Steph Allan

"...campaigning by disabled activists, & ensuing disability rights wins (made it) possible to reclaim diagnoses such as autism or ADHD... to recognise forms of workplace discrimination, harm, & exclusion caused by inaccessible institutions & in turn the productivist norms of capitalist society."

yeah I met Jojo at uni and she isn't lying about this x

oh wow what she doing?

Tried a new antipsychotic as current one is causing metabolic problems, and the new one made me dangerously physically unwell. Ah, baws. Back to the drawing board.

Thank you for your service

If you serve on a Research Ethics Committee please read our editorial:

'Recovery Philosophy, Mental Health Nursing Research and the Challenge of Paternalism in Research Ethics Committees'

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Spain, an EU member, has, as I'd often said, the second highest number of bodies (+120000) in "known" mass graves after Cambodia. But, often forgotten, we we don't know how many in mass graves from Maoist China, Stalinist Russia, Suharta's massacre of Indonesian Communists, Congo etc

Understanding the relationship between autism and hypermobility | Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Programme | Usher Institute Precision Medicine Project - Understanding the relationship between autism and hypermobility

We are recruiting a fully-funded 3.5yr PhD student to examine the potential genetic relationships between autism and hypermobility. Full details of the project and how to apply here ⬇️

usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...

Deadline Jan 12th! Within the Precision Medicine DTC at Edinburgh.

Does your team require high quality qualitative research support?

I set up my own research consultancy in January 2021 following a career as an academic social and public health researcher, and can offer my help with this on a freelance basis. My web: lnkd.in/e4feyBMw

“I think office environments aren’t really conducive to physical activity”: a qualitative interview study with participants of a workplace physical activity programme - BMC Public Health Background There is a wealth of evidence surrounding the positive impacts of exercise on health and wellbeing, however, sedentary behaviour is still prevalent, particularly in the workplace. This has ...

bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 2025
“I think office environments aren’t really conducive to physical activity”: a qualitative interview study with participants of a workplace physical activity programme. Our latest article!

Great to see this video about the iMAPS-2 trial results of imagery therapy for psychosis below 👇
@sheffielduni.bsky.social
@penninecarenhs.bsky.social
@nihr.bsky.social

🌈 Do you know anyone passionate about researching LGBTQ+ suicide, suicide prevention and suicide bereavement, experienced in qualitative methods, and looking for work?

Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow!

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Such a good survey design

Request #8538 to @bsky.app:

I would love to use Bluesky regularly, but I can’t.

Why? No locked/private accounts.

This isn’t a nice-to-have feature. It’s a safety essential that excludes many in Mad and Disabled communities who face real risks posting publicly.

Please sort this Out.

A University of Lancashire poster, inviting people to participate in research. Have you experienced harm from mental health services? You are invited to take part in this study which is looking to identify and examine overlooked and lesser known forms of harm in UK mental health services. Taking part will involve completing an anonymous online survey, involving questions about your experiences of harm. This will take approximately 15-45 minutes to complete. I am looking for individuals who are aged 18+, AND have experienced harm from mental health services within the UK from 2010 onward, OR are the carer/family member of someone who has experienced harm from mental health services within the UK from 2010 onward. For more information, or to take part, please scan the QR code or go to this web address: https://tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx Who Am I? My name is Lauren Langley and I am a PhD student at the University of Lancashire. I am Autistic and have lived experience of trauma and mental illness. As a mental health patient, I have experienced harm from mental health services. If you have any questions, please get in touch: llangley1@uclan.ac.uk (picture below of a white person with ginger hair, wearing a blue t-shirt) Further information, including FAQs, and Easy Read and downloadable versions of the questionnaire are available on the study website: www.hiddenharms.wordpress.com Ethical Approval No: BAHSS2 01118

Hi, I'm v new to bsky. I'm a PhD student focusing on harm in UK mental health services, & I would like to hear about your experiences of harm in services between 2010-2025. (Mental health services includes NHS, charities, companies, private therapists & other orgs) 1/7 tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx

Completely agree. Wish had included this aspect now!

Olivia Guest, Marcela Suarez, Barbara Müller, Edwin van Meerkerk, Arnoud Oude Groote Beverborg, Ronald de Haan, Andrea Reyes Elizondo, Mark Blokpoel, Natalia Scharfenberg, Annelies Kleinherenbrink, Il... Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. ...

features an invitation to read @olivia.science and colleagues philpapers.org/rec/GUEATU

psychosisresearch.info/artificial-i...

There is some enthusiasm locally for using large language models (LLMs) to create more diverse patient and public involvement in clinical research - given PPI is hard to do. We at @psychosisresearch.bsky.social have some concerns we have summarised here.

I need to cite something to say an LLM is not a human. Won’t lie, not arguments I thought I’d make when I came to Uni… thanks for all you and colleagues do.

Sending kind wishes

turning researchers into glassy eyed automatons who prompt a machine to churn out 150 papers a year for their glassy eyed peers to feed through the same machine for "peer review" so they can be published behind a massive paywall ... it's like Robert Maxwell's wet dream

'Possible' misuse of Oxevision monitoring system, trust admits The use of the monitoring system in mental health wards has been explored at the Lampard Inquiry.

BBC News - 'Possible' misuse of Oxevision monitoring system, trust admits - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Currently on the "justify everything" stage of registered report writing. Justifying "Why Scotland". Why indeed.

thanks so much

Have given myself a challenge of learning how to do a registered report - by doing!

Does anyone have an example of a stage 1 registered report that I could look at, please?

@researching-reb.bsky.social might ?

I feel the government want folk with serious mental illness to die. Speaking with my 'serious mental illness patient' hat on. See also whatever is happening with PIP.

Thanks for sharing my LinkedIn post. Appreciate the working class solidarity and as someone doing mental health research in Glasgow, excited to read it and share with colleagues when it’s ready.

You’ll smash it

Such an important article from @researchpixie.bsky.social et al

More time and research needed into this neglected area