@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

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Want to do a PhD with me and the Emotions in Context Lab? We’re looking for new grad students to join us next fall! Check out the lab website to learn what we’re working on now and in the near future: www.emotionsincontextlab.com/join/

Has your baby been admitted to hospital in Ireland or the UK?

We are a team of researchers at Queen’s University Belfast studying how a baby’s hospital stay affects parents. If you’ve experienced this, we’d love to hear from you.

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New paper:
The communicative principle of relevance

This is a law-like generalisation about communicative behaviour; and in my view a landmark in our understanding of human interaction. This short piece briefly explains and updates it in (I hope) useful ways

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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/

Affective science folks - what taxonomy do you know with both affective and mental states? Example from S. Baron-Cohen's Mine Reading library from 2003/2004 with 24 groups and 412 items. Anything more recent?

The built-in pals were the first "AI thing" I found genuinely useful for my work.

They tackle problems common enough to care about automation but too tedious to program against. Getting an "about right" solution, combined with a bit of manual polishing was definitely an improvement. #RStats

Zotero is great and I think that anyone who needs to organise and cite more than a handful of references should be using it. Here's an intro to Zotero that I made for my undergrad students (but the info is relevant for anyone new to Zotero).

Full vid [13 mins]: youtu.be/SlUHjOqVCyU
Preview ⬇️

PSA for those joining Bluesky: the Chrome extension Sky Follower Bridge is an excellent tool that rapidly identifies all the people you follow on Twitter/X who are also on Bluesky and lets you follow them all at once. Easy to use chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

Postdoc opportunity to work with me in the UK! We're looking for a PhD (submitted or awarded) to work on a social psychology grant for 2 years, investigating the moral role of heroes. See the job ad here (www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJH266/r...) and pass it on- deadline 18 Sep!

Universities are failing. They badly misunderstand crowd psychology.

"By aggressively treating crowds as if they are dangerous monoliths, the police...create identities bound together in opposition to the authorities"

We wrote about this research in our book (powerofus.online)

PhD studentship open to UK candidates from BAME backgrounds @Sussex_Psych

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4 further funded PhD studentships for UK and international candidates @Sussex_Psych

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