Dr Emma Černis

If for some unfathomable reason, you don't want to read my ~80,000 word thesis (what do you mean, the pubs are open?), then please enjoy this Twitter thread version instead... 😉 🧵

📣 Want to join our advisory group for OCD research at UCL? 📣 We are developing research exploring reassurance-seeking in OCD and would love your advice and ideas! If interested, take a look at our flyer and please complete the following brief form: lnkd.in/ennFUZjZ

Spending the long weekend looking for a new job? Join us! In this exciting Band 8a role, you'll deliver and supervise highly specialist CBT sleep interventions as part of the "Sleeping Better" trial for psychosis & ultra-high risk. buff.ly/3wOcLXS Closes 3rd June!

Some academics still seem to be here... I have no idea where (online) everyone is gathering these days, so I'm going to shout into every void about our fantastic new paper, authored by our brilliant grad student, analysed by our superb CompSci colleagues: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

What is AVATAR digital therapy? Dr Thomas Ward and Professor Philippa Garety explain how does it works for reducing #psychosis and the results of the multi-site trial by @KingsCollegeLon researchers. Learn more about the therapy and research: kcl.ac.uk/news/multi-sit…

Have you ever heard, seen, or felt something unusual while falling asleep or waking up? 💤 If this has happened to you, once or multiple times, we want to hear your story! 🧠 Join our sleep study via the link⬇️ app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/uea/unusuals…

It was really fantastic to be part of this commission, with our team focusing on transdiagnostic #depersonalisation and #derealisation. Massive thanks to @dpddiaries @RoyaKamvar @AntonovicMilan and our wonderful Lived Experience Advisory Panel. #DPDR #Depersonalization

📢 new article: my recently completed PhD focused on people's lived and living experiences of multiplicity. The emergent grounded theory that was constructed can be read open access here: doi.org/10.1080/175224… #multiplicity #plurality

We are currently testing our new guided six-month online programme for the treatment of persecutory delusions: Feeling Safer. A full RCT will start later this year. There is a really great clinical psychologist position available in Manchester @GMMH_NHS nhsjobs.com/job/UK/Manches…

Join myself and @Bre_Kearney for a FREE webinar offered through ESTD! tinyurl.com/ESTD2024

Update: 'plethora' is out, 'array' is in.

Exciting psychology assistant posts working on Oxford Health NHS inpatient wards. Including opportunity to deliver our evidence-based psychological sleep intervention (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…). Apply here: tinyurl.com/34b3xwfb

Just spotted dopamine and serotonin in that list, too. Not sure what this is saying about the commodification of mental health but.. it’s definitely saying something.

Oh no… Not sure what I’m more concerned about: Spotify thinking dissociation is a music genre - or that it’s recommending it to me, a dissociation researcher 😂 #WorkLifeBalance (?!)

Day 2 of marking season and I've got my first "plethora". I have no idea why students love to use this word so much, or why it irrationally irks me. How many uses of 'plethora' qualifies as a plethora of plethoras?

🚨Fully funded 4yr PhD studentships (incl. 1yr FT teaching & qualification) available at @UoB_SoP for UK students 🚨 Please get in touch (with CV and questions) if interested in doing a PhD in youth mental health. Please RT. @IMH_UoB

Ever find yourself seeing or hearing things as you drift off to sleep or wake up? Ever experienced sleep paralysis? 😴 Join our interesting online research study to shed light on these sleep experiences. Check out the full info below ⬇️🌙 #SleepStudy @DrSReeve @UEA_ClinPsyD

Gwynnevere *is* on X! @GwynnevereSuter Updating my priors that the search function in X is not reliable 🤓

Big thanks to Gwynnevere (not on X) for our inaugural “Lab Lunch & Learn” session - turning our monthly Team Treat Thursday lunch break into something that definitely got the cogs whirring! ⚙️ 🧠 🥪

Enjoying a sunny spell during today’s fresh air break on @unibirmingham campus. Daffodils galore!

Join me online for the Winning Against Worry & Getting Better Sleep workshops (18&19 April) where I will be training clinicians in these evidence based interventions for people with persecutory delusions/psychosis. octc.co.uk/workshops @OCTC_Oxford @ProfDFreeman #FeelingSafe