In this paper led by @madelinestein.bsky.social we outline how suggestion effects can act as a salient confound in psychedelic experiments/trials (eg one certain NEJM trial ... see paper). We also note how suggestion effects can be harnessed in valuable ways in this domain.

It is live!! the CREW website including information on Cognitive Remediation best practice from programmes around the world is now available online www.cognitiveremediation.info well done to all involved #cognitiveremediation

PhD studentship available in developmental cognitive neuroscience, in Cambridge - please publicise. Open to women candidates, as the student will be based at Newnham College.

📢 First experimental study from my fellowship is now open for recruitment! This explores the experience of pleasure in the lab and daily life - so should be a fun one 😃 Participation involves one or two sessions in-person in Denmark Hill. Please share, and get in touch if you're interested.

📢 First experimental study from my fellowship is now open for recruitment! This explores the experience of pleasure in the lab and daily life - so should be a fun one 😃 Participation involves one or two sessions in-person in Denmark Hill. Please share, and get in touch if you're interested.

We're looking to speak with people in the UK who have experienced psychosis and worry about relapse. Could you help? Reposts/shares hugely appreciated! 🙏 #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #psychsky #Psychosis #MentalHealth #MentalHealthResearch #schizophrenia

Loneliness needs to be treated as a societal issue, not just one that required psychological interventions, argues IoPPN's @kathrynbates.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com #IoPPNInTheNews #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek theconversation.com/why-loneline...

Another blog post on parenting and working, and being good and bad at both. I swear I will write more about fellowship, ECR, clinical academic things at some point soon.....turns out I have a lot to say about my experience of motherhood. drclemedwards.substack.com/p/turns-out-...

Hospital medics - I’m researching a story about Epic, the supplier of electronic patient record systems. Any views? Let me know on or off the record. #journorequest

Really looking forward to this, building on the learning and work that went into the showcase of creative PPI work we held last year, but this time out of the university and in the community - I think it's going to be an inspiring and discussion-filled evening. Join us!

I'm really looking forward to this! Excited to present the ESM findings in daily life from the AVATAR2 trial and hear about all the other fascinating work in the program.

📢 A second blog and a new hosting platform drclemedwards.substack.com New blog post - What did you do before 9am? And I think you can subscribe now, so you get an email when I do another one - positive response to this slightly negative, but honest, one is in the pipeline...

Really important study on #FND Please distribute @fndportal.bsky.social @fndsociety.bsky.social @timnicholson.bsky.social

Great to see this finally out. In this multi-level meta-analysis @madelinestein.bsky.social very carefully distinguished between different types of #suggestion effects and different types of administration methods in the #nocebo literature. A number of familiar findings but also some surprises!

Celebrated IWD with my first (and possibly last 😅) 5k with the twins in the buggy - a 50kg+ effort these days but they were great company - kept telling me to be careful because I was going soooo fast 💪🏼 and insisted on having their straps on just in case 😂.

We are taking applications for a 3-year POSTDOC position on the topic of tracking cognitive dynamics using passive smartphone sensor data, in clinical and non clinical samples with the Neureka app gillanlab.com/join-the-lab/ Closing June 1st. Pls share 🔁👍 or reach out with any informal queries!

Closing *today* last call for a postdoc at the ICN. Ideal for those interested in naturalistic fmri and/or computational modelling. Can sponsor visas for those who want to move.

Where do you buy your books? We’ve picked hundreds of books over the 20 years Brixton Book Group has been running. Tag your favourite book shop in the comments. #bookgroup #bookclub #books #bookshops #booksky

Amazing opportunity for mental health researchers looking for headspace and support to write that fellowship application ⬇️⬇️

Funded PhD opportunity looking at barriers to accessing physical health services in people experiencing psychosis and bipolar mood states. Please get in touch if you’d like any more information. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

❗RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES❗ We're hiring for an ambitious @wellcometrust.bsky.social project exploring brain mechanisms of planning/inference in psychosis 🧠 Tackled at multiple scales: from single neurons to human behaviour/fMRI and neural networks. Opportunities for 1 post-doc 1 clinical fellow 👀

Hi SAA members, did you publish any ambulatory assessment research recently that you would like us to amplify? Just tag us and we'll repost! #AcademicSky

New meta-analysis led by @madelinestein.bsky.social sheds new light on variability in placebo responding. Trait responsiveness to verbal suggestions was found to weakly predict placebo effects.

This weekend @waterstones.bsky.social are offering 25% off on preorders for Presence in paperback! Out next month, all very exciting. Ok I'll stop selling things now. www.waterstones.com/book/presenc...

Does shame mediate the influence of trauma on psychosis? A systematic review and meta-analytic structural equation modelling approach

Don’t miss the Young People’s Mental Health Creative Showcase organised by Dr Christina Carlisi’s UCL team, happening this Friday evening! www.eventbrite.com/e/ucl-young-...

Music to Make You Better www.clemedwards.com/post/music-t... a first blog post about parenthood, academia and needing looking after.

I am recruiting for student co-convenors to coconvenors to help organise the 2026 SMaRteN conference. Application deadline: 28th Feb www.unismart.org.uk/2026-confere...

What makes a good ESM item? We asked 42 ESM/EMA experts this question in a Delphi study, and the result is the ESM-Q: A consensus-based quality assessment tool for ESM items. Now accepted at #psynomBRM. Updated preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread below.

I wrote a blog, see content for why it may or may not be the first of many😅 - www.clemedwards.com/post/music-t...

Great opportunity for PhD studentships at Birkbeck, targeting individuals from under-represented groups: www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...

My first post! Been saving it & today was in parliament @centreformh.bsky.social @nsunnews.bsky.social @rethinkcharity.bsky.social lan, Francesca & @projectsoulstride.bsky.social as Harry from mcpin gave evidence to HSC select committee inquiry community MH services focus - lived experience experts

From independent @USAID sources, >800 contracts and awards are being terminated en masse – with the procurement team subject to hourly checks on speed of executing terminations. The pace has exceeded the ability to confirm whether lifesaving assistance or any Congressional mandate is affected.

🚨New postdoc job alert!🚨 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... ...we are looking for someone with an interest in computational psychiatry and/or naturalistic neuroimaging to work on a new ERC Advanced grant "The Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Anxiety Treatment Response (MECHANX)". (1/3)

** We are hiring ** Associate Prof / Full Prof position in Cognitive Neuroscience. Amazing department, rated top in the UK for research power in Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Can hire internationally, so flagging for USA colleagues (all countries welcome). Come join us in London

We are hiring! We're looking for a great project manager to help with a large-scale Wellcome funded study. If you know of anyone that this might appeal to, please share. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49880/

In that phase before annual leave where you wonder if it would just be easier not to 😅.

our meta-analysis looking at #suggestibility as a predictor of the #nocebo response is now available open access!

Interested in a #PhD position exploring #SpeechBiomarkers and #MachineLearning? I've got three projects listed in the upcoming #DriveHealth call: 2025_81 (longitudinal modelling), 2025_90 (linkage with EHR), and 2025_A02 (multimodal machine learning). Please reach out to me if you have any questions

Reflecting a lot today on how frustrating it is that anyone needs to be told ending childhood sexual abuse is NOT a political issue. Not interested in headlines except confirmation IICSA recommendations have been implemented.

I made a last minute decision to do something for myself today that placed extra childcare on my husband and risked me being perceived as rude for lateness. Would never have done that before, it was BRILLIANT.

My favourite stat on all this is that there are more professional-standard theatres at London "day schools" than in the whole of the West End.

Any woman who has ever received online abuse has some understanding of what Jess Philips is now exposed to, but it is on an entirely different level. It is dangerous to her safety. Yes, it is diplomatically “delicate”. But if you do nothing it is an admission of your own impotence. A capitulation.

Trying to post more regularly, would like to share more of life as a clinical academic parent(Mum) with two young children but not sure what's of interest - let me know if anything in particular would be helpful and will just keep throwing stuff out there

Forgotten bike lights meant an early dash home from work to beat the sunset (upside - a full hour before nursery pick up to eat Christmas chocolate without two pairs of toddler eyes following my every move 👀👀)

Happy New Year! Aiming to get 50 different Parkruns under my belt by the end of 2025, had 41 at the end of 2024 and added number 42 this morning ♥️🌳🌬️

Photo of the Day, if not the Year. Solidarity and admiration. 📸This brilliant photo of Gisele Pelicot, leaving court for the final time yesterday, was taken by Arnold Jerocki for Getty Images.

See also 2yr old twins, waterproofed, in a perfectly sized puddle.

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!