Marcus Baw But Guardian (wanting exciting headline at the cost of telling a complete story) fail to make clear that there is *no indication* that any non-anonymised participant data was accessed. *No-one* using UKB data (whether they are doing good science or bad) has access to that.

Rolling Thunder - An evening with Professor John Kane | King's College London This will be a pleasure- pioneered use of clozapine, 900 papers, 24 NIH grants, now pro 1st episode services. And (annoyingly)renaissance man. Next Friday ⁦Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience⁩ ⁦ kcl.ac.uk/events/rolling…

I'm happy to share our Review article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences , "Cognitive Maps and Schizophrenia", synthesising evidence for representation-level abnormalities in the condition, and proposing directions for future work. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Now recruiting for a clincial fellow at Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience to help lead the first trial of muscarinic agonism in early psychosis, ideal for trainees wanting to get involved in research! my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecruit…

New paper with Matthew Nour , Toby Pillinger , and Phil Cowen discussing different ways of thinking about and developing psychopharmacological treatments biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-…

Our new open-access paper “An analysis on the role of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in cognitive and mental health disorders” nature.com/articles/s4422… is on Nature Mental Health

A fond farewell to Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience NHS Maudsley , and giving a lecture Thursday 1600, hybrid eventbrite.co.uk/e/psychosis-st… The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Will be sticking to the evidence-though hope to be entertaining..

Clinical research in the UK is under threat, partly because it takes so long to get a study or trial approved. Here are some of my suggested solutions in this BMJ Opinion piece NIHR Wellcome UK Research and Innovation bmj.com/content/388/bm…

This is correct. It does of course also apply to quite a lot of related research that takes a slightly different editorial slant.

Privilege to interview John Kane, highlights as folllows media.kcl.ac.uk/media/Rolling+…

Anyone who conducts clinical trials in the UK will be unsurprised by this. Although we have fantastic colleagues in Trust R&D departments and the RDNs, the NHS is so flattened and clinicians so demoralised, that it has become difficult to do more than data-based research.

Published today in Lancet Psychiatry, after 7 years of hard labour... the first long-term head-to-head comparison of two augmentation treatments in treatment resistant depression. Clinical and cost-effectiveness of lithium versus quetiapine augmentat... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our letter on why meritocratic selection is the best way to choose doctors for training posts is just out in BJPsych Journals. Lotteries and quotas are bad for both doctors and patients. doi.org/10.1192/bjp.20… Thanks to Ishaac Awatli & Talia Eilon for collaborating!

It was great to launch our international guidelines for treatment of schizophrenia at the Schizophrenia International Research Society annual congress - many thanks to all those who contributed, especially Rob_McCutcheon Read here: thelancet.com/journals/lanps… Use the digital tool: psymatik.com

Once again, NHS England Workforce, Training and Education have made a decision without consultation and despite strong opposition from students and academics We at BMA Students & BMA Medical Academics have written to NHSE to demand they restart discussions to return SFP to merit-based recruitment.

This should be required reading by all graduate students and postdocs | A brief guide to statistical analysis of grouped data in preclinical research nature.com/articles/s4225…

Can administrative real-world data substitute for RCTs and offer propensity matching to reduce bias? Results often fail to correspond & Lars G. Hemkens et al study showed direction of effect differed in 31% & CI failed to include RCT estimate in 56% pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26858277/