In this Perspective, Alice Rhiannon Lee &co discuss new evidence that suggests - in the context of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease - the greatest opportunities in improving #child #health may lie in tackling socioeconomic disadvantage rather than #maternal behavior alone🧪 plos.io/4g7Ihnr

The authors also created a data visualization tool, the Exploring Prenatal influences on Childhood Health (EPoCH) Explorer, to explore associations between prenatal exposures and child health: gcsharp.shinyapps.io/EPoCH/

In this multi-cohort study, Gemma Sharp &co analyzed associations between #parental behaviors & child #health outcomes in four different cohorts, finding that socioeconomic status may have a larger influence on child health outcomes than parental behaviors during pregnancy🧪 #MedSky plos.io/44Qp17I

Exploring parental prenatal influences on child health: A multicohort study and data visualisation tool

In this multi-cohort study, Gemma Sharp and colleagues analysed associations between parental behaviours and child health outcomes using four different cohorts, and generated a tool to visualize the r...

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Aloha mai, Our paper on the role of men & partners in intergenerational health is finally out after 3+ years! Adopting a transdisciplinary lens, we were particularly inspired by women who've sounded the alarm on imbalanced research & responsibility for years. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mnE6V-4XW...

Ever had a period? 🩸 We’re developing new research to better understand menstrual health, and we'd love your help. You can take part in our pilot questionnaire if you’re: - Aged 18–65 - Live in the UK, and - Have ever menstruated Please share with your networks - every experience matters. 🙏

LinkedIn is so weird. Someone posted that cute video of Kermit singing ABC with a kid who keeps saying Cookie Monster and giggling. But the caption was about leadership and the comments were like “I see presence build trust faster than authority, teams perform when they feel genuinely seen” 🤢

kermit the frog is sitting at a desk with his feet up holding a cell phone

ALT: kermit the frog is sitting at a desk with his feet up holding a cell phone

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Allowing myself some time on my holiday to reflect on wtf I’m doing with my life. This pretty much summed it up 😫

Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We’re all in the business of discovering problems we didn’t know existed, then becoming the world expert on why they’re unsolvable

Join our team! We’re looking for an experienced lab assistant to generate DNA methylation data from thousands of menstrual fluid samples collected in Children of the 90s and Born in Bradford. £33,951, full time, in person in Exeter (EX2). Closes 18th January 2026. lnkd.in/ebQFYxd5

This is the best work I’ve seen all year. And I can confidently state that by the late 80s/early 90s in Somerset, Uncle Billy had been in a very unfortunate accident on the M5

Hazel Phillips@corylus.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Turns out I can’t quite remember what happened in Somerset in the late 70s/early 80s after Robin flew away

Wait, what? And… why? If we’re just going to AI generate participants, we may as well give up now. What’s the point? Like… why are you even here?

Sabrina Norwood@sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

I’m recruiting a postdoctoral fellow in epidemiology to join the MenstruLife project - using longitudinal data from multiple cohort studies to understand the prevalence, risk factors, and mental health impacts of heavy menstrual bleeding and dysmenorrhea across the life course. lnkd.in/ebQFYxd5

I have become mightily interested in the causal effect of “forever chemicals” and plastics on gynecological health. I want to make sure our new menstruation data in ALSPAC and Born in Bradford can be used to research this. Anyone know who’s big in (causal) epidemiology of this sort of exposure?

Unpopular maybe, but we should firmly resist this kind of banal medicalization of cultural and aesthetic experience. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Picture of health: going to art galleries can improve wellbeing, study reveals

Viewing original works of art can relieve stress, cut heart disease risk and boost immune system, first study of its kind finds

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One of the greatest two minutes of television ever broadcast.

archivetvmusings@archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Sooty & Co (28th October 1996). Sooty and the gang round off their Spanish holiday by going clubbing.

I’m off sick. In related news, I’ve made a Shiny app that displays random pictures of my cat. I’ve also styled it (accidentally) on how the internet looked in 2001. Thanks for your time. gcsharp.shinyapps.io/is-it-beans/

This is going to be SO useful… I love this sort of academic work. Repositories that make data accessible all in one place are 👌 And there’s even a bloody R package too! 🙏

Björn Siepe@bsiepe.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Are your periods too heavy, long, unpredictable, frequent/infrequent, or involve bleeding in between? Or do you care for someone with this issue? Please consider filling out our survey: exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... to find the most important research questions on Problematic Menstrual Bleeding

Do you have heavy or painful menstrual periods? If so, please consider filling in our short survey so that we can better understand how these symptoms interact with mental health and wellbeing. exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Epidemiology Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Hybrid/On-site Exeter, United Kingdom #Epijobs jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Quite proud of this actually. Since I deleted my Twitter account, I haven’t had a place where I can be told off for colluding with other academics to erase women. It looks like this article in the Conversation about periods and GCSEs has now filled that gap. 👏

Researchers from the #GW4Alliance unis of @exeter.ac.uk and @bristoluni.bsky.social have been awarded $4.5million to drive new research into heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) and its causes: Read the latest: gw4.ac.uk/news/groundb...

We’re looking for people aged 30-55 who experience heavy menstrual bleeding or dysmenorrhea (menstrual pain) to help us design a new research study around menstrual health

Our study is in the news: Heavy and painful periods are linked to missing school and lower GCSE results - something that anyone who menstruates could probably already tell you, but that is largely not discussed or ignored. Well done to Gemma Sawyer @uob-ieu.bsky.social who did all the hard work

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Heavy periods affect school attendance and exam scores, study in England finds

🚨Job Alert!🚨 We're launching a funded study on how period pain impacts adolescent girls’ lives & school engagement. Join our team. 🔹 Research Associate 👉 (www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...) 🔹 Research Assistant 👉 (www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...) Please share! #PeriodPain #PainResearch

Do you experience problematic menstrual bleeding? Or do you treat or care for someone who does? 4M members Jackie Maybin, Gemma Sharp, and Lucky Saraswat are leading a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership to identify the most important questions for future research to address.