Pablo Romero Sanchiz
@pablorom.bsky.social
Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer at @SussexUni
Psicólogo clínico y Lecturer en la @SussexUni
Interested in anxiety and anxiety-related disorders and addictions
@realab.bsky.social co-lead
Psicólogo clínico y Lecturer en la @SussexUni
Interested in anxiety and anxiety-related disorders and addictions
@realab.bsky.social co-lead
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Also, a huge congratulations to our own @lukeapsych.bsky.social for winning the People’s Choice Award! 🏆
This recognition highlights how much our research community values accessible and creative approaches to tackling the opioid crisis. Your work truly resonated, Luke, well done! #ResearchImpact
This recognition highlights how much our research community values accessible and creative approaches to tackling the opioid crisis. Your work truly resonated, Luke, well done! #ResearchImpact
Over 250 votes were cast for the JRA Poster Exhibition People’s Choice Award 🗳️
Hats off to Luke Azaredo @lukeapsych.bsky.social for winning!
Luke's research with @realab.bsky.social looked at 'Interactive Online Naloxone Training: Exploring Attitudes Towards Opioids and Substance Use'
#SussexJRA
Hats off to Luke Azaredo @lukeapsych.bsky.social for winning!
Luke's research with @realab.bsky.social looked at 'Interactive Online Naloxone Training: Exploring Attitudes Towards Opioids and Substance Use'
#SussexJRA
October 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Also, a huge congratulations to our own @lukeapsych.bsky.social for winning the People’s Choice Award! 🏆
This recognition highlights how much our research community values accessible and creative approaches to tackling the opioid crisis. Your work truly resonated, Luke, well done! #ResearchImpact
This recognition highlights how much our research community values accessible and creative approaches to tackling the opioid crisis. Your work truly resonated, Luke, well done! #ResearchImpact
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Huge congratulations to all the Junior Research Associates at @sussex.ac.uk. We were genuinely impressed by the quality of the research projects presented!
Special shoutout to our lab member @stephenjoye.bsky.social, who earned the first place in the poster competition. A fantastic achievement! ✨
Special shoutout to our lab member @stephenjoye.bsky.social, who earned the first place in the poster competition. A fantastic achievement! ✨
Congratulations to Stephen Aruwajoye @stephenjoye.bsky.social for winning first place in the JRA Poster Exhibition!
Stephen conducted his research with @realab.bsky.social on 'Self Medication & Mental Health: The Pathway to Alcohol Use Disorders in the University Enviroment'.
#SussexJRA
Stephen conducted his research with @realab.bsky.social on 'Self Medication & Mental Health: The Pathway to Alcohol Use Disorders in the University Enviroment'.
#SussexJRA
October 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Huge congratulations to all the Junior Research Associates at @sussex.ac.uk. We were genuinely impressed by the quality of the research projects presented!
Special shoutout to our lab member @stephenjoye.bsky.social, who earned the first place in the poster competition. A fantastic achievement! ✨
Special shoutout to our lab member @stephenjoye.bsky.social, who earned the first place in the poster competition. A fantastic achievement! ✨
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REALab Study on the loved one's experiences: universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
REALab Study on Online Naloxone Training (University of Sussex students only): universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Further Support: www.changegrowlive.org
REALab Study on Online Naloxone Training (University of Sussex students only): universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Further Support: www.changegrowlive.org
August 31, 2025 at 7:53 AM
REALab Study on the loved one's experiences: universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
REALab Study on Online Naloxone Training (University of Sussex students only): universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Further Support: www.changegrowlive.org
REALab Study on Online Naloxone Training (University of Sussex students only): universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Further Support: www.changegrowlive.org
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Today is International Overdose Awareness Day💜
It is an opportunity to reflect on the impact of overdose, acknowledge the experiences of loved ones, and increase awareness about harm reduction. At REALab, our research explores Naloxone and the loved ones' experiences.
More details in the comments.
It is an opportunity to reflect on the impact of overdose, acknowledge the experiences of loved ones, and increase awareness about harm reduction. At REALab, our research explores Naloxone and the loved ones' experiences.
More details in the comments.
August 31, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Today is International Overdose Awareness Day💜
It is an opportunity to reflect on the impact of overdose, acknowledge the experiences of loved ones, and increase awareness about harm reduction. At REALab, our research explores Naloxone and the loved ones' experiences.
More details in the comments.
It is an opportunity to reflect on the impact of overdose, acknowledge the experiences of loved ones, and increase awareness about harm reduction. At REALab, our research explores Naloxone and the loved ones' experiences.
More details in the comments.
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Survey here 👉 universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
@pablorom.bsky.social @patrycjazalewska.bsky.social @robynscharte.bsky.social @jcarhoun.bsky.social
@meyrajackson.bsky.social @stephenjoye.bsky.social @lukeapsych.bsky.social
@pablorom.bsky.social @patrycjazalewska.bsky.social @robynscharte.bsky.social @jcarhoun.bsky.social
@meyrajackson.bsky.social @stephenjoye.bsky.social @lukeapsych.bsky.social
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
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universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com
July 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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I’m thrilled to share this preprint with a brilliant co-author team.
We describe several crises mental health science faces in the current sociopolitical context, as well as new and previously-overlooked opportunities to make non-incremental progress.
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/nz42x_v1
We describe several crises mental health science faces in the current sociopolitical context, as well as new and previously-overlooked opportunities to make non-incremental progress.
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/nz42x_v1
June 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I’m thrilled to share this preprint with a brilliant co-author team.
We describe several crises mental health science faces in the current sociopolitical context, as well as new and previously-overlooked opportunities to make non-incremental progress.
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/nz42x_v1
We describe several crises mental health science faces in the current sociopolitical context, as well as new and previously-overlooked opportunities to make non-incremental progress.
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/nz42x_v1
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Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.
June 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.
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The science illiteracy of the anti-vaccine movement has always been overshadowed by its moral bankruptcy and the divisive, polarizing rhetoric that it requires to grift in the wellness industry.
June 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The science illiteracy of the anti-vaccine movement has always been overshadowed by its moral bankruptcy and the divisive, polarizing rhetoric that it requires to grift in the wellness industry.
Equally insightful and depressing piece by Ed Kiely (no @bsky.app account?) in the last @lrb.co.uk. The sector is in crisis around the world, true, but the UK HE sector has very particular problems that need very distinct solutions
‘Most of the opprobrium aimed at universities is fantastical. I only wish that academic life was as radical and subversive as its detractors believe.’
Ed Kiely on the dismantling of Britain’s higher education sector:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ed Kiely on the dismantling of Britain’s higher education sector:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ed Kiely · Short Cuts: University Finances
Universities’ reliance on international students is only the most recent attempt to solve a broader problem, one that...
www.lrb.co.uk
June 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Equally insightful and depressing piece by Ed Kiely (no @bsky.app account?) in the last @lrb.co.uk. The sector is in crisis around the world, true, but the UK HE sector has very particular problems that need very distinct solutions
Truly impactful work by @abbydunn.bsky.social and @profsamch.bsky.social intergenerational transmission or anxiety at @sussex.ac.uk. Anyone with clinical experience knows how interconnected parents and children's anxiety is, even at subsyndromal levels, and how crucial it is for therapeutic success
Preventing the intergenerational transmission of anxiety: encouraging insights from new online RCT buff.ly/lUPjNNq
🧵 THREAD
#Anxiety #ParentalAnxiety #Parenting #Parents #RCT #PreventingMentalIllness
🧵 THREAD
#Anxiety #ParentalAnxiety #Parenting #Parents #RCT #PreventingMentalIllness
May 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Truly impactful work by @abbydunn.bsky.social and @profsamch.bsky.social intergenerational transmission or anxiety at @sussex.ac.uk. Anyone with clinical experience knows how interconnected parents and children's anxiety is, even at subsyndromal levels, and how crucial it is for therapeutic success
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Francesca Zecchinato @fzecchinato.bsky.social summarises a recent trial led by @abbydunn.bsky.social, which investigates the effectiveness of an unguided modular online intervention for anxious parents in preventing anxiety in their offspring.
May 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Francesca Zecchinato @fzecchinato.bsky.social summarises a recent trial led by @abbydunn.bsky.social, which investigates the effectiveness of an unguided modular online intervention for anxious parents in preventing anxiety in their offspring.
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Psychological distress over 30 years in Great Britain: the times they are a changin’ (or are they?) buff.ly/qpu4p0f
🧵 THREAD
#MentalHealth #PsychologicalDistress #Surveys #GB #30years
🧵 THREAD
#MentalHealth #PsychologicalDistress #Surveys #GB #30years
May 26, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Psychological distress over 30 years in Great Britain: the times they are a changin’ (or are they?) buff.ly/qpu4p0f
🧵 THREAD
#MentalHealth #PsychologicalDistress #Surveys #GB #30years
🧵 THREAD
#MentalHealth #PsychologicalDistress #Surveys #GB #30years
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Sometimes when I talk to intervention scientists about #measurement #psychometrics I get the argument “even if this questionnaire has bad psychometrics, everyone else in my field uses it and I want to be able to compare my results with theirs”. Let’s talk about how that is a misunderstanding 🧵
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May 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Sometimes when I talk to intervention scientists about #measurement #psychometrics I get the argument “even if this questionnaire has bad psychometrics, everyone else in my field uses it and I want to be able to compare my results with theirs”. Let’s talk about how that is a misunderstanding 🧵
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This is a very important issue, because it might sound like "trashing" psychological interventions or prevention efforts, but it is not. This is how science should work. We have a good idea, we test it, if it works, great, if it doesn't, rethink and retest. With enough evidence against, we drop it.
I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools
I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling.
(cont 🧵)
tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling.
(cont 🧵)
tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes
All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
This is a very important issue, because it might sound like "trashing" psychological interventions or prevention efforts, but it is not. This is how science should work. We have a good idea, we test it, if it works, great, if it doesn't, rethink and retest. With enough evidence against, we drop it.
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This placement year has been an incredibly rewarding experience. I've significantly developed my research skills and deepened my knowledge while working with an amazing team!
I'm also pleased to share that I’ve been accepted into the JRA Scheme, which I’ll be continuing with @realab.bsky.social. 🙌🙌
I'm also pleased to share that I’ve been accepted into the JRA Scheme, which I’ll be continuing with @realab.bsky.social. 🙌🙌
Meet @stephenjoye.bsky.social (Stephen Aruwajoye), an integral member of our lab team! Find out more about his upcoming summer project and his responsibilities within other meaningful research projects within the lab.
May 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This placement year has been an incredibly rewarding experience. I've significantly developed my research skills and deepened my knowledge while working with an amazing team!
I'm also pleased to share that I’ve been accepted into the JRA Scheme, which I’ll be continuing with @realab.bsky.social. 🙌🙌
I'm also pleased to share that I’ve been accepted into the JRA Scheme, which I’ll be continuing with @realab.bsky.social. 🙌🙌
And finally, our great still Placement student soon-to-be JRA @stephenjoye.bsky.social, who is going to work on the @realab.bsky.social Wellbeing Survey and more to explore @sussex.ac.uk wellbeing and use of substances! Please welcome him to @bsky.app and follow for more updates very soon!
Meet @stephenjoye.bsky.social (Stephen Aruwajoye), an integral member of our lab team! Find out more about his upcoming summer project and his responsibilities within other meaningful research projects within the lab.
May 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
And finally, our great still Placement student soon-to-be JRA @stephenjoye.bsky.social, who is going to work on the @realab.bsky.social Wellbeing Survey and more to explore @sussex.ac.uk wellbeing and use of substances! Please welcome him to @bsky.app and follow for more updates very soon!
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Meet @stephenjoye.bsky.social (Stephen Aruwajoye), an integral member of our lab team! Find out more about his upcoming summer project and his responsibilities within other meaningful research projects within the lab.
May 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Meet @stephenjoye.bsky.social (Stephen Aruwajoye), an integral member of our lab team! Find out more about his upcoming summer project and his responsibilities within other meaningful research projects within the lab.
Reposted by Pablo Romero Sanchiz
In this month's Wired, a detailed interview with @jay.bsky.team:
Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.
www.wired.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In this month's Wired, a detailed interview with @jay.bsky.team:
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Nice discussion of the pros and cons of preregistration by @rogerthegs.bsky.social in the new Handbook of Social Psychology.
doi.org/10.70400/NYK...
doi.org/10.70400/NYK...
May 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Nice discussion of the pros and cons of preregistration by @rogerthegs.bsky.social in the new Handbook of Social Psychology.
doi.org/10.70400/NYK...
doi.org/10.70400/NYK...
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'The illusion of Conscious AI' - new short piece of @bigthink.com bigthink.com/neuropsych/t... (for the longer version, see my Behavioural and Brain Sciences target article, which is now accepting commentary proposals): www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧠
The illusion of conscious AI
Neuroscientist Anil Seth explains why people often overestimate how likely it is that AI will become conscious.
bigthink.com
May 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
'The illusion of Conscious AI' - new short piece of @bigthink.com bigthink.com/neuropsych/t... (for the longer version, see my Behavioural and Brain Sciences target article, which is now accepting commentary proposals): www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧠
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I don't need fellow citizens to be friends or the same as me. I do need them to defend others'/my rights
I would rather rely on a stranger to uphold norms of justice &rights impartially
Than have a neighbour 'sympathetically' say my child didn't get a place bc of all the foreigners having children
I would rather rely on a stranger to uphold norms of justice &rights impartially
Than have a neighbour 'sympathetically' say my child didn't get a place bc of all the foreigners having children
May 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I don't need fellow citizens to be friends or the same as me. I do need them to defend others'/my rights
I would rather rely on a stranger to uphold norms of justice &rights impartially
Than have a neighbour 'sympathetically' say my child didn't get a place bc of all the foreigners having children
I would rather rely on a stranger to uphold norms of justice &rights impartially
Than have a neighbour 'sympathetically' say my child didn't get a place bc of all the foreigners having children
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It’s been amazing working with this team this past year in my placement! I’m very grateful for the opportunities and people I’ve met throughout this journey.
Can’t wait to continue working in REALab over summer, as I’ve recently been accepted into the JRA Scheme 🎉🎉🔥
#Psychology #Sussex #JRA
Can’t wait to continue working in REALab over summer, as I’ve recently been accepted into the JRA Scheme 🎉🎉🔥
#Psychology #Sussex #JRA
Meet @lukeapsych.bsky.social (Luke Azaredo), a crucial member of our lab team! Find out more about his upcoming summer project and his responsibilities within other meaningful research projects within the lab.
May 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
It’s been amazing working with this team this past year in my placement! I’m very grateful for the opportunities and people I’ve met throughout this journey.
Can’t wait to continue working in REALab over summer, as I’ve recently been accepted into the JRA Scheme 🎉🎉🔥
#Psychology #Sussex #JRA
Can’t wait to continue working in REALab over summer, as I’ve recently been accepted into the JRA Scheme 🎉🎉🔥
#Psychology #Sussex #JRA
Thrilled to welcome @lukeapsych.bsky.social, another brilliant @realab.bsky.social placement student! His extremely creative work on substance use and naloxone training with @jcarhoun.bsky.social is all about saving lives! Stay tuned for updates on his study in the coming weeks!
Meet @lukeapsych.bsky.social (Luke Azaredo), a crucial member of our lab team! Find out more about his upcoming summer project and his responsibilities within other meaningful research projects within the lab.
May 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Thrilled to welcome @lukeapsych.bsky.social, another brilliant @realab.bsky.social placement student! His extremely creative work on substance use and naloxone training with @jcarhoun.bsky.social is all about saving lives! Stay tuned for updates on his study in the coming weeks!