Emily Towner
@emilyanntowner.bsky.social
Scientist / PhD in Progress 👇🏻
📍 UK 🇬🇧 @CambridgeUniversity
🎓 Gates-Cambridge Scholar
🧠 Studying psychology and brains
✉️ hello@emilytowner.com
#psychology #neuroscience #development #learning #brain #adolescence
www.emilytowner.com
📍 UK 🇬🇧 @CambridgeUniversity
🎓 Gates-Cambridge Scholar
🧠 Studying psychology and brains
✉️ hello@emilytowner.com
#psychology #neuroscience #development #learning #brain #adolescence
www.emilytowner.com
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Huge congratulations to Dr @emilyanntowner.bsky.social on passing her PhD viva @campsydept.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Huge congratulations to Dr @emilyanntowner.bsky.social on passing her PhD viva @campsydept.bsky.social
PhD ✔️
After five amazing years at Cambridge, I'm thrilled to have completed my PhD in Psychology!
Huge thanks to my incredible supervisor @sjblakemore.bsky.social for being a brilliant scientist and compassionate mentor and to my Blakemore Lab colleagues and Cambridge friends who became family. 💙
After five amazing years at Cambridge, I'm thrilled to have completed my PhD in Psychology!
Huge thanks to my incredible supervisor @sjblakemore.bsky.social for being a brilliant scientist and compassionate mentor and to my Blakemore Lab colleagues and Cambridge friends who became family. 💙
October 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
PhD ✔️
After five amazing years at Cambridge, I'm thrilled to have completed my PhD in Psychology!
Huge thanks to my incredible supervisor @sjblakemore.bsky.social for being a brilliant scientist and compassionate mentor and to my Blakemore Lab colleagues and Cambridge friends who became family. 💙
After five amazing years at Cambridge, I'm thrilled to have completed my PhD in Psychology!
Huge thanks to my incredible supervisor @sjblakemore.bsky.social for being a brilliant scientist and compassionate mentor and to my Blakemore Lab colleagues and Cambridge friends who became family. 💙
25 days until I submit my PhD thesis—and I truly couldn’t have made it here without the unwavering support of my incredible, kind and brilliant supervisor.
@sjblakemore.bsky.social
Thank you so much, Sarah, for the lovely shoutout!
@sjblakemore.bsky.social
Thank you so much, Sarah, for the lovely shoutout!
Highlighting the brilliant @emilytowner.com, Cambridge Gates Scholar, finishing PhD on social isolation in adolescence. Emily creates videos about learning, social brain, mental health and more.
Emily also has a Cambridge Blue 🤩
www.instagram.com/emilyanntowner/
m.youtube.com/@emilyanntowner
Emily also has a Cambridge Blue 🤩
www.instagram.com/emilyanntowner/
m.youtube.com/@emilyanntowner
April 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
25 days until I submit my PhD thesis—and I truly couldn’t have made it here without the unwavering support of my incredible, kind and brilliant supervisor.
@sjblakemore.bsky.social
Thank you so much, Sarah, for the lovely shoutout!
@sjblakemore.bsky.social
Thank you so much, Sarah, for the lovely shoutout!
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For my researcher friends here.
February 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
For my researcher friends here.
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WOMEN and FEMALE are red flag words. (Men, male are not on the list). Let that sink in.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
WOMEN and FEMALE are red flag words. (Men, male are not on the list). Let that sink in.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
Recently sat down with CUNY SPS to reflect on my journey from communications student to research scientist. We discussed how my non-traditional education prepared me for academia, falling in love with science, and my upcoming postdoc.
#academicjourney #womeninscience
medium.com/@CUNY_SPS/fo...
#academicjourney #womeninscience
medium.com/@CUNY_SPS/fo...
Following a Scientific Role Model
A CUNY SPS Alum Reflects Back On Her Extraordinary Educational Journey
medium.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Recently sat down with CUNY SPS to reflect on my journey from communications student to research scientist. We discussed how my non-traditional education prepared me for academia, falling in love with science, and my upcoming postdoc.
#academicjourney #womeninscience
medium.com/@CUNY_SPS/fo...
#academicjourney #womeninscience
medium.com/@CUNY_SPS/fo...
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This is such a good example of how word choice matters! Many people use “increase” and “decrease” when interpreting regression coefficients. I teach that this is unacceptable and misleading when writing about correlational studies. Here’s my writing guide for linear regression osf.io/egm3c
When news reports about scientific papers make causal claims that are not justified by the original study, the mistake often traces to a university press release.
Here, observational data reveals an association. The press release asserts causality.
today.ucsd.edu/story/walkab...
Here, observational data reveals an association. The press release asserts causality.
today.ucsd.edu/story/walkab...
Walkable Neighborhoods Help Adults Socialize, Increase Community
Adults who live in walkable neighborhoods are more likely to socialize and have a stronger sense of community, report researchers at the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human...
today.ucsd.edu
December 22, 2024 at 7:13 PM
This is such a good example of how word choice matters! Many people use “increase” and “decrease” when interpreting regression coefficients. I teach that this is unacceptable and misleading when writing about correlational studies. Here’s my writing guide for linear regression osf.io/egm3c
Created a starter pack for those in Psychology (and related departments) at the University of Cambridge.
Please let me know who I've missed!
Please let me know who I've missed!
November 23, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Created a starter pack for those in Psychology (and related departments) at the University of Cambridge.
Please let me know who I've missed!
Please let me know who I've missed!
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**We are recruiting**
Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/
Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/
Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 11:24 AM
**We are recruiting**
Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/
Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/
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When I will respond to your email
November 20, 2024 at 6:38 PM
When I will respond to your email
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🌟 We're Hiring! 🌟 My team is looking for a Research Coordinator to support our portfolio of research activities. If you thrive organising complex projects and managing a range of activities, this is the role for you.
📢 More information: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49152/
📄 Apply by: 29th November 2024
📢 More information: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49152/
📄 Apply by: 29th November 2024
Research Co-ordinator (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Co-ordinator (Fixed Term) in the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
November 18, 2024 at 9:19 AM
🌟 We're Hiring! 🌟 My team is looking for a Research Coordinator to support our portfolio of research activities. If you thrive organising complex projects and managing a range of activities, this is the role for you.
📢 More information: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49152/
📄 Apply by: 29th November 2024
📢 More information: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49152/
📄 Apply by: 29th November 2024
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I’ve written personal things before, but never about my feelings for someone else. So I’m nervous to have this out today, about a romantic relationship when I was 17.
It had a huge impact on me, for a long time, & I hope this can start a conversation about the significance of teenage love affairs
It had a huge impact on me, for a long time, & I hope this can start a conversation about the significance of teenage love affairs
November 16, 2024 at 9:08 AM
I’ve written personal things before, but never about my feelings for someone else. So I’m nervous to have this out today, about a romantic relationship when I was 17.
It had a huge impact on me, for a long time, & I hope this can start a conversation about the significance of teenage love affairs
It had a huge impact on me, for a long time, & I hope this can start a conversation about the significance of teenage love affairs
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Associations between parent’s mental health and youth’s functional emotion regulation networks: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Associations between parental psychopathology and youth functional emotion regulation brain networks
Parental mental health is associated with children’s emotion regulation (ER) and risk for psychopathology. The relationship between parental psychopat…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 17, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Associations between parent’s mental health and youth’s functional emotion regulation networks: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our latest paper, published today in Royal Society Open Science, found that being alone heightens 'threat alert' in teenagers—even when they're connected on social media. 🧠📲 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Increased threat learning after social isolation in human adolescents | Royal Society Open Science
In animal models, social isolation impacts threat responding and threat learning,
especially during development. This study examined the effects of acute social isolation
on threat learning in human a...
doi.org
November 14, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Our latest paper, published today in Royal Society Open Science, found that being alone heightens 'threat alert' in teenagers—even when they're connected on social media. 🧠📲 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...