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Sabine Gysi
Former/founding Editor in Chief, BOLD

Sabine Gysi has a background in online communications strategy, program development, and culture management. After working for a multinational company, an agency startup, a think tank, as well as media outlets and cultural institutions, she joined the Jacobs Foundation in March 2016. Intrigued by the world of science communication and the profound transformation it is undergoing, Sabine Gysi was dedicated to conceptualizing, operating and developing BOLD, the Foundation’s Blog on Learning and Development as its founding Editor-in-Chief. In August 2020, she handed over the Editor-in-Chief role to Gemma Wirz. Sabine Gysi left the Jacobs Foundation in October 2020.

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Contributions by Sabine

Celebrating four BOLD years

Sabine Gysi / 11 August 2020
Article Learning & Education 21st century skills
Photo by Agnieszka Ziomek on Unsplash

Embracing numbers: They help us navigate the world

Daniel Ansari and Sabine Gysi / 27 May 2020
Video Development Parenting and childcare
Embracing Numbers (visual: kurzgesagt)

Genes, education, and equity: It’s complicated

Kathryn Paige Harden and Sabine Gysi / 22 April 2020
Video Development 21st century skills
Genes, education, and equity (visual: kurzgesagt)

Lifespan development: the more we know about it, the more complex it seems

Sabine Gysi / 17 February 2020
Interview Development Genetics

A nuanced look into the future with Daphne Bavelier and Amy Ogan

Sabine Gysi / 27 January 2020
Video Development 21st century skills
Daphne Bavelier and Amy Ogan at KOSMOS, Zurich

“A machine should be like a personal trainer for learners”

Sabine Gysi / 13 November 2019
Interview Learning & Education 21st century skills

Three years (B)OLD, and still curious

Sabine Gysi / 5 August 2019
Video Learning & Education 21st century skills
3 Years BOLD blog. Video by Walkingframes

Talks and lively discussions with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Paul Bloom

Sabine Gysi / 18 June 2019
Video Development Mental health
Illustration by Shamanthi Rajasingham

Technology to help combat loneliness and isolation

Sabine Gysi / 2 May 2019
Interview Development Mental health
Lana Yarosh

Digital mental health apps: Separating the good from the bad

Sabine Gysi / 24 April 2019
Interview Development Mental health
Stephen Schueller

A long way to go: Learning in the 21st century

Sabine Gysi / 11 March 2019
Article Learning & Education 21st century skills
scottwebb, Pixabay.com, CC0 1.0

Poor sleep affects teens’ development – an easy way to make a difference

Sabine Gysi / 22 February 2019
Interview Development Neuroscience
Adriana Galván

How does poor sleep quality affect children’s ability to learn?

Sabine Gysi / 15 February 2019
Interview Development Physical health
Jared Saletin

How smart is it to go to bed with your phone?

Sabine Gysi / 1 February 2019
Interview Development Neuroscience
Kerstin Hödlmoser

Using daily interactions with e-learning platforms to predict achievement

Sabine Gysi / 28 January 2019
Interview Learning & Education Education technology
Margherita Malanchini

“Curiosity and openness matter more than diligence and perseverance”

Sabine Gysi / 25 January 2019
Interview Development 21st century skills
Margherita Malanchini

More sensitive people are also more responsive to positive experiences

Sabine Gysi / 23 January 2019
Interview Development Genetics
Michael Pluess

Neglect in early childhood has deep effects on how body and brain develop

Sabine Gysi / 26 November 2018
Interview Development Mental health
Megan Gunnar

Descendants bear imprints of ancestral traumas

Sabine Gysi / 19 November 2018
Interview Development Mental health
Brian Dias

“How can we be lifelong learners if learning happens only at school?”

Sabine Gysi / 5 November 2018
Interview Learning & Education 21st century skills
Lasse Leponiemi

“Our brain is trying to be plastic most of the time”

Sabine Gysi / 29 October 2018
Interview Development Neuroscience
Takao Hensch

“Neuroscientists and teachers need to work together”

Sabine Gysi / 19 October 2018
Interview Development Neuroscience
FotoEmotions, Pixabay.com, CC0 1.0

“Technology for teaching content is only one aspect of digitalization”

Sabine Gysi / 12 October 2018
Interview Learning & Education 21st century skills
Peter Pulkowski

“Digitalization is an opportunity to eradicate inequity in education”

Sabine Gysi / 10 October 2018
Interview Learning & Education Diversity
Peter Pulkowski

How easily someone is disgusted predicts their general moral notions

Sabine Gysi / 29 August 2018
Interview Development Psychology
David Pizarro

Acquiring decision-making strategies takes time

Sabine Gysi / 24 August 2018
Interview Development Psychology
Sebastian Horn

What core capacities are uniquely human?

Sabine Gysi / 10 August 2018
Interview Development Language
Hannes Rakoczy

How can we promote our cognitive health?

Sabine Gysi / 6 July 2018
Interview Development Neuroscience
Sabrina Guye

Encouraging children to work together and to develop their metacognition

Sabine Gysi / 29 June 2018
Interview Development Neuroscience
Chris Frith

“Training is important, but it’s not the whole story”

Sabine Gysi / 13 June 2018
Interview Development 21st century skills
Fredrik Ullen

“Babies’ brains are equipped to handle more than one language”

Sabine Gysi / 30 May 2018
Interview Development Language
martinandyoule, flickr.com, Public Domain

Maltreatment has long-term negative effects on a productive life

Sabine Gysi / 28 May 2018
Interview Development Mental health
Manuel Eisner. Photo: "Der Landbote", Marc Dahinden

Students exposed to more hardworking peers achieve higher grades

Sabine Gysi / 22 May 2018
Interview Development Learning environments
Ulf Zoelitz

How the brain develops, grows, and learns throughout our lives

Nora Maria Raschle and Sabine Gysi / 28 March 2018
Video Development Genetics
A two-minute animated introduction to brain development

Blaming smartphones, but missing the point

Sabine Gysi / 21 February 2018
Interview Society Technology and society
Garry Knight, flickr.com, CC BY 2.0

“Morality demands thinking with the head and not the heart”

Sabine Gysi / 12 January 2018
Interview Development Psychology
Paul Bloom

“Just being around peers seems to encourage curiosity”

Sabine Gysi / 15 December 2017
Interview Development 21st century skills
PublicDomainImages, pixabay.com, CC0 1.0

Attentive learners’ brains are on the same wavelength

Sabine Gysi / 8 December 2017
Interview Development Neuroscience
Suzanne Dikker. Image: Sy Abudu / NYU

Preschool education can be very effective, but the details matter

Sabine Gysi / 6 December 2017
Interview Learning & Education Education policy
Jeanne Brooks-Gun

“Constantly ask yourself if your students have achieved their objectives”

Sabine Gysi / 30 November 2017
Interview Learning & Education Teaching methods
Wokandapix, pixabay.com, CC0 1.0

In Britain, life expectancy of poorest children is 8-9 years shorter

Sabine Gysi / 29 November 2017
Interview Development Education policy
Candice Odgers

Some children are biologically more sensitive to their environment

Sabine Gysi / 22 November 2017
Interview Development Equity
Tom Boyce, Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco

“There’s no denying that relying on stereotypes simplifies life”

Sabine Gysi / 13 November 2017
Interview Learning & Education Diversity
Cornelia Kristen

Some of the most important behaviors are contagious

Sabine Gysi / 8 November 2017
Interview Development Neuroscience
Emily Falk

Play in childhood supports same skills that underlie scientific reasoning

Sabine Gysi / 25 October 2017
Interview Development Learning environments
Liz Bonawitz

How do certain gene variants shape kids’ development and life outcomes?

Sabine Gysi / 18 October 2017
Interview Development Genetics
Dan Belsky

Blended learning poised to reshape education in Africa

Sabine Gysi / 17 October 2017
Interview Learning & Education Education systems
Miora Randriambeloma

Kids growing up in poverty struggle to acquire vital cognitive abilities

Sabine Gysi / 11 October 2017
Interview Development Equity
Silvia Bunge

Technologies can augment learning for children with autism

Sabine Gysi / 4 October 2017
Interview Learning & Education Education technology
Gillian Hayes

Understanding adult learning is key to quality in early child development

Sabine Gysi / 27 September 2017
Interview Development Education policy
Hirokazu Yoshikawa

How to design people’s environments so they can benefit from programs

Sabine Gysi / 13 September 2017
Interview Development Equity
Lisa A. Gennetian

Two crucial factors in children’s long-term development

Sabine Gysi / 6 September 2017
Interview Development Education policy
Deborah Vandell

Identifying the best learning strategy for each individual child

Sabine Gysi / 30 August 2017
Interview Development Diversity
Markus Werkle-Bergner

Socially aware technology may help disadvantaged children learn

Sabine Gysi / 23 August 2017
Interview Learning & Education Education technology
Justine Cassell

To what extent does poverty compromise children’s development?

Sabine Gysi / 9 August 2017
Interview Learning & Education Equity
Greg J. Duncan

“Track-based school systems tend to separate students by ethnicity”

Sabine Gysi / 3 August 2017
Interview Learning & Education Diversity
Kruse Hanno

DNA variants account for 9% of achievement differences in 16-year-olds

Sabine Gysi / 2 August 2017
Interview Development Genetics
Sophie von Stumm

“We need to stop gap gazing”

Sabine Gysi / 19 July 2017
Interview Development Diversity
Iheoma Iruka

Increased exploratory behavior in adolescents: risky, yet also beneficial

Sabine Gysi / 11 July 2017
Interview Development Neuroscience
Wouter van den Bos

Almost one in four children experiences developmental or health struggles

Sabine Gysi / 4 July 2017
Interview Development Mental health
Nora Raschle

Why do number symbols count? Early screening and interventions for math

Sabine Gysi / 27 June 2017
Interview Development Neuroscience
Daniel Ansari

“Productive Failure produces learning outcomes for the 21st century”

Sabine Gysi / 29 May 2017
Interview Development 21st century skills
Manu Kapur

“We can take this powerful mechanism and deliberately design it to learn”

Sabine Gysi / 26 May 2017
Interview Learning & Education 21st century skills

Has educational neuroscience actually had an impact on education so far?

Sabine Gysi / 18 January 2017
Interview Development Neuroscience
GDJ, pixabay.com, CC0 1.0

“Self-regulation contributes to economic success and a healthy lifestyle”

Sabine Gysi / 9 January 2017
Interview Learning & Education 21st century skills
Ernst Fehr

What makes an app educational?

Sabine Gysi / 31 August 2016
Article Learning & Education Education technology
Kids with iPad. Petras Gagilas, flickr.com, CC BY-SA 2.0

“Media literacy is a tool, not a subject in the educational canon”

Sabine Gysi / 17 August 2016
Interview Learning & Education Education technology

“Exposure to a prosocial role model shows strong effects”

Sabine Gysi / 8 August 2016
Interview Development Psychology
Fabian Kosse

Let’s be BOLD about learning

Sabine Gysi / 2 August 2016
Article Society Technology and society
Let’s be BOLD about learning. Illustration: Mrzyk & Moriceau for BOLD

Researchers, science journalists, policymakers, and educators contribute to BOLD

Saloni Krishnan

Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London
Saloni Krishnan

Chris Fu

Graduate Researcher, University of Washington
Chris Fu, BOLD writer

Catherine Lebel

Associate Professor, Radiology at the University of Calgary
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