The "Szilard Point." When we talk about The strain and the drain on scientific publishing, it's this. Researchers are working more just to stay afloat, and less on what we actually want them to do: research, discover, innovate. Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨 The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists Interested? Get in touch via direct message careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... #MicroSky 🧪 #PostDoc @univie.ac.at

I'm old enough to remember having a reasonable expectation that a Labour government would be better than a Tory one. A Health Secretary who repeatedly implies that chronically under-diagnosed things like ADHD are somehow over-diagnosed, bans trans healthcare & promotes NHS privatisation is not it.

Looking forward to speaking with the Edinburgh University Global Health Society later today for #WorldAIDSDay. We will discuss recent advances in HIV care, emerging priorities for the community, and the intersections of LGBTQ+ rights, mental health, and HIV.

#WorldAIDSDay is especially important this year. US has cut nearly all support for HIV care and research, while UK has cut £150 million from its contribution to Global Health Fund. HIV activism and NGOs continue to save lives while govts betray people with HIV. www.iasociety.org/kigali-decla...

2.5M people accessed HIV prevention medicines in 2024. But this year’s sudden funding cuts disrupted access to this essential tool. If we want to prevent a resurgence of HIV infections, we must re-prioritize prevention, NOW! Read more: www.unaids.org/en/2025-worl... #WorldAIDSDay

Today is #WorldAIDSDay. The HIV response has always shown what humanity can achieve when we stand united. Global collective action has saved millions of lives, but shrinking funding now puts this progress at risk. Leaders must recommit to ending AIDS and saving lives.

#WorldAIDSDay2025 | Spotlight has launched a new HIV dashboard and graph generator based on outputs from the Thembisa model. Our hope is that this dashboard will help the public and people working in healthcare to find important HIV numbers more easily: www.spotlightnsp.co.za/hiv-dashboard/

These two have made a difference. This prize will help them make even more of a difference.

@hubmetpsych.bsky.social Bringing together researchers, clinicians & lived-experience experts to drive innovation in metabolic psychiatry. 🌟 Focus: genomics, data science, biomarkers, metabolic intervention, lived experience. 🔗 metabolicpsychiatryhub.com #DiscoverMHPHubs #MentalHealthResearch

New preprint! TL;DR We looked at depressive symptom severity in a large sample of children in Uganda, and found that - in children without HIV, symptom severity decreases over time - in children with HIV, symptoms actually get worse *if* they had high baseline inflammation doi.org/10.1101/2025...

It was lovely speaking to @harmitmalik.bsky.social for @dmmjournal.bsky.social Infectious Disease Special Issue. We chatted about his work on host-viral evolution, the importance of blue-skies research and his approach to creating a supportive lab environment journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...

Our #METPSY study explores how metabolism connects to mental health. Yesterday, we hit 25% of our recruitment target! 🎉 Interested in taking part? Recruitment is still open! Get in touch with the team or visit our website to learn more 👇 📩 [email protected] 🔗 tinyurl.com/metpsy25

Incredibly powerful and personal article. How often have we rushed to meet last-minute ("rapid") funding calls or squeezed projects into financial year-end deadlines? Time in academic does feel 'manic'. The authors describe so eloquently why this encourages us to disguise failures as learning.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Monica Gandhi delivered a powerful plenary at #EACS2025 on the history and the future of HIV treatment. Although HIV and AIDS have largely dropped out of the headlines, the pandemic is not over. More than 40.8m people are now living with HIV (Russian data is missing) more than at any other time. 1/5

Our latest data presented at #IAS2025 tracks global policies harming migrants, students & workers living with #HIV. Explore Positive Destinations www.positivedestinations.info/news/17928-g...

Seems very timely "What normalization does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary. It makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been." —  Jason Stanley. How Fascism Works en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Fas...

First-Person Psychiatric Accounts: A Substack Collection Personal accounts of mental health challenges and mental healthcare, many of which are among the most widely read and appreciated posts in Psychiatry at the Margins. www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/first-pers...

🚨 New Job Opportunity! 🚨 We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to support active clinical research studies within the Hub (principally the METPSY research study) at the University of Edinburgh. 📍Edinburgh 📆 Apply by 11th September 🔗 More info 👇 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

🚨Update: METPSY is now recruiting adults aged 16–35! 🚨 Adults aged 16–35 living in Scotland can now take part in our METPSY study (previously 16–25). Open to those with a diagnosis of depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia. Interested? Get in touch 📩 [email protected] or visit our website!

Calling all early-career researchers!! @thetransmitter.bsky.social & @neuromatch.bsky.social want to know: what kinds of resources do early-career researchers need? Share you thoughts anonymously at the link below: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

I love when this happens, and also feel frustrated when I can’t show them to the world. My human just ends up having to deal with me showing him all the pretty plots.

@arishmrl.bsky.social & colleagues have found that people with autoimmune conditions are at nearly double the risk of mental health issues - depression, bipolar, anxiety - compared to the general population. Read the full paper: edin.ac/40jxw9h; highlighted in the Guardian 25/06: edin.ac/44pQyfF

@dsmith2025.bsky.social and I have another new paper out today in BMJ Mental Health. Excited to have published the first ever research study from the Our Future Health UK cohort, involving data from over 1.5 million adults. Highlights below 👇 LINK: doi.org/10.1136/bmjm... @edinunineuro.bsky.social

What is 'metabolic psychiatry'? And how can we make meaningful advances in mental health prevention and treatment using metabolic science? Out now in Nature Mental Health, our new article defining this emerging field and outlining key questions for future research: rdcu.be/etahP

I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.

Had a great time teaching on the Neuroimmunology & Neurochemistry themed Africa Advanced School in Neuroscience. Teaching is, as always, the part of my job that makes me happiest. Now onwards to #SONA2025!

Upcoming Event! 📢 @arishmrl.bsky.social will be speaking at the National Rural Mental Health Forum on 30th April! Sign up to learn more about how metabolism is connected to mental health and our newly launched study, METPSY 👇 changemh.org/forum

Are you 16-25 and living in Scotland? 📣 Join our METPSY research study to help us understand how metabolism links to severe mental illness (depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia). Interested? 📩 Get in touch at [email protected]! Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/takeparthub

Every trans person deserves safety, dignity and respect. No exceptions. No conditions. No debate. Visibility is only meaningful if it leads to real change. #TDOV #TransDayOfVisibility

Affective disorders and chronic inflammatory conditions: Analysis of 1.5 million participants in Our Future Health https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.25.25324636v1

Our protocol for the METPSY study in the @hubmetpsych.bsky.social is out now in BMC Psychiatry. METPSY is a longitudinal study of metabolic markers and clinical outcomes in young people with depression, bipolar, or schizophrenia. Recruitment for the study opens shortly! doi.org/10.1186/s128...

We're pleased to see that the Scottish Medicines Consortium approval of injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) for the prevention of HIV on the NHS in Scotland This new option may help those facing barriers to using oral #PrEP A significant step forward in #HIV prevention for people living in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Interested in neuroimmunology? An exciting intensive course is planned just before the Society of Neuroscientists of Africa 2025 conference in Morocco. Please share widely: sona2025.uca.ma/Neuroimmunol...

It’s been a pleasure to take part in a series of futurist thinking sessions to imagine the future of the Africa Brain Health Network. It doesn’t end here — we are excited to work towards the vision of brain health being integrated into the daily lives of 1.5 billion people across Africa.

#WorldAIDSDay "The first ever research agenda was developed by the activists, not scientists. So, their advocacy was science and evidence-based. They also demanded greater transparency on every aspect of the HIV response." @madhupai.bsky.social #Bioethics #Equity www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

Want to read a story about #queer joy, community, and cultural resistance? I’m honoured to be published in the newest edition of The Ana and esp to be chosen as the Editors’ Pick. What a privilege to have my words resonate in some small way with others! Read here: www.wearetheana.com/issue-15-dusk

With colleagues at ALBA, I'm running an international climate survey for #LGBTQIA+ people in #neuroscience (including #psychology, #psychiatry, etc). It takes 10-20 min & you can enter a drawing for gift cards. Please repost & share w/colleagues. tinyurl.com/LGBTNeuro #QueerSTEM #LGBTQSTEM

Posting this because these images are making the rounds again. Plus, someone told me it was the best thing I ever did, and I was flattered. p.s. only possible since I've been directly involved with several papers that meet these exact criteria, so mea culpa blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

Meaningful community engagement is at the heart of our #HIV research at FAMCRU (Stellenbosch Uni). We recently asked: what do young people living with HIV in South Africa want us to research? Out now @plos.bsky.social Global Public Health: doi.org/10.1371/jour... #Science #WorldAIDSDay

conference schedule planning for 2024 is already getting out of hand ... i think i'm now at one or two conferences each in March, Apr, May, June, July whoops 😅

I enjoyed chatting with Jodi and Rebecca about gender equity in STEM and how men can and should be engaging these conversations. My first time recording a podcast! Full episode available via The Academinist on ur fav platforms 🧠 theacademinist.buzzsprout.com/1007881/1407...

New paper: of 5000 PhDs awarded at large Dutch uni, men were about twice as likely to receive a cum laude degree even if they had same supervisor. Difference most severe with all male PhD committees & reduces with more female members. www.nature.com/articles/s41...