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barrywright.bsky.social
Retired Professor Child Mental Health: Uni of York & HYMS Med School, NHS Deaf Child service, NHS CAMHS, COMIC child oriented innovative research. Interested in developing child friendly interventions. Husband, dad, grandad. Enthusiast for kindness & fun.
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1/2 An interesting article from Nature Medicine doi.org/10.1038/s415... @austinargen.bsky.social exploring the contributions of lifestyle factors and genetics towards mortality

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Snowdrops out in force

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In this article for the @wsj.com, Dr Lucy Foulkes outlines the responsibility of #socialmedia tech companies to protect #teenagers, and why parental and guardian support is incredibly important in our digital-led world. @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social 📝 www.wsj.com/health/welln... (🎨 Madeline McMahon)

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An innovative article by Gemma Harvey @geodiverse.bskye.social and colleagues looking into 600 animals and how they profoundly influence Earth surface processes and landscapes. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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🎉 Free Corporate BSL Lessons for Sign Language Week! 🎉 Learn BSL for your workplace with the BDA! 🙌 Join us 17–23 March 2025 & be part of our inclusivity push. Last year, 1,200 joined—let’s top that! Flexible slots available. Sign up: signlanguageweek.org.uk/company-bsl #SLW2025 #BlueOutForBSL

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1/2 Interesting review exploring some youth mental health clinical work/research where the important work of goal setting with the child/young person has taken place (important to ask the child and family what they would like from therapy) doi.org/10.1111/papt...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Our large scale mental health in schools trial findings are out now! Lots to dig into, and we’ll have events next month to talk through in more detail.

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1/4 Agree it is important to work with local parents, young people & experts in order to develop culturally relevant materials.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent paper identifying ways to reduce perinatal loneliness. The intervention categorisation could be used for other groups such as children & young people e.g: shared identity social support groups; creative approaches including arts, nature or exercise based & holistic, place based support.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Mental health problems cast a shadow over young people's lives - one that can last a lifetime. But too many children are going without the support they need to manage their mental health and thrive. As #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek kicks off, here are four key facts about the situation we're facing 👇

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Some excellent Art of Medicine seminars to come at York Medical Society in the next few months. [email protected]

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🧑🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏻Children & young people are often excluded from healthcare consultations that impact their health and wellbeing. Our new project is working with healthcare services, community organisations and underserved youth to champion their voices in healthcare design. 🔗 arc-eoe.nihr.ac.uk/news-blogs/n...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

1/14 The Princess of Wales today suggests that child mental health prevention is a healthy way forward by supporting the development of social and emotion skills. This is a thread to ask what research is going on in this space www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Ground breaking paper showing that all five of the nucleobases found in DNA and RNA on earth are present in asteroid Bennu fragments, which were carefully robotically collected and ferried to Earth by a spacecraft. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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An interesting paper discussing evolution, human variation and hominin interbreeding.

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1/ #SantaScience 🎅🧵 🐥1st Bluesky Rodeo 🔄💬X cross-post A year ago today @theguardian.com featured our festive research 🔎We discovered Santa has a facial #phenotype distinct from elderly bearded men 💗Evidence #Santa is real 📰 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... 
📝 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36548933

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Yorkshire morning

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Great news for #hospices in England today, following the funding announcement… and a good excuse to share our new editorial on #children’s hospices, written with @eveholroyd.bsky.social and published in #RCNi Nursing Children and Young People. You can read it here, for free: rcni.com/nursing-chil...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Just exploring this place to see if it is the right place to move across to. Looking for some positivity and a more constructive approach than other places.

submitted 72 days ago • 3 comments