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Dr. Christine Purdon @christinepurdon.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Are you interested in generalized anxiety disorder? Check out our new paper examining how well intolerance of uncertainty, cognitive avoidance, and metacognitive beliefs predict reassurance seeking, checking, and avoidance in high worriers! bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Interested in research on depression in youth? New opening for a full-time research assistant in our lab (webbslab.com) to work on a range of projects focused on the causes & treatment of depression in teens. Come join our growing lab. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️ webbslab.com/job-postings

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The best brain-machine interface remains the mouth. Evolution spent 4B years of evolution on R&D developing the device, so I guess it's not that surprising. Yet it still rarely appears as a baseline in evaluations of new devices.

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tCBT & BCP @babcpjournals.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

BCP New FirstView paper: A novel person-reported measure of safety-seeking behaviours: a preliminary study in older victims of community crime Full free text at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Dr Chris DJ Taylor @chrisdjtaylor.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Please Repost: We're Hiring! Senior Clin Psych/CBT Therapist (8a) in Manchester for exciting adolescent paranoia school's trial of an innovative imagery & values-based therapy. Led by myself & Dr Jess Kingston @drjk.bsky.social & colleagues including @richardbentall.bsky.social 👇 🔗 lnkd.in/e4cjW9QT

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tCBT & BCP @babcpjournals.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

At the EABCT 2025, the Hannah Murray Award for tCBT Practitioner Paper of the Year was presented to Katherine Wakelin for 'Cognitive therapy for moral injury in post-traumatic stress disorder: integrating religious beliefs and practices' Full free text at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Dr Chris DJ Taylor @chrisdjtaylor.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

#TheMostInterestingThinginMentalHealth: #Insomnia is major factor contributing to many mental health problems. @ProfEspie University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk gives top tips for clinicians at the European CBT Conference #EABCT2025 @babcpevents.bsky.social @babcpjournals.bsky.social @babcp.com

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Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 06/06/2025

Really, Alan Turing Institute?

turing.ac.uk using a Cloudflare real human verification check box test?!

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Alone but not Lonely! New study finds "people with negative beliefs about being alone experience a steep increase in loneliness after spending time alone in daily life, whereas those with positive beliefs feel less lonely after spending time alone." Open Access: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Loneliness is a widespread issue routinely targeted by the media and public health campaigns. We propose that these efforts, though well-intentioned, may exacerbate this problem by negatively influencing a potential driver of loneliness: people’s beliefs about being alone. Supporting this thesis, we show that contemporary U.S. news articles are 10 times more likely to describe being alone as harmful than beneficial (Study 1, N = 144 articles) and that exposure to such articles causally impacts people’s beliefs about being alone (Study 2, N = 456). Further, a 2-week experience-sampling study (Study 3, N = 161) demonstrates that people with negative beliefs about being alone experience a steep increase in loneliness after spending time alone in daily life, whereas those with positive beliefs feel less lonely after spending time alone. Finally, multi-national studies demonstrate the generalizability of these results across nine countries spanning six continents (Studies 4 and 5, N = 2930). Together, these findings reveal the critical role of beliefs about being alone in shaping loneliness.

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Royal Holloway Psychology @rhulpsychology.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Join our team on the DClinPsy at Royal Holloway! Lecturer (Professional Practice, Permanent, 0.5 FTE) | 57,913–66,933 pro rata (incl. the clinical supplement) | Apply by 3 March 2025. For more details and to apply, see 👇 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer (Professional Practice)

Part-Time, Permanent (Up to a maximum of 0.5 FTE)We are very pleased to announce the availability of a lectureship (0.5 FTE) on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. We are able to offer a candidate ...

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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🎉We are hiring 1-2 postdoctoral fellows in my lab (webbslab.com) to work on NIMH/NCCIH-funded projects focused on the causes and treatment of depression in teens. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️ webbslab.com/job-postings

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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

In an email the authors summarised "A key finding from this work is that there is limited statistical evidence to support the presence or absence of most edges in published networks. Approximately 80% of the edges we analyzed lack robust statistical support from the data." (shared with permission) 🧵

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 22/01/2025

I keep reading and hearing that political leaders and analysts should understand Trump’s behaviour as transactional. The word you’re looking for is ‘corrupt’.

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The idea that we can just slice up therapies into components because that's the way our brains would prefer to understand them is misguided. "Active ingredients", eh? These aren't headache remedies.

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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🎉My lab (webbslab.com) is hiring 2 full-time research assistants to work on NIMH-funded projects focused on the causes and treatment of depression in teens. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️ tinyurl.com/naexvxdc

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Clinical Research Asst I - MRA

Site: The McLean Hospital Corporation At Mass General Brigham, we know it takes a surprising range of talented professionals to advance our mission—from doctors, nurses, business people and tech exper...

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Shirley Reynolds @drshirleyr.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I’d love to connect with people working in #globalmentalhealth - please RT so I can make new friends 😀

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tCBT & BCP @babcpjournals.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

tCBT New paper: Cognitive therapy for moral injury in post-traumatic stress disorder: integrating religious beliefs and practices Full free text at buff.ly/40cPObs

Abstract screenshot https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-cognitive-behaviour-therapist/article/cognitive-therapy-for-moral-injury-in-posttraumatic-stress-disorder-integrating-religious-beliefs-and-practices/412C2F692DAF3EAEABD52B8D4A347832

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Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Fantastic new job opportunity in Sussex @SPFT_NHS @Research_SPFT for a principal psychological (CBTp) therapist on the SloMo (digitally supported therapy for paranoia) implementation study - work in Brighton & make a real change to services for psychosis www.nhsjobs.com/job/UK/West_...

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Job vacancy: Principal Psychological Therapist (SlowMo), Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust, Hove | trac.jobs

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Talya Greene @talyagreene.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

We're hiring! We are launching a new online MSc in Psychology & Trauma at UCL. We're hiring an Associate Professor (Programme Co-Director) and a Lecturer. Please share widely with people who have expertise in Adult Psychological Trauma. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

NEW ARTICLE: In this short piece, Jack Andrews and I argue that, based on the evidence we now have, the field should move away from universal school-based mental health interventions and focus on more effective alternatives acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... summary thread below:

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There is an urgent need to improve mental health outcomes among young people. One approach taken to address this problem has been the design and delivery of universal school-based prevention, based on therapeutic models such as CBT and mindfulness. Such interventions are delivered to groups of young people, irrespective of risk or need. However, in this commentary, we argue that the initial appeal of universal interventions has not been supported by the evidence: universal school-based prevention is less effective than targeted approaches, often leads to null or unsustained positive effects, has the potential to elicit negative effects and is not well liked by young people themselves. In addition, many young people in each classroom already meet the criteria for a mental disorder, meaning that prevention approaches may not be appropriate or effective for this group. In this commentary, we respond to Birrell et al.'s (2025) paper by arguing that the field should move away from universal prevention and instead invest our limited resources in the refinement and dissemination of interventions with a stronger evidence base, such as one-to-one, targeted and indirect approaches.

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

A watershed in the field or another chapter in the annals of crud? Must read and decide. Once I have read my other 150 must reads.... Associations between cognitive appraisals and emotions: A meta-analytic review. doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

And then after the right-wing noise machine plants the attacks in everyone’s head Dems act like the attacks were foreseeable and their error was picking someone who could be attacked. No, it’s the noise machine!

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Katharine Horgan @katharinehorgan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

London please help. I’m praying for a miracle, I’ve just got into the office and noticed my mums locket (in all these photos) that I wear every day has fallen off my neck on my walk in. My mum died when I was seven and her jewellery is most of what I have of her. I’m devastated

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I know it seems like a weird principle but once you accept that the correlation between "what people believe" and "what is real" is close to zero, the world makes a lot more sense and it's a lot easier to understand modern politics, which are driven by free-floating media and social media zeitgeists

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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 24/11/2024

Ben Affleck has a better intuition about what “AI” currently does and what it will reasonably be able to do than many academics I speak with. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypUR...

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AI doesn’t stand a chance against actors, or Shakespeare: Ben Affleck

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Royal Holloway Psychology @rhulpsychology.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hello, Bluesky community! We're thrilled to make our first post and what better way to debut than by announcing exciting news? We are looking for a scholar to join us as a lecturer (full-time, research & teaching), starting 12 August 2025! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Psychology

(Full-time, Permanent)Applications are invited for a post of Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, starting 12 August 2025. The post is open to ambitious, res...

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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

You know the "🔹AI Overview" you get on Google Search? I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke. "Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

History is literally just a series of people believing insane things because their communities told them to, often so much so that it kills them or destroys the communities

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EAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I think 2024 is a good case in point that you don't need actual bad economic circumstances to trigger this near iron law of politics. Bad economic sentiment is what you need. It's just that normally you need the circumstance to drive sentiment. But in this brave new world of ours, not necessarily.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The smug liberal consensus on how politics works is incredibly, incredibly wrong, and all the wrongness is rooted in the same place: a refusal to acknowledge that politics flows out of the social and psychological more than the material and economic, and is therefore not a solvable game

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The same group of people who reassured me that Harris was going to win and that Merrick Garland wasn't taking too long and that people were just mad about inflation and would get over it when inflation stopped are now like "Guys. It's so obvious what happened in 2024" and frankly, I'm real over it

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

When you ask “what went wrong” the only sensible explanation is the creation and growth of an information environment that can elevate random tweets and social media posts as avatars of Democratic policy, but treats Republicans announcing their dictatorial ambitions as news for page A13

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Gary Collins @gscollins.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Characterising #machinelearning studies in healthcare, the full set Weak design/methods tinyurl.com/yc4easr9 Poor reporting tinyurl.com/55ed3j9k High risk of bias tinyurl.com/yk6m9sx5 Full of Spin tinyurl.com/yckubrnp Not open science tinyurl.com/437bfz8f #StatsSky #MLSky #mustdobetter 😬

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Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Primp and uvula? Come on.

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Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Just out, the submission deadline for the 56th International Annual Meeting of the Society for #PsychotherapyResearch will be on 15th December 2024! cdn.ymaws.com/www.psychoth... #PsySci #Psychotherapy

A picture of a castle above a river, a tourist river cruise boat passing by in front of the picture. On the right hand side is the poster announcing some details for the 56th International Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, such as the conference theme:
“Psychotherapy Research-Practice Integration: Who are the voices we need to hear?”

The meeting will take place at the The Jagiellonian University from Wednesday 25th, through Saturday 28th, 2025 with an on-site/online format running in parallel.

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Tim Kaiser @tkaiser.science · 21/10/2024

I made a clinical psychology/psychotherapy research starter pack thingy. If you are new here and interested in these topics, feel free to follow! go.bsky.app/Qk93DiE

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/o...

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Gary Brown @paperbag1.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Not every day that something appears from someone whose every word needs to be read. psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-64731-0…

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