Really timely piece from Akiko Hart, Director of @libertyhq.bsky.social, on the ECHR: context about what it does (and does not) do, options for reform at both UK and European level, and - most importantly of all - how progressives should talk about it futuregovforum.substack.com/p/rewrite-th...

Looking forward to being in conversation with Stacey Humphries about A TRICK OF THE MIND - next month at Waterstones Greenwich. Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-convers... @waterstones.bsky.social

In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pleased to have a chapter about mental health activism in this exciting new book about Ambivalent Activism. Out now! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ambivalent-a... @brisunipress.bsky.social

🎉 Thrilled to share that I've received a @ukri.org #FutureLeadersFellowship for our transdisciplinary, participatory, & practice-partnered project #RewritingWor(l)ds @re-writer.bsky.social/ rewriting-worlds.ed.ac.uk researching #poetry, creative engagement, & #wellbeing for young people

Just published in World Psychiatry our study "Trauma under psychedelics: how psychoactive substances impact trauma processing" . Amazing work led by @ophirnetzer.bsky.social with the brave survivors of the Nova festival attack. Huge team effort, thx to all! 👉 doi.org/10.1002/wps....

Several new publications from ECHR members! On co-occurring eating disorder and psychosis: jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... ...

Glad to share our new article out in Cognitive Neuropsychiatry! We assessed relationships between symptoms and sentiment in speech during picture descriptions from people with psychosis across 2 cohorts and 2 timepoints... 1/4 doi.org/10.1080/1354...

AI is the wrong tool to tackle complex societal & systemic problems. AI4SG is more about PR victories, boosting AI adoption (regardless of merit/usefulness) & laundering accountability for harmful tech, extractive practices, abetting atrocities. yours truly www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/ai-...

New blog from our co-chair @dremmaclaire.bsky.social on her recent paper on tone-matching and psychotic experiences.

Possibly a v good opportunity from some ECHR folks. Editorial fellowhsips for ECRs at a series of APA journals, inc some clinically-relevant ones. Fellows serve a 12-month terms beginning January 1, 2026. Includes a $1,000 honorarium.

📄 New paper out! It’s long been known that listeners reweight acoustic cues in speech when cue reliability changes. Here @adamtierney.bsky.social, Kyle Jasmin, and I show that this can happen instantly after a single exposure to 'accented' speech. tinyurl.com/mwt6usdw @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

News! At 4.30pm today, MPs will debate the Save Our Children's Rights petition calling on the Government to retain the legal right to assessment and support in education for children with Special Educational Needs. This matters

England’s oldest psychiatric hospital stages haunting new exhibition of patient art www.euronews.com/culture/2025... h/t @overdenken.bsky.social x

I am on tour right now with a book about two gay working class artists who died long before I was born. I’ve visited bookshops and libraries and galleries. And at every event I’ve been welcomed and there has been warmth and community. Books build empathy. The arts connect us. They just do.

Can reading a book make you a better person? Reading books is declining. But people who read weekly book excerpts & podcasts instead of meditating had the greatest reductions in aggression and growth in compassionate love, positive attitudes & altruism www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/can-readin...

In 1911, Scott and Amundsen reached for the South Pole with little grasp of human limits. A century later, tech and training have advanced, but sled hauling remains challenging. Three decades of research now reveal how Antarctic expeditions transform the body. explorersweb.com/what-antarct...

"George Clinton’s my favourite artist of all time, and Parliament-Funkadelic is the most important musical project that ever existed. I could have chosen almost any of their albums" #DaveedDiggs of #Clipping on #Funkadelic - The Electric Spanking Of War Babies buff.ly/xfm5xBj

I've been part of a fair few interdisciplinary projects - some worked, some didn't - and I would say i) I find this a pretty dismissive take on the potential for interdisciplinary work and ii) some of the absolutely worst academics to work with are the solo interdisciplinarians...

To show solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community I'd like to buy 3 people a book from this year's Polari Prize original longlisting, as below. A gift from me to thee. See below.

Those who are interested in such things might want to follow my Philosophy of Perception and the Senses starter pack. go.bsky.app/B2HQDad #PhilPerception #PhilSenses

#TheMostInterestingThinginMentalHealth: New mother’s experience #anxiety at rates which rival #postpartum #depression - but we're barely talking about it? New Lancet Psychiatry review. N=850 research papers on postpartum anxiety with a call to action👇

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Why do people with schizophrenia hear voices? Great new work points to strong speech expectations 👇 Congratulations @philcorlett.bsky.social & colleagues!

New from our CNTRACS collab: Santiago Castiello finds that people with schizophrenia false alarm speech in sine wave stimuli, and benefit more greatly from the templates - particularly if they are voice hearers osf.io/preprints/ps...

Perhaps still the best general purpose explainer of how an LLM works and the one I give to students. Here’s why I like it (short🧵): ig.ft.com/generative-ai/

Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake and has paid heavily for it. Very much hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics desperately needs more voices like hers

We are hiring! New Asst Prof (G8) post @durhampsych.bsky.social *All areas* but with some teaching in forensic psych. Deadline September 16. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

📖 Our letter of reply to 'pseudosocial' cognition is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Led by the talented @srazavi.bsky.social + written with @vaughanbell.bsky.social, Peter Dayan, @nicholaraihani.bsky.social, Michael Moutoussis #NeuroPsychSky

Which is the sound of thought? A lot of fun discussions at the ESCOP symposium on inner speech. I presented a talk together with @chiaradelivio.bsky.social, Angelo Mattia Gervasi, and @cfernyhough.bsky.social, on inner speech as both an inner (cognitive) and social tool. @ballabrome.bsky.social

🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc! 3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN. Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data. DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5

€3,000 essay prize on 'The philosophical implications of aphantasia/hyperphantasia', just announced by @bencenanay.bsky.social. Open to anyone who got their PhD after May 2018 and current PhD students. Deadline: Dec 1, 2025. Announcement and details: listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A....

Finally, at echr.group/2025/06/26/i... we have begun to publish a series of blog posts about open research. Six are up now, and six more are almost ready to go. The next six cover open data/materials, pre-prints, open source tools, measurement, and diamond/NFP open-access journals...

... This - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - very recent paper (from @aldersonday.bsky.social and team) on subtypes of auditory verbal hallucinations in EIP patients...

...This - ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... - paper on hallucinations in critically ill patients (prevalence of just over 8%, but this is likelyto be an underestimate)...

This is a lovely book, congratulations @damianbarr.bsky.social Even if you've never heard of MacBryde and Colquhoun - in fact, especially if you haven't - you should read this!

Whaaaat

I gotta start writing books like this

If you'd like to understand more about the recent phenomenon dubbed "AI/chatbot psychosis" by the media, you could do far worse than listen to @theguardian.com's Science Weekly Podcast where I explain what it is, why it happens, and what we can do about it www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

Free online attendance at The Fantasy Summer School 2025, organised by the University of Oxford, and Bloomsbury Publishing, that brings together the expertise of scholars, publishers working with fantasy authors. Link here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-blo... Please share :)

Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵

Thrilled to join this amazing panel to talk consciousness, psychosis and the biology of experience 🧠 🧬 Get your tickets and submit your questions 👇

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans. Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

Inside the school refusal crisis: how a mother and her daughters survived a broken system

What we're dealing with is the results of collapsing Sure Start, punishing local austerity, an exodus from mainstream schools with no adequate funding of specialist settings, a mental health crisis that ballooned on their watch , and more. Not 'overdiagnosis'. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

fave thing on the internet today is a reddit post by a nurse who asked a 5 year old if he had any questions, and was completely flummoxed when he looked her dead in the eye and went "why don't sharks have eyebrows"

Extraordinary thread and well with a read - well done @micahgallen.com & team

Wow, this is the kind of evidence we need to move ahead in the field. I'll go out on a limb here: I guess it is more about the gut than cardiac and respiratory domains. Huge effort by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @micahgallen.com and the entire team 👏

Big question of era: why have Mam and Dad gone proper fash? The reasons why we assume 'extreme material' just affects bairns are really something to unpack. "When Grandpa Turns Extremist: Digital Immigrants, Radicalisation and the German Reich Citizens Movement" gnet-research.org/2025/03/31/w...