Prof Stephen Wood

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Top headlines some time in 2052:

Thousands of heat deaths as mid-winter hot cell lingers

Floods engulf Melbourne’s inner east

The top suburbs you wish you bought into

Try this time friendly crispy lemon chicken

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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, my first rule of thumb, I don’t say where I’m going or where I’m coming from

This is not my beautiful pub... The strangeness of social media as it stops being a social hub.

Who *are* all these people? Where are my friends? Why are you selling me stuff I’m almost interested in? Where’s everyone gone?

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RESOURCE | Used to treat psychotic spectrum disorders including schizophrenia, clozapine is a medication that comes with specific requirements such as regular physical health tests.

Explaining this and similar FAQs is the focus of a new guide, co-designed with lived experience: bit.ly/3L2Z3r0

Women, and families, should be encouraged and supported by government policy to have exactly as many babies as they want. No more, no less. This will often be none / just one where women also value their work outside the home. This seems the case here. I don’t see why this is remotely controversial.

Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.

Google Scholar has introduced a 'Sh-index' metric that scores papers higher if you are first or last author. Apart from the fact metrics are generally bad, this one explicitly punishes PIs who often collaborate, publishing with 2 or 3 equal PIs at the end of the list.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tonight in 1962, as the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated toward direct confrontation, a sentry on patrol at Duluth Air Force Base in Minnesota thought he saw someone climbing the perimeter fence. He shot at the intruder and activated the base sabotage alarm, which by design automatically triggered ...

Depends. Mostly in Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia football will mean Australian rules. New South Wales and Queensland, football would more likely mean rugby league.

That’s quite a story.

Co-occurrence of Autism, Psychosis and Catatonia: A Scoping Review - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Purpose Autism, psychosis and catatonia were once considered part of schizophrenia. While both autism and catatonia have been “detached” from schizophrenia, co-occurrence of the three conditions may b...

Co-occurring autism, catatonia, & psychosis?--scoping review finds 17 papers, free link.springer.com/article/10.1... "studies failed to describe how the three diagnostic constructs were differentiated from each other" "symptoms were somewhat arbitrarily attributed to one construct versus the other"

💬Our new paper: We spoke w/ young people in Early Psychosis Services. They want:
🔹 A Safe space: feeling welcomed/not judged
🔹 Unconditional support “on my side”
🔹 Active involvement & partnership
🔹 Gradual self-management: building confidence connection & autonomy
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:

- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

I don't really have anything against Taylor and Travis as a celebrity couple, despite their overexposure, but it's definitely in last place among Taylor's recent relationships. Taylor and Joe Alwyn inspired much better music, and Taylor with Matty Healy was six billion times hotter.

Structural covariance network topology in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis: the ENIGMA-CHR Study - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Structural covariance network topology in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis: the ENIGMA-CHR Study

Structural covariance network topology in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis: the ENIGMA-CHR Study
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Corollary Discharge Dysfunction to Inner Speech and its Relationship to Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Patients with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVH)—the experience of hearing voices in the absence of auditory stimulation—are a cardi

New paper with Tom Whitford, using EEG to investigate inner speech in people with auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia.

academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

100%

Maybe could be pirates? Being charitable?

NSW government rejected expert advice before failed koala reintroduction that left more than half dead Exclusive: Documents reveal state environment department had ‘reckless indifference’ to fate of individual koalas, Greens spokesperson Sue Higginson says

Seems our current governments -state & federal - are not keen to listen to experts about anything much:
Climate science, (fossil fuel increases)
Defence (stupidity of Aukus)
Tax reform (not taxing mega corps)
Corruption (Nacc fail)

Feel free to add …
#ausPol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Looking Again at SSRIs in Adolescent Depression and Anxiety “Society gets the type of adolescent that it expects and deserves.”

Looking Again at SSRIs in Adolescent Depression and Anxiety

“Society gets the type of adolescent that it expects and deserves.”

A response of sorts to @ploederl.bsky.social‘s recent blogpost

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/looking-ag...

Hell Yes. Tax them like crazy!

With climate trigger axed Labor wants to rush new environmental laws through after ‘positive’ talks with Coalition Proposed timeframe leaves 12 days to scrutinise most significant changes to national environmental protection regime since 1999

What is the point of having an Environment Minister?

When was the last time they actually did something for the environment over lobbyist’ interests?

Oh, and why does a government with such a huge majority need to negotiate with The Coalition?

#AusPol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I follow a Norwegian lighthouse keeper named Paal Bjørndal whose whole bit is sharing profound things that are inaudible due to high winds. I love the internet.

Raising children is now *wildly* expensive. It shouldn't be, and wouldn't be, if we valued it more than the many other things the federal budget gets spent on ... like subsidising coal, iron ore and gas miners.

Do we have a future, at all, without the child-raisers?

Have plans on paper in case of cyber-attack, firms told Prepare to switch to offline systems in the event of a cyber-attack, firms are being advised.

Then: the office of the future will be paperless

Now: keep paper records

JAMA editorial says GLP-1's are ready for mainstream in psychiatry for weight gain on meds and metabolic dysregulation in psychiatric patients:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40991279/

Learn how to use them:
www.thecarlatreport.com/articles/535...

#psychiatry #pmhnp #medicine

Here’s another flashing red sign

Enjoying that this photo includes a row of tulips

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree