Fantastic new video from @parkinsons.org.uk showcasing some of the research funded from identifying what causes Parkinson's through to developing new therapies #causetocure youtu.be/jj9ZmkcZl2o

Can your organisation help us build a depressed mood mission map? It’s part of our new project, the Mental Health Catalyst. The goal is to enable field-wide strategic collaboration and accelerate progress in mental health research. Find out more ⤵️

Join the mental health team at Wellcome as a Research Lead, Implementation and help bridge the gap between development of innovative solutions and their application in real world settings: Salary: £82,100 Closing date:  Monday, 24 March 2025   wellcome.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellco...

Call to action in mental health science

Coming soon - a new @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Generative AI for Mental Health Research Accelerator - aiming to support foundational research on the application of generative AI to improve measurement of and intervention in anxiety, depression, & psychosis. Learn more - mexa.app/accelerator

I'm delighted to say our highly secure and productive OpenSAFELY platform has received a further £17 million in funding from Wellcome, including for a new mental health data project. More here, and clips from Today on Radio4 this morning too! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

Our new target validation funding call is now live! @wellcometrust.bsky.social aims to support validation of novel targets relevant for anxiety, depression and psychosis. wellcome.org/grant-fundin... Join us for the webinar at 13:00 GMT on 25th Feb - wellcome-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

@wellcometrust.bsky.social commissioned a report into the opportunities and barriers to using sensor-based digital health technologies for mental health research and clinical practice datacc.dimesociety.org/mental-healt...

New MHRA guidance out to support manufacturers navigate medical device regulations in the UK and protect users of digital mental health technologies: www.gov.uk/government/n...

Fantastic to see the launch of the new @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded MAMS platform for Treatment Resistant Depression: www.charite.de/en/service/p...

Coming soon - @wellcometrust.bsky.social funding to unlock the potential of longitudinal datasets and develop innovative ways of identifying anxiety, depression and/or psychosis early wellcome.org/grant-fundin... More info coming soon

@wellcometrust.bsky.social wants to help find better pharmacological treatments for mental health. That’s why it’s funding novel target validation proposals related to early intervention in anxiety, depression and/or psychosis. Sign up to be notified and register for the webinar in post below ⤵️

🚀 Calling all visionary scientists and engineers! Announcing our call for Focused Research Organization proposals in the UK. 🔬Submit your concept paper by Feb 7 & full proposal by March 28. More here: www.convergentresearch.org/frost-uk ⤵️

Exciting range of precision neurotechnology projects funded through ARIA some of which are being trialled in mental health: www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-...

The only 'Blue Monday' article you'll ever need theneuroscienceofeve... It's #BlueMonday again. And this is all you'll ever need to read to know the 'truth' about it Which is that it's a ridiculous marketing stunt that got way out of hand and impacted me more than most people

3 good things for today: - wellies that don't leak - a new bag of Grind coffee - lots of snowdrop shoots in the garden #3goodthings

Join the next Mexa virtual hackathon to design solutions using generative AI for mental health treatment. 📅 key dates: 𝐊𝐢𝐜𝐤-𝐎𝐟𝐟 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭: January 24, 2024 𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝: January 26–29, 2024 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: February 3, 2024 Register: airtable.com/app3qpCRLWwT...

For all women in science Eleanor Maguire should be an inspiration. Unlike Rosalind Franklin, her contribution was fully appreciated during her lifetime. So it is fitting that in 2008 she was awarded the Rosalind Franklin medal by the Royal Society. #neuroscience #psychology

Are we at a tipping point for development of new mental health interventions? www.ft.com/content/134b...

🔊 Calling all digital mental health founders KHP Ventures have launched an Innovations in Mental Health Fund. To be part of the associated Immersion Programme follow www.innovationsinmentalhealth.com Webinars tomorrow 17th December at 12 and 4:30pm GMT. Apply before 9am on 7th January 2025 🧪

Julia Gillard: ‘Researchers need to be active, vocal, engaged’ www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Made my morning!

Love my new mug

MEXA are holding a virtual hackathon on the theme of Mental Health and AI:Measurement. Dates - 3-5th December 2024 Registration closes 24th November 2024 📩 Register now at buff.ly/4fs7S7Y Join MEXA at: mexa.app Funded by Wellcome

Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.

Disappointing results for AbbVie with their phase II schizophrenia candidate. Looks like strong placebo response was at play in at least one trial. www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/abbv...

AVATAR therapy shown to reduce distress associated with hearing voices in people living with psychosis. nature.com/articles/s41... Wellcome is committed to supporting development of new and improved interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis - wellcome.org/news/avatar-... 🧪

FDA approval of COBENFY could be game changing for schizophrenia treatment news.bms.com/news/corpora...

Beautiful morning

What a life! A mid-afternoon snooze - if only!

Interesting related piece by Stian Westlake (who runs ESRC but writes in a personal capacity) about how R&D can help with missions - needs evidence synthesis, closure of data gaps and better innovation capability in particular for social innovation docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Such a shame, hadn't realised that he had died.

4 hours later and I am still in a queue for a queue. Not sure this is going to have a happy ending....

Daughter just alienated the Scottish side of her family by referring to Team GB as England

Are there any mental health NGOs that could play a similar role in mental health drug discovery as in this article: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Loving these summer evenings

Calling all Early Career Researchers working in mental health, sleep and circadian rhythms. Apply for pilot project funding from the Circadian Mental Health Network (up to £20,000), here 👇 www.circadianmentalhealth.org/opportunities

Innovate UK’s Mindset programme latest funded solutions include: - an MR environment for MH including bipolar & psychosis - an XR platform for perimenopausal anxiety & insomnia - a VR intervention to help people who hear voices - a digital therapeutic for depression www.ukri.org/news/innovat...

Scotland in the clouds

The Circadian Mental Health Network ECR Advisory Group are recruiting ECRs to advise the Network on how best to support ECRs at all career stages and from different backgrounds in the areas of circadian rhythms, sleep science and mental health research: EOI - t.co/Du7WJF668i