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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m a Senior Lecturer! Wild to think that ‘senior’ could in any way be part of my job title - I still feel like I’m finding my way and waiting to have it all together, but here we are. Thank you to everyone who encouraged me to apply. 💙

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Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

📢📢📢 Neuroscientists and psychologists with kids Did your research interests change as a result of (or after) having kids? Would you mind telling me how/why if it has? Appreciate a repost for reach…

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Provocative slide about qualitative research in drug development! Looking forward to the discussion on this @bapsych.bsky.social #BAP2026 @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social

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Kelly Donegan @kellydonegan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Excited to be chairing/presenting at our post-doc symposium discussing the advancements (and challenges 🤫) of computational psychiatry with a ⭐️ line-up of @saramehrhof.bsky.social @yanivabir.bsky.social & Alicia Rybicki. If at #BAP2026, come join us today at 2pm ‼️

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 20/07/2026

Business/Ops Development Manager: support the business angle within our medtech innovation, turning world-class research into real-world impact. Experience in value proposition & market strategy in biotech/medtech/healthcare, ready to shape Hypatia's future. external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...

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Prospective staff : Jobs at UWA : The University Of Western Australia

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 20/07/2026

Research Manager: join a groundbreaking digital mental health innovation w/ exposure to world-leading research & clinical partners. You are scientifically minded, from a research/start-up background, and passionate about mental health. external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...

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Prospective staff : Jobs at UWA : The University Of Western Australia

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 20/07/2026

Exciting news from Hypatia 🎊 we were lucky enough to win Best R&D Innovation at the Aussie INCITE Awards! Huge congrats to the team, and thanks to the judges for their confidence in us. ALSO: We're hiring 2 roles (research manager & business/ops developer) within Hypatia... 👇

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I was so pleased and proud to watch my 2nd year PhD students, Lisa Woodley + @holmyers.bsky.social present their work at our PGR conference yesterday. Oh, and @lucysta02475610.bsky.social submitted a grant, and @kellydonegan.bsky.social chaired the mental health session. What a day!

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I'm always so pleased when it's possible to support talented undergraduates to gain research experience. Congratulations to Arianna Coraggio, who received a @bapsych.bsky.social summer internship to work with me, Dr Hannah Hobson, and Lisa Woodley. cognition-mental-health.github.io/blog/2026/ar...

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Welcome Arianna!

Arianna Coraggio has joined the lab as a summer intern.

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Possibly the most useless email I’ve ever received?

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Jamie Cockcroft @jamiecockcroft.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Paid Undergraduate Research Internship within the Department of Psychology at the University of York, funded by NIHR. An 8-week summer placement is open to undergraduate students in Psychology (or related disciplines) interested in memory research. You can find out more here: shorturl.at/flepx

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Lucy Stafford @lucysta02475610.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I'm close to finishing data collection for my PhD- if anyone is York based and would like to take part in an intervention or experiment, please take a look! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🧠 @alexandrapike.bsky.social @cejpreston.bsky.social

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Lucy Stafford - Take part in my research

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Kelly said ‘never again’ at the end of this walk. I attribute that to the distance rather than the company - either way, I think she deserves your sponsorship money.

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I'm walking 32km next week (along with @kellydonegan.bsky.social) to raise funds for Mentally Fit York! Just to make it more difficult, my 2 year old will occasionally be providing additional resistance by acting as a weighted backpack. Please sponsor me! universityofyork.enthuse.com/pf/alexandra...

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Lucy Stafford @lucysta02475610.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Getting to that point in the PhD where you have results to show is so rewarding- looking forward to talking on this more hopefully! 🙏

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

So exciting to see @lucysta02475610.bsky.social present the results of her mammoth, multi-year project to develop a questionnaire measuring the Negative Appraisal of Gastric Sensations (NAGS): it differentiates between people with eating disorders and gastric disorders! @yorkpsychology.bsky.social

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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 05/03/2026

Excited to say that Hypatia has secured a second round of funding thanks to the @wellcometrust.bsky.social 💫 This milestone allows us to build the technology and team and conduct validation efforts across the UK and Australia to bridge the ecosystems.

Announcement from Hypatia regarding second-round investment from the Wellcome Trust and 2026 hiring for five roles: Project Coordinator, Backend Engineer, UXUI Engineer, Artist/Designer, and Director of Operations. The graphic showcases Hypatia's international presence in the UK and Australia, featuring team photos and logos of partner institutions including King's College London, UWA, C-FIT, Orygen, and Emyria.

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

TBH the thing that is most sad about the loss of ~2015-2021 era science twitter is the loss of a public square where grad students can see, and participate in, the diversity of expert opinions in the field. It really shaped how I see science.

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Open Research at York @uoyopenres.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

New year, new Open Research in Practice case study! 🎉 Gemma Sarigu describes how they embedded open practices during a student internship with @alexandrapike.bsky.social @yorkpsychology.bsky.social, assessing the relationship between catastrophising and integration of stressful life experiences 🧠

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Catastrophizing and integration of Stressful life experiences - Open Research at York - York Wiki Service

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Scott Cairney @sacairney.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The Institute of Mental Health Research at York is looking for an Administration Coordinator to support our strategic operations and research. Come join us! tinyurl.com/ykn286da

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Maria Waltmann @mariawalt.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Please share! - 🚨⚠️ PhD position alert ⚠️🚨 - Please share! Come work with @ldeserno.bsky.social and yours truly on an exciting DFG-funded project on the neurocognitive mechanisms of (noise in) learning and decision-making in development and ADHD!

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Michael Browning @mikebrowning.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

There are 3 Oxford-based post doc positions for this Wellcome Trust project that will be advertised soon! If you have experinece in neurostimulation (tms/tus) and/or modelling of cogneuro data in humans do contact one of us (me, @mkflugge.bsky.social @lilweb.bsky.social, Jacinta OShea) to discuss!

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Hi from North Yorkshire! (Snow days make me feel like a big kid).

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Arianna Moccia @arimoccia.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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! 🥹

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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.

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

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!

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cejpreston.bsky.social @cejpreston.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Read our new paper on qualitative experiences of gastric interoception!

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

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...

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"I feel full with shame": A qualitative perspective on gastric interoceptive sensibility

“Am I hungry? Did I overeat at lunch?” Gastric interoception - the sensing, interpretation, and regulation of signals from the gastrointestinal system…

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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

Kelly presenting a slide with reasons for taking science beyond the lab.

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

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?

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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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 🤩

Steve Furber powerpoint slide showing picture of Ada Lovelace and a quote: "I have my hopes, and very distinct ones too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations--in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of brain. .... I hope to bequeath to the generations a calculus of the nervous system."

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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

📢 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...

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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

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Mark Groeneveld @mgroeneveld.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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.

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

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

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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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

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Lucy Stafford @lucysta02475610.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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... 🙏

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Lucy Stafford - Take part in my research

⬇️Scroll down for links to the BODY experiment and the online surveys.⬇️

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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.

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

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!)

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

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.

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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...

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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

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Alex Pike @alexandrapike.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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

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Holly Myers👩🏼‍💻🧠 @holmyers.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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! ☺️

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Lucy Stafford @lucysta02475610.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

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

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Lucy Stafford - Take part in my research

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