Don’t miss #ECNP New Frontiers Meeting 2026! 📅 15–16 March | Nice & virtual 🧠 From plasticity to recovery: how we can change the brain The deadline to apply for in-person participation is 11 November 2025. Register now 👉 www.ecnp.eu/meetings/new-frontiers-meeting/ #Neuroscience #Neuroplasticity

Interested in postgrad neuroscience opportunities?🧠 Join us next week 28th Oct for an evening of fun and networking, while you learn all about the postgraduate application and admissions process. Open to all - Cambridge and beyond! Register for free now: neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-eve...

Congratulations to the Early Intervention Mission (EIM) team on reaching a major milestone—200 participants recruited! This milestone marks a significant step towards more personalised, effective mental health care for those affected by psychosis.

👉Dont miss out! There's still time to book onto the 2025 School of Clinical Medicine Distinguished Lecture by Professor Davey Smith 🗓️ 16 October | 5 - 7pm 📍William Harvey Lecture Theatre | Clinical School Book via QR code or link 👉 bit.ly/45WynAb @cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @cpftresearch.bsky.social

The UK Government has announced £50M in funding for the Mental Health Goals programme, which follows the Mental Health Mission funding our study: www.gov.uk/government/n...

Important statement from the Academy of Medical Sciences, which follows a recent report commissioned by the Office for Strategic Co-ordination of Health Research (www.ukri.org/publications...)

Join us for a Free, In-Person, Open Event highlighting Translational Research in infants, children and young people 🗓️Thurs 20th Nov 📍Frank Lee Centre,CUH ⏲️Talks 4-5pm or 6-7pm 📊Poster exhibition & refreshments Book via: bit.ly/CYPafterEve @cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @dphpc.bsky.social @rcpch.bsky.social

✅ Want to learn more about Health Data Science? Or hear from leading experts on topics like AI? 🔊Then tune into the 'Health Data Science Insights' podcast from Cambridge researchers! 🔗 Info & how to listen: bit.ly/48R4hQo @cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social @eliasallara.bsky.social

📢 Join us this Saturday, 11th October, 10am-4pm for Big Biology Day at Hills Road College! 📢 Learn about scientific method and taking part in research with our different puzzles, activities & art wall! 📢 Find us at the NIHR Cambridge BRC stall! 👇 See below for full details @cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social Read our tribute to the visionary Nobel Laureate and watch an interview from 2012, just after he won: https://bit.ly/4mM8o3r

📢 Applications are open for the @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social fellows award! Up to £250K over 3 years for early-career mental health researchers. Covers salary, staff, research, travel & training. Focus: youth mental health, suicide, self-harm & more. Learn more: tinyurl.com/ApplyMQaward

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

🔬 🧬 🩺🧠 Developmental and genetic profile of autism differs substantially by age at diagnosis - fascinating research by @vw1234.bsky.social Xinhe Zhang and colleagues. Medsky

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 Clinical practitioner for our nascent Mood Disorder Clinic in Cambridge. 1 year fixed term, Band 7. We need a nurse/practitioner with experience of research and mental health. www.cpft.nhs.uk/latest-vacan... Please advertise! @cpft-nhs.bsky.social @cambridgebrc.bsky.social 1/2

Do you know about the NIHR Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration Mission? The MH-TRC brings together leading investigators in experimental medicine and early-stage translational mental health research to accelerate discoveries into clinical practice. lnkd.in/eSAQ_WZ7

We have a new name, the Cambridge centre for Precision Psychiatry and Data Science – or CPPDS, and a new website: www.cppds.org.uk Led by @gkmurray.bsky.social and myself, we focus on #datascience, #psychiatry, #genomics, and #translational medicine, at @psychiatry-ucam.bsky.social 1/2

PhD applications for October 2026 are now open: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/dire... Do a PhD in Psychiatry with us! Applications will need to be completed by the end of 2025 in order to be considered for funding. 1/2

The Early Intervention Mission has reached 150 participants recruited!

👏150 participants have now been recruited for the Early Intervention Mission (EIM), part of the Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration Mission. EIM aims to deliver timely, personalised care for early psychosis, improving outcomes and reducing delays. 🌐 tinyurl.com/2azsrce9

"Triangulation: moving from correlations to causation", Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine Distinguished Lecture 2025, Thursday, October 16th, 5pm, in person or online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/school-of-...

This equates to 0.5 micromorts for each person receiving a vaccination course (usually several vaccines) That is less than the mortality risk for a single day of skiing (0.7 micromorts)

A short, relatable message about a migrant worker boosted positivity toward EU #immigration by 20 points among UK voters. The latest @campsydept.bsky.social#immigration#research suggests that pro-immigration arguments can be effective for the UK electorate 👇 https://bit.ly/3HYkEQi

Well done! Find the press release here: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

How do neutrophils contribute to mental health? Delighted to share research led by @staceykigar.bsky.social: meningeal neutrophils shape how the brain responds to stress. Out today @natcomms.nature.com. More in the thread⬇️ @psychiatry-ucam.bsky.social @medcambridge.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social

The Early Intervention Mission in #Psychosis has recruited its first 100 participants! If you are not a site, please consider joining. Further information and contacts, including to join our mailing list of Early Intervention in Psychosis services and Psychosis grand rounds, click: eim.digitrial.com

👏100+ participants recruited for the @eimission.bsky.social part of the MH-TRC Mission. EIM aims to deliver timely, personalised care for early psychosis, improving outcomes and reducing delays. Lear more and get involved! 🌐 tinyurl.com/2azsrce9

The Early Intervention Mission now has a website! eim.digitrial.com Please check it out and let us know what you think.

Wow Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions ki.se/en/about-ki/...

@gkmurray.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk @psychiatry-ucam.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social

🚨job alert!🚨 Fancy working on mental health/psychiatry electronic health records #EHR? Working across the Uni of Cambridge and industry, alongside Akrivia Health? We are looking for an experienced researcher or data scientist to develop common data models for EHR. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51728/ 1/3

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust are hiring: clinical research fellow with Dr Katie Beck and Prof. James MacCabe. Recruiting for the Mental Health Mission Early Intervention in Psychosis Theme. FY2 and above welcome to apply! www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Londo...

We published a simple, pragmatic paper aimed at epileptologists and neuro(psychiatry) clinicians, on how to treat #depression in the #epilepsy clinic. doi.org/10.1136/pn-2... With Thomas Cope and Paul Fletcher at @cuh.nhs.uk @psychiatry-ucam.bsky.social

Prof Oliver Howes at the Institute of Psychiatry is recruiting early career medics for psychiatry research. my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru... You will also get training in gold standard clinical assessments. This alone is invaluable for clinical practice so I would strongly encourage you to consider1/3

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 Are the associations between autoimmune arthritides (rheumatoid arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis) and mental disorders predominantly the consequence of the burden of the former, or might common causes influence the susceptibility to both?

Last few days left to apply! Come and work with us!

📣📣 New postdoc in biomedical data science available in our lab!! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50966/ Flexible funding - many research areas in scope + ideas welcome Check out our group www.inouyelab.org/home And the awesome Cambridge research environment! @vpd-hlri.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social

Last couple of weeks to apply!

Great opportunity 👇

Quetiapine augmentation – a treatment for depression in people that haven't fully responded to #antidepressants – is more effective and cost-effective than the older and commonly used alternative #lithium. Click the link to learn more👇 #IoPPNNews bit.ly/4l1po68

@hdruk.bsky.social @datamind.bsky.social @gkmurray.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @cambridgebrc.bsky.social @cpft-nhs.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social @cuhnhs.bsky.social please help advertise

🚨job alert! Fancy working on mental health electronic health records #EHR? Working across the Uni of Cambridge and industry, alongside Akrivia Health? We are looking for an experienced postdoctoral researcher or engineer to help develop common data models for EHR. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50667/ 1/3

Great talk about ketamine assisted psychotherapies by Prof Celia Morgan. Thanks to the organisers!

Bullying is our most tractable public mental health threat - there is lots we can do to reduce its prevalence & impact

Leena created the original Wellcome Trust School for Human Genomics back in 2009. She sent me that year just before completing my PhD and it was amazing, chalk full of world leading scientists mentoring 1:1 with extraordinary PhD students all day long. You won't get this anywhere else 👇👇

In personal news, today I have become a specialist in adult #psychiatry after training that has lasted since July 2013. I will remain a clinical lecturer at the @cambridgeuni.bsky.social for now www.gmc-uk.org/registrants/.... I need to thank so many people and institutions... Trainers and 1/4

Still some places available! @camneuro.bsky.social

@ispg.bsky.social World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics

Fancy a 4-year post-doc in Cambridge, working in both the biggest biomedical centre in Europe @cambridgebrc.bsky.social and the genetic powerhouse of the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social?

Interested in a Cambridge PhD? Apply for AIM to get ready! @camneuro.bsky.social @tamsinford.bsky.social @gkmurray.bsky.social www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/aim-phd

⏱️There's less than 2 weeks left to apply for our 2025 research grants ❗️Click here to find out about the range of research areas we support: www.bmafoundationmr.org.uk/grant-catego... 📅Don't forget to submit - applications close 16 March #researchgrants #research #medicalresearch