Dr Giorgia Michelini
Senior Lecturer/Associate Prof @qmul.ac.uk. Research on ADHD/Neurodiversity & Youth Mental Health using transdiagnostic, longitudinal, EEG & participatory approaches. Leads TREND Lab. Academic mama
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- Great hack, thanks @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social. Easy to set up in Outlook too
- Happy start of the semester! Coming back from sabbatical and immediately facing a flood of student emails inspired me to repost this hack (I've used the accommodation letter one 10x already today). #Academicsky
- 📢 Calling UK mental health professionals working with neurodivergent young adults 📢 Please take part in our research on depression in neurodivergent young adults! It involves 1 individual interview and 2 focus groups (all online, £25/hour). Sign-up link: shorturl.at/r3HlO Reposts appreciated 🙏
- Project led by brilliant PhD student @ehayashibara.bsky.social in partnership with @autistica.org.uk
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniAfter 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
- Incredibly long reviews are as useless as incredibly short ones. I’m always baffled by how little training (often none at all) we give researchers in doing a task that the academia rely on so heavily. We can’t just continue assuming new reviewers will magically absorb this.
- I recently had a manuscript rejected with 30 pages of feedback. I have taken time to orient to the feedback to consider points raised with the hopes of taking what’s helpful to improve it for a new submission. The more I sift through the reviews, the more I wonder whether some were AI generated. 1/3
- And by the way I think the onus of training new reviewers should be on the journals/publishers, not mentors or their institutions. It’s good to see some journals now laying out transparently what they expect from reviewers and launching schemes promoting ECR’s involvement.
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia Michelini*JOB ALERT* 👀 Our friends at Emerging Minds are recruiting for a NEW Children and Young people’s Involvement and Engagement Facilitator for the Centre based in Oxford. More info here www.psych.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniIf you're a member of the HiTOP Society, I hope you'll consider voting for me for President 💛 I'd be delighted to lead us in this new chapter Ballots went out today so we can join the current deluge of exciting election results And whether or not you vote for me - please do vote!
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia Michelini📢 Research Opportunity! Are you: ➡️ A parent/carer of a neurodivergent young adult aged 18-25? ➡️ A mental health professional working with neurodivergent young adults? We’re studying depression in neurodivergent young adults from diverse racial backgrounds. 📩 e.hayashibara@qmul.ac.uk 🔽 More info
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniBorn #OnThisDay in 1867 was Marie Skłodowska–Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two disciplines: Physics for her work on radioactivity, and Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium. #WomenInSTEM
- Please consider taking part in our research on depression in ND people! 👇
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniToday we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniInterested in building computational models of anxiety? See below for a potential PhD opportunity with me Feel free to reach out if you'd like to know more! @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social kcl-mrcdtp.com/project/unde...
- Well done again Rosie!
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniNew case study! Charity @pbe.co.uk used our data to show that the £28 billion annual bill for disability benefits creates £42bn in positive effects
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniAre electronic health records (EHR) more predictive of disease onset than polygenic scores? Can we transfer EHR-based prediction models between countries? Our study on these questions using 3 biobank-based studies with N>845K, is out in @natgenet.nature.com today: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Excellent fellowship program for US based early career researchers working on ADHD or depression! It was such an important step of my academic journey - eternally grateful to @klingensteinorg.bsky.social for the support!
- Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation applications are open! Learn more about the Child and Adolescent ADHD and Depression Fellowship: klingenstein.org/klingenstein... Learn more about the Transformation of Mental Health Care Program: klingenstein.org/klingenstein...
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniCome and work on our lovely team #job - #Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in #MentalHealth This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading interdisciplinary centre with a growing portfolio of research and teaching across the life span. Closes 11/09/2025 Please share! qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniDevelopmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a difficulty with understanding & using words & sentences. That might seem like a small issue to you, but to people with DLD this can be a huge barrier. The biggest barrier of all is NEXT TO NO ONE HAS HEARD OF DLD. Help us change that! #DLDday #DevLangDis
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia Michelini🧩 Sensory processing in ADHD isn’t one-size-fits-all. New meta-analysis reveals a wide range of patterns: some people are hypersensitive, others under-responsive, and many experience both. Think fire alarms, not fidget spinners. #ADHD #SensoryProcessing #Neurodivergent #MentalHealth 🧵 THREAD
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniI still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniDelighted to be hiring a new Clinical Psychology Lecturer to come and join our vibrant environment at the SGDP Centre @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social please share! my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
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- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniHow can we better protect young minds? Dr Christina Carlisi (@uclpals.bsky.social) shares insights on supporting children’s mental health online.
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniNew 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 1/🧵 youthfuturesfoundation.org/publication/...
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniWe are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested! More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
- I'm very excited to share that @wellcometrust.bsky.social has awarded us a big grant on studying information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia in patients, rodents, using modelling & clinical interventions. More details here: devcompsy.org/2025/07/15/n...
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia Michelini🧪 Our systematic review suggests serotonin plays a role in explaining the common comorbidities of #ADHD: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Come along to the Mutual Inclusion through Neurodiversity in Science (MINDS) workshop Wednesday 23rd July, 1-4pm at QMUL Mile End campus, organised by @daniel-gill.bsky.social! Talks on ND+mental health, participatory methods, rare genetic syndromes, Human-Computer Interactions 👇 shorturl.at/wGxBP
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniFor any postdocs who are are looking to transition to independence and might be keen to join us here at @kingsioppn.bsky.social, King's Prize fellowship applications are open (deadline 27 Nov) 👇 See link for details, and feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/119505-...
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniCongratulations are in order for the fantastic staff at the Department who received the Research Excellence Award @marghmalanchini.bsky.social, the Research Initiative Awards (Paraskevi Argyriou), and @nadinelavan.bsky.social & Guifen Chen for their work in the EDI committee 🎉👏@qmulsbbs.bsky.social
- Come along to the Mutual Inclusion through Neurodiversity in Science (MINDS) workshop Wednesday 23rd July, 1-4pm at QMUL Mile End campus, organised by @daniel-gill.bsky.social! Talks on ND+mental health, participatory methods, rare genetic syndromes, Human-Computer Interactions 👇 shorturl.at/wGxBP
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniHave you been using ABCD data? Are you measuring psychopathology with the CBCL? You will want to check out our latest preprint, led by @kanepav.bsky.social, which shows that the constructs measured by the tool fail to meet many basic validity tests. Peep the thread!
- New pre-print from @alexfornito.bsky.social , Toby Constable, Jeggan Tiego, and myself, looking at the psychometric properties of the CBCL in the baseline ABCD cohort. We show that the commonly used CBCL structures fail to meet standards for validity and reliability osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniI wonder what proportion of these papers reweighted their analytical sample to account for UK Biobank's extreme selection bias? More to the point, I wonder what proportion of the authors on these papers are even aware of the issue with selection bias in UK Biobank? #EpiSky #CausalSky
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniWestern University is offering new scholarships of up to 40k CAD for four years to doctoral students who are studying at, have an offer from, or have had an offer rescinded from one of the top 100 American universities. Come and study with me or one of my colleagues!
- Graduate students who have an offer to study in the US but are reconsidering or have been denied entry or current grad students who want to leave, then consider coming to Western University in Canada. Our University just launched a US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Program : grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniIn a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
- Interesting thread. Fits well with our ongoing work showing MH problems can present and be experienced differently by autistic and other ND young people, and often don’t improve when treatments developed for the general population are not substantially tailored
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia Michelini🧠📱Excited to share our invited commentary in @jamanetworkopen.com on the promise and pitfalls of using smartphones (and wearables) to track psychopathology w/ @hadarfisher.bsky.social and linked to excellent paper by @whitneyringwald.bsky.social, @aidangcw.bsky.social & team. tinyurl.com/5n8z4r6e
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniWant to reduce the incidence of mental health problems in neurodivergent young people? Focus on sleep. Sleep problems are the leading mediating factor (12-43% variance, by age) of mental health outcomes - Chiara Caserini at #NDAS2025. Preprint in repost. #AutRes
- *New preprint* on ND and co-occurring mental health problems from my lab, led by Chiara Caserini! Using longitudinal data from ABCD we asked: What drives poor mental health outcomes in children with high ND traits? Here's brief summary 🧠🌳🏡 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1.... 1/n
- Thank you for sharing our work - really sad for not being able to join #NDAS2025 in person, hopefully next year!
- @giorgiamichelini.bsky.social argues for integrating “neurodevelopmental spectrum” into the transdiagnostic model, which currently does not capture conditions such as autism and ADHD. Related paper: scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia Michelini🧠🧬🧑🤝🧑 New CoDE Lab study: Disorder-specific genetic effects drive the associations between psychopathology and cognitive functioning. Link to preprint: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by the brilliant Wangjingyi Liao 🌟 A short thread summarising the study👇
- Honoured to be part of the @acamh.bsky.social ‘Neurodiversity: Cutting-Edge Research, Evolving Perspectives, and Effective Innovations - 2025 Jack Tizard Memorial International Conference’. www.acamh.org/event/neurod... #neurodiversity
- Join to hear from from @angelicaronald.bsky.social @duncanastle.bsky.social Simon Baron-Cohen, Emily Jones, Jonathan Green, Lawrence Fung and me on new research and innovative approaches #Neurodiversity
- Looking forward to giving a talk at #NDAS2025! And all PhD students from my lab will be giving talks as well, very exciting ☺️
- Please join us at this year’s NeuroDevelopmental Annual Seminar #NDAS2025 @citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social @citystgeorges.bsky.social #Conference fee only £65 (£55 students) incl. lunch & wine reception. Fab speaker programme on signup page -closes 16th June! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniChild and adolescent mental health folks: what’s the best conference you’ve been to and why?
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniI’m so excited to share that our call for papers for a special issue of ‘ #Neurodiversity’ is now live! We’re looking for papers, podcasts, videos (and more) that align with the critical turn in #ND studies! 🤩 @ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniHeads up QMUL peeps! Catherine Carr features in our new @nihr.bsky.social video about involving people from all communities in mental health research. @qmulresilience.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social @m-bright-study.bsky.social @qmul-wiph.bsky.social Watch on YouTube and please share! 🙏🏽
- We need to involve people from all communities in mental health research. It’s #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and the theme this year is COMMUNITY. 🧵 THREAD
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniInterested in a #postdoc in London investigating hormones and women w/ ADHD? @adhdlifecourselab.bsky.social Happy to supervise Marie Curie postdocs ✅ eligibility marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... Open to any nationality (📢 to fellow 🇺🇸 looking abroad but open to all!)
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniA great moment for the Centre as we enjoy the inaugural lectures of both Prof Jennifer Lau and Prof Claudia Cooper, illustrating a range from youth mental health to dementia @qmul-wiph.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniWe will put forward a 500 million package for 2025-2027 to make Europe a magnet for researchers. As well as ambitious proposals for R&I in the next EU budget. We will also offer the best and brightest the right incentives to come to Europe ↓
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniTwo new viewpoints out now in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. One challenges the HiTOP consortium to "stand on its own two feet" for clinical translation, meaning it needs to sell itself not just exist in opposition to DSM/ICD categories. 1/3 psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
- Leaving #INSAR2025 with a lot of ideas and enthusiasm! Thanks to everyone who came to our panel on dimensional/transdiagnostic approaches today. Great to see growing interest in transdiagnostic research bridging autism, ND and mental health conditions!
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniNow: Neurodivergence-Affirming and Inclusive Research Practices for Autistic People with High Support Needs. Chaired by @drstevenkapp.bsky.social & @dianatan.bsky.social, featuring Drs. Teresa Girolamo, Aimee Grant, Jackie Ryan, Holly Sutherland. Discussants: Grant Blasko & Vikram Jaswal. #INSAR2025
- *New preprint* on ND and co-occurring mental health problems from my lab, led by Chiara Caserini! Using longitudinal data from ABCD we asked: What drives poor mental health outcomes in children with high ND traits? Here's brief summary 🧠🌳🏡 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1.... 1/n
- Mental health is a top priority of the global neurodivergent community, as highlighted by @autistica.org.uk & others, but we still don't fully understand what drives the emergence of mental health problems and how to best support them in this group. 2/n
- We looked at the longitudinal associations between neurodevelopmental (ND) traits in late childhood (age 10) and a range of mental health outcomes in early adolescence (ages 11 & 12), and examined key modifiable mediators underlying this link to identify promising intervention targets. 3/n
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View full threadHuge thanks to Chiara’s second supervisor @marghmalanchini.bsky.social, to our wonderful coauthors @divyangana.bsky.social @rachaelbedford.bsky.social @cathrynlewis.bsky.social Shiqi Lu, and to @ukri.org ESRC LISS DTP for funding this project ☺️ (end)
- Excited to be flying to Seattle tomorrow to attend my first INSAR conference #INSAR2025! I’ll be presenting in the panel on Dimensional Approaches to autism and ND traits on Saturday 2-4pm ☺️ Do join us if you’re into transdiagnostic and dimensional research!
- I’ll be talking about this recent paper introducing the neurodevelopmental spectrum and some recent longitudinal data using the TEDS sample 👇 bsky.app/profile/gior...
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniThis is a *key* new paper in the world of school mental health interventions A very large trial (N=6388) testing a universal CBT-based app for adolescent depression (13-14y) No effects found (on depression, anxiety, distress or insomnia) (🧵) mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia Michelini“In my view, the only solution is systemic change in how digital technologies are researched and regulated, to incentivize companies to make their products safer,” writes Amy Orben in Nature on the struggles to research the effects of digital technologies. 🧪
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniI’m interested in how we can better communicate genetic science, when cool soundbites may confuse more than they clarify. An example: “You share 98.8% of your genes with a chimpanzee!” Is this true? What does it really mean? Let’s unpack this oft-quoted pearl of wisdom in a 🧵 all about sharing. 🧪1/n
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- Reposted by Dr Giorgia Michelini🚨New post alert 🚨 We are recruiting at UCL for permanent faculty in Computational Cognition. Please circulate and/or apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML927/l... The dept is wonderful - exciting & clever research; supportive; dynamic. Feel free to send qus my way. @uclpals.bsky.social #NeuroJobs
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniIt's great to see more high quality journals joining @bsky.app ❤️ Let's close the gap between research & practice - using social media to share the latest evidence. I'm delighted to be working with @thelancetpsych.bsky.social & @thelancetph.bsky.social to make their papers more accessible 👍🏽
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniSpecial issue of JCPP Advances on *Transdiagnostic Approaches to Child and Adolescent Mental Health*! We especially encourage submissions on developmental processes, cultural factors, methodological innovation and translation to clinical care and policy 👇 Letter of intent due 28 March 2025
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniA preliminary brief version of the HiTOP self-report measure (“B-HiTOP”) is now available on our website: www.hitop-system.org/measurement-... 1/2
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniWe're putting together a starter pack to link all those who work in mental health research and interested/working in youth involvement. Please share and invite people to our starter pack! If you'd like to be added to our starter pack, let us know 😊 go.bsky.app/EFACehfat://did:plc:n6k6b4miiugfm24g5htyxl57/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lik4msy37b2v
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniEver wondered how to involve children & young people in a priority-setting partnership?🤝 We worked with other PSP teams to produce some guidance for @jameslindalliance.bsky.social based on our own PSP on CYP mental health: www.jla.nihr.ac.uk/documents/in... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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View full threadThe project offers opportunities to work on existing longitudinal data (incl clinical, psychosocial, EEG, genetic) and/or collect new data based on the student’s interests. Looking for a motivated candidate with a strong academic track record and research skills in at least 1 of the relevant methods
- Please note the studentship covers home tuition fees, so unfortunately we can practically only consider UK nationals or residents with (pre)settled status/indefinite leave to remain in the UK
- Please circulate and encourage strong candidates to apply 🙏 @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social @qmulresilience.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @mhrincubator.bsky.social @adhd-remote-tech.bsky.social @respectlabkcl.bsky.social @topicgroup.bsky.social @acamh.bsky.social @bpsofficial.bsky.social
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- The project offers opportunities to work on existing longitudinal data (incl clinical, psychosocial, EEG, genetic) and/or collect new data based on the student’s interests. Looking for a motivated candidate with a strong academic track record and research skills in at least 1 of the relevant methods
- Please note the studentship covers home tuition fees, so unfortunately we can practically only consider UK nationals or residents with (pre)settled status/indefinite leave to remain in the UK
- Please circulate and encourage strong candidates to apply 🙏 @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social @qmulresilience.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @mhrincubator.bsky.social @adhd-remote-tech.bsky.social @respectlabkcl.bsky.social @topicgroup.bsky.social @acamh.bsky.social @bpsofficial.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniThis month we introduce a Collection on lived experience expertise in mental health research. The centerpiece is 11 interviews with lived experience experts who generously share their personal experiences with mental health challenges & explain why they decided to contribute to clinical research.
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniComrades! Now the audiobook's finally out, I have five codes for free audible copies of *Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism*. If you want one just like and share/quote this post. After 48 hours I'll pick five sharers at random to send the codes to.
- Reposted by Dr Giorgia MicheliniThis International Women’s Day I’m saying Merci Gisele. Her unwavering commitment to ensuring rape & abuse victims know that the shame is NOT theirs has inspired countless women to come forward & share their own stories. Abuse, neglect & medical misogyny are serious issues we must address #IWD2025
