This was super fun! Thanks @alexandrapike.bsky.social for proposing and to @chloebrunskill.bsky.social and all speakers and attendees for making this day happen! 🥹

Super pleased that we are doing a @yorkpsychology.bsky.social Postdoc and RA showcase today! Thank you so much to @chloebrunskill.bsky.social and @arimoccia.bsky.social for doing all the hard work and bringing the humorous comics.

The fab @holmyers.bsky.social wrote this wonderful Mental Elf blog on IU through development, and how this relates to anxiety and depression at age 10. Thanks to @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social - writing for different audiences is such a skill!

Read our new paper on qualitative experiences of gastric interoception!

New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Enjoying hearing more about @kellydonegan.bsky.social’s argument that psychological studies need to move beyond the lab (and into apps) - courtesy of the Centre for Decision Science Summer School @royalholloway.bsky.social and @nurasidarus.bsky.social

Hello hivemind! I haven't seen one of these in a while but I know that back-in-the-day they were all the rage: does anyone have a funky spreadsheet of MH/psych/neuro-relevant grants/fellowships for ECRs that they wouldn't mind me sharing with my lab?

incredible Ada Lovelace quote highlighted in a talk by Steve Furber. She spells out the dream of computational neuroscience, 2 centuries ago. The sheer ambition 🤩

📢 We are hiring! 📢 For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself. Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

For anyone wondering why preprints are suddenly offline! Would be useful if the redirect message said something more useful than ‘page not found’…

I only found out about this by accident when I couldn't access my preprint. I would like to strongly suggest 1) Notifying users about the switch (preferably in advance) 2) Explaining the switch on a preprint's webpage

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

I am happy to announce that I am nearly caught up on all the work I had from Spring semester and boy am I ready for summer vacation what's that you say

Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, biomed engineering, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2

I'm looking for ~25 more people with a gastrointestinal disorder to complete an online survey on interoception. You can find this survey here: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🙏

Come work with us! The department is full of very talented and clever people, who are also great fun to chat science with. PLUS imaging facilities, great students, and a growing mental health institute led by the fab @sacairney.bsky.social. Aidan is alright too, I guess.

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Fun quick poster spotlight talk at #CPC2025 - come see me later at poster 2.19 if you want more info on what we did or to discuss our results! Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... (picture cred to @kellydonegan.bsky.social who took this despite her own talk being about 5 mins later!)

Preparation for a flight to a conference pre-baby: passport, pants, poster. Preparation post-baby - paying £4 a pop to download videos of dancing fruit to my phone (IYKYK); trying to find toys that are quiet, small, and non-liquid; trying to ram a shirt or two into the suitcase full of bibs.

This student is still looking for a few more responses! If anyone has had a challenging relationship with food at any point we could really use your insights. The study shouldn't take very long - there are some open text boxes and then a quick questionnaire. #EatingDisorderResearch

It'ssssss PREPRINT THURSDAY! (Sadly not a thing). Approximately an era ago, I spent a *lot* of time discussing the assumptions that underpin the field of #ComputationalPskychiatry with the brilliant @jonroiser.bsky.social and @olijrobinson.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

Really enjoying Prof Emma Robinson’s accessibly-delivered talk on behavioural markers of mood/antidepressant effects! Really clear justification for focus on behavioural readouts of mood - and v thought provoking notes on welfare. #BAP2025

It’s #BAP2025 time! Kicking us off is Dr Megan Jackson, the winner of the junior non-clinical award talking about animal models of apathy and motivation. Key quote: ‘as scientists, we love a tight error bar’. @bapsych.bsky.social

Super proud of my group today at the @yorkpsychology.bsky.social @yorkstjohn.bsky.social PGR conference! Amazing to actually have an eating disorder area of a poster session for once. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social @holmyers.bsky.social @lisawoodley.bsky.social

I had a great time at the @yorkpsychology.bsky.social and @yorkstjohn.bsky.social annual psychology PGR conference today ! Really enjoyed discussing my research and supporting fellow 2nd year PhD students! ☺️

Trying to wrap these up before September- so close now! 😮‍💨Looking for people based in York to take part in an interoceptive lab experiment and/or an MEG experiment. Reimbursement for both. See details: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... @cejpreston.bsky.social @alexandrapike.bsky.social

Little lab update: thrilled to welcome @kellydonegan.bsky.social as a postdoctoral researcher! Kelly will be working on our @acmedsci.bsky.social Springboard Award, and brings tons of relevant experience. cognition-mental-health.github.io/blog/2025/we... #ComputationalPskychiatry

Finishing your PhD or under 2 years out of your PhD? Apply to a Forrest PostDoc Fellowship in sunny Perth 🏖️ Very generous salary (~$108K/~£51K) + additional living expenses, research funding + travel allowance DM me to chat about projects or process 🧠 forrestresearch.org.au/fellowships/

One of my MSc students is looking for participants who are over 18 and have had challenging experiences with food/a diagnosis of an eating disorder at any point. The study is investigating trauma, agency and eating disorders: please click here to take part! york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Upgraded my afternoon coffee. Not a bad day to work @yorkpsychology.bsky.social

Do you have Masters students at the University of York who needs research participants? Please forward them my details for a study exchange! By doing my experiment, they get £12 and I will happily do their study in return. ⬇️ @yorkpsychology.bsky.social

Huge huge congratukations to @lucysta02475610.bsky.social who got an award for all her incredible teaching as a GTA this year. @cejpreston.bsky.social and I couldn’t be more proud of her.

I’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊 Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc

Some of the PhD students in my lab are recruiting participants! You can check out the projects we work on (with summaries of the area) and the calls for participants on the lab site here: cognition-mental-health.github.io/projects/ @holmyers.bsky.social @lucysta02475610.bsky.social

Another reminder of our event next Tue (6th) on Registered Reports and the future of peer review It's sure to be an interesting and timely discussion, with the Registered Reports format now adopted in 300+ journals across various disciplines (@cos.io maintains a list: www.cos.io/initiatives/...)

Adolescent researchers: Does anyone have experience of running a study with <18 year olds and collecting data online, directly from them, rather than via schools? We want to run an experiment with 11-17yo, and are wondering about the logistics of getting parental consent online for 11-15yo...

Yay!! Congratulations Scott - very well-deserved.

Really enjoyed being part of the process of this study: Lucy did some amazing qualitative research examining gastric interoception across three populations (eating disorder, gastric disorder, and control). Read the preprint to find out more!

If you were teaching a single session on open science (as part of a Masters module where the assessment is to write a preregistration), are there any accessible Masters-level papers you'd recommend? #OpenScience

Very excited to start analysing the data ! I’m still looking for mental health professionals to take part so do get in touch if you would like to help ! ☺️

Proud of @holmyers.bsky.social for pre-registering her first study - a mixed-methods investigation of intolerance of uncertainty in eating disorders. I'm new to the world of qualitative research, and enjoying learning lots from both @lucysta02475610.bsky.social and Holly about this rich data!

Tips for getting started with Bayesian statistics dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

🚨 Check out this new review "Computational Perspectives on Cognition in Anorexia Nervosa" by Marta Radzikowska, @alexandrapike.bsky.social and Sam Hall-McMaster Now out in Computational Psychiatry 👇 cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....

Really pleased this is out - enjoyed being part of this project (led by brilliant Masters student Marta) a LOT, and it really helped my understanding of the field! Would love it if more people got into computational approaches to EDs. cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 31st March for #BAP2025 Summer Meeting, 29th June - 2nd July. For more information, to register and submit your abstract -

Come work with us! ⭐️ We’re recruiting two researchers (1.0fte PDRA and 0.5fte trainee) to the “Improving wellbeing-focused online media literacy in schools” Nuffield-funded project. If you have expertise in systematic reviews & meta-analysis, find more details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/beth-b...

Writing the thesis meant I couldn’t properly celebrate accepting a post-doc position with the talented @alexandrapike.bsky.social at York Uni ⭐️ working on a really exciting project on eating disorders & computational modelling

Shots fired (sneaking in to an excellent and thought-provoking talk by @clairegillan.bsky.social). Relevant alt-text: ‘psychiatry research doesn’t need your fancy new [insert method here]’

It’s #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek #EDAW. If you’ve ever been affected, consider contributing to our research (sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...) - results from the study shown in the post below indicate interoception may be an important treatment target. Image credit: @lucysta02475610.bsky.social!