The best brain-machine interface remains the mouth. Evolution spent 4B years of evolution on R&D developing the device, so I guess it's not that surprising. Yet it still rarely appears as a baseline in evaluations of new devices.

BCP New FirstView paper: A novel person-reported measure of safety-seeking behaviours: a preliminary study in older victims of community crime Full free text at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Please Repost: We're Hiring! Senior Clin Psych/CBT Therapist (8a) in Manchester for exciting adolescent paranoia school's trial of an innovative imagery & values-based therapy. Led by myself & Dr Jess Kingston @drjk.bsky.social & colleagues including @richardbentall.bsky.social 👇 🔗 lnkd.in/e4cjW9QT

"Different people respond differently to therapy." Professor Jaime Delgadillo described his research into personalised treatment approaches at his inaugural lecture at the IoPPN last week. #Psychology #ScienceAtKings www.kcl.ac.uk/news/matchin...

At the EABCT 2025, the Hannah Murray Award for tCBT Practitioner Paper of the Year was presented to Katherine Wakelin for 'Cognitive therapy for moral injury in post-traumatic stress disorder: integrating religious beliefs and practices' Full free text at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#TheMostInterestingThinginMentalHealth: #Insomnia is major factor contributing to many mental health problems. @ProfEspie University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk gives top tips for clinicians at the European CBT Conference #EABCT2025 @babcpevents.bsky.social @babcpjournals.bsky.social @babcp.com

Really, Alan Turing Institute?

Duh.

Alone but not Lonely! New study finds "people with negative beliefs about being alone experience a steep increase in loneliness after spending time alone in daily life, whereas those with positive beliefs feel less lonely after spending time alone." Open Access: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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🎉We are hiring 1-2 postdoctoral fellows in my lab (webbslab.com) to work on NIMH/NCCIH-funded projects focused on the causes and treatment of depression in teens. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️ webbslab.com/job-postings

In an email the authors summarised "A key finding from this work is that there is limited statistical evidence to support the presence or absence of most edges in published networks. Approximately 80% of the edges we analyzed lack robust statistical support from the data." (shared with permission) 🧵

I keep reading and hearing that political leaders and analysts should understand Trump’s behaviour as transactional. The word you’re looking for is ‘corrupt’.

The idea that we can just slice up therapies into components because that's the way our brains would prefer to understand them is misguided. "Active ingredients", eh? These aren't headache remedies.

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I’d love to connect with people working in #globalmentalhealth - please RT so I can make new friends 😀

tCBT New paper: Cognitive therapy for moral injury in post-traumatic stress disorder: integrating religious beliefs and practices Full free text at https://buff.ly/40cPObs

Fantastic new job opportunity in Sussex @SPFT_NHS @Research_SPFT for a principal psychological (CBTp) therapist on the SloMo (digitally supported therapy for paranoia) implementation study - work in Brighton & make a real change to services for psychosis www.nhsjobs.com/job/UK/West_...

We're hiring! We are launching a new online MSc in Psychology & Trauma at UCL. We're hiring an Associate Professor (Programme Co-Director) and a Lecturer. Please share widely with people who have expertise in Adult Psychological Trauma. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

NEW ARTICLE: In this short piece, Jack Andrews and I argue that, based on the evidence we now have, the field should move away from universal school-based mental health interventions and focus on more effective alternatives acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... summary thread below:

A watershed in the field or another chapter in the annals of crud? Must read and decide. Once I have read my other 150 must reads.... Associations between cognitive appraisals and emotions: A meta-analytic review. doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

Editorial celebrating the work of Hannah Murray, who left us far too soon.

And then after the right-wing noise machine plants the attacks in everyone’s head Dems act like the attacks were foreseeable and their error was picking someone who could be attacked. No, it’s the noise machine!

London please help. I’m praying for a miracle, I’ve just got into the office and noticed my mums locket (in all these photos) that I wear every day has fallen off my neck on my walk in. My mum died when I was seven and her jewellery is most of what I have of her. I’m devastated

I know it seems like a weird principle but once you accept that the correlation between "what people believe" and "what is real" is close to zero, the world makes a lot more sense and it's a lot easier to understand modern politics, which are driven by free-floating media and social media zeitgeists

Ben Affleck has a better intuition about what “AI” currently does and what it will reasonably be able to do than many academics I speak with. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypUR...

Hello, Bluesky community! We're thrilled to make our first post and what better way to debut than by announcing exciting news? We are looking for a scholar to join us as a lecturer (full-time, research & teaching), starting 12 August 2025! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

You know the "🔹AI Overview" you get on Google Search? I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke. "Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...

History is literally just a series of people believing insane things because their communities told them to, often so much so that it kills them or destroys the communities

I think 2024 is a good case in point that you don't need actual bad economic circumstances to trigger this near iron law of politics. Bad economic sentiment is what you need. It's just that normally you need the circumstance to drive sentiment. But in this brave new world of ours, not necessarily.

The smug liberal consensus on how politics works is incredibly, incredibly wrong, and all the wrongness is rooted in the same place: a refusal to acknowledge that politics flows out of the social and psychological more than the material and economic, and is therefore not a solvable game

The same group of people who reassured me that Harris was going to win and that Merrick Garland wasn't taking too long and that people were just mad about inflation and would get over it when inflation stopped are now like "Guys. It's so obvious what happened in 2024" and frankly, I'm real over it

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When you ask “what went wrong” the only sensible explanation is the creation and growth of an information environment that can elevate random tweets and social media posts as avatars of Democratic policy, but treats Republicans announcing their dictatorial ambitions as news for page A13

Characterising #machinelearning studies in healthcare, the full set Weak design/methods tinyurl.com/yc4easr9 Poor reporting tinyurl.com/55ed3j9k High risk of bias tinyurl.com/yk6m9sx5 Full of Spin tinyurl.com/yckubrnp Not open science tinyurl.com/437bfz8f #StatsSky #MLSky #mustdobetter 😬

Fuck.

Primp and uvula? Come on.

Just out, the submission deadline for the 56th International Annual Meeting of the Society for #PsychotherapyResearch will be on 15th December 2024! cdn.ymaws.com/www.psychoth... #PsySci #Psychotherapy

I made a clinical psychology/psychotherapy research starter pack thingy. If you are new here and interested in these topics, feel free to follow! go.bsky.app/Qk93DiE

Marv Goldfried's career retrospective. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Not every day that something appears from someone whose every word needs to be read. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-64731-001

How have I never read this scathing paragraph about correlation coefficients from Tukey (1969) before? 🧪 #statistics

Hmm. Would have though LSD was more of a generalized anxiety producer than therapy, but what do I know? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/lsd-based-medication-gad-receives-fda-breakthrough-status-2024a10004hf?form=fpf

I will be giving a pre-conference workshop on #Rasch analysis using R and Quarto, focused on the package I developed, {RISEkbmRasch}, at the 1st Scandinavian Applied #Measurement Conference on the 12th of June. www.hkr.se/en/collabora... pgmj.github.io/raschrvignet... #psychometrics

Exploring effective survey design: What strategies do you recommend for minimizing 12-month recall bias? Looking forward to insightful discussions and shared experiences! #SurveyDesign #ResearchMethods #DataAccuracy #Psychology #Research