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aliyaamirova.bsky.social
Postdoc | Epidemiology | Health Psychology #BehaviouralScience Check out: http://aliyaamirova.com
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Happy new year, everyone! Hope this year is kind, joyful and full of excitement in life and work for everyone!

New research by IoPPN's Oliver Runswick and @kingslsm.bsky.social's Richard Bruce, published in PLOS ONE, has found that #exercise using a #VR headset can increase an individual’s work rate, overall enjoyment + elicit improved psychological responses www.kcl.ac.uk/news/active-...

Alright! Some recent stories for my fellow #MetaAnalysis and #EvidenceSynthesis nerds out there... First off, a growing surge of fake papers, especially in fields like medicine, poses a major risk to the integrity of systematic reviews www.science.org/content/arti...

New systematic review alert! 📢 We examined changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in women with breast cancer from pre- to post-surgery, comparing mastectomy (M), mastectomy with reconstruction (MBR), and breast-conserving surgery (BCS). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Attention #JITAI lovers! Our systematic review including 45 JITAI studies with physiological outcomes is finally online dx.doi.org/10.2196/54119 We summarized the evidence, and extracted BCTs, decision points, decision rules, and intervention options. #MobileHealth #digitalhealth 🧪

For Thanksgiving I want to spend the week highlighting some work that I’m really proud of from 2024. In doing so I’m going to highlight the wonderful research of students I am so thankful and lucky to work with! 🦃

“One of the biggest challenges for wearables has been whether the juice is worth the squeeze. Does the information provided move the needle enough to motivate folks to use them,” said Okun, with the Parkinson’s Foundation. I think once we find the tastiest juice... www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

J of Physical Activity & Health: interesting new issue: journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

🚨Job Alert🚨 We’re looking for a Research Associate // Research Fellow to join our REFUEL-MS team at King’s College London! This is a great postdoc opportunity for a Health Psychologist or Implementation Scientist. #refuelms #digitaltreatment #healthpsychology #msresearch #kingscollegelondon

Ever wanted to see the world through someone else’s eyes?

www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Prior specification is one of the hardest tasks in Bayesian modeling. In our new paper, we (Florence Bockting, @stefanradev.bsky.social and me) develop a method for expert prior elicitation using generative neural networks and simulation-based learning. arxiv.org/abs/2411.15826

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Web-browsing patterns reflect and shape mood and mental health

I’m excited to share our new protocol paper accepted in BMJ Open on Exploring how to widen the acceptability of public health interventions! You can find the link below and details about the wider @nihr-pru-bass.bsky.social project here: behscipru.nihr.ac.uk/our-projects...

In addition to the health psychology started pack (link in next post), I created a #healthpsychology feed - also works with #healthpsych! bsky.app/profile/did:... #PsychSciSky #BehSci #AcademicSky

An interesting review in the BJHP on the development, implementation and evaluation of just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) for behaviour change; bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PRU practical guide to writing policy briefs has been downloaded 10.000 x from #OpenScienceFramework osf.io/preprints/os... It makes it easy to communicate relevant evidence to policy decision makers jointly developed by @nihr-pru-bass.bsky.social & @ucl-cbc.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social

Throwback to #EHPS2024 in beautiful Cascais, Portugal! Such a fabulous conference! Sharing this again here on Bluesky!

Curious what implementation scientists think about this 👇

We desperately need new ways to conceptualise social media's impact on the mind & brain. Formal computational modelling could be a way to do this. Georgia spent 2+ years of her PhD further developing this approach. More details below, its worth a read ⬇️

Important to combine tractable research questions with a complex systems approach to conceptualising problems & their solutions or mitigations. This paper is definitely worth reading.

Hi 👋 I am new to BlueSky! I'm a Postdoc interested evidence synthesis, behaviour change, AI for healthcare research, and more! #Behaviouralscience love hiking! Here is my website with most recents blog posts and publications: aliyaamirova.com 🫡

the fact that the blue sky team has successfully navigated this is kind of insane tbh

Hi 👋 I am new to BlueSky! I'm a Postdoc interested in automated evidence synthesis, behaviour change, AI for healthcare research, and more! I love hiking! Here is my website with most recents blog posts and publications: aliyaamirova.com 🫡

Curious what implementation scientists think about this 👇

Today's long walk in Hampstead Heath. Relatively warm and sunny day today in London -- what a treat! Highly recommend making use of it for a good long walk!

AI for systematic reviews? “It seems to do OK with reading and assessing papers,” Clark says, “but it did very badly at all these other tasks”, Nature News - www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Here’s a tutorial introducing the ‘metameta’ R package and web app, which facilitates the straightforward calculation and visualization of study-level statistical power in meta-analyses for a range of hypothetical effect sizes journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Here are some great Psychology starter packs on Bluesky. Developmental bsky.app/starter-pack... Neuroscience bsky.app/starter-pack... Social bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... Diversity bsky.app/starter-pack... Personality bsky.app/starter-pack... Health bsky.app/starter-pack...

If you're new and following me (and/or have similar interests) then you might be interested in some of the following starter packs: Behavioural Science: bsky.app/starter-pack-short/CzLwTyZ Evidence Synthesis: bsky.app/starter-pack-short/79wrV7Y Health Psychology: bsky.app/starter-pack-short/9Xfk7Wo

I have started a Behavioural Science starter pack - just let me know if you would like to be added - see go.bsky.app/CzLwTyZ

Looks like nobody has made a Cognitive Psychology starter pack yet, so I made one! Comment to get added to the list! All things cognition are welcome. go.bsky.app/NsFhnV #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Psychology #CogPsych

Sharing this awesome paper which shows that: 1. You can extract concepts unknown to humans from superhuman agents 2. Those concepts can then seemingly be taught to experts via examples arxiv.org/abs/2310.16410