📢 Calling UK mental health professionals working with neurodivergent young adults 📢 Please take part in our research on depression in neurodivergent young adults! It involves 1 individual interview and 2 focus groups (all online, £25/hour). Sign-up link: shorturl.at/r3HlO Reposts appreciated 🙏

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

Incredibly long reviews are as useless as incredibly short ones. I’m always baffled by how little training (often none at all) we give researchers in doing a task that the academia rely on so heavily. We can’t just continue assuming new reviewers will magically absorb this.

*JOB ALERT* 👀 Our friends at Emerging Minds are recruiting for a NEW Children and Young people’s Involvement and Engagement Facilitator for the Centre based in Oxford. More info here www.psych.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...

If you're a member of the HiTOP Society, I hope you'll consider voting for me for President 💛 I'd be delighted to lead us in this new chapter Ballots went out today so we can join the current deluge of exciting election results And whether or not you vote for me - please do vote!

📢 Research Opportunity! Are you: ➡️ A parent/carer of a neurodivergent young adult aged 18-25? ➡️ A mental health professional working with neurodivergent young adults? We’re studying depression in neurodivergent young adults from diverse racial backgrounds. 📩 [email protected] 🔽 More info

Born #OnThisDay in 1867 was Marie Skłodowska–Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two disciplines: Physics for her work on radioactivity, and Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium. #WomenInSTEM

Please consider taking part in our research on depression in ND people! 👇

Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!

Interested in building computational models of anxiety? See below for a potential PhD opportunity with me Feel free to reach out if you'd like to know more! @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social kcl-mrcdtp.com/project/unde...

Well done again Rosie!

New case study! Charity @pbe.co.uk used our data to show that the £28 billion annual bill for disability benefits creates £42bn in positive effects

Are electronic health records (EHR) more predictive of disease onset than polygenic scores? Can we transfer EHR-based prediction models between countries? Our study on these questions using 3 biobank-based studies with N>845K, is out in @natgenet.nature.com today: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excellent fellowship program for US based early career researchers working on ADHD or depression! It was such an important step of my academic journey - eternally grateful to @klingensteinorg.bsky.social for the support!

Come and work on our lovely team #job - #Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in #MentalHealth This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading interdisciplinary centre with a growing portfolio of research and teaching across the life span. Closes 11/09/2025 Please share! qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a difficulty with understanding & using words & sentences. That might seem like a small issue to you, but to people with DLD this can be a huge barrier. The biggest barrier of all is NEXT TO NO ONE HAS HEARD OF DLD. Help us change that! #DLDday #DevLangDis

🧩 Sensory processing in ADHD isn’t one-size-fits-all. New meta-analysis reveals a wide range of patterns: some people are hypersensitive, others under-responsive, and many experience both. Think fire alarms, not fidget spinners. #ADHD #SensoryProcessing #Neurodivergent #MentalHealth 🧵 THREAD

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Delighted to be hiring a new Clinical Psychology Lecturer to come and join our vibrant environment at the SGDP Centre @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social please share! my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

How can we better protect young minds? Dr Christina Carlisi (@uclpals.bsky.social) shares insights on supporting children’s mental health online.

New report on understanding the drivers of declining youth mental health To effectively respond to worsening mental health, we need to understand not just what is happening, but *why* We used an evidence-based approach to unpack common explanations 1/🧵 youthfuturesfoundation.org/publication/...

We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested! More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

🧪 Our systematic review suggests serotonin plays a role in explaining the common comorbidities of #ADHD: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happening today! #neurodiversity #inclusion @qmulse.bsky.social @queenmarycbb.bsky.social

For any postdocs who are are looking to transition to independence and might be keen to join us here at @kingsioppn.bsky.social, King's Prize fellowship applications are open (deadline 27 Nov) 👇 See link for details, and feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/119505-...

Congratulations are in order for the fantastic staff at the Department who received the Research Excellence Award @marghmalanchini.bsky.social, the Research Initiative Awards (Paraskevi Argyriou), and @nadinelavan.bsky.social & Guifen Chen for their work in the EDI committee 🎉👏@qmulsbbs.bsky.social

Come along to the Mutual Inclusion through Neurodiversity in Science (MINDS) workshop Wednesday 23rd July, 1-4pm at QMUL Mile End campus, organised by @daniel-gill.bsky.social! Talks on ND+mental health, participatory methods, rare genetic syndromes, Human-Computer Interactions 👇 shorturl.at/wGxBP

Have you been using ABCD data? Are you measuring psychopathology with the CBCL? You will want to check out our latest preprint, led by @kanepav.bsky.social, which shows that the constructs measured by the tool fail to meet many basic validity tests. Peep the thread!

I wonder what proportion of these papers reweighted their analytical sample to account for UK Biobank's extreme selection bias? More to the point, I wonder what proportion of the authors on these papers are even aware of the issue with selection bias in UK Biobank? #EpiSky #CausalSky

Western University is offering new scholarships of up to 40k CAD for four years to doctoral students who are studying at, have an offer from, or have had an offer rescinded from one of the top 100 American universities. Come and study with me or one of my colleagues!

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Interesting thread. Fits well with our ongoing work showing MH problems can present and be experienced differently by autistic and other ND young people, and often don’t improve when treatments developed for the general population are not substantially tailored

🧠📱Excited to share our invited commentary in @jamanetworkopen.com on the promise and pitfalls of using smartphones (and wearables) to track psychopathology w/ @hadarfisher.bsky.social and linked to excellent paper by @whitneyringwald.bsky.social, @aidangcw.bsky.social & team. tinyurl.com/5n8z4r6e

Want to reduce the incidence of mental health problems in neurodivergent young people? Focus on sleep. Sleep problems are the leading mediating factor (12-43% variance, by age) of mental health outcomes - Chiara Caserini at #NDAS2025. Preprint in repost. #AutRes

Thank you for sharing our work - really sad for not being able to join #NDAS2025 in person, hopefully next year!

🧠🧬🧑‍🤝‍🧑 New CoDE Lab study: Disorder-specific genetic effects drive the associations between psychopathology and cognitive functioning. Link to preprint: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by the brilliant Wangjingyi Liao 🌟 A short thread summarising the study👇

Honoured to be part of the @acamh.bsky.social ‘Neurodiversity: Cutting-Edge Research, Evolving Perspectives, and Effective Innovations - 2025 Jack Tizard Memorial International Conference’. www.acamh.org/event/neurod... #neurodiversity

Looking forward to giving a talk at #NDAS2025! And all PhD students from my lab will be giving talks as well, very exciting ☺️

For every £1 invested in UK #HigherEd the country makes £14. An incredible return. Investing in #HigherEd should be the backbone of our national quest for growth. Instead, we are starving the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Child and adolescent mental health folks: what’s the best conference you’ve been to and why?

I’m so excited to share that our call for papers for a special issue of ‘ #Neurodiversity’ is now live! We’re looking for papers, podcasts, videos (and more) that align with the critical turn in #ND studies! 🤩 @ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

Heads up QMUL peeps! Catherine Carr features in our new @nihr.bsky.social video about involving people from all communities in mental health research. @qmulresilience.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social @m-bright-study.bsky.social @qmul-wiph.bsky.social Watch on YouTube and please share! 🙏🏽

Interested in a #postdoc in London investigating hormones and women w/ ADHD? @adhdlifecourselab.bsky.social Happy to supervise Marie Curie postdocs ✅ eligibility marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... Open to any nationality (📢 to fellow 🇺🇸 looking abroad but open to all!)

A great moment for the Centre as we enjoy the inaugural lectures of both Prof Jennifer Lau and Prof Claudia Cooper, illustrating a range from youth mental health to dementia @qmul-wiph.bsky.social

We will put forward a 500 million package for 2025-2027 to make Europe a magnet for researchers. As well as ambitious proposals for R&I in the next EU budget. We will also offer the best and brightest the right incentives to come to Europe ↓

Two new viewpoints out now in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. One challenges the HiTOP consortium to "stand on its own two feet" for clinical translation, meaning it needs to sell itself not just exist in opposition to DSM/ICD categories. 1/3 psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Leaving #INSAR2025 with a lot of ideas and enthusiasm! Thanks to everyone who came to our panel on dimensional/transdiagnostic approaches today. Great to see growing interest in transdiagnostic research bridging autism, ND and mental health conditions!

Now: Neurodivergence-Affirming and Inclusive Research Practices for Autistic People with High Support Needs. Chaired by @drstevenkapp.bsky.social & @dianatan.bsky.social, featuring Drs. Teresa Girolamo, Aimee Grant, Jackie Ryan, Holly Sutherland. Discussants: Grant Blasko & Vikram Jaswal. #INSAR2025

*New preprint* on ND and co-occurring mental health problems from my lab, led by Chiara Caserini! Using longitudinal data from ABCD we asked: What drives poor mental health outcomes in children with high ND traits? Here's brief summary 🧠🌳🏡 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1.... 1/n