A study published in JAMA found acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability. JAMA Deputy Editor Linda Brubaker, MD, MS, spoke with senior author Brian Lee, PhD, about the study’s findings. ja.ma/4nugLSF

🖼️ New in The Lancet, 32 images provide a photographic accompaniment to the work of the Lancet Series on the health benefits of the arts, in collaboration with @who.int ⁠ Explore the images: tinyurl.com/bdcptc2x

📢 Call for Session Proposals – ESHMS 2026 We are delighted to announce the launch of the call for sessions for the 21st Biennial ESHMS Conference in Hamburg, 19–21 August 2026. Theme: Mental Health in Times of Uncertainty Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2025 ⏰

This European study suggest that gendered life courses contribute to different patterns of cognitive and relational reserve accumulation for men and women, and that welfare states buffer the negative consequences of adverse life courses on cognitive health academic.oup.com/aje/article/...

📢 Call for Session Proposals – ESHMS 2026 We are delighted to announce the launch of the call for sessions for the 21st Biennial ESHMS Conference in Hamburg, 19–21 August 2026. Theme: Mental Health in Times of Uncertainty Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2025 ⏰

This cohort study found associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and various health outcomes at age 50, particularly poor mental health and severe pain. ja.ma/4lOaSOr

This survey study found that 21.2% of US medical students experience food insecurity, nearly double the national household average. ja.ma/47kjCrX

New @bmj.com research: Patient healthcare spending after the No Surprises Act: quasi-experimental difference-in-differences study. Linked opinion: The United States faces a healthcare affordability crisis. Read more: www.bmj.com/content/390/...

SAVE THE DATE: The 2026 IEA European Congress of Epidemiology and 70th @socsocmed.bsky.social Annual Conference will take place in London, UK on 8th-11th September 2026! #EpiSky #EuroEpi2026

Interesting piece of Cristian Montenegro and @judegreen.bsky.social published in Social Theory and Health: Engagement and qualitative sociology are distinct Read rdcu.be/ev44L

Postdoctoral Fellow Awards – Outstanding Promise in Social Epidemiology Yang Han, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) Timothy Sumerlin, New York University Shanghai (China) Yinhua Tao, University of Cambridge (UK)

Considered to be the father of social epidemiology, Len Syme died earlier this year at the age of 92. In this month's SSM-Population Health, Berkman & Krieger pen a tribute asking: “What would Len say?”―as public health faces multiple threats in the U.S. #SocialEpi #EpiSky tinyurl.com/5yyndtk8

Last week I had a fantastic opportunity to learn about reflexivity and participatory approaches in qualitative health research at the @eshms.bsky.social Qualitative Workshop for Early Career Scholars at the University of Turin, Italy!

Prospective registration was associated with a reduced risk of bias for randomized controlled trials: A meta-research study - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Social inequalities in the effects of school-based well-being interventions: a systematic review academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

Association between Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

📢 PhD students & early career researchers—apply for the ESHMS Early Career Workshop on Qualitative Methods in Health Research! 📍 Torino | 📅 3–4 June 2025 📩 Apply by 20 April to: [email protected] 🔗 Info: eshms.eu/workshops #HealthSociology #QualitativeResearch

"Using missingness directed acyclic graphs (m-DAGs) to guide the treatment of multivariable missing data in epidemiological studies" Don't miss the next #CIIG seminar with @margaritamb.bsky.social on 7th April 2025 at *9am* BST! Register at: turing-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #EpiSky #CausalSky

Faculty of Social Sciences at Univ. of Helsinki invites applications for the position of UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN SOCIAL DATA SCIENCE for a permanent appointment starting 1st of September 2025. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Looking for 2 post docs at Helsinki Uni jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

We've known social disadvantage was linked to adverse health outcomes. A @NatureMedicine study used high- throughput proteomics to show there is accelerated aging, increased risk of 66 age-related diseases, and unfavorable changes in the immune system, ⬆️ inflammation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Call for Applications! PhD students & early career researchers—apply for the ESHMS Early Career Workshop on Qualitative Methods in Health Research! 📅 3-4 June 2025 | 📍 Torino, Italy 📩 Apply by March 30 🔗 More info: Alice Scavarda: [email protected] #HealthSociology #QualitativeResearch

🧪A starter pack of European scientific societies and associations🇪🇺🇬🇧 📣 Repost to connect researchers on #BlueSky🦋 #research #science #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #SciSky #EduSky #Academia #AcademicBluesky #SciComm #PostDoc #ECR #ECRChat #NewPI #PhD #PhDSky #MedSky #StandWithScience #eloquenti

🎉 Congrats to Riccardo Pronzato, postdoc at Bologna, on receiving the 2025 ESHMS Research Visit Grant! His research explores the co-design of an AI-powered chatbot for dementia caregivers, analysing power dynamics & implementation in healthcare. 🔗 eshms.eu/research-vis... #AI #eHealth #DementiaCare

Trends in Indicators of Violence Among Adolescents in Europe and North America 1994–2022. This paper showed: - A decline in traditional forms of adolescent violence 😀 - However, an increase in cyberbullying 🙁 www.ssph-journal.org/journals/int...

We're very much looking forward to welcoming Léa to Edinburgh! @d-liveability.bsky.social

🎉 Congrats to Léa Loubet, PhD student at University Paris Cité, on receiving the 2025 ESHMS Research Visit Grant! Her research examines the integration of gender in suicide prevention for adolescents & young adults and she will visit @amychandler.bsky.social from the University of Edinburgh.

At present, 1 in 20 women globally are diagnosed with breast cancer, and a projected 1 in 70 may are likely to die from the disease in their lifetime, suggests research published in Nature Medicine. https://go.nature.com/4hPNwXD #Medsky 🧪

🎙️ New blog post! Explore an academic's journey into podcasting to disseminate health sociology research. Discover insights on creating engaging audio content to reach broader audiences. 🔗 Read here: eshms.eu/voices-hs-vo... #HealthSociology #Podcasting #ScienceCommunication

📢 New research! ❤️📊 A study across 57 low- & middle-income countries suggests that socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular disease risk grow with economic development. As countries develop, CVD increasingly affects the most disadvantaged. 🔗 Read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tiny plastic particles may accumulate at higher levels in the human brain than in the kidney and liver, with greater concentrations detected in postmortem samples from 2024 than in those from 2016, suggests a paper in @natmedicine.bsky.social: https://go.sn.pub/d9klpm #medsky 🩺⚕️

A study reveals how cognitive impairment worsens socioeconomic disparities in health-related quality of life among older adults in Australia. Findings highlight the urgent need for policies tackling both cognitive decline & inequality 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.so... #HealthInequality #CognitiveHealth

📊 A systematic review highlights major validity & reliability issues in the use of Google Trends data for social science research. Many studies overlook these limitations, risking flawed conclusions. The authors propose improvements 🔗 Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss... #SocialScience #GoogleTrends

Blood biomarkers in a middle-aged population suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with greater brain β-amyloid plaque accumulation. The findings published in Nature Medicine suggest that SARS-CoV-2 may increase the risk of future Alzheimer’s diseas#Medskysky 🧪

📣SLLS 2025 CONFERENCE - CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! Life Course Transitions and Patterns: Stronger Evidence for Better Policies University of Fribourg, Switzerland / 8-10 September We look forward to receiving your submissions! 😀 Submission Deadline: 14/03/25 www.sllsconference.com/callforabstr...

📢 New research! 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 A systematic review reveals how socioeconomic hardship & psychosocial struggles shape the lives of parents with children in out-of-home care. Findings highlight deep systemic inequalities that reinforce cycles of disadvantage. 🔗 Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ch... #ChildWelfare

Heard recently in a work meeting: "We all work on health inequalities these days"... ⚠️ adding social variables to your backwards stepwise logistic regression models is NOT "working on health inequalities" try starting out by engaging with the wide body of literature on health equity

New 3.5yr PhD opportunity at UCL with @equalise.bsky.social supervised by myself, @yvonne-kelly.bsky.social, @baowenxue.bsky.social & @profkatsmith.bsky.social on inequalities in pathways to employment in young people. Closes 25th Feb www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Attention! @springernature.com has joined Bluesky! They're planning to start posting on Friday.

Temperature-related deaths in European cities could increase by up to 50% by the end of the century in the absence of climate change-mitigation policies, totalling up to 2.3 million additional deaths, suggests a paper published in Nature Medicine. https://go.nature.com/4glnYzU 🧪

From Straight Lines to Twists and Turns: Finding Patterns Between Socio‐Economics and Unequal Health Outcomes in the Life Course Goijaerts - 2025 - Sociology of Health & Illness onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Here’s a nice diamond open access Public Health journal recently set-up in the aim of being freed from the shackles of a big corporate publisher “Journal of Critical Public Health” journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph

Social Capital and Cultural Health Capital in Primary Care: The Case of Group Medical Visits doi.org/10.1111/1467...

More recent cohorts entered older ages with higher levels of capacity. England and China rdcu.be/d6OFp

I want to #Breturn!!!

The spread of health misinformation and disinformation poses a serious threat to public health. How can we respond to the danger and combat the tide of misinformation and disinformation to protect public health? Find out more in our latest Editorial: tinyurl.com/mtf95p25

New article with Kevin Emery and André Berchtold: A systematic comparison of methods (MICT-Timing) to impute missing longitudinal categorical data Also propose new MICT-Timing algorihtm. Methods suitable for #SequenceAnalysis and available in seqimpute #Rpackage doi.org/10.1007/s111...

www.bmj.com/content/308/... From 30 years ago …

Do genetics combine with childhood aspirations & family background to determine social position in adulthood? www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/genetic...

Genetics, not shared environments, drives parent-child similarities in cognitive ability www.psypost.org/genetics-not...