Looks like 6-months have passed since I wrote a postcard to my future self while at the UK Reproducibility Network LNL retreat! Can’t wait til the next retreat!!

TIL I learned that two of the greatest snooker players in the world were born in Dudley 😦

Please consider applying to this post to work with my group- deadline 14 Dec 2023

Deeply pleased and honoured to receive this prestigious award. Extremely lucky to be supported by Psychology at Soton Southampton Medicine University of Southampton NIHR CRN Wessex Solent NHS Trust Solent Academy of Research and Improvement and all my local, national and international colleagues in the field of #ADHD .

I get that the formal point of the manycoauthors.org exercise is to establish who collected data, and no more.
But still, these numbers are terrible. Remove papers that have been or will be retracted and 15 out of 41 becomes 4 out of 29. #JustPostIt

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Spotlight on open research at Aston University - new LNL Community blog published today bit.ly/3Sz5B2b Learn all about Charlotte Pennington’s LNL role and her new open science book Charlotte Pennington #openscience #opendata #transparency

1/12 New paper on psychedelics as treatments for mental health problems!

We discuss 10 challenges which limit conclusions that can be drawn about safety/efficacy of psychedelic therapy.

We share checklist for journalists, policymakers & others to assess study quality.

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The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines look to be available down under in March, just 4 days after the UK - although sometimes it feels as if Oz is years behind amzn.to/46044Fl

Later today there is a new Nullius In Verba episode on Peer Review, where we will give useful advice for junior researchers on how to respond to peer reviews, such as the 'Einstein Method': 'I see no reason to address the—in any case erroneous—comments of your anonymous expert.'

If you’ve ever completed an IAT online, you’ll know it gives you feedback on your level of bias.

@jamiecummins.bsky.social and I thought it was weird that no one has ever put confidence intervals on IAT scores, so we did it.

It turns out the IAT can say very little about individuals…

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Please consider applying for this position of Senior Research Assistant (PhD Level) to work with my team on an exciting project involving electronic health records ( #EHR ) in #ADHD

DEADLINE: 23 November 2023

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I am here to THANK GREATLY everyone who helped collect numerous boxes of medical items from our CRFs for Ukraine! So many people across 3 campuses responded ❤️
All goods are on their way to Ukraine. Special thanks to dream team Old Age Psychiatry King's College London, friends at Russian Democratic Society UK & #UkraineUkUnity 🇺🇦

Reminds me of minced beef from Sainsbury's

Sam Bowman

Royal Society meeting “The promises and pitfalls of preregistration” to be held in London (and online) March 4th-5th, 2024. Free to attend. Call for posters and lightning talks now open. Details: royalsociety.org/science-events… w/ Marcus Munafò Sophia Crwll is on 🟦☁️ Dorothy Bishop EJ Wagenmakers

A lot of the reservations with the ban stem from what happens to dogs in rescue.

We'd be entirely supportive of measures which allow rescues to rehome Bully XL type dogs during the amnesty period. No one wants dogs needlessly put down.

However, we find the stance of the RSPCA

The WHO/UN in a new position paper on mental health and human rights have called for higher standards on informed consent regarding psychotropic drugs, including their right to discontinue treatment and support to do so who.int/publications/i…

This agreement between UCU & USS Employers on USS is very good👇. It's highly significant that it has the unanimous support of UCU's negotiators. 1/
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Workers on the Millennium Bridge, by reducing the headroom of the bridge while they work, have triggered an ancient by-law of London requiring that a bale of straw be hung underneath to warn river traffic:

New paper with Ian Hussey, Taym Alsalti and Ruben C. Arslan (@ruben.the100.ci at b sky). We show that most measures are only used once or twice, with no tendency to agree on gold standards. This is a serious barrier to cumulative science, and leads to lots of papers without meaningful progress.

On BBC Panorama, Mark Horowitz highlights the serious adverse withdrawal effects of antidepressants.

He talks about this with me and how he is reforming clinical practice so others can safely come off them should they choose to do so.

Thank you Mark!

Link: youtu.be/8unAazf7pss?fe…