Parallel lines appear to tilt alternately.

What do we now know about Long Covid? A fascinating account by immunologist Charles Bangham on revamped The Royal Society website where you can discover lots of other posts too.
royalsociety.org/blog/2024/02/i…

'The UCL Policy Lab plays a convening role, bringing together different kinds of experience and expertise, helping cross boundaries, nobody has done it quite that way before” George Eaton on Ordinary Hope and our commitment to working across difference.
newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

Brief blog on the 'new blood test for schizophrenia' paper and press release from yesterday. I'd like to write a formal rebuttal as well but would need help vetting the stats in the paper.

eiko-fried.com/blood-tests-fo…

Celebrating the culmination of an epic doctoral journey across two continents and a pandemic - with the star student Simon Brett, examiners Eva Loth & Catherine (Cathy) Manning and co-supervisor Liz Pellicano. Doctoral and Researcher College, Uni of Reading. We are on point with the background messaging.

Uncertainty about uncertainty--'Despite its importance in several affective and cognitive models of anxiety, a clear definition of uncertainty has been lacking. This has led to imprecision and confusion in research' bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bj… decomposing uncertainty, autism-relevant

Did you know of this meta-analytic website by Pim Cuijpers et al. featuring hundreds of RCTs?
In the video I'll show researchers (part I) and clients (part II) how to run a systematic meta-analysis looking into the effect of CBT on depression in older adults within 1 minute.

1/8 We published several big picture papers on how to best conceptualize, classify and understand mental health problems / psychopathology recently, so here's a very brief overview in case you missed some of them.

I will link to all full text PDFs at the end.

Wonderful, compassionate piece on #LongCovid , and by the incomparable ⁦Ed Yong is not here⁩ 🙏🏽👇🏽 nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opi…

Fantastic demo of how strongly our visual system wants to pick out objects - in this case using coherent motion. (Also, it's pretty 😉)

Just arrived - wonderful Jonathan Totman - many congratulations

How long term illness can destabilise more than your health. This is a very good read👇🏽

(1/n) Thrilled/relieved that a paper Nora Barnes-Horowitz Courtney Forbes Michelle Craske (@ADRC_UCLA) & I have been working on for 3 years has been accepted to Edward Watkins's #BRAT Special Issue on CBT Active Ingredients sciencedirect.com/journal/behavi… Elsevier Psychology osf.io/7tpje

Not a surprise to anyone who’s had their life blown to bits for the last 3 years.

But great to see it studied/reported in these stark terms. Comparison one of our best tools given how difficult it is for healthy people to get their heads round it.

theguardian.com/society/2023/j…

👋I’m back. And I wrote about the current wave of attempts to downplay long COVID—less outright denial & more 'it’s real but no big deal'.

Except: it very much is. It’s a substantial and ongoing crisis that still demands our attention. 1/
theatlantic.com/health/archive…

New article on #LongCovid with #TeamClots colleauges Resia Pretorius Putrino Lab Asad Khan out sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Some more places available for #autistic young people to take part in my PhD research project. If interested to find out more, please click the link below:

Two interesting threads here from Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] and Lisa Feldman Barrett, highlighting opposing views of brain organisation:

Our new paper: 'Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Autistic Adults: a Scoping Review'.
Such a pleasure to work with the dream team of Anke Scheeren, Reframing Autism and Liz Pellicano 🤩 #openaccess link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Our comprehensive review of #LongCovid has just been published
nature.com/articles/s4157…
Phenomenal work by Hannah Davis Lisa McCorkell julia
Nature Reviews Microbiology