Lisa

Could anyone confirm or deny?

I was speaking to a psych grad who was told that there was a 5 year “expiration” date on their BPS accreditation. This is apparently why they weren’t accepted to do a doctorate in health psych. They never explained further, but it has me worried! 😟

"It's okay to want to be thin" opinion pieces aren't a rejoinder to a prominent thread of popular discourse critiquing thinness. That doesn't currently exist at scale in mainstream media. They're a self-soothing message, a preemptive defense to an imagined criticism.

Essentially, the "it's okay to be thin" opinion pieces aren't about giving people permission to feel how they feel about their bodies. They're about reassuring people that their desire to be thin isn't the result of a profound, ubiquitous cultural bias against fatness & bigotry toward fat people.

What folks are largely responding to is a brief period in the 2010s when thin people were exposed to moderately more images of fat people in marketing and media. It was an uncomfortable experience for plenty of thin people, but formulating any objection pretty quickly sounded bigoted.

The wild thing about the cultural impulse to reaffirm that it's okay to be thin is that its inverse isn't present in mainstream discourse. There aren't op eds arguing that it's NOT okay to be thin, or that you SHOULD want to be fat. It's a defense to an attack that simply doesn't exist.

Wanting to be thin isn’t a fringe perspective, nor is it edgy. It is the dominant narrative in a profoundly anti-fat culture. And in this particular moment, making media about how it’s okay to want to be thin also acts as de facto advertising for some of the wealthiest corporations in the world.

Guys I promise we do not need any more opinion pieces arguing that it’s okay to want to be thin

Ahh! Congratulations, Dr McEwan 🎉🍾

If you were to recommend a beginner-friendly textbook for statistics, what would it be?

Bonus: very much interested in textbooks that demonstrate the application to health sciences!

🔄 An editorial explores how small, progressive improvements can result in a meaningful impact on chronic oedema care.
🧠 A clinical comment applies psychological theory to support self-care in women with lipoedema, aiming to enhance patient engagement.

Are you 18+, in the UK, a woman/AFAB, and have chronic pelvic pain (6+ months)?
Been in an intimate relationship?

🗣️ We're inviting people to talk about how chronic pelvic pain affects their experiences of sexual satisfaction in a 60-min interview

👉 lnkd.in/eVff5CWb
📩 ejb00033@students.stir.ac.uk

Tips For Soothing Your Baby With Music, From A Music Therapist Babies like music, but they generally have preferences. A music therapist reveals the best kinds of music to soothe a baby.

You may have heard that music helps with brain development in babies. But what kind of music do babies like? And how can you tell if it’s too much for your baby?

🚨 Participants wanted! 🚨
Are you experiencing menopause & working in the UK?

Help an MSc Health Psych student explore how menopause affects work life.
📋 Quick survey (10–15 mins)
🔗 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/stirling/m...

Please share! 🙏
#MenopauseAtWork #Research #HealthPsychology

Got news yesterday that I my first ever co-authored paper was published! 🎉

It discussed how using psychological theory could help women with lipoedema engage with their own self-care.

For now 👀🤣

For any psych students (and lecturers) interested in cyber here’s a really cool FREE virtual event hosted by the BPS you can attend next week looking at @lindakkaye.bsky.social work on emojis 🤩🌟📖🎮

Link here: www.bps.org.uk/event/virtua...

#cyberpsychology

UK folks: today’s the day! @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social airs on BBC Four TODAY at 10pm, and it’s on iplayer!

I do this so often! I think that getting all that work done allows me to relax later on… I never end up relaxing and worry about the next thing.

How long have you got before the big day? 🫣

NHS GG&C is hosting an event to showcase available apprenticeships (2025) on Tuesday 25th Feb at 3pm.

The Apprenticeships are for people aged 16-24 (up to 29 if disabled or care experienced). If interested in, register for a free ticket: nhsggcapprenticeshippathwaysevent.eventbrite.com

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This account was created weeks ago and I still have no idea what to post about. It’s a bit stagnant when most of the people you follow on X haven’t transitioned over to BlueSky.

The joys, eh?