Academic. Psychologist. Cognitive mechanisms of depression & anxiety. Meta-science & scientific rigour. Sporadic Twitterer.

Joined May 2012
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Wow. Those gender stereotypes are just too strong for AI.
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More than 8 million people in the UK are prescribed antidepressants. We spoke to lead researcher and PhD student @MahmoodRaqeeb who researches the impact of coming off antidepressants on mood and thinking patterns. ⬇️ #Research #Antidepressants
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Thanks so much to all the heads who made all these memes go viral yesterday; and to @nathanfiler for the inspiration My favourite: General Levy, obviously. Dream scenario is a mix with @TheRaggaTwins; or Ghetto Dub by Probe and Sylo; or Temperance by Marcus Intalex Cheers
Please, please will someone sample @amolrajan saying: "I can't accept Drum & Bass. We need Jungle, I'm afraid." 👊
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Please, please will someone sample @amolrajan saying: "I can't accept Drum & Bass. We need Jungle, I'm afraid." 👊
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It's ten years (!) since @ButtonKate and myself (w many others) published "Power Failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience" in @NatRevNeurosci. Today, we have the @CommonsSITC report on reproducibility. nature.com/articles/nrn3475
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📢 GAMIFIED RESEARCH GRANT📢 Delighted to announce the Bishop Prize 2022 in honour of #DBFest & @deevybee! Gamified research can improve data quality by increasing participant attention & engagement. ✅ Kids! ✅ Training tasks! ✅ Education! gorilla.sc/bishop-prize-2022
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So good to be reunited with the #repro19 crew ❤️ the week I spent with these people changed my life - I'll chat a little more about that in my talk tomorrow 😊 #DBFest
Having a mini Cumberland Lodge reunion at #DBFest - what a great way to celebrate ⁦⁦@deevybee⁩ and her continuing legacy!
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Recognising and rewarding technical staff is at the heart of ensuring high-quality, reproducible research #DBFest
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Replying to @FranckRamus
@FranckRamus’s paper demonstrating Bishop’s Law: “The better designed a study is, the more likely it is to obtain a null result.” #DBfest @deevybee #neuroscience #dyslexia #reproducibility
Bishop’s law: the better-designed a study is, the more likely it is to obtain a null result.
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Massive congrats Katie Hobbs on passing your PhD viva! and thanks to supervisor @ButtonKate for giving myself and Tom Freeman @Bath_AIM the pleasure of examining! @UniofBath @BathPsychology @PhDForum #Depression #Mentalhealth #psychopharm
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What aspects of depression and anxiety does CBT help? Just published with Clarissa Bauer-Staeb, Emma Griffith and @ButtonKate: doi.org/10.1017/S00332917220…

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interesting: none of those who regard reforms as “crap” are named, whereas 2 reformers are. I’ve sympathy with concerns re bureaucracy, but those who object have to either demonstrate their field doesn’t have problems, or suggest other ways to fix them
8 Jun 2021
A cookie-cutter strategy to reform science will cause resentment, not improvement. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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4 Jun 2021
The early impact of #COVID19 on primary care psychological therapy services: A descriptive time series of electronic healthcare records sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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4 Jun 2021
SO proud of our Data Science team for their involvement in this project @AliceM_Davis, David Betts, Wendy Wilsher & @ChristoEldridge. 👏 Clarissa Bauer-Staeb for the hard work 👏 Thanks @buttonkate, @BathPsychology, @UniofBath, @TheresaRSmith & to @EClinicalMed for publishing
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