Are you an ECR in mental health research? Ready to take the next step in your career? Join our ECR Workshop 🗓️ 9 Oct 2025 | 📍 Edinburgh | 💷 £25 Hosted by @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social & @datamind.bsky.social in partnership with MHP 👉 rebrand.ly/ecr-workshop #ECR #MentalHealthResearch #MHPSummit2025

🚨 Final day to submit your EOI tomorrow! It’s short, it’s key, it’s your start to a £300k Fellowship 👉 bit.ly/expression-i...

Work in Digital Data & AI, Lifestyle & Wellbeing, or Pharma & BioTech? Join The Alliance: seeking industry partners to transform research into real-world impact for severe mental illness. Apply here: www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/resources-industry In partnership with @datamind.bsky.social

📢The MHP Industry Alliance is open for new members from Industry to join. The next Industry Alliance Forum with @datamind.bsky.social will focus on Digital, Data & AI. Join the Alliance to stay updated: www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/resources-industry

Partnerships between researchers, clinicians, patients & local communities are essential for producing research that is useful in the real world. It’s #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and the theme this year is COMMUNITY. 🧵 THREAD #MentalHealthResearch #Collaboration www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2aW...

What is social health - and why does it matter? Our Hub lead Prof. Jennifer Lau co-authored an article on why social health should stand alongside physical & mental health - especially to improve lives for people with severe mental illness. Read more 👉 rebrand.ly/third-pillar

📣 New Preprint: Protocol for Depression Genetics in Africa (DepGenAfrica), supported by @wellcometrust.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/os...

The Industry Alliance Forum meeting will unite the UKRI Mental Health Platform with key industry partners to shape the future of mental healthcare. To be invited to this influential event as an industry member, you need to first Join the Alliance: www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/resources-in...

One week left for Industry partners to Join the Alliance! Do you work in: 🟣 Pharma & BioTech 🟣 Digital Health 🟣 Lifestyle & Wellbeing, And are interested in turning research findings into impact for people with severe mental illness? Apply now:

Many thanks to all of the collaborators and funders (esp @wellcometrust.bsky.social & @ukri.org) who made this DNA methylome-wide study of antidepressant exposure possible www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You might forget how much you drink… but your body remembers. Prediction of alcohol consumption using blood-based DNA methylation (correlates better with brain health self report!) clinicalepigeneticsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

🌟 ECRs – Funding Alert! 🌟 Our UKRI MHP ECR Fellowship Awards open 1st March 2025! 💡 <£300K, 1–3 years 🤝 Collaborate with MHP Hubs 📚 Access training, resources & PPIE support 📅 Apply by 30th April 2025 🔗 Learn more: https://buff.ly/42Qn3UZ #MentalHealth #ECR #Fellowship

🔬 What is Immuno-metabolic Depression? "Recognizing immune-metabolic mechanisms could be a relevant treatment target for part of the depressed population opens the doors to personalised psychiatry.” Read more: 🔗 https://buff.ly/3WRwYpK #MentalHealthResearch #DepressionResearch

🔊The launch of "Depression Genetics in Africa" in Ethiopia - suported by @wellcometrust.bsky.social DepGenAfrica is recruiting in Malawi & shortly in Nigeria Incredibly exciting to be a part of this project

🧠 Piece of Mind blog: Meet Jodie Gill, research coordinator for the Brain & Genomics Hub! Learn about her collaborative work with the professional PPIE group, and the future of SMI research. Read more: 👉👀https://buff.ly/42FRYn2 #mentalhealthresearch @braingenhub.bsky.social

📢 Announcing the MHP Industry Alliance 📢 We are seeking leading industry experts from pharma and biotech to turn research findings into real-world positive impacts for people with SMI. 👉Find out more: https://buff.ly/3WG1PW7 ⏳ Apply by: 24th March 2025 #Biotech #Pharma

Please welcome the International Society for Psychiatric Genetics to Bluesky! Please follow them! AND if you are a member, join us next week for this community discussion about the happenings at NIH.. @mcintosh2001.bsky.social @jettyraventos.bsky.social @jorsmo.bsky.social @michelnivard.bsky.social

Unsure how recent changes in U.S. policy regarding the NIH will impact the psychiatric genetics world? You're not alone. Join ISPG for a Member’s Meetup for community discussion and support: 📅 Wednesday, January 29 🕗 3 PM EST 📍 Pre-Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New study from the @pgcgenetics.bsky.social: Multi-ancestry GWAS of MDD in over half a million cases and 4 million controls. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

2/2 I suppose that rigorous rebuttals which demonstrate the flaws in a piece of research are just not considered interesting by @thetimes.com journalists. rdcu.be/d50Xp @sameerjauhar.bsky.social @jfhayes.bsky.social @profrobhoward.bsky.social @dranniehickox.bsky.social @carminepariante.bsky.social

1/2 V. disappointed to see this article making headlines yet again, with no mention of its deep methodological flaws and the vilification of its opponents. www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...

✨ Proud of 2024, excited for 2025! ✨ Last year we: 🚀 Launched MHP 🤝 Met our brilliant Hub leaders & PPIE reps 🌐 Went live with our website Check out our 2024 Review 👉 https://buff.ly/4gkEh0B Here’s to an exciting 2025! 💪 #MentalHealthResearch

As 2024 ends, we’re reflecting on the journey since launching the MHP in September. Thank you for your support so far – we’re excited for 2025, including our first conference and new funding opportunities. Read more: https://buff.ly/4gkEh0B #MentalHealthResearch

New @ukri.org Mental Health Platform Bluesky page: bsky.app/profile/mhpl...

Terrific visit from Yanni Zeng today - a past PhD student now working in Oxford until next year, and at Sun Yat-sen University in China

Early start for the second face-to-face @ukri.org Mental Health Platform meeting today

Positive association between internet use and mental health in the over 50s www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fascinating paper on the genetics of people with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Looking for a Senior Project Manager to work with DATAMIND team as we harmonise and make large molecular datasets discoverable. Involves people who have experience of mental illness & building trustworthy research with industry elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Looking for a Senior Project Manager to work with DATAMIND team as we harmonise and make large molecular datasets discoverable. Involves people who have experience of mental illness & building trustworthy research with industry elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

The terrific @pgcgenetics.bsky.social Major Depressive Disorder Working Group in Singapore

New genome-wide association study in over 5million people of diverse ancestries identifies 697 independent signals www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Science article posing serious questions about the genetic testing of embryonic www.science.org/content/arti...

Thoughts from Ann John & I on how lack of trust is holding back needed #NHS data reform - the recent @palantirk.bsky.social controversy as one example theconversation.com/palantir-pri...

Presentation on OPERA and Multi-omics by Laurence Nisbet today in Edinburgh

New preprint: DNA methylation association study of depression www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...