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🧵Involvement opportunity! Join us to support two exciting large Wellcome funded studies called Sleeping Better and FOCUS: tinyurl.com/4vmwv4tv. More details 👇 Oxford Psychiatry Oxford ExpPsychology Daniel Freeman Felicity Waite Belinda Lennox Rob_McCutcheon Pls RT!

Well done to DPhil student Thomas Reilly for winning the BAP Public Communications Junior Prize for his Thomas Reilly blog. Dr Reilly is a Medical Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellow researching how hormones affect mental health. Read the blog 👇 rationalpsychiatry.substack.com

What a line up of great professorial promotions UCL Psychiatry! Very well done, colleagues, and this must have an impressive impact on gender balance among our full professors! 🥂Profs Alexandra Pitman Naaheed Mukadam Francesca Solmi Nicola Morant Penny Rapaport (think they must

Irrespective of election results, the next UK government needs to make sure that UK universities and research institutes are able to attract the best global science talents. Wellcome appreciates the study by The Royal Society on "tax on talent" theguardian.com/education/arti…

JOB: Associate Professor of #Psychiatry with fellowship Wolfson College, Oxford & honorary Oxford Health NHS FT We're looking for a world-leading researcher who can deliver teaching & is committed to equality, diversity & inclusion #AcademicTwitter #academicjobs my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

New Oxford-Aarhus-Copenhagen collaboration - not yet launched - 2 postdocs, 2 senior postdocs and postdoc coordinator in Oxford. Jobs 173031-3 at jobs.ox.ac.uk Methods-focussed in group Holmes, Visscher, Evans, Nicholson, Christopher Yau, てん etc, Denmark ads soon

We are calling on the next government to unlock the power of research in the NHS. NHS clinical research is essential for driving healthcare innovation, but this national asset is under threat. Here's how the next government can help ⤵️ 🧵

PhD Studentship opp: Probiotics and menopause Starting in October 2024, the research will focus on the emotional & cognitive effects of a commercial probiotic in perimenopausal women & the involvement of gut microbes. jobs.ac.uk/job/DIK758/dph… #AcademicTwitter #Studentship

Important to foster the careers of clinical academic trainees in Forensic Psychiatry. I don’t think the specialty did this at all well for my generation and there’s no viable research future without them.

Academic neurology in the UK: a plea to turn away from the precipice academic.oup.com/brain/article/…

NEW PAPER: Neurological & psychiatric outcomes of semaglutide for Type II diabetes. Study Riccardo De Giorgi Maxime Taquet finds semaglutide: - does not negatively impact brain health - is associated with lower risk of cognitive problems & nicotine dependence psych.ox.ac.uk/news/new-study…

“action is needed to reverse the decline in clinical academics by working with universities, medical schools, and NHS trusts to create more flexible career pathways, recruit & retain a diverse research workforce representative of the populations it serves” thelancet.com/journals/lance…

THE INFLAMED BRAIN! Autoimmune conditions underlie some cases of psychosis. Scientists are expanding their search for patients, who often benefit from treatment. 1/

*Ten* 3-year post-doc/assistant prof jobs advertised for our Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed - address key questions in common complex diseases through development of new stat/comp tools & software. A new Denmark-Oxford collaboration. Critical mass! smartbiomed.dk/join-the-centr…

Prof Cath Harmers Oxford PERL Lab address as the new president of the BAP. Woohoo!

NEW PAPER 📢 New study indicates that the new recombinant shingles vaccine could reduce the risk of #dementia compared to a previous vaccine. Led by Maxime Taquet & funded by National Institute for Health and Care Research Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre the paper is published in Nature Medicine. 👇👇👇 tinyurl.com/39sp6vxb

Check out this exciting upcoming conference in September on body-focused repetitive behaviours. Led by Clare Mackay The Trich Prof alongside BFRB UK & Ireland it will include presentations from a range of academic disciplines. Sign up 👇

Rosalind Franklin was already a renowned structural biologist when on July 25, 1955 - her 35th birthday - she wrote to her dept. chair requesting a well-deserved raise. The arguments would be familiar to any academic today!

Under the guise of my new alter-ego The Trich Prof I like invite you all to the first ever Oxford BFRB Conference, co-organised with BFRB UK & Ireland psych.ox.ac.uk/BFRBConf. Here's why scientists and researchers should come...