We had a great audience for our #CogSci2026 tutorial on Autocorrelated Sampling in Cognition. Led by @lcastillo.bsky.social, with talks by @neilbramley.bsky.social, Bob Rehder, Stella Qian, and me. If you were not in Rio, the tutorial materials are here: lucas-castillo.github.io/mcmc-workshop/

New in JAMA Pediatrics: @dieterwolke.bsky.social and team examine childhood factors linked to positive functioning in adulthood among those born very preterm or with very low birth weight. Read here 👇 doi.org/10.1001/jama... #PretermBirth #ChildDevelopment @warwickpsych.bsky.social

Childhood Factors and Positive Functioning Among Adults Born Very Preterm or With Very Low Birth Weight

This cohort study identifies positive functioning profiles at 34 years in adults born very preterm and/or very low birth weight and term-born adults and investigates whether identified profiles based ...

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Massive congratulations to our own @mmrobinson93.bsky.social on this fantastic achievement!

Society for Mathematical Psychology@mathpsych.org · 3w ago

Congratulations to Prof. Maria Robinson of the University of Warwick, winner of the William K. Estes Early Career Award

New findings from the Bavarian Longitudinal Study show that many adult outcomes linked to very preterm birth (<32 weeks) are influenced by childhood experiences. Supportive parenting and school achievement are key targets for improving long-term outcomes. Read here 👇 bit.ly/4w7Wab0

First ever Warwick Text Analytics Workshop at @warwickpsych.bsky.social starting today. 40 attendees from all over the UK, funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social. Lecturers: myself, @lukaszwalasek.bsky.social, Simon Van Baal, Eric Yang, Peiqi Chen, and Jan Antkiewicz. Hope this will be first of many!

Delighted to see such a strong turnout at today’s @warwickpsych.bsky.social Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Group meeting. We enjoyed two excellent talks— John Galvin on self-compassion in autism and Gitit Kadar-Satat on student employability. A great way to spend a warm summer afternoon. ☀️👏

Before there was speech, there was laughter! Our new study traces the evolution of laughter across the great apes and reveals a gradual increase in vocal flexibility over millions of years. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Rhythm and timing in laughter reveal that human vocal plasticity falls on a hominid continuum - Communications Biology

Comparative analysis of laughter rhythm across all extant great apes reveals that isochrony is ancestral to hominids, with tempo, variability, and context-sensitivity increasing progressively toward h...

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Why does my baby cry so much? 👶 @dieterwolke.bsky.social recently joined Greg Foot on The Baby Fact Check to explore the science behind newborn crying, the “crying peak”, and what evidence really tells us about soothing babies and supporting parents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld6X... #NewBorn

Why does my baby cry so much? Understanding the newborn "Crying Peak"

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Welcome to Edit Permana, who is working in the Ape Tank team as a technician. He is supporting the work of Dr Adriano Lameira and Dr Andrea Permana, analysing the vocal recordings of Sumatran great apes.

We were delighted to have visiting speaker Prof. Luc Boutsen (@lucboutsen.bsky.social ) from Aston University (research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/l...) for a fascinating talk on face perception: “Why are you looking at me? Towards a cognitive understanding of the perception of facial difference.”

@salonikrishnan.bsky.social and I had an absolute blast yesterday running our workshop on reward in language learning! Many thanks to @exppsychsoc.bsky.social for support and to all our fantastic speakers! Recorded talks and slides will be available soon here: sites.google.com/view/reward-...

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📣🎉🧠Great set of presentations in the final set of first-year PhD talks, featuring Jing Gu, Wiki Jeglinska, Ihor Komnatskyy and Sarwang Dwivedi. The topics included neural dynamics of creativity, wellbeing in higher education, construals of game avatars, and object-scene congruency. Nice work!

“With a liberal non-inferiority margin, amitriptyline is non-inferior…in reducing insomnia severity. Amitriptyline has more side effects & its effect on insomnia may diminish after tapering. [CBT-I]should remain first-line treatment for patients with medical comorbidity given its broader benefits.”

SLEEP and SLEEP Advances@sleepjournals.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#CognitiveBehavioralTherapy (CBT-I) remains the most popular #insomniatreatment. In this clinical trial, researchers explore #amitriptyline as a potential #insomniatreatment for patients with #medicalcomorbidities. academic.oup.com/sleep/articl...

@dieterwolke.bsky.social @warwickpsych.bsky.social and colleagues have used multi-national cohorts to examine socioeconomic inequality in extreme outcomes within very preterm and/or very low birth weight infants. Read more here 👇 doi.org/10.3389/fpub...

Frontiers | Socioeconomic inequity in extreme outcomes within very pre-term and/or very low birthweight infants: evidence from multi-national cohorts

BackgroundPre-term birth (< 37 weeks' gestation) is a major cause of neonatal mortality, with very pre-term (< 32 weeks' gestation) and extremely pre-term (<...

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Great to have Dr. Emily Spearing (@emilyspearing.bsky.social) visit us last week and present her research, “Does Active Engagement with Graphs Improve the Long-Term Efficacy of Fact-Checks?”

Delighted to be invited to join the Research Exchange! Loved the OBHA & IBME tours and the thoughtful discussions that followed—huge thanks to Tamara, Andreia and @benosaka.bsky.social for organising.

NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Oxford Health@oxhealthbrc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Oxford–Surrey Neuroimaging & Sleep Research Exchange brought teams together to share expertise and new ideas recently. From #OPM-MEG and #MRI demos to #CBT-I and patient-led PPIE sessions, collaboration continues to drive future research opportunities. tinyurl.com/SleepOxfordS...

📣🧠Another excellent session of first year PhD talks during this week's Department Seminar, featuring Ty Hayes, Xueting Li, Danqin Zhao and Olivia Wang. The topics included slot machines, parasocial relationships, scientific evolution, and chatbot use and well-being. Great work!

🎉We're thrilled to congratulate Lauren Wilkinson @laurenwilkinson.bsky.social who was awarded the SEM Faculty Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduate Researchers Who Teach - a truly fantastic achievement. Read about it here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... Congratulations Lauren!! 🎉

How do we know when we're being our 'authentic' selves? PhD student Lexi Bulbuc explains why 'being yourself' is more complicated than we think, how our growth is impacted by self-interest and compassion, and why developmental psychology actually predicts us being a mess. www.tiktok.com/@unio...

Generated examples from described risky choices have "flatter" probabilities

Communications Psychology@commspsychol.nature.com · 3mo ago

www.nature.com/articles/s44... New research Article by Jake Spicer, @yunxiao-li.bsky.social @lcastillo.bsky.social Johanna K. Falbén, C. Stella Qian (钱程) & @asanborn.bsky.social in the journal (in Press)

🎉📣We're very pleased to congratulate Ani Permana (@dranipermana.bsky.social) for winning the FSEM Postdoc Prize for best Psychology output in 2025 for her paper published in Nature Communications Biology on observations social learning in orangutans. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Observational social learning of “know-how” and “know-what” in wild orangutans: evidence from nest-building skill acquisition - Communications Biology

Observational social learning shapes nest-building skill acquisition in wild orangutans showing selective attention to 'know-how' and transmission of 'know-what' across developmental stages.

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📣🧠 A really engaging set of first-year PhD talks during today's department seminar, featuring Dila Aleyna Falay, Daniil Grigorev and Jiajun Gao. The topics included children's memory in real-world contexts, metacognitive confidence, and motor simulation in gesture comprehension. Nice work!

Congratulations to team Kingfisher for the best research idea of the #ETHOLANG Away Day! Well done to all teams for developing their ideas and excellent presentations. #BehaviouralSpotlight #Winning

So far we have six teams working on innovative research ideas in the #ETHOLANG Away Day. It began with brainstorming and is now turning into refined research proposals. #Collaboration #HiveMind

What research topics and interests bring the #ETHOLANG community together? We asked participants to share keywords that capture their work, and the result was this word cloud - created collectively by everyone in the room. #BehaviouralSpotlight #ETHOLANG

We’re kicking off the #ETHOLANG Away Day with an invited talk by Professor Sotaro Kita (@sotarokita.bsky.social), Professor of Psychology of Language and Director of the Language and Learning Group at Warwick. #BehaviouralSpotlight #ETHOLANG

Today, academics and early career researchers from across the University are coming together for the inaugural #ETHOLANG Away Day at Scarman House. We’re looking forward to stimulating talks, discussions, and opportunities to develop new ideas in language research. #BehaviouralSpotlight #ETHOLANG

"Reframing AI in healthcare: An experimental study examining low-cost strategies to increase acceptance of AI-based diagnosis and cultural differences in response" ‼️📣New paper by Elizabeth Moore, Yunhan Wang, and Melina Kunar: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reframing AI in healthcare: An experimental study examining low-cost strategies to increase acceptance of AI-based diagnosis and cultural differences in response

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in patient diagnosis. However, prior research found that people perceive AI-based diagnosis as dehum…

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Tomorrow's seminar speaker is Prof. Lazaros Andronis from the Warwick Medical School, hosted by @suzanneaussems.bsky.social. He will present his talk "From hours and minutes to pounds and pennies. Using choice experiments to estimate the monetary value of children's and young people's time."