Approximately 40% of all studies preregistered on the Open Science Framework are never shared publicly. That’s a lot. Researchers give several reason, and null results and bad planning (or lack of priority) are the main reasons. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Short thread on our new paper. We use face mask efficacy research as a “stress test” for systematic review methods. We analysed 66 systematic reviews of face mask efficacy; they reached widely different conclusions (~half said they work, half said that evidence of efficacy was lacking). 1/

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Just 24 hours left to register for tomorrow's webinar 'Time for change: Co-producing peer research with diverse communities'. We have over 200 attendees already registered! #PPI arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/events-train...

“I know #ChatGPT can help with my literature review but I’ve no idea if I’m allowed to use it, how to cite it, or whether I’m somehow cheating.” Students are using #GenAI whether you’ve addressed it or not. Here’s how to provide the clarity they’re asking for: https://ow.ly/X7HB50Y8H0J#ChatGPT#GenAI#AcademicSky

Pupil dilation is an established biomarker of arousal, and studies have shown that non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) elicits pupil dilation. Here, we find that it depends on sensory matching. #neuroskyence 🩺 Now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Mental illness affects one in four adults, which should make The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders one of the most well-thumbed medical texts in the world go.nature.com/4tfNlLe

Looking forward to interesting discussions at our Maudsley NIHR BRC Digital Interventions research event. Further info on the work we have been doing in this area here www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/research/dig...

Young professionals are bitterly angry about the student loans system, protesting that agreements they were encouraged to sign up to as 18-year-old school pupils are blighting their financial futures. Do they have a point? ft.trib.al/vzP0xgI

We're running a 5th edition of the always-exciting UCL Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition this year, 8th-10th July 2026 in London. Accommodation and travel expenses are covered. For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...

We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk link.springer.com/article/10.3... My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.

New laws in the UK, Australia and France were brought in during 2025 with the aim of protecting children from harmful content online, but experts remain divided on whether they will achieve this goal

All I want for Christmas is... published nonsignificant findings and more Registered Reports? www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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...

‘A meaningful psychology career doesn’t have to follow a straight line…’ Rhema Akintunde on ‘learning to do things differently’ in the struggles after graduation… www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Our new paper "Inconsistent outcome measurement in depression psychotherapy trials: A systematic historical and meta-analytic review over the past 50 years" led by @antoniasprenger.bsky.social is out now in JAD. 🧪 #PsychSciSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Opinion: If a student feels remembered by a machine but overlooked by humans, something in the educational contract has broken, says Agnieszka Piotrowska #edusky https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/universities-must-respond-students-emotional-reliance-ai

📣I’m excited to share our new preprint on how our body’s energy supply shapes everyday stress experiences: 📄𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A record 90,000 UK undergraduates are living at home this year, according to new figures from the university admissions service #EduSky #highered

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Happy to see our registered replication paper out led by Nathan Pond as part of his PhD with Ryan Scott, @drpatclarke.bsky.social and Lies Notebaert. See more of Nathan's work here: www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-po...

Les femmes travaillent plus que les hommes et gagnent moins qu’eux ➡️ Lire plus : bit.ly/4iJSRki

Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins

In my paper Sample Size Justification I discuss 6 approaches to justifying sample sizes. The focus of the paper is to teach people the tools they need to be honest when they explain where their sample size comes from. I know, so radical ;) online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Stiff interest rates and lousy real wage growth mean student debts will not fade over time. This will shape British politics for a generation to come

Academia is unprepared for the rise in chatbot use among students go.nature.com/4iPtlKz

"Research driven by curiosity - rather than by pre-defined agendas - is one of the strongest safeguards of academic freedom and democratic resilience." ERC President Maria Leptin’s speech on #AcademicFreedom under threat couldn’t be more topical. Speech: erc.europa.eu/news-events/ne…#CG40Yearsrs 🇪🇺

Interested in a PhD looking at trajectories of repetitive negative thought using machine learning and computational modelling? Take a look at our project in the @drivehealth.bsky.social portfolio and get in touch with any questions! showcase.drive-health.org.uk/project/quan...

Bridging the gap in public trust in science: An intergroup relations perspective bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

📢📢 Come and work with us! New research coordinator post to support Wellcome Trust funded research to sustain and scale our digital parent led CBT programme in diverse global settings. Closes 21/11 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

British nationals living abroad call on UK universities to introduce new tuition fee tier to put an end to requirement of paying international student prices #highered #EduSky https://ow.ly/F4bv50Xl4rO

This is superb - thank you @sjblakemore.bsky.social @roryoc.bsky.social @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social -- The Teenage Brain Explained with Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore youtu.be/xy7jkcSl8to?... via @YouTube

Eye-opening work on heterogeneity among depression scales. Also, I’m a pluralist and everything, but … do we need 27 youth depression scales? Why have researchers not updated and further developed them? What does this say about the state of our field?

Two postdoctoral positions available in my group. Using longitudinal and genetic data to explore the causality of social, psychological, and biological mechanisms in driving the impacts of childhood adversity on anxiety. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLA695/s... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLA369/s...

New blogpost on @elife.bsky.social's new Replication study type deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/prob.... tldr = I think it's doomed. #Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility

🌱 From pills to people: the rise of social prescribing. Who’s being referred to walking groups, arts classes and community activities, and who’s missing out? Two major 2025 studies explore referral trends and inequalities. 🧵 THREAD #SocialPrescribing #PrimaryCare #HealthInequalities #MentalHealth

Excited to see this paper out led by Dr Carla Dance where we looked at the role of imagery in worry with people who experience #aphantasia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... More of Carla's research on imagery and aphantasia is here: www.researchgate.net/profile/Carl...

We asked 3,785 PhD students across 107 countries about their experiences. Where do you think the happiest doctoral candidates were? go.nature.com/43usVmf

Google Scholar has introduced a 'Sh-index' metric that scores papers higher if you are first or last author. Apart from the fact metrics are generally bad, this one explicitly punishes PIs who often collaborate, publishing with 2 or 3 equal PIs at the end of the list. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🎓 Thinking about a PhD in clinical trial #methodology? We have two funded PhD opportunities for students passionate about trial design and statistical methods: • One in estimands • One in non-inferiority trials 🔗 More info and how to apply here: buff.ly/lCpqcF6 @mrcnihrtmrp.bsky.social

The debate will be recorded and posted at a later date. If you have questions for the panel, please respond to this post. #MaudsleyDebates

The brilliant @kasiamojescik.bsky.social and Martha McGill join @claudiahammond.bsky.social and @catherineloveday.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 All in the Mind this morning to launch our new public survey of vivid memories. You can take part here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Just two weeks until our International Health Lecture with @thelancet.com ⏳ 🗓 Tues 4 Nov, 3:30pm GMT 📍 Online and in person at 1 Birdcage Walk, London Our keynote speaker Prof Quarraisha Abdool Karim will reflect on the challenging times we face and the hope science offers to drive change 🌱

Millions exploited by ‘menopause gold rush’ amid lack of reliable information, say experts

doi.org/10.1073/pnas... "Our analysis of a quarter of a million days of objective smartphone usage across over 10,000 diverse adult participants reveals little evidence for strong bidirectional associations between mental well-being and smartphone use."

The #2025SPR Psychophysiology virtual issue is now online! Explore the latest research ahead of the conference: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

An AI tool that scans manuscript titles and abstracts has flagged more than 250,000 cancer studies that bear textual similarities to articles that are known to have been produced by paper mills go.nature.com/48mbbgj

🧠 Adolescent vs adult depression: is the risk of relapse the same? This large Swedish cohort study followed people for 5 years after their first depression diagnosis. ⚖️ The result? No significant difference in recurrence or time to recurrence. 🧵 THREAD #Depression #MentalHealth #AdolescentHealth