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David Smailes

@davidesmailes.bsky.social
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Psychology Lecturer at Northumbria University, in the UK. Study materials, data etc at the website below. He/him. osf.io/5wxdn

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
An inevitable development for for-profit Open Access publishers is Fordism: automation & massification. If you earn money piece-rate for each paper you want to increase the flow of papers while minimizing cost. e.g. very low and *uniform* turnaround times at Frontiers and MDPI
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David Smailes @davidesmailes.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Jesus wept. Some stuff in here is grim.
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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Quite amazed by the articles that @sociologicalsci.bsky.social puts out on a regular basis -- this one here by Lewis Anderson: imaginative, bold, well-informed, an incredible eye for detail, this will really be moving the field forward doi.org/10.15195/v12...
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Joe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 03/09/2025
🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc! 3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN. Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data. DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
Computational postdoc ad for KCL funded by the Wellcome Trust on the NEPTUNE project
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David Smailes @davidesmailes.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
🍾🍾🍾 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🍾🍾🍾
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First of new Tyne and Wear Metro in service after delays
The Swiss-built trains will eventually replace the existing fleet, which is more than 40 years old.
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David Smailes @davidesmailes.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Big effect (d = 2.76!) of mindfulness-based therapy for auditory hallucinations in this - www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5... - RCT. But inactive control intervention, and (I think) the trial registration was made after recruitment had started.
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The Effect of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on Auditory Hallucinations in Patients with Schizophrenia: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Background Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder characterized by symptoms such as auditory hallucinations, which can seriously impact patients' quality of life and social functioning. Mindfulness...
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David Smailes @davidesmailes.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Great set of talks from this conference, for anyone interested in skin-picking, hair-pulling, and related problems.
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David Smailes @davidesmailes.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
If anyone is keen to start a @reproducibilitea.bsky.social journal club that focuses on mental health research, the reading list for our 'Reprodicibilitea for Psychopathology' journal club is here - doi.org/10.17605/OSF... - and will save you a bit of work.
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