WOW! Everyone should listen to this superb maiden speech from newly appointed Prisons, Parole & Probation Minister James Timpson in the House of Lords today What an absolutely inspired appointment this is👏👏👏

No one in the UK should have to turn to a food bank to survive. Like and RT if you agree. 💚

That was extraordinary. What a comeback from Tom Pidcock! #mountainbike #Olympic2024 Go Team GB

Our review of value-directed prioritisation in working memory now fully out at QJEP. with Amy Atkinson & Graham Hitch. Getting value out of working memory through strategic prioritisation: Implications for storage and control - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

Was great to reflect on our research on unanswerable questions, but not sure how it can possibly have been over 20 years ago! P.S. Read the article to find out if jumpers really are angrier…

Our paper Evidence, Policy, Education, and Neuroscience—The State of Play in the UK is out now in Mind, Brain, and Education and available open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mb…

JOB OPPORTUNITY 📢 Are you interested in improving the health and well-being of families living in disadvantaged communities? Do you have experience supporting families thrive? We're looking for x3 Family Wellbeing workers to join our team. 👇 See below jobs.leeds.ac.uk/MHPSY1131

The longest sentence handed down to a violent racist rioter this week is shorter than the sentences imposed on entirely peaceful environmental protesters last month. Labour must repeal the Tory laws that treat peaceful protest more severely than violent disorder and assault.

This is still one of my all-time favourite threads on Twitter.

A second paper from Xiaotong Yin's PhD, looking at concurrent task effects on value-directed prioritisation over different time delays in episodic memory. Out now in Memory: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My home town 💕

So good to see Bridget Phillipson making rates of poverty central to her analysis of attainment gaps. Joseph Rowntree Foundation recently showed, schools are staggering under the weight of hardship experienced by their pupils. We need to tackle it at source. jrf.org.uk/deep-poverty-a…

The 24th ESCoP Conference Sheffield, United Kingdom 3-5 September 2025 We are pleased to announce the dates and website for the upcoming ESCoP conference. We are looking forward to welcoming you to Yorkshire! escop2025.com

Don't worry if you didn't get the GCSE results you hoped for. You're on Twitter, which means you're old and it happened ages ago.

New paper available online in Memory and Cognition! We explored social offloading (i.e., the leveraging of other agents in the social world to facilitate cognitive performance) among adults using a novel visuospatial working memory task. Check it out here: link.springer.com/article/10.375…

** New preprint** Here we investigate whether adults with symptoms of ADHD are as able to prioritise information in working memory as control participants: osf.io/preprints/psya… with Beatriz Pinheiro Sanchez, Matthew Warburton, Heather Allmark & Richard Allen A thread 🧵: #WMinpress

Risk and Protective Factors for Executive Function in Vulnerable South African Preschool-Age Children 👇

Cognitive science approaches in the classroom All of the studies included and summarised in the EEF evidence summary have taken place within schools. Read the summary: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-evid…

Recruiting participants aged 18-35 and 65-85 for research into memory and ageing. Please contact me if you are interested in taking part. Please retweet and share with others! 🧠🙏 Louise Brown Nicholls University of Strathclyde Psychology Strathclyde PSH StrathAgeingNetwork

Glorious lukewarm banter from Three Bean Salad Podcast at the London Podcast Festival tonight, including Henry Paker demonstrating how NOT to draw a Venn Diagram