'You are not fragile. You are outnumbered.' Professor @pfonagy.bsky.social, Chair of the Independent Review into Mental Health Conditions, ADHD and Autism (2026), with his letter to a young person. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

'You are not fragile. You are outnumbered.' | BPS

Professor Peter Fonagy, Chair of the Independent Review into Mental Health Conditions, ADHD and Autism (2026), with his letter to a young person.

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Happy to say this is now published @natcomms.nature.com 🎉 Across 2 task types, 2 countries, and 3 samples we find the corpus callosum is important for metacognitive efficiency. We also show this effect is unlikely to be explained by perceptual or IQ difficulties. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Joe Barnby@joebarnby.com · 7mo ago

What connects difficulties in social cognition, self-awareness, and abstract reasoning in those with Corpus Callosum Dysgenesis (CCD)? Here, across three experiments, we find that the corpus callosum is integral to metacognitive efficiency - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Btw, when all eyes were on Holborn & St P, this happened: www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Legal rights must be retained for children with special educational needs | Letters

Letter: Campaigners and Send parents including Chris Packham and Sally Phillips urge ministers to work with families and organisations to preserve individual provision and improve accountability in th...

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New vacancy for an assistant professor position in our department at Maastricht. You will establish an independent and internationally visible research programme in predictive brain processes and contribute to the education programmes of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience. Please share!

A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.

New preprint: we show across modalities (vision & speech) that hallucination-proneness is associated with a general bias towards meaning rather than a specific benefit in making use of prior knowledge: osf.io/preprints/ps... work with the fab @aldersonday.bsky.social and others (not on Bluesky).

A modality-general bias towards meaning, not enhanced prior knowledge, is linked to hallucination-proneness in the general population

Predictive processing theories propose that hallucinations arise from excessive influence of prior expectations on perception. Although these theories implicitly generalise across modalities, previous...

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Almost forgot: happy That Tom Hollander Interview Day to all who celebrate

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · last yr.

Ah, 4 October! Happy fifth birthday to this marvellous thing…

Hearing the alienness of one’s voice: between normality and auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia. link.springer.com/10.1007/s110...

Hearing the alienness of one’s voice: between normality and auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

In this paper, I argue for a novel phenomenological approach to understanding the phenomenon of hearing voices or auditory verbal hallucination (AVH) in schizophrenia. I aim to elucidate the inherent ...

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24 month FT Research Assistant role with the excellent Dr Victoria Newell on a project to refine, validate, and implement the Self-Harm Questionnaire – Autism (SHQ-A), a new assessment tool co-developed with autistic people. Details here... jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Assistant (Fixed Term)

Applications are invited for a Research Assistant to work with Dr Victoria Newell on a Medical Research Foundation-funded project to refine, validate, and implement the Self-Harm Questionnaire – Autis...

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Our new meta-analysis led by Chantal Miller-Silva asks whether expectations shape perception in psychosis 🧠📈 🩺🧠 #Medsky #Psychiatry #cpsy

Does spreading mental health awareness online amplify self-diagnosis? In my first PhD pre-print, I empirically examine this question (n =3392) with some kick-ass collaborators and tools from cultural evolution A 🧵

🚨 Our new lab paper, led by @amandinevisine.bsky.social, examines exploration, group composition, and play activities among BaYaka children and teens living in a village context! Amandine is currently on fieldwork following up on this for her PhD 🎯 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congolese BaYaka children's learning and exploring in a village context

Childhood is a key period for acquiring and transmitting cultural knowledge and skill. Hunter-gatherer children, such as the Congolese BaYaka, learn a…

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Register below in time for #spookyseason to hear me talk about authors who took literary inspiration from the ghostly world of séances 👻 ⬇️

Dr Emily Vincent@dremilyvincent.bsky.social · last mo.

As spooky season approaches, I’ll be giving a very fitting online talk on ‘Séances, Spectres & Ghost Stories’ for the equally fitting College of Psychic Studies on Tuesday 20th October 2026: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm (UK) Tickets here: www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/talks/esoter... #occult #psychic #lit👻

Our latest paper led by Taylor Guthrie with former undergrad RA Aussie Frost. We show that multivariate fMRI signals can decode the identity of specific individuals within the DMN and in the absence of visual features or other lower-level sensory information. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Registration closing soon! We have a stellar lineup for #ICHR2026, join us in Munich this October

Franziska Knolle@franziskaknolle.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨 Registration closes September 30! We have an amazing programme! So join us for *the* meeting on voices, visions, presences & more - with 5 stellar keynotes!! We are looking forward to seeing you in Munich! 🧠🥨 Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Right get Dan Burn on

In sunny Salford, quizzes and poems galore. And you, on your way?

Catch @maryrobbo.bsky.social @aryaray.bsky.social and @georgiapunton.bsky.social in the Media City foyer, outside the Philharmonic Theatre. Pick up a poem, do the Imagination Quiz, and have a chat about imaginative worlds! @durhamimh.bsky.social @aldersonday.bsky.social

And this free verse is spilling on to the weekend, where you can find us at our drop-in station at the Media City foyer, asking more questions about the imagination, the poem, and you, the reader. @aldersonday.bsky.social @georgiapunton.bsky.social @aryaray.bsky.social @maryrobs.bsky.social

Yesterday, we were at the @BBC Contains Strong Language Festival, hosted by the incredible National Poetry Centre Accompanied by poet Karen McCarthy Woolf and her words, a few sealed envelopes, and our research questions, we asked the room: what happens in our minds when we read poetry?

If you've been thinking what ReaderBank's been up to, does this haiku help?

www.neuroschoolsscotland.com To try and support parents in finding schools that are as “good as possible” for neurodivergent kids - including those awaiting assessment - she has started a website where people can share their own experiences of schools in Scotland. Sharing in case useful to anyone.

Steph Allan@eolasinntinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Opened up Instagram and seen a dear childhood friend post a video about her autistic son (who is only five) having a horrible time in school and getting no support. My heart hurts. There’s so many things to be sad and angry about in the world.

If you like ReaderBank stuff come and see us in Manchester - we'll be exploring the forces of the imagination as they relate to poetry...

Durham Institute for Medical Humanities@durhamimh.bsky.social · 4w ago

Don't miss @thereaderbank.bsky.social at BBC Contains Strong Language in Salford later this month! Join us on 25–27 September to explore how poetry engages the imagination in different and surprising ways at our workshop and drop-in sessions. Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/readerbank-a...

If you like ReaderBank stuff come and see us in Manchester - we'll be exploring the forces of the imagination as they relate to poetry...

Durham Institute for Medical Humanities@durhamimh.bsky.social · 4w ago

Don't miss @thereaderbank.bsky.social at BBC Contains Strong Language in Salford later this month! Join us on 25–27 September to explore how poetry engages the imagination in different and surprising ways at our workshop and drop-in sessions. Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/readerbank-a...

the southbank centre event can be watched here and if you tune in you will experience the privilege of hearing mary beard repeat the phrase “glistening cock” multiple times. too many times, really

The Booker Prize 2026 Shortlist Announcement: Live Stream

YouTube video by Southbank Centre

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#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #MetaScience Article worth reading, & sharing w/ your student researchers. Can't get this out of my head: "Bishop’s law: The better designed a study is, the more likely it is to obtain a null result" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Meimoun & @lakens.bsky.social

Double release! 👀 two new preprints out now: Perceptual prioritization of others can be explained by representational closeness to the self 🔛 doi.org/10.31234/osf... Individual differences (gender, personality) determine prioritisation across the social closeness gradient 👥 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Take part in our study on live music experiences! Please complete this ~30min online survey: redcap-2.bath.ac.uk/surveys/?s=A... We would especially like more representation in our sample from: - Neurotypical people - People who are global majority #neurodiversity #music #inclusion

AI psychosis hits the AI field? Folks are talking about an increase in submissions to journals like TMLR and 60K submissions to ICML, especially new single author papers. Any professor will tell you they receive emails from random people describing the "discovery" they've made.