Heathrow’s terminal 4 was evacuated yesterday as fire crews were called in to investigate “possible hazardous materials”. Emergency services declared that no “adverse substance” had been found. So what really happened at Heathrow? My latest substack:

We have a ✨NEW PREPRINT✨! Using data from the @clscohorts.bsky.social Millennium Cohort Study and linked healthcare records, we tested the association between social media use and psychiatric diagnoses in secondary care in young people in England. This is still a work in progress - feedback welcome!

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

Experienced, bothered by, or both: People differ in how they understand the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) items: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jcsq8_v1

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/...

Less than a week left to apply for this PhD studentship in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social ! Deadline Sun 6th July

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...

It's been a little while since I've written a Mental Elf blog, and I found this fascinating qual paper on young people's views of CAMHS on TikTok. Give it a read below 👇

Really excited that my first PhD paper is now out in @elife.bsky.social: Sense of control buffers against stress. This has been a great team effort with Jinyu Shi, Dan McGlade, @docqhuys.bsky.social and Niko Steinbeis, comprising two studies and a total of N=768! Summary thread below 🧵⬇️

Experimental researchers: Does anyone have experience of collecting data on Testable, and how does it compare to Prolific? (Cost, ease of getting participants, quality of data?) including @isaacwinterburn.bsky.social here Thanks! www.testable.org

I've collated a list of *paid* UK summer research internships for undergrads in psychology/neuroscience, ordered by application deadline. Please share with students and add any other opportunities I've missed below! #psychology #psychiatry #neuroscience #academia #research #internships #undergrad

For anyone working in adolescent mental health: I *really* recommend reading this important paper about the most commonly used questionnaires (inc SDQ) In short: most of them have poor psychometric properties, so do we even know what they are measuring? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... (cont)