Dr Clarissa Giebel and Emma Williams from the University of Liverpool are looking for participants living with a neurodegenerative condition or caring for a family member or friend with a neurodegenerative condition, to take part in research. Read More: buff.ly/mJuyogH @liverpooluni.bsky.social

Want to help with autism research? The Social Experiences of Loneliness of Autistic Adults (SELA) Project at the AJ Drexel Autism Institute is forming a Community Council of autistic adults (ages 18–35) to help guide a 5-year study on loneliness and social connection. Info in flyer and alt-text.

Featuring the IPPP's Djuna Croon Department of Physics @durham.ac.uk @rachelmiddleton1.bsky.social

Our physicists are investigating how a UK-led team could design and build a core instrument for a NASA mission to search for life on distant planets. The Habitable Worlds Observatory is expected to launch in the 2040s 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... @ucl.ac.uk @ukspaceagency.bsky.social

Sam Clegg created this John Lewis inspired Christmas ad for less than £400. He is singer, songwriter, producer, scriptwriter, director, & videographer. (His mum helped with props). He is raising money to support anyone lonely & who needs help at Christmas. Spot the fox. youtu.be/C97R5gkln04?...

Free bitesize webinar on 20.11.25 12.30pm to 13.00pm - Exploring Women, Violence, and Emergency Workers. From my Health and Justice Forensic Research Lab at Durham University. Register here 😀 forms.office.com/pages/respon... Send an email to join the lab: [email protected]

What if dementia research felt more like playing a game than taking a test? 🎮 @beccasue99.bsky.social explores how gaming could make research more engaging and realistic — from Sea Hero Quest to futuristic lab simulations. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-gamifyi...

New from us, led by the fantastic @elisavetpappa.bsky.social: Who Are People with Psychosis Delusional about? A Study of Social Agents in the Phenomenology of Delusions karger.com/psp/article/...

📢 @durham.ac.uk has announced the competition for eight PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities, supported by our AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award and the Faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences, for candidates starting October 2026. Find out more 👇 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

We’re looking for new trustees for this fantastic charity which I serve as Vice-Chair. If you’re interested, I’d be delighted to have a chat St Margaret’s Centre is an activity and training hub for adults in County Durham who need support with their mental wellbeing @shaidmahmood.bsky.social

Enjoy this talk. What I love is that it addresses the “elephant in the room” when it comes to adolescence without focusing too much on it. This way there is no debate whether it matters, but the point is that it matters very little. Instead, the take away refocuses people toward what matters more 👌.

📅 Join us on Monday 24 November for an online interdisciplinary symposium on Tourette Syndrome, imagining a future of Tourettic Studies that is looking beyond the syndrome, featuring Bridging Fellow @danielpjones.bsky.social. Find out more & register here 👇 medhumsplatform.org/event/toward...

ICYMI, in March the US pulled out of the new fund established by wealthy nations to compensate low-income countries for loss and damage due to climate change. Despite being the largest historical emitter, the US had pledged only $17.5 million. Melissa alone will likely cause billions in damage.

Apply for MRC funding to become an independent researcher in medical science. Open to healthcare professionals with a PhD. Salary and project costs funded. Closing date 14th January www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/clin...

Apply for BBSRC ALERT 2025 funding to buy mid-range research equipment. Grants from £200k to £1.5m for UK researchers. Awards last 12 months. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/mid-...

NIHR Postdoctoral Award funds researchers with a PhD or submitted thesis to develop careers improving health and care. Flexible, 2–5 years, all disciplines. Apply by 16th December www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/nihr...

First, we were "hysterical." Now, we're "perimenopausal." Lumping every symptom under this one label is the fashionable way to endanger women's health. And it’s killing us. #Perimenopause #Health #Misdiagnosis #WomensHealth

PhD applications are open! We'd love to have you visit Durham Physics to find out more about the(currently!) 17 available projects we have for October 2026 start. Our open day is November 26th, we hope to see you there! Find project descriptions and open day sign up links below.

4MOST in motion! Mounted on ESO’s VISTA telescope in Chile, this wide-field, fibre-fed spectroscopic facility can observe over 2000 targets at once, capturing their light and splitting it into spectra for analysis. Video: AIP/A. Saviauk Audio: LofCosmos #4MOST #astronomy #astrophysics

Sustainable education should include Indigenous knowledge "In our research with hunter-gatherer communities in the Global South, we see that participation in education often undermines Indigenous knowledge systems and cultural integrity." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A programme helping offer personalised support for people living with severe mental illness, improves health & wellbeing & is estimated to save the NHS £895 a year per patient www.arc-nt.nihr.ac.uk/research/evi... 💫 #ARCimpacts @ucl.ac.uk @england.nhs.uk @arc-em.bsky.social @arc-yharc.bsky.social

New study with a clutch team. Using the index of multiple deprivation we tested whether SES is linked to 4-12yos divergent & convergent thinking, finding no relationship. Suggests SES isn’t critical in creativity, but we found verbal fluency and no. siblings is www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are you looking for mental health research funding? We’re supporting teams to accelerate the evaluation and roll out of psychological or social interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis in young people. Applications close 11 Nov. Find out more ⤵️ wellcome.org/research-fun...

Today with Gates Ventures we’re launching the Dementia Frontiers Fund, a game-changing initiative uniting experts from across the world to solve the most urgent and complex questions in dementia research. Find out more here: www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/research/for...

Released today! My new album, North, has been nearly three years in the making. Listen for free on Bandcamp, or buy a copy to download and help me with the mastering costs. #PopUpKings #nordicjazz #ambient #postrock #instrumental popupkings.bandcamp.com/album/north

“persisting with an inadequate fees-led model of higher education, in which universities are run as competing businesses funded by student consumers, is producing a dystopian academic landscape. A more stable system of public funding is urgently required.” Indeed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

First light for 4MOST! 🔭 Global telescope collaboration @4most-eu.bsky.social captures its first light, beginning a scientific journey to reveal how galaxies and stars form and evolve. Discover Durham’s role in this project 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... @icc-durham.bsky.social

Want to do a PhD in Psychology at Durham? I'm looking to supervise candidates interested in researching #PMDD and/or #neurodivergence - drop me a message to chat or discuss ideas!

We’re delighted to launch the NINE DTP 26-27 PhD Studentship competition. Please see the NINE website for full details - ninedtp.ac.uk/the-applicat... #NINEDTP #PhD #ESRC

Hospices are on the brink. Surging costs have led to many services being cut back – just as demand is rising, fast, because of our ageing population. The situation is not sustainable – and time is running out. [1/2]

New research involving @drmbothapsych.bsky.social in our @durhampsych.bsky.social finds that identity distress (where someone has difficulty forming a cohesive sense of identity) is at the heart of higher rates of poor mental health experienced by autistic people. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/3KMtz88

Ten years on from publication - this big lad hits 1000 citations. Congrats @cfernyhough.bsky.social! Probably the longest paper we will ever write. If you get to the end you get a badge and a certificate. And hopefully you will learn something about inner speech. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26011789/

We are The Times and The Sunday Times University of the Year 2026 and ranked third overall in its Good University Guide. Congratulations to our global university community on this success. 🎉 Read more: brnw.ch/21wVU4Q

PhD post! 2 students sought to join the BIRES project, taking a body image intervention developed in Nicaragua and Colombia and examining how (and if!) It can be adapted in other LatAm and African youth. Please share with your students. #PsychSciSky #Anthropology www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

#gnrfinishers #gnr2025 we did it again! Flipping loved this!! Not a bad time despite injury struggles. We are so grateful for all the donations to our fundraising page! If you still want to sponsor us the link is here: www.justgiving.com/page/steven-...

We are hiring! New Asst Prof (G8) post @durhampsych.bsky.social *All areas* but with some teaching in forensic psych. Deadline September 16. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

A new ‪study shows new mothers only have about an hour of their waking day for rest, leading to stress, loneliness and emotional exhaustion. www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... @thuyvytnguyen.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social

Congratulations to all 20 of our researchers who will be part of expert sub-panels for #REF2029. The number and breadth of expertise demonstrates the excellence in research here at Durham. www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... @ref2029.bsky.social #research #excellence

We want to transform early intervention for youth mental health.    Our new funding award will help achieve this.     Across two phases, it aims to accelerate the evaluation and roll out of effective social and psychological interventions. 🧵[1/4]

Join us as we explore the challenges faced by psychology educators when teaching about sex and gender. Registrations now open for our free webinar. Monday 8 September, 1pm - 2pm BST lnkd.in/eUkBC2rQ #HigherEd #Psychology #TeachingPsychology #SexAndGender #InclusiveTeaching #UKAcademia #Pedagogy

Come and work with us! We have an exciting opportunity to join us as an Assistant Professor. The post is full-time & permanent and is open to applicants from all areas of psychology. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to teaching in forensic psychology. To apply➡️ bit.ly/3V7nqW9

New video from Patrick Jachyra at @durham-university.bsky.social talking about the recently published paper on the perspectives and experiences of physical activity among autistic adults. Watch the full video on our YouTube: youtu.be/0NOnYHKVzNQ?... Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1177/1362...

We are running The Great North Run this year (I got a place in the ballot, Steven didn’t) but we will both run to raise funds for St Cuthbert’s Hospice, Durham. If you’ve a couple of quid spare, please consider sponsoring us: www.justgiving.com/page/steven-...

New research involving Prof Alexander Densmore from our Geography Department shows that rivers in China carried earthquake debris for over a decade after the 2008 Wenchuan quake with no sign of slowing. Learn more: durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

An international team of astronomers, including Prof Ian Smail, have discovered a remarkably clumpy rotating #galaxy that existed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, shedding new light on how galaxies grew and evolved in the early Universe. Learn more: durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

The #ReaderBank Imagination Quiz aims to understand readers’ imaginations with potential to enhance mental health therapies. shorturl.at/gHVSx @thereaderbank.bsky.social @durhamimh.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @aldersonday.bsky.social @georgiapunton.bsky.social @edbookfest.bsky.social

It’s our first day at @edbookfest.bsky.social and our website has had a glow-up – go and take a look! readerbank.org

🔥Hot off the press! New pre-print with the v. first findings from our study of reading, the imagination and mental health in collab with @edbookfest.bsky.social doi.org/10.31234/osf...

New from @durhamimh.bsky.social - the first @thereaderbank.bsky.social paper! We identify 4 factors in a new scale of reading imagery, the ReaderBank Imagination Quiz. Well done 1st author @georgiapunton.bsky.social & thanks to our partners at @edbookfest.bsky.social Cc @durhampsych.bsky.social

Just launched! Professional short online courses in behavioural science at Durham University. 👉Behavioural Science at Work: Applying Behavioural Insights to Boost Business Performance bit.ly/3U5szh3 👉Identity & Inclusion: Behavioural Insights for Leaders bit.ly/4flkMFK