📱One in 10 babies now regularly falls asleep with a screen 📵The @1001CDF team includes @AstonUniversity's Prof James Wolffsohn and Dr Amy Sheppard 🚼Baby screen use is linked to poorer developmental outcomes such as obesity, myopia and language delay tinyurl.com/53pztjjy

📰In the media! 🕶️@AstonUniversity optometrist Prof James Wolffsohn speaks to @guardian about the dangers of fake sunglasses ☀️It's vital that sunglasses have proper UV filters 👇theguardian.com/society/2026…

🏆|@AstonAIME's Helen Elwood and Paul Knobbs win Biochemical Society 2027 Research Support Award 🥼Helen is the AIME laboratory manager, Paul is the AIME manager 🌟The award celebrates the skills and experience of support staff 👉tinyurl.com/2nr7d3sr

💷|@AstonUniversity's Dr John Reynolds wins £125,000 Springboard funding to research neurodegeneration in ataxia telangiectasia-like disorder (ATLD) 🧠ATLD is a rare, inherited neurodegenerative disease ⚕️The grant has been awarded by @acmedsci 👉tinyurl.com/4ap5rufd

👁️|@AstonUniversity's Dr Andrew Miller & sight loss charity Focus Birmingham help train future optometrists 🥼Students gain real-life experience with sight loss patients at weekly clinics 👓Focus Birmingham provides support for people with sight loss 👉tinyurl.com/yrfntd4n

✍️New blog! 🏢@AstonUniversity psychologist Dr Carl Senior comments in this blog from @FrontEducation on teaching, learning and leadership, and the changes that must come next 🔟The blog celebrates ten years of the journal 👇frontiersin.org/field-notes/…

🔼|@AstonUniversity Power Skills Festival equips students & staff with future-ready capabilities 4⃣They are AI & Digital, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Inclusive Leadership, and Environmental Sustainability 🗓️There is a full month of sessions 👉tinyurl.com/374afmcu

🤝|@AstonUniversity & @wlv_uni partner to establish the Black Country Medical School 🏥It will address healthcare workforce needs in a diverse and under-represented region 🩺@AstonMedicine will provide curriculum advice and assessment support 👉tinyurl.com/muc65ua4

🎙️On a podcast! 🏢@AstonUniversity Centre for Health and Society director @dralexispaton is launching a new show, Sick Society, with Sir Andrew Goddard 🧑‍💻In a teaser episode they explore the rise of health misinformation with @CaulfieldTim Listen 👇open.spotify.com/episode/5Ju…

💊|'Medication adherence: Why it matters and how we can improve it' 🎓@Prof_Ian_M at @AstonUniversity Pharmacy School will give his public inaugural lecture on 5/2/26 👨‍🏫He will look at why patients struggle to take medication and possible solutions 👉tinyurl.com/mu65yr6e

📺In the media! 🥼@AstonMedicine students and our dean of medical education Prof John Cookson appeared on @bbcmtd 🛌See our immersive simulation wards, hear why our trainee medics chose their careers and why the NHS is still vital 👇Watch from 18m 40s bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q9k…

🎓|@AstonUniversity has conferred two honorary degrees for exceptional achievement during Winter Graduation 2026 🚌Claire Miles, CEO of Stagecoach, received a DBA 🏥Diane Wake, group chief executive of @DudleyGroupNHS and @SWBHnhs, received an ScD 👉tinyurl.com/y4eb4mc7

🤯|The book that changed my mind – 12 experts share a perspective-shifting read 🗺️Read why 'Sapiens' by Yuval Noah Harari challenged, demolished and rebuilt the worldview of @AstonEPS #AI researcher Dr Alina Patelli's worldview 👉theconversation.com/the-book… via @ConversationUK

💷|@AstonUniversity wins @SciTechgovuk funding for digital skills training for disadvantaged young people 🧑‍💻Led by Dr Angel Tan, the Digital Futures Work Experience Programme will begin in January 2026 🇬🇧DSIT has funded 80 such schemes around the UK 👉tinyurl.com/wvbvy8j3

🏆|@AstonUniversity's @ginarippon1 wins @BPSOfficial Popular Science book award for The Lost Girls of Autism 🧠Prof Rippon is professor emeritus of cognitive neuroimaging ♀️The book explores female autism, and why it has been ignored for so long tinyurl.com/3e52m8r8

🎁| @AstonUniversity Dr Paul Jones reveals the psychology behind feeling lonely at Christmas and how to handle it 🎄For many people this time of year can be isolating and emotionally weighted ✅Five tips to help over the holiday season. 👉tinyurl.com/yxdrwtr3

🎄| @AstonUniversity Dr Paul Jones reveals the psychology behind festive board games and how they bring people together over the holidays 🎁 Games can offer structure 🎲Play allows families to step outside their usual roles for a while. 👉 tinyurl.com/y4ah598f

💷|@AstonUniversity team led by @rebeccaknibb81 wins @PeanutFarmers grant to develop online food allergy support tool 🥜 The tool is for adults with food allergy and caregivers 📱The team will make new modules requested by users and for adolescents 👉tinyurl.com/3pnejvcm