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Amanda Waterman
@amandawaterman.bsky.social
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Professor of Cognitive Development, University of Leeds. Interested in Working Memory, Executive Function, Cognitive Offloading, & applying cognitive science to the classroom. Also interested in red wine, comedy podcasts, live music, & singing loudly.
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amandawaterman.bsky.social
Really enjoyed doing this podcast with these fabulous women for #IWD International Women’s Day @maddipow.bsky.social
maddipow.bsky.social Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · Feb 19
Today’s office! 🎙️ Recording a podcast for International Women’s Day with @amandawaterman.bsky.social, Jac Billington & Bee Macpherson. We talked about care, patriarchy, wallpaper, Taylor Swift, poetry. A proper lovely morning!
Four women sitting around a table in a podcast studio, each wearing headphones and in front of a mic A podcast recording room with five chairs, sound panelling, and microphones.
February 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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atomcrowley.bsky.social
Ahoy! Shiver me timbers, it’s the exciting conclusion to Madrigal in Margate: Oatal Recall! Expect sea life, violence and a whole lot of corporate sponsorship! Listen to it right now, ya hear, on the Crowley Time podcast feed or at crowleytime.com! Also features more glorious synth from Tommy Music.
February 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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researcherdevleeds.bsky.social
In a new episode of the #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast @nickshepp.bsky.social chats to Dr Kinga Patterson about #OpenResearch & its parallels to learning a language. Discover open research practices, learn about #collaboration & explore opportunities for #ECRs.
(Episode 103) Practice makes perfect: why open research is like learning a language with Dr Kinga Patterson
Quickly and easily listen to Research Culture Uncovered for free!
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February 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
amandawaterman.bsky.social
Postdoc job alert 🚨 This is a great team to work for, so get applying!
February 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
amandawaterman.bsky.social
Listen to Crowley Time with him @atomcrowley.bsky.social and thank me later
atomcrowley.bsky.social Tom Crowley @atomcrowley.bsky.social · Jan 23
Bulk self-promotion, hot off the presses! I made these little bookmarks/flyers/extremely mini minicomics to promote my sketch and character comedy podcast juggernaut Crowley Time. To be thrust into the hands of dubious passers-by soon! crowleytime.com
Double-sided bookmark-size flyers for Crowley Time, black ink on yellow background. The front is a comic strip. Title: Tom & Saveloy in... "I need a new podcast!" PANEL 1 (Saveloy the Postmaster walks in to find Tom looking despondent.) SAVELOY: Post's here! You alright, sir? You look like a chimp wot's had its tire swing cut down. TOM: Well, Saveloy, I like to listen to podcasts while I work - and cook and travel - but I've caught up with all my favourites! PANEL 2 SAVELOY: Hmm! What sorts of shows do you like? j TOM: Funny ones! But most of all I like scripted comedies, with sketches, characters and stories. But there aren't many podcasts like that! PANEL 3 SAVELOY: Ooh! I know of the perfect show! It's brilliant, it's got loads of funny characters, weird ideas and imaginative sketches! It's called Crowley Time! TOM: Thanks, Saveloy, but I'm not going to listen to that! SAVELOY: Why not? PANEL 4 (Tom holds out his phone to show a podcast app playing Crowley Time.) TOM: Because that's MY podcast! SAVELOY: (Falling out of frame) Good grief! The reverse lists details of the show. (Picture of a smartphone wearing headphones, with 'HA HA' on its screen) Your new favourite radio comedy show - except that it's a podcast. And it's free! Featuring... sketches, characters, parodies, spoofs, goofs, new worlds and messages in bottles plucked from unknown shores! Meet... celebrated actor Sir Chuntley Buffingham! Space cartographer Link Tangent! Struggling businessman Mike Shinbone! Television chef Marco DiPoni! Writer, actor and comedian Tom Crowley and many more! ~ Available wherever you get podcasts ~ Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube and at crowleytime.com TV's Mike Wozniak says "Do I subscribe to Crowley Time with me, Tom Crowley by Tom Crowley? Yes. Would I subscribe to the actual Tom Crowley in physical form if it were possible? Of course. The man is funny made flesh (and beard)."
January 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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itsthebrandi.bsky.social
Fam, they let a Pop-Tarts mascot go to a hospital and meet newborns. Now we're going to have to do a longitudinal study on these babies.
December 28, 2024 at 6:06 PM
amandawaterman.bsky.social
Our paper now available looking at how executive function (inc #workingmemory) & processing speed mediate r/ship btw SES & educational attainment with Rachael Cheung @sarah-blower.bsky.social @richjallen.bsky.social & led by @kate-mooney.bsky.social #devsci #cogsci
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Do executive functions and processing speed mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and educational achievement? Analysis of an observational birth cohort study - BMC Psychology
Background There are large and persistent social inequalities in children’s educational attainment, with children from more socioeconomically disadvantaged families consistently having lower attainmen...
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December 19, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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bradresearchsch.bsky.social
Counting down our most-read posts of the year

Number 5:

The Relationship Between Working Memory and Long-term Memory
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The Relationship Between Working Memory and Long-term Memory
Our long-term memory has potentially infinite capacity - so how can we use it to support working memory?
researchschool.org.uk
December 16, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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bradresearchsch.bsky.social
Working Memory: Research into Practice

Download the guide from Professor @amandawaterman.bsky.social and @markmillerteach.bsky.social researchschool.org.uk/bradford/wor...
Working Memory: Research Into Practice
Working Memory: A Practical Guide for Teachers
researchschool.org.uk
December 6, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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mrchrisaddison.bsky.social
Is giant Keira Knightley really going to shoot a bearded four-year-old in the head? Or will tiny homunculus Ben Whishaw thwart her aim by firing a miniscule bullet into her knee?
Publicity shot for the show Black Doves in which perspective makes the above look possible.
December 7, 2024 at 5:58 PM
amandawaterman.bsky.social
Good news for a Monday - paper accepted looking at how executive function & processing speed mediate relationship between SES & educational attainment. Spoiler: #workingmemory important! With @richjallen.bsky.social Kate Mooney, Rachael Cheung & Sarah Blower. Link to follow soon. #devsci #cogsci
December 2, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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elenatenenbaum.bsky.social
Optimist: the glass is half full.
Pessimist: the glass is half empty.
Developmental psychologist: which has more?
November 26, 2024 at 5:01 PM
amandawaterman.bsky.social
Watching #gbbo and getting really stressed. How is Dylan not smashing this?! He is clearly the best baker 😬😬😬
November 26, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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amiyake.bsky.social
The latest (September 2024) issue of JARMAC by @officialsarmac.bsky.social has a special section on "applying cognitive science to improve learning" (see the list of articles below). They all seem really interesting, so check them out if you're interested in this topic!
November 26, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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jntowse.bsky.social
Thanks Mark. Here’s another:

go.bsky.app/3HinJx9
September 15, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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kirsten-adam.bsky.social
I made a starter pack to follow your favorite WomWoMs (Women of Working Memory)

go.bsky.app/78fcoth

You can ping me to be added!
November 25, 2024 at 4:25 PM
amandawaterman.bsky.social
Looking forward to reading this article by @jntowse.bsky.social @amyatkinson.bsky.social Satoru Saito and Bob Logie #workingmemory #cogsci
jntowse.bsky.social John Towse @jntowse.bsky.social · Nov 15
50 years ago Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch propelled the term #workingmemory into the psychological lexicon, with a vision that still resonates today!
This editorial with Mark Hurlstone, @amyatkinson.bsky.social , Satoru Saito and Robert Logie, reflects on that remarkable contribution in 1974.
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November 16, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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levelsof.bsky.social
To celebrate deleting my twitter, I'm reposting some of my classic cognitive development memes from the other site. First, one of my all-time faves
Two choices meme - one button says "Where Sally thinks the marble is" and the other button says "Where the marble actually is". The sweating man who is tasked with making the choice between the two buttons is labeled "3-year-olds"
November 14, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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daryloconnor.bsky.social
Cogent Psychology is recruiting for Section Editors & Editorial Board Members in:

1. Health Psychology
2. Work, Industrial & Organizational Psychology
3. Neuropsychology

Please think of applying or get in touch if you want to know more

Deadline 20th Dec
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
November 14, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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uoylibrary.bsky.social
We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky!

It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide...

>> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...

🧵 below
The Researcher’s Guide to Bluesky – The Library, Learning, Archives and Wellbeing Blog
blogs.york.ac.uk
November 13, 2024 at 12:17 PM
amandawaterman.bsky.social
If you haven’t already watched Alma’s not normal on the BBC, then can I strongly recommend that you do. It is bloody brilliant. Really bloody brilliant.
November 13, 2024 at 7:25 PM
amandawaterman.bsky.social
Follow Tom - he is super funny, and in a bunch of brilliant podcasts, including Crowley Time, which includes some of my favourite comedy characters EVER, and which you should listen to immediately. And I’m not even paid to be this nice about him. He is just *that* good.
atomcrowley.bsky.social Tom Crowley @atomcrowley.bsky.social · Nov 13
Hello new Blueskies. I am actor, writer and comedian Tom Crowley. I am:
• Eric Chapman in Wooden Overcoats
• Fleet in Victoriocity
• Aston in The Royals
• Writer of Shock Treatment on stage
• The guy behind Crowley Time, a sketch comedy podcast that's too good for this world: crowleytime.com
Tom with a drawing of Eric Chapman from Wooden Overcoats standing on his head. L to R: Jake Maskall as Cyrus, Tom Crowley as Aston Lange, William Moseley as Prince Liam, Elizabeth Hurley's shoulder as the Queen's shoulder. From The Royals, a ridiculous show that was like Dynasty if Dynasty was about the British royal family but it was a fictional British royal family where Elizabeth Hurley was the Queen. Shock Treatment on stage at the King's Head in 2015. L to R: Mark Little as Farley Flavors, Ben Kerr as Brad, Julie Atherton as Janet, Nic Lamont as Nation, Mateo Oxley as Ralph Hapschatt, Adam Rhys-Davies as Cosmo. Cover art for Episode 33 of Crowley Time, entitled An Escape, drawn by me, Tom Crowley. This black and white ink drawing depicts a view of the sky from within a heavily forested area, with a small twig effigy visible in the bottom right corner.
November 13, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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richjallen.bsky.social
The multicomponent model of working memory 50 years on

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 10, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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richjallen.bsky.social
New preprint -> Prioritizing feature bindings across space and modality in working memory

osf.io/preprints/ps...

With Hatice Cinar, @amyatkinson.bsky.social, & @amandawaterman.bsky.social
OSF
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October 4, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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richjallen.bsky.social
New paper out in Memory & Cognition, with @amyatkinson.bsky.social and @amandawaterman.bsky.social!

Does value-based prioritization at working memory enhance long-term memory?

link.springer.com/article/10.3...
February 21, 2024 at 12:22 PM