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Dr Nina Higson-Sweeney @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

If you are an ECR in mental health and addiction research and are interested in learning about a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods, head over to the @mhrincubator.bsky.social website, where sign-ups are live for The Big Methods Exchange! mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/tbme/

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Nuffield Foundation @nuffieldfoundation.org · 23/02/2026

Applications are open for Nuffield Funded Fellowships with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. Ever wondered what it would be like to: ➡️ Work at Parliament? ➡️ Be involved in new research? ➡️ Build relationships with key stakeholders? ➡️ Contribute to POSTnotes and POSTbriefs.

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Heathrow’s terminal 4 was evacuated yesterday as fire crews were called in to investigate “possible hazardous materials”. Emergency services declared that no “adverse substance” had been found. So what really happened at Heathrow? My latest substack:

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Conceptagion

A concept contagion can be more difficult to wipe out than one for which the vector of spread is more tangible

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Tom Metherell @tommetherell.com · 14/07/2025

We have a ✨NEW PREPRINT✨! Using data from the @clscohorts.bsky.social Millennium Cohort Study and linked healthcare records, we tested the association between social media use and psychiatric diagnoses in secondary care in young people in England. This is still a work in progress - feedback welcome!

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Experienced, bothered by, or both: People differ in how they understand the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) items: doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jcsq8_v1

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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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/...

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Understanding drivers of recent trends in young people’s mental health - Youth Futures Foundation

Research report exploring the reasons for the recent decline in mental health among 14 to 24-year-olds in England

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Less than a week left to apply for this PhD studentship in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social ! Deadline Sun 6th July

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Duncan Astle @duncanastle.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁). drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

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Funded PhD opportunity.pdf

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Dr Nina Higson-Sweeney @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

It's been a little while since I've written a Mental Elf blog, and I found this fascinating qual paper on young people's views of CAMHS on TikTok. Give it a read below 👇

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Jenny Fielder @jfielder.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Really excited that my first PhD paper is now out in @elife.bsky.social: Sense of control buffers against stress. This has been a great team effort with Jinyu Shi, Dan McGlade, @docqhuys.bsky.social and Niko Steinbeis, comprising two studies and a total of N=768! Summary thread below 🧵⬇️

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Sense of control buffers against stress

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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Experimental researchers: Does anyone have experience of collecting data on Testable, and how does it compare to Prolific? (Cost, ease of getting participants, quality of data?) including @isaacwinterburn.bsky.social here Thanks! www.testable.org

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Testable | Build experiments & surveys | Recruit participants

Testable helps you build a wide range of behavioral experiments and surveys in the simplest and fastest way.

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Jenny Fielder @jfielder.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I've collated a list of *paid* UK summer research internships for undergrads in psychology/neuroscience, ordered by application deadline. Please share with students and add any other opportunities I've missed below! #psychology #psychiatry #neuroscience #academia #research #internships #undergrad

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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

For anyone working in adolescent mental health: I *really* recommend reading this important paper about the most commonly used questionnaires (inc SDQ) In short: most of them have poor psychometric properties, so do we even know what they are measuring? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... (cont)

Estimating adolescent mental health in the general
population: current challenges and opportunities
Louise Black, Margarita Panayiotou, Neil Humphrey
Adolescence is a period of change and increased mental health difficulties, which are important for lifetime outcomes.
Adolescent mental health is therefore an active research area, with large samples often drawing on self-report general
measures (ie, not disorder-specific or focused on a narrow outcome). We argue that these measures have a key role in
our understanding of issues such as prevalence, antecedents, prevention, and intervention, however, measurement
has been given little attention and high-quality measures do not tend to be available or used. We offer insights into
historical and psychometric challenges that have contributed to current problems and highlight the implications of
relying on poor measures, which at their worst can be biased and unethical. We make recommendations for research
and practice on selecting measures and improving the evidence base and make a call to action to reject low-quality
measurement in this field.

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