Phil Batterham

Yes to the above... I get more engagement there than here when I post about papers etc, from both academia and broader sector. I don't usually accept connection requests from people I don't know unless there is a clear reason.

New paper: cohort profile for the LifeTrack Project, providing new insights into suicidal distress (open access) doi.org/10.1016/j.ps...

Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Improving the Health of People Born with Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics Up to $30,000 scholarship to support a student who is undertaking research in the field of bioethics or health law related to the Interconnect Health Research project’s focus.

Are you keen to pursue further studies in health, health law, bioethics, or a related field, to promote the health of people with innate variations of sex characteristics? Consider this PhD scholarship for domestic (Australian/NZ) students! Closing date: 27 April

www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today.

Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.

Evidence & Implementation Summit 2025 should be an enriching experience at a critical time. Abstracts close 18 May.

Keep posted: we’ll be advertising two fully funded PhDs soon on (1) inequalities, poverty and suicide risk and (2) suicide risk in agricultural communities

The total Australian Research Council budget is $1bn.

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.


I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

People might think that whatever destruction is done to science in the US, we can undo in 4 years with a Democratic president and Congress.

The problem is that many areas require specialized knowledge and skills built up over years, and once that's lost, it's hard to get back.

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

Image with photos of presenters and topics & times: Stephen Schueller, PhD, USA: Examining learnings from a roll-out of digital mental health in California Matthew Coleshill, PhD, Australia: The evaluation and implementation of The Essential Network (TEN): A blended care mental health support service for Australian health professionals Andrea Graham, PhD, USA: Implementing Digital Mental Health Interventions in Health Care Settings Host: Prof Nick Titov, PhD, Australia Times: Los Angeles - 4pm Tuesday, 25 March Chicago - 6pm Tuesday, 25 March New York - 7pm Tuesday, 25 March London - 11pm Tuesday, 25 March Berlin - 12am Wednesday, 26 March Tel Aviv - 1am Wednesday, 26 March Seoul - 8am Wednesday, 26 March Sydney/Melbourne - 10am Wednesday, 26 March Auckland - 12 pm Wednesday, 26 March Sign Up: https://isrii.org/event/isig-webinar-4/

International Society for Research on Internet Interventions Free webinar:
Digital mental health services in large trials or routine care
with @stephenschueller.bsky.social, Matthew Coleshill, Andrea Graham, Nick Titov

March 25/26
isrii.org/event/isig-w...

Latest report from @amfarofficial.bsky.social showing for every $1 of #NIH funding received, a state generates $2.46 on average in increased economic activity.

Cutting #NIH grants doesn't make economic sense.

www.amfar.org/news/how-nih...

(Ignore the thumbnail which Bluesky pulled from a previous conference)

Call for Abstracts | EIS 2025 Submit an abstract for the Evidence and Implementation Summit (EIS) 2025 taking place in Melbourne 27-29 October 2025.

Abstracts are now open for the Evidence and Implementation Summit, Melbourne 27-29 October. www.eisummit.org/abstracts

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

DOGE recommended firing workers at:

-FDA, which oversees Neuralink

-FAA, which oversees SpaceX

-USAID, which probed Starlink

-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.

"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

NIH cuts indirect rates on grants to 15%.

This will be the end of American excellence in science.

Universities will struggle and many (likely most) will terminate their research programs.

Independent research institutions will not be able to survive this.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

An absolute disgrace... anticipating a mass exodus of the brightest minds from the US where science and expertise are no longer welcome

Published in British J Psychiatry, my thoughts on the problems with trying to predict suicidal behaviour and a call to end poorly conceived machine learning studies: doi.org/10.1192/bjp....

In an email the authors summarised "A key finding from this work is that there is limited statistical evidence to support the presence or absence of most edges in published networks. Approximately 80% of the edges we analyzed lack robust statistical support from the data."
(shared with permission) 🧵

Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

The stigma of anxiety disorders is alive and well in The Australian: "Parents should not indulge in conversations about negative feelings" and more dross - blame the parents and don't seek help?? (fortunately paywalled) www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/ne...

(Senior) Reporter (m/w/d) Job Title: (Senior) Reporter (m/w/d) Locations: Berlin or Syndey – hybrid working model; full time, permanent contract Application Deadline: January 20th 2025 About Springer Nature Group Springer Natu...

Greetings fellow, er, blueskiers?? I should probably start posting on here. How's this for starters: a fab opportunity to join team Nature! We're hiring a full time news reporter based in Berlin or Sydney: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

What a bunch of ableist nonsense from the PM - do better! The social media legislation completely goes against empirical evidence and ignores all of the submissions from experts in adolescent mental health. @albomp.bsky.social

Depression is preventable. Our individual participant data meta-analysis based on >7000 participants proved that psychological interventions reduce the incidence of depression within a year from 10% to 6%. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...