Dr Arish / आरिश 🏳️🌈
@arishmrl.bsky.social
Researcher in neuroscience and psychiatry @EdinUniNeuro.bsky.social interested in HIV mental health & inflammation. I also do other stuff.
www.arishmrl.com
www.arishmrl.com
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@dsmith2025.bsky.social and I have another new paper out today in BMJ Mental Health. Excited to have published the first ever research study from the Our Future Health UK cohort, involving data from over 1.5 million adults. Highlights below 👇
LINK: doi.org/10.1136/bmjm...
@edinunineuro.bsky.social
LINK: doi.org/10.1136/bmjm...
@edinunineuro.bsky.social
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It was lovely speaking to @harmitmalik.bsky.social for @dmmjournal.bsky.social Infectious Disease Special Issue. We chatted about his work on host-viral evolution, the importance of blue-skies research and his approach to creating a supportive lab environment
journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
For our #InfectiousDisease Special Issue we interviewed the marvelous @harmitmalik.bsky.social ! We discussed the #viral arms race, how to support mentees and the beauty of basic science 🔬
journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
The viral arms race: an interview with Harmit Malik
Harmit Malik. Photo credit: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.Harmit Malik is Professor and Associate Director of the Basic Sciences Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, WA,…
journals.biologists.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It was lovely speaking to @harmitmalik.bsky.social for @dmmjournal.bsky.social Infectious Disease Special Issue. We chatted about his work on host-viral evolution, the importance of blue-skies research and his approach to creating a supportive lab environment
journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
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Our #METPSY study explores how metabolism connects to mental health.
Yesterday, we hit 25% of our recruitment target! 🎉
Interested in taking part? Recruitment is still open! Get in touch with the team or visit our website to learn more 👇
📩 metpsy@ed.ac.uk
🔗 tinyurl.com/metpsy25
Yesterday, we hit 25% of our recruitment target! 🎉
Interested in taking part? Recruitment is still open! Get in touch with the team or visit our website to learn more 👇
📩 metpsy@ed.ac.uk
🔗 tinyurl.com/metpsy25
November 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Our #METPSY study explores how metabolism connects to mental health.
Yesterday, we hit 25% of our recruitment target! 🎉
Interested in taking part? Recruitment is still open! Get in touch with the team or visit our website to learn more 👇
📩 metpsy@ed.ac.uk
🔗 tinyurl.com/metpsy25
Yesterday, we hit 25% of our recruitment target! 🎉
Interested in taking part? Recruitment is still open! Get in touch with the team or visit our website to learn more 👇
📩 metpsy@ed.ac.uk
🔗 tinyurl.com/metpsy25
Incredibly powerful and personal article. How often have we rushed to meet last-minute ("rapid") funding calls or squeezed projects into financial year-end deadlines? Time in academic does feel 'manic'. The authors describe so eloquently why this encourages us to disguise failures as learning.
Failure hurts. How can the concept of bipolar time help us understand it?
@lizziereed.bsky.social @robinskyer.bsky.social reflect on an unsuccessful research project, relentless demands for productivity, and the importance of radical acceptance.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/zb4uVL6
@lizziereed.bsky.social @robinskyer.bsky.social reflect on an unsuccessful research project, relentless demands for productivity, and the importance of radical acceptance.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/zb4uVL6
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Incredibly powerful and personal article. How often have we rushed to meet last-minute ("rapid") funding calls or squeezed projects into financial year-end deadlines? Time in academic does feel 'manic'. The authors describe so eloquently why this encourages us to disguise failures as learning.
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Monica Gandhi delivered a powerful plenary at #EACS2025 on the history and the future of HIV treatment.
Although HIV and AIDS have largely dropped out of the headlines, the pandemic is not over.
More than 40.8m people are now living with HIV (Russian data is missing) more than at any other time.
1/5
Although HIV and AIDS have largely dropped out of the headlines, the pandemic is not over.
More than 40.8m people are now living with HIV (Russian data is missing) more than at any other time.
1/5
October 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Monica Gandhi delivered a powerful plenary at #EACS2025 on the history and the future of HIV treatment.
Although HIV and AIDS have largely dropped out of the headlines, the pandemic is not over.
More than 40.8m people are now living with HIV (Russian data is missing) more than at any other time.
1/5
Although HIV and AIDS have largely dropped out of the headlines, the pandemic is not over.
More than 40.8m people are now living with HIV (Russian data is missing) more than at any other time.
1/5
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Our latest data presented at #IAS2025 tracks global policies harming migrants, students & workers living with #HIV.
Explore Positive Destinations www.positivedestinations.info/news/17928-g...
Explore Positive Destinations www.positivedestinations.info/news/17928-g...
October 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Our latest data presented at #IAS2025 tracks global policies harming migrants, students & workers living with #HIV.
Explore Positive Destinations www.positivedestinations.info/news/17928-g...
Explore Positive Destinations www.positivedestinations.info/news/17928-g...
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Seems very timely
"What normalization does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary. It makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been."
— Jason Stanley. How Fascism Works
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Fas...
"What normalization does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary. It makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been."
— Jason Stanley. How Fascism Works
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Fas...
September 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Seems very timely
"What normalization does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary. It makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been."
— Jason Stanley. How Fascism Works
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Fas...
"What normalization does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary. It makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been."
— Jason Stanley. How Fascism Works
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Fas...
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First-Person Psychiatric Accounts: A Substack Collection
Personal accounts of mental health challenges and mental healthcare, many of which are among the most widely read and appreciated posts in Psychiatry at the Margins.
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/first-pers...
Personal accounts of mental health challenges and mental healthcare, many of which are among the most widely read and appreciated posts in Psychiatry at the Margins.
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/first-pers...
First-Person Psychiatric Accounts
A Substack Collection
www.psychiatrymargins.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
First-Person Psychiatric Accounts: A Substack Collection
Personal accounts of mental health challenges and mental healthcare, many of which are among the most widely read and appreciated posts in Psychiatry at the Margins.
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/first-pers...
Personal accounts of mental health challenges and mental healthcare, many of which are among the most widely read and appreciated posts in Psychiatry at the Margins.
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/first-pers...
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🚨 New Job Opportunity! 🚨
We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to support active clinical research studies within the Hub (principally the METPSY research study) at the University of Edinburgh.
📍Edinburgh
📆 Apply by 11th September
🔗 More info 👇
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to support active clinical research studies within the Hub (principally the METPSY research study) at the University of Edinburgh.
📍Edinburgh
📆 Apply by 11th September
🔗 More info 👇
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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ALT: a sign that says we 're hiring in orange on a white background
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August 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
🚨 New Job Opportunity! 🚨
We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to support active clinical research studies within the Hub (principally the METPSY research study) at the University of Edinburgh.
📍Edinburgh
📆 Apply by 11th September
🔗 More info 👇
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to support active clinical research studies within the Hub (principally the METPSY research study) at the University of Edinburgh.
📍Edinburgh
📆 Apply by 11th September
🔗 More info 👇
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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🚨Update: METPSY is now recruiting adults aged 16–35! 🚨
Adults aged 16–35 living in Scotland can now take part in our METPSY study (previously 16–25). Open to those with a diagnosis of depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia.
Interested? Get in touch 📩 metpsy@ed.ac.uk or visit our website!
Adults aged 16–35 living in Scotland can now take part in our METPSY study (previously 16–25). Open to those with a diagnosis of depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia.
Interested? Get in touch 📩 metpsy@ed.ac.uk or visit our website!
August 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
🚨Update: METPSY is now recruiting adults aged 16–35! 🚨
Adults aged 16–35 living in Scotland can now take part in our METPSY study (previously 16–25). Open to those with a diagnosis of depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia.
Interested? Get in touch 📩 metpsy@ed.ac.uk or visit our website!
Adults aged 16–35 living in Scotland can now take part in our METPSY study (previously 16–25). Open to those with a diagnosis of depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia.
Interested? Get in touch 📩 metpsy@ed.ac.uk or visit our website!
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Calling all early-career researchers!! @thetransmitter.bsky.social & @neuromatch.bsky.social want to know: what kinds of resources do early-career researchers need? Share you thoughts anonymously at the link below:
www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
What kinds of support do early-career researchers need?
Help The Transmitter and Neuromatch bolster the next generation of neuroscientists.
www.thetransmitter.org
July 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Calling all early-career researchers!! @thetransmitter.bsky.social & @neuromatch.bsky.social want to know: what kinds of resources do early-career researchers need? Share you thoughts anonymously at the link below:
www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
I love when this happens, and also feel frustrated when I can’t show them to the world. My human just ends up having to deal with me showing him all the pretty plots.
July 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I love when this happens, and also feel frustrated when I can’t show them to the world. My human just ends up having to deal with me showing him all the pretty plots.
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@arishmrl.bsky.social & colleagues have found that people with autoimmune conditions are at nearly double the risk of mental health issues - depression, bipolar, anxiety - compared to the general population. Read the full paper: edin.ac/40jxw9h; highlighted in the Guardian 25/06: edin.ac/44pQyfF
June 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
@arishmrl.bsky.social & colleagues have found that people with autoimmune conditions are at nearly double the risk of mental health issues - depression, bipolar, anxiety - compared to the general population. Read the full paper: edin.ac/40jxw9h; highlighted in the Guardian 25/06: edin.ac/44pQyfF
@dsmith2025.bsky.social and I have another new paper out today in BMJ Mental Health. Excited to have published the first ever research study from the Our Future Health UK cohort, involving data from over 1.5 million adults. Highlights below 👇
LINK: doi.org/10.1136/bmjm...
@edinunineuro.bsky.social
LINK: doi.org/10.1136/bmjm...
@edinunineuro.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
@dsmith2025.bsky.social and I have another new paper out today in BMJ Mental Health. Excited to have published the first ever research study from the Our Future Health UK cohort, involving data from over 1.5 million adults. Highlights below 👇
LINK: doi.org/10.1136/bmjm...
@edinunineuro.bsky.social
LINK: doi.org/10.1136/bmjm...
@edinunineuro.bsky.social
What is 'metabolic psychiatry'? And how can we make meaningful advances in mental health prevention and treatment using metabolic science?
Out now in Nature Mental Health, our new article defining this emerging field and outlining key questions for future research: rdcu.be/etahP
Out now in Nature Mental Health, our new article defining this emerging field and outlining key questions for future research: rdcu.be/etahP
June 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
What is 'metabolic psychiatry'? And how can we make meaningful advances in mental health prevention and treatment using metabolic science?
Out now in Nature Mental Health, our new article defining this emerging field and outlining key questions for future research: rdcu.be/etahP
Out now in Nature Mental Health, our new article defining this emerging field and outlining key questions for future research: rdcu.be/etahP
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I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.
Had a great time teaching on the Neuroimmunology & Neurochemistry themed Africa Advanced School in Neuroscience. Teaching is, as always, the part of my job that makes me happiest. Now onwards to #SONA2025!
April 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Had a great time teaching on the Neuroimmunology & Neurochemistry themed Africa Advanced School in Neuroscience. Teaching is, as always, the part of my job that makes me happiest. Now onwards to #SONA2025!
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Upcoming Event! 📢
@arishmrl.bsky.social will be speaking at the National Rural Mental Health Forum on 30th April!
Sign up to learn more about how metabolism is connected to mental health and our newly launched study, METPSY 👇
changemh.org/forum
@arishmrl.bsky.social will be speaking at the National Rural Mental Health Forum on 30th April!
Sign up to learn more about how metabolism is connected to mental health and our newly launched study, METPSY 👇
changemh.org/forum
💡Did you know that metabolic health can affect your mental health?
Join us on 30th April for the National Rural Mental Health Forum. Dr Arish Mudara from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social will share their study that could change how we treat severe mental illness.
Sign up ⤵️
www.changemh.org/forum
Join us on 30th April for the National Rural Mental Health Forum. Dr Arish Mudara from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social will share their study that could change how we treat severe mental illness.
Sign up ⤵️
www.changemh.org/forum
April 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Upcoming Event! 📢
@arishmrl.bsky.social will be speaking at the National Rural Mental Health Forum on 30th April!
Sign up to learn more about how metabolism is connected to mental health and our newly launched study, METPSY 👇
changemh.org/forum
@arishmrl.bsky.social will be speaking at the National Rural Mental Health Forum on 30th April!
Sign up to learn more about how metabolism is connected to mental health and our newly launched study, METPSY 👇
changemh.org/forum
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Are you 16-25 and living in Scotland? 📣
Join our METPSY research study to help us understand how metabolism links to severe mental illness (depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia).
Interested? 📩 Get in touch at metpsy@ed.ac.uk!
Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/takeparthub
Join our METPSY research study to help us understand how metabolism links to severe mental illness (depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia).
Interested? 📩 Get in touch at metpsy@ed.ac.uk!
Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/takeparthub
April 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Are you 16-25 and living in Scotland? 📣
Join our METPSY research study to help us understand how metabolism links to severe mental illness (depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia).
Interested? 📩 Get in touch at metpsy@ed.ac.uk!
Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/takeparthub
Join our METPSY research study to help us understand how metabolism links to severe mental illness (depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia).
Interested? 📩 Get in touch at metpsy@ed.ac.uk!
Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/takeparthub
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Every trans person deserves safety, dignity and respect.
No exceptions. No conditions. No debate.
Visibility is only meaningful if it leads to real change.
#TDOV #TransDayOfVisibility
No exceptions. No conditions. No debate.
Visibility is only meaningful if it leads to real change.
#TDOV #TransDayOfVisibility
March 31, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Every trans person deserves safety, dignity and respect.
No exceptions. No conditions. No debate.
Visibility is only meaningful if it leads to real change.
#TDOV #TransDayOfVisibility
No exceptions. No conditions. No debate.
Visibility is only meaningful if it leads to real change.
#TDOV #TransDayOfVisibility
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Affective disorders and chronic inflammatory conditions: Analysis of 1.5 million participants in Our Future Health https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.25.25324636v1
March 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Affective disorders and chronic inflammatory conditions: Analysis of 1.5 million participants in Our Future Health https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.25.25324636v1
Our protocol for the METPSY study in the @hubmetpsych.bsky.social is out now in BMC Psychiatry. METPSY is a longitudinal study of metabolic markers and clinical outcomes in young people with depression, bipolar, or schizophrenia. Recruitment for the study opens shortly!
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
February 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Our protocol for the METPSY study in the @hubmetpsych.bsky.social is out now in BMC Psychiatry. METPSY is a longitudinal study of metabolic markers and clinical outcomes in young people with depression, bipolar, or schizophrenia. Recruitment for the study opens shortly!
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
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We're pleased to see that the Scottish Medicines Consortium approval of injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) for the prevention of HIV on the NHS in Scotland
This new option may help those facing barriers to using oral #PrEP
A significant step forward in #HIV prevention for people living in Scotland 🏴
This new option may help those facing barriers to using oral #PrEP
A significant step forward in #HIV prevention for people living in Scotland 🏴
February 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
We're pleased to see that the Scottish Medicines Consortium approval of injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) for the prevention of HIV on the NHS in Scotland
This new option may help those facing barriers to using oral #PrEP
A significant step forward in #HIV prevention for people living in Scotland 🏴
This new option may help those facing barriers to using oral #PrEP
A significant step forward in #HIV prevention for people living in Scotland 🏴
Interested in neuroimmunology? An exciting intensive course is planned just before the Society of Neuroscientists of Africa 2025 conference in Morocco. Please share widely: sona2025.uca.ma/Neuroimmunol...
February 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Interested in neuroimmunology? An exciting intensive course is planned just before the Society of Neuroscientists of Africa 2025 conference in Morocco. Please share widely: sona2025.uca.ma/Neuroimmunol...
It’s been a pleasure to take part in a series of futurist thinking sessions to imagine the future of the Africa Brain Health Network. It doesn’t end here — we are excited to work towards the vision of brain health being integrated into the daily lives of 1.5 billion people across Africa.
February 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
It’s been a pleasure to take part in a series of futurist thinking sessions to imagine the future of the Africa Brain Health Network. It doesn’t end here — we are excited to work towards the vision of brain health being integrated into the daily lives of 1.5 billion people across Africa.