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PhD student looking at Adverse Childhood Experiences. Interested in education, psychology, social justice and public health. Learning lots about mixed methods and coproduction in research at the moment, all whilst parenting a 1 year old. Swansea & Bristol
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Important new evidence published today: large-scale DofE trial (N=12,166) found that two universal MH awareness interventions, in secondary schools, led to an *increase* in emotional symptoms at long term (9-12 month) follow up tinyurl.com/4ffday8y Thread below /1

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

AI is the future, except this is what I got from a AI voice note transcription. Welsh gibberish. Voice note was in English, but I was in a school in Wales so it’s possible my phone picked up a very incoherent ghost 🤔 👻

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone have any recommendations for a free (or cheap!) app that will read PDFs to you? Suitable for iPhone. I'm driving 6+ hours a week at the moment and burning through podcasts meanwhile I have a big pile of papers I would love to familiarise myself with. Thank you 🙏

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Loving this podcast. Sold A Story is about literacy programmes in the US, but there's so much fascinating reporting here on how research, politics and marketing can interact. If you're even tangentally interested in education or research I highly recommend it! features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 32 days ago • 1092 comments

Boosting this... who knows about evidence-based parenting strategies for adolescents?? There's obviously loads of parenting advice online, but I'm keen to know who is conducting research in this area... Please share, thank you 🙏

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

Idea for AI: Put it in my printer so it doesn't take me 3 hours (and counting) to print worksheets. Honestly baffling that people think AI writing, art etc is a good idea when so much basic tech infrastructure doesn't function

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

New blogpost: gobbledegook papers as canaries in the coalmine- and more bad news for MDPI deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/01/toma...

submitted 40 days ago • 5 comments

Resubmitted my manuscript, only 14 hours late! Not bad for a week with multiple trips to the minor injuries unit. Between me, my husband and my mum we can now just about form one human body capable of lifting my toddler.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

That childhood trauma is created by a handful of evil criminal actors who must be stopped. As opposed to being, more often than not, a normal response arising from very common family dynamics

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Really smug that I finished my article corrections today, six days early, just submitting my manuscript and I found ANOTHER SET OF COMMENTS hidden in a different part of the article upload system?! Oh no, oh no

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

The CEO of Next gets paid £4.5 million a year. He is a billionaire and a Tory life peer. But sure, paying people a living wage is the problem www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Terrible article. Right at the bottom, Professor Danese argues low resilience stems from a lack of access to community support and opportunities. His view is presented as opposing those who point to the pandemic and austerity as drivers of poor mental health, but their positions are very similar!

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

I hate this. I don't want an artificial nap. Let me lie down. Let the people rest!

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Our paper on the impact of living with multiple long-term conditions on everyday life: a qualitative evidence synthesis. The 'work' is not only around medications and healthcare use, it is also emotional & financial with lots of learning & adaptation bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

submitted 71 days ago • 22 comments

2.5 hour lunch I've missed my only meeting Yep, it's December

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Been thinking about this thread all week and I completely agree. Imagine if you had a toxic job and a therapist suggested graded exposure, rather than seeking an alternative? Schools are not inherently good places for young people to be and we all have a responsibility to make them better

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

This is a very good article about psychiatric euthanasia - it's about a young woman who has repeatedly postponed her death. I have a lot of thoughts and need to reflect more on it. #mentalhealth www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

For Mac it's Word, Preferences, Privacy, turn off connected experiences

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Day 12: Feeling appreciation for my supervisor today who was very supportive when feeling stressed this morning and encouraged me to do my irritating e-learning to give my brain a break and feel a sense of achievement. It did help - nice to see all my 80%+ scores recorded even without learning much!

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Today's task which I never would've guessed would be part of a PhD - searching obscure instagram tags and messaging colleagues to establish if 'stepmam' is a usual term for Welsh kids. My Englishness is blinding me, it looks so wrong to me but I need it to be right for a resource I'm adapting! 😵‍💫

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

This starts so much earlier than medical professionals. Always thought my period pain was ‘normal’, right up until *giving birth* last year… contractions were painful but no more painful than ‘normal’ period pain? What, periods are not this bad for most people? 🤯 www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments