Salim

I spent far too long trying to think of something funny and punny to express how much I’ve enjoyed working on this project - and not just because I’ve gotten to work with this wonderful team led by Dr Amy Paine

Why is diversity important in science? Watch now | Diversity, equity and inclusion programmes have been cut and research grants are being pulled in the US. We discuss why diversity is needed in science.

We interviewed @chrischirp.bsky.social to better understand the recent cuts to funding in the US and why diversity is important in science. TLDR: Diverse teams produce more impactful work and we need to study diversity to improve healthcare. Listen now: www.scienceorfiction.co.uk/p/why-is-div...

How Minecraft can expose the flaws in personality tests How often have you scrolled past online quizzes promising to reveal who you are? – or sort you into a Hogwarts house based on three dubious questions? As humans, we have the need to understand…

The #MinecraftMovie is out today – but did you know the game could be used to study personality? 🤔

PhD student Lorenzo Cappiello shares how researchers use games to assess personality, and why #Minecraft reveals the limits of these measures.

🔗 www.kcl.ac.uk/minecraft-and-personality-tests

How Minecraft can expose the flaws in personality tests How often have you scrolled past online quizzes promising to reveal who you are? – or sort you into a Hogwarts house based on three dubious questions? As humans, we have the need to understand…

With the Minecraft movie coming out today, my PhD student Lorenzo reflects on what Minecraft and other games can tell us about personality: www.kcl.ac.uk/minecraft-an... @kingsioppn.bsky.social

A framework for understanding adverse adolescent experiences - Nature Human Behaviour Adolescence (ages 10–24) is characterized by cognitive, behavioural and social development. This Review proposes the adverse adolescent experiences (AAEs) framework to categorize and examine potential...

Our approach to understanding how adversities impact adolescent development often neglects the specificity and complexity of adolescence. In our new review, we propose the adolescent adverse experiences framework to capture adverse experiences at multiple levels: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do tablets help or hinder children’s play? Playing in the digital world can have benefits similar to playing with physical toys

“Using a tablet won’t set children on an irreversible course to specific later outcomes.” @kathrynbates.bsky.social speaks with Salim Hashmi about making sense of mixed research findings and the potential benefits of collaborative digital play. boldscience.org/do-tablets-h... @s-hash93.bsky.social

Becoming me: How children develop their identity What makes us who we are? Our ‘identity’ is a combination of lots of different parts – some that make us similar to other people and some that make us unique. When all of these parts come…

How do children develop their 'me'? Dr Salim Hashmi explores how young people form their identities, from the age of five, through play, imagination, art and technology for @place2becharity.bsky.social's #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek #PsychSky

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