Conclusions in our study: "X really does not seem to by doing Y" Paper citing our study: "X is certainly doing Y" OK, then 🥲
Tomáš Formánek
@tformanek.bsky.social
MSCA Fellow @ Aarhus University and Visiting Researcher @ University of Cambridge studying the mental-physical health interface. I focus on the aetiology of co-occurring mental and physical health conditions and the consequences of such co-occurrences.
The streets of Amsterdam are asking crucial epidemiological questions!
A bit late, but please consider donating to the cause of these magnificent and majestic creatures! 🦍🥺
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 11mo agoSept. 24 is observed as World Gorilla Day. It was launched in 2017 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the establishment of a Rwanda-based gorilla study center founded by Dian Fossey, the American primatologist and conservationist who gained global renown for her research.
I’M IN BERLIN 🇩🇪 for the WFSBP Congress this week, and would love to catch up for coffee, lunch, dinner! Give me a shout if around ✋
Reading a co-reviewer's comments who suggests that the authors should have ideally conducted an RCT to establish causality between mental disorders and premature mortality. Now I've seen it all!
What terminology does #episky prefer for "X decreasing the risk of Y"? Negative association? Inverse association? Dissociation? Others?
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If ever wondered, it seems that giraffes are not immune to lightning (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) 😱
Hope this little fella will come back – would be the coolest neighbour!
I'm delighted that Amadeus returns to the cinemas – I'm going to see it tonight! A total cinematic treat!
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#tidyverse purrr 1.1.0 is out - now with parallel processing! Scale your #rstats map operations reliably and efficiently across multiple cores and even distributed systems. Powered by the mirai framework, this unlocks new levels of performance. Read more at: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...
Parallel processing in purrr 1.1.0
The functional programming toolkit for R gains new capabilities for parallel processing and distributed computing using mirai.
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Any peeps in Lisbon 🇵🇹 currently? Will spend the next month there – would be happy to grab a coffee or something 🤗
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Last couple of weeks to apply!
Emanuele Osimo@em-os.bsky.social · last yr.🚨job alert! Fancy working on mental health electronic health records #EHR? Working across the Uni of Cambridge and industry, alongside Akrivia Health? We are looking for an experienced postdoctoral researcher or engineer to help develop common data models for EHR. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50667/ 1/3
🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 Are the associations between autoimmune arthritides (rheumatoid arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis) and mental disorders predominantly the consequence of the burden of the former, or might common causes influence the susceptibility to both?
Psychiatric morbidity in people with autoimmune arthritides as a model of inflammatory mechanisms in mental disorders
Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) are autoimmune illnesses characterised by chronic inflammation demonstrating differential associations with psychiatric conditi...
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🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 Are the associations between autoimmune arthritides (rheumatoid arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis) and mental disorders predominantly the consequence of the burden of the former, or might common causes influence the susceptibility to both?
Psychiatric morbidity in people with autoimmune arthritides as a model of inflammatory mechanisms in mental disorders
Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) are autoimmune illnesses characterised by chronic inflammation demonstrating differential associations with psychiatric conditi...
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Our new article on stigma is published today. Well done, Sophie Hytner! ‘Myths and facts about alcohol use disorder: a Delphi consensus study’ @rcpsych @rcpsychAddFac @SSA_Addiction @NHS_APA @addictionprofs academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
The first phase III trial of a #GLP-1 drug (Exenatide) for a neurodegenerative disease (#Parkinson's disease) found no effect: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Epidemiological studies had shown large effects. Potential implications for the repurposing of GLP-1 drugs in other conditions?
Exenatide once a week versus placebo as a potential disease-modifying treatment for people with Parkinson's disease in the UK: a phase 3, multicentre, double-blind, parallel-group, randomised, placebo...
Our findings suggest that exenatide is safe and well tolerated. We found no evidence to support exenatide as a disease-modifying treatment for people with Parkinson's disease. Studies with agents that...
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King's College London launches the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets, in partnership with @wellcometrust.bsky.social / @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social, a free platform with over 1,600 datasets, to support mental health research worldwide. 🌍 Read more and learn how to access: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
King's launches the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets to support mental health research
Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London have launched a new free platform to allow people to discover hundreds of longitudinal mental hea...
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stringfish is an #Rstats library for fast common string operations, and boy, is it fast! With more threads, the difference is perhaps even bigger.
Does #episky have recommendations on preparing pre-registrations for (micro)simulation studies? Favourite templates etc?
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Does #episky have recommendations on preparing pre-registrations for (micro)simulation studies? Favourite templates etc?
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I'm really saddened by the loss of David Lynch. His movies and ideas about art, creativity, and whatever always deeply resonated with me. Let us; however, not forget about his brilliant music contributions: youtu.be/9li9GeDHc2s !
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📄Our new World Psychiatry paper found that people with people with mental disorders have a SHORTER life expectancy EVEN than people with the lowest socioeconomic position in the general population. Paper link: doi.org/10.1002/wps.....
