Fran Meeten
@drfranmeeten.bsky.social
Clinical Psychologist at King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Interested in experimental methods and research into and treatment of anxiety.
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📢📢 Come and work with us! New research coordinator post to support Wellcome Trust funded research to sustain and scale our digital parent led CBT programme in diverse global settings. Closes 21/11 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
📢📢 Come and work with us! New research coordinator post to support Wellcome Trust funded research to sustain and scale our digital parent led CBT programme in diverse global settings. Closes 21/11 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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British nationals living abroad call on UK universities to introduce new tuition fee tier to put an end to requirement of paying international student prices #highered #EduSky https://ow.ly/F4bv50Xl4rO
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
British nationals living abroad call on UK universities to introduce new tuition fee tier to put an end to requirement of paying international student prices #highered #EduSky https://ow.ly/F4bv50Xl4rO
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This is superb - thank you @sjblakemore.bsky.social @roryoc.bsky.social @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social -- The Teenage Brain Explained with Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore youtu.be/xy7jkcSl8to?... via @YouTube
The Teenage Brain Explained with Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
YouTube video by MQ Mental Health Research
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November 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This is superb - thank you @sjblakemore.bsky.social @roryoc.bsky.social @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social -- The Teenage Brain Explained with Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore youtu.be/xy7jkcSl8to?... via @YouTube
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Eye-opening work on heterogeneity among depression scales. Also, I’m a pluralist and everything, but … do we need 27 youth depression scales? Why have researchers not updated and further developed them? What does this say about the state of our field?
Great to see our content analysis of 27 Chinese youth depression scales finally out!
Following @eikofried.bsky.social excellent work on depression scales, we included 27 scales and quantified the heterogeneity by analyzing data from 12,000 youth who completed 4 of them.
Comments are welcome!
Following @eikofried.bsky.social excellent work on depression scales, we included 27 scales and quantified the heterogeneity by analyzing data from 12,000 youth who completed 4 of them.
Comments are welcome!
November 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Eye-opening work on heterogeneity among depression scales. Also, I’m a pluralist and everything, but … do we need 27 youth depression scales? Why have researchers not updated and further developed them? What does this say about the state of our field?
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Two postdoctoral positions available in my group. Using longitudinal and genetic data to explore the causality of social, psychological, and biological mechanisms in driving the impacts of childhood adversity on anxiety.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLA695/s...
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Senior Research Associate in Epidemiology at University of Bristol
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December 10, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Two postdoctoral positions available in my group. Using longitudinal and genetic data to explore the causality of social, psychological, and biological mechanisms in driving the impacts of childhood adversity on anxiety.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLA695/s...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLA369/s...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLA695/s...
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New blogpost on @elife.bsky.social's new Replication study type deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/prob.... tldr = I think it's doomed.
#Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
#Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
Problems with ELife's new article type: Replication studies
I was interested to receive an email from eLife last week, telling me that "As part of our commitment to open science, scientific rigour ...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
New blogpost on @elife.bsky.social's new Replication study type deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/prob.... tldr = I think it's doomed.
#Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
#Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
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🌱 From pills to people: the rise of social prescribing.
Who’s being referred to walking groups, arts classes and community activities, and who’s missing out?
Two major 2025 studies explore referral trends and inequalities.
🧵 THREAD
#SocialPrescribing #PrimaryCare #HealthInequalities #MentalHealth
Who’s being referred to walking groups, arts classes and community activities, and who’s missing out?
Two major 2025 studies explore referral trends and inequalities.
🧵 THREAD
#SocialPrescribing #PrimaryCare #HealthInequalities #MentalHealth
October 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🌱 From pills to people: the rise of social prescribing.
Who’s being referred to walking groups, arts classes and community activities, and who’s missing out?
Two major 2025 studies explore referral trends and inequalities.
🧵 THREAD
#SocialPrescribing #PrimaryCare #HealthInequalities #MentalHealth
Who’s being referred to walking groups, arts classes and community activities, and who’s missing out?
Two major 2025 studies explore referral trends and inequalities.
🧵 THREAD
#SocialPrescribing #PrimaryCare #HealthInequalities #MentalHealth
Excited to see this paper out led by Dr Carla Dance where we looked at the role of imagery in worry with people who experience #aphantasia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
More of Carla's research on imagery and aphantasia is here: www.researchgate.net/profile/Carl...
More of Carla's research on imagery and aphantasia is here: www.researchgate.net/profile/Carl...
The role of mental imagery in worry: Insights from aphantasia
Worry is characterised by thinking about prospective negative future outcomes, and is a key cognitive feature of anxiety. The influential Cognitive Av…
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October 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Excited to see this paper out led by Dr Carla Dance where we looked at the role of imagery in worry with people who experience #aphantasia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
More of Carla's research on imagery and aphantasia is here: www.researchgate.net/profile/Carl...
More of Carla's research on imagery and aphantasia is here: www.researchgate.net/profile/Carl...
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We asked 3,785 PhD students across 107 countries about their experiences. Where do you think the happiest doctoral candidates were?
go.nature.com/43usVmf
go.nature.com/43usVmf
Are these the happiest PhD students in the world?
Nature - Brazil, Australia and Italy have the highest satisfaction scores in Nature’s global 2025 PhD survey — but are these nations really the best places to do a doctorate?
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October 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We asked 3,785 PhD students across 107 countries about their experiences. Where do you think the happiest doctoral candidates were?
go.nature.com/43usVmf
go.nature.com/43usVmf
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Google Scholar has introduced a 'Sh-index' metric that scores papers higher if you are first or last author. Apart from the fact metrics are generally bad, this one explicitly punishes PIs who often collaborate, publishing with 2 or 3 equal PIs at the end of the list.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
www.nature.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Google Scholar has introduced a 'Sh-index' metric that scores papers higher if you are first or last author. Apart from the fact metrics are generally bad, this one explicitly punishes PIs who often collaborate, publishing with 2 or 3 equal PIs at the end of the list.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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🎓 Thinking about a PhD in clinical trial #methodology?
We have two funded PhD opportunities for students passionate about trial design and statistical methods:
• One in estimands
• One in non-inferiority trials
🔗 More info and how to apply here: buff.ly/lCpqcF6
@mrcnihrtmrp.bsky.social
We have two funded PhD opportunities for students passionate about trial design and statistical methods:
• One in estimands
• One in non-inferiority trials
🔗 More info and how to apply here: buff.ly/lCpqcF6
@mrcnihrtmrp.bsky.social
Current Opportunities
We have an iCASE studentship available to start for the 2025/2026 academic year, and applications to our fifth round of recruitment to our DTP to start in October 2026 are now also open. Please see…
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October 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🎓 Thinking about a PhD in clinical trial #methodology?
We have two funded PhD opportunities for students passionate about trial design and statistical methods:
• One in estimands
• One in non-inferiority trials
🔗 More info and how to apply here: buff.ly/lCpqcF6
@mrcnihrtmrp.bsky.social
We have two funded PhD opportunities for students passionate about trial design and statistical methods:
• One in estimands
• One in non-inferiority trials
🔗 More info and how to apply here: buff.ly/lCpqcF6
@mrcnihrtmrp.bsky.social
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The debate will be recorded and posted at a later date.
If you have questions for the panel, please respond to this post.
#MaudsleyDebates
If you have questions for the panel, please respond to this post.
#MaudsleyDebates
October 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The debate will be recorded and posted at a later date.
If you have questions for the panel, please respond to this post.
#MaudsleyDebates
If you have questions for the panel, please respond to this post.
#MaudsleyDebates
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The brilliant @kasiamojescik.bsky.social and Martha McGill join @claudiahammond.bsky.social and @catherineloveday.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 All in the Mind this morning to launch our new public survey of vivid memories. You can take part here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind, Are there multiple subtypes of autism, and how vivid are your memories?
A new study suggests that autism’s genetic profile differs with age at diagnosis.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The brilliant @kasiamojescik.bsky.social and Martha McGill join @claudiahammond.bsky.social and @catherineloveday.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 All in the Mind this morning to launch our new public survey of vivid memories. You can take part here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Just two weeks until our International Health Lecture with @thelancet.com ⏳
🗓 Tues 4 Nov, 3:30pm GMT
📍 Online and in person at 1 Birdcage Walk, London
Our keynote speaker Prof Quarraisha Abdool Karim will reflect on the challenging times we face and the hope science offers to drive change 🌱
🗓 Tues 4 Nov, 3:30pm GMT
📍 Online and in person at 1 Birdcage Walk, London
Our keynote speaker Prof Quarraisha Abdool Karim will reflect on the challenging times we face and the hope science offers to drive change 🌱
October 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Just two weeks until our International Health Lecture with @thelancet.com ⏳
🗓 Tues 4 Nov, 3:30pm GMT
📍 Online and in person at 1 Birdcage Walk, London
Our keynote speaker Prof Quarraisha Abdool Karim will reflect on the challenging times we face and the hope science offers to drive change 🌱
🗓 Tues 4 Nov, 3:30pm GMT
📍 Online and in person at 1 Birdcage Walk, London
Our keynote speaker Prof Quarraisha Abdool Karim will reflect on the challenging times we face and the hope science offers to drive change 🌱
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Millions exploited by ‘menopause gold rush’ amid lack of reliable information, say experts
Millions exploited by ‘menopause gold rush’ amid lack of reliable information, say experts
Women’s health academics at UCL call for education programme to combat misinformation and unregulated advice
Millions of women are being exploited by a “menopause gold rush” as companies, celebrities and influencers take advantage of a “dearth” of reliable information on the issue, experts have said.
Healthcare companies and content creators saw menopause as a “lucrative market” and were trying to profit from gaps in public knowledge, women’s health academics at UCL said. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Millions exploited by ‘menopause gold rush’ amid lack of reliable information, say experts
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doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
"Our analysis of a quarter of a million days of objective smartphone usage across over 10,000 diverse adult participants reveals little evidence for strong bidirectional associations between mental well-being and smartphone use."
"Our analysis of a quarter of a million days of objective smartphone usage across over 10,000 diverse adult participants reveals little evidence for strong bidirectional associations between mental well-being and smartphone use."
Smartphone use in a large US adult population: Temporal associations between objective measures of usage and mental well-being | PNAS
Smartphones are essential tools in daily life yet concerns persist about their potential
effects on mental health and well-being. Research on these...
doi.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
"Our analysis of a quarter of a million days of objective smartphone usage across over 10,000 diverse adult participants reveals little evidence for strong bidirectional associations between mental well-being and smartphone use."
"Our analysis of a quarter of a million days of objective smartphone usage across over 10,000 diverse adult participants reveals little evidence for strong bidirectional associations between mental well-being and smartphone use."
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The #2025SPR Psychophysiology virtual issue is now online! Explore the latest research ahead of the conference: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
September 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The #2025SPR Psychophysiology virtual issue is now online! Explore the latest research ahead of the conference: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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An AI tool that scans manuscript titles and abstracts has flagged more than 250,000 cancer studies that bear textual similarities to articles that are known to have been produced by paper mills
go.nature.com/48mbbgj
go.nature.com/48mbbgj
Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them?
A large language model scans abstracts and titles for signs that an article was produced by a 'paper-mill' company.
go.nature.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
An AI tool that scans manuscript titles and abstracts has flagged more than 250,000 cancer studies that bear textual similarities to articles that are known to have been produced by paper mills
go.nature.com/48mbbgj
go.nature.com/48mbbgj
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🧠 Adolescent vs adult depression: is the risk of relapse the same?
This large Swedish cohort study followed people for 5 years after their first depression diagnosis.
⚖️ The result? No significant difference in recurrence or time to recurrence.
🧵 THREAD
#Depression #MentalHealth #AdolescentHealth
This large Swedish cohort study followed people for 5 years after their first depression diagnosis.
⚖️ The result? No significant difference in recurrence or time to recurrence.
🧵 THREAD
#Depression #MentalHealth #AdolescentHealth
October 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
🧠 Adolescent vs adult depression: is the risk of relapse the same?
This large Swedish cohort study followed people for 5 years after their first depression diagnosis.
⚖️ The result? No significant difference in recurrence or time to recurrence.
🧵 THREAD
#Depression #MentalHealth #AdolescentHealth
This large Swedish cohort study followed people for 5 years after their first depression diagnosis.
⚖️ The result? No significant difference in recurrence or time to recurrence.
🧵 THREAD
#Depression #MentalHealth #AdolescentHealth
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If you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me!
I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence
I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence
It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful
#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs
#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs
How to get PhD funding in the UK
It is that time of year again. The leaves are turning golden, red, and orange (or just brown), the nights are drawing in, and there is a chi...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
If you're interested in the cognitive neuroscience of memory feel free to email me!
I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence
I do experimental psychology, brain imaging (fMRI and MEG) and a bit of modelling. Lab is doing stuff on forgetting, aging, schemas, and event boundaries, but we're not limited to that.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence
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🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The social, decoupled self: interpersonal synchronization of breathing alters intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling
People synchronize their periodic behavioural and physiological rhythms with each other during social interaction. While this interpersonal synchronization has largely been associated with positive ef...
www.biorxiv.org
October 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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💬 Organized by the ESCAN Junior Committee:
📢 Join our Work–Life Balance in Academia Workshop with Dr. Sara Fabbri (PhD & Founder of Minds for Science)!
📢 Join our Work–Life Balance in Academia Workshop with Dr. Sara Fabbri (PhD & Founder of Minds for Science)!
October 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
💬 Organized by the ESCAN Junior Committee:
📢 Join our Work–Life Balance in Academia Workshop with Dr. Sara Fabbri (PhD & Founder of Minds for Science)!
📢 Join our Work–Life Balance in Academia Workshop with Dr. Sara Fabbri (PhD & Founder of Minds for Science)!
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⌛ One month until our career development event!
Join us to discuss how we can build fair and impactful global research collaborations between the Global North and South 🌍
📅 Wed 29 Oct, 10am GMT
📍 Online
👉 Register now: ow.ly/uJHB50X4Swx
Join us to discuss how we can build fair and impactful global research collaborations between the Global North and South 🌍
📅 Wed 29 Oct, 10am GMT
📍 Online
👉 Register now: ow.ly/uJHB50X4Swx
October 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
⌛ One month until our career development event!
Join us to discuss how we can build fair and impactful global research collaborations between the Global North and South 🌍
📅 Wed 29 Oct, 10am GMT
📍 Online
👉 Register now: ow.ly/uJHB50X4Swx
Join us to discuss how we can build fair and impactful global research collaborations between the Global North and South 🌍
📅 Wed 29 Oct, 10am GMT
📍 Online
👉 Register now: ow.ly/uJHB50X4Swx
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All in the Mind is back! We kicked off today by finding out what AI therapists actually say to you and what the evidence says about them. Every Tues at 9.30am @bbcradio4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind, The rise of AI therapy
Why are people turning to human-like AI chatbots for therapy - and are they any good?
www.bbc.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
All in the Mind is back! We kicked off today by finding out what AI therapists actually say to you and what the evidence says about them. Every Tues at 9.30am @bbcradio4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Clinical academics are a bridge between patient care and research – ensuring discoveries translate into treatments and guiding innovation 🔎
The @acmedsci.bsky.social and other UK leaders, including the Sanger Institute, are committed to addressing the decline in these positions. Read how ⤵️
The @acmedsci.bsky.social and other UK leaders, including the Sanger Institute, are committed to addressing the decline in these positions. Read how ⤵️
Today we’re proud to share our Clinical Academics Summit statement, signed by 40+ organisations 🤝
⚠️ Clinical academics are declining
✅ Our summit committed to action to help reverse this trend
👉 Read the full statement: bit.ly/3Ktb5JQ
Quote @rosalindsmyth.bsky.social
⚠️ Clinical academics are declining
✅ Our summit committed to action to help reverse this trend
👉 Read the full statement: bit.ly/3Ktb5JQ
Quote @rosalindsmyth.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Clinical academics are a bridge between patient care and research – ensuring discoveries translate into treatments and guiding innovation 🔎
The @acmedsci.bsky.social and other UK leaders, including the Sanger Institute, are committed to addressing the decline in these positions. Read how ⤵️
The @acmedsci.bsky.social and other UK leaders, including the Sanger Institute, are committed to addressing the decline in these positions. Read how ⤵️