Position statement on artificial intelligence (#AI) use in evidence synthesis across Cochrane, the Campbell Collaboration, JBI and the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence 2025 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In this clip from next week's episode of PH Spotlight, made together with Panoramic Associates, former Director of Public Health for Newham, @jasonstrelitz.bsky.social explains how important working with a wide range of partners is in improving health and wellbeing for local communities.

🎬 🍿 Official Film Release! We’re thrilled to announce the public release of Unmasking Influence -now available via the LSHTM Vimeo channel! vimeo.com/1123819285 There is overwhelming evidence that many industries are undermining public health.This documentary makes the issues visible and relatable.

NEW in @bmc.springernature.com Medicine - Overview of reviews comparing micro-environmental interventions (e.g. product size, labelling or positioning) for healthier or more sustainable food choices - Led by a great team @oxprimarycare.bsky.social bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

A major new project involving our very own team in the @eppicentre.bsky.social

A systematic review "Interventions for Improving Informal Social Support for Victim-Survivors of Domestic Violence and Abuse" by Karen Schucan-Bird et al. at the @eppicentre.bsky.social available at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SystematicReview #domesticabuse #ViolenceAgainstWomen

🔊"We are seeing big conglomerate organisations who are providing the same kind of formulaic childcare in a number of settings" @drantoniasimon.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social describes how the privatisation of nurseries has affected #childcare provision. www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...

🔊 Exciting research role available if you're interested in applying evidence synthesis to food policy and public health. Part of a @nihr.bsky.social study evaluating supermarket policies restricting the use of price promotions. Closes 8th October. Further details 👇 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

As part of the celebrations of our 10th anniversary as a UCL Department, we have launched an inaugural lecture series. You can watch the first here and there will be more to come this academic year! www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departme...

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... INSPECT-SR: A tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trials.

Too good to be true? Spotting problematic trials in systematic reviews | Online 🗓️ 26 February This interactive webinar will introduce the INSPECT-SR tool by way of application to a published clinical trial. 🔗 evidencesynthesisireland.ie/conference/w...

Our updated @jclinepi.bsky.social starters pack! go.bsky.app/DNtLZWo

We are now on Bluesky! Follow us for: The latest insights from Cochrane reviews 📖 Training and support for researchers 👩🏫 Information on research integrity, innovative methods and our global community 🌏

'P' is for policymaker. Ben Hepworth unpacks a term subject to sustained over- and misuse. transforming-evidence.org/blog/p-is-fo...

Great to be @thekingsfund.bsky.social today for a workshop on AI use in evidence synthesis, organised by www.heec.co.uk First up is Ian Shemilt @eppicentre.bsky.social giving a brilliant overview of the current landscape. Emphasising caution, judicious use (with humans in the loop), and evaluation

We often talk about corporations influencing research, but what about governments? 🧐 New paper by PhD student Helen Senior shows govt-funded public health research isn’t immune to influence - both positive and negative. Check it out 👉https://tinyurl.com/yjpkhtfk

Check out this summary of a Campbell evidence and gap map on interventions for improving informal support for victim-survivors of domestic abuse: a small but useful evidence base. Funded by the UK Economic Social Research Council tinyurl.com/ytf9enb8 @sriucl.bsky.social @eppicentre.bsky.social

Navigating research on the performance of generative LLM-based tools in health and social care? The freshly updated Living Map of Generative LLM-Based Tools for Health and Social Care Applications by @eppicentre.bsky.social is your compass. #AIHealth

Our living map of research on generative AI-based tools for health and social care applications has been updated (30/06). This Version 5 contains a cumulative total of 498 articles reporting clinical or public health applications, of which 89 are new. eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default....

‼️HOT OFF THE PRESS‼️ ⭐Updated Responsible AI use in Evidence Synthesis (RAISE) 3-paper collection on OSF: osf.io/fwaud/files/... ⭐ Now includes: 1️⃣Recommendations for practice for the main roles in the ecosystem 2️⃣ Guidance on building & evaluating AI tools 3️⃣Guidance on selecting & using AI tools

How ‘correct’ should #evidencesynthesis be? How does this change if we add #AI? Help inform new tool dev and best practice guidance! forms.office.com/e/ZwdicYQpjv Open until 2 Jul, ~35 mins. Part of @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded DESTinY @campbellreviews.bsky.social @ellaflem.bsky.social

Want to know more about Intervention Component Analysis in #systematicreviews #evidencesynthesis and how it can help us understand how interventions work? New paper by @katysutcliffe.bsky.social and me 🔥hot🔥 off the press today in IJNS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @eppicentre.bsky.social

We started a debate! Our paper on measuring the impact of longitudinal studies by Charis Bridger Staatz and @evietabor.bsky.social and me here from @clscohorts.bsky.social and @eppicentre.bsky.social and responses led by @mukdarut.bsky.social, Meredith O'Connor and Raj Patel doi.org/10.1332/1757...

New paper: Evidence of inequities experienced by the #raredisease community with respect to receipt of a diagnosis & access to services: #scopingreview of UK & international evidence ojrd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @simonjbriscoe.bsky.social @eppicentre.bsky.social @esmi-exeter.bsky.social

@dylankneale.bsky.social (@eppicentre.bsky.social) and @evietabor.bsky.social (@clscohorts.bsky.social) contributed a book chapter about trans and gender-diverse ageing and the lifecourse 👵 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap/b...

This Pride Month, catch up with some of the SRI's latest LGBTQ+ research! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 👇

Incorporating Non-Randomized Evidence in Cochrane Intervention Reviews: A Scoping Review - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Just published this paper. It reflects on searching and screening for RCTs in an education systematic review supported by machine learning. journals.uclpress.co.uk/lre/article/... Part of a special issue on systematic reviews within education. Great to publish with @alisonomara-eves.bsky.social ‬

New @youthendowmentfund.org.uk Toolkit strand! 📢 NCB is YEF’s Toolkit Evidence and Synthesis Partner, working alongside the Race Equality Foundation and researchers at the Evidence for Policy & Practice Information Centre (@eppicentre.bsky.social) based at @ucl.ac.uk. Find out more below👇

We now have about 60 of our researchers and affiliated institutions in our UCL Social Research Institute starter pack... gotta catch them all! go.bsky.app/BcLmmBN

Updated with Gen AI: v.4 of our living map of research on generative large language models for health and social care applications out now. The 'main map' now contains 423 records organised by key study characteristics - 189 'new' in this version. eppi.ioe.ac.uk/EPPI-Vis/Log...

Happy Friday! If you're interested in #embeddedresearcher posts in local government, take a look at our briefings to help commissioning/designing embedded researcher posts: eppi.ioe.ac.uk/CMS/Portals/.... More resources also on the @eppicentre.bsky.social website here: eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default....

Updated with Gen AI: v.4 of our living map of research on generative large language models for health and social care applications out now. The 'main map' now contains 423 records organised by key study characteristics - 189 'new' in this version. eppi.ioe.ac.uk/EPPI-Vis/Log...

📣 Just published in Campbell Systematic Reviews, an Evidence and Gap Map of interventions that create or enhance support from friends, family, neighbours or colleagues for victim‐survivors of domestic violence and abuse: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Why am I so pleased to be leading UCL’s MSc Social Policy (Evidence Synthesis)? www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

@jclinepi.bsky.social will continue to publish excellent papers that help evolve science and advance the quality & applicability of research. We stand in solidarity with our authors, reviewers & EB members from the US and beyond who are impacted by upheavals of retrograde political decision-making.

Recommendations for future research exploring e-cigarette use and later cigarette smoking in young people: Results from a consultation exercise buff.ly/vzelU0v

🔊 New in Social Science & Medicine - 'Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions' Available here (£0): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Summary 🧵 follows 👇 #BehSci #Nudge

❗ Latest issue of @thelancet.bsky.social out today and featuring the TEMPO trial on the cover 🙂 My summary thread here: bsky.app/profile/gjho... Open access paper here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Catch up with the latest equity news with our March newsletter: mailchi.mp/e652c163ef6c... #healthequity #systematicreviews

We're new here! 👋 Learn about our group, the Campbell and Cochrane Health Equity Thematic Group on our website: methods.cochrane.org/equity/

Our Update 2025 report is now available and Evidence Commission co-lead @lavisjn.bsky.social shared some key reflections youtu.be/Mm-55r1v4BE

THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11

Calorie labelling has a small effect on what people eat and drink, according to a Cochrane review by colleagues at BHRU, @eppicentre.bsky.social,@oxpop.bsky.social, & our own librarian, Nia Roberts. cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... As featured in a BBC News story: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nice to see @eppi-reviewer.bsky.social supporting this review in helping prioritise ~400,000 database records #UKSBM2025 @eppicentre.bsky.social

A new tool helps to assess the risk of bias in network meta-analysis of healthcare interventions. Read the guidance article www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Understanding colorectal cancer screening behaviour & identifying precise targets for interventions are key to increasing uptake. A new trial evaluated the impact of two behavioural interventions on uptake of FIT colorectal screening: tinyurl.com/yc8e3ujc #MedSky @katierobb.bsky.social

Check out our latest blog post for details on how the Campbell Collaboration is helping to build the global evidence infrastructure. www.campbellcollaboration.org/2025/03/camp...

In an effort to build/rebuild online networks I've set up 3 starter kits in my main areas of research interest: Links in the posts which follow - reply to be added. And if you're in the intersecting areas, especially the middle bit, and we don't know each other already - do say hello 😊

We've also now officially shuttered our X account 😌, so from now on you'll find us here, on LinkedIn and also our website (which we are gradually re-developing so bear with us): eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/