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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

This suggests that feelings of heightened control buffer against stress, and points to control beliefs as a potential target for intervention to reduce the detrimental impact of stressors in everyday life. Stay tuned for more of my PhD work on how these beliefs may be modified! 👀 8/8

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

We found that those who performed the highly controllable Wheel Stopping task had less of an increase in stress in response to the stressor, and a greater decrease in stress after being debriefed that they didn’t have to complete the stressor task after all. 7/n

Two graphs showing the change in subjective stress between the two respective timepoints: a) Stress Induction – from before to after the stressor, and b) Stress Relief – from after the stressor to after the stressor debrief. There is higher stress induction and less stress relief for the Neutral Control Condition (videos) compared to the Highly Controllable Condition (Wheel Stopping task)

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

In Study 2, we tested whether inducing heightened control from the Wheel Stopping task compared to watching videos (neutral control) buffered against the negative impact of a later stressor, which was of either high or low intensity (preparing a speech or studying a baking recipe). 6/n

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

Feeling more in control was tightly coupled with feeling less stressed during the task, even after accounting for perceived task difficulty. Higher mean subjective control and lower subjective stress were also associated with lower initial state and trait anxiety and depressive symptom severity. 5/n

Scatterplot showing the negative association between subjective control and subjective stress during the Wheel Stopping task for both studies. The regression line shows the relationship between subjective control and subjective stress, after accounting for perceived task difficulty and random effects of participant and timepoint.

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

We developed a Wheel Stopping task to measure and manipulate subjective feelings of control by changing the wheel’s speed, segment size, and deceleration. A linear model showed that trial-by-trial variation in task parameters captured fluctuations in subjective control at the individual level. 4/n

Figure with 3 panels: a) Histogram of parameter estimates across all participants showing that there is variation across participants. b) Histogram and box plot of individuals' correlation coefficients between their model predicted and actual control ratings for both studies (the median r for Study 1 = 0.54 and Study 2 = 0.69). c) A plot of control ratings over the time course of the experiment, with control ratings predicted from the model in red, and the actual ratings in blue, shown for 3 randomly selected participants per study. This shows that the model predicted values tightly couple the actual responses.

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

Decades of learned helplessness research has shown that stress is most potent when uncontrollable, but clear evidence on the impact of *heightened* control over stress in humans is lacking. 3/n

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

Stress is a major cause of mental illness across the lifespan. Importantly though, subjective dimensions of stress, such as perceived control, shape the response and later impact that stress can have. 2/n

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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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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 · 13/01/2025

6) British Psychological Society Undergraduate Research Assistantship Scheme - 6 or 8 weeks for penultimate year undergrads. Must find a host (society member) at the same institution and write a project proposal. Deadline 9th March

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

5) University of Cambridge MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Summer Internship scheme - 6 weeks for undergrads of any year. Deadline typically mid-end April

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Summer Placement Scheme

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

4) British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) Summer Internship scheme - 6-8 weeks for undergrads (or masters students if no PhD funding secured). Must find a host (society member) and write a project proposal. Deadline 21st March. @bapsych.bsky.social

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The British Association for Psychopharmacology | BAP Summer Research Internship Scheme

The British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) website terms and conditions.

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

3) Experimental Psychology Society Research Bursaries - 10 weeks for penultimate year undergrads or just graduated (see new graduate bursary on EPS website for the latter). Must find a host (society member) and write a project proposal. Deadline 1st March. @exppsychsoc.bsky.social

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Undergraduate Research Bursary

The next application deadline will be midnight (UK Time) on 1 March 2025. This scheme will finance a number of bursaries to support undergraduates studying psychology or a related discipline in the…

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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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