Survey study identifies that most patients with depression interpret the Patient Health Questionnaire instructions incorrectly, raising questions about its validity for clinical and research use. ja.ma/4s27WSt

🚨Call for papers: Computational markers of psychosis - From latent states to neurobiological mechanisms! Special issue in Schizophrenia Bulletin🧠 Deadline extended to April 30, 2026 We are looking forward to your papers!!

🍇 New paper 🍇 Ever felt like someone was in the room when no one was there? Together with @parkbmb.bsky.social @tatianabaxter.bsky.social we asked whether that might reflect misperceiving signals from our own beating heart - and if this relates to psychosis risk. doi.org/10.1159/0005...

Anuj Kumar brings together ecological vulnerability, multispecies care, and relational health in his reading of Shaunak Sen’s film All That Breathes. thepolyphony.org/2025/12/17/b...

My podcast about monotropism, burnout and reclaiming rest! With Simeon Thompson and Dr Sophia Christoph from The Autism Podcast open.spotify.com/episode/4bnR...

For a Choreography of Emotions: Spatiotemporal Phenomenology Giovanni Stanghellini, Veronica Boniotti, Angelika Wolman, Helene Cæcilie Mørck, Georg Northoff karger.com/psp/article-...

Complex PTSD symptoms predict positive symptoms of psychosis in the flow of daily life

New job alert 💫 We’re hiring a 3-year postdoc for the NEPTUNE project to study the causal mechanisms of paranoia and social learning. Work with us on experimental psychopharmacology (THC), social cognition, and psychosis 🧑‍🔬 Apply here: lnkd.in/gQqnNvjR](my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...) Please RT :)

Humdinger of a preprint "When adjusting for lifetime ever-use of other substances, cannabis ever-use was no longer associated with PLEs, while methamphetamine use, cigarette use, and opioid use were associated with PLEs" medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2025/12/02/2025.12.01.25341322.full.pdf

Interoception an inner sense… Mapping the Sense of What’s Going On Inside www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/s...

📝🧠 I'm thrilled to announce that my paper, "Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches" is now published and open access!! Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #autism #enactivism

Really enjoyed talking about delusions as embodied, affective and relational experience yesterday at one of our IMH lunchtime seminars! Great questions and lots more to work on in the new year!

*I just realised the short 🔗 to our preprint takes a few seconds to load, so here’s the full link instead: osf.io/preprints/ps... Plus, the interactive figure was accidentally saved as a private file 🤦; it’s now public. You can download it here and open it in your browser 👉 osf.io/ty3cw/files/...

A glow in the consciousness – magnificent read on the continuous creative act of seeing clearly www.themarginalian.org/2024/06/11/p...

Save the Date: The next ICHR Satellite Meeting will be in Munich, Sep 21-24 2026! Hosted by @franziskaknolle.bsky.social & co-organised with @echrhallucinations.bsky.social, this will be our 5th satellite meeting and first trip to Germany. hallucinationconsortium.org

New paper from @georgiapunton.bsky.social's PhD. Sleep deprivation may increase risk of hallucinations through effects on intentional inhibition (ICIM performance) rather than performance of signal detection task performance. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

For research updates, new books, interviews with experts, spotlights on projects, and conference reports, follow @imperfectcognitions.com. A blog at the intersection of #philosophy, #psychology, and #mentalhealth: a new post every week, rain or shine. #philosophyforeveryone #philsky

I have been supporting the facilitation of @thrivingautistic.bsky.social's Discovery Programme this year. We have had such positive feedback about how this helps people develop a deeper understanding of their Autistic identity in a neuro-affirmative way. Please do share x

New PSA postdoc working group. "The PSA is in the process of implementing a formal subdivision devoted to postdocs. A working group meets intermittently online. PSA members are invited to take short survey (buff.ly/IfZuE7k). Em Alan Love ([email protected]) to receive email updates/Zoom links."

@thirdculturekat.bsky.social @jlebovitz.bsky.social @tatianabaxter.bsky.social @ccrosenphd.bsky.social @parkbmb.bsky.social @lkfazio.bsky.social @afelsenheimer.bsky.social @annaciaunica.bsky.social Affective Somatic Politics. Our bodies keep the score.

Autism’s Confusing Cousins A differential diagnosis for the weird and the awkward www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/autisms-co...

Check out this table of contents - looks awesome 🤩

📌🗓 Save the date! January 14 2026, the 3 workshop of our @uobphenomenal.bsky.social, entitled "Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health". More info at birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/11/netw...

How can we avoid #epistemicinjustice in the mental healthcare of indigenous peoples? Read the new post on the #projectEPIC blog to find out! By Md Omar Faruk epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/12/epis... #philsky #philhealth

Thanks to @lmesseri.bsky.social / @cameronbuckner.bsky.social / @carlbergstrom.com / Claudia Scarlata / Thomas Byrd for a fantastic discussion at the “AI and the Nature of Science: Concepts and Controversies” symposium. Recording of the event now available on our YouTube channel. buff.ly/a5qsWxt

In our next piece of lived experience creative work from the 'In Practice' project, poet and researcher Grace Marsh shares three poems. thepolyphony.org/2025/12/02/t...

Curious why we sometimes see minds where there are none? 🧠 Join us to uncover the foundations of attributed agency. Fully funded PhD for next year as part of DRIVE-Health, working with me, Adam Hampshire & @stefansarkadi.bsky.social Deadline: 12/1/26 Reach out for an informal chat!

Did you know the heart imprints onto the voice? New preprint spearheaded by Marijn Hafkamp, confirming (seemingly forgotten) research from the 80's and testing for the first time possible biomechanical mechanisms (evidence points to heart-lung-voice interactions). wimpouw.com/files/Hafkam...

New book "Transdicourse 3: Women in Art, Science and Body Politics" is out - edited by the wonderful Jill Scott. In our chapter "Conversations in the Space of Art-Science Practice" Helen Pynor and I explore spaces, even the more "messy" ones, where art and science meet. #nightscience #dayart

Affective Atmospheres 18–19 Feb 2026, Glasgow Supported by Royal Institute of Philosophy In-person conference bringing together philosophy, anthropology, geography, art, architecture & psychology. Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK... More info placememory.net/affective-at... Art Jinjoon Lee ©2025

Meaning, Medications, and Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology: Discussion with David Mintz Exploring medication effects mediated symbolically www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/meaning-me...

"Do not go gentle in to that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Hear a rare recording of Dylan Thomas himself reading his masterpiece, plus the real-life story surrounding the iconic poem www.themarginalian.org/2017/01/24/d...

What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social

New from the band formerly known as Hearing the Voice...a short paper about felt presence and early psychosis. We report some basic links to things like fear and quoted examples from our "Voices in Psychosis" study 1/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great piece on #interoception and brain body interactions by @carlzimmer.com in the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/s... What an exciting time to work on this. Join us @cshlmeetings.bsky.social to learn more about the this exciting field meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Save the date: 18–19 Feb 2026, Civic House, Glasgow. Affective Atmospheres — a two-day, in-person conference supported by the @triphilosophy.bsky.social Talks, conversations and creative sessions with researchers and artists. Open to all. Speakers + registration soon. Art: Jinjoon Lee ©2025

Latest papers: Nader Abazari & Suvi-Maria Saarelainen explore how different cultural contexts contribute to sources of meaning and how certain sources persist within cultures over time in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

"Being in nature is about where your body is. Connecting is about how your attention behaves." Dr Yewande Okuleye, in our 'In Practice' series showcasing multi-modal creative engagement with the lived experience of chronic illness, disability and caregiving. thepolyphony.org/2025/11/26/f...

Anand Padmasenan critically examines the relationship between colour deficiency, cinema, and disability through his documentary film The Color of Colours. thepolyphony.org/2025/11/21/s...

have you ever been somewhere so dark you could step outside & immediately spot the Milky Way? i traveled to the Upper Peninsula to learn about efforts to balance industrialization & economic growth with the preservation of starry skies: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/s...

📆 🔊 ❗ Another date for your calendars ⭐ 16th January 2026 - 4h workshop ⭐ "Engaging meaning-making in delusions: the phenomenological toolbox" Presented by myself & Dr. Elizabeth Pienkos med.stanford.edu/inspire-trai...

"Western medicine typically views anyone who admits to being told what to do by disembodied voices as suffering from psychosis. But that is not the case everywhere – so what can we learn from those who treat these hallucinations differently?" www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

📆 ‼️ Workshop announcement ‼️ 14th Jan 2026 ⭐ Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health ⭐ Organised by myself with Prof. Jeannette Littlemore Please see here for the full schedule and to sign up (in-person places are limited): lnkd.in/dZ57MKwt

Great talking to Emily and Rachel from @npr.org's Short Wave podcast about the mysteries of inner speech - and how difficult it is to get good data on who uses it and who doesn't. www.npr.org/2025/11/19/n... #innerspeech

Leaders of Coordinated Specialty Care programs describe creative efforts to support friendship, faith, art, and civic life, along with the structural barriers they face. By Liam Gehrig Bach www.madinamerica.com/2025/11/insi...