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⏰Post-doctoral #qualitative job alert! (closes 14/9/25).
@uclpsychiatry.bsky.social is recruiting for a #Qualitative Post‑Doctoral Research Associate to join our #suicide & #selfharm research team on a @nihr.bsky.social grant investigating acceptability of close obs www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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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August 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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✐ Can classroom mental health lessons actually harm some students?

This new scoping review looked at CBT & mindfulness-based school interventions and found troubling signs of harm in some cases.

#Schools #YouthMentalHealth #CBT #Mindfulness #UniversalInterventions

🧵 THREAD
August 29, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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🧠🏫 AWARE and INSPIRE?
School mental health trials show mixed results and unexpected harms.

The Education for Wellbeing programme tested universal mental health approaches with 30k+ pupils.

Some benefits, but also unexpected harms, especially for vulnerable students.

🧵 THREAD
July 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Interesting preprint (and constructive criticism about it too). There will be plenty watching this space over the coming years
𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞.

See our paper for more results: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : www.brainonllm.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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A balanced take, amid a lot of polarisation 👇
July 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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For those interested in universal MH interventions in schools, there’s a new meta analysis out today by Hayes et al and I wanted to highlight a few points

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www.frontiersin.org/journals/chi...
Frontiers | Universal, school-based, interventions to improve emotional outcomes in children and young people: a systematic review and meta-analysis
IntroductionThere is debate into the impact of universal, school-based interventions to improve emotional outcomes. Previous reviews have only focused on anx...
www.frontiersin.org
June 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Brilliant thread and replies here about how difficult it is to get messages across that contradict people's own views/biases. This resonates with my own experiences with practitioners and policy makers as well as general public. Referenced Guardian article here www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
June 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Important new research - our Nav Kapur is one of the co-authors. The first UK study suggesting a recent fall in self-harm in young people.
mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
June 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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This is really important: if you want to disseminate information beyond academia, you really need to be creating very short, very engaging posts – ideally videos – for Instagram and TikTok.

I have spend the last 4 months figuring out how to do this, and...

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June 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I'm excited to be attending this year's IASP in Vienna and presenting our work on

1) Conceptualising #selfharm as an #addictive behaviour

#IASPVIENNA2025 @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social
We’re here in Vienna, ready to kick off the IASP 33rd World Congress at Messe Wien Exhibition Congress Center. We are delighted to welcome delegates from around the world to our pre-congress workshops this morning. Stay engaged throughout the week by using the hashtag #IASPVIENNA2025
June 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM