“Even if significant foreign aid can reach Gaza in the coming months to reverse the tide, scientists say that the long-term health consequences will be felt for decades.”

WIRED@wired.com · last yr.

Experts say Gaza’s malnutrition crisis has progressed to a newer, deadlier phase, and the World Health Organization believes one in five children in Gaza are acutely malnourished, with the health effects potentially lasting for generations.

Sharing the hidden work/ woes behind qualitative analysis. This week I chucked all my theme summaries from a master excel spreadsheet into a word file under structured headings. I had somehow managed to squirrel away >9500 words!! -> next stage of synthesis and refinement 💪

Starting the Research Academy with getting to know each other. All fellows are presenting themselves and their research. Very interesting to get insights into their work from all across Europe! #ESCAP2025 @paul-klauser.bsky.social @andrea-danese.bsky.social @shuo-zhang.bsky.social

This diagram is from Gregory Bateson’s 1970 testimony on ´the roots of the ecological crisis.’ 😢

Our paper on the sociodemographic and psychosocial factors of fatigue and chronic fatigue symptoms in South East London is out! 📈 fatigue symptoms are highly prevalent- 23.5 % 🔗 associated with reporting greater impact on function & less social support www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sociodemographic and psychosocial correlates of fatigue and chronic fatigue: A cross-sectional study from a South East London community survey

A better understanding of fatigue and chronic fatigue symptoms in the community may lead to better targeted preventative interventions. This study aim…

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Short but insightful overview of the short history of CAMHS In the 1970s, 1% of children and young people were receiving care in the precursor of CAMHS. It was estimated that between 7-20% may have had a “ definite functionally disabling psychiatric disorder”. assets.cambridge.org/97819046/711...

Thanks to the kind man at London Bridge that helped with my 🚲 on the escalator when I was trying to rush for a 🚊 that never arrived. Should have taken the 🛗! But nice to know that strangers do help when you make questionable life choices!

This 1950 Winnicott essay on “Some thoughts on the Meaning of the word ‘Democracy’” is an important reminder that we need to nurture the building blocks of society. “The innate democratic factor in a community derives from the workings of the ordinary good home” www.docdroid.net/i6OTOGZ/winn...

Winnicott - Some thoughts on the word democracy - written 1950.pdf

Some Thoughts on the Meaning of the Word ‘Democracy’ Written for Human Relations, June. First of all let me say that I realize I am offering comments on a subject that is outside my own speciality. So...

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Dr. Carolina Guzman Holst discusses her most recent paper in this episode of 'Psychology in the Classroom'. She explores the rising #mentalhealth issues among #youngpeople in schools, and the effects of universal interventions like #CBT. Listen below🎧 changingstatesofmind.libsyn.com/first-do-no-...

Psychology in the Classroom: First do no harm: Universal Mental Health Interventions in Schools

Summary In this episode is a NIHR Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, discusses her recent paper titled   Where the authors ‘examine three areas: the types of potential harms and advers...

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This is such an interesting visual analysis of stark realities of prison over crowding by the Guardian and reminds me of the visual methods used by Forensic Architecture in showing people real and physical impacts of policies/events on individuals and communities.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

31 of England’s prisons are Victorian. Do they work? – visual investigation

The big science story this week was that the shingles vaccine appears to lower dementia risk But they're not sure why www.nature.com/articles/s41... I wish that #Psych was more open to publishing findings that are important, even if we don't know the mechanism (yet) #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature

Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...

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NEW 🧵 The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border. Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...

Nature-based solutions harness the power of natural systems to help people and the planet thrive. They offer cost-effective ways to tackle #ClimateChange, biodiversity loss, and pollution. www.unep.org/unep-and-nat...

📚😅🎉 Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher! Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies. Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com #RStats #PyData

It’s always useful to step back sometimes to think about how you think! I suspect I am also using in other spheres this “modeling process that can be described as qualitative, constitutive diagnostic modeling. That is augmented by pattern matching and other inferential processes.”

Awais Aftab@awaisaftab.bsky.social · 2y ago

How Psychiatric Diagnostic Reasoning Works A Review of Adrian Kind's “How Does the Psychiatrist Know?” ( @philpsy.bsky.social ) www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/how-psychi...

Freiburg, Germany, Central Station Bookshop (right @the center of the shop‘s entryway): “This is a selection of books which are banned at schools in the US“. #UniteAgainstBookBans #FreedomToRead @ala-pla.bsky.social @librarypolicy.bsky.social

What are data spaces and what do they do? In this article, we will lay out what data spaces are, the function they perform, and how our work at the ODI on data stewardship and governance can contribute to how data spaces might realise their intended potential. #Data #DataSpaces

What are data spaces and what do they do?

Learn more about data spaces: what they are, what they do and what’s next.

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FT is reporting that the Cabinet Office permanent secretary has been asked to come up with options to fix the ONS's number problems This is what I wrote earlier this month: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/offi...

The Office for National Statistics must change to fix its data problems | Institute for Government

High-profile errors have made for awkward headlines for the ONS.

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Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very unusual for the Cabinet Office to feel it needs to get involved with the ONS given the UK Statistics Authority is supposed to provide independent oversight (plus PACAC as the relevant select committee). www.ft.com/content/b8db...

Nearly 20 councils in England ‘at risk of insolvency’ due to Send costs

Nearly 20 councils in England ‘at risk of insolvency’ due to Send costs

Exclusive: Councils say multibillion pound debts caused by years of overspends on special educational needs support * Why scores of English councils could go bankrupt when hidden Send debt reappears Nearly 20 councils have warned publicly that they are at risk of insolvency because of multibillion pound debts caused by years of overspends on special educational needs support, the Guardian can reveal. Overspending on special educational needs and disability (Send) services in England is forecast to grow by nearly £2bn over the next 12 months, a Guardian investigation shows. Continue reading...

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It was so incredible to hear this new song live yesterday. Does anyone know when the album will be out/ the lyrics will be out as an anthology?

BBC Radio 6 Music Now Playing Bot (Unofficial)@bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social · 2y ago

BBC Radio 6 Music 6 Music Festival Now Playing Kae Tempest Diagnoses (6 Music Festival 2025)

Many used textiles are sent to the Global South, where poor waste infrastructure leads to pollution and health risks. The solution? Better policies, responsible reuse & circular fashion to #BeatWastePollution. #ZeroWasteDay info: www.unep.org/events/un-da...

Proposed cuts to foreign aid could result in millions of HIV deaths and soaring rates of global HIV infections, new modelling study in The Lancet HIV estimates. Explore the data 👉 tinyurl.com/5hud9dxm #MedSky

Congratulations RCGP and @victoriatb.bsky.social for producing a great resource on greener prescribing www.rcgp.org.uk/getmedia/f50... @greenerpractice.bsky.social @ukhealthclimate.bsky.social

People from working class backgrounds are heavily underrepresented in the medical profession. Hear about the barriers that our alum, Yasmin, faced on her journey to qualifying as a doctor ⬇️

Defying the odds: Yasmin’s journey to becoming a doctor - The Sutton Trust

We spoke to our alum, Yasmin, about her pursuit of a career in medicine.

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🧡 To make our online resources more accessible to everyone, we got a shiny new translation tool on our website! Providing information in 15 languages spoken in Lambeth, including Arabian, Persian, Portuguese, Polish, Somali, Spanish, Yoruba and more...🧡 Check it out! at lambethlarder.org

A decline in funding for the HIV response could result in millions of preventable new infections and deaths, with up to 120,000 of these deaths affecting children. International cooperation is essential to sustain the advances we’ve made in HIV prevention, testing, and treatment. bit.ly/43uTfxA

We predict 4.8 million children will be in poverty by the end of this parliament unless the govt takes urgent action including scrapping the two-child limit in its forthcoming child poverty strategy and stepping back from benefit cuts.   www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK child poverty numbers reach a record high - BBC News

About 31% of children are living in relative poverty after housing costs, government figures show.

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And the figure everyone wants to see - more new posts on new science now happening on bsky.

Altmetric@altmetric.com · 2y ago

THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11

The Chancellor is right to balance the books, but wrong to do so on backs of low-income families. Read the latest Resolution Foundation analysis here, which reveals that more than two-thirds of the welfare cuts will fall on the poorest half of the country ⤵️ buff.ly/7hCSNBR

We know so little about the emotional experiences of #autistic and #ADHD young people who struggle to attend or are excluded from school even though this group is at much higher risk of mental health difficulties and poor life chances. We want to change this. qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...