And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.
Some nice coverage here of our study published in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social CNNI on structure learning and uncertainty in compulsivity
📃 Paper available here - www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...
📣 Another Job Alert!
We’re hiring a Band 7 Research Associate for the SPROCKET Hub at @greatormondst.bsky.social & @uclchildhealth.bsky.social, co‑producing research with children, young people and families.
🕒 Full‑time, 48 months
⏳ Closes 15/03/2026
www.gosh.nhs.uk/working-here...
Most UK undergraduate degrees should be shortened, according to one university vice-chancellor, who claims that the UK’s current three-year bachelor’s model is “largely a historical artefact”
#EduSky #highered
Another EXCELLENT paper about exposure. But this supports my claim that we have to study recommendations that come from basic science and often we don't find they improve outcomes... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Contribute to open science! Collabra: Psychology needs a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026. Repost please!
forms.gle/DgM3484SuLVD...
To recognize International Women’s Day, we've curated this collection of articles on the joys and challenges that women in research careers face – plus, some fresh approaches to women’s health research.
go.nature.com/4s2PvwU
Great new paper led by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, highlight the need to collect qualitative data in ESM / EMA research.
#PsychSciSky 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Becoming a professor at a UK university is dependent on training high volumes of PhD students rather than delivering outstanding supervision, a report suggests. @jgro-the.bsky.social writes #EduSky #AcademicSky
ow.ly/eFjW50Yl5FT
Fathers may get postpartum depression at a similar rate to mothers, but it’s often overlooked. At last, the way we diagnose and treat it is improving, for the good of the whole family
Join us in Brighton this September!
www.bacn.co.uk/conferences
Symposium submissions due 31 March.
Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
📢 We’re hiring!
The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either:
🔹 Assistant Professor
🔹 Associate Professor
📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026
‘I don’t care if Chat GPT isn’t a therapist, it’s helping!’
Psychologists Hedda van’t Land and Vittorio Busato explain why teens may be swayed towards using AI as therapy, and examine the potential consequences.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
The apps consume huge amounts of children’s time, which many parents would like to see put to different uses. But bans are hard to implement—and harder to enforce
Approximately 40% of all studies preregistered on the Open Science Framework are never shared publicly. That’s a lot. Researchers give several reason, and null results and bad planning (or lack of priority) are the main reasons.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Short thread on our new paper. We use face mask efficacy research as a “stress test” for systematic review methods. We analysed 66 systematic reviews of face mask efficacy; they reached widely different conclusions (~half said they work, half said that evidence of efficacy was lacking). 1/
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Promotional webinar poster from NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South London. Headline reads “Time for change! Co-producing peer research with diverse communities.” Text explains the webinar will share early findings from ARC South London research led by Dr Josephine Ocloo on developing peer research to increase diversity in participation and involvement. Event details: Thursday, Feb 5, 4–5pm, on Microsoft Teams. On the right is a photo of a two people talking over a notebook.
Just 24 hours left to register for tomorrow's webinar 'Time for change: Co-producing peer research with diverse communities'.
We have over 200 attendees already registered! #PPI
arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/events-train...
“I know #ChatGPT can help with my literature review but I’ve no idea if I’m allowed to use it, how to cite it, or whether I’m somehow cheating.” Students are using #GenAI whether you’ve addressed it or not. Here’s how to provide the clarity they’re asking for: https://ow.ly/X7HB50Y8H0J #AcademicSky
Pupil dilation is an established biomarker of arousal, and studies have shown that non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) elicits pupil dilation. Here, we find that it depends on sensory matching.
#neuroskyence 🩺
Now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Mental illness affects one in four adults, which should make The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders one of the most well-thumbed medical texts in the world
go.nature.com/4tfNlLe
Looking forward to interesting discussions at our Maudsley NIHR BRC Digital Interventions research event. Further info on the work we have been doing in this area here www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/research/dig...
Young professionals are bitterly angry about the student loans system, protesting that agreements they were encouraged to sign up to as 18-year-old school pupils are blighting their financial futures.
Do they have a point? ft.trib.al/vzP0xgI
We're running a 5th edition of the always-exciting UCL Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition this year, 8th-10th July 2026 in London. Accommodation and travel expenses are covered.
For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.
New laws in the UK, Australia and France were brought in during 2025 with the aim of protecting children from harmful content online, but experts remain divided on whether they will achieve this goal
All I want for Christmas is... published nonsignificant findings and more Registered Reports?
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
ECR looking for a change in the New Year?
We are recruiting a new Lecturer in Psychology at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social !
If you’d like to talk about life in the Department, please do feel free to get in touch.
Deadline 8th Feb - More details below 👇
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
‘A meaningful psychology career doesn’t have to follow a straight line…’
Rhema Akintunde on ‘learning to do things differently’ in the struggles after graduation…
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
