Congratulations to @tommetherell.com on a fantastic paper from his doctoral work, along with his CLS colleagues @georgeploubidis.bsky.social and @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social. It uses survey data to try and better understand digital mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read here:

Delighted to share the first published paper from my PhD project! We studied the relationships between online connection/internet use and mental health among adolescents in 12 countries in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa 🧵 Now out in @springernature.com SPPE 👉 rdcu.be/fxNgP

New research by @lauragimeno.bsky.social, Charis Bridger Staatz, Alice Goisis, @drjenndowd.bsky.social and @georgeploubidis.bsky.social examines how chronic health conditions in midlife are linked to later health-related economic inactivity in the UK. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New derived variables from Next Steps, the only England-wide cohort study of millennials, are now available from @ukdataservice.bsky.social. Highlights include: information about children, partners, wellbeing and finances. Explore all the Age 32 data in our updated user guide: bit.ly/4em2up2

New research, drawing on data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, finds people who reported long-term physical and mental health difficulties at age 42 were less likely to be employed at age 51. Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/3Ruk2WY @georgeploubidis.bsky.social

While I was away last week, this finally arrived…

📅Join our webinar to learn how UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration is making it easier to access and use linked data for research. Hear how their team supports researchers at every stage and the benefits of using the service. 👉 Register today: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b39902...

It's not the diet, Telegraph. Take another guess.

I worked for a year at Bilgi MBA while studying at Boğaziçi uni. Both universities are devastated and Bilgi now closed by presidential decree. All the same time the country says they want to attract back talented Turkish students and academics. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...

Turkiye shutters liberal Istanbul university seized in criminal probe

Council of Higher Education promised to take measures to ensure Bilgi University students 'suffer no harm'.

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Landmark systematic review of the British birth cohorts, providing further evidence of Generational Health Drift. Led by the fantastic Laura Gimeno with superstar team: @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social @martindanka.bsky.social @yiling1015.bsky.social Alice Goisis & @drjenndowd.bsky.social

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Millennials and gen Z may spend more years in poor health than their earlier born counterparts, according to a new review of 51 studies comparing UK birth cohorts. Read more on the CLS website - bit.ly/4wKqclU

Mental health difficulties among young adults in England have doubled in past decade, finds a new @ucl.ac.uk study by CLS researchers @dominicpkelly.bsky.social & @emlafitzsimons.bsky.social Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/4v4QZrx

Mental health difficulties among young adults have doubled in past decade | CLS

More than a fifth (22%) of generation Z in England report having a longstanding mental health condition in their early 20s, double the rate of millennials (10%) at a similar age ten years earlier.

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Our mascot Cohort MemBear was delighted to make a trip to the beautiful city of Belfast for our latest consultation on the Age 27 Sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study. Join us (and MemBear) for our final consultation event or submit your ideas online: bit.ly/4nxJre7

🎂💐 Happy 80th birthday to Professor Heather Joshi, former director of @clscohorts.bsky.social, founding director of the Millennium Cohort Study, and a key figure in the development of Generation New Era. Thank you for your enormous contribution to longitudinal and women’s studies!

Excited to deliver the keynote at the UCL “200 Years of Health and Wellbeing” symposium 🎉 I’ll present evidence on Generational Health Drift, its impact on economic activity, and argue that the recent decline in Healthy Life Expectancy reflects both mental and physical health. @sriucl.bsky.social

UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies@clscohorts.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Two weeks to go: @georgeploubidis.bsky.social is delivering the keynote at @ucl.ac.uk's Past, Present and Future symposium on Thursday, 14 May. Living Longer but Not Healthier: The Generational Health Drift uses data from CLS’ cohorts. Register: bit.ly/42wK4ef

This fascinating new research examines important predictors of non-response from a pool of ~ 20,000 variables from 9 sweeps in 18,037 individuals. Find out more in the thread below 👇

Michalis Katsoulis@mkatsoulis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

👉Our paper on addressing missing data in the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) has been published in BMC Medical Research Methodology link.springer.com/article/10.1... @rjsilverwood.bsky.social @georgeploubidis.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social Martina Narayanan, Brian Dodgeon 1/8

Being out of work and education in early adulthood has a 'scarring effect' into midlife, according to a new report by @ucl.ac.uk @ioe.bsky.social researchers, Alina Pelikh, Sam Parsons, and Claire Crawford. Read more on the CLS website - bit.ly/4eNFHCS

Being NEET in early adulthood has 'scarring effect' into midlife | CLS

Being out of work and education between ages 16 and 24 has long-term consequences for people’s employment, finances, physical and mental health in midlife, according to new UCL research.

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👉Our paper on addressing missing data in the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) has been published in BMC Medical Research Methodology link.springer.com/article/10.1... @rjsilverwood.bsky.social @georgeploubidis.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social Martina Narayanan, Brian Dodgeon 1/8

A data driven approach to address missing data in the 1970 British birth cohort - BMC Medical Research Methodology

BMC Medical Research Methodology - Missing data may induce bias when analysing longitudinal population surveys. We aimed to tackle this problem in the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70). We utilised...

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💥 Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) Age 27 sweep open consultation. 👉 Attend a consultation event in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff or Belfast or join us online. What questions should we ask and what measures should we use? Your input is needed! Find out more: buff.ly/yMGpXuM

Our preprint is now out! 📄 We looked at whether five flexible IPTW / propensity score weighting approaches can be used for count exposures, and whether they can be combined with multiple imputation. We also illustrate the methods using BCS70 data. Link: doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.23726

📢 New @ucl.ac.uk research using data from the latest sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study finds one in seven young people (14%) across the UK are not in education, employment or training (NEET) at age 23. Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/4uYft6C

One in seven not in work, training or education in their early 20s | CLS

One in seven young people (14%) across the UK are not in education, employment or training (NEET) at age 23, according to new UCL research.

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📢Our takeover of the @ioe.bsky.social podcast series, Research for the Real World continues this week as Dr Sam Parsons discusses what our long-running birth cohort studies can reveal about people’s lives as they approach retirement. Find out more and listen to the podcast - bit.ly/4rVa7pZ

Worked more, still got less | Research for the Real World | IOE Insights | Episode

We explore retirement readiness, gender gaps in pension wealth, and the real-life consequences of inequality across the life course.Dr Amy Harrison speaks with Dr Sam Parsons about what long-running b...

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A heart-warming science news story for difficult times. The world’s longest continuously running birth cohort study turns 80 this week - a milestone. tinyurl.com/3wy8n4ah It was a privilege writing about it in my book The Life Project. Happy birthday NSHD! @clscohorts.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

World’s longest running birth cohort study marks 80 years

The world’s longest continuously running birth cohort study, which follows thousands of participants born in the first week of March 1946 and is hosted by UCL, is celebrating its 80th birthday.

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🎂 A very happy birthday to the cohort study that started it all! 👇

Helen Pearson@helenpearson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A heart-warming science news story for difficult times. The world’s longest continuously running birth cohort study turns 80 this week - a milestone. tinyurl.com/3wy8n4ah It was a privilege writing about it in my book The Life Project. Happy birthday NSHD! @clscohorts.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

If you missed this seminar, you can: 📹 watch the recording here: youtu.be/n5HHg4RJQns?... 📖 read the (brand new!) paper here: doi.org/10.23889/ijp... cc @rjsilverwood.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social

Georgia Tomova@georgiatomova.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Administrative data are commonly used in research but they often have limited information on confounders, making analyses prone to residual confounding. Join us to hear from @rjsilverwood.bsky.social about a multiple imputation-based approach to address this using linked cohort data. Link below👇

How data from cohort studies can improve causal inference in analyses using administrative data resources 👇🏻

UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies@clscohorts.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 Researchers at @ucl.ac.uk propose new approach to improve quality of population data research by looking at data linked from the Millennium Cohort Study to the UK National Pupil Database (NPD). Read the full paper on the @ijpds.bsky.social journal website 👉 buff.ly/HJLkFkg

♀️ Celebrate women by looking at datasets from across the world, focused on women at all stages of life! Explore the #AtlasLongitudinalDatasets & #CatalogueMHM to find rich data about women's health and wellbeing! 🔗 atlaslongitudinaldatasets.ac.uk 🔗 www.cataloguementalhealth.ac.uk #IWD2026

We are the focus of the new season of @ioe.bsky.social podcast, Research for the Real World. In the first episode, Dr Gergo Baranyi discusses his research examining links between people’s housing and neighbourhood and their health and education. Listen - www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...

How poor housing shapes school outcomes and why place matters | Research for the Real World

We explore how data linkages can show where children face barriers to learning.

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📢 New @ucl.ac.uk research finds people who experience mental health difficulties in childhood at ages 5-16 are more likely to have irregular sleep patterns at ages 46-48, with more reported to sleep less than six hours every night. Read more on the CLS website 👉 buff.ly/4TdWrN0

Does childhood mental health impact sleep in midlife? | CLS

Mental health difficulties in childhood are linked to irregular sleep patterns in midlife, according to the 1970 British Cohort Study.

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1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography

Happy 80th Birthday Medical Research Council (MRC) National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) - the world's longest running birth cohort study