Nicole Tang

University students’ sleep patterns are full of interesting surprises 😅

🧪Sharing this job opportunity @warwickpsych.bsky.social, aligned with current research priorities in health and wellbeing (lifespan #resilience, #family relationships, #mentalhealth #neurodiversity, #healthequity, #sleep, #pain, #trauma, #self-harm, #suicide, #technology for healthcare innovations)

PhD Studentship: Three PhD Fellowships in Psychology at University of Warwick Explore a PhD Studentship: Three PhD Fellowships in Psychology on jobs.ac.uk. Discover more PhD opportunities and apply today!

We’re recruiting 3 fully funded PhD Fellowships in Psychology at the University of Warwick.

🌟 Projects supervised by Dr Alice Chan, Dr Matthew Mak & Dr Marina Mendonca
⏳ Deadline: 15 March 2026

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#PhD #AcademicSky #Psychology
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Associate Professor (111338-0226) at University of Warwick Discover an exciting academic career path as a Associate Professor (111338-0226) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

📢 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

A productive and energising afternoon at our termly Lifespan Health & Wellbeing Group meeting. Grateful to our @warwickpsych PGR students for their support, and to Jag Jutley-Nielson & Nick Thompson for sharing insights into the STREAM project and participatory research with the autistic community.

Our next Psychology/Health Spotlight seminar will be given by Dr David Moore from Liverpool John Moores University, who will be talking about Pain in Autism.

Date: Tuesday, 10 February 2026
Time: 12:00–13:00
Location: H0.43

All welcome!
#Pain #Autism #Neurodiversity #Primary care

CWPT Talking Therapies Therapists and Professor Harbinder Sandhu for the PAINT for IAPT project.

What a pleasure to welcome Talking Therapies therapists from Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust to our advanced training on treating insomnia alongside chronic pain! Excited to see them put this treatment into practice & contribute real‑world data to our evaluation.🧪 #NHS #sleep #pain

No more jet lag? Scientists discover oral compound that helps 'reset' the body clock forward A Japanese research team has discovered a new compound that can advance the body's internal clock—offering hope for faster recovery from jet lag and better adaptation to night-shift work. The compound...

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Special thanks go to Professor Alice Gregory @sleep-rhul.bsky.social and Dr Talar Moukhtarian as external and internal examiners!

Many congratulations, Dr Pawley! We’re all so proud of you. Way to go!

A multimodal sleep foundation model for disease prediction - Nature Medicine A deep learning-based model, developed using the rich, multimodal data available from polysomnography-derived sleep recordings, performs well on common sleep analysis tasks and predicts future disease risk across a range of diseases.

A paper published in Nature Medicine presents SleepFM: a multimodal sleep foundation model trained on over 585,000 hours of polysomnography data. It can accurately predict 130 health conditions from one night of sleep, including dementia and heart failure. 🧪🩺

New Nature Neuroscience paper from the PAINDIFF Network - “Recommendations for the Inclusion and Study of Sex and Gender in Research”.

5 recommendations that can be applied to human and preclinical research, and some specific recommendations for each type.

Full paper link rdcu.be/eWJDG

@warwickpsych.bsky.social @warwickmed.bsky.social
SLEEP Trial main findings: DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S003...

<em>British Journal of Health Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Introduction Sleep and mental health problems are common across the working adult population. This process evaluation provides insight into the experiences of employees who took part in a digital in.....

Ever wonder how digital CBT-I treatments work?🧪
Our process evaluation of the SLEEP trial offers answers:
✨ Better sleep boosts wellbeing.
For treatment to work, three things matter:
1️⃣ Human connection
2️⃣ Right context
3️⃣ Smart mechanisms
Read more: doi.org/10.1111/bjhp...
#SleepHealth #DigitalTherapy

Happy to announce my 2nd blog post as a UK Data Service Impact Fellow has been published!

With my research focused on self-harm, suicide, and mood disorders, the emotional impact is undeniable, but can be overlooked.

How do you support yourself when the weight of the dataset starts to feel heavy?🏋️

🌱 Great energy at today’s Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Group meeting! Huge thanks to our brilliant speakers @sabrinatwilhaar.bsky.social & @adamjowett.bsky.social for their presentations, & to our students who led the discussion. Looking forward to the next one! 💬🧠
#HealthAndWellbeing #Lifespan

@bagshaap.bsky.social

Figure 1 Associations between self-reported frequency of night awakenings at 14 years and the mean predicted probability of reporting an attempted suicide at 17 years at low (lowest 50 per cent of scores) and high (highest 50 per cent of scores) levels of rational decision-making. The blue line represents the 50 per cent of participants with the lowest rational decision-making scores and the red line reflects the remaining 50 per cent of participants with the highest rational decision-making scores. For both rational decision-making groups, an increase in night awakenings corresponds with an increased probability of reporting a suicide attempt. At low levels of night awakenings, those with high levels of rational decision-making have a slightly lower risk of subsequent reported suicide attempt compared to participants with low levels of rational decision-making. As the frequency of night awakenings increases, high and low levels of rational decision-making demonstrate similar risk for reporting a suicide attempt.

🧪Rational decision-making moderated the association between night awakenings & attempted suicide. The buffering effect of rational decision making was only evident when reported frequency of night awakenings was low, highlighting sleep as a preventative target for suicide attempts. #SleepPeeps (2/2)

Graphical abstract

🧪 New analysis led by @michaelapawley.bsky.social @warwickpsych.bsky.social shows suicide attempt history at 17 years was associated with more frequent night awakenings and shorter total time in bed on school days at 14 years. Open Access: doi.org/10.1093/slee... #Sleep #academicsky (1/2)

🎓 Warwick Postgrad Scholarships – Autumn 2026 Entry
Interested in research in Psychology? Explore funding opportunities now!
🔗 warwick.ac.uk/servic...
📅 Deadlines:
Course Apps – 8 Dec 2025
Scholarship Apps – 11 Dec 2025
#PhD #Scholarships #WarwickUni #PsychologyResearch #PostgradFunding

🧪 PhD opp on mental distress & opioid tapering via the Midlands MHN PhD Programme for Healthcare Professionals! 🎓
✅ 3 yrs on NHS salary (backfill funded)
✅ Fees, research, training & travel
💡 Up to 0.2 FTE clinical work
#PhD #MentalHealth #Bigdata #Opioids
🔗 midlandsmhndtp.ac.uk/project/2026...

"Jane Goodall showed us what a life in science could look like: rigorous discovery paired with fierce advocacy for what you study. She gave the world six decades of groundbreaking research on chimpanzees and their habitats, then turned that knowledge into a global movement for conservation." (1/2)

Use of paracetamol during pregnancy unchanged in the EU | European Medicines Agency (EMA) Paracetamol medicines can be used in pregnancy, in accordance with official recommendations

Paracetamol remains an important option to treat pain or fever in pregnant women.

Following rigorous assessment of the available scientific data, we find no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children.

Read more 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/use-...

“You do not see a link between paracetamol use in pregnancy and autism in children.”

Author of 'Expecting Better' Professor Emily Oster explains the studies on paracetamol use in pregnancy, after President Trump warned pregnant women against using the painkiller.

#Newsnight

On #worldalzheimersday our team
is thrilled with our efforts to understand how amyloid (magenta) interacts with blood vessels (green) and how better 🐁 models and translational approaches will help the fight to #endalz

And 🙏 @alzassociation.bsky.social for the support

Persistent pain awareness is critical; too many healthcare systems and providers are ignorant of the complexity of chronic pain. This leads to patient dismissiveness and treatment abandonment, which leads to increased suffering. We must do better.

#YourPainIsReal #WeBelieveYou

🧪Really pleased to see this collobarative work come together. Congratulations to @michaelapawley.bsky.social on her first PhD publication - a great milestone. Thanks also to Dr Isabel Morales-Munoz and @bagshaap.bsky.social @uob-sop.bsky.social for their valuable contributions. #sleepresearch

Chronic low back pain: What sciences supports vs. what it doesn’t - Massage & Fitness Magazine Key takeaways Chronic low back pain stems from multiple causes, including biological, psychological, societal, and environmental factors.  The current body of research points out that a multidisciplin...

3 chronic #lowbackpain treatments have promising long-term results based on curent body of research:

🤾 Exercise
👩‍⚕️ Psychological treatments (e.g. CBT, ACT)
🤝 Self-management programs

A highlight of myths and what mostly works for cLBP.

#painscience #pain

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This project was funded by the MRC and Monash Warwick Alliance, and brilliantly led by Talar Moukhtarian and Amber Tout. The programme was co-produced with shift workers and their employers in civil engineering, construction, and manufacturing.
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