It's that time (once in a blue moon) where I come back on bluesky because (yes, you guessed), we have a new paper out! What do we know about hunger's impacts on young people's mental health? Some insights from our multiverse exploration, out in JCPP: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology. Brief summary follows below. Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth

Mental Disorders as Homeostatic Property Clusters

This narrative review explores the idea of understanding mental disorders according to homeostatic property clusters rather than through typical classification systems.

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Feature Article in @elife.bsky.social about four women whose pioneering contributions to science have been largely overlooked. elifesciences.org/articles/110... (1/6)

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Four women whose pioneering contributions to science have been largely overlooked

Ethel Browne Harvey, Hilde Pröscholdt Mangold, Ida Henrietta Hyde and Marthe Gautier all made important contributions to developmental biology, but their names are largely absent from histories of sci...

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📢 NEWS: The University of Oxford has received a £1.5 million gift from Bukhman Philanthropies to support research into young people’s mental health. This gift will enable the creation of OxWell School Compass, which builds on the work of @oxwell.bsky.social Student Survey 👇 lnkd.in/eBdwAKMv

Reward models (RMs) are supposed to represent human values. But RMs are NOT blank slates – they inherit measurable biases from their base models that stubbornly persist through preference training. #ICLR2026 🧵

It has been a while since @flavioazevedo.bsky.social asked me to take over the Reversals project at @forrt.bsky.social... It has since evolved beyond my wildest dreams, mostly thanks to @aufdroeseler.bsky.social & @lukaswallrich.bsky.social. We are very proud of the Replication Hub & Database ♥️

Check our preprint out for some specific recommendations and examples on neurodiversity-affirming language for ADHD 🎉 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar)@autisticrealms.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Toward Neurodiversity-Affirming Language for ADHD @ejfriedel.bsky.social & team what a super paper with wonderful suggestions for thinking about language and tables to explain everything! I love this, thank you! PsyArXiv. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Results from study of mental health in 92 countries (n>53,000): People are not doing well. - U-shape for age is gone: Young adults lowest health, highest illness - Education still matters (a lot) - 45% of older people live alone - Hybrid work > 100% remote or in-person Preprint: osf.io/3jyda_v1

New paper from my group, led by Carolina Guzman Holst This is a secondary analysis of data from the high-quality MYRIAD trial, a universal school-based mindfulness intervention Summary below (🧵) acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

NEW: Mood, "Equalization through Deterioration: The Shrinking Gender Gap in Swedish School Grades" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

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My pick!

Richmond Eustis@reustis.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I've said this for about two decades but Anne Carson should receive the Nobel for literature, just on the strength of If Not, Winter, Eros, the Bittersweet, Men in the Off Hours, the "Red" collections, and her Antigonick. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/04...

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸 How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data. www.science.org/content/arti...

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

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Come work on a super cool project with a super cool team, led by the fanstastic @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & @drhollybear.bsky.social

Holly Bear @drhollybear.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨 Interested in a fully funded DPhil at Oxford? 🌏 We’re recruiting for an MRC iCASE studentship on conversational AI for youth mental health. Join an amazing team using youth voice to shape global digital health. ⏳ Deadline: 2 Dec 2025 💡 Get in touch to chat! 🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/4ua4j46h

1 in 20 people who discontinue contraception while still needing it – whether for pregnancy prevention or safer sex – do so because they perceive negative impacts on their sex lives. Our new paper is out now at the journal of Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/...

AmplifyChange proudly supports orgs improving access to #SRHR incl. #contraception in their communities. Read a new report that shows that #pleasure drives people’s decision-making around contraceptive use: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26410397.2025.2552589 #WorldContraceptionDay

Come to our webinar on the 26th where we'll present results from our latest systematic review on contraceptive discontinuation! W/ colleagues from WHO, Pleasure Project, Young and Alive. events.humanitix.com/sex-satisfac...

Sex, Satisfaction, and Switching: The Questions Contraceptive Research and Implementation Forgot to Ask

Launching a systematic review by the World Health Organization and The Pleasure Project on contraception use and sexual pleasure.

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a wonderful few days at a writing retreat with @mhrincubator.bsky.social got lots of writing done & met some great colleagues 📝🔬 do check out for future retreat dates and other events mentalhealthresearch.org.uk

"The character of a growing share of psychological research is determined not by a method-neutral commitment to the best ideas and techniques, but in large part by the capabilities, proclivities and biases of the AI systems driving research activity."

Jess Thompson@tsonj.bsky.social · 12mo ago

New preprint by William D'Alessandro and myself: The promise and peril of AI surrogacy in psychological research osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thrilled our work received a SIPS Commendation Prize 🥳

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)@improvingpsych.org · last yr.

✨ The Annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversity is a stepping stone for those wishing to learn more about neurodiversity. buff.ly/67f2F6q. The contributors would like to acknowledge @forrt.bsky.social

Reward models steer LLM behavior but we’ve never looked this closely at them. This deep analysis reveals big inconsistencies, surprising biases, and base-model effects. Insightful work. Catch @brianchristian.bsky.social & @tsvetomira.bsky.social at #FACCT2025

Brian Christian@brianchristian.bsky.social · last yr.

Reward models (RMs) are the moral compass of LLMs – but no one has x-rayed them at scale. We just ran the first exhaustive analysis of 10 leading RMs, and the results were...eye-opening. Wild disagreement, base-model imprint, identity-term bias, mere-exposure quirks & more: 🧵

Applications for our 2025 Paper Writing Retreat are open! Trying to find the time, space & energy to work on that #mentalhealth and/or #addiction #research paper? Apply for our fully-funded retreat with dedicated writing time, tasty food & the chance to network!👇 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/pwr25/

Are adolescents sensitive about sensitive data? In our new @oxwell.bsky.social publication, we explore students' concerns about taking part in research including sensitive topics such as mental health & maltreatment. Headlines below, w/ substantial implications for research design & analysis ⬇️

Are Adolescents Sensitive About Sensitive Data? Exploring Student Concerns About Privacy, Confidentiality, and Data Use in Health Research

We quantitively explored adolescents' concerns about privacy, confidentiality, and data use in health research and their potential impact on the accur…

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New paper out today reveals scale of inequalities in social care! 💰 Care homes are better rated with more self-funded residents 👔 But inequalities in care only exist in the for-profit sector 📈 Outsourcing to for-profit sector accelerates inequalities of two-tier care Link: doi.org/10.1093/agei...

DON'T MISS: "Moving through the fog: considering #causality in health inequalities research" The next Alan Turing Institute Causal Inference Interest Group seminar with @mkellyirving.bsky.social on 12th May 2025 at 3pm BST! Register at: turing-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #CIIG #EpiSky #CausalSky

Updating the HDI is a key function of this report, and the picture is sobering: We have yet to recover from pandemic-era setbacks; and inequality is increasing. Development pathways through manufacturing and exports are narrowing, as conflicts and crises abound.

We are live! Introducing the "Journal of Robustness Reports" – a Diamond Open-Access journal dedicated to publishing short reanalyses of empirical findings. Check out our website and blog post about the journal: 🌐 scipost.org/JRobustRep 📄 www.bayesianspectacles.org/introducing-...

Daniel Kahneman died by assisted suicide in Switzerland. I think it's really wrong that most liberal countries don't permit this. It's an extremely severe restriction of individual liberty not to allow people to decide over their own death in this way. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Essay | The Last Decision by the World’s Leading Thinker on Decisions

Shortly before Daniel Kahneman died last March, he emailed friends a message: He was choosing to end his own life in Switzerland. Some are still struggling with his choice.

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Really interesting and important work, relevant to all working with questionnaires / survey data.

Noam Sarna@noamsarna.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey Bluesky! I’m excited to share my new preprint with @matanmazor.bsky.social and @ruvidar.bsky.social, where we show that surface-level questionnaire filling behaviours drive correlations between mental health and metacognition (confidence ratings). osf.io/preprints/ps... [1/14]

Do you prefer ‘a person with ADHD’ or ‘an ADHDer’? If you have ADHD (and you are 18+ years), we would like to know what you think as part of our research on disability language preferences. To have your say, you can complete a 10 – 15 minute survey deakin.au/4iqPuOi #ADHD #ADHDAwareness