Charlotte Austin
psychaustin.bsky.social
Charlotte Austin
@psychaustin.bsky.social
PhD Student at Cornell University
Doing Moral Psychology with Jordan Wylie
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Can sleep patterns reveal psychosis risk?

I'm excited to share our latest systematic review and meta-analysis: Digital sleep phenotype and wrist actigraphy in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis and people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
How do you design a study to descover how nature improves mental health?

I was thrilled to share our poster at the Oxford University Psychitry Away Day, summarising how we have worked with young people to co-produce a nature walk to invesitgate the relationship between nature and wellbeing.
April 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Very excited to read this paper when peer-reviewed: WEIRD Questions: Diversifying Conceptual Sampling. Currently available as a pre-print!
March 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Effective therapy is so much more than saying the right words in the right order. Chatbots posing as therapists are dangerous.

Some products "claim to have advanced degrees from specific universities, like Stanford"

Glad the APA is speaking out about this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/h...
Human Therapists Prepare for Battle Against A.I. Pretenders
Chatbots posing as therapists may encourage users to commit harmful acts, the nation’s largest psychological organization warned federal regulators.
www.nytimes.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Has racism improved in the NHS and UK medicine?

Mala Rao sees shoots of hope, but Victor Adebowale argues that any progress still has a long way to go
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Has racism in medicine improved since 2020?
Five years on from The BMJ’s special issue on racism in medicine—and after a global pandemic—has anything improved in the NHS and UK medicine? Mala Rao sees shoots of hope, but Victor Adebowale argues...
www.bmj.com
February 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Here we go! 3rd installment of the misinformation and belief science preconference at #SPSP2025. First up is Jeff Hancock talking about the truth-default theory of deception detection. We are all truth-biased, expect ppl to be honest and most are but we can shift out of that mindset when cued. 1/
February 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Researchers have worked with young people from the UK and Japan to co-design an infographic with recommendations for supporting young people’s mental health in public health emergencies. Read more: tinyurl.com/ycyr4w9k
British and Japanese young people make mental health recommendations for public health emergencies
Twenty eight young people from the UK and Japan played a leading role in co-designing the research, interviewing other young people and adults, analysing the findings, and developing the recommendatio...
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February 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Can sleep patterns reveal psychosis risk?

I'm excited to share our latest systematic review and meta-analysis: Digital sleep phenotype and wrist actigraphy in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis and people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
February 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Such an important research area!
How can research involving people who are dying be done in a safe and sensitive way?

A Wellcome-funded researcher shares practical insights into navigating research on end-of-life care in our latest ‘Behind the Research’ ⤵️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/sensit...
The sensitivities of doing research on end-of-life care
This month's guest expert is Dr Ben Bowers, clinical researcher at the University of Cambridge and a nurse consultant in palliative care. Death is something we all relate to and will experience eventu...
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February 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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This paper showing that kids evaluate punishment differently depending on severity, first-authored by Young-eun Lee, is now published. Pretty version here: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-.... Free full text in thread below. 🧪 #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #CogPsyc @socphilpsych.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Important new evidence published today: large-scale DofE trial (N=12,166) found that two universal MH awareness interventions, in secondary schools, led to an *increase* in emotional symptoms at long term (9-12 month) follow up

tinyurl.com/4ffday8y

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February 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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📢 Come and join our team!
Job Opportunity: Research Assistant.
Join our team at the University of Oxford Mindfulness Research Centre to support an #MBCT #RCT study of young people’s mental health.
📍 Based in Oxford, hybrid work available
📆 10-month post, apply by Feb 25!
🔗 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
February 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Would recommend any researcher working with PPIE read "‘Conjuring PPI’ - the unseen labour of patient and public involvement" in this NIHRs round-up!
📢Out now - our Together in Research Winter newsletter - includes:

- A round-up of our annual involvement in research event.

- A blog exploring the unseen labour of patient & public involvement.

- News, blogs, research + more

👉 mailchi.mp/a5ac4a82e8a2...
February 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM