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Yesterday I had the honour of representing @IMBESoc and MBE journal at the @UNESCO Global Alliance on the Science of Learning for Education annual meeting 🧵

Wonderful to see SIG22 (@EarliSig22; Dietsje Jolles & @ annamatejko) and IMBES (@IMBESoc) join forces, & shout out to the Leuven Brain Institute (@leuvenbrainins1) and KU Leuven Child & Youth Institute (@KULeuvenLCY), enthusiastically represented at our opening session.

IT'S A WRAP! What a wonderful conference we had. Thank you to the scientific committee @Bert_De_Smedt, Dietsje Jolles, @NvanAtteveldt @Stephanvog @SylviaGattas @KristinASimmers, to keynote speakers @skeidelab @jenniegrammer @StanDehaene, and to all presenters and participants!

Congratulations to the winners of the @IMBESoc @EarliSig22 Poster Awards @NadirDiazSimon, Ellen Egeland Flø, @perry_roisin and Shih Yang Ngieng!

And that’s a wrap for @IMBESoc! I got to share my work, attend many many great presentations, eat 🇧🇪 waffles & fries😋, browse Brussels and beautiful Leuven, hug friends, and chat in person w/ awesome scientists I’ve been wanting to meet for so long!😊 Thank you #imbes2024!!

Second talk in the #imbes2024 and @LearnusUK collaboration on research and practice across the globe symposium with Adriano Linzarini on assessments and teaching of social emotional skills @OECDEduSkills @OECDdev @IMBESoc

Third wonderful talk in the educator symposium at #imbes2024 by Sonia Guerriero with @UNESCO on challenges to low and middle income countries & the science of learning in such contexts. In collaboration with @LearnusUK and @IMBESoc generously funded by @Foundation_JF

Huge congratulations to @perry_roisin who was one of the 4 winners of the international poster award out of a huge number of posters @IMBESoc IMBES2024 @UCL_IOE_PHD

Hearing @StanDehaene talk and seeing him casually hang out in sessions and chill with @Bert_De_Smedt while @NoraNewcombe chats with @NumCog fulfills academic dreams. 🫠 @IMBESoc

@thebandb gave a wonderful talk as part of the educator symposium at #imbes2024 on challenges of translating educational neuroscience to the classroom in collaboration with @LearnusUK @IMBESoc @Leerpuntbe and generously funded funded by @Foundation_JF

What an amazing symposium and discussion panel @ #imbes2024 on translating & bridging research, education & policy on a global scale! Thank you @IMBESoc @LearnusUK @Leerpuntbe @kmcmahon20 @thebandb Sonia Guerriero Adriano Linzarini @OECD & @Foundation_JF for making this possible!

A great first of two symposia on the bidirectional dialogue between educators and researchers at #imbes2024 with @LearnusUK! Be sure to make the second one where policy and global action is discussed at 9am CEST today! @IMBESoc

The first talk of the #imbes2024 educator symposium on supporting collaboration and translation between educators and researchers with @kmcmahon20 and @LearnusUK, re-introducing the BiG project lead by Learnus Council member @mscthom

Attending #imbes2024? Interested in bridging research findings, practice and policy? Be sure to pick up a @LearnusUK brochure before leaving the conference! @IMBESoc

A little @TheCTTL shout-out at @IMBESoc !

Some pictures of our Pre-Conference yesterday. We are so grateful for our wonderful speakers @paulmatusz @mscthom @sanvanaalderen Sophie Smith, Sebastian Lipina @tiemejanssen @laurafornari7. @LearnusUK @Foundation_JF

And so it begins… So excited for the @IMBESoc @EarliSig22 conference!

See you at the @IMBESoc pre-conference!

Kicking off the @IMBESoc pre-conference with @paulmatusz!

Amazing start to our @IMBESoc pre-conference event for trainees. Thank you @paulmatusz for a wonderful writing workshop and helping us kick off the 2024 IMBES conference! #IMBES2024