I am leading #ACreativeTransformation NHS staff training workshop for Oxford Health NHS FT clinicians, AHPs and researchers at the Warneford Hospital, Oxford tomorrow, Tuesday, 11am. If you are around, do come along. Please spread the word. #braininjury #trauma #coping #mentalillness

The truth about ADHD and autism: how many people have it, what causes it, and why are diagnoses soaring? - The Guardian apple.news/AvwQIC1JVTwGG2…

📢 An important 5 min 🎞️.
Fascinating work by Al Haddrell & team at Bristol Chemistry.
It explains the importance of CO₂ in SARS-CoV-2 stability.
Lower CO₂ deactivates it quicker & even modest increases in CO₂ can improve virus survival.
CO₂ monitors & good ventilation are vital.

🚨 Bridging the research-to-practice time gap ⏰

How can we better disseminate research knowledge to sport and exercise medicine practitioners? 🤷‍♀️

Have you heard of the RE-AIM framework? 🙋‍♂️

READ ➡️ bit.ly/3V3kx8l

“Creating a stronger firewall between the tobacco industry and BMJ content will provide space for editors to publish content that is more independent and trusted, and contributes to a healthier world.”

BMJ announces updated tobacco policy Kamran Abbasi
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I talk about the identity of those in lived experience roles further in this systematic narrative review. We developed a conceptual framework to describe the professional and service user identities we move between and themes that influence this. See link doi.org/10.1186/s40900…

Declaring war on the poor. In what universe is this anything other than immoral? I have been citing figures like these. Yet again, scarcely can I believe that society would reduce education spending at all, let alone reduce it more for disadvantaged children.

7/ they are (this is what is called is 'projective identification.') The end result is that the person can deny their own sadism, cruelty, and hate—while simultaneously acting it out without restraint. And feel themselves to be 100% on the side of truth and right as they do it.

6/ their viciousness and hate on the other person, who is now seen (via projection) as someone monstrous who must be destroyed. If the person who is projected on responds to the provocation with anger, this is now seen as further confirmation of how hateful and destructive

5/ Instead, they project the badness onto some designated other. And this other person, via the defense of projection, is now seen as the repository of all that is bad and evil and necessary to destroy. That's the projection.

The person now feels fully justified in unleashing

3/ They find a way to give free rein to their cruelty, to attack, to treat others cruelly and viciously. *And they find allies to cheer them on* who also believe they are on the side of all that is true and good.

This is painfully funny. And explains a lot.

12/ No matter. My🥞are STILL more “evidence based” because—wait for it—more studies exist

Everyone now accepts that more studies=better pancakes, regardless of what the studies actually do & don't show. “Gold standard” now means more studies

Head I win, tails you lose🤣

10/ need to—because everyone has now accepted as fact that only “evidence based”🥞count and all other 🥞should be ignored. Because “science”

So I keep racking up more grant funding & publications. I accumulate 100s of RCTs. There are now studies of my 🥞 served on weekdays vs

6/ No one even knows what the term means but it sure sounds good. And if you raise questions, I accuse you of being anti-science & anti-evidence

No self-respecting breakfast cook would ever want to get a reputation as anti-science. I’ve now managed to stifle serious discussion

5/ You see, only MY🥞can be “evidence-based.” Your pancakes can never be “evidence based” because no matter how you do the🥞research, I keep moving the goal posts. Your research will never be good enough

Plus, it’s now taken as as established fact that my🥞are “evidence based”

4/ Maybe even find them more satisfying in the long run

You’ve finally set the record straight about your pancakes!

Nice try, chump🤣

I now pick apart your research methods and say they’re flawed. I hold your🥞research to standards I never applied to my own🥞research

/3 I tell everyone my🥞are proven and your🥞 are scientifically discredited. No one should ever eat them

This seems a little unfair to you, so you start doing RCTs too—to study your🥞using the same research methods

Guess what? It turns out people like your🥞just as much as my🥞

1/ The “evidence-based therapy” game—explained with 🥞

I have a pancake recipe. I do randomized controlled trials (RCTs) showing that people like my 🥞 better than getting no breakfast at all

My🥞are now “evidence-based” & yours aren’t. I start telling everyone my🥞are superior

Routinely monitoring body health and integrated physical and mental health care in psychiatric practice may provide cost-effective targets for reducing the adverse effect of physical comorbidity in people with mental illness. 12/12