Really excited that our paper on positive body image among asexual folks has been published! @phaedralonghurst.bsky.social @fidanturk.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

📣 Postdoc opportunity at the University of Exeter to work with Dr. Fidan Turk (and collaborate with @francescasolmi.bsky.social and myself) on a project looking at food insecurity and eating disorders with UK-based cohort data! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK860/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Exeter

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Meet our new #EatingDisorder researchers! 🔬 🔎 Funded by our latest round of launchpad grants, these brilliant scientists are working to advance our understanding of various life-threatening eating disorders, from binge-eating disorder to bulimia nervosa. #MedSky 👉 Full story: shorturl.at/8brFt

Medical Research Foundation | New launchpad grants to address…

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My MSc students are conducting an important research project exploring body image and eating behaviours among men. While we know that men can and do struggle with these issues, it remains a topic that is often under-researched and overlooked. exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

In line with next week's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, we are proud to announce our upcoming Fellowship Grants in Suicide & Self-Harm Research. #MHAW Applicants will be invited to apply for their personal salary plus up to £60k per year in research costs over 3 years. More info coming soon! #MedSky

This is a *key* new paper in the world of school mental health interventions A very large trial (N=6388) testing a universal CBT-based app for adolescent depression (13-14y) No effects found (on depression, anxiety, distress or insomnia) (🧵) mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...

This made me cry and it really should not have. It is a document of basic decency. Good for Tufts, may the other institutions grow a spine too. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

Overdiagnosis? Seems timely to reshare... In CAMHS, little evidence of overdiagnosis of emotional disorders, rather the opposite - many children and young people with diagnosable mental health disorders not receiving a clinical diagnosis or timely help Full 'STADIA' RCT: doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...

<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library

Background Standardised Diagnostic Assessment tools, such as the Development and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA), may aid detection and diagnosis of emotional disorders but there is limited real-world...

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Kapil Sayal@kapilsayal.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 New Research! It took 6 years but we got there! The STADIA trial reports… What we did: Large multi-centre #RCT with 1225 children and young people with emotional difficulties referred to #CAMHS across England, followed-up for 18 months. 6 Headline findings… see below… (1/7)

You can access the full set of interviews -- **FREE until April 12** -- here: www.nature.com/collections/...

Lived experience expertise in mental health research

In this Collection we amplify the contributions of people with lived experience to mental health research through interviews with lived experience experts and ...

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Are you doing EMA research and wonder how to go about it? In recent work we've adressed some open questions and challenges, here is a brief summary of papers and materials. 🧵 #PsychSciSky 🧪 #StatsSky

for folks who couldn't attend, here is the recording from our recent webinar on global eating disorder surveillance (no need to be an AED member to watch!) #episky #medsky #publichealth

Advancing the global surveillance of eating disorders: Insights from epidemiology and public health

This webinar will provide an overview of recent advancements in eating disorder surveillance, including developments in measures and survey systems from a diversity…

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Such scary times in universities. news.stv.tv/north/more-t...

More than 600 jobs to be cut at Dundee University

A total of 632 staff members are set to be made redundant with buildings and assets expected to be sold.

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Please distribute widely! This is a great opportunity to receive a novel eating disorder treatment specifically tailored to the LGBTQ+ community and developed by an LGBTQ+ eating disorder research lab!

1/ What do people perceive as causes for depression, poverty, & mortality—and are social or non-social causes more important? New preregistered study led by Emma Bridger in a n=1000 UK sample, including a wide variety of perceived causes. #episky #psychscisky #PublicHealth 🧪

Did you know that approximately 22% of children and adolescents worldwide show disordered eating? #EatingDisorderAwarenessWeek is an opportunity to improve awareness that anyone can have an #EatingDisorder Explore our FREE videos, pods, blogs, papers and more. www.acamh.org/blog/eating-...

Eating Disorders: A Concern for All

This Eating Disorder Awareness Week, we encourage you to explore the FREE learning opportunities available on our website and ACAMH Learn, and to share with your networks.

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Folks, would really appreciate it if you could please repost and share with your students, departments, networks!

POWES BPS@powes.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our submission portal for student awards is now open! We welcome submissions in all areas of Psychology and the Social Sciences from current (24/25) and past (2021-2024) UG and PGR students. More info at: bps.org.uk/node/1718#aw... Deadline: 31st March 2025 Please repost!

We’ve created a Starter Pack for UK-based eating disorders research to connect & support those in the field! 🧠📊✨ Follow the pack to stay updated & get involved: go.bsky.app/9Qgb1HZ If you would like to be included, send us a DM! 💌

I hadn’t seen an eating disorders/body image list so I made one! Absolutely confident that I have missed many people. Please say hi and share a paper/research topic to be added! bsky.app/profile/did:...