Physiotherapists infrequently treat people living with Polymyalgia rheumatica #PMR but believe that there is a role for #physiotherapy in PMR management. #KeeleMSK @saramuller.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Latest paper from our #PMR Cohort study @keeleuniversity.bsky.social academic.oup.com/rheumap/arti...

Very excited for tomorrows launch of our careLeD tool; co-designed resorces to help people with learning disabilities access urgent and emergency care. Use the QR to reserve your ticket #careLeD @RCNFoundation @PaulaMc007 @MoncktonR #UCAN @ukldcnn @LearningDisEng @mencap_charity

A lot of my research is about - polymyalgia rheumatica, or PMR. Here's a summary of a recent project on which I collaborated. Methods were outside my comfort zone, so I learned loads about those, as well as disparities in care and how PMR really affects people leedsbrc.nihr.ac.uk/2025/06/09/i...

My best intentions on creating this account to engage with people more have have failed, but thanks to @katemdunn.bsky.social for sharing the latest paper from our @keeleuniversity.bsky.social PMR Cohort.

A major update to the CONSORT reporting guidance for clinical trials was published last week. 📌 CONSORT 2025 replaces all previous versions and should be used from now on. So what’s new and what’s different? 1/7 #MethodologyMonday #116 (COI - I am a co-author)

A truly great opportunity to be part of our transdisciplinary team collaborating on a transformative work focusing on the health and health equity impacts of low carbon transport interventions. A 4-year Research Fellow job! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

📣 Calling all UK undergraduate medical students! The @nihrspcr.bsky.social George Lewith competition is open! Win a funded place at the @sapc.ac.uk Annual Scientific Meeting! 🎓 🔗 Find out more: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/career-devel... 🗓️ Deadline: 12noon, 25 April 2025 #medicalstudents #PrimaryCare

Congratulations Prof Wynne-Jones #KeeleUniversity for research which gives fast, personalised and effective #PrimaryCare support for people out of work with musculoskeletal conditions ( a leading cause of pain & short and long term inability to work) #NIHRCommunity www.nihr.ac.uk/story/vocati...

Planning an application for an NIHR personal fellowship? Would your application be strengthened by protected time and additional training and support to develop your work? NIHR ARC West Midlands are offering Pre-Application Support funding to do just that. www.arc-wm.nihr.ac.uk/research-cap...

Proof reading a paper before I resubmit the revisions. Must be some sort of Freudian slip on my mood this morning (ask my kids) that I had estimated an "interquartile rage". Oops!

Great to interact with colleagues from nursing at the MPFT Clinical Academy Research Academy this morning

Had a great day speaking at the launch of the Behaviour Checklist cerebra.org.uk/download/the... Rethinking behaviours that challenge in children with intellectual disability Spoke about my son. Also got to hear more about the methods behind the project Pls share Let's get this into use

Off to Warwick tomorrow. for End of study meeting for a project that has redeveloped a checklist to help identify the cause of behaviours that challenge in children with intellectual disability. I'll be speaking about my experiences as a parent. Quite daunting, but looking forward to it.

The @nihrspcr.bsky.social Student Internship Programme closes at 1pm TOMORROW (25 March 2025)! Opportunities open to students from ANY undergraduate degree programme from ANY university in the UK 🔗Learn more & apply: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/career-devel... #PrimaryCare #Undergraduate #Internship

You know what's better than having over 60 Dementia #DEMCOMM Researchers? Having a festival to celebrate Dementia Week May 19-25 - #DEFEST with @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social @stephenlim.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @gerisoc.bsky.social www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/demfest25

Strange but interesting. Really impressive detective work to find the cause of the problem

Are you a statistician or health-economist who wants to develop new methods and who is interested in evaluating the role of diagnostic & prognostic prediction models and AI? We have an opening for a PhD position at Maastricht University! www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3503...

Lots of opportunities, including one with me and @akbyrne.bsky.social @keeleuniversity.bsky.social looking at giant cell arteritis and another with our colleagues Lorraine Watson and Anne O'Brien in polymyalgia rheumatica

ARC South London's Applied Research Leadership Academy lead Priscilla Harries shares her own journey into research leadership and identifies the most important research skills to develop on The PhD Life Raft podcast 👇 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Two Postdoc positions are available at Tulane University exploring the neuroprotective mechanisms in neuron & cerebral endothelial cells. Closing date: 16th May. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/postdoc-...

📢 🧠 📚 POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE I am hiring a PDRA to work on a project investigating the neurocognitive mechanisms underpinning adolescent alcohol consumption, funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences. Apply by 11/04/25: lnkd.in/eVwEeAZX Contract: 24 months Location: Birmingham, UK

The Williams-Gray Lab at University of Cambridge is seeking a Research Associate to investigate how gut function and immune activation interact to drive the progression of Parkinson's. Closing date: 6th April. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

Now open for applications! The 2025 George Lewith prize. Open to any UK medical undergraduates. 🏆 Find out how to apply & win a place at the @sapc.ac.uk ASM. 🔗 Learn more: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/career-devel... 🗓️ Deadline: 12 noon, Friday 25th April 2025 #generalpractice #undergraduate

Here on BlueSky! 🌟 I’m a PhD candidate in Neuroscience. Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is both my scientific focus and personal experience, as my brother and I both have SMA. Eager to connect with researchers across fields—from genetics and neurology to patient-centered science and beyond.

Really clear explanation of why evidence if an effect at the population level doesn't necessarily imply that a treatment will work in an individual

Job Klaxon: come and join us. We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on a project on the history of intensive care medicine, directed by @fcondrau.bsky.social in Zurich and me in Manchester. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Last few days to apply! Post-doctoral position 3 years Wellcome funded in UK To investigate how experience shapes the brain Drosophila neurogenetics, imaging, behaviour Deadline 19/3/25 Pls RP. #drosophila #postdoc #jobs Apply here edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

A special gift for FrIPDay ... 4 complete chapters of our IPD Meta-Analysis textbook are now freely available tinyurl.com/35r9m8dr Click 'Read an Excerpt' to see - Chapters 1 (Intro), 2 (Rationale), 3 (Planning) & 8 (Two-stage versus one-stage analyses) + free code & resources at www.ipdma.co.uk

So important to move research evidence into practice.

University of Leeds is seeking a Research Assistant for the SENSITISE project delivered by the new NIHR Healthtech Research Centre in Leeds. Closing date: 31st March www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

Just a few days left to put in an application for a PhD position in my group at @rimls.bsky.social as part of the Marie Curie Doctoral Network @nucleardn.bsky.social, which is all about metabolism-epigenetic crosstalk. Please apply here: nuclear-dn.eu

Only one week left to apply for post-doc position Wellcome funded 3 years in UK, to investigate how experience shapes the brain. Drosophila neurogenetics, behaviour, imaging. Application deadline 19 March. Details attached. Pls repost, share Pls put poster along corridors. #postdoc #job #drosophila

Looking forward to a trip to London tomorrow for the @nihr.bsky.social Academy Academic Career Development Leads Forum. Hope the trains work

Keep taking the pills? New research looks at how medicine reviews can help people with #dementia @nihrarcs.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @hiowhacademy.bsky.social @pcpa-uk.bsky.social @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social @dementiauk.bsky.social www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/post/depresc...

Are you a UK healthcare professional who works with children & young people? We have new resources to help young people with Aches & Pains and we would like your opinions. Sound interesting? Get in touch by emailing: [email protected] @campainstudy.bsky.social #KeeleMSK

Thanks @alifahmi.bsky.social for an engaging talk to the @keeleuniversity.bsky.social Biostatistics, Health and Care Research Data Network and Digital Society Institute today. Crossing so many areas from prognosis models to dashboard implementation and cluster trials.

Join us for our seminar tomorrow A platform to evaluate antibiotic use and the development of a knowledge support system Our speaker is @alifahmi.bsky.social from @lshtm.bsky.social Message me for the link

Only a short article and hits the nail on the head. Is this where imposter syndrome comes from? How can we support grad students and others to feel good enough and have confidence without losing the sense of how much more there is to discover?

Dr Silvia Maioli at the Karolinska Institutet seeks a postdoctoral researcher to focus on cholesterol metabolism in Alzheimer's disease and proteinopathies such as alpha-synucleinopathies. Closing date: 6th May. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/postdoc-...

Vacancy for a Lecturer in Neuroscience at The University of Manchester focusses on Sensory & Motor Systems, Circadian biology, Brain Disorders and Neuroinflammation. Closing date: 3rd April. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

What does it take to succeed as a female academic? Head of CAPC, Prof @katrinaturner.bsky.social, reflects and shares insights & advice from her own personal journey in this special #InternationalWomensDay blog. bit.ly/4byvI0x #IWD #IWD2025 #PrimaryCare @nihrspcr.bsky.social @sapc.ac.uk

Read our latest newsletter on #ARCMLTCnetwork Dissemination Event taking place on March 19 in Leicester! Engage with experts, discover insights from the ARC #MLTC Implementation Programme, and participate in interactive workshops. Read 👉 mailchi.mp/le/arc-east-...

Great to see this blog by #GeriSoc Rising Star Dr Abi Hall about being a Clinical academic #physiotherapist www.bgs.org.uk/ahps-in-rese... @exeter.ac.uk @gerisoc.bsky.social @thecsp.bsky.social @apexcomms.bsky.social

Read new blog by Dr Steph Ejegi-Memeh @sheffielduni.bsky.social about ensuring #PublicHealth research directly benefits under-served communities sphr.nihr.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

📢Check out our new blog: "Improving methods for studying Health Inequality and Inequity in evidence synthesis". Read more about the research and find the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology article here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2025/03/06/i...

Want to find out more about our @arcnwc.bsky.social Social Care Research Capacity Building Programme? Recent blog from Dr James Watson and I can be read here: shorturl.at/jz2Y1 #SocialCare #CapacityBuilding More updates from all 15 @nihrarcs.bsky.social found below

The “Technology-enabled Virtual Wards (or Hospital at Home care)” event will take place on Wednesday, 11th June 2025 at The Great North Museum: Hancock, Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4PT, from 09.30 – 16.00 Register Today! @newcastleuni.bsky.social @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social

Presentations of my PhD findings (at some point you have to get over shuddering at the sound of your own voice). All work rests firmly on the shoulders of giants - supervisors @profamyodonnell.bsky.social and @stephscott.bsky.social - and to @arcnenc.bsky.social for funding and structural support

Join this Mental Health Implementation (MHIN)-led webinar to hear about how Parent-Led #CBT, an effective treatment for childhood anxiety, can be implemented in school settings. arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/events-train...