Sarah Bakirci
sarahbakirci.bsky.social
Sarah Bakirci
@sarahbakirci.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Mental Health Science at UCL funded by the Wellcome Trust | alum Yale & McGill University | Interested in timing effects in mental health |
Looking forward to our session tomorrow!
Had a great first day at #SIPS2025! Don't miss our session tomorrow morning on the challenges of public engagement in a post-truth society 🗯️

(@sarahbakirci.bsky.social @zefreeman.com)
June 26, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Looking forward to running a session alongside @tommetherell.com @zefreeman.com on the challenges of public engagement in a post-truth society during #SIPS2025 in Budapest! Hope to see you there for an open and informative discussion!
Join us for the exciting unconferences during #SIPS2025 in Budapest on June 25-27!

We will be discussing #OpenScience, AI, replication studies, critical thinking, integrity, transparency, trust, community, peer review, public engagement, preprints, the future of SIPS, and more!

#PsychSciSky
June 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Grading student assessments will be the death of me.. How does anyone get anything else done during this season.
April 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Reposted by Sarah Bakirci
Time to reflect on our retreat! In January the students of the UCL-Wellcome PhD programme in Mental Health Science were lucky to be able to get together again to share wisdom, relax and reconnect with each other. We wrote about our experience on our blog: www.mentalhealthscience.org/blogs/ucl-we...
UCL-Wellcome Mental Health Science PhD Retreat 2025 — Mental Health Science
The students on the programme share their experience on our 3rd annual retreat!
www.mentalhealthscience.org
March 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I sometimes feel overwhelmed with steep learning curves. Because of the pressure I put on myself, I can end up procrastinating forever. When I finally muster the mental energy to begin, I either realize that 1) it wasn’t that bad or that 2) the work is going to take much longer than expected.
January 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Passed my PhD upgrade viva today! Two more years to go.
November 27, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Reposted by Sarah Bakirci
How do you solve a problem like measuring social media?

To celebrate the launch of my new website (❗), I wrote a piece about how my PhD research is going and why I'm doing it.

www.tommetherell.com/blog/measuri...
How do you solve a problem like measuring social media?
At the halfway point of my PhD, I take a moment to reflect on what it is I’m trying to do and where my project sits in the social media & mental health research space.
www.tommetherell.com
November 11, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Was great attending the MQ and DATAMIND workshop on using NLPs in mental health followed by a data science meeting discussing the strengths and challenges of data linkage. Thanks @tom-metherell.bsky.social for capturing my first poster of my PhD.
October 24, 2024 at 8:22 PM