Birmingham Babylab
@bbabylab.bsky.social
We are a research group within the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham. We study infants' and toddlers’ cognitive development.
Web: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/babylab
Web: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/babylab
Join us 🗓️ DEADLINE THIS THU 2 Oct! Last call for applications for two exciting & fun positions in the Birmingham BabyLab to work on multisensory development in term-born and preterm infancy w Andy Bremner, Monica Gori, and Andy Surtees. Please repost:
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September 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Join us 🗓️ DEADLINE THIS THU 2 Oct! Last call for applications for two exciting & fun positions in the Birmingham BabyLab to work on multisensory development in term-born and preterm infancy w Andy Bremner, Monica Gori, and Andy Surtees. Please repost:
👉 lnkd.in/gczD5EwX (postdoc)
👉 lnkd.in/ga92z3sM
👉 lnkd.in/gczD5EwX (postdoc)
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Come along this Saturday with your little ones of all ages to celebrate 125 years of education and research at the University of Birmingham! We'll be in the Little Learners Zone in the Great Hall with the Barber Institute providing fun child & parent activities and talks 😊
June 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Come along this Saturday with your little ones of all ages to celebrate 125 years of education and research at the University of Birmingham! We'll be in the Little Learners Zone in the Great Hall with the Barber Institute providing fun child & parent activities and talks 😊
🗓️ Thursday 8th May
⏰ 10:00-12:00
📍The Exchange, Birmingham
✨completely FREE event for babies and parents ✨ sign up here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/.../125/baby...
⏰ 10:00-12:00
📍The Exchange, Birmingham
✨completely FREE event for babies and parents ✨ sign up here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/.../125/baby...
May 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
🗓️ Thursday 8th May
⏰ 10:00-12:00
📍The Exchange, Birmingham
✨completely FREE event for babies and parents ✨ sign up here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/.../125/baby...
⏰ 10:00-12:00
📍The Exchange, Birmingham
✨completely FREE event for babies and parents ✨ sign up here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/.../125/baby...
🗓️ Thursday 8th May
⏰ 10:00-12:00
📍The Exchange, Birmingham
✨completely FREE✨ but sign up here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/the-e...
⏰ 10:00-12:00
📍The Exchange, Birmingham
✨completely FREE✨ but sign up here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/the-e...
May 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
🗓️ Thursday 8th May
⏰ 10:00-12:00
📍The Exchange, Birmingham
✨completely FREE✨ but sign up here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/the-e...
⏰ 10:00-12:00
📍The Exchange, Birmingham
✨completely FREE✨ but sign up here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/the-e...
📣 Babylab and The Exchange are launching a new event series: BabyLab Sessions @ The Exchange! 📣 These are bi-monthly baby and parent events in Birmingham city centre.
🗓️ Thursday 8th May
⏰ 10:00-12:00
✨FREE✨ but sign up here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/the-e...
More info 👇
🗓️ Thursday 8th May
⏰ 10:00-12:00
✨FREE✨ but sign up here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/the-e...
More info 👇
May 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
📣 Babylab and The Exchange are launching a new event series: BabyLab Sessions @ The Exchange! 📣 These are bi-monthly baby and parent events in Birmingham city centre.
🗓️ Thursday 8th May
⏰ 10:00-12:00
✨FREE✨ but sign up here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/the-e...
More info 👇
🗓️ Thursday 8th May
⏰ 10:00-12:00
✨FREE✨ but sign up here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/the-e...
More info 👇
An exciting PhD opportunity at our lab. Apply by 21st May.
We're looking for a PhD student interested in developing brains and developing new methods to study them! Anna Kowalczyk and myself have a fully funded PhD position to advance OPM-MEG methods for infant and neonatal brain imaging. 👉 Please repost to help us spread the word 🙏 More info & links 👇
May 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
An exciting PhD opportunity at our lab. Apply by 21st May.
🌟 Last week our PhD students had the opportunity to contribute to a half-term family event at The Exchange @unibirmingham.bsky.social Huge thanks to all visitors for joining us and making it such a fantastic experience - your enthusiasm and curiosity are always inspiring! 🔬✨
February 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
🌟 Last week our PhD students had the opportunity to contribute to a half-term family event at The Exchange @unibirmingham.bsky.social Huge thanks to all visitors for joining us and making it such a fantastic experience - your enthusiasm and curiosity are always inspiring! 🔬✨
Reposted by Birmingham Babylab
Still a couple of days to apply for this fantastic job (DEADLINE: 2nd March 2025). Join us to do amazing neuroscience in one the most collegial lab ever. We study brains at all ages!
Final call to UK and international candidates (Closing date: 2nd March 2025)! Join us as Full Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience with the opportunity to step in as (Co-)Director at the @thechbh.bsky.social 👇 edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
February 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Still a couple of days to apply for this fantastic job (DEADLINE: 2nd March 2025). Join us to do amazing neuroscience in one the most collegial lab ever. We study brains at all ages!
Reposted by Birmingham Babylab
🌟✨Let children’s imaginations soar this National Storytelling Week!📚🌈From magical tales to everyday adventures, every story starts with a spark!
Check out the National Literacy Trust website literacytrust.org.uk/resources/na... for more information! #NationalStorytellingWeek #imagination #storytime
Check out the National Literacy Trust website literacytrust.org.uk/resources/na... for more information! #NationalStorytellingWeek #imagination #storytime
February 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🌟✨Let children’s imaginations soar this National Storytelling Week!📚🌈From magical tales to everyday adventures, every story starts with a spark!
Check out the National Literacy Trust website literacytrust.org.uk/resources/na... for more information! #NationalStorytellingWeek #imagination #storytime
Check out the National Literacy Trust website literacytrust.org.uk/resources/na... for more information! #NationalStorytellingWeek #imagination #storytime
✨ New paper in @openmindjournal.bsky.social ✨ If you're curious to find out *how* babies and young children understand *helping*, have a look at this new paper from our lab (by @bpomie.bsky.social and collaborators) 👇
New paper in Open Mind! What does it mean to help? What is the goal of a helping action? We wanted to probe infants' & preschoolers' helping concept - specifically, whether they think helpers reduce others' action costs. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
February 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
✨ New paper in @openmindjournal.bsky.social ✨ If you're curious to find out *how* babies and young children understand *helping*, have a look at this new paper from our lab (by @bpomie.bsky.social and collaborators) 👇
Reposted by Birmingham Babylab
*How* do babies and young kids understand helping?
Do they get that helping may involve intervening on someone else’s action costs by making it less costly (or easier) for them to achieve their goals?
This is was a fun project with *lots of surprising results*. Grateful to have been part of it 👇
Do they get that helping may involve intervening on someone else’s action costs by making it less costly (or easier) for them to achieve their goals?
This is was a fun project with *lots of surprising results*. Grateful to have been part of it 👇
New paper in Open Mind! What does it mean to help? What is the goal of a helping action? We wanted to probe infants' & preschoolers' helping concept - specifically, whether they think helpers reduce others' action costs. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
February 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
*How* do babies and young kids understand helping?
Do they get that helping may involve intervening on someone else’s action costs by making it less costly (or easier) for them to achieve their goals?
This is was a fun project with *lots of surprising results*. Grateful to have been part of it 👇
Do they get that helping may involve intervening on someone else’s action costs by making it less costly (or easier) for them to achieve their goals?
This is was a fun project with *lots of surprising results*. Grateful to have been part of it 👇
Reposted by Birmingham Babylab
Finally out! A new paper on categorisation in preverbal infants, together with wonderful
@bpomie.bsky.social, Szilvia Takács and Ágnes Volein.
Have a look:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@bpomie.bsky.social, Szilvia Takács and Ágnes Volein.
Have a look:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
The nature of label-induced categories: preverbal infants represent surface features and category symbols | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Humans categorize objects not only based on perceptual features (e.g. red, rounded),
but also function (e.g. used to transport people). Category membership can be communicated
via labelling (e.g. ‘app...
royalsocietypublishing.org
December 9, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Finally out! A new paper on categorisation in preverbal infants, together with wonderful
@bpomie.bsky.social, Szilvia Takács and Ágnes Volein.
Have a look:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@bpomie.bsky.social, Szilvia Takács and Ágnes Volein.
Have a look:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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🚨Publication Alert!🚨
The ManyBabies4 paper is out! 37 labs around the world tested over 1,000 babies in the largest investigation of infants' social evaluation to date.
doi.org/10.1111/desc...
The ManyBabies4 paper is out! 37 labs around the world tested over 1,000 babies in the largest investigation of infants' social evaluation to date.
doi.org/10.1111/desc...
Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study
Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluatio...
doi.org
November 27, 2024 at 7:05 PM
🚨Publication Alert!🚨
The ManyBabies4 paper is out! 37 labs around the world tested over 1,000 babies in the largest investigation of infants' social evaluation to date.
doi.org/10.1111/desc...
The ManyBabies4 paper is out! 37 labs around the world tested over 1,000 babies in the largest investigation of infants' social evaluation to date.
doi.org/10.1111/desc...
Reposted by Birmingham Babylab
November 15, 2024 at 5:50 AM
We're thrilled to attend the Inaugural Lecture of our very own Professor Andrew Bremner! Please join us to find out 'What it is like being a baby'.
Babies and parents very welcome 😊
📅Weds 27 November, 4-6pm
📍Aston Webb, Lecture Theatre WG5, Univesity of Birmingham
Details: tinyurl.com/5bkyhtu8
Babies and parents very welcome 😊
📅Weds 27 November, 4-6pm
📍Aston Webb, Lecture Theatre WG5, Univesity of Birmingham
Details: tinyurl.com/5bkyhtu8
November 26, 2024 at 8:44 PM
We're thrilled to attend the Inaugural Lecture of our very own Professor Andrew Bremner! Please join us to find out 'What it is like being a baby'.
Babies and parents very welcome 😊
📅Weds 27 November, 4-6pm
📍Aston Webb, Lecture Theatre WG5, Univesity of Birmingham
Details: tinyurl.com/5bkyhtu8
Babies and parents very welcome 😊
📅Weds 27 November, 4-6pm
📍Aston Webb, Lecture Theatre WG5, Univesity of Birmingham
Details: tinyurl.com/5bkyhtu8
We're very excited to be attending #icis2024
@infantstudies.bsky.social We'll be presenting some of our latest work, come chat with us!
@infantstudies.bsky.social We'll be presenting some of our latest work, come chat with us!
July 9, 2024 at 9:08 AM
We're very excited to be attending #icis2024
@infantstudies.bsky.social We'll be presenting some of our latest work, come chat with us!
@infantstudies.bsky.social We'll be presenting some of our latest work, come chat with us!