Cambridge Psychology Department

@profsanderlinden.bsky.social and his team uncovered real costs of creating a bot army. It's unnervingly low👀

Read @cam.ac.uk press release below👇

The story also featured in @reuters.com & @financialtimes.com
The original article in @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Looking for an interesting read over the winter holidays? ❄️📚
Try this new paper by @gregserapio.bsky.social &Co 👇
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Ask yourself, what is the personality of *your* favourite chat bot?🤔

#psychology #personality #ai #language #models #deepmind #cambridge

BBC Inside Science - Would our ancestors have benefited from early neanderthals making fire? - BBC Sounds New evidence shows that early neanderthals made fire 350 thousand years before we thought.

📍 Did you spot us on #BBC #InsideScience the other week?
If not, do not worry! The episode is available for another 26 days:
🎧 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Featuring the fresh article by Greg Davis &Co on paying #attention to zebra stripes 🦓
Share your thoughts below👇
#Radio4 #vision #eyetracking

We are incredibly proud! Congratulations on this achievement!👏👏👏

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This year's theme is broad—Biological Sciences Unleashed—so bring your angle! From open science to sustainability, health innovation, public engagement, or translational impact. If your work tackles real-world challenges, we’d love to hear from you. Please share!♥️🔁

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Presenting at the Research Café is a great way to boost your profile in a friendly, supportive setting. Meet researchers from across Biological Sciences, exchange ideas, and explore new collaborations over lunch. All related researchers welcome!
#public #speaking #practice

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📢 BioSci researchers! Submit your abstract for the Research Café (theme: Biological Sciences Unleashed).
🗓️ 6 Feb 2026
📝 Deadline: 9 Jan
📍 Sainsbury Lab
Share your work, connect across disciplines & spark new collabs.

#cambridgeuniversity
@cambridgebiosci.bsky.social

👏 Congratulations to our researchers @mmontagnese.bsky.social & Richard Bethlehem on securing the @acceleratescience.bsky.social funding for their exciting new #CogMap project 👏

Overwhelmed when looking through brainscans and at a loss what to look for? CogMap will be there to help you soon!🧠🗺️

How vivid are your memories?🤔

Tune in to learn more about the When Memories Come Alive project with Kasia Mojescik and Martha McGill 💃

🔗 eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

💡A truly collaborative interdisciplinary team ft the head of the @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social &Co

Can an old rook learn new tricks? YouTube video by Cambridge University

Who's the good boy? 🐶🐦‍⬛

Our #ComparativeCognition Lab shares their insights into rooks' intelligence 👀⚙️

Watch what Prof Nicky Clayton and her team have been up to👉 youtu.be/aLy9e03mUhk

@cambridgebiosci.bsky.social #cambridge #cambridgeuni #psychology #research #comparative #cognition #corvid

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🤔No plans this eve? Join in to listen to an exciting discussion panel!👇

Teen loneliness triggers ‘reward seeking’ behaviour A study has found that adolescents become highly motivated to seek rewards after just a few hours of social isolation. This may be beneficial in driving them

Teenagers are especially sensitive to loneliness, new #research has found.

But when social reconnection isn’t possible, this can drive them to seeking harmful rewards like alcohol or drugs.

Study by @campsydept.bsky.social @sjblakemore.bsky.social @livia-tomova.bsky.social

https://bit.ly/464WGKS

What value could #AI offer in university assessment and marking?

Find out how Dr Deborah Talmi, experimental psychologist at the @campsydept.bsky.social, is leading our AI-deas project to develop a new framework for the role of #AI in #studentevaluation.

➡️ ai.cam.ac.uk/blog/the-fut...

BBC Radio 4 - Curious Cases, Series 23, Memory Swap Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain probe the science of memory.

🎙️Lunch-break podcast idea!
Catch Dr Amy Milton on #BBC #Radio4 very own The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry—exploring all things memory from consolidation to implanted memories 🧠✨

🎧Listen now: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#Psychology #Neuroscience #Memory #BBCSounds @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social

Join our #NewBONDS study at #Cambridge #Babylab ✨
Expectant and young parents are invited take part investigating what effect early interactions have on developing brain🔎🧠🐣
📨Get in touch to learn more!
#developmental #psychology #neuroscience #research #family #interaction

MRI brain scan of a patient progressing rapidly to Alzheimer’s disease.

How can AI fast-track the search for better Alzheimer’s treatments?

Zoe Kourtzi from @campsydept.bsky.social used AI to reanalyse a clinical trial and found a group of patients who responded – showing 46% slower cognitive decline.

Find out more 👇
bit.ly/3GPUgHu

🚨 Funded PhD @mrccbu.bsky.social!

Work with top minds — @duncanastle.bsky.social & @sjblakemore.bsky.social on the impact of #developmental differences on #education!🧠📚

A month to apply ⏰
For details see👇
🔗 drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
Newnham-based 👩‍🎓💅
#psychology #cambridge #research

Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Professor Paul Bays Paul Bays is a Professor of Computation and Cognition in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He investigates the nature of the internal representations our brains construct an...

🙌 #CamFest2025 🙌
Paul Bays, Prof of #Computation and #Cognition, on the nature of #visual #illusions 😵‍💫

📖Start with this interview 👉 bit.ly/3DEKc2v
🚶‍♂️Come for the talk in person this Sunday, March 30th 👉 www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/seein...

@cambridgefestival.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social

📍This year around, we are hosting activities across 2 sites in the town centre!

🚩 Watch out for #CambridgeFestival bunting to find our tucked away buildings!

🤔 Tell us what you're most excited about: #talks, #workshops, or #research demos? 💬⚙️🔌

#developmental #psychology #cognition #emotion

🌸Cambridge Festival 2025 is upon us🌸

📆Come join the Department of #Psychology for the #Family Weekend (March 29-30)

🔗For details, have a look on the website: www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events
🔎 Enter "Psychology" and "Old Cavendish" to see our events!

@cambridgefestival
#CamFest2025

Hear more from our Department from Amy Milton 🙌

Read the testimonies by the brilliant women of @cambridgeuni.bsky.social's #SBS, including our Department's Becky Lawson (#PALlab) 🌷♀️✊

Our very own @sjblakemore.bsky.social will be delivering her talk exploring the intersection of #gender and #mentalhealth in #adolescence for the International Women's Day #IWD2025🎆
Join us this coming Monday in-person or online🙌

All great opportunities, please, also spotlight the new Dawson Professorship of Young People’s Mental Health within the Department of #Psychology: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49974/

For more: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

✨The Dawson Professorship of Young People’s Mental Health✨ was made possible by a donation from Peter and Christina Dawson, longtime supporters of the University and mental health advocates.
The post is accompanied by the expectation of accepting a Professorial Fellowship at St Catharine's College.

Cambridge fellowship will 'accelerate' mental health research A professorship at the University of Cambridge will advance science and offer support to young people.

📖Read more about this opportunity on BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
📝For details, contacts and application process follow this link: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49974/

👀We are seeking candidates with an outstanding #research record of international stature in young people's #mentalhealth and the vision, experience and enthusiasm to lead on mental health science for young people in #Cambridge, foster #collaboration and promote #innovative thinking and practice🙌
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Congratulations👏 Looking forward to see where @jonsimons.bsky.social will take us from here!