Fellowship Application Day 2025 run online by @nihr-rss.bsky.social on 17 Sept - a REALLY important opportunity for anyone wanting to go for an NIHR Doctoral or Postdoctoral Award... and *free!* Not to be missed! 😀 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/rss-fellowsh...

Deadline for this funded PhD to work with me and @duncanastle.bsky.social is soon! 26 July. The student must be a woman (because it’s based at Newnham College) and eligible for UK home fees.

My book Coming Of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us is out in paperback now www.penguin.co.uk/books/451093...

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 adolescents sensitive about sensitive data? In our new @oxwell.bsky.social publication, we explore students' concerns about taking part in research including sensitive topics such as mental health & maltreatment. Headlines below, w/ substantial implications for research design & analysis ⬇️

I am hiring for a new researchers on my @nuffieldfoundation.org young carers project. Closes 4thJune. After someone with strong quant longitudinal skills, passion for communicating research beyond academia & wants to work with people w lived experience/other sectors jobs.sgul.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

We’re hiring 1–4 researchers for ERC-funded projects on #bullying, #PeerRelations & #MentalHealth 💡 DWELL, (PI @sarahtmalamut.bsky.social) & 💡 SHADES (PI @tiinaturu.bsky.social ) 🗓 Apply by 5 May 4 pm (Finnish time) 🔗 ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi... #OpenVacancies #AcademicJobs #Psychology

The second paper of my PhD is now out in the world! It is a longitudinal study exploring if intolerance of uncertainty predicts generalised anxiety. Thanks to @profhelendodd.bsky.social, @jmorriss.bsky.social, @hollyrayson.bsky.social for all your support doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2025.103004

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!

🚨 HIRING 🚨 a Postdoctoal Associate in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social. My group's research aims to understand how social and physical environments impact brain and behaviour development. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX655/p... Accepting applications until the 15th of March!

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

We talk a lot about why adolescent girls report more low mood and anxiety, and why this might be getting worse. But what do girls themselves think might explain this? As you might have guessed, we don’t really know. So, we asked them: doi.org/10.1186/s129... 1/8

First post on Bluesky! Here @rvisontay.bsky.social and I present the case for cancer warning labels on alcoholic drinks in Australia: theconversation.com/should-austr...

New paper! Adolescents more susceptible to anti-social influence on an experimental task reported lower compliance with future COVID social distancing rules. Prosociality also predicted future compliance, but less clear associations for other factors. OA Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.he...

How do you change the behaviour of the world? Psychology found its way into Covid policy in several ways. But did it work? @jackandrews.bsky.social looked at the research… www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

*Networks of care for the modern adolescent* 🫶🌻 In our new paper, we combine a #network approach + applied research lens to explore where #youngpeople are accessing #mentalhealth support & how helpful they find it. w/ Simon R White & @minafazeloxford.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Signed! Could not imagine a better place to do a PhD than the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Great to see this paper out led by the brilliant @drjillhalladay.bsky.social (see 🧵 below): ⭐️ Emotional problems predicted later alcohol use more-so than the reverse in adolescence ⭐ Depression-focused measures yielded more consistent associations with alcohol use than anxiety-focused measures

Fascinating study showing that people randomised to a self-kindness condition ended up reporting worse m/health. Those tasked with caring for others ended up with better m/h. 'These findings [...] suggest that self-kindness might not be as positive as it feels.' psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Interested in mental health/young people's mental health? We have got post doc jobs out to advert now! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... - this is part of the NIHR award to Bath, and the post doc opportunities are very exciting. Working potentially across work packages and getting training too!

New paper out now in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: 'A human working memory advantage for social network information'. w/Karina Grunewald & Susanne Schweizer royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

“universal school-based [mental health] prevention is less effective than targeted approaches, often leads to null or unsustained positive effects, has the potential to elicit negative effects and is not well liked by young people.” acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Where to next for universal school-based mental health interventions? In our @acamh.bsky.social debate piece, @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social and I argue that it's time to move towards more effective alternatives. acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 Fully-funded ESRC studentship at Oxford focusing on youth trauma and sexual harm, with the brilliant Dr Alex Lau-Zhu, Professor Lucy Bowes and Dr Carmen Chan @topicgroup.bsky.social Deadline to apply is Friday 3 Jan. www.granduniondtp.ac.uk/enhancing-ea...

Stigmatising and inaccurate portrayals of mental disorders: Researchers asked generative AI models to depict different disorders. Images reflected historical biases & pop-culture references rather than evidence-based clinical representation of these conditions mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1...