What a week! It's been an absolute joy and extremely rewarding to teach the first-ever Oxford Psychological Network School (#OxPNS2026) at Magdalen College (@magdalenoxford.bsky.social) University of Oxford (@ox.ac.uk)!

One of the best parts of academia is mentoring students & witnessing their growth: intellectually, professionally & personally. This privilege also makes the job bittersweet when students complete training. It's been an absolute joy to supervise this wonderful group of students at Oxford EDGE Lab.

A book on Teaching Open Science by two absolute powerhouses of open science ✨ Huge congrats to @drcpennington.bsky.social and @maddipow.bsky.social 📚

The UK government says under-16s will be banned from social media by spring 2027. @orbenamy.bsky.social from @mrccbu.bsky.social gives her reaction to today's announcement, and measures it against the evidence we already have about social media restrictions. More expert reactions 👉 bit.ly/3Qq453H

Dr Eleanor Leigh discuss social anxiety disorder in children and young people on a new podcast for @rcpsych.bsky.social The episode covers evidence based treatments and the role of technology in accessing them Listen on: SoundCloud bit.ly/4veupNy Spotify bit.ly/4xvJVWQ Apple bit.ly/4aQUREC

A very insightful talk by Vikram Patel on reimagining healthcare for 1.5 billion people last night, followed by a thoughtful conversation with Alan Stein on the challenges and implementation steps required to move toward universal health care coverage in India.

OK, it's official. @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social is a future super duper star. Just killing it at APS in Barcelona.

#aps26bcn it was a pleasure to present my work on loneliness development across the lifespan and its implications for work-related outcomes using Norwegian register data + longitudinal survey data 📈 Thanks to all my collaborators at uni of Oslo @cktamnes.bsky.social and others :-)

First DPhil paper just published in NMH! ✨ In this Perspective, we examine how social digital environments (e.g., social media) interact with key processes that maintain social anxiety (e.g., self-focused attention, social comparison). 📱🔄🫣 See summary below 🧵

🌟 NEW PRE-PRINT! 🌟 “It seems that everyone has got something”: A qualitative study of adolescents’ attitudes towards self-diagnosing with mental health problems from me and @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

One of the most challenging issues in studying mental health during COVID-19 was separating the impact of containment policies (lockdowns) from pandemic severity (societal infection rates), as both can contribute to mental distress. In this extensive international effort, we aimed to address this 🧵

Our new article on socioeconomic disadvantage, mental distress & functional impairment is out #OpenAccess in American Psychologist. Led by the brilliant @emkbridger.bsky.social, with J. Maltby, @eikofried.bsky.social, co-supervised by me & @ludvigdb.bsky.social. 🧵 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

UKgov publishes new screen time guidance for under 5s 👨‍🍼 <2s: Avoid screens except shared activities 👶 2-5s: Try for less than 1hr a day 📱 Choose safe, slow-paced content 🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Lead by example 🛌 Have screen-free areas/times Glad to have contributed. Parent guidance and research report linked below.

A pleasure to host the Oxford-Modum Bad Clinical Research Symposium today, at @magdalenoxford.bsky.social, University of Oxford (@ox.ac.uk). First up: Keynote by Prof. David M. Clark showcasing the policy engagement roadmap to increase the accessibility of evidence-based treatments.

✨ Only a few spots left for the Oxford Psychological Networks Summer School (OxPNS)! Held at the magical Magdalen College in Oxford, from June 22-26, 2026. Sign up here: oxfordpns.com

This #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, we’re highlighting the importance of accessible, evidence-based support for autistic children 🔍 STAR-CAT is exploring whether an online, parent-led approach can improve outcomes for autistic children with anxiety problems 🖥️ Learn more ➡️ osiresearch.org.uk/star-cat/

We're on a mission to learn more about excessive worry in young people, and how to help those who experience it. Could your school or youth organisation help? Register your interest here: tinyurl.com/2c4jm59p

An exciting opportunity to learn more about the theory and applications of network approaches in psychology and beyond!💫 with @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social

Thrilled to announce the Oxford Psychological Networks Summer School (OxPNS)! This is the first-ever psychological network analysis workshop in the UK, to be held in magical Oxford from June 22-26, 2026. To apply and for more information, please visit: oxfordpns.com A brief thread 🧵

🌟📝 Just out in World Psychiatry: Our new piece demonstrates the added value of dynamic symptom networks for predicting treatment outcomes beyond baseline severity & common covariates, with an added explained variance of 9-22% at post-treatment & follow-up. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We’re launching a bi-weekly m-Path blog on #ESM / #EMA measurement, new papers & showcases. 🗓️ Every 2 weeks (Wed). First up: item quality. A paper by @gudruneisele.bsky.social introduces ESM-Q: a consensus checklist for good momentary items. 👉 Read the blog: blog.m-path.io/blog/our-blo...

In this news report with TV2, I outline the role of safety- and avoidance behaviours in maintaining public speaking anxiety. 🇧🇻 Intervju med TV2 om mekanismene bak presentasjonsangst, fokusert på hvordan unngåelse- og sikkerhetsatferd vedlikeholder lidelsen. www.tv2.no/video/nyhete...

📣 Digital Research Community! The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include. Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Excited to share our new publication out in Depression and Anxiety! A network analysis of dimensions of anhedonia, depression symptoms, and social anxiety symptoms in university students 🧵 doi.org/10.1155/da/5... (1/10)

Honoured to receive the Teaching Excellence Award at University of Oxford after my 1st year with the university The real credit goes to the students: teaching such talented minds is a privilege 📸 Thanks to my lovely colleague, Kate Nation @ox.ac.uk @oxexppsy.bsky.social @magdalenoxford.bsky.social

Huge congrats to @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social on winning the prestigious Outstanding Doctoral Thesis of the Year by the Norwegian Psychological Association. Read more: www.magd.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-ebra...

I'm beyond words honoured to receive the Doctoral Thesis of the Year Award by the Norwegian Psychological Association! Deeply grateful to my supervisors and the wonderful colleagues I've had the privilege of working with. Interview about findings and a 🧵: www.psykologforeningen.no/aktuelt/pand...

Had a great time at #EABCT presenting work from both my clinical training and my PhD. Grateful to my fantastic symposium teams for making it such a rewarding experience🥰! @sophie-grant.bsky.social @sakshirajesh.bsky.social @emilykwhitaker.bsky.social

How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies? Examined in a massive EMA study (N = 3,761), our new #OpenAccess piece on this is just out: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky 🧵:

Paper is out!🌼

How does where we live – urban, rural, or in-between – relate to our mental health? 🌆🏞️ In this cross-national study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very excited to speak at the Network Science Conference in Maastricht this week about the utility of psychometric networks in the precision diagnostics field. Come to our session on Friday at 2pm & check out the program for the many great talks at the conference @netsciconf.bsky.social #NetSci2025

Our new paper in Depression and Anxiety contrast the impact of theory-driven transdiagnostic mechanisms on anxiety symptoms. With @sachaepskamp.bsky.social, @noraskjerdingstad.bsky.social, @renefreichel.bsky.social and Skyless colleagues. 🧵 1/3 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/...

Many congratulations to TOPIC's Emily Whitaker on leading this review paper now out in Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review! 🎉 This review is supported by Chloe Chessell & Maxwell Klapow. Read below👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Psychsky #Psychology

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 👈

After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to give a talk at University of Cambridge's Psychiatry Department about precision diagnostics and profiles of depression, this Thursday at 12:30 BST. The talk is hybrid, so feel free to DM me for a link if you wish to attend.

For those who are interested ESM feedback, happy to announce that a new paper is out, in which we combine qualitative and quantitative feedback! Innovations include clock graphs, stacked graphs, and word clouds with sentences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Jonathan Haidt has written about the potential harms of social media to girls, but what about boys (currently being widely discussed following the Netflix drama 'Adolescence')? This blog from 2023 discusses the tendency of boys to retreat and withdraw substack.com/@jonathanhai...

Excited to share our BMC Medicine article on Modifiable Risk Factors of Vaccine Hesitancy With 2 independent teams of authors blind to each others procedures, we combine gradient boosting machines & thematic analysis, & replicate results in 2 nations 🧵 bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Put down the phone! Escape the noise! Taking a break from smartphones: Study confirms its benefits medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02... From study: "The intervention improved mental health, subjective well-being, and objectively measured ability to sustain attention..."

Does smartphone use make people feel lonelier? Or does loneliness predict smartphone use? We combined experience sampling data with smartphone usage data to examine the bidirectional association between well-being and smartphone use over time. Published in @apajournals.bsky.social Emotion! 🧵 👇

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, I want to share an inspiring example: Anne Bülow, who defended her PhD cum laude on Jan 31st with her dissertation "Parenting Adolescents, One Day at a Time."

How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies? Examined in a large EMA study (N = 3,761) w/L. Cloos @bsiepe.bsky.social @marilynpicciri1.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social ... 🧵:

Preprint on using SEM fit indices & conventional cutoffs in confirmatory network analysis updated! Now with a Shiny app for results display. PsyArXiv: osf.io/preprints/ps... RG: www.researchgate.net/publication/... Shiny app: github.com/xinkaidupsy/... See 🧵 for the summary of results

We talk a lot about why adolescent girls report more low mood and anxiety, and why this might be getting worse. But what do girls themselves think might explain this? As you might have guessed, we don’t really know. So, we asked them: doi.org/10.1186/s129... 1/8

So excited to see this in print! A manifesto paving the way for responsible generalisation and co-authorship practices in open science - with an incredible team of scholars! Very much inspired by the benchmark Munafò et al. manifesto for reproducible science www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New preprint investigating how urban-rural living is related to mental health 🏠 led by @adamfinnemann.bsky.social

Welcome to the Bluesky account for the STAR-CAT Study! 👋 We are investigating the effectiveness of an online parent-led intervention (OSI-A), adapted for autistic children with anxiety problems 💻 Follow us to find out more and for updates about the study! 📢