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Lachlan Kent
@lachkent.bsky.social
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Mental gravity - psych theory - research - mental health promotion
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · 21d
Thrilled to announce my new podcast, "The Gravity Doctors," together with @brennanspiegel.bsky.social. We introduce the world of "Biogravitational Medicine"—how gravity shapes your body and mind for better or worse.

All formats here: lnkd.in/gyviV7HY

YouTube: lnkd.in/gAMB_Eq8

Hope you enjoy!
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stecar32.bsky.social @stecar32.bsky.social · Aug 14
Save the date! @publichealthaus.bsky.social and Prevention United are proud to host the 2026 Preventive Mental Health Conference in Sydney, Australia next March. Check out the conference website to find out more. www.pmhc2026.com
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Jul 7
Hi folks - my honours students is seeking participants for research into mental gravity (online survey). See details in thread and link below. Thanks! 🙏

federation.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Jul 7
f you are interested, please follow the provided link below for additional information regarding the project. This research has been approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee at Federation University (Application ID: 2025/105)
Thank you! 😊
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Jul 7
We are looking for volunteer participants to take part in the research project and to complete a survey that is expected to take 20 minutes of your time. Your participation is a valued addition to our research, and we thank you for your consideration to participate. I
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Jul 7
"Hi everyone. As some of you may know I’ve been undertaking an honours research project this year, which seeks to explore individual experiences of time and its influence on mental wellbeing.
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Jul 7
Hi folks - my honours students is seeking participants for research into mental gravity (online survey). See details in thread and link below. Thanks! 🙏

federation.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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John Englart / Indiana Jones & Juliet @takvera.bsky.social · Jun 23
Climate Action Tracker #Australia 🇦🇺 assessment 11 June 2025.
We are rated ‘insufficient’, still expanding #fossilfuels, reliant on LULUCF accounting for emission reduction, two thirds of #SafeguardMechanism reduction is based on offsets.
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Jun 10
Why do you think positive emotions feel light and negative emotions feel heavy?
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Jun 9
Serotonin as the 'molecular mediator of gravity management' in both body and mind, hence its role in depression and anxiety according to the principles of mental gravity

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Gut-derived serotonin as a molecular mediator of gravity management | Neurogastro Latam Reviews
This article advances a novel hypothesis that serotonin, especially gut-derived serotonin, acts as a gravity management substance, helping the body adapt to ...
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Feb 3
How can we solve the youth mental health crisis?

NEW PAPER: Let's try something new but evidence-based like mass-screening for low mental wellbeing, which is a predictor of future mental health according to the dual continua model. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
Dual axes of the dual continua model with 4 zones that combine high and low ill-health and wellbeing
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Dec 24
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits…
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Dec 24
Beautiful piece, thank you.
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Dec 24
If I could train to become an interoceptologist, I would. Brain-body states are at the centre of both mental and physical health. Great piece
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CLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social · Dec 24
Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Brain–body states embody complex temporal dynamics

www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Dec 15
My father-in-law retired from academia in the ‘90’s. I don’t think he recognise the profession now and would be dismayed to hear how staff are struggling these days.

Extremely proud of @xuanluu.bsky.social for leading this quality qual work. Please follow him - PhD due for submission soon…
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Xuan Luu @xuanluu.bsky.social · Dec 15
I have a new paper out with terrific colleagues including @lachkent.bsky.social — we analysed 857 university workers’ responses to an open-ended survey question about how the institution impacts their wellbeing.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

(Unfortunately not open access…)

#AcademicSky 🦘🎓
How university climate impacts psychosocial safety, psychosocial risk, and mental health among staff in Australian higher education: a qualitative study - Higher Education
Research has reported an epidemic of mental health concerns among staff in higher education. Universities can improve staff mental health by creating work environments that are more psychologically, s...
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Dec 9
For new consciousness followers, this is my main contribution to consciousness science. CLaE is worth a follow as well for lots of good neuro links...
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CLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social · Nov 26
Neuroscience of Consciousness

Time consciousness: the missing link in theories of consciousness

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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Nov 9
Agree. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... and also my own theory of mental gravity. Mood is high/low and stable/unstable and I think this encodes value of emotional self-world relations using physical analogues (inertia, momentum, gravity, etc).
Getting stuck in depression: The roles of rumination and emotional inertia
Like many other mental disorders, depression is characterised by psychological inflexibility. Two instances of such inflexibility are rumination: repetitive cognitions focusing on the causes and co...
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Nov 8
I want to do a podcast that monitors and fact checks AB called “U-Bolt”. Looking for a producer and/or cohost, hehe…
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Oct 17
Good vibes to you all from our salt shaker
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Oct 11
Oo-ooh, lemme guess! Neutral buoyancy mimicking early foetal buoyancy in utero??
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · Oct 1
In which @evanthompson.bsky.social discusses clock time and the time of the philosopher and the famous Einstein/Bergson debate: “[Einstein’s]real mistake… was his view that physical time, defined through the measurements of clocks, was more fundamental than lived time.” aeon.co/essays/who-r...
Who really won when Bergson and Einstein debated time? | Aeon Essays
Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein fundamentally disagreed about the nature of time and how it can be measured. Who was right?
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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.bsky.social · Sep 25
Postural balance is taken as a subsidiary motor task, not a homeostatic task like thermoregulation.

But balance and sensations of weight have a valenced aspect which permeates experience and emotion not unlike hot-cold sensations do.

(In)congruous?

#neuroscience
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Happiness feels light and sadness feels heavy: introducing valence-related bodily sensation maps of emotions - Psychological Research
Bodily sensation mapping (BSM) is a recently developed self-report tool for the assessment of emotions in which people draw their sensations of activation in a body silhouette. Following the circumple...
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Sep 26
People think it’s all in the ear, I think, and so it’s guilt by association with the audiovisual system. If more people knew about gut-based mechanoreceptors, graviception might be invited to the interoception party. Until then…
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Apr 4
TDK does amazing things…to your sys-tum
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Lachlan Kent @lachkent.bsky.social · Feb 26
Hi everyone, my student is looking for participants aged 18 years and above for their research project investigating the moderating effect of gratitude on the relationship between emotional intelligence and forgiveness. (more details below)

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