Blog from me and my wonderful colleague Dr Charis Bridger Staatz!

This work from my PhD is now out in the world! With @dylankneale.bsky.social and Prof Praveetha Patalay, I looked at asthma disparities in UK LGBTQ+ people

Congratulations Dr Lester - you did a brilliant job - well done on your achievements and lots more to come in the future!

Congrats to Prof. Anna Gilmore, Dr Rachel Barry & Dr Alice Fabbri for the publication of their new paper in the latest edition of @futurehealthj.bsky.social. This special edition focusses on #commercialdeterminants and #conflictsofinterest in #PublicHealth & Policy. 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.fh...

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

FPH welcomes this report on the Minimum Income Guarantee: www.gov.scot/publications... The report is in line with FPH’s Call to Action for the next Scottish Government, which recommends that all families have at least minimum income sufficient for healthy living: www.fph.org.uk/news/faculty...

📢 Job opportunity! 📢 I am recruiting a 2-year postdoc to join me at @clscohorts.bsky.social to work on a SUPER exciting project on the quantitative study of intersectional inequalities in youth mental health across time and place! See www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... for more info and how to apply!

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

Sigh. LLMs don't lie, because they don't know anything. What all LLMs do, including the latest models, is produce statistically plausible outputs that sometimes resemble the truth and sometimes resemble falsehoods. That's all the tech *can* do www.ft.com/content/2b3c...

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...

We also had three brilliant responses from colleagues at the @eppicentre.bsky.social, @usociety.bsky.social and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia reflecting on challenges and approaches in their own contexts

New comment from Dr Charis Bridger Staatz, @dylankneale.bsky.social and me on measuring and evaluating research impact from longitudinal studies in @sllshome.bsky.social journal doi.org/10.1332/1757...

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

My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen

This is so exciting! The German National Library of Medicine @zbmed.bsky.social just had its first open meeting on the plan for an open & independent PubMed safety net. Here's my write-up @plos.org on the meeting & how institutions & others can help absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/g... #MedLibs

New blog post by my colleague @jakeanders.uk describing how the effects of the pandemic are still impacting young people’s lives. This has serious implications for these young people as they go through life, including via increased risks of mental health challenges.

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....

🌍 Want to help shape health research? Join #ThePeoplesReview – a systematic review, powered by the public ✅Open to people worldwide ✅Everything takes place online ✅Make a difference in health research ✅Learn about systematic reviews Join now👉 www.thepeoplesreview.ie/join-now

🔊 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

Hmmm. Wonder when the researchregistry.com will be back online... can't see a bluesky account to tag them....

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

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

Public Involvement in Complex Theorising: A coproduced logic model of the role of context in shaping child health https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.10.25323571v1

Excited to be here on bluesky #evidencesynthesis

Get a preview of results from Evie Tabor examining inequalities in respiratory health between sexual minority and heterosexual people based on pooling evidence from 5 cohorts - much needed research addressing a gap in the UK evidence base #LGBTQHealth #publichealth @clscohorts.bsky.social

As I think most of you have worked out already, X increasingly not the place for discussion of scientific papers…

New expansive CRUK-funded systematic review led by the brilliant @jhb19.bsky.social on youth transitions between vaping & smoking doi.org/10.1111/add..... It’s complex: there’s potential inverse associations between vaping & smoking at population level but positive association at individual level.

Our systematic review looking at gateway effects from vaping to smoking in young people was published today @addictionjournal.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A rather useful summary. The UK health policy year in twelve charts 2024 www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Interested in evidence-informed policy and practice and looking to study MSc covering methods for systematic reviews of both qualitative and quantitative data? Visit shorturl.at/i13KU Applications are still open! #systematic_reviews @eppicentre.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social

✨Research positions for the new Wellcome-Trust DESTINY project in automating evidence synthesis! (destiny-evidence.github.io/website/) 🌍✨ 🔬Two at EPPI-Centre, UCL: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... ... AND ...

James Baldwin died on this day (1Dec) in 1987 “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced” From “As Much Truth As One Can Bear” ,1962 The New York Times Book Review

Hello, World!

📢📢📢 new paper by @evietabor.bsky.social exploring implications of different measurement strategies for sexuality 'Mainly heterosexual, bisexual, or other?': pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39303000/ 🏳️‍🌈 interesting evidence on the sociodemographic characteristics of sexual minorities in UK survey data

📢📢📢 new paper by @evietabor.bsky.social exploring implications of different measurement strategies for sexuality 'Mainly heterosexual, bisexual, or other?': pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39303000/ 🏳️‍🌈 interesting evidence on the sociodemographic characteristics of sexual minorities in UK survey data

Our #evidencesynthesis community is so fortunate to benefit from the clear thinking of leaders like Janes Thomas - exciting times for AI in evidence synthesis #GES2024

Will you be at #GES2024 in Prague? Or following from home? This hashtag may lead to a useful feed (if we have set it up right!) @jdwilko.bsky.social @nessieevidence.bsky.social @jbiebhc.bsky.social @jacknunn.bsky.social @ruthgarside.bsky.social @terripigott.bsky.social

Our systematic map of #embeddedresearcher implementation studies is out now #ImpSciComms! The map identifies different forms of embedded research & adopts novel methods to identify typologies. Free to read here implementationsciencecomms.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @implementsci.bsky.social

Our paper on LGBTQ health inequalities and the emergence of a syndemic during Covid-19 is now in an issue of Sociology of Health and Illness (and it's open access!) 👍🛟 @ioe.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our paper on LGBTQ health inequalities and the emergence of a syndemic during Covid-19 is now in an issue of Sociology of Health and Illness (and it's open access!) 👍🛟 @ioe.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our paper on LGBTQ health inequalities and the emergence of a syndemic during Covid-19 is now in an issue of Sociology of Health and Illness (and it's open access!) 👍 @ioe.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our paper on LGBTQ health inequalities and the emergence of a syndemic during Covid-19 is now in an issue of Sociology of Health and Illness (and it's open access!) 👍 @ioe.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...