🚨🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - LIVED EXPERIENCE🚨🚨 Expressions of Interest are open for lived experience body image/eating disorders researchers to present virtually at the upcoming @BiRDEvents_ conference in Nov 2021! See sub-tweet for submission details!

Do you have lived experience of a body image or eating disorder? Are you conducting/involved in research in body image/eating disorders? Submit an abstract on your work for the virtual @BiRDEvents_ Conference by March 31st! *a general call for abstracts to be announced shortly

Read more about our survey for Australians with body dysmorphic disorder here! Please spread the word - we want to hear your voices! #BDD 🇦🇺 swinburne.edu.au/news/2021/05/n…

The final round of the #COVID19 Body Image survey is now open! Please take 20 mins to tell us how your #bodyimage is going at the moment - have you been affected by video calls, lockdowns, closed beauty/cosmetic services or stress? Complete the survey at bit.ly/covid19-bodyim…

Thanks St V's! I had my first Pfizer shot here today and all of the staff were so, so lovely! (and what a nice building to have it in). Thank you! 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️💉🥰

📜NEW PAPER📜Childhood maltreatment and trauma is common and severe in body dysmorphic disorder - Open access here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

My COVID baby is finally here! We conducted a systematic review of autonomic nervous system function in acute and weight-restored #anorexia. This included 46 studies with nearly 1000 participants 👇👇 1/ #openaccess frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

Please consider taking part in this study! We're looking for those with: 1-Lived experience of an eating disorder; 2-Carer/family of someone with an eating disorder; 3-Clinician working in eating disorders; and 4-Researcher working in eating disorders. swinuw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9y…

It’s been a big media week! The results from our recent study on the effects of #videocalls on #bodyimage during #covid19 featured in Herald Sun The Daily Telegraph Mercury and miragenews.com/increased-vide… - full publication coming soon in Aesthetic Surgery Journal/ASJ Open Forum! Professor Gemma Sharp Professor Susan Ross

🔥🔥FREE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE🔥🔥 Register now - places are filling fast! tinyurl.com/BIRD21 #BIRD2021

It's a good day when you wake up and can share your first empirical PhD publication 🤸‍♀️ We found that people with #anorexia (both underweight and weight-restored) have increased arterial stiffness, which is associated with increased anxiety & depression onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ps…

Very proud of Mirror Mirror - it’s still weird seeing myself on the TV! Swinburne University of Technology If you didn’t get chance to watch it you can download from 10play. Important documentary about body image. Informative, sensitive and so needed to raise awareness. Thank you to Todd Sampson

This clip shows the extent of the suffering people with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) endure. 0 out of 100 on self esteem. Well done Andre for sharing your story on camera. Todd Sampson

Thank you for watching #mirrormirror. If you’ve missed it, it’s on tenplay.com.au. There are also plenty of behind the scenes clips and even my own foray onto the table….worth a look.

New article!📜✨Difficulties with sense of identity and internalised shame are prominent among people with BDD or OCD. We think these could be very important areas to target in treatment. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

It has begun! Very excited to present some of my #PhD findings on the psychophysiology of anorexia nervosa alongside an amazing line up of speakers on body image and eating disorders #MentalHealthMatters #eatingdisorders

Kicking things off with our international keynote speaker, Joanna Steinglass, MD!