Does your team require high quality qualitative research support? I set up my own research consultancy in January 2021 following a career as an academic social and public health researcher, and can offer my help with this on a freelance basis. My web: lnkd.in/e4feyBMw

bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 2025 “I think office environments aren’t really conducive to physical activity”: a qualitative interview study with participants of a workplace physical activity programme. Our latest article!

Great to see this video about the iMAPS-2 trial results of imagery therapy for psychosis below 👇 @sheffielduni.bsky.social @penninecarenhs.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social

🌈 Do you know anyone passionate about researching LGBTQ+ suicide, suicide prevention and suicide bereavement, experienced in qualitative methods, and looking for work? Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Request #8538 to @bsky.app: I would love to use Bluesky regularly, but I can’t. Why? No locked/private accounts. This isn’t a nice-to-have feature. It’s a safety essential that excludes many in Mad and Disabled communities who face real risks posting publicly. Please sort this Out.

Hi, I'm v new to bsky. I'm a PhD student focusing on harm in UK mental health services, & I would like to hear about your experiences of harm in services between 2010-2025. (Mental health services includes NHS, charities, companies, private therapists & other orgs) 1/7 tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx

psychosisresearch.info/artificial-i... There is some enthusiasm locally for using large language models (LLMs) to create more diverse patient and public involvement in clinical research - given PPI is hard to do. We at @psychosisresearch.bsky.social have some concerns we have summarised here.

turning researchers into glassy eyed automatons who prompt a machine to churn out 150 papers a year for their glassy eyed peers to feed through the same machine for "peer review" so they can be published behind a massive paywall ... it's like Robert Maxwell's wet dream

BBC News - 'Possible' misuse of Oxevision monitoring system, trust admits - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Currently on the "justify everything" stage of registered report writing. Justifying "Why Scotland". Why indeed.

Have given myself a challenge of learning how to do a registered report - by doing! Does anyone have an example of a stage 1 registered report that I could look at, please?

I feel the government want folk with serious mental illness to die. Speaking with my 'serious mental illness patient' hat on. See also whatever is happening with PIP.

Such an important article from @researchpixie.bsky.social et al More time and research needed into this neglected area

The thing to know about Trump's autism and paracetamol claims is that the cruelty is the point. They want women in pain and disabled people stigmatised. And they enjoy showing they can lie outrageously without accountability. I worry that debating the science is to play their game, by their rules.

In our study, led by the amazing Taylor Burns, we found that masking of autistic traits may leave autistic people vulnerable to identity distress which in turn effects mental health. This means constantly adapting to neurotypical norms may make it hard for autistic people to hold on to who they are

Calling all UK Qualitative researchers working with Health-related Trials! We’d love your insights in a survey exploring your experience of the pace and timing of the qualitative research, as well as your experience of working with the trial team. 🔗 uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

On Saturday 20th September, Byres Hub will be open for tours and the chance to sit for a live portrait by Project Ability artists. You can visit the exhibition area and go up to our room with a view to look out across St Mungo Square, the University's Western Campus and the south of Glasgow.

Research opportunity (UK only)! Understanding experiences of re-accessing secondary mental health services following discharge from Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) services. We want to hear from you. tinyurl.com/y2ku4e4y

ChatGPT was only pretending to write a book? Wow, it really is human.

“correlations with human output mean little to substantiate claims of human-likeness, especially when the input to the AI models tested is the output of human cognition in the first place” A truly incredible piece, so many amazing quotes. Well worth the read and a much needed counter.

A summary of links around the study: "Exploring Participant-Generated Examples of Social Change". Short video on the findings: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID5m... University press release: www.uwe.ac.uk/news/new-soc... Full article (open access - free for anyone to download): doi.org/10.1002/jcop...

There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case. Academics: 1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... 2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

obviously I fault none of the people inviting me to conferences in the USA — in fact the opposite of course I am extremely honoured and grateful — but how can anybody say yes? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New article: Menstruation is undoubtedly an important consideration when evaluating the physical well-being of patients in eating disorder treatment. However, the focus must go beyond simply equating the return of menstruation with health and recovery link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thank you to @nsunnews.bsky.social for funding the research. The full research article is available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Really nice to see this story contains advice on how people should avoid CREATING pollution, rather than what you frequently see, which is "Anyone with a health condition should stay inside a plastic bag all day because it's not like people can drive less"

Today is a maternity leave "keeping in touch day". I had hoped to go into the office, but due to crappyish circumstances, I can't. Going to try to write about myself on LinkedIn. This is where being a paranoid person sucks - I get worried about what folk can see. www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie...

uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please consider participating in this fab DClinPsy study. Clinicians and researchers talk about relapse in psychosis but there is no agreed definition and certainly not one that includes the perspectives of people with psychosis or their supporters.

The results so far show why this research is worth doing. But we want to hear from as many folks as possible over the next week to really do a deep dive on it. Thanks to those who have shared this already, please consider taking part yourself or clicking the wee repost button.

My god, what is happening to science? www.sciencedirect.com This is so deeply upsetting and troubling! What can we do as scientist to resist AI slop polluting, and ultimately destructing, our fields of study? Please join me in telling @sciencedirect.bsky.social that we do not want this!

uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Relapse in psychosis is a term that is used a lot, but what does it mean? A (fab) DClinPsy trainee I am co-supervising is conducting an online survey to find out people's views and perspectives. Please consider taking part or reposting this study invitation.

Please read Dr. Guest's paper. It's the way we should proceed with AI.

For a non neurodivergent friendly healthcare system design, have you considered asking the patient to go to the left hand side of a completely circular building ?

What is the wildest supermarket order substitution you’ve ever had ? I’ve just been sent Toad in the hole rather than a butternut squash.

Last few days to take part! Relatively unusually this research idea started with people's lived experience, so I am hoping to do it justice by gathering as much data as possible. Please take part (whether or not you have OCD) and/or share widely! edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Taking part in a student research project on psychosis. The student is not being what I would consider to be professional, and is making me feel a bit uncomfortable. Worth challenging? Sometimes one needs to pick battles in 2025.

Psychologists & related fields: what is a big methods question that you believe remains somewhat unanswered & that you'd love to see adressed? There may be an opportunity for a large-scale meta-science project with many teams trying to figure out a question. Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky

Mental health complaints systems aren’t working — and people are being let down. VOX Scotland’s new survey is here to collect your experiences and solutions. It’s co-designed by lived experience, because real change starts with real stories.

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

Scientific organizations (or any really): please be aware that if you host international conferences in the US, you will be excluding quite a few people from this point on, for whom the risk is just not worth it.

Several friends have noticed dirty looks in public when they’re with partners. Wife and I had to listen to people in pub announcing how they don’t agree with gay people “coming for their kids”. If you are an ally, be bold and loud when you can. We need to show support is still there, still high.

NEW BLOG - "Kaine Fletcher" Initial impressions after the damning conclusion yesterday in a Nottinghamshire Inquest. Someone in @NottsPolice and @EMASNHSTrust has a lot of work to do on Monday. mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/k...

thank you!! and ooh this is a GOOD question. there's a bunch of stuff! - request my books at your library (you don't have to read them!) - buy them for other people - recommend them based on what you do know - you can also support my patreon (it's basically a newsletter)! www.patreon.com/Keezy

THE ARTICLE IS NOT ALIVE I CANNOT "CHAT WITH IT"

I'm looking for the best neuro-affirming information and resources from speech and language therapists on apraxia of speech - any support really appreciated! Please messaged or reply below!

This is so niche I can't believe I am asking, but does anyone know anyone who might be an expert in Protestantism in Italy during the Reformation? (Stranger things have happened). RTs welcome.

"the cancellation of an entire issue of an academic journal, which has not been previously reported, is a remarkable new development in a mounting list of examples of censorship of pro-Palestinian speech."

PUBLIC LECTURE: My end of @leverhulme.ac.uk fellowship lecture is on the 24th of September! It will be in person at @durhampsych.bsky.social and also streamed online. Tickets are available on Eventbrite. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...

Musk says Grok chatbot was 'manipulated' into praising Hitler www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The anthropomorphization of AI continues. Up next we'll be hearing that yes the AI said it, but they have since grown, and now deeply regret it.