my name is sandwiched between! I'm doing my Dave Dance right now. #dyslexia

🌟 Patoss is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to supporting teachers, SENCos and specialist professionals who work with learners with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs) 🔗 www.patoss-dyslexia.org/About-Us #SENCO #TeacherTraining #SpLD #DyslexiaSupport #InclusionInEducation #CPD #SEN

I’ve had lots of messages about my Guardian article, in which I argued we should stop universal mental health lessons in schools. The messages have fallen into three categories, and I’m reflecting on this here because I think it exposes something interesting in the field (and research in general) 🧵

2 million UK children struggle with talking and understanding words. Our Early Talk Boost programme helps children progress in 9 weeks-and it's now FREE via a new EEF research project. Give children skills for the future: speechandlanguage.org.uk/educators-an...

Tenure-Track Research Fellowships are open for applications at @astonpress.bsky.social - if you're interested in child health/ child development/ developmental neuroscience, check us out here: www.aston.ac.uk/research/hls... we're a friendly bunch so pls get in touch with any qns ❤️📚🥦🏥🏫❣️

"If, from an early age, we make children’s educational 'careers' too contingent on individual performance, then that exacerbates the importance of performing well and avoiding failure, which, in turn, drives anxiety." Really enjoyed speaking to researcher Reinhard Pekrun for this piece.

Has the ‘cogsci revolution’ forgotten about emotion?

Emotions such as joy, anger and boredom have a bigger effect on academic performance than many people realise, explains leading researcher Reinhard Pekrun

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New paper published in Disability and Health about international comparability of disability classification doi.org/10.1016/j.dh...

This is a classic example of something sounding fancier in a foreign language. Grated carrot just isn't the same.

iCod@icod.bsky.social · last yr.

You can all relax, I've prepped salads for tomorrow. Gone full French with my carrottes râpèes.

📢New preprint! Relative to autistic adults w/ a dx, adults who self-identify experience worse well-being and higher rates of unmet need. While most self-identifying adults want a dx, barriers to services go far beyond diagnostic gatekeeping. Read on: osf.io/preprints/ps...