Absolute banger of a job opportunity here:

Join us on Wednesday 15 May 2024 for the IoPPN Research Festival. We'll be showcasing the innovative and exciting research taking place at IoPPN, and this year's theme will be ‘Origins and new beginnings’ #IoPPNfestival

Register here: bit.ly/3U24IhR

Real FOMO from missing #SIRS2024 this year, but the consolation is our work has now found a home
Nature Mental Health 🎉

nature.com/articles/s4422…

We test the computational mechanisms of D2 dopamine role in social representation and inference during interpersonal exchange

It was a delight and a privilege to supervise you Luke. Onwards!

Interested in a fully-funded PhD with an experimental medicine study focussed on modulating emotion processing and its underlying brain circuitry in psychosis risk? Check out our project with edwardchesney & mitul mehta for NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), deadline 1st April! 🧠💊Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

Want to know why Michelle Donelan was forced to make an extraordinary apology to two academics earlier today?

It's a bizarre tale involving Policy Exchange, a secret government dossier and a libel case paid for by the taxpayer

A short thread (1/10)

📣 We are seeking to recruit a post-doctoral research associate to join the ⁦ENIGMA Consortium⁩ family and ⁦Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience⁩ to work on a cool new project across the Schizotypy and Schizophrenia working groups - details below, deadline 19th March! 🧠🗺️ kcl.ac.uk/jobs/084607-po…

Are you passionate about #PPI and have experience of working in mental health (clinical or research)?

We're hiring a PPI Lead to develop a strategy for our Experimental Medicine and Novel Therapeutics Theme.

👉Apply by Wed 31 Jan: maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/about-us/job-o…

Sci Hub is a 'pirate' website with 88M research papers freely available.

Using it is not advisable. We should all try to make billion-dollar acdemic publishers richer.

Here's a thread on integrating Zotero with Sci Hub to get free articles.

PLEASE DON'T DO THIS 😉

Now Dr Joanna Moncrieff needs to stop spreading falsehoods and making a parody of herself.

What she says here is ridiculous, adds to mental health stigma, and adds to a growing body of things she has said which are false and deplorable.

And the life time achievement award goes to......
superstar ☀️ Prof Sydney Kennedy! University of Toronto
Huge congrats and a fantastic talk
ISAD #ISAD2023 #psychiatry #affectivedisorders

Our first mock ethics panel to inform researchers what happens during their ethics review. Real applications, real issues and experienced panel members. Thanks to the doners!

Something from our group's collaboration with
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) superbly led by Laith Alexander 🏳️‍🌈: Ketamine's antidepressant effects involve an evolutionarily ancient part of the brain communities.springernature.com/posts/ketamine…

Clear exposition of all that is CBD (well, 15 mins worth) by the fab Will Lawn

Somewhat surprisingly, they published my critical commentary on this bizarre editorial suggesting that disruptions of the default mode network due to social media use explains the youth mental health crisis.

mdedge.com/psychiatry/art…

PDF: cdn.mdedge.com/files/s3fs-pub…