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Ripley & Jonesy. New in my store andiwatson.bigcartel.com

solo trip to Winterbourne 🌺

Announcing our first PhD and ECR Research Day and CFP The Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health Call for Papers: Exploring lived experiences in mental health Launch event for P...

📣CFP for our launch event for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers at @unibirmingham.bsky.social

For this event, we are encouraging ECRS from any discipline to contribute a short presentation for this one-day workshop: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/08/anno...

Peer researchers in NHS research: approved in principle, undermined in practice? - Research Involvement and Engagement Background Despite the increasing support and expectation for involving people with lived experience in healthcare research in England, challenges persist when navigating organisational structures. Th...

Had a really engaging and interesting discussion today in the PPIE Lunchtime talk (led by @imh-uob.bsky.social Senior PPIE Lead Niyah Campbell) on this great paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#nowreading #booksky

**We are looking for healthy volunteers aged 18-40 years who have had some unusual experiences** for a paid study: more information below, please share! #ParticipantsNeeded #ResearchStudy #MentalHealthResearch #SERENE

Edris House. Painted 10 years ago this week! Watercolour. Still available as a print (A3 and A1) in my shop.

Marbled White butterfly - credit Luke Lithgoe/Wellcome Sanger Institute

Six-spot Butnet moth - credit Luke Lithgow/Wellcome Sanger Institute

Orange-tip butterfly credit Dr Sam Ebdon/Wellcome Sanger Institute

Are you taking part in the Big Butterfly Count this year?

Our latest blog dives into the DNA of butterflies and moths that have been spotted and sequenced at the Sanger Institute. 🦋

Find out some fun facts about these colourful creatures ⤵️
sangerinstitute.blog/2025/07/18/t...

'Annihilation' and the Eco-Horror Subgenre | Redbrick Slider (Culture) Sci & Tech editor Sophie Webb delves into eco-horror through the lens of Jeff VanderMeer's novel Annihilation, exploring the workings of this hauntingly pertinent sub-genre

For my last Redbrick article🥲 I discuss Jeff VanderMeer and his contribution to the eco-horror subgenre. Writing for this publication for 2 years has been a privilege 💖

www.redbrick.me/annihilation...

Either a broken thermometer or it’s halfway to boiling at 7pm on my mum and dad’s front porch…

Wellcome Connecting Science Interpreting Genomic Variation: Overcoming Challenges in Diverse Populations (free online course) Starts on 7 July Live for three weeks Sign up and start learning today

Our FREE #FLGenomicVariantsDiversity online course starts today (7 July) 🖥️

Learn how to navigate the complexities of #GenomeVariation for diverse populations, using #genomics tools for data analysis🧬

Plus, gain an understanding of #DataEthics through real-world case studies 🌍

📎bit.ly/3R7G7aK

Hottest day of the year so far at the Botanical Gardens🪴

#nowreading #booksky 🪐

‘My life was not as I would like it… it might be in my power to make it different’ | BPS An adapted extract from In Defence of Leisure: Experiments in Living with Marion Milner by Akshi Singh.

‘My life was not as I would like it… it might be in my power to make it different’
An adapted extract from In Defence of Leisure: Experiments in Living with Marion Milner (@jonathancape.bsky.social) by Akshi Singh.
Repost for your chance to win a copy!
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

This was a lovely event! 🇬🇧🇫🇷

Epistemic injustice in global antimicrobial resistance research

New on the #projectEPIC blog today is a very cool post by Phaik Yeong Cheah about the proliferation of epistemic injustice in antimicrobial resistance research: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/05/epis...

#epistemicinjustice #healthcare #globalhealth

more froggy costume paintings 🐸

Research Fellow - School of Psychology - 105743 - Grade 7 The post holder will create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within a specific research project funded by the NIHR Research Programme for Soci...

🚨 We're recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join an NIHR-funded study exploring mental health help-seeking among care-experienced young people in England.

📅 Deadline: 01/06/2025
🔗 More details here: shorturl.at/EK0YD

Please share with your networks!

More equitable methods are needed to ensure genomic research benefits everyone fairly, according to a new review article in Nature Reviews Genetics involving Genomics England researchers.

Find out more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@natrevgenet.nature.com

Frontiers | Underlying biological mechanisms of emotion dysregulation in bipolar disorder Difficulties with emotion regulation (ER) are a key feature of bipolar disorder (BD) contributing to poor psychosocial and functional outcomes. Abnormalities...

🔬 New review from the Mental Health Mission at the @imh-uob.bsky.social, which explores the biological underpinnings of emotional dysregulation in bipolar disorder, highlighting pathways for future, targeted treatments. #MentalHealth #BipolarDisorder #Neuroscience
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Robotic hand designed to collect samples on other worlds gets its mechanical fingers assembled in Spain.

🦾 A robotic hand designed to collect samples on other worlds has its mechanical fingers assembled.

This “hand” uses two tools to secure its treasure:
🖖 Fingers to grip sample tubes.
🪠A plunger to transfer them to a container.

More about this clever mechanism: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Birmingham Botanical Gardens, May 2024 🌿

A drawing of characters from the Star Wars cantina scene.

Happy Hour. An old Star Wars drawing from 2012 for May 4th.

Formula 1: Drive to Survive Season 7 - Review | Redbrick Slider (TV) Sci&Tech Editor Sophie Webb reviews Drive to Survive, finding it to be an entertaining step into the world of Formula One - despite its inaccuracies

www.redbrick.me/formula-1-dr...

I’m aware they’re just driving in circles, but that doesn’t make it any less entertaining👀🍿 DTS season 7 reviewed for Redbrick:

Support resources for our trans friends and allies | Good Law Project At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, it’s important to know what support is out there for trans, non-binary or gender-questioning individuals and ...

On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies.

Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...

An orange and black ink drawing of an alleyway and bar in golden gai in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Found in pile of watercolour sketchbooks. A drawing of Golden Gai in Shinjuku. Orange ink and pen.

Such a lovely cat! 🥹

Evidential Pluralism Mitigates Epistemic Injustice in Evidence-Based Evaluation

It's #EPICWednesday so we have a new post on the #projectEPIC blog! Today's is from Alexandra Trafimov and summarises her upcoming talk on how evidential pluralism can help overcome #epistemicinjustice in medical research: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/04/evid...

Peer Support in Mental Health webinar: Evidence, Experiences & Insights Welcome to the Mental Health Policy Research Unit webinar on peer support in mental health care in England, which took place on Zoom on Monday 20th January 2...

🫲🏽 Peer Support in Mental Health 🫱🏿

📺 Bumper set of very informative videos now launched!

We've loved working with the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Mental Health on these events this year.

#PeerSupport #MentalHealth

The International Narrative Neurology Network invites your participation/expression of interest!

A network for Led by @clairejeantils.bsky.social with @benbgdalton.bsky.social Rong Huang & Francois Tison. Full details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/claire...