Alex Lloyd

New paper just out (open access) 📣

How do early adversity and war trauma shape children’s decisions under uncertainty?

We tested Syrian refugee kids (7–12) in Amman vs. Jordanian peers across a set of learning/foraging tasks.

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#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢

🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.

Please RT

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

🧠🏫 AWARE and INSPIRE?
School mental health trials show mixed results and unexpected harms.

The Education for Wellbeing programme tested universal mental health approaches with 30k+ pupils.

Some benefits, but also unexpected harms, especially for vulnerable students.

🧵 THREAD

New report on understanding the drivers of declining youth mental health

To effectively respond to worsening mental health, we need to understand not just what is happening, but *why*

We used an evidence-based approach to unpack common explanations

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Alert! ... for the child development world!

@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪

The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.

Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org

and here:
nbdc-datahub.org

Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

CDS Summer School Program Registration Schedule Directions 8th – 12th September, 2025 The Center for Decision Sciences will be hosting a summer school during the second week of September, 2025 and taking place…

Registration is open for the Summer School on Computational Decision Sciences, 8–12 Sept

Join us in London for a week of cutting-edge research on decision-making, AI, cognitive science and more!

(free, register by 11Aug)

center-decision-sciences.com/cds-summer-s...
#PsychSciSky 🧠 #neuroskyence🧪

Postdoctoral Researcher in social/cognitive neuroscience with focus on social learning Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) is seeking a highly qualified postdoctoral researcher.

Join our @erc.europa.eu funded lab @ki.se! We're hiring a postdoc to explore how humans learn from each other — with fMRI, modeling, & behavioral experiments. 🧠👫
A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology.
Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

Are you a UK-based mental health research ECR? Are you looking for a transformative programme to help you meet amazing peers whilst also getting career support? This opportunity is for you! Check out the GROW 2025 Researcher Development Programme.

I wouldn’t be where I am today without it!

A feasibility study of a preventative, transdiagnostic intervention for mental health problems in adolescence: building resilience through socioemotional training (ReSET) - Child and Adolescent Psychi... Background Adolescence is a developmental period during which an estimated 75% of mental health problems emerge (Solmi et al. in Mol Psychiat 27:281–295, 2022). This paper reports a feasibility study ...

Read the paper here: capmh.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

New publication from the @resetproject.bsky.social! We assess the feasibility of delivering a selective intervention for young people at increased risk of mental health problems. Lots of learning about how we can provide group-based, preventative mental health interventions in schools

Scoping review: potential harm from school-based group mental health interventions Carolina Guzman-Holst, Rowan Streckfuss Davis, Jack L. Andrews, Lucy Foulkes

🚨NEW PAPER from my group: Scoping review of potential harm from group-based CBT and mindfulness interventions in schools

Our research question was essentially this: How often do school mental health interventions make things worse?

acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Join our team at an exciting point for the
@resetproject.bsky.social as we disseminate the findings from our school-based, preventative mental health intervention for adolescents!

📢 Are you an accredited therapist, psychologist, or counsellor? University College London (UCL) is conducting a study on the psychological link between childhood maltreatment & domestic abuse and the therapeutic approaches that foster safe relationships. 📩 Sign up here: bit.ly/41lGXon

Thank you for sharing Maria!

No decision about me, without me: Collaborating with young people in mental health research

⏰Got a spare 33 minutes? We’d suggest listening to @acamh.bsky.social new podcast🎧 – ReSET’s @dralexlloyd.bsky.social and Romana Saleh discuss their methodological review about ensuring meaningful engagement with people with lived experience in research. Listen here: acamhlearn.org/Learning/No_...

JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library Involving young people with lived experience in youth mental health research is important. The current review examined this question and identified common practices for collaborating with experts by ...

Link to the full paper: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

No decision about me, without me: Collaborating with young people in mental health research

Romana and I were delighted to be interviewed for @acamh.bsky.social about our recent scoping review about Patient and Public Involvement methods in child and adolescent mental health. You can listed to the podcast here!

acamhlearn.org/Learning/No_...

Examining longitudinal associations between interpersonal outcomes and general psychopathology factors across preadolescence using random intercept cross-lagged panel model - PubMed Psychopathology was found to influence interpersonal outcomes during preadolescence, while the reverse effects were less readily observed, once between-person level effects were accounted for.

📰 In case you missed it! New publication in The JCPP from ReSET Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Tom Wu (along with @dralexlloyd.bsky.social et al.) exploring longitudinal associations between interpersonal outcomes and general psychopathology factors, read it here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39731442/

Department for Education. Effectiveness of school mental health awareness interventions Universal approaches in English secondary schools February 2025

Important new evidence published today: large-scale DofE trial (N=12,166) found that two universal MH awareness interventions, in secondary schools, led to an *increase* in emotional symptoms at long term (9-12 month) follow up

tinyurl.com/4ffday8y

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We were glad to be able to submit evidence to POST's new evidence briefing on wellbeing in schools. Using emerging evidence from @resetproject.bsky.social we made the case for increased focus on selective, preventative interventions for mental health problems in adolescence

Thank you! 😊

Throughout this year’s @place2becharity.bsky.social #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek 💛 we will be sharing tips & strategies used in the ReSET groups to support young people to develop their self-awareness. For day 1, here are some tips on how to have conversations with young people about self-awareness:

My team is looking for someone to lead our operations and communications in a senior-level role! More details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50079/

We are hiring! We're looking for a great project manager to help with a large-scale Wellcome funded study. If you know of anyone that this might appeal to, please share.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49880/

THE HUO FAMILY FOUNDATION AWARDS EIGHTEEN NEW GRANTS TOTALLING £1.7M TO THE ARTS, EDUCATION, AND EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS – Huo Family Foundation The Huo Family Foundation is delighted to start the new year by making eighteen grants to the Arts, Education, and Scientific sectors, as it continues to focus its giving on education, communities, an...

Overjoyed to have received funding from the Huo Family Foundation through their pilot grant scheme! I will examine if explore/exploit decision-making can explain mechanisms of how young people engage with social media + how this is associated with mental health outcomes huofamilyfoundation.org/news/

Hey @thementalelf.bsky.social - fresh off the press! @resetproject.bsky.social

We are delighted to be working with the ReSET Project team in 2025, to help them disseminate the findings of their amazing school-based, transdiagnostic, preventative intervention for adolescent mental health. resetproject.co.uk

thank you Natalia!