I have a little bit of experience with autism bicycles and I'd say that the saddle on that bike looks particularly runctitional. I'd venture you might end up with a medical frymnblal if you use it for very long, maybe even a case of drop-out totalbottl.

Always wonderful to eat cake for a good cause. Thanks @sgdp.bsky.social !! Donate below (and maybe treat yourself?) Trans Legal Clinic: www.translegalclinic.com/donate Trans Kids Deserve Better: chuffed.org/project/supp...

🚨New paper!🚨 Meta-analysis on 4M p-values across 240k psych articles: How has psychology changed since the replication crisis began? How is replicability linked to citations, impact factor, and university prestige? 🧵 Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Interactive: pbogdan.com/meganal

We're excited to announce that the trial is now open to recruitment! Welcome to our very first site, Cambridge Community Services NHS Trust 👋 Over the next two years we will be aiming to recruit 650 families - have a read of our website to find out more: osiresearch.org.uk/star-cat 👈

We're looking for UK men aged 40-65 to give us some paid feedback on a video featuring 2 men talking about experiences of #suicidal thoughts. We want to know if it will be helpful for other men, even if they have never felt suicidal. Up to 1 hour of your time to help in our #suicideprevention work.

Exciting day for us - we're launching our study showing HUGE delays for children in foster care. Our paper is in Nature Medicine rdcu.be/ekep1 and a short animation www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwDu... @righttrial.bsky.social @uofgshw.bsky.social @rachelhiller.bsky.social @nspcc.bsky.social

Come and find me at no.73 to talk about how UK teachers are supporting (or want to support) traumatised autistic kids in schools #INSAR2025

It's been lovely to explore the wonderful city of Seattle - excited for the #INSAR2025 action to begin

So this study isn't even really showing that CBT doesn't work for reducing depression, as such -- it's showing that young people don't want to engage with a CBT app for reducing depression. This isn't surprising really - young people are busy and tired and want to relax in their free time

Coverage of my paper with @goldage.bsky.social on similarities and differences autistic and non-autistic people's experiences of menopause. Open access version here: kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/pu... #AutRes

The first publication on perceptions of diagnosis and social media use of youth in psychiatric treatment is out now! We are now conducting interviews with these patients and the conversations have been fascinating. Very excited to share those results soon. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lovely to have a spontaneous (almost full house!) @respectlabkcl.bsky.social photo with our lovely MSc students after discussing what posters we're taking to INSAR! There will be a few of us there so if you're in Seattle, do say hello!

It's never about the science. It's always about having a legal basis for your fear and hatred of other people.

🚨 Just one week left to apply for our Policy Internship! In partnership with the Medical Research Council, this scheme gives students the unique opportunity to see how medical research informs real-world policy 🌎 👉 For more information and to apply: ow.ly/QCz350VALLZ #SciencePolicy #Internship

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We are looking for autistic children & young people aged 11-18 to participate in a survey about improving the accessibility of CAMHS in the UK. Views can be shared by writing, recording a voice note, or drawing & labelling a picture. Link in QR code below or here: ljmu.questionpro.eu/a/TakeSurvey...

Subscribe to #AnnaFreud newsletter to be the first to see new animation with @aquinnunbroken.bsky.social We are passionate about neuro-diversity informed practice and we are asking professionals to un-think and re-think about seclusion and long term segregation www.annafreud.org/training/hea...

Are you a scientist who uses emotional faces in your research with teens? We hope to develop a new adolescent emotional faces stimulus set that meets the needs of scientists across a range of projects & want input from stakeholders who may use these stimuli! (see linked 2-min survey)

Excited to share my second first-author paper from my PhD research, open access now in JCPP! 📚 Autistic traits in childhood and post-traumatic stress disorder as young adults: a cohort study - doi.org/10.1111/jcpp... Very grateful to @eriskstudy.bsky.social and TEDS for their collaboration!

Diagnostic overshadowing in PTSD & autism: what do we know about trauma in ASD? buff.ly/0c0Hz5V Sofiia Karnatska blogs a systematic review of PTSD in autistic individuals, which provides some useful insights about effective assessment & treatment of #PTSD in #Autism. 🧵 THREAD

On Monday 24 March, we're holding two evidence sessions looking into identification, diagnosis and support of autistic people. At 14.45, we hear from: Prof Jonathan Green, University of Manchester Prof Bryony Beresford, University of York Prof Will Mandy, University College London

🌟 Exciting News! Our study on our method of Gillick Competence assessment in online, anonymous surveys is published! Empowering 13-15-year-olds to self-consent could overcome barriers to low risk, impactful mental health intervention research. Learn more: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/3...

🙌 3 phd scholarship opportunities from @mhrukcharity.bsky.social ! 🙌 Topic areas are… - schizophrenia - psychosis - general mh NB the uni has to apply, not the student so if you’re interested in this funding do pair up with the supervisor you want and they apply for the funding!

Absolutely essential listening. This is systemic injustice and a completely unacceptable way for us to care for and support the most vulnerable members of our community.

Anyone that loves someone who's experiencing long covid knows the just how much impact it's had on their lives - as this piece highlights there is hopeful research on the horizon, but there's so much more that needs to be done to make moving on from the pandemic an option for everyone

I forgot to tag #AutRes, oops! See thread below for a breakdown of our latest paper looking at menopause experiences in autistic/non-autistic people.

‘Like it’s making my heart run’: A strengths-based understanding of the play of autistic children journals.sagepub.com...

Prison policy is a classic example of Values-based as opposed to Evidence-based decision making tinyurl.com/yjem69b8 Research +data showing what works in reducing offending +promoting rehabilitation exists. It's a political choice whether to change what we do in response or prioritise being 'tough'

(meanwhile, in Scotland...) 📣 My dissertation students Asra & Kayleigh are doing important research on #transautistic people's #healthcare experiences! If you're #trans - #autistic + in bonnie Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 + you've EVER been to the doctors, please go to edin.ac/3WVmGoz or get in touch w them! TY

This kind of time-consuming, large-scale, high-quality research is so important for understanding what should be done in schools, and I hope these findings are shared widely and reach decision makers. Congrats/thank you to all those involved in what must have been a huge amount of work /8

You can find the DFE briefings and technical report here: www.gov.uk/government/p... And you find #PrePrint papers for impact, implementation, qualitative & economics here: osf.io/kxug7/ #PublicHealth #Schools #MentalHealth

Our large scale mental health in schools trial findings are out now! Lots to dig into, and we’ll have events next month to talk through in more detail.

A lovely 3rd year student of mine is looking for participants for her dissertation on victimisation and masking among autistic people: CW for questions on experiences of violence. Any reshares/time much appreciated. No funding attached. eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Thoroughly enjoyed discussing some of the existing research on PTSD in autistic people at the Autism Hub's monthly webinar (ALAG) and hearing people's thoughts on future directions! You can read Nick's blog about the meeting here: theautismhub.org.uk/creative-out...

🗂️ A really great resource, includes group sessions and topics (both online and in-person; from pg. 55) 💪 also lots of information and guidance for those delivering the workshops 🌎 Some aspects may need to be adapted for other countries cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/scho...

The Govt's answer to all things autism is the Mental Health Bill. The autism bits of the MHB won't kick in until community support exists. But there's no vision of what that even looks like. And when pressed on improving support, workforce, research, they point to the MHB. Make it make sense

Longitudinal data has the potential to transform early intervention in mental health, but it’s an underutilised resource. That's why we're funding researchers to use these datasets to find new ways of identifying anxiety, depression and/or psychosis ⤵️ wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

In addition to the NIH halt, this order aims to create (among other things) a list of all federally funded grants that involve DEIA "under whatever name they appear". They're coming for research involving health equity, social determinants of health, centering marginalized populations, etc.

A really fascinating day in Leeds for @ukpts.bsky.social - my brain has been filled with such interesting ideas and methods! I was excited to hear people's insights on my findings on autistic traits and PTSD 👇 P.S. how do people pose effortlessly next to a poster? (Asking for a friend 😉)

#Autism #PTSD #Autistic #Trauma #Alexithymia

"When Moncrieff says, “I’m not convinced antidepressants have any use,” is the medical community supposed to convince her, or is she supposed to convince the medical community?"

Our new series 'Inside the Teen Brain'. Ep 1 is 'Just Be Yourself' Professor Deborah Christie joins host Dr. Jane Gilmour to discuss the complexities of identity formation during adolescence. bit.ly/Teen-Brain-Ep1 Do pls share

🚨 My team is hiring an undergraduate intern (UK universities only) - a great opportunity, if I can say so myself! Please share widely. Want more info? See here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Tiny correction, in a format most of the article's readers will never see, long after they've forgotten reading it in the first place - and long after it's influenced political discourse (see: that Kemi Badenoch pamphlet). Is this the best we can do?

*Networks of care for the modern adolescent* 🫶🌻 In our new paper, we combine a #network approach + applied research lens to explore where #youngpeople are accessing #mentalhealth support & how helpful they find it. w/ Simon R White & @minafazeloxford.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Looking forward to heading to UKPTS in Leeds in January with a poster on some exciting longitudinal work on autistic traits and PTSD 👇

Since we're using BlueSky more now, I figured I'd make a thread recapping some of my ageing/autism research. For an easy-read overview, see my open article in The Psychologist here: www.bps.org.uk/psychologist... #autres #autism #ageing #aging #midlife #oldage 1/X

Talking to friends about this, I realised the big difference between cycling in the UK and NL is the mental load. In the UK, I’m constantly alert, looking in every direction, navigating bad junctions, expecting drivers to put me at risk. In NL, I can assume I am largely safe and just cycle.

I've inherited some slightly out of date New Scientist magazines - and came across this article about the interesting conversation about Australia's social media ban for under 16s back in November