First sunny #whitfriday morning in ages 😎

Ahhh, happy Monday #earlyyears

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🚨New from @ipsosuk / Standard News - Labour lead at 22 🚨 Labour 47% (+3 from May) Conservatives 25% (-3) Lib Dems 13% (-) Greens 8% (+2) Other 8% (-) 1,003 GB adults interviewed by telephone 14-20 June Short 🧵

Get a load of this joyful little comedian! Researchers at the University of Bristol (UK) recently created the Early Humor Survey to explore how humor develops in very young children. They found that roughly half of the babies in the tool’s data set showed an appreciation for

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Look at this picture, here a mothers milk visibly changed overnight to meet the demands of her baby who was unwell at the time Those signals are communicated to the mother by saliva from her baby, the mother may even be unaware of her baby’s health status yet levels of white

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2023 saw our highest levels of pessimism about the economy since the survey began 23 years ago - 92% of MSPs thought Scotland’s economy would get worse rather than better over the coming year (What will the picture look like this year?) 2/2

I think a chicken pavement art extravaganza is about to commence

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Back from 4 weeks of leave. Was great to have extra time with the small person. Also great that none of my colleagues want to talk about Minecraft or want me to make them a snack.

NEW: Boomer women are the most supportive of legal abortion and Gen Z men are the least supportive 👉 ipsos.com/en/global-view…

As ACE-Aware Nation hosts its latest large event this week, Simon Partridge & I are pleased to make our set of papers on the history of Scotland’s #ACES Movement available to the public. (You learn some fascinating things on Bowlby too.) Download here: aceawarescotland.com/downloads/

NEW: Interested in the state of #wellbeing in the UK? First findings from landmark #LifeInTheUK index of >6,900 people released today. Check out results from Carnegie UK IpsosUK below

ANALYSIS: A "crocodile chart" that will worry Conservative strategists. From the new Understanding Society report by IpsosUK. Explore it here, including intro by Trinh Tu Keiran Pedley and Gideon Skinner ipsos.com/en-uk/understa…

Brilliant win for a brilliant team 👏 😀

Great analysis of @ipsosuk polling showing that the “Stop the Boats” campaign is only working to excite the minority of current conservative voters by John Burn-Murdoch