Nora Skjerdingstad

This #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, we’re highlighting the importance of accessible, evidence-based support for autistic children 🔍

STAR-CAT is exploring whether an online, parent-led approach can improve outcomes for autistic children with anxiety problems 🖥️

Learn more ➡️ osiresearch.org.uk/star-cat/

We're on a mission to learn more about excessive worry in young people, and how to help those who experience it. Could your school or youth organisation help? Register your interest here: tinyurl.com/2c4jm59p

An exciting opportunity to learn more about the theory and applications of network approaches in psychology and beyond!💫 with @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social

Thrilled to announce the Oxford Psychological Networks Summer School (OxPNS)!

This is the first-ever psychological network analysis workshop in the UK, to be held in magical Oxford from June 22-26, 2026.

To apply and for more information, please visit: oxfordpns.com

A brief thread 🧵

🌟📝 Just out in World Psychiatry:

Our new piece demonstrates the added value of dynamic symptom networks for predicting treatment outcomes beyond baseline severity & common covariates, with an added explained variance of 9-22% at post-treatment & follow-up.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We’re launching a bi-weekly m-Path blog on #ESM / #EMA measurement, new papers & showcases.

🗓️ Every 2 weeks (Wed).

First up: item quality.
A paper by @gudruneisele.bsky.social introduces ESM-Q: a consensus checklist for good momentary items.

👉 Read the blog: blog.m-path.io/blog/our-blo...

Mange unge sliter med presentasjonsangst - dette er grunnen Synes du det er ubehagelig å holde presentasjoner? Her er noen tips!

In this news report with TV2, I outline the role of safety- and avoidance behaviours in maintaining public speaking anxiety.

🇧🇻 Intervju med TV2 om mekanismene bak presentasjonsangst, fokusert på hvordan unngåelse- og sikkerhetsatferd vedlikeholder lidelsen.

www.tv2.no/video/nyhete...

📣 Digital Research Community!

The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include.

Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Differential Associations of Anticipatory and Consummatory Anhedonia With Depression and Social Anxiety Symptoms: A Network Analysis of University Students Background Depression and social anxiety are frequently co-occurring conditions that significantly impact young people. Anhedonia may be important to consider in early interventions for these condit...

Excited to share our new publication out in Depression and Anxiety! A network analysis of dimensions of anhedonia, depression symptoms, and social anxiety symptoms in university students 🧵

doi.org/10.1155/da/5...

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Photo from from the Award Ceremony with Professor Gavin R. Screaton, Head of the Medical Sciences Division.

Honoured to receive the Teaching Excellence Award at University of Oxford after my 1st year with the university

The real credit goes to the students: teaching such talented minds is a privilege

📸 Thanks to my lovely colleague, Kate Nation
@ox.ac.uk @oxexppsy.bsky.social @magdalenoxford.bsky.social

Huge congrats to @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social on winning the prestigious Outstanding Doctoral Thesis of the Year by the Norwegian Psychological Association.

Read more: www.magd.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-ebra...

Omid V. Ebrahimi at the Doctoral Thesis of the Year Award ceremony.

I'm beyond words honoured to receive the Doctoral Thesis of the Year Award by the Norwegian Psychological Association!

Deeply grateful to my supervisors and the wonderful colleagues I've had the privilege of working with.

Interview about findings and a 🧵:
www.psykologforeningen.no/aktuelt/pand...

Other highlights included @larsklintwall.bsky.social and the always amazing @cathycreswell.bsky.social's talks 💬

Had a great time at #EABCT presenting work from both my clinical training and my PhD. Grateful to my fantastic symposium teams for making it such a rewarding experience🥰! @sophie-grant.bsky.social @sakshirajesh.bsky.social @emilykwhitaker.bsky.social

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How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies?

Examined in a massive EMA study (N = 3,761), our new #OpenAccess piece on this is just out:

online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

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Paper is out!🌼

How does where we live – urban, rural, or in-between – relate to our mental health? 🌆🏞️

In this cross-national study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵

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

Very excited to speak at the Network Science Conference in Maastricht this week about the utility of psychometric networks in the precision diagnostics field.

Come to our session on Friday at 2pm & check out the program for the many great talks at the conference

@netsciconf.bsky.social #NetSci2025

Mapping the Dynamics of Generalized Anxiety Symptoms and Actionable Transdiagnostic Mechanisms: A Panel Study Background: The long-term dynamic interaction between symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and their theorized mechanistic processes derived from three treatment models of GAD—the emotion d...

Our new paper in Depression and Anxiety contrast the impact of theory-driven transdiagnostic mechanisms on anxiety symptoms.

With @sachaepskamp.bsky.social, @noraskjerdingstad.bsky.social, @renefreichel.bsky.social and Skyless colleagues.

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/...

Well done! @emilykwhitaker.bsky.social 👏

A Systematic Review of Guided, Parent-Led Digital Interventions for Preadolescent Children with Emotional and Behavioural Problems - Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review Emotional and behavioural problems (EBP) are prevalent amongst children, and guided, parent-led digital interventions offer one method of improving access to effective treatments. This systematic revi...

Many congratulations to TOPIC's Emily Whitaker on leading this review paper now out in Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review! 🎉 This review is supported by Chloe Chessell & Maxwell Klapow.

Read below👇
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Psychsky #Psychology

We're excited to announce that the trial is now open to recruitment! Welcome to our very first site, Cambridge Community Services NHS Trust 👋

Over the next two years we will be aiming to recruit 650 families - have a read of our website to find out more: osiresearch.org.uk/star-cat 👈

Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions - Nature Human Behaviour Using a nationally representative UK sample of adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms, this Registered Report examined differences in social media use. The results suggest that adolesc...

After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com!

We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to give a talk at University of Cambridge's Psychiatry Department about precision diagnostics and profiles of depression, this Thursday at 12:30 BST.

The talk is hybrid, so feel free to DM me for a link if you wish to attend.

Developing a qualitative and quantitative ambulatory assessment-based feedback system within cognitive behavioural interventions for people with persecutory beliefs Although the application of self-monitoring (ambulatory assessment) and visual feedback in psychological interventions has yielded promising results, …

For those who are interested ESM feedback, happy to announce that a new paper is out, in which we combine qualitative and quantitative feedback! Innovations include clock graphs, stacked graphs, and word clouds with sentences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why I'm Increasingly Worried About Boys, Too Since the 1970s, boys have been pushed away from the real world and pulled into the virtual.

Jonathan Haidt has written about the potential harms of social media to girls, but what about boys (currently being widely discussed following the Netflix drama 'Adolescence')? This blog from 2023 discusses the tendency of boys to retreat and withdraw

substack.com/@jonathanhai...

Modifiable risk factors of vaccine hesitancy: insights from a mixed methods multiple population study combining machine learning and thematic analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic - BMC Medicine Background Vaccine hesitancy, the delay in acceptance or reluctance to vaccinate, ranks among the top threats to global health. Identifying modifiable factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy is cruc...

Excited to share our BMC Medicine article on Modifiable Risk Factors of Vaccine Hesitancy

With 2 independent teams of authors blind to each others procedures, we combine gradient boosting machines & thematic analysis, & replicate results in 2 nations 🧵
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Taking a break from smartphones: Study confirms its benefits A month-long randomized control trial confirms that reducing the time spent on smartphones to access the internet makes people happier and more focused.

Put down the phone! Escape the noise!

Taking a break from smartphones: Study confirms its benefits medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02...

From study: "The intervention improved mental health, subjective well-being, and objectively measured ability to sustain attention..."