Simon Blackwell
@blackwellse
Post-doctoral researcher in clinical psychology at the University of Göttingen, focussing on positive mental imagery and translational research methods. All tweets are in a personal capacity. He/him. More info:
Looking forward to hearing from @lluaces.bsky.social in his keynote at #BABCP2016 @babcp.com
Looking forward to this panel at #BABCP2026 "Research and practice in a turbulent world: should we remain apolitical amid global political conflict" @babcp.com
Very thought-provoking and inspiring keynote from Michelle Brooks-Ucheaga at #BABCP2026 @babcp.com
All the amazing speakers from the 3 minute talks! #BABCP2026 @babcp.com
Enjoying the 3 minutes talks - including some cameos from our keynote speakers! #BABCP2026
Jo Daniels starting off #BABCP2026 with one of the opening keynotes! @babcp.com
What a privilege to present a "State of the Art" talk "Accelerating the Development of Psychological Interventions" just now at the German Psychotherapy Conference! Thank you very much to the organisers for inviting me, and the audience for their great questions! #DPK2026 @dpk-kongress.bsky.social
Looking forward to hearing about the amazing work from Mar Rus-Calafell at her "State of the Art" lecture "Innovations in Early Psychosis: Integrating Research, Treatment, and Lived Experience" at #DPK2026 !
I found out today that these amazing huge black shimmery bees we have in our garden are called "Carpenter bees" - very cool!
Interested in attending the English-language track of Germany's HUGE annual psychotherapy conference - from home? Check out the amazing set of international keynotes and sign up for hybrid attendance! deutscher-psychotherapie-kongress.de/internationa... #DPK2026 @dpk-kongress.bsky.social
The "Romance" section of our local library contains all the great German works in this genre - so inspiring.
Latest home-brewed beer from the Longwall Brewery: I was feeling nostalgic for "Old Nick", the barley wine formerly brewed by Young's so decided to make my own. But...
Looking forward to finding out exactly how much of this book I can actually understand...
Making a Christmas pudding (late, I know) using my grandmother's recipe, which calls for 1/8 th pint of stout. This year I used a stout brewed using cake; if I can use some of this pudding to make a next stout, potential is there for setting up an infinite stout-pudding loop...
Playing Talisman on holiday, our younger daughter has decided that the Philosopher is the best character; I hope she will not be disappointed when she meets one in real life.
Follow-up: Googling "Eierlöffel" eventually led me to the following:
Just in case you needed any more examples of AI giving false information: I asked Google why German people* eat boiled eggs with a plastic spoon, and the AI answer flat-out denied this fact:
Weendebräu: Brewed with fresh hops from the garden and water drawn directly from the river Weende, for that (very) local flavour
Venus and Jupiter hanging on in there as the sky brightens this morning
And BABCP's own Joshua Buckmann winning the EABCT 2025 Scientist Practitioner Early Career Award! #EABCT2025
Kate Davidson receiving the EABCT lifetime contribution award - very well deserved! #EABCT2025
Dixon Chibanda starting to explain the friendship bench project in his keynote at #EABCT2025
Looking forward to Lars Klintwall's EABCT Early Career Award keynote #EABCT2025
Absolutely packed room for imagery rescripting skills class by Rachel Manser #EABCT2025
Surprise bagpiper to wrap up the opening ceremony for #EABCT2025 !
... And the pre-congress workshop day is now well under way - first coffee break just now! #EABCT2025