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I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling. (cont 🧵) tinyurl.com/vun92cz7

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

Are you interested in psychologival preparedness and avoid #burnout in #healthcare. Are you looking to do a #PhD? Fancy working with me and some of my fantastic colleagues? We have a fully funded PhD studentship available. Link below.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Its #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek & we're sharing our work on how we rethink & commit to long term integrated physical & mental health support for people living with SMIH. You can view/download our policy brief here: shorturl.at/PJJfM made in collaboration with @researchretold.bsky.social

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We are recruiting UK-based men aged 40 to 65 years for our @ucl.ac.uk #suicide research study: Men Talking About Suicide. Closes 30/06/25. Funded by a UCL Grand Challenges award. Do please pass on to this invitation &/or click on this link to read more: redcap.idhs.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=7...

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Eighty years ago, enemies laid down their arms. Since then, we, Europeans, have built something extraordinary: a Union of peace, democracy, and solidarity. An anchor of stability. Our Union was born as a peace project, and it remains one today.

submitted 29 days ago • 283 comments

An anniversary worth marking. I'm sure we're going to see the very people who have trashed its legacy seek to appropriate WW2 today - so let's remember what was really fought for: peace, a more united Europe, a land fit for heroes (mark 2) and the defeat of fascism.

submitted 29 days ago • 182 comments

As a German I will forever be grateful to all who fought for the liberation of Europe. But as a historian I am looking at front pages today and must wonder: What is the point of remembering #VEDay 80 years on, what is the point of our thanks, when we are failing to protect the sacrifices made? 🧵

submitted 29 days ago • 329 comments

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

submitted 29 days ago • 667 comments

New #IJBNPA publication uncovers the effects of #AerobicExercise on #MentalHealth in adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder! Check this out👇 ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

submitted 29 days ago • 2313 comments

Are you interested in developing better ways to support people living with poor mental and physical health? Then this funded PhD at @newcastleuni.bsky.social could be for you! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

A break from my regularly scheduled political and legal posting to express some gratitude. This week, my 18 month old daughter had to have open heart surgery. 💔 As you might imagine, this was utterly terrifying. 1/

submitted 41 days ago • 161 comments

Research has found that privatisation of health services reduces quality of care. @franbaum.bsky.social‬ and colleagues look at how the concept of "enshittification" applies to health services and their decline with privatisation www.bmj.com/content/389/...

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

This is a key new paper in the world of school mental health interventions A very large trial (N=6388) testing a universal CBT-based app for adolescent depression (13-14y) No effects found (on depression, anxiety, distress or insomnia) (🧵) mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...

submitted 42 days ago • 12 comments

Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc

submitted 42 days ago • 16 comments

Learn all about the latest activities from the #ISBNPA Young Adults SIG! @eleanorwinpenny.bsky.social 👉 isbnpa.org/sig/young-ad...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Please share! 🆕 Fully funded PhD scholarship by Scottish charity Men Matter Scotland Social inequality and male suicide: Risk factors & interventions Supervised by Dr Susie Bennett & myself Closing: 11th June 2025, autumn 2025 start. Open to UK students only. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

How old are you compared to the rest of the world?

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

Life expectancy has doubled over the last two centuries around the world. How has this happened?

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

Today is the last day to apply for emergency photo ID to vote in the May local elections. www.gov.uk/apply-for-ph...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

submitted 44 days ago • 661 comments

V. important editorial from @thelancet.bsky.social Psychiatry highlighting importance of lived experience involvement & real-world feasible implementation science in order to have real impact/translatability Setting the research agenda for mental health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

If only we had studies on autism and vaccines using nationally-complete healthcare data showing no association between the two. Like, uh, this one from Denmark.

submitted 45 days ago • 9 comments

Funded PhD opportunity for qualitative work on health inequalities and factors affecting health outcomes at University of Aberdeen, in partnership with Aberdeen City Council Please share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Another editorial from this week’s @bmj.com. By Kate Pickett and David Taylor Robinson. A wealth tax in the UK could raise £60bn a year to tackle widening inequalities. Perhaps we can no longer afford NOT to do it? Link here: www.bmj.com/content/389/... #MedSky #Inequalities #SDOH #WealthTax

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HDRC Research Lead (Qualitative) – NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration Surrey Surrey County Council Reigate £45,680 Closes 27/04 www.surreycc.gov.uk/jobs/search/...

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HDRC Community Researcher – NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration Surrey Surrey County Council Reigate £45,680 Closes 20/04 www.surreycc.gov.uk/jobs/search/...

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Head of NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration Surrey Surrey County Council Reigate £79,260 Closes 20/04 www.surreycc.gov.uk/jobs/search/...

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Check out the excellent Sahand highlighting his research & trial we have just finished! www.kcl.ac.uk/jogging-your...

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The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people. Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much. Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.

submitted 58 days ago • 29 comments

Could you do with £10k for some humanities or social science research? We’ve opened the call for our small grants. These are assessed using partial randomisation - after applications meet our quality threshold awards are allocated at random, reducing bias www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

Want to get active, enjoy #nature & make a difference in your local park? Join #Birmingham Parks Ranger Service this April & May for free family activities & #conservation sessions in Aston, Nechells & Newtown! Help wildlife & community - tools & gloves provided for all of the volunteer sessions.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

The ‘Power of Us’ Conference on Collaborative Research in Health, Social Care and Wellbeing, opening keynote from Professor Patrick Vernon OBE. Representing Birmingham Newman University and our community health research on NIHR ‘Research Better Together’ cherp.org.uk #PoweringCommunityResearch

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We’re now recruiting for a Dean for our new College of Health and Society at Buckinghamshire New University - details below, reshares appreciated alumniglobal.com/job/dean-hea...

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APPG on Smoking and Health publish report today on how the government can make smoking obsolete. Top line recommendations here

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Free/subsidised place opportunities for NHS and Local Authority colleagues to attend the 2025 Society for Social Medicine and Population Health Annual Conference in Bradford (10-12 Sept) 10 to those in the Bradford district; 10 from elsewhere in the UK and Ireland. Apply here: bit.ly/3FCh8JR

submitted 72 days ago • 3 comments

I have a theory that Manchester United will destroy us all.

submitted 62 days ago • 22 comments

The BMA has been collecting the harms the near-misses PAs acting beyond their training the illegal prescribing & ordering of x-rays 600 anecdotes begins to look like data www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04...

submitted 64 days ago • 5 comments

A healthy, nutritious diet is much more expensive than a calorie-sufficient one. As a result, three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet.

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

There are 2.8m millionaires in the UK 4% of the population The projected loss by the most pessimistic of think tanks was less than 10000 Some will leave seeking low tax economies, there is little evidence that this will badly affect the economy researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB...

submitted 74 days ago • 3 comments

Our new qualitative researcher post is now hiring. I completely understand (& have been there) that Oxford might feel challenging to apply to. But if you think this job could be for you, please do apply. And if you want to talk do get in touch. We are kind, inclusive, supportive team & department.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Proud to be have been awarded Fellowship status by @fphuk.bsky.social www.gcu.ac.uk/aboutgcu/uni...

submitted 76 days ago • 7 comments

UK economy loses £118bn a year to poor mental health. Causes ignored - anxiety, insecurity, low incomes, high cost of living, poor housing, perinatal depression, bullying, social isolation of people. Cutting benefits, bashing people is not the answer.

submitted 76 days ago • 18 comments

Great to see this 1st article from @bethlgriffin.bsky.social PhD 'Service users’ experiences of restrictive practices in adult inpatient mental health services. A systematic review and meta-ethnography of qualitative studies.' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

The effects of having measles far outweigh the risks of vaccination The risks of experiencing side effects from a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination vs. the health impacts of measles, per 10,000 people 1/3

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments