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Massively excited to finally be able to share this amazing news! @wellcometrust have awarded UCL a 4-year PhD programme in Mental Health Science. Looking forward to working with @DrAPitman, @annaremington, @PascoFearon, Claudia Cooper and Marcus Richards bit.ly/2maUcbz

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It's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and @GrandChallenges are spotlighting #UCLMentalHealth funded projects. In this video, we find out more about Prof @jonroiser and Dr @Bernardi_L's research into how political stressors impact an individual's wellbeing. buff.ly/ln4VsXz

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A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German politicians absurdly labeled my Berlinale award speech - where I called for equality between Israelis and Palestinians, a ceasefire and an end to apartheid - as ‘antisemitic’. The appalling misuse of this word by Germans, not only to silence Palestinian critics of Israel, but also to silence Israelis like me who support a ceasefire that will end the killing in Gaza and allow the release of the Israeli hostages - empties the word antisemitism of meaning and thus endangers Jews all over the world. As my grandmother was born in a concentration camp in Libya and most of my grandfather’s family was murdered by Germans in the holocaust, I find it particularly outraging that German politicians in 2024 have the audacity to weaponize this term against me in a way that endangered my family. But above all else, this behavior puts Palestinian co-director Basel Adra’s life in danger, who lives under a military occupation surrounded by violent settlements in Masafer Yatta. He is in far greater danger than I am. I’m happy our award winning film, No Other Land, is sparking an important international debate on this issue - and I hope that millions of people watch it when it comes out this year. Sparking a conversation is why we made it. You can have harsh criticism of what me and Basel said on stage without demonizing us. If this is what you’re doing with your guilt for the holocaust - I don’t want your guilt.
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Good etiquette has long dictated that it's best to avoid politics at the dinner table... but it can be hard not to. How do major political events affect our #mentalhealth? We spoke to Prof. @jonroiser & Dr @Bernardi_L buff.ly/wIU7MBE #UCLBrainSciences
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I believe that sharing good news has the power to uplift others, inspire them, and foster more kindness in the world. This is why we are happy to share, during these difficult times, that our mental health & neuroscience proposal to the @wellcometrust has been funded! 🎊
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Looking forward to working more with @jonroiser, Annie Hata, Michelle Craske, @FedeLucantonio, @DrLiamMason, @ritwikniyogi on this endeavor. Thanks to the @wellcometrust for believing in this project. Watch out for us hiring soon! 👀 @WashU / @ucl / @UCLA
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The educational bookshop is one of the most important cultural institutions in East Jerusalem. This police raid is a disgrace
Today Israeli undercover forces raided both branches of the Educational Bookshop, a well-respected Palestinian institution in Jerusalem. After an hour search, they confiscated English and Arabic books, and detained the owners Ahmad Muna and Mahmoud Muna.
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Israel's official policy is the expulsion of two million people from their homes and homeland. Will @BoardofDeputies @PhilR_R @JLC_uk @chiefrabbi continue their uncritical support for Israel? Or will they show some moral leadership?
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Many Palestinians to be released in this deal were held by Israel without charge, trial, or the chance to defend themselves. Some were taken over the past year to be used as bargaining chips in negotiations with Hamas. Currently, over 3,000 Palestinians are in this situation.
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this excellent commentary and analysis on last week's ridiculous Nature paper on genome editing for common health conditions is well worth your time
Eugenics, statistical hubris, and unknowable unknowns in human genetics wiringthebrain.com/2025/01/e…
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.@AlonLeeGreen @sacha_isma @YachadUK @cfpeace @ThePCFF Thanks to everyone who organised & supported the London FoST rally today. Great to hear poetry& testimonies of solidarity & @jerusalemchorus & a reminder of our demands on the UK government #Ceasefire #peacejustice #hope
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TRANSMITTER Remembering Eleanor Maguire, ‘trailblazer’ of human memory Maguire, mastermind of the famous London taxi-driver study, broadened the field and championed the importance of spatial representations in memory. thetransmitter.org/memory/re…
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I wrote an article about my dad's death, and how it affected my views on assisted dying Free version of the article in the next tweet Views are my own, not those of the institutions or academies I'm associated with thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/a…
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🧵1/ Ben-Gvir and Smotrich should be in prison, since they’re not, let’s at least shut down their bank accounts! We’re launching a campaign to impose personal sanctions on Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, in collaboration with other Israelis living in the UK. So how will this work?
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We stand in solidarity with the Australian Jewish community after yesterday’s arson attack of the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne. Jews across the world will be shaken by this vicious antisemitic attack. There’s simply no justification for this. timesofisrael.com/melbourne-…
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a NEW General Election is DEFINITELY going to produce a VERY DIFFERENT result to the OLD General Election 🤣
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**We are recruiting** Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/

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Submissions to eLife before and after Web of Science decided it wouldn't give the journal an impact factor this year (based on a rationale that isn't even internally coherent) - clearly Chinese science is still heavily reliant on this highly flawed metric!
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You sound like a drug addict yelling "if you really love me, you'd give me more money to stay high" Israel is addicted to its apartheid, genocide & crimes against humanity in Gaza. The best pro-Israeli US lawmakers can do is to cut you off the drugs, not give you more of them!
No friend of Israel should vote for an arms embargo while we are fighting on multiple fronts to protect our people from terrorism and to bring our hostages home. This has nothing to do with your opinion of the current government, it is about standing with the people of Israel.
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