🗞️This week’s Journal Club explores research on public engagement in eating disorder research. The paper highlights why involving lived experience, carers, clinicians, and researchers is essential. Read more via the link in our bio☝️

🗞️This week’s Journal Club explores research on how hunger affects mood, mental health, and everyday functioning. The findings highlight the close links between hunger, emotions, and wellbeing. Read more via the link in our bio ☝️

🚨NEW PREPRINT ALERT!🚨 Jacob Knyspel investigated the moderating impact of exposure to different traumas on genetic risk for PTSD, using data from @ukbiobank.bsky.social, @gladstudy.bsky.social, @edgiuk.bsky.social and @nihrbioresource.bsky.social 1/3 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...

Shout out to @eatsleeplaugh.bsky.social, @emynimbley.bsky.social, Kyle Buchan and the @edaceatingautism.bsky.social team for an awesome publication - the subject of @edcrn.bsky.social latest journal club! 😀

EDCRN (Eating Disorders Clinical Research Network)@edcrn.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🗞️ This week’s journal club features a study exploring how autistic people with lived experience can guide eating disorder research. The findings underline the importance of inclusive, creative, and experience-led approaches. Read more in our Linktree! ☝️

🗞️ This week’s journal club features a study exploring how autistic people with lived experience can guide eating disorder research. The findings underline the importance of inclusive, creative, and experience-led approaches. Read more in our Linktree! ☝️

I am so excited to have been able to pull together so many amazing people to talk all things #EatingDisorders check out the line up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voxed-voic...

2/ So maybe we could look at what @maizie333.bsky.social @docsamantha.bsky.social @mikedaube.bsky.social @felly500.bsky.social & I said @bmj.com at time? Even if the money comes, it could well make things worse. A really bad idea badly implemented. www.bmj.com/content/381/...

Statutory levy on gambling may do more harm than good

Although a levy would raise funds, May van Schalkwyk and colleagues argue there are many reasons why it may be ineffective at preventing gambling harms The gambling industry is dominated by highly pr...

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Curious about what it means to be part of EDCRN? ✨Here’s a glimpse of what joining the EDCRN as a site will look like! To learn more or express interest, email edcrn@kcl.ac.uk

Are you interested in eating disorders funding and research?🔬 Please help us develop some key messaging to deliver to stakeholders to help increase investment in eating disorder research by completing the following survey! qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

A valuable read from @ameaustin.bsky.social and @karina-maudsley.bsky.social on the importance of collecting routine outcome measures in eating disorders - and the potential of this to tranform care for individuals affected 🫶🏻🤍

EDCRN (Eating Disorders Clinical Research Network)@edcrn.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🔬This week’s journal club ➡️ Our co-principal investigator, Dr Karina Allen, recently published this paper on why routine outcome measurement is key in the eating disorders field. Read the paper here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40640949/

📢New blog alert📢 @annacarnegie.bsky.social from @edcrn.bsky.social talks about the importance of trust in treatment, and how being treated as a unique individual with different interests and hopes for the future helped her recover from anorexia. www.dumpthescales.org/post/seven-p...

Seven positives I took away from eating disorder treatment

Anna Carnegie, researcher and person with lived experience of eating disorders and OCD writes about the positives she took away from Eating Disorder Treatment

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Colin Sheridan is one of less than a dozen Irish mainstream journalists who reported and wrote about events in Gaza accurately from day one. His opinion pieces have become must reads. This, on Sally Rooney, is no exception.

The Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative @edgiuk.bsky.social needs you! EDGI are looking for people with experience of any eating disorder (formal diagnosis not required!) to take part in their groundbreaking research on eating disorders. ⭐Be part of change. Sign up now👉 edgiuk.org

Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative | EDGI UK

The Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative is a project set up by King's College London, in collaboration with Beat, to explore genetic and environmental risk factors for eating disorders.

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There is no evidence that losing weight will suddenly make me ready for work, and fix the economy." Zoe Hazel, one of our amazing campaigners has penned a blog on her experience of Binge Eating Disorder and the narrative around weight loss jabs. www.dumpthescales.org/post/i-haven...

"I haven’t failed; I’ve been failed by a system that isn’t set up for people like me"

Zoe Hazel, a mental health campaigner who spoke at this years #DumpTheScales march shares her thoughts on weight-loss injections as someone with binge eating disorder.

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📢New research 📢 Our new qualitative study provides the first in-depth study exploring individuals experiences and views regarding why people with eating disorders are at risk of suicide. bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @saakshikakar.bsky.social @mrtzhrl.bsky.social (1)

‘It’s the perfect storm’: why are people with eating disorders at risk of suicide? A qualitative study - BMC Medicine

Background Eating disorders (EDs) are associated with elevated all-cause mortality, with suicide cited as the second leading cause of death among individuals with EDs. Evidence suggests that individua...

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Currently, eating disorder services do not collect consistent routine data, which means we have limited knowledge of the effectiveness of care. Funded by us, a new study has identified a standardised dataset to be collected by a clinical research network in the UK, EDCRN (@edcrn.bsky.social). [1/3]

"I am watching this [expansion of weight loss jabs] as someone in recovery from both anorexia and bulimia, as well as an advocate for evidence-based research and an ally to those living in larger bodies. It terrifies and saddens me." New blog: ▶️ www.endeatingdisorders.org/post/from-wh...

📚 For our next EDCRN journal club, authored by a member of our Lived Experience Advisory Board, we read about the PEACE Pathway – an autism-informed approach to ED care.

🌱This month, we’re diving into the Full of Beans podcast hosted by Hannah Hickinbotham. Hannah is joined by Dr Jessica Murphy to explore long-term physical/mental effects of EDs in adulthood, and treatment changes needed to better support all ages.

With the right support, a life beyond the all-encompassing nature of an eating disorder is possible. To make this a reality, we need faster, more equitable access to high-quality treatment. We need to understand what works for who and the different factors influencing EDs. We need more investment.

Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · last yr.

The #DumpTheScales March on 21st June isn't just a walk. It's a community of people affected by eating disorders coming together to call for change. It's about connection and solidarity🌻 Here @annacarnegie.bsky.social from @edcrn.bsky.social shares her reasons for taking part.

I have been wishing this episode into existence for longer than I care to admit 😅 ...and it did not disappoint! Highly recommended listening!

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last yr.

We're back! Everyone agrees that "ultra-processed food" is bad for you but no one can define what it actually is. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

Abhorrent to see Ireland a party to such violations.

Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · last yr.

What's up Ireland.

📢Call for participants. If you're a medical provider who has provided abortion care or a person who has (tried to) access(ed) abortion in Ireland since Jan 2019, please consider taking part in this important study.🙏🏻

Amidst (limited and emerging!) research on weight loss medications and their potential impact on mental health, we cannot overstate the influence of weight stigma towards people in larger bodies, which can be a significant source of mental distress.

Spent a great few days in Edinburgh this week with the @edaceatingautism.bsky.social team and others funded under the @ukri.org collaborations in eating disorders research call. Fab opportunity to chat all things peer research and hear updates from ECRs and teams working in the field.

Our new paper describing how we can move the field forward on co-occurring #ocd & #eatingdisorders is now out Give it a read! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @uofleatlab.bsky.social

📚 Our new journal club kicks off with a paper on personalising treatment for Feeding and Eating Disorders (FEDs). We have highlighted key sections that struck a particular chord with the team at EDCRN!

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Do you or someone you know have experience of being a father of someone with an eating disorder? Please consider taking part in our study! UK-based only @kingsedresearch.bsky.social

We are recruiting UK based clinicians in eating disorder services to think about barriers & enablers for implementing autism affirming care, for example PEACE pathway. If you would be willing to be interviewed over TEAMS there is more information here! edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...