I'm in the Guardian today, writing about the question of overdiagnosis of mental illness. I argue we need to stop seeing this as a binary yes/no question - is overdiagnosis happening or is the increase real? - and acknowledge that multiple things can be happening at once tinyurl.com/yzsey97c

We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...

February is LGBTQ+ History Month!🏳️‍🌈📣 We put together a short video to highlight some statistics surrounding LGBTQ+ mental health, experience with physical healthcare, and discrimination and hate experienced by the community.💔

Here is a little recap of our time at the #AMHDMshowcase conference! 📈 Such a pleasure to be a part of such a brilliant and inspiring room of people 👏 Thank you @events.ukri.org for putting on an amazing 2-day event. youtube.com/shorts/aB88p...

Hello and welcome Day 1 of the #AMHDMshowcase is underway! Youth researcher Tegan sets the scene and introduces Gill Attrill OBE (Director at @ukri.org) & Prof Eamon McCrory (CEO of @annafreudcharity.bsky.social), former Directors of the Adolescence, Mental Health and the Developing Mind Programme

What does 'This is My Place' mean? 🏫 For Day 3 of #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, we take the theme of 'This is My Place' and outline why schools are already a safe space for young people and how ReSET aligns with schools to support young people's mental health. Check it out below!

I’m thrilled to be starting as a Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Mental Health across the UCL-Anna Freud partnership. I’m grateful to be able to continue my research into identifying risk factors for mental health problems, as well as testing new interventions to prevent their onset and worsening.

In the ReSET Project we have taken a new approach to preventing mental health problems in adolescence. Read more about our school-based intervention in a new BOLD blog post co-authored with Laura Lucas

📣 New Blog is live on @boldinsights.bsky.social ! @dralexlloyd.bsky.social and Laura Lucas discuss the promise of school-based interventions to preventing teen mental health issues. #schools #mentalhealth #adolescents #intervention #research boldscience.org/can-teen-men...

I'm delighted to have received a junior faculty grant from The Huo Family Foundation to investigate mechanisms linking social media use to mental health outcomes in young people. huofamilyfoundation.org/news/updates...

🎙️ RESET Podcast Ep 2: Supporting Emotional Skills Why do adolescent brains experience emotions so intensely but struggle to regulate them? (Developmental mismatch: amygdala fully online, prefrontal regions still developing) #Neuroscience #SchoolMentalHealth @resetproject.bsky.social 🧵 THREAD

On your marks, get set...GROW! 🌱 Applications for our GROW 2026 Researcher Development Programme for #mentalhealth and #addiction early career researchers are now open. ‍💫 APPLY NOW 👇 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/grow/

Interested in how to deliver support for mental health in schools? Then this is the podcast for you! Hear from the experts about how we can best support young people’s wellbeing 🧠👥

Interested in applying to the next GROW and Peer Coaching (PeCo) programmes? ⏳ Hoping to attend one of our fully funded #WritingRetreats to develop your next paper or application? 🌳 Be the first to know when 2026 applications open: buff.ly/xQp8J4G

⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️ I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me and Professor @jonroiser.bsky.social on an exciting new project examining the link between young people's decision-making on social media and their mental health.

⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️ I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me and Professor @jonroiser.bsky.social on an exciting new project examining the link between young people's decision-making on social media and their mental health.

Stellar work from @ritikac.bsky.social pulling together a huge amount of evidence for this review! Great to see this out ☺️

Wondering what the conference looked like? Well, here it is! ✨ Hosted at Anna Freud for the day, the event delved into the ReSET Project and our results, as well as touching upon school-related topics such as developmental language disorder, social networks and bullying.

📣Exciting announcement below!📣Curious to know what we're all about? ReSET is a novel indicated preventative intervention to improve the mental health of UK adolescents, by teaching strategies to support emotion regulation and social relationships🥰 (See more...⬇️)

First up is Dr Alex Lloyd @dralexlloyd.bsky.social who is going to talk about The Development, Pilot and Feasibility Study of a Preventative, Transdiagnostic Intervention for Mental Health Problems in Adolescence: Building Resilience Through Socioemotional Training (ReSET) #ReSETMentalHealth

👋 Good morning everyone, and a very warm Mental Elf welcome to the @resetproject.bsky.social conference in London. You can follow along all day at 🌟 #ReSETMentalHealth 🌟 We are going to be talking about Relationships, Emotions & Adolescent Wellbeing. I'm André - hello! 🧵 THREAD

Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7

New preprint from the @resetproject.bsky.social! Here we identify profiles of socio-affective functioning in adolescents at heightened risk for mental health problems 👇

We just posted our very first TikTok to raise awareness for #YouthMentalHealthDay 🧠💛 We decided what better way to discuss the topic of youth mental health than to talk to the youth themselves? Let us know what you think! #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #UCL www.tiktok.com/@reset.proje...

Today is Youth Mental Health Day with the theme “Shared Support” highlighting the power of connection. Peer support is vital during adolescence, reducing depression and anxiety. The takeaway? Be that person for someone you know! More info below... #YouthMentalHealthDay #ShareSupport

How do we work with young people to develop new mental health interventions that draw on different disciplines? In this new paper, we outline our approach in developing the @resetproject.bsky.social programme, a new transdiagnostic preventative intervention for young people 👇 lnkd.in/eYkuaHZB

🙌 Team Spotlight! 🙌 Our post-doc @dralexlloyd.bsky.social presented his research on Transdiagnostic Approaches and Socio-Affective Risk factors at the FLUX conference in Dublin last week 🎉 A link to the poster can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1g6pw... #MentalHealthResearch #ReSETproject

Does young people's decision-making impact their wellbeing? We just posted a blog offering a deep dive into an exciting new project led by @dralexlloyd.bsky.social that looks at how the 'Explore-Exploit paradigm' relates to young people's mental health. Click to find out more! buff.ly/KZHlafL

🧠 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

Our 2025–2026 Seminar Series is ready to begin 🎓✨ We’re kicking off on 1 October with a fantastic line-up of speakers from across the UK and beyond. Join us on Wednesdays from 1–2 PM at Birkbeck. Light refreshments provided ☕️🥐 Here’s the full programme 👇 @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social

New paper! Excellent work by @bignardi.bsky.social and @minafazeloxford.bsky.social, who leads the Oxwell study The prevalence of food insecurity and its relationship with wellbeing in a large, cross-sectional study of children and young people in England Out soon. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Another exciting new job opening at @uclpals.bsky.social with Niko Steinbeis and Essi Viding - www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neurojob #computationalpsychiatry

New paper just out (open access) 📣 How do early adversity and war trauma shape children’s decisions under uncertainty? We tested Syrian refugee kids (7–12) in Amman vs. Jordanian peers across a set of learning/foraging tasks. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

🧠🏫 AWARE and INSPIRE? School mental health trials show mixed results and unexpected harms. The Education for Wellbeing programme tested universal mental health approaches with 30k+ pupils. Some benefits, but also unexpected harms, especially for vulnerable students. 🧵 THREAD

New report on understanding the drivers of declining youth mental health To effectively respond to worsening mental health, we need to understand not just what is happening, but *why* We used an evidence-based approach to unpack common explanations 1/🧵 youthfuturesfoundation.org/publication/...

Alert! ... for the child development world! @fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪ The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive. Check here: docs.hbcdstudy.org and here: nbdc-datahub.org Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

Registration is open for the Summer School on Computational Decision Sciences, 8–12 Sept Join us in London for a week of cutting-edge research on decision-making, AI, cognitive science and more! (free, register by 11Aug) center-decision-sciences.com/cds-summer-s... #PsychSciSky 🧠 #neuroskyence🧪

Join our @erc.europa.eu funded lab @ki.se! We're hiring a postdoc to explore how humans learn from each other — with fMRI, modeling, & behavioral experiments. 🧠👫 A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology. Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁). drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

Are you a UK-based mental health research ECR? Are you looking for a transformative programme to help you meet amazing peers whilst also getting career support? This opportunity is for you! Check out the GROW 2025 Researcher Development Programme. I wouldn’t be where I am today without it!

New publication from the @resetproject.bsky.social! We assess the feasibility of delivering a selective intervention for young people at increased risk of mental health problems. Lots of learning about how we can provide group-based, preventative mental health interventions in schools

🚨NEW PAPER from my group: Scoping review of potential harm from group-based CBT and mindfulness interventions in schools Our research question was essentially this: How often do school mental health interventions make things worse? acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (thread)

Join our team at an exciting point for the @resetproject.bsky.social as we disseminate the findings from our school-based, preventative mental health intervention for adolescents!

📢 Are you an accredited therapist, psychologist, or counsellor? University College London (UCL) is conducting a study on the psychological link between childhood maltreatment & domestic abuse and the therapeutic approaches that foster safe relationships. 📩 Sign up here: bit.ly/41lGXon

⏰Got a spare 33 minutes? We’d suggest listening to @acamh.bsky.social new podcast🎧 – ReSET’s @dralexlloyd.bsky.social and Romana Saleh discuss their methodological review about ensuring meaningful engagement with people with lived experience in research. Listen here: acamhlearn.org/Learning/No_...

Romana and I were delighted to be interviewed for @acamh.bsky.social about our recent scoping review about Patient and Public Involvement methods in child and adolescent mental health. You can listed to the podcast here! acamhlearn.org/Learning/No_...

📰 In case you missed it! New publication in The JCPP from ReSET Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Tom Wu (along with @dralexlloyd.bsky.social et al.) exploring longitudinal associations between interpersonal outcomes and general psychopathology factors, read it here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39731442/

Important new evidence published today: large-scale DofE trial (N=12,166) found that two universal MH awareness interventions, in secondary schools, led to an *increase* in emotional symptoms at long term (9-12 month) follow up tinyurl.com/4ffday8y Thread below /1