The increasing emphasis on complex reporting guidelines is getting in the way of conducting good clinical trials, say Jeremy Howick Becca Webster & J André Knottnerus. But @dmoher argues that such complexity is improving research ow.ly/JOAT50FRFWm

Psychosocial factors, such as #expectations, can change experiences of side-effects to the #COVID19 #vaccines. Want to hear more? Look forward ⏩ to our in press article “Psychosocial Factors Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Reactogenicity”, coming soon in in Psychother Psychosom!

No-one wants schools to close again. But if it's necessary in a future incident, how do we reassure parents when it becomes safe to re-open them? Our PhD student Lisa Woodland analysed the worries parents had during the school reopenings in June 2020 bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/5/1/e0…

New article with @KeithPetrie and Zara Nicole Morrison showing that negative media coverage about a medicine can increase side effect reporting but explaining the nocebo effect can reduce side effects authors.elsevier.com/c/1drEs55zZLPZ…

Calling all local Yorkshire businesses! Can you help us understand the challenges you face in ventilating your venue? If your business is listed below, you could win a £20 e-voucher by completing a 20 min online survey about ventilation: bit.ly/ventilatesurvey Please RT.

Today is #NationalBlackCatDay A day to celebrate beautiful black cats everywhere. We are not boring. We are mini panthers who will bring joy into your lives 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

Psychosocial Factors Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34736267/ Pre-vaccine side-effect expectations, worry about COVID-19, and depressive symptoms predict COVID-19 vaccine side effects. Toledo Placebo Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies

We're hiring a 3-year Psychology Research Associate @sheffieldpsy! Expertise in understanding/changing behaviour? Experience with quant/qual research design and analysis, and participatory research/co-design? Please apply! (and RT). Questions welcome! jobs.ac.uk/job/CKP081/res…

Our work on Research Fatigue in #COVID19 pandemic & post-#disaster #research won Emerald Publishing #LiteratiAwards for outstanding paper! Professor Neil Greenberg Becca Webster Sam Brooks King's College London Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Fogarty at NIH Check it out & please share: emerald.com/insight/conten…

Do come and work with Dr Sharon Stevelink, @_Dr_Daniel and me on some great projects looking at the #mentalhealth of staff working in trauma-prone organisations. EPR HPRU Richard Amlôt Simon Wessely Becca Webster

This research is relevant for the pandemic. We need societal support mechanisms to enable people to recover at home when ill. #StopTheSpread ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… ht EPR HPRU

It can be tricky knowing what to do when your child develops symptoms. In this new qual paper by Lisa Woodland and co, we explore how parents interact with COVID testing when their child develops cough / fever / etc. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Did you lose electricity for 2 or more days because of a winter storm? We are looking for people aged 18+ who experienced power cuts to share their experiences over video/telephone call. Participants will receive a £30 gift voucher. Details: epr.hpru.nihr.ac.uk/our-research/r… Please R/T.

I'm hiring a 3-year psychology post-doctoral research associate @sheffieldpsy Sheffield:Air! (see thread). Interested in behaviour change? Skills in quant and qual research? Applications close 14th March. Find it here: sheffield.ac.uk/jobs under ref. UOS032092. Please RT! 1/X

Little Joseph’s (nickname Squidge) first game that hasn’t been past his bedtime, it’s not the Arizona Cardinals but it’s still NFL fan in the UK, so it’ll do! Will he stay awake for red zone? Scott Hanson Neil Reynolds Sky Sports NFL BrIrish PreSZNGang #SquidgyJoe

.ALLABOUTFPL FPL Olympian FPL Mate (Dan) RTs appreciated - Fantasy World Cup League for charity, £2 donation towards Dementia UK on our justgiving page (tinyurl.com/WC4Charity), £25 Amazon voucher for the winner - League code is O30S8X6Z

Proud wife/mum moment! Happy birthday #NHS75 🥳

Official Bluey TV CBeebies Parenting Bluey inspired pumpkin for our little boy this year! #Halloween

Research participation opportunity! Yorkshire-based businesses - new research exploring experiences of attending/not attending work with symptoms of infectious illness. Please get in touch if you have employees who fit the eligibility criteria & you're interested in taking part.

JOIN THE EMPATHY CENTRE TEAM: WE'RE HIRING The Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare is hiring Research Fellow in #medical #Statistics / #evidencesynthesis jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/9368… Applications open until 20/2/2024 Kindly share widely @kerryhood Becca Webster @UniofLeicester Leicester Medical School