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Kimberley Wade
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Professor of Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social, UK. Applied cognitive scientist exploring how we remember and make decisions (mostly) in legal and clinical settings. Co-Director of Centre for Operational Police Research. www.warwick.ac.uk/copr (🇳🇿+🇬🇧)
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🎓 Warwick/Monash Joint PhD Scholarships – Autumn 2026 Entry
Interested in research in Psychology? Explore funding opportunities now!
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📅 Deadlines:
Course Apps – 8 Dec 2025
Scholarship Apps – 11 Dec 2025
#PhD #Scholarships #WarwickUni #PsychologyResearch #PostgradFunding
October 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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🎓 Warwick China Scholarship Council scholarships – up to 30 for Autumn 2026 Entry

Explore funding opportunities now!

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📅 Deadlines:
Course Apps – 8 Dec 2025
Scholarship Apps – 11 Dec 2025
#PhD #Scholarships #WarwickUni #PsychologyResearch #PostgradFunding
October 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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🎓 Warwick Postgrad Scholarships – Autumn 2026 Entry
Interested in research in Psychology? Explore funding opportunities now!
🔗 warwick.ac.uk/servic...
📅 Deadlines:
Course Apps – 8 Dec 2025
Scholarship Apps – 11 Dec 2025
#PhD #Scholarships #WarwickUni #PsychologyResearch #PostgradFunding
October 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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I just updated PDF-direct (Firefox addon to bypass journals' "fancy online readers" and just get the darn pdf) to include everyone's favorite journal, PNAS: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.... Source at github.com/mvuorre/pdf-....
October 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Six scholars w/ slightly diff perspectives on eyewitness identification evidence still found much to agree on & highlight suggestions for future research. "Eyewitness suspect identification: six claims regarding the state of the science" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Eyewitness suspect identification: six claims regarding the state of the science
Psychological science on eyewitness suspect identification has a long and rich history. A few decades ago, modal expert opinion emphasised eyewitnesses’ fallibility, and it was widely held that ide...
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October 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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warwickpsych.bsky.social
Excited about starting a PhD in Psychology? 🎓 Don't miss out on the opportunity to apply for the ESRC Midlands Graduate School DTP Open competition! The deadline is on 13th January 2026. Apply now to fund your academic journey:
ESRC PhD Studentships in the Social Sciences in the Midlands Graduate School at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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October 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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jayvanbavel.bsky.social
Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on?

Our new review paper on the PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRALITY is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social (it was led by @steverathje.bsky.social)

Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
October 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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drjenryan.bsky.social
Memory problems will change how you see the world...literally 👀

Across two new papers, we examined the eye movement patterns of younger adults, older adults, individuals with mild cognitive impairment, and amnesic cases.

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October 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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aidanhorner.bsky.social
It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful

#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs
How to get PhD funding in the UK
It is that time of year again. The leaves are turning golden, red, and orange (or just brown), the nights are drawing in, and there is a chi...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Brilliant @thepaperbirds.bsky.social are creating '48 Thoughts Per Minute', an artistic look at what it's like inside your head. I chatted recently with the wonderful creative team about thoughts, beliefs & memory errors. See their convo starter
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'48 Thoughts Per Minute' - Conversation Starter
This is "'48 Thoughts Per Minute' - Conversation Starter" by The Paper Birds on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love…
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October 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Does “being authentic” mean always sticking to your “true self”? Pop culture suggests this but our identities constantly shift.
Laura Visu-Petra (Babeș-Bolyai Uni) & PhD student Lexi Bulbuc (BBU & Uni of Warwick) explain how identity flexibility can be a gift and curse.

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Is it Me I’m Looking For? The Dark Side of Flexible Identity
We’re told to just be ourselves, as if identity was something we turn on and off. Yet, we are often challenged to reinvent ourselves. How can we navigate between stability and fluidity of self?
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October 3, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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🚨 Just published! Our case study on the ICTR reveals how cultural background shapes courtroom communication. Witnesses from non-WEIRD contexts often gave indirect responses, easily misinterpreted as unclear or evasive by legal professionals @anneliesvrede.bsky.social doi.org/10.1108/JCP-...
Cross-cultural communication in the courtroom: a case study of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | Emerald Insight
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July 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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ulliecker.bsky.social
A very important paper led by the phenomenal @lucy-h-butler.bsky.social

Say it with me: Corrections. Of. Scientific. Misinformation. Are. Effective.

@lewan.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social @lkfazio.bsky.social @tobyprike.bsky.social @brionyswire.bsky.social @emilyspearing.bsky.social
lucy-h-butler.bsky.social Lucy Butler @lucy-h-butler.bsky.social · Jun 27
A 2023 NHB paper concluded that corrections of science-relevant misinformation are, on average, ineffective. Our response (in press) challenges this conclusion, showing why corrections *are* effective, and why considering measurement is important:
🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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OSF
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June 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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officialsarmac.bsky.social
SARMAC members are hosting an Autobiographical Processing and Psychopathology Conference 2026 at University of Plymouth, UK. If you would like to subscribe to the conference newsletter, you can do so here // stats.sender.net/forms/bqxQO0...
July 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Ok, remember a few days ago when I said that my friends/colleagues are badass and to look forward to good stuff coming later this week...

First up is @dannagal.bsky.social with this devastating, beautiful & deeply personal takedown of the MAHA movement. 1/

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Opinion | Holy Water Couldn’t Save My Husband. MAHA Wouldn’t Have, Either.
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June 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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aminamemon.bsky.social
The Teaching About Research in Memory & Cognition #sarmac2025 @officialsarmac.bsky.social was full of good examples of how to get students to engage E-portfolios puzzle boxes, using mobile phone tech learning to learn, to public science communication. Thanks for organising @drrobnash.bsky.social‬
June 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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For anyone interested in conducting lineup identification research, check out this valuable database of research materials generously shared by #SARMAC2025 presenter Ryan Fitzgerald, Stefana Juncu, @evaribbers.bsky.social and @evarubinova.bsky.social osf.io/vrj3u @sarmac2025.bsky.social
Eyewitness Lineup Identity (ELI) database
Hosted on the Open Science Framework
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June 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Thanks so much for a fabulous #sarmac2025, @ciaragreene.bsky.social @gillian-murphy.bsky.social! Many details made it such a joyess Irish-tinted celebration of the sarmac community. You're legends & we're immensely grateful ❤️ And I'm wildly proud of this lot too! (Thxs for putting up with me x)
June 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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What an amazing 4 days! Thanks so much to everyone for attending and bringing such warm and friendly energy to #sarmac2025! We can’t wait for SARMAC 2027! ❤️☘️
June 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Congratulations to the many fabulous awardees honoured at the Closing Ceremony last night! #sarmac2025
June 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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So impressed with this #SARMAC2025 symposium on confidence-accuracy in eyewitness identifications, featuring generous sharing of research materials, multilab studies with 1000s of participants and super realistic research designs @sarmac2025.bsky.social @officialsarmac.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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lkfazio.bsky.social
J Don Reed early career winner @veronicayan.bsky.social giving her award address at #sarmac2025. College is a really important time for students to develop skills of self-regulated learning. Students have a lot of supports for their learning in high school- much more on their own in college. 1/
Dr Yan presenting her talk
June 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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NEW paper! 💭🖥️

“Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?”

— Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡

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Table 1 Typology of traps, how they can be avoided, and what goes wrong if not avoided. Note that all traps in a sense constitute category errors (Ryle & Tanney, 2009) and the success-to-truth inference (Guest & Martin, 2023) is an important driver in most, if not all, of the traps.
May 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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ulliecker.bsky.social
Very glad to see this out:

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Special Issue
Misinformation: Current Directions and New Insights

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APA PsycNet
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May 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM