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Jenny Fielder
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POST Fellow @ukparliament.parliament.uk
UCL Wellcome PhD student in Mental Health Science researching agency, resilience, development 🌱 @uclpals.bsky.social
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kityates.bsky.social
Heathrow’s terminal 4 was evacuated yesterday as fire crews were called in to investigate “possible hazardous materials”.

Emergency services declared that no “adverse substance” had been found.

So what really happened at Heathrow?

My latest substack:
Conceptagion
A concept contagion can be more difficult to wipe out than one for which the vector of spread is more tangible
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September 9, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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tommetherell.com
We have a ✨NEW PREPRINT✨! Using data from the @clscohorts.bsky.social Millennium Cohort Study and linked healthcare records, we tested the association between social media use and psychiatric diagnoses in secondary care in young people in England. This is still a work in progress - feedback welcome!
psyarxivbot.bsky.social PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jul 8
Characterising the longitudinal relationship between social media use and psychiatric diagnoses in secondary care in adolescents in England: https://osf.io/87cze
July 14, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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docqhuys.bsky.social
Another exciting new job opening at @uclpals.bsky.social with Niko Steinbeis and Essi Viding - www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neurojob #computationalpsychiatry
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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August 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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psyarxivbot.bsky.social
Experienced, bothered by, or both: People differ in how they understand the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) items: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jcsq8_v1
July 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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olademk.bsky.social
New report on understanding the drivers of declining youth mental health

To effectively respond to worsening mental health, we need to understand not just what is happening, but *why*

We used an evidence-based approach to unpack common explanations

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youthfuturesfoundation.org/publication/...
Understanding drivers of recent trends in young people’s mental health - Youth Futures Foundation
Research report exploring the reasons for the recent decline in mental health among 14 to 24-year-olds in England
youthfuturesfoundation.org
July 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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danieljamesyon.bsky.social
Less than a week left to apply for this PhD studentship in my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social !

Deadline Sun 6th July
July 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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duncanastle.bsky.social
Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
Funded PhD opportunity.pdf
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May 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social
It's been a little while since I've written a Mental Elf blog, and I found this fascinating qual paper on young people's views of CAMHS on TikTok. Give it a read below 👇
thementalelf.bsky.social The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · Apr 14
“I don’t need a cup of tea, I need some @#$%&! help”: #camhs through the lens of TikTok buff.ly/hGQMOwV
April 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
jfielder.bsky.social
Really excited that my first PhD paper is now out in @elife.bsky.social: Sense of control buffers against stress.

This has been a great team effort with Jinyu Shi, Dan McGlade, @docqhuys.bsky.social and Niko Steinbeis, comprising two studies and a total of N=768!

Summary thread below 🧵⬇️
Sense of control buffers against stress
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March 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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lucyfoulkes.bsky.social
Experimental researchers: Does anyone have experience of collecting data on Testable, and how does it compare to Prolific? (Cost, ease of getting participants, quality of data?)

including @isaacwinterburn.bsky.social here

Thanks!

www.testable.org
Testable | Build experiments & surveys | Recruit participants
Testable helps you build a wide range of behavioral experiments and surveys in the simplest and fastest way.
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March 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
jfielder.bsky.social
I've collated a list of *paid* UK summer research internships for undergrads in psychology/neuroscience, ordered by application deadline. Please share with students and add any other opportunities I've missed below!

#psychology #psychiatry #neuroscience #academia #research #internships #undergrad
January 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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lucyfoulkes.bsky.social
For anyone working in adolescent mental health: I *really* recommend reading this important paper about the most commonly used questionnaires (inc SDQ)

In short: most of them have poor psychometric properties, so do we even know what they are measuring?

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Estimating adolescent mental health in the general population: current challenges and opportunities Louise Black, Margarita Panayiotou, Neil Humphrey Adolescence is a period of change and increased mental health difficulties, which are important for lifetime outcomes. Adolescent mental health is therefore an active research area, with large samples often drawing on self-report general measures (ie, not disorder-specific or focused on a narrow outcome). We argue that these measures have a key role in our understanding of issues such as prevalence, antecedents, prevention, and intervention, however, measurement has been given little attention and high-quality measures do not tend to be available or used. We offer insights into historical and psychometric challenges that have contributed to current problems and highlight the implications of relying on poor measures, which at their worst can be biased and unethical. We make recommendations for research and practice on selecting measures and improving the evidence base and make a call to action to reject low-quality measurement in this field.
December 5, 2024 at 10:30 AM