Fran Meeten

Great new paper led by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, highlight the need to collect qualitative data in ESM / EMA research.

#PsychSciSky 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

‘Quantity, not quality’ of PhD supervisions key to promotion UK-wide survey of university promotion policies reveals emphasis on PhD recruitment and completions, rather than the need for high-quality support

Becoming a professor at a UK university is dependent on training high volumes of PhD students rather than delivering outstanding supervision, a report suggests. @jgro-the.bsky.social writes #EduSky #AcademicSky
ow.ly/eFjW50Yl5FT

Postpartum depression in dads is common – we can now spot and treat it Fathers may get postpartum depression at a similar rate to mothers, but it’s often overlooked. At last, the way we diagnose and treat it is improving, for the good of the whole family

Fathers may get postpartum depression at a similar rate to mothers, but it’s often overlooked. At last, the way we diagnose and treat it is improving, for the good of the whole family

Join us in Brighton this September!
www.bacn.co.uk/conferences
Symposium submissions due 31 March.

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either:

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📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026

‘I don’t care if Chat GPT isn’t a therapist, it’s helping!’ | BPS Psychologists Hedda van’t Land and Vittorio Busato explain why teens may be swayed towards using AI as therapy, and examine the potential consequences.

‘I don’t care if Chat GPT isn’t a therapist, it’s helping!’
Psychologists Hedda van’t Land and Vittorio Busato explain why teens may be swayed towards using AI as therapy, and examine the potential consequences.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

More and more countries are banning kids from social media But the case for bans is weak and the benefits are uncertain

The apps consume huge amounts of children’s time, which many parents would like to see put to different uses. But bans are hard to implement—and harder to enforce

Approximately 40% of all studies preregistered on the Open Science Framework are never shared publicly. That’s a lot. Researchers give several reason, and null results and bad planning (or lack of priority) are the main reasons.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Short thread on our new paper. We use face mask efficacy research as a “stress test” for systematic review methods. We analysed 66 systematic reviews of face mask efficacy; they reached widely different conclusions (~half said they work, half said that evidence of efficacy was lacking). 1/

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Promotional webinar poster from NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South London. Headline reads “Time for change! Co-producing peer research with diverse communities.” Text explains the webinar will share early findings from ARC South London research led by Dr Josephine Ocloo on developing peer research to increase diversity in participation and involvement. Event details: Thursday, Feb 5, 4–5pm, on Microsoft Teams. On the right is a photo of a two people talking over a notebook.

Just 24 hours left to register for tomorrow's webinar 'Time for change: Co-producing peer research with diverse communities'.

We have over 200 attendees already registered! #PPI

arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/events-train...

Students told us what GenAI guidance works. Here’s their advice Students are using GenAI whether you’ve addressed it or not. Here’s how to provide the clarity they’re asking for

“I know #ChatGPT can help with my literature review but I’ve no idea if I’m allowed to use it, how to cite it, or whether I’m somehow cheating.” Students are using #GenAI whether you’ve addressed it or not. Here’s how to provide the clarity they’re asking for: https://ow.ly/X7HB50Y8H0J #AcademicSky

Effects of non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation on pupil dilation are dependent on sensory matching Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) is a promising tool to modulate motivation and affect, with prior studies showing greater pupil dilation compared to sham. However, sensory dif...

Pupil dilation is an established biomarker of arousal, and studies have shown that non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) elicits pupil dilation. Here, we find that it depends on sensory matching.
#neuroskyence 🩺

Now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

The 'bible for psychiatry' is getting a rewrite: your guide to the next DSM The next version of the diagnostic tool will be a ‘living' and ‘scientifically rigorous manual’.

Mental illness affects one in four adults, which should make The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders one of the most well-thumbed medical texts in the world

go.nature.com/4tfNlLe

Looking forward to interesting discussions at our Maudsley NIHR BRC Digital Interventions research event. Further info on the work we have been doing in this area here www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/research/dig...

Will student loans be the next mis-selling scandal? Graduates are in uproar about Budget changes to loan repayment terms, and they have a point

Young professionals are bitterly angry about the student loans system, protesting that agreements they were encouraged to sign up to as 18-year-old school pupils are blighting their financial futures.

Do they have a point? ft.trib.al/vzP0xgI

We're running a 5th edition of the always-exciting UCL Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition this year, 8th-10th July 2026 in London. Accommodation and travel expenses are covered.

For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...

We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk
link.springer.com/article/10.3...

My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.

2025 was the year of online safety laws – but do they work? New laws in the UK, Australia and France were brought in during 2025 with the aim of protecting children from harmful content online, but experts remain divided on whether they will achieve this goal

New laws in the UK, Australia and France were brought in during 2025 with the aim of protecting children from harmful content online, but experts remain divided on whether they will achieve this goal

Are Psychological Scientists Overvaluing Significance? Some scientists are hesitant to submit nonsignificant results to journals, citing reputation as a major factor.

All I want for Christmas is... published nonsignificant findings and more Registered Reports?

www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

ECR looking for a change in the New Year?

We are recruiting a new Lecturer in Psychology at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social !

If you’d like to talk about life in the Department, please do feel free to get in touch.

Deadline 8th Feb - More details below 👇

cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

‘A meaningful psychology career doesn’t have to follow a straight line’ | BPS Rhema Akintunde on ‘learning to do things differently’ in the struggles after graduation…

‘A meaningful psychology career doesn’t have to follow a straight line…’
Rhema Akintunde on ‘learning to do things differently’ in the struggles after graduation…
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Our new paper "Inconsistent outcome measurement in depression psychotherapy trials: A systematic historical and meta-analytic review over the past 50 years" led by @antoniasprenger.bsky.social is out now in JAD.

🧪 #PsychSciSky

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Opinion: If a student feels remembered by a machine but overlooked by humans, something in the educational contract has broken, says Agnieszka Piotrowska #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/universities-must-respond-students-emotional-reliance-ai

Higher glucose levels buffer against everyday stress load Adaptive stress responses are dependent on the availability of energy and the body's effectiveness in metabolizing glucose as fuel. However, it is not well understood if glucose levels contribute to t...

📣I’m excited to share our new preprint on how our body’s energy supply shapes everyday stress experiences:

📄𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

More than half of disadvantaged students living at family home Admissions chief fears rise of commuter students may limit access to courses for those from poorest backgrounds

A record 90,000 UK undergraduates are living at home this year, according to new figures from the university admissions service

#EduSky #highered

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Big new blogpost!

My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.

--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Happy to see our registered replication paper out led by Nathan Pond as part of his PhD with Ryan Scott, @drpatclarke.bsky.social and Lies Notebaert. See more of Nathan's work here: www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-po...

Les femmes travaillent plus que les hommes et gagnent moins qu’eux

➡️ Lire plus : bit.ly/4iJSRki