Another bombshell from the Covid-19 Inquiry. Hancock confirms he did not attend any meeting of a sub-committee of the National Security Council that was responsible for pandemic planning.

This is unbelievable scandalous and deadly #CovidInquiry

Dani Chadderton Abdullah Mia Rufus May Rai Waddingham Akiko Hart Indigo Daya LHVN Rosiel Elwyn 🌙🍄🦑 HVN England Hearing Voices USA Sarah Parry Voice Collective Voices Clinic Charlie Heriot-Maitland Dr Anne Cooke Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist Hi all, if you could also consider sharing our study currently recruiting to develop a transdiagnostic measure to understand people’s experiences of hallucinations that would be incredibly helpful. 🙏🙏 twitter.com/katho333/statu…

Researchers in any discipline, it would be great if you could help with a study of the psychological impact of the peer-review process by filling in a brief survey using this link and then retweeting:

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PhD scholarship with my fantastic friends and colleagues at Ulster. A great team. Lovely people. A wonderful opportunity for a smart young person.

Examining population-level changes in mental health, wellbeing, and social behaviour during unprecedented times: An analysis of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study data (2020-2023) - Find a PhD (ulster.ac.uk)

Sobering thought from anthropologist Clifford Geertz, giving the Sir James Frazer lecture in his 80th year (2005):

Alex Phillips EU: It's our research
UK: We left you, but we still want in.
EU: What? But you left?
UK: Yeah, but we have a nice flag.

Problem with this is that many completely misunderstand the significance. Of course changes in mood are associated with brain changes (maybe serotonin, who knows?). But those brain changes may be the consequence adversity or other kinds of life experience. theguardian.com/society/2022/n…

Nice, balanced article about the chemical imbalance theory of depression (now truly dead) but strange therapy just mentioned as an afterthought. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Today the EASE trial came to an end. We are looking forward to sharing our results with the world: eventbrite.co.uk/e/emdr-for-psy…

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After quite considerable delays (long story), my three study paper comparing paranoid beliefs to conspiracy theories and showing that they have distinct psychological profiles has now been published. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

What do you think about the idea of stripping Boris Johnson of his British citizenship and sending him to Rwanda?

The super-rich use tax havens to dodge around £40,000,000,000 in tax every year, but Boris Johnson whips-up anger at asylum seekers who have to live on just £40.85 a week? It's classic Tory divide and rule.

Let’s get this straight. Rishi Sunak loves this country so much he’s become an American. Just like his wife who happens to be Indian. Or am I missing something?

The standard defence of every tax avoider I have ever engaged with (and that’s a lot) has been that ‘they have paid every penny of tax that they owed’. With which I always agree, of course, whilst pointing out they’ve used every trick in the rule book to minimise that bill.

Back in a SIRS symposium on social factors and biology of psychosis. Benson Ku talking about the effect of neighbourhood poverty on hippocampal volumes in high-risk youth. Lower social engagement seems to be a factor.