Congratulations to Dr Sage Boettcher! 👏🌟💫

How do we decide to reach out and make friends? My PhD work on this question is out today in @pnas.org 🎉 Study done in collaboration with the incredible @mirunarascu.bsky.social, @sorcha-hamilton.bsky.social, Ingrid Yu, and my two amazing supervisors, Matthew Rushworth and @mkflugge.bsky.social👇

Honoured to receive the Teaching Excellence Award at University of Oxford after my 1st year with the university The real credit goes to the students: teaching such talented minds is a privilege 📸 Thanks to my lovely colleague, Kate Nation @ox.ac.uk @oxexppsy.bsky.social @magdalenoxford.bsky.social

Congratulations to Professors Kate Nation and Laurence Hunt (@oxexppsy.bsky.social) on receiving well-deserved Excellent Teacher Awards from @ox.ac.uk, recognising their inspiring, inclusive, and innovative teaching - a testament to the outstanding academic community at St John’s!

Could you be the Deputy Director of our new Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research? Exciting (permanent) opportunity to push forward research that has a meaningful impact on children, adolescents and families my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social

In this paper we examined how the mental health of parents and offspring related to each other over time during the #COVID19 pandemic. TLDR: It differs markedly with child age doi.org/10.1002/jcv2... @acamh.bsky.social @pollywaite.bsky.social @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social

Today is Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day #DLDDay DLD is a hidden but common disability that affects 1 in 14 people causing difficulties understanding and using language for no known reason. [1/3]

NEW: The Life and Mind Building is now open 🎉 Home to @biology.ox.ac.uk, @oxexppsy.bsky.social and @ineosoxford.bsky.social, the building will bring together 1,400+ researchers and students to tackle global challenges – from mental health to climate change. [1/7]

New paper with @claremackay.bsky.social led by MSc student Talia Mayerson on the role of shame in the adolescent hairpulling and co-occurring anxiety and depressive symptomology: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Summary below:

"Researchers and practitioners may assume that their priorities are the same as patient priorities for research; nevertheless, these priorities are often somewhat mismatched.” DPhil student David Sher has identified the research priorities for people with severe paranoia for the first time.

📢 Our systematic review, led by Bomikazi Lupindo, is out in BJPsych International! We examined how school and community violence affect adolescents’ mental health in Sub-Saharan Africa. #YouthMentalHealth @topicgroup.bsky.social @oxexppsy.bsky.social 📄Read full article here ➡️ bit.ly/424I4tT

📣A milestone for child mental health research Prof Cathy Creswell, OH BRC Theme Lead, will co-lead Oxford’s new Centre for Emerging Minds advancing research to support youth mental health, thanks to a £27m gift from The Paul Foundation. 🌐 tinyurl.com/yvrb3tn4

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans. Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)

📢📢 We are hiring 3 postdocs to join us in our new Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research on an exciting new project to develop a strengths-based assessment toolkit to support neurodivergent children and young people:    my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...    my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Oxford University will create a pioneering mental health research centre for children and families, thanks to a £27 million gift from The Paul Foundation @cathycreswell.bsky.social @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social www.psy.ox.ac.uk/news/ps27-mi...

NEWS: Identifying research priorities for severe paranoia David Sher talks about his latest paper looking at the top 15 research priorities of people with persecutory delusions (severe paranoia) and their carers. @oxexppsy.bsky.social‬ and @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social‬ www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/...

🔍 Practitioner Psychologists (incl. 2nd/3rd yr Trainees): Have you experienced indirect trauma exposure through work? We're running a short survey to understand its impact. 📝 psychiatryoxford.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @ox.ac.uk @oxexppsy.bsky.social

Today we have Sage Boettcher @dynacog-lab.bluesky.social & Dejan Draschkow @abclab.bsky.social (@oxexppsy.bsky.social) in our #psychology dept. colloquium @unimarburg.bsky.social with talks on how International dynamics drive behavior & immersive memory! Join us in Gutenbergstraße18 (Dekanatssaal)

📣 Schools wanted! Is your school passionate about mental health? Join the WISDOM Research Network to get involved in research + access carefully curated mental health resources. 🎥 Watch our video: youtu.be/7Z5y6CvNcH8 It is free to join and take part! Let’s make a difference, together!

We're pleased to announce that Michael Barry has been awarded the Valeria Frighi Intellectual Disabilities Research Award. Michael is a trainee on the Oxford Doctoral Course in Clinical Psychology. Read more about how he will use the funding: tinyurl.com/mvvh646d

Delighted that first clinical testing results of Feeling Safer are now published. Our new six-month supported online programme for persecutory delusions maintained the large effects of the face-to-face therapy. @oxexppsy.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S003...

Today, the University formally took over the new Life & Mind Building to house @biology.ox.ac.uk @oxexppsy.bsky.social from autumn 2025. Quite a journey over the years since the dark days of the Tinbergen closure: less hair (though greyer) & a few more lines, but excited for the future

From Oxford to Chile OH BRC and @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social Prof Cathy Creswell is leading a new global project to adapt Oxford research on #childanxiety. The OSI programme, supported by our BRC & NIHR ARC OxTV, is now being tailored for Chilean families. 🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/ProfCCChile

How does our brain learn that thunder follows lightning? We don't just remember two separate events; we build a predictive model to anticipate the world. My research dives into this very question: how we learn and predict the order of events. 🧵👇 1/9 #neuroscience #memory #sleep

Don't miss the final national #ARCseminar of 2025 Wed 9 July - Creative arts for #dementia eventbrite.com/e/creative-a... Short talks explore the impact of music therapy, singing & dancing interventions for people with dementia & using creative arts to involve people with dementia in research.

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 @oxengsci.bsky.social, in collaboration with @oxexppsy.bsky.social & St Catherine's college, is hiring an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Technologies for Mental Health and Cognition). To view the job particulars and apply, click the link below. Feel free to share! 👇

Congratulations to Professor Cathy Creswell and team on this well-deserved recognition! 👏 @cathycreswell.bsky.social @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social #MadeWithPatientsAwards #PFMD #PatientEngagement #AutismResearch www.psy.ox.ac.uk/news/childho...

🚨 New from the #CoSPACE Consortium: How do we overcome international barriers in #Youth #MentalHealth research during crises? #COVID19 🌍 14sites | 10countries | 1 #GlobalResearch blueprint 📖 Read: rdcu.be/eoDpU @ox.ac.uk @oxexppsy.bsky.social @topicgroup.bsky.social @jennymcmahon.bsky.social

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 We are recruiting a part-time Research Assistant to join TOPIC & work on a feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial of a brief online parent-led CBT intervention for children with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). 📅 Deadline: 9 June 2025 Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

🎙️ PODCAST | The tinny sound of music blaring from a nearby phone is enough to irritate anybody, but for #misophonia sufferers it's more than a mere annoyance. Find out more with ‪@drjanegregory.bsky.social‬‬ from @oxexppsy.bsky.social in our brand new #podcast episode 👇‬ 🎧 pod.fo/e/2db930

First post on Bluesky! Check out our new paper (w/ @abclab.bsky.social @brognition.bsky.social) in Nature Communications @natcomms.bsky.social (featured in Editors' Highlights🌟)! We investigated how attention operates differently within WM and LTM: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/6)

🌟 A joy supervising this project by DClinPsych student John Kerr – just published in The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist! We explore the challenges junior mental health workers face when assessing trauma ➡️ bit.ly/4mgQfvA @oxexppsy.bsky.social

In this NIHR video, released by The Mental Elf, Professor Cathy Creswell discusses practical solutions for inclusivity in mental health research 📹 #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek @cathycreswell.bsky.social @topicgroup.bsky.social @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @thementalelf.bsky.social

A new theoretical model of persecutory delusions (severe paranoia) that explicitly shows what needs to happen in treatment. Incl. how to introduce counterweights to the thoughts and behaviours that cause paranoia. @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Congratulations to Connor Keating for winning the Dissertation Award from the International Society for Autism Research! A fantastic achievement👏 @connortkeating.bsky.social #INSAR2025 www.psy.ox.ac.uk/news/connor-...

🌍 OxCIN Global Scholars: apply by June 30th! 🌎 Our Global Scholars programme provides a year of remote MRI training and collaboration for early-career researchers from the Global South. Apply now to join the 2025/26 cohort. Please repost! oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/traini...

Professor Ole Jensen is part of a global consortium that embraced a novel collaborative approach to investigating one of the brain’s greatest mysteries... 🧠🔮 @olejensen.bsky.social @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social Learn more on the EP website - www.psy.ox.ac.uk/news/a-landm...

New paper out in SLEEP @sleepjournals.bsky.social! In his study, Jude Thom shows how cortical regions excited by tDCS before sleep express more spindles during subsequent sleep. doi.org/10.1093/slee... @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxcin.bsky.social @ukri.org

Interesting Jeeves Lecture at @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social by Prof. Gaia Scerif from @oxexppsy.bsky.social on attentional processes. @uniofstandrews.bsky.social #psychscisky

Congratulations, Amy! @amymccall.bsky.social 👏

🚨 Thrilled to share my PhD paper just out in PLOS ONE! We developed & validated the concrete and abstract thinking (CAT) measure - an accessible, reliable tool to assess abstract thinking linked to rumination & worry. @oxexppsy.bsky.social #paramedicmentalhealth dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Congratulations @huangfy-tw.bsky.social 👏🎉

join us at @oxexppsy.bsky.social | @ox.ac.uk!

I wrote a blog explaining why I believe administrative #Data is useful and how it can help us understand #MentalHealth support needs in #Neurodiversity better. Read it here: 🔗 www.adruk.org/news-publica... #supporttheyouth @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxchildpsych.bsky.social

On Friday 9 May at Stratford Upon Avon Literary Festival, hear from Prof Christopher Summerfield on 'These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What it Means' @oxexppsy.bsky.social

On Sunday 11 May at Stratford Upon Avon Literary Festival, hear from @masudhusain.bsky.social on 'Our Brains: Our Selves' @oxexppsy.bsky.social

@oxfordbrain.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @oxexppsy.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @olejensen.bsky.social @rachelutg.bsky.social

Congratulations to Professor Daniel Freeman 👏 #ProfessorDanielFreeman #NIHR www.psy.ox.ac.uk/news/daniel-...