aejbowen.bsky.social
@aejbowen.bsky.social
Researcher, teacher, therapist. Interested in bringing a better school experience to future generations.🌻🌈 Based at the University of York 🦆 affiliated with Birkbeck College🦉and the Centre for Educational Neuroscience 🧠
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New #CRAEresearchSummary
@brianirvine.bsky.social considers the role of framing and reframing in Specialist Autism Mentoring at UK Universities
@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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October 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
New #CRAEresearchSummary
@brianirvine.bsky.social considers the role of framing and reframing in Specialist Autism Mentoring at UK Universities
@brianirvine.bsky.social considers the role of framing and reframing in Specialist Autism Mentoring at UK Universities
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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
October 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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
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The Birth of the Transgenic Alzheimer's Model #neuroskyence #Alzheimer
Of Mice and Mechanisms: Part 1
The Birth of the Transgenic Alzheimer's Model
journalclubwithmyka.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The Birth of the Transgenic Alzheimer's Model #neuroskyence #Alzheimer
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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/...
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 ...
books.google.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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/...
Includes a chapter from CEPEO’s Jake Anders
books.google.com/books/about/...
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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 🧪
#AcademicSky 🧪
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.”
“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.”
Unyoke the Sciences From the Humanities
Arts and sciences typically cohabitate. Should they?
thedispatch.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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 🧪
#AcademicSky 🧪
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"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
THIS. This is why AI in schools is a MAJOR problem!
#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #SchoolLibrary #AIIsTheProblem
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"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
THIS. This is why AI in schools is a MAJOR problem!
#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #SchoolLibrary #AIIsTheProblem
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...
OSF
osf.io
August 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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.
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.
• 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.
July 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Super interesting new publication with systemic implications for early education.
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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?
July 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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 🌅
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,
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,
“That is one of the hallmarks, typically, of professions: There’s an agreed-upon body of knowledge that constitutes the things that professionals need to know in order to be practitioners in that space. And education, at least in the United States, has never really done that.”
July 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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 🌅
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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
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
July 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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
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
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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
July 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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
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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 🧪
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...
www.biorxiv.org
July 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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 🧪
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 🧪
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
July 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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
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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
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
July 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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
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
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tell me how to make a kid hate reading without telling me how to make a kid hate reading....
July 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
tell me how to make a kid hate reading without telling me how to make a kid hate reading....
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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.
July 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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.
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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...
#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.
www.thetransmitter.org
June 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differen...
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The brilliant @rastokke.bsky.social showing how shoddy evidence can spread like wildfire and how this has serious consequences #rEDTO25
June 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The brilliant @rastokke.bsky.social showing how shoddy evidence can spread like wildfire and how this has serious consequences #rEDTO25
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"What psychology needs is methodological pluralism guided by theoretical sophistication."
Psychology's Reckoning: Confronting the Replication Crisis Without Losing Its Soul
voxmeditantis.com/2025/06/05/p...
#Replication #Psychology #Science #Research #Credibility
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#Replication #Psychology #Science #Research #Credibility
Psychology’s Reckoning: Confronting the Replication Crisis Without Losing Its Soul
Psychology stands at a crossroads, facing a crisis that strikes at the heart of scientific credibility whilst threatening to reduce human complexity to statistical formulae. The replication crisis …
voxmeditantis.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:14 AM
"What psychology needs is methodological pluralism guided by theoretical sophistication."
Opportunity to do a PhD in developmental science alongside some absolutely fantastic scientists!! Share widely!
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...
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
Funded PhD opportunity.pdf
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May 29, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Opportunity to do a PhD in developmental science alongside some absolutely fantastic scientists!! Share widely!
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
May 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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
May 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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
May 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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
@eyalliance.bsky.social
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qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk
May 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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
@eyalliance.bsky.social