Dream job for anyone who’s worked with cohort surveys

UCL Social Research Institute@sriucl.bsky.social · last yr.

A fantastic opportunity in our amazing department! Come and join us as Director of our Centre for Longitudinal Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

1️⃣: Our paper: TIDAL - Tool to Implement Developmental Analysis of Longitudinal data has just been published in the International Journal of Epidemiology: academic.oup.com/ije/article/... 🎉🎉🎉

Software Application Profile: TIDAL—Tool to Implement Developmental Analysis of Longitudinal data

Growth-curve modelling uses repeatedly measured data from the same individuals to estimate trajectories that describe how variables change over time and id

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📚 AI, peer review and the human activity of science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI, peer review and the human activity of science

When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.

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Excited about our new preprint: 1st successful genome-wide study of >61,000 panic attack and 29,000 panic disorder cases. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... We find 17 associations & evidence that peripheral neurons in eye, lungs and heart are involved in panic & other psychiatric disorders 1/n

Researchers have found #genetic factors that may make people more or less sensitive to the environments they experience. It is the largest genetics study of identical #twins to date. 🔗 kcl.ac.uk/news/largest... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @qmulfmd.bsky.social

One year later ... a major update to our manuscript showing that most Alzheimer's disease is attributable to the gene APOE. We expanded it to analyses of four studies, now with data on about 460,000 people in total..... www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #Alzheimers #Dementia #Epidemiology #EpiSky

The proportion of Alzheimer's disease attributable to apolipoprotein E

Objective To estimate the proportions of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and all-cause dementia burden attributable to the common risk alleles ε3 and ε4 in the APOE gene Design Genetic association analyses i...

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Adolescence, “a time of ideas, reimagination, revolution, and a creation of new approaches—exactly what we all need for a better future and the survival of our planet.”   Lancet editors on the 2nd Commission on adolescent health & wellbeing. Read 👉 bit.ly/4jadJQj

Politicians During Mental Health Awareness Month

I am hiring for a new researchers on my @nuffieldfoundation.org young carers project. Closes 4thJune. After someone with strong quant longitudinal skills, passion for communicating research beyond academia & wants to work with people w lived experience/other sectors jobs.sgul.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at St George's University of London: Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology

The Research Fellow will investigate young carers and health inequalities using advanced longitudinal quantitative methods. Responsibilities include data analysis, literature reviews, publishing findi...

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The application of polygenic risk scores (PRS) in clinical practice has advanced but also received criticism. In this Perspective by Saskia Sanderson & @mikeinouye.bsky.social, major psychological and behavioural arguments against PRS applications have been assessed. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2y ago

Does anybody have a good visualization to explain how interactions can be confounded, and why interactions require interaction controls? @urisohn.bsky.social maybe? (Asking because I have an idea, but want to check out what exists already before investing the effort)

After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions - Nature Human Behaviour

Using a nationally representative UK sample of adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms, this Registered Report examined differences in social media use. The results suggest that adolesc...

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Remember the good times when the main threat to the scientific endeavor was conditioning on a collider

📢 New publication out today in BMJ Mental Health. We looked at whether climate change worry is associated with an increased risk of future depression, anxiety and sleep disturbance across European countries, using data from the European Social Survey. mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...

Climate change worry and the association with future depression and anxiety: cross-national analysis of 11 European countries

Background Climate change affects people’s mental health directly and indirectly. Climate anxiety, characterised by persistent worry and distress about environmental changes, is increasingly recognise...

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Our work on intergenerational transmission of psychiatric risk is now out!! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturecomms.bsky.social with thanks to my super coauthors @leofrach.bsky.social @jessiebaldwin.bsky.social and several others who made this possible

Intergenerational transmission of polygenic predisposition for neuropsychiatric traits on emotional and behavioural difficulties in childhood - Nature Communications

Parental neuropsychiatric traits relate to children’s emotions and behaviours beyond genetic transmission alone. Here the author's findings suggest potential environmental risk factors that can act on...

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Trying really really hard this year to not ramp up my work load before the spring break in order to “get things off my desk”. I don’t know who needs to hear this but you’re allowed a break without your work load doubling before or after your leave!

First post will be a plug for our national fellowship network ➡️ We have an exciting new session focused on NIHR fellowships! 💡 Come along to this brilliant event and do spread the word for the network led by @flosheen.bsky.social @alice-kininmonth.bsky.social and myself 👇

Dr. Florence Sheen@flosheen.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣Interested in learning more about NIHR fellowships? Join our session featuring NIHR advanced fellows + an expert from the Research Support Service to: 🪜learn about the application & interview 🌟boost your confidence 🙋ask questions Scan QR ⬇️ to join the group + get a link to this & future events!

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

Reviewer notes: That’s a very nice mediation analysis you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.

Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...

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Nice snippet from @popres-uk.bsky.social on the value of longitudinal population studies for understanding life course society and health, and the support PRUK can offer

Population Research UK (PRUK)@popres-uk.bsky.social · 2y ago

[1/2] 💡What can Population Research UK offer to the longitudinal population studies community? Hear directly from attendees of our consultation workshops across the UK. ▶️ Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NIH...

New comment by @faridanvari.bsky.social and friends arguing that psychology is fragmented into the study of too many constructs and measures with too few links. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Defragmenting psychology

Nature Human Behaviour - Psychology is fragmented into the study of a myriad of constructs and measures, most of which are used very rarely. This hinders cumulative knowledge generation. We call on...

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Are you doing EMA research and wonder how to go about it? In recent work we've adressed some open questions and challenges, here is a brief summary of papers and materials. 🧵 #PsychSciSky 🧪 #StatsSky

The London Genetics Network has arrived on Bluesky! Follow us here if you'd like @ldngenenet.bsky.social

International Women’s Day seems as good a time as any to remind folks that adolescent girls continue to face a range of gendered challenges in their day-to-day lives and they point to these as critical issues in understanding the gender mental health gap 👇

Ola Demkowicz@olademk.bsky.social · 2y ago

We talk a lot about why adolescent girls report more low mood and anxiety, and why this might be getting worse. But what do girls themselves think might explain this? As you might have guessed, we don’t really know. So, we asked them: doi.org/10.1186/s129... 1/8

1 / 2 Data from the 1970 British Cohort Study Age 51 Sweep are now available to download from @ukdataservice.bsky.social These new data offer opportunities for research on midlife and ageing, and for cross-cohort comparisons with earlier-born generations. Read more: buff.ly/Lcl8IqK

Special issue of JCPP Advances on *Transdiagnostic Approaches to Child and Adolescent Mental Health*! We especially encourage submissions on developmental processes, cultural factors, methodological innovation and translation to clinical care and policy 👇 Letter of intent due 28 March 2025

Martin Pratt@martinpratt.bsky.social · 2y ago

Looking to publish? @acamh.bsky.social's JCPP Advances invites manuscripts for a special issue entitled “Transdiagnostic Approaches to Child and Adolescent Mental Health”, due for publication in June 2026. Get submitting! www.acamh.org/blog/call-fo...

Advertising 2 new positions in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. A postdoc & an RA at Queen Mary University of London as part of our UKRI-funded Animating Minds Project. More details and how to apply here: Postdoc: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX749/p... RA: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

Postdoctoral Research Associate at Queen Mary University of London

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🌟 ECRs – Funding Alert! 🌟 Our UKRI MHP ECR Fellowship Awards open 1st March 2025! 💡 <£300K, 1–3 years 🤝 Collaborate with MHP Hubs 📚 Access training, resources & PPIE support 📅 Apply by 30th April 2025 🔗 Learn more: https://buff.ly/42Qn3UZ #MentalHealth #ECR #Fellowship

✨ We’re delighted the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) have given the go ahead to a new UK-wide birth cohort study! We're looking forward to submitting our proposal. The news follows on from the #EarlyLifeCohortFeasibilityStudy - find out more here: https://buff.ly/4i4f9fa

The hardest part about public health is that when we succeed, there's no crisis, no epidemic. People carry on with daily life, unaware of a near-miss. We may never know how bad it could have been - because our public health workforce is always taking action to avoid, prevent, and control threats.