Victoria Simms
@ProfVicSimms
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Developmental/Cognitive psychologist. Prof & Research Director, UU Psychology
Ulster University
Joined June 2013
Proud of this @UlsterUniPsych researcher- Mark is a complete legend- collaborator extraordinaire, ace PhD supervisor and generating huge impact. ❤️
Professor Mark Shevlin features in @Clarivate Highly Cited list (of globally highly cited researchers)- the only member of @UlsterUni staff who features in @siliconrepublic ‘1 in 1,000’: 27 scientists in Ireland on Highly Cited Researchers list
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Pressure to publish jumps. And researchers have no time to do science. (New survey from Elsevier) Survey of 3200 researchers: 1. Only 45% of scientists have sufficient time for actual research. 2. For 68%, the pressure to publish today is greater than 2-3 years ago. 3. 29% of
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Check out our article in @BPSOfficial @psychmag on #REF #research evaluation. Keen to hear people’s thoughts!!!!
Evaluating the evaluation of psychology in UK universities… Elizabeth Stokoe, @mjinglis, @colinfoster77, @HugoLortie and @ProfVicSimms share tales from the Research Excellence Framework. https://t.co/wNedNtfJGP
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A wonderful day at #norfest in #dublin. So delighted to hear about the AMAZING work going on at Irish research institutions in the #openresearch area. Challenging discussions on research security, academic freedom & openness. But good to think deeply about our practices.
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This week we had a joyful celebration of our #homemaths @NuffieldFound project with #eastsidelearning & #rabbitandlark Totally joyful! @DrAbbieCahoon!
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Excited to host @BentallProf next week @UlsterUniPsych for the ESRC social science festival- ‘Delusion and the madness of crowds’ - Tuesday 4/11/25 5:30-7pm at Coleraine campus. Book here
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Fantastic to see this!
The Northern Ireland launch of Generation New Era, a landmark UK-wide study set to follow 30,000 babies from birth, was hosted by Ulster University this week at the Titanic Hotel in Belfast. Read more: https://t.co/EgXzB8radc
#WeAreUU | @ucl | @UKRI_News | @healthdpt
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Hello #MCLS2026 !☘️ We are delighted to announce the dates for our upcoming conference in Padua, Italy! 🇮🇹 Stay tuned for more updates soon! Thank you to the local team organiser at @UniPadova
@SaraCaviola @R_Rosa8 @mariagraziaranz Follow MCLS and MCLS Trainee on BlueSky!
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Protein language models just got an upgrade. Meet Profluent-E1: a free, flexible, frontier protein sequence encoder. E1 is built with retrieval augmentation to learn from multiple sequences. Models trained over 4T tokens with only 150M-600M params, E1 is SOTA for zero-shot
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Last chance to sign up to Dive into Developmental Science!⭐ Bring the whole family to join researchers from @QUBPsych and Ulster University for hands-on puzzles, games and exciting talks. 📍Ulster Museum Saturday 18th Oct 2025 11am-1pm Sign up here: https://t.co/qpDzbjxWXg
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For all of you #REF geeks out there- check this paper that we published in Cogent Psychology- we scraped all the outputs to UOA4 in 2021, used a LLM to generate themes, and predicted (really well) unit GPA. Interested to hear thoughts!
New in Cogent Psychology: "Psychology and research assessment in the United Kingdom" https://t.co/YjtVVjJG59
@LizStokoe @ProfVicSimms
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As a @IronOverloadUK person I get my bloods done regularly. They check your DOB. Cue nurses and porter singing happy birthday- & I got a balloon! (My midwife sis says this is gen only for paediatrics- I’m clearly special). @NHSuk you are wonderful.
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Looking for a fun, free, family day out? Join researchers from @QUBPsych and @UlsterUni for hands-on puzzles, games and exciting talks. 📅 @UlsterMuseum: Saturday 18th Oct 2025 11am-1pm Sign up at: https://t.co/xzSEFtgHDO
#KidsInContext #ChildDevelopment #Psychology
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The life blood of any School! So proud of our growing team of post-docs- these are just a few!!!
Loving hearing about the work of some of our postdoc celebration event-docs for post-doc appreciation week!
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Congratulations to Scott Graham on his VERY successful viva today!
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This infographic from AcadMathsSci highlights the important role that maths plays in Northern Ireland are the potential for growth in related sectors. As teachers, we have the responsibility to make sure our pupils know about these opportunities
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Heading home from an exceptionally busy @BPSDevSection conference @RoyalHolloway - my first as chair of the section. Thanks to everyone who came along- especially all the #ECRs making their first conference presentation.
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We’re thrilled to announce CLS is to lead the first new nationally representative UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years. Generation New Era will follow the lives of more than 30,000 babies born in 2026. Read more: https://t.co/UAX9w7UR9X
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Seems the pause in #REF is much more about the prioritisation of people and culture - and its measurement. I hope that the next announcement is not a retrograde step.
Patrick Vallance hits pause on Research Excellence Framework, to review whether its allocation of £2 billion annually in block research funding will support the government’s economic and social missions, reports @jgro_the
https://t.co/U24Cc91J1Y
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