David Smailes
@davidesmailes.bsky.social
Psychology Lecturer at Northumbria University, in the UK. Study materials, data etc at the website below. He/him.
https://osf.io/5wxdn/
https://osf.io/5wxdn/
Jesus wept. Some stuff in here is grim.
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September 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Jesus wept. Some stuff in here is grim.
Reposted by David Smailes
Quite amazed by the articles that @sociologicalsci.bsky.social puts out on a regular basis -- this one here by Lewis Anderson: imaginative, bold, well-informed, an incredible eye for detail, this will really be moving the field forward
doi.org/10.15195/v12...
doi.org/10.15195/v12...
September 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Quite amazed by the articles that @sociologicalsci.bsky.social puts out on a regular basis -- this one here by Lewis Anderson: imaginative, bold, well-informed, an incredible eye for detail, this will really be moving the field forward
doi.org/10.15195/v12...
doi.org/10.15195/v12...
Reposted by David Smailes
🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc!
3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.
Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.
DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.
Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.
DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
September 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc!
3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.
Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.
DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.
Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.
DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
Big effect (d = 2.76!) of mindfulness-based therapy for auditory hallucinations in this - www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5... - RCT. But inactive control intervention, and (I think) the trial registration was made after recruitment had started.
The Effect of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on Auditory Hallucinations in Patients with Schizophrenia: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Background Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder characterized by symptoms such as auditory hallucinations, which can seriously impact patients' quality of life and social functioning. Mindfulness...
www.researchsquare.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Big effect (d = 2.76!) of mindfulness-based therapy for auditory hallucinations in this - www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5... - RCT. But inactive control intervention, and (I think) the trial registration was made after recruitment had started.
Great set of talks from this conference, for anyone interested in skin-picking, hair-pulling, and related problems.
Excited to share all the recorded talks from the Oxford BFRB Conference that we held in September. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Oxford BFRB Conference - YouTube
Talks from the Oxford BFRB Conference, 13th Sept 2024
youtube.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:36 AM
Great set of talks from this conference, for anyone interested in skin-picking, hair-pulling, and related problems.
If anyone is keen to start a @reproducibilitea.bsky.social journal club that focuses on mental health research, the reading list for our 'Reprodicibilitea for Psychopathology' journal club is here - doi.org/10.17605/OSF... - and will save you a bit of work.
https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.i…
September 30, 2024 at 9:24 PM
If anyone is keen to start a @reproducibilitea.bsky.social journal club that focuses on mental health research, the reading list for our 'Reprodicibilitea for Psychopathology' journal club is here - doi.org/10.17605/OSF... - and will save you a bit of work.