And huge thanks to all mentors and mentees who joined the Speed Mentoring!

It was a safe, trustworthy space for connection around navigating the research path, and we all highlighted the value of different perspectives and intergenerational exchange.

Cheers to all the openness and generosity!

We discussed about creating inclusive and safe academic spaces across the 25 years of WiCS+ and the work still ahead.

Judy Kroll and @nurasidarus.bsky.social revisited our origins and evolution, and together with @martarivz.bsky.social reflected on structural challenges and collective action

We’re delighted to be at #ESCOP2025 today!

Creating Inclusive and Safe Academic Spaces
Celebrating 25 years of Women in Cognitive Science
with @nurasidarus.bsky.social & Judith F. Kroll

📍 Diamond Lecture Theatre 7
🕒 Panel: 13:30–15:00
☕ Mentoring & Coffee: 15:00–16:30

Everyone is welcome!

⚠️ Last minute adjustment of our event at the 15th @isbilingualism.bsky.social⚠️

We are so sorry to say that @ethankutlu.bsky.social and Judith F. Kroll won't be joining us in the discussion

🙏 Anne Beatty-Martinez and Elisabeth Peña @habla-lab.bsky.social will replace them in the debate

The discussion will include different perspectives as panelists are at different career stages with different experiences.

We want to thank them all for being keen to participate!
@parafitacouto.bsky.social
@lshepperd.bsky.social
@ethankutlu.bsky.social
Suhail Matar & Judith Kroll

To avoid ambiguity:
1 Clearly define the multiple forms of GBV ensuring everyone understands what behaviors are unacceptable
2 Define how/to whom these can be reported
3 Implement dedicated training on how to handle reports and the range of ways this can be addressed, to prevent the escalation

12/n

Hence, GBV remains entrenched in the system and academic culture, representing an institutional betrayal. When institutions fail to address and prevent GBV, they perpetuate a harmful environment, undermining trust and safety for all members.

10/n

📊62% experienced GBV – it can affect everyone, but some genders are more likely to be affected (as well as individuals with other minoritised identities, e.g. LGBT+, disability, ethnicity).

🎯Who is disproportionately affected needs to be considered in policy making.

5/n

🚨The event is starting now!

Rachelle Ho (@abdnpsych.bsky.social). Her research interests include the study of the evaluation of brain networks in children with concussion or mild traumatic brain injury and the behavioural, emotional, and neurocognitive effects of mental health challenges, particularly in children.

@alicialuque.bsky.social (@nebrija.bsky.social). Her research bridges applied linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology to explore how individual factors shape language learning trajectories and outcomes, particularly in migration contexts.
#WomenInScienceDay #February11

Ronja Mueller (Medical School Hamburg, Germany). Her research interests include the study of face recognition and storage mechanisms, with special attention to the flexibility of face representations and the information that is stored in face memory.
#WomenAndGirlsInScience #February11

Zofia Wodniecka (Jagiellonian University). She is the head of the Psychology of Language and Bilingualism Laboratory “LangUsta”. Her scientific work focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of language used by bilingual people.
#WomenInScience #February11

Nura Sidarus @rhulpsychology.bsky.social. Her research investigates how monitoring and control of oneself interacts with decision making and learning, and how these (meta)cognitive processes may be altered in mental health problems, like depression.
#WomenInScienceDay #February11

@martarivz.bsky.social (@uib.cat). She studies language learning and processing in bilingual and monolingual populations from an interdisciplinary perspective between Applied Linguistics and Cognitive Psychology
#WomenInScienceDay #ThisIsWhatAScientistLooksLike
#WomenAndGirlsInScience #February11

@maravermj.bsky.social (@universidadgranada.bsky.social @cimcyc.bsky.social ). Her research interests focus on processes for memory control. How mechanisms of cognitive control and memory can be enhanced in healthy humans throughout different stages of development.
#WomenInScienceDay #February11

🙋‍♀️@akiesel.bsky.social (University of Freiburg). Her research interest is in cognitive and action control, especially in contexts with interfering processes like in conflict tasks or in multitasking settings. She has been President of @escop.bsky.social (2021-2022).

#WomenInScienceDay #February11

Postdoc position alert 🚨
Link to their web: inc-uab.cat
More info here:

Grateful to #WiCS+ and the fabulous speakers for hosting a panel full of real-life experiences on how to get by in the academic career.
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