Charlotte Austin

How do you design a study to descover how nature improves mental health?

I was thrilled to share our poster at the Oxford University Psychitry Away Day, summarising how we have worked with young people to co-produce a nature walk to invesitgate the relationship between nature and wellbeing.

And @jonathanschulz.bsky.social

Great paper @mohammadatari.bsky.social , @lioramorhayim.bsky.social, @damianblasi.bsky.social and Collegues!

Very excited to read this paper when peer-reviewed: WEIRD Questions: Diversifying Conceptual Sampling. Currently available as a pre-print!

Human Therapists Prepare for Battle Against A.I. Pretenders Chatbots posing as therapists may encourage users to commit harmful acts, the nation’s largest psychological organization warned federal regulators.

Effective therapy is so much more than saying the right words in the right order. Chatbots posing as therapists are dangerous.

Some products "claim to have advanced degrees from specific universities, like Stanford"

Glad the APA is speaking out about this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/h...

Has racism in medicine improved since 2020? Five years on from The BMJ’s special issue on racism in medicine—and after a global pandemic—has anything improved in the NHS and UK medicine? Mala Rao sees shoots of hope, but Victor Adebowale argues...

Has racism improved in the NHS and UK medicine?

Mala Rao sees shoots of hope, but Victor Adebowale argues that any progress still has a long way to go
www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Misinformation circa 2025 Jeff Hancock & Ryan Moore

Here we go! 3rd installment of the misinformation and belief science preconference at #SPSP2025. First up is Jeff Hancock talking about the truth-default theory of deception detection. We are all truth-biased, expect ppl to be honest and most are but we can shift out of that mindset when cued. 1/

British and Japanese young people make mental health recommendations for public health emergencies Twenty eight young people from the UK and Japan played a leading role in co-designing the research, interviewing other young people and adults, analysing the findings, and developing the recommendatio...

Researchers have worked with young people from the UK and Japan to co-design an infographic with recommendations for supporting young people’s mental health in public health emergencies. Read more: tinyurl.com/ycyr4w9k

Thank you @bmj.com mental health for providing feedback and publishing the article and thank you to all our wonderful collegues at the @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social

Can sleep patterns reveal psychosis risk?

I'm excited to share our latest systematic review and meta-analysis: Digital sleep phenotype and wrist actigraphy in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis and people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...

Such an important research area!

This paper showing that kids evaluate punishment differently depending on severity, first-authored by Young-eun Lee, is now published. Pretty version here: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-.... Free full text in thread below. 🧪 #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #CogPsyc @socphilpsych.bsky.social

Department for Education. Effectiveness of school mental health awareness interventions Universal approaches in English secondary schools February 2025

Important new evidence published today: large-scale DofE trial (N=12,166) found that two universal MH awareness interventions, in secondary schools, led to an *increase* in emotional symptoms at long term (9-12 month) follow up

tinyurl.com/4ffday8y

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Would recommend any researcher working with PPIE read "‘Conjuring PPI’ - the unseen labour of patient and public involvement" in this NIHRs round-up!