Not long ago, we celebrated our Rising Stars — Lauren Lucas and Sam Webb @drsamswebb.bsky.social 🌟✨ — and now we’re already getting ready for our next meeting! 🧠✨

Join us, submit your abstract 📄, and nominate the next Rising Stars ⭐🎉

👉 For more info, follow the link: opsyris.org/meetings/

Revision of the Multiple Errands Test–Home (MET-Home) for English Speaking Community Dwelling Adults and Stroke Survivors - Sam S. Webb, Suzanne Perea Burns, Nele Demeyere, 2025 | Sam S. Webb Out now 💥 Work completed with Dr Suzanne Burns and Prof. Nele Demeyere "Revision of the Multiple Errands Test–Home (MET-Home) for English Speaking Community Dwelling Adults and Stroke Survivors" Pap...

Out now 💥 Work completed with Dr Suzanne Burns and Prof. @neledemeyere.bsky.social

"Revision of the Multiple Errands Test–Home (MET-Home) for English Speaking Community Dwelling Adults and Stroke Survivors"

See link for details :)

www.linkedin.com/posts/sam-s-...

Happy to share the development, standardisation, and validation of the Mini - Oxford Cognitive Screen, a brief (<8mins) cognitive screen for chronic stroke survivors that is relevant for primary care settings. Now out Open Access in ESJ.

@neledemeyere.bsky.social @eugeneyhtang.bsky.social

This registered report on the burning houses replication is now finally out in Cortex. One of few registered reports in neuropsychology, this project was accepted at stage 1 just before the pandemic and is now finally out.
Commentary on the process to follow :)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Here's our article @braincomms.bsky.social

Practical Routes to Preregistration: A Guide to Enhanced Transparency and Rigour in Neuropsychological Research
@rjbinney.bsky.social @stephanierossit.bsky.social @neledemeyere.bsky.social @britishneuropsych.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

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🚨 Deadline: 30th April!
🌟 Know a rising star in #StrokeResearch? Nominate them now!👉 Info@opsyris.org
🧠 We’re looking forward to receiving your abstracts!

👉Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📩 👉More info on our website opsyris.org and newsletter tinyurl.com/3wvaye37

"PhD supervisors have two moods: [picture of heavily altered essay with red lines everywhere] [picture of guy with thumb up]

PhD student sends me this. Ouch.

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🚨 Abstract deadline: 30th April!
🧠 Share your research at #OPSYRIS2025 – 11th July at @officialuom.bsky.social or online!
📝 Submit your abstract: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🌐 More info on our website + newsletter! tinyurl.com/3wvaye37
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Flyer advertising a training course on How to be a great chief investigator for clinical trials. Find out more via the following link https://tinyurl.com/HTBAGCI

🚀 Exciting News! 🚀

Interested in or leading a clinical trial?

Want to be the best Chief Investigator you can be?

This updated course is for you!

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#ClinicalTrials #CITraining

@leedsctru.bsky.social @amandafarrin.bsky.social

Wonderful news! Congratulations!

Key recommendations for sharing information with memory clinic patients:
- Ask about needs and preferences, and re-assess over time
- Tailor information to the patient (e.g., test results, diagnosis, prognosis)
- Provide jargon-free communication in verbal and visual form

See full article below 👇🏻

Intermittent reinforcement provides the strongest conditioning response 😉

I have pretty much conditioned my teens so one of them usually comes supermarket shopping. If they come, they pick the snacks (whenever I go shopping without them, the snack cupboard remains quite bare!). Food is an excellent motivator/reward. Behaviourists have known for a long time 😉

🚨 Call for Abstracts #OPSYRIS2025 ! 🚨
Conducting research into psychological aspects of #stroke? Submit your abstract & present at the OPSYRIS Conference @officialuom.bsky.social on 11th July! 🧠✨
🔗Submit abstracts: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🔗Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/opsyris-20...

#lifeafterstroke #elasf2025 Hatice Ozkan - participant " I am more than my stroke"

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Exciting new Research Nurse post now available at the Centre for Trials Research at Cardiff University

Details: G6, 0.6 FTE (21 hours/week), open ended
Closing date: 21st March
More info: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Please share!

Lesion mapping in neuropsychological research: A practical and conceptual guide

N=33 is a very small sample for lesion mapping, with questionable statistical validity, particularly in such a low diversity (lesion wise) sample as well. We wrote a guide expanding on this and other issues in VLSM here if anyone interested in reading more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just because you don’t understand someone’s job doesn’t mean it’s bullshit, and it doesn’t mean it’s going to lead to the downfall of civilisation. For sure, some things can be done better. For sure, there are problems in our universities. But this isn’t how we address it. 3/

Thanks for providing some pushback and critical engagement. It's easy to get annoyed at 'extra admin' work, and the amount of reposts show the wider frustration of academics. However, extending this frustration with admin burdens to calling for a culling of 'bullshit jobs' is an astounding leap.

OPSYRIS has joined BlueSky! We are an organisation focused on promoting research on psychological outcomes of stroke with the aim of improving clinical practice. Learn more about us (and our upcoming conference 👀) on our website
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Great to see this one out at last. OxVPS for screening perception problems after stroke. This was part of a @thestrokeassoc.bsky.social funded fellowship to @kathleenvancleef.bsky.social !

The BNS is delighted to present this first look at the 🧠 SPRING MEETING 🧠 2025 programme, and announce we've an 🚨 EXTENDED ABSTRACT DEADLINE (Feb 17th)! 🚨 All this great science for just a £15 registration fee. Or for free if your a BNS member. Visit www.the-BNS.org.
#neuroskyence
#psychscisky

First obituary of Eleanor Maguire

Fitting that it comes from a neuroscience community publication. Very grateful to Calli McMurray for writing this lovely piece on who Eleanor was and what she achieved in her dazzling career:

Fantastic opportunity to join a great team - 8a Clinical Psychologist post in Lincolnshire's neuropsychology service
www.healthjobsuk.com/job/v6843522

Just registered and great to see so many familiar people from the occupational therapy, stroke and neurorehabilitation and research communities.

Using the Behaviour Change Wheel to develop an intervention to improve conversations about recovery on the stroke unit Background Understanding recovery is important for patients with stroke and their families, including how much recovery is expected and how long it might take. These conversations can however be uncom...

Proud of this new paper from my @thestrokeassoc.bsky.social funded PhD providing an example of using the #BCW in the early development of a complex intervention to support conversations about recovery on the #stroke unit @auasresearch.bsky.social
👇👇👇
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🚨 My team is hiring an undergraduate intern (UK universities only) - a great opportunity, if I can say so myself!

Please share widely.

Want more info? See here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Achromatopsia poster. It shows a drawing of glasses. In one lens you can see letters in all colours. In the other lens, the same letters are in black and white. At the bottom there are come colouring pencils. A cartoon character is pointing to the yellow pencil and says 'what colour is this?' another character is saying 'yellow'. At the top is a post-it note that says '22% of stroke survivors will have some form of achromatopsia'. The main text reads: "This refers to a difficulty recognising or perceiving colour. The world can appear in shades of grey, or just look more dull. This can make it hard to tell the difference between similar shades of colours such as yellow and green. Difficulties can be restricted to either the left or right side of vision, or can cover both sides. There is no cure for achromatopsia, but managing its symptoms can look like: asking others to point out the colours of things, wearing tinted lenses to help with light sensitivity, using technology like apps to identify colour"

👩‍⚕️ OTs and Orthoptists 👨‍⚕️ New survey about current practice of visual perception difficulties after a brain injury: tinyurl.com/mpbebbmt.
Results will inform new training and clinical tools. ⏳ 5-10 min 🏆 15 free posters about visual perception difficulties + rehab advice, see 🔽. Thank you!!

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I have taken on a new editorial position for Neuropsychologia as section editor (Attention and Consciousness).

Looking forward to seeing all your submissions flood in !

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/neur...

New pre-print to bring in the New Year!

"Practical Routes to Preregistration: A Guide to Enhanced Transparency and Rigour in Neuropsychological Research"

#OpenScience #Neuropsychology