New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This was accepted for publication! Thank you @schizbulletin.bsky.social

Not sure how anyone can be expected to excel at a slow, long sport if they don’t practice it and nobody wants to fund or watch it, until it’s the grand finale.

Just a reminder that there's still time to buy someone my memoir Maybe I'm Amazed - a Times & Mojo magazine Book Of The Year - for Christmas. Autism! Kraftwerk! Beatles! Joy! Order here! linktr.ee/maybeimamazed

🚨Call for papers: Computational markers of psychosis - From latent states to neurobiological mechanisms! Special issue in Schizophrenia Bulletin🧠 Deadline extended to April 30, 2026 We are looking forward to your papers!!

Oh my god. It’s actually finally happened. Merry Christmas, everyone!

To everyone on Bluesky finding out about Walliams and despairing at the fact that "I read those books to my kids" I just want to reassure them that it's OK. He didn't write them.

ECR looking for a change in the New Year? We are recruiting a new Lecturer in Psychology at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social ! If you’d like to talk about life in the Department, please do feel free to get in touch. Deadline 8th Feb - More details below 👇 cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

🍇 New paper 🍇 Ever felt like someone was in the room when no one was there? Together with @parkbmb.bsky.social @tatianabaxter.bsky.social we asked whether that might reflect misperceiving signals from our own beating heart - and if this relates to psychosis risk. doi.org/10.1159/0005...

Together with Don Robinaugh & a large team of interdisciplinary researchers, we just published a preprint on this topic: the importance of collaborations across disciplines to move forward mental health science. I hope you'll find it interesting, took a few years! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Very important piece. "Whether or not OpenAI leaders intend to muddy the waters of science, grantwashing hinders technology safety ... It adds uncertainty and debate in areas where companies want to avoid liability and that uncertainty gives the appearance of science."

You’re buying someone you love a book for Christmas. Or maybe you’re telling yourself you’ll give it to them but really you know it’s for you. I’m not judging. I am telling you that indie bookshops love you and Jeff Bezos doesn’t. Shop @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

It's the most wonderful time of the year...the annual book marketing joke! How did Luke know what Darth Vader got him for Christmas? He felt his Presence. In paperback - he already has the hardback but he's a completist so. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/pres...

New job alert 💫 We’re hiring a 3-year postdoc for the NEPTUNE project to study the causal mechanisms of paranoia and social learning. Work with us on experimental psychopharmacology (THC), social cognition, and psychosis 🧑‍🔬 Apply here: lnkd.in/gQqnNvjR](my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...) Please RT :)

"LLMs are structurally indifferent to truth" should be the first line any LLM spits out before they formulate a response to a prompt.

Lots going on here that I agree with on non-fiction's struggles: Attention economy issues, templated unimaginative books, a very diverse category that doesn't always serve its readers or writers well to be grouped under, but fundamentally a vital human pursuit: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

I wrote about new revelations about the influential study of a UFO doomsday group from the 1950s, and the book When Prophecy Fails. Come for the aliens, stay to ponder a difficult question: what do people do when they're confronted with inconsistency? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Personally I prefer to work through my sense of professional underachievement the old-fashioned way, ie with a slim, cruelly revelatory memoir of my early childhood.

Fascinating (and depressing) piece on the complicated Oliver Sacks, whose writing on neurology captivated and inspired so many. "Sacks wrote in his journal, Guilt has been *much* greater since 'Hat' because of (among other things) My lies, falsification" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Go @tamaregev! Tamar systematically characterized prosody-processing🧠areas using precision fMRI. The overlap between the prosody and language areas connects beautifully with her computational findings of high mutual information between words and prosodic features! Such a cool research program. :)

🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright: - 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is) 🧵 1/2

Humdinger of a preprint "When adjusting for lifetime ever-use of other substances, cannabis ever-use was no longer associated with PLEs, while methamphetamine use, cigarette use, and opioid use were associated with PLEs" medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2025/12/02/2025.12.01.25341322.full.pdf

📅Save the date! Our next Network seminar will be on "Hearing voices, suicidality, and AI-psychosis", March 20th 2026, Hybrid This is a collaboration with @hearingvoicesmic.bsky.social and #ProjectEPIC Find more info and registration here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/12/netw...

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

New paper with Junyi Chu, Tomer Ullman et al showing that kids think more difficulty is more fun! Fun isn't easy: Children selectively manipulate task difficulty when “playing for fun” versus “playing to win”. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Look it's @coreenanne.bsky.social! @durhamimh.bsky.social

Four worthy winners of the @bpsofficial.bsky.social Book Award - all books we have covered www.bps.org.uk/psychologist... Congratulations @ginarippon.bsky.social @lawbender.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social Roxanne Khan, Laura Scarrone Bonhomme, Dr Michael Beattie and Skye Davies.

New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/

Today’s resource spotlight is 10 for 10: Using lived experience in the workplace. With tips about disclosure, such as deciding to share information about your lived experience or what to consider when sharing in the workplace. Check out all our 10 for 10 resources https://ow.ly/VAqF50XIscy

Paywalled, but the gist is that teenagers (and younger children) using VR more and more - driven by black Friday sales, headsets seen as a good Christmas gift, and lots of social free-to-play apps like Gorilla Tag, UG, VRchat www.theverge.com/column/84235...

Hugely looking forward to this next year - if you work on voices, visions, presences or unusual experiences of any kind, keen an eye out for the CfP in the new year....

I want to write an article about how philosophers can contribute to healthcare practice, based on my experience over the past year of helping with the development and operation of a new trans healthcare service, but am struggling to think of a suitable academic-y venue. suggestions are appreciated.

Congratulations to @damianbarr.bsky.social! THE TWO ROBERTS has been shortlisted for the @stanfordstravel.bsky.social prize for Fiction with a Sense of Place ‘Crackles with creative rebellion’ Douglas Stuart ‘A vivid and moving portrait of two fine artists’ The Times

Head of Dept @tamsinford.bsky.social responds to claims that ADHD is overdiagnosed: Evidence shows ADHD is underdiagnosed. Around 1 in 20 people meet diagnostic criteria but never receive a diagnosis or access services. 🚫Restricting support harms those already underserved 🧠 bit.ly/48Flieu

Save the Date: The next ICHR Satellite Meeting will be in Munich, Sep 21-24 2026! Hosted by @franziskaknolle.bsky.social & co-organised with @echrhallucinations.bsky.social, this will be our 5th satellite meeting and first trip to Germany. hallucinationconsortium.org

"What was I saying? Right. I want your kids dead. And it’s not just me—I have the full-fledged support of the entire GOP and the president to make sure we find a way to kill your kids. Shit, vaccines. Kill vaccines. That’s what we’re doing. Ignore the other thing I said."

Tory leader uses title of Age Of Diagnosis book, spouts toxic stuff www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

In The Observer, I’ve reviewed Songs Of Seven Dials: @tricksterprince.bsky.social’s fascinating, detailed history of the changing streets of Covent Garden through the early c20th. From race to jingoistic media to gentrification, a book full of resonances today observer.co.uk/culture/book...

48 people shared photos and stories of detention under the Mental Health Act 📸 The Co-Pact PhotoVoice study found coercive care, institutional racism, and people feeling "voiceless" 🌳🌤️🍄 #MentalHealth #RacialEquity #MentalHealthAct #CoProduction #ElfHelp 🧵 THREAD

Together with @cypmentalhealth.bsky.social, @mind.org.uk, @rethinkcharity.bsky.social and others we have written to equalities minister Bridget Phillipson MP urging her to safeguard the mental health of trans and non-binary people the across UK. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

🚨New preprint looking at neurobiological and computational mechanisms underlying altered language-related predictive processing and subclinical symptom formation in a schizotypy sample! Great work by medical student Verena Demler! 🎉🧠 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

New research establishes direct causal link btw #cyberbullying + #anxiety in young people Researchers (@larseneault.bsky.social, FredericThériault-Couture, Philip Shaw) are calling for policy makers to look beyond online safety when considering how to protect teenagers www.kcl.ac.uk/news/debates...

Our symposium on speech expectations and hallucinations was accepted at SIRS in Florence next March! @aldersonday.bsky.social @franziskaknolle.bsky.social Judy Thompson, Izabele Batkovskyte and I will present #SIRS2026

"If you put a kid on the cover, you’re telling buyers it’s a kid game. If you put adults on the cover, you’re telling kids it’s a gateway to adulthood. This is basic aspirational psychology. They’ll feel like tiny professors. Or tiny villains. Both sell."

“Where are the findings? You only provide quotes.” New article considers qualitative researchers’ experiences of methodologically incongruent peer review feedback Open Access: dx.doi.org/10.1037/qup0... Few quotes follow 🧵

Next week at the MIT Consciousness Club, Marisa Carrasco will talk about "Perception / Action dissociations as a window into consciousness". Looking forward to it! You can find details (as well as zoom option) here: sites.google.com/view/mit-con...

An excellent letter from @cjcrompton.bsky.social on the profound challenge that the double empathy problem poses to how autism is described and researched.

Preaching to the choir here, but it’s worth getting all the arguments lined up.