My team at University of Oxford with partners across the UK is looking for people aged 16-24 to help shape inclusive research looking at online arts and culture for mental health. Payment will be £12.50/hr. More info: glam.web.ox.ac.uk/origin-researc… #MentalHealthMatters

🚨 I am delighted to announce a new 2023/24 #OxAI4MH seminar programme. Our first speaker is Professor Melinda C Power of Milken Institute SPH presenting "Algorithmic Dementia Ascertainment". Zoom link and abstract: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/960d3… Open to all.

** Job Alert ** NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry open to ST1 at University of Liverpool and Mersey Care NHS FT 🏳️‍🌈 Details & Apply via Oriel: oriel.nhs.uk/Web/PermaLink/… Deadline for Applications: Wednesday 01 November 2023 16:00 Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre

Hearing from more and more clinicians that secondary care can't accept referrals for bipolar diagnosis assessments unless people are suicidal. Imagine if specialists couldn't diagnose diabetes or cancer until someone was at immediate risk of dying.

Our AI for #mentalhealth seminar series is part of the AI Fringe Today's talk is with Prof Munmun De Choudhury Munmun De Choudhury, PhD on engaging with diverse stakeholders in digital mental health. At 3pm BST #artificalintelligence Andrey Kormilitzin More info 👇 aifringe.org/events/artific…

Tuesday 24th October 3pm UK time: Next #OxAI4MH speaker is Professor Munmun De Choudhury, PhD of Georgia Tech Computing presenting: "Bridging Machine Learning and Collaborative Action Research: A Tale of Engaging with Diverse Stakeholders in Digital Mental Health" Zoom link: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d2021…

"I am looking for service users to be part of the research journey." Read the blog by Gail Faragher, M-RIC's Public Engagement Research Coordinator, to learn how we are involving service users and carers in our research. Mersey Care NHS FT 🏳️‍🌈 Institute of Population Health ow.ly/mkVG50PUvlU

How do researchers define interpretability and explainability? An overview: buff.ly/476R81x Summary: No consensus My opinion: It's already the Wild West, no one will stick to any definition. Most pragmatic is to treat them interchangeably.

#OxAI4MH: Tuesday 23rd January 3pm UK time: Dr Ana Catarino, Director of Clinical Science Ieso will talk about the importance of waiting time and clinical effectiveness in mental healthcare. Open to all. Zoom link: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/1a7db…

Finding My Way Out of Anti-Psychiatry: A Patient Perspective Guest Post by Lisa Wallace (Lisa Wallace🐠 ) psychiatrymargins.com/p/finding-my-w…

Don't miss your chance to apply to become an M-RIC Service User Representative so your experiences and insight can help shape future care and treatments. Apply before 5 Feb at bit.ly/Serviceuser_re… The Life Rooms ARC North West Coast Institute of Population Health NHS Cheshire and Merseyside

As time passes, more of the people who indelibly shaped my experiences of education and learning move on: RIP Niklaus Wirth (invented the Pascal language ... among many other things) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_W…

Pretty sure the explanations you get from explainable AI are not the explanations you want if you are a medical professional or a patient

Glad we cleared that up.

New blog on a new paper published in Lancet Psychiatry, by the team of Astrid Chevance. In the systematic review of 450 clinical trials on unipolar & bipolar depression, we identify 388 outcomes & compares their performance. Which measure performs best? eiko-fried.com/what-depressio…