The existence of downhill skiing implies the existence of uphill skiing, which I would very much like to see.

Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me

Living In Metaphor: Why Psychiatry Should Treat Delusions As Whole-Body Experiences, Not "Just Faulty Beliefs" www.iflscience.com/living-in-me...

In autistics, finding "age-related cohort increases in prescribing of antipsychotics" link.springer.com/article/10.1... "perhaps older autistic people are maintained on antipsychotics" "little examination of the long-term risks of antipsychotics on the health of autistic people has been conducted"

I’m running a 2 day experiential introduction to #OpenDialogue on 12 & 13 Feb (and, later, in July). If you know someone who might be interested, please let them know. dialoguerevolution.com/upcoming-tra...

🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMET🚨 EHBEA wants to congratulate @drboothroyd.bsky.social and @sheinalew.bsky.social on earning the 2026 EHBEA Award in Excellence in Public Communication and Outreach👏 @durhampsych.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk

If you have about 20 minutes, I would be grateful if you could help my undergraduate student explore whether common empathy questionnaires are actually interchangable in the ways they are used in the social science literature.

I - and I am sure many others - poured hours into our grant application last summer. These are not straightforward applications involving one group, as there are many researchers, patients, families and educators involved .. Hearing this makes me feel all our time was wasted.

I don't think first author @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social is very active here but new from us in Lancet Americas: Towards a Latin American neuropsychiatry www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Co-written between colleagues on what makes Latin American neuropsychiatry important, regionally and globally.

New clinical guidelines for peripartum depression developed by international group 🤰 44 evidence-based recommendations support psychological interventions (especially CBT) and universal screening with clear referral pathways. #MentalHealth #PerinatalMentalHealth #PostnatalDepression 🧵 THREAD

‘Once we can meet threat systems with compassion, we start to settle, to defuse controlled explosions…’ @profpaulgilbert.bsky.social OBE hears from Dr Charlie Heriot-Maitland (left) about his new book, ‘Controlled Explosions in Mental Health’. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

🚨 New Paper Alert! We investigated the developmental trajectories of intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic social norm acquisition among BaYaka and Bandongo in northern Rep. Congo, a community where inter-ethnic cooperation is common. We found that... journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

New post on the #projectEPIC blog! Psychotherapy, Self Understanding and #epistemicinjustice epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2026/01/psyc... #philsky #philpsy

Latest from me, and one of the most important pieces on Special Needs I've written so far: "In fifteen years of political journalism, I don’t think I have seen anything quite like this: a mad game of briefing, counter-briefing and official stonewalling." maybeimamazed.substack.com/p/why-the-po...

When reading a line like "the glow of the flame briefly illuminated his face", most readers tend to build an image in their mind. 🧠 People with aphantasia, however, report that they do not. We wanted to know: Does this change how they physically read stories? (1/5)

Our January Sale ends this Saturday! We are currently offering 40% OFF every single book on our website, both trade and academic. Ends 31st January 2026. #booksky

📣All welcome to join our @kingsioppn.bsky.social Neuropsychiatry meeting tomorrow on potential subtypes of delirium subtypes by Rowena Carter Teams link in below link!👇 This kicks off a term of themed of talks on the enigma that is Delirium @amaclullich.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/events/delir...

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social & I are convening open panels at EASST (Sept) on 'STS & biology revisited: biosociality, interdisciplinarity & the biosociences, in an age of increasingly biological fascism'. Please consider submitting, &/or circulate to colleagues easst.net/conference/e...

Our new study, just published in Nature Mental Health: Symptom change in depression and anxiety during psychological therapy for autistic adults... [1/8] 🧵⤵️ #autres #mentalhealth www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement. In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99. At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.

Former New Labour guy Alan Milburn here in today's Times. Joins Farage in citing 'SEND diagnoses' which don't actually exist. Would love to see data on the bigger claim. Anyway, this is how "overdiagnosis" is being woven through govt policy. Getting support at school = on the fast-track to the dole

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

"the first systematically described cohort of Deaf autistic children with native ASL exposure who nonetheless remain minimally expressive signers" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... of N=23 deaf autistic children "born to Deaf parents & exposed to ASL from birth," N=7 (30.4%) are minimally signing

This week's post is by Helene Cæcilie Mørck and co-authors presenting their recent paper 'For a Choreography of Emotions: Spatiotemporal Phenomenology' published in Psychopathology. Exploring the link of movement and emotion through a phenoenological lens imperfectcognitions....

Our newly published protocol for the development of a core outcome set for adults with depression. With @pimcuijpers.bsky.social @toshi-frkw.bsky.social @astridchevance.bsky.social and many others. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

A major intervention in the field of dream studies has just been published, edited by Marco Bernini & @aldersonday.bsky.social. 'Dreams, Narrative and Liminal Cognition' is a collection of essays shedding light on the experiential qualities of dreams 💤 Read more: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

'I Swear' has made the BAFTA Longlist for 6 awards this year, including 'Best Film', 'Leading Actor', and 'Casting'. As a disability scholar focused on Tourette Syndrome, and a tourettic person myself, here's a couple of my concerns in a short thread... #TouretteSyndrome #BAFTA #Disability

A few more weeks left to apply for this PhD position 👇 Deadline 22nd Feb @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

Professor @orbenamy.bsky.social from @mrccbu.bsky.social will co-lead the world’s first major trial to test whether reducing social media use can improve teen mental health. Find out more about the IRL Trial: https://bit.ly/4a2FZmB #socialmedia #research

Same sound, different perception: Do expectations change what you hear?👂🧠 We paired faces w topics and played the same ambiguous speech w different faces. The brain sharpened sensory signals toward predictions and showed gated prediction errors at higher levels. Read @plosbiology.org. Blueprint👇

I liked it when he wrote Three Lions with Vic and Bob

Important work

Considering no one has given me a best research prize, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely about research quality.

SEND training for teachers & support staff is welcome, but this works out at £400 per teacher before you even get to TAs...in the midst of a huge push away from specialist schools into mainstream? apple.news/A3zBB0cGxTDG...

Oof. Lesion network mapping might just generate similar results across conditions because of how the method works... (Suspect it's not the only connectivity method to do so)

Robert Jenrick's speech, now entering its 53rd hour

Take a look at this article on a recent paper that explores the link between digital technology use and teenage mental health problems tinyurl.com/yeyun2px ⭐ The findings suggest it is not about how much time young people spend on social media, but about who they are and what they are viewing 💡

In a feat of new year generosity, I am giving away a signed copy of my book, Off The Ground: Paul McCartney In The 1990s. Quote-post this with something you like about Macca’s 90s activities. Winner chosen from those that most surprise or amuse me. You have a week or so. @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

📢 Don't miss our new paper just out in The Lancet Psychiatry Psychiatry today‼️📆 "Delusion as embodied emotion: a qualitatively driven, multimethod study of first-episode psychosis in the UK" Full Open Access article 👇 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

It's not like we have loads of world experts in this topic here in the UK...

Whoever came up with the name “Ewok Powell” to describe Tommy Robinson should take the rest of the year off.

Please circulate. Our deadline for our ECR Prize at @histhum.bsky.social is approaching (30 January 2026)

A number of world-leading experts who have conducted extensive quality research on this topic work in the UK, but no, Labour wants to make policy by airport book. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

The question, always, with Mark Solms’s project of neuropsychoanalysis, which I wrestle with whenever I write about it: when does neuropsychoanalysis cease to be something that might be construed as psychoanalytic? (This from review of Solms’s latest by Tallis) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

🎉 Congratulations to @aryaray.bsky.social who has who has progressed to a new role within our Discovery Research Platform at the Institute for Medical Humanities – Assistant Manager (Events and Fellowship). We wish him all the best in his new role! 🤩 medhumsplatform.org/new-assistan...

Thank you so much @thereforme.bsky.social for publishing this post about @actionforme.bsky.social's Big Survey! The Big Survey is open until 27 January. If you're yet to fill it out, we would love to hear from you! www.actionforme.org.uk/research-cam...

Despite 50,000+ studies on relapse in psychosis, there's been no consistent definition until now 🤔 This systematic review and Delphi study developed consensus criteria for schizophrenia research, finding 85% of trials used inconsistent definitions. #MentalHealth #Schizophrenia #Research 🧵 THREAD

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Delighted to see our paper out in The Lancet Psychiatry!

with @aldersonday.bsky.social @nboyce.bsky.social @esolomonova.bsky.social @jarnotuominen.bsky.social and many more great folk, across English, medical humanities, psychiatry, psychology, religious studies, bioscience, and neurophilosophy, along with my home at @memoryplace.bsky.social