Reflections on a day in the West Bank last month with Rabbi Arik Ascherman.

Meeting people expelled by settlers, seeing their destroyed homes, hearing their despair. Seeing the landscape change as outposts proliferate & Palestinian villages are wiped off the map.

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Our hearts are with all those in fear tonight.

Israelis and Palestinians deserve better, they deserve lives free from terror and loss, lives of safety and dignity. They deserve leadership working for a better future, not endless war.

Be safe, friends.

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Check out our new preprint! Dual task during reinforcement learning in humans does not only impair the strategic, high level components of learning, but also the RL components. Further evidence of strong interaction between executive and non-executive processes in human learning.

Mendelian Randomisation (MR) is going to hell in a handcart, with an exponential weekly increase of papers with Mendelian Randomisation in the title, most of them nonsense. 25th April 4.30pm online or in person UCL I'll talk about what should be done forms.office.com/pages/response…

'Bin-dependence day'

Increasingly I am of the opinion that these labels reflect nothing like natural kinds. Or at least - the arbitrary distinctions made up by us don’t reflect the underlying natural variation in mental illness.

Fantastic opportunity for a psychiatrist to work on the Wellcome funded LIFE trial with Jon Roiser 🟣 & colleagues UCL Psychiatry

Here's the advert for the 3-year clinical fellow post to work on the Wellcome funded LIFE trial on exercise and depression with me, Glyn Lewis Oliver Howes Mark Hamer Emily Hird and our wonderful team. Email me with any qs, PT PhD possible too! jobs.ac.uk/job/DHA174/cli…

Jews & Palestinians in an Iftar dinner, organized by the Standing Together student chapter at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem

Our government uses racist divide-and-rule policies. But we are determined to fight together, against war and occupation, for peace, justice & freedom

Can exercise and our environment reshape our brains? 🧠 Join us at
Pint of Science UK
for a beer and a chat with UCL researchers from The ISEH 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃‍♀️ to find out more! #pint24 pintofscience.co.uk/event/from-the…

🚨 Fantastic opportunity for a UK psychiatry trainee or clinician with psychiatry experience to work in research with a brilliant team led by Jon Roiser 🟣 .

Important study, lovely office, fantastic training/mentorship, nice people, prime lunch locations…

Feel free to dm

any trainee psychiatrists out there who'd like to come and work in my group for the next 3 years? Exciting job opportunity below!👇

Oops I did it again 🤭

#TotalSolarEclipse

Join us for this month's CCP Speaker talk on April 18th by Jon Roiser 🟣 titled: 'A Computational Approach to Understanding Motivational Symptoms in Depression'

Register here: forms.gle/wtL38RWhwnR5Qy…

Today, six months ago, Hamas murdered three people I knew—two peace activists and a guy I went to school with—committing horrific massacres, kidnapping Israelis, many of them civilians, with 133 still unjustifiably held by Hamas in Gaza. The women taken captive are likely facing…

Brilliant acknowledgment 😂🤣

New PhD studentship in adolescent mental health UCL Psychiatry

Does the mental health inequality between LGBTQ+ and cis/het adolescents vary between schools and, if so, why?

Using four large population-based datasets (epidemiology & statistics), quali & PPI

Apply here 👇

THREAD: What is happening in UK universities is astonishing. Right now about quarter of universities are laying off staff. Almost all universities expect to make a loss this year. And the entire thing is happening in an effort to deceive the population about migration statistics.

Long time, no tweet! I guess I have been in denial that my PhD has come to an end. This is an appreciation post for my wonderful supervisor Jon Roiser 🟣, who I have had the pleasure of working with for over 7 years (😱).