Please, please click me to get... ... a summary of the almost guaranteed incomplete* presentation of the research in this paper** 😅 #AcademicChatter *Is there such a thing as a complete research report (yet)? ** Sure, it might still be better than the provided abstract, but is that the bar?

“Theory and Model Building in Psychology” New book edited by @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social and Alexander Wendt, with chapters by @ufeest.bsky.social, @devezer.bsky.social, @mieronen.bsky.social, and @bringmannlaura.bsky.social. link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

First day of the Economics of Mental Health Workshop in Paris. Grateful to all funders and the local host @peibich.bsky.social Impressed how people's brains are still functioning in 40°C. #EMHW26

In classic paper I argue direct linguistic translation of patient-reported outcome measure (PROMs) enshrines biases, fails to capture cross-cultural differences. Solution: strong conceptual definition of what you want to measure, flexibility in translation/adaptation pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8161980/

The philosophy of health-related quality of life translation - PubMed

Conventional translation strategies are limited because they enshrine deficiencies of the original questionnaire and do not permit modifications that reflect differences in culture and values. An alte...

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The winner of the Outstanding Contribution to Research Management award is annamgrey.bsky.social, University of Dundee #ARMAAwards

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Staff at the University of Dundee who are at risk of losing their jobs are facing terrible uncertainty. They have been living under that uncertainty for years now. 1/3

Yesterday I used my my Member's Business Debate to share the experiences of staff and students at Dundee, Aberdeen & Universities across the country. They are not the problem, and the deserve much better.

'I will take us back to the roots of the word “university”. It comes from the medieval Latin...“universitas"...meaning a number of persons associated into one body. Historically...[it] referred...to the people who made it...that came through powerfully in Maggie Chapman’s speech. (Jenni Minto) 1/7

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EXCLUSIVE: Dundee University principal reveals plans to suspend degrees in three key areas and merge departments Professor Nigel Seaton wrote a letter to staff outlining how he plans to overhaul the institution after announcing more job cuts. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

EXCLUSIVE: Dundee University principal reveals plans to suspend degrees in three key areas and merge departments

Professor Nigel Seaton wrote a letter to staff outlining how he plans to overhaul the institution after announcing more job cuts.

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An incredible vaccine success: between 2020 and 2024, NO cervical cancer deaths were recorded in women aged 20 to 24 in England - the first time ever in a 5yr period. Without vaccination, around 23 deaths would have been expected. share.google/Lc4of1e8ZFCR...

HPV vaccine means young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death

A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

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For those following Scottish #HEI news, here is a good summary of the situation at #DundeeUni #Podcast Oh, yes, and in case you'd support keeping #Dundee Botanical Gardens via increased funding, community-led initiatives or collaborative efforts with environmental organizations: c.org/rzSxw8JtFh

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The Stooshie: the politics podcast from DC Thomson | More cuts at Dundee University | Aberdeen South local view thestooshie.podbean.com/e/more-cuts-... Yet more cuts at Dundee University mean lots more job losses. The team assesses what’s gone wrong and digs into the political backlash.

Big news! 🚀 The preprint for our #NODES Delphi study is out on PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5bt6s_v1 What's this all about? 🧵

Looking forward to Thursday, when the School of Health Sciences #DundeeUni hosts this virtual lunchtime seminar: Ecological momentary interventions: Examples from #MentalHealth settings Presented by Dr. Anita Schick, CIMH Mannheim 👇 #DundeeUni #CIMH #MobileHealth #EcologicalMomentaryAssessment

👏👏👏 NO SCOTLAND NO NAZIS ✊✊✊ There are THOUSANDS OF US!!!!

In addition to a hiring PhD in ~October & hopefully some PhDs and postdocs ~February, if anyone would like to work with me as part of eg a Marie-Curie or something similar, please do get in touch. Topics include depression, classification, measurement, systems, time-series, & theory building.

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Very interesting read for #psychotherapy w long-term conditions www.cambridge.org/core/journal... The theme "Lack of therapist skill and knowledge of #LTCs" illustrates specific barriers to forming a strong #TherapeuticAlliance. #Interdisciplinary #Interprofessional #Multimorbidity

A timely piece on scientific overload reportearth.substack.com/p/how-mega-s...

How ‘mega-science’ helps explain the plight of science communicators right now

How do we communicate about -- or as journalists, cover -- 3.5 million scientific studies per year?

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KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI as.ft.com/r/f5f7934f-1...

KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI

Bogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology

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The Scotland Partnership Advancing Research Careers for Clinicians (SPARCC) scheme is opening for submissions in July - get in contact with leads at Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow or St Andrews! #Funding #Scotland #HealthCare #AlliedHealthProfessions #AHP #DundeeUni

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MRC / @ukri.org announces establishment of 10 Regional Accounts for Clinical Researchers www.ukri.org/news/new-mrc... #RACR ❗Important❗ They conceive "clinical" broadly, being open to nurses, midwives, dentists, pharmacists, #AlliedHealthProfessions #ClinicalPsychology #Nursing #Funding

Throughout the Symposium we collected a list of 'slogans' from both speakers and delegates, and it became a running joke that we ought to start a t-shirt business... we decided that might be out of scope (!) but here are a few of the slogans that would have been on the front of said t-shirts...

What a privilege to present a "State of the Art" talk "Accelerating the Development of Psychological Interventions" just now at the German Psychotherapy Conference! Thank you very much to the organisers for inviting me, and the audience for their great questions! #DPK2026 @dpk-kongress.bsky.social

📣 Our time as editors of Methodological Innovations is coming to an end. If you would be interested in taking on leadership of this exciting journal details of how to apply are below. @journals.sagepub.com

Good morning from the Tay

This three-part podcast series from 2022 is well worth a listen in this 250th anniversary year of the publication of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. 👇

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Freakonomics Radio | In Search of the Real Adam Smith freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/... How did an affable 18th-century “moral philosopher” become the patron saint of cutthroat capitalism? Does “the invisible hand” mean what everyone thinks it does?

"The overarching aim of @youthreacheu.bsky.social [...] is to strengthen youth #MentalHealth in Europe by bridging the gap of large-scale, real-world research on accessible youth mental health interventions and to provide a comprehensive European strategy." #CYPMH

European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry@escaponline.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New ESCAP Communication in our #ECAP journal: Bridging gaps in youth mental health care: #YOUTHreach—a comprehensive European strategy by Thérèse van Amelsvoort et al: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #youthmentalhealth #mentalhealth

Ich freue mich, beim @dpk-kongress.bsky.social 2026 einen Workshop zum Umgang mit Brüchen der Arbeitsbeziehung anbieten zu können und mache hier beinahe schamlos Werbung dafür. Der Workshop wird praxisbezogen und ist für Interessierte aller Verfahren und Qualifikationsstufen geeignet. #dpk2026

The #OpenScience working group* of the German Psychological Society's section on #ClinicalPsychology and Psychotherapy has published a paper about opportunities and challenges for OS in Clinical Psychology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #DGPs #OpenResearch The paper focuses on three topcs👇️

Commentary: Making Patient Data Count—Opportunities and Challenges for Open Science in Clinical Psychology

Open science practices—such as preregistration, data and material sharing, and open-access dissemination—are increasingly promoted across psychology, yet their specific value for clinical psychology ....

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