Tom Barry

I was interviewed for this given our work exploring how mental health advice skews towards telling people to do more rather than less nature.com/articles/s4427…. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine my research would be used as a critique of Chris Martin.

I wrote how this paper came together at the link below but the inspiration very much came from @Leidyklotz and his collaborators. communities.springernature.com/posts/people-o…

Eight experimental and naturalistic studies show that people (and chatbots) tend to give advice to improve mental health that involve us doing more (e.g., take up yoga) and they neglect solutions that involve doing less (e.g., quit junk food). @BomTarry nature.com/articles/s4427…

Pharmacological enhancement of fear extinction sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The craziest part though was that I could generate a brief 'podcast' summary. It has a few problems (there's an audio artefact at the start) but if I'm being fair it's actually really good and provides a good lay summary of the paper. Listen here: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/e8946…

And I was able to interrogate it a bit and probe specific details of the paper by chatting with Gemini.

I input one of my papers into Google's NotebookLM to see how it performs. I gave it my meta-analysis into studies that examined autobiographical memory problems within people with psychiatric diagnoses. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34968086/

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CRIISP's Ed Keogh & Ian Taverner hosted a Reddit Ask Me Anything, sharing insights on how people think & feel about pain & the social influences on pain. Click on the image to read more #chronicpain #research reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment…

Beautiful conversation about masculinity and growth between @kendricklamar and @sza in @harpersbazaarus harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-bo…

Thank you to everyone who has participated so far 🙏 recruitment is going well, but we're still hoping to hear from a lot more people. Please keep RTing! @BethanyJCliffe @ThePhDPlace @PhDVoice @PhDForum @PHDcomics #phdchat #phdlife @AcademicChatter @academicvoices

We’ve received £11 million from @NIHRresearch to launch the Bath Mental Health Research Group, focusing on mental health for 12-25-year-olds. This is a major step toward improving mental health outcomes for young people across our region. Read more: bit.ly/3ZYg62U

In this Myth Busting session for @ACAMHLearn, Professor Sarah Halligan (@BathPsychology) addresses myths about #PTSD & answers some key questions parents & others will have often discussed - e.g, 'Is it OK to talk to children about #Trauma?'. bit.ly/3MKBl0n #ACAMHLearn

Another great analysis by @jburnmurdoch on the troubling increase in young people who are unemployed and claiming disability benefits predominantly because of mental health issues on.ft.com/47GHDaU via @FT

Really interesting thread and article. Many men feel they have already been left behind and, for those accepting of 'male privilege', there is a feeling that they shouldn't talk about their problems because 'they have it so good', of course to the detriment of their mental health

My first first-author paper with @jpheffne @gloriawfeng Jutta Joormann & @RobbRutledge is now published in @PNASNews! 🎉 Human- and ChatGPT-rated language sentiment of brief text responses predicted changes in depression. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… @YalePsychology @Yale 🧵(1/n)

Really nice reference for work in the LLM/AI and health space by @YuHuizi and @LeegeoF et al. Relevant to what we've been planning @DrJoDaniels link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Two days ago, a lawfirm filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against 6 commercial publishers (incl Elsevier & Wiley) in the federal district court in New York. They allege a 3-part scheme on part of publishers. 🧵 lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/acad…