Our working paper was by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com of the financial times. @benbgeiger.bsky.social and I analyse the Health Survey for England from 2003-2022. We show that mental distress is rising. And more people label their struggles as mental illness.

Are out-of-work benefit claims at a record high? My new post open.substack.com/pub/inequali... , and also my take on More or Less this morning at www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

🔥 Climate impacts & perception I significantly updated my preprint, which using representative survey data from 142 countries (N=128,093) shows that climate hazard experience is related to higher climate risk perception. Now includes an exploration of country heterogeneity: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Die Ergebnisse unserer Studie findet ihr jetzt auch auf unserer Seite: sanktionsfrei.de/studie25 Spoiler: Die Ergebnisse sind krass, aber "Mafiösen Sozialbetrug" haben wir nicht gefunden...

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Is the UK shifting its approach to drug policy? Why is drug policy more important than ever in today's geopolitics? What does global evidence say about OPCs? It was great to join Sam Lewis from the Human Condition Podcast to discuss these questions...check out our full discussion below 👇

New #dataviz in @sociusjournal.bsky.social Did the occupational structure evolve in the same way in different parts of London between 1991 and 2021? In short: no, it was very much A Tale of Two Cities journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Another way Covid was weird was that it accelerated firm creation during a recession. Who was starting new firms? To answer this question, we (@crahal.com & Naomi Muggleton) tracked every registered firm in the UK to discover who was capitalising on this crisis link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Highly important work by @xromerovidal.bsky.social: Economic conditions are getting more and more crucial to keep young people engaged in democracy.

Just how common is benefits conditionality? New post based on a new paper, at inequalities.substack.com/p/how-common... (now with clearer chart!)

On the day of the German federal election, we cannot take democratic values for granted. An important piece on the rise on the far right in Germany.

Many folks - including RFK Jr - are eyeing SNAP restrictions as a way to 'make America healthy again.' My colleague Danielle Krobath and I describe why this isn't the right approach in @us.theconversation.com #academicsky #publichealth #medsky

Hi new Blusky community👋 I am a final year PhD student in Social Policy & Public Health, and I research social inequalities in mental health. For example, what are the social determinants of mental healthcare use and helfpulness accross 111 countries? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to share our new paper describing DCRs as ‘inclusion health interventions’! Thank you to @bchrisinger.bsky.social @dkhumphreys.bsky.social @gwshorter.bsky.social for their guidance on this piece. Link: harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Some metro station wisdom from #Lisbon

Some of my stellar social science colleagues at Oxford 📝 go.bsky.app/LMFL2EG

Starter Packs feels a bit like making a mixtape to this 80s kid... I ran into the max number pretty fast so apologies to anyone I missed and I'll have to make a Volume II!: go.bsky.app/2ZUFQtv

This #poverty is the most fundamentally important determinant of health and in the case of our children their future life chances .. this should be the government’s number one #publichealth priority if we’re serious about reducing health inequalities.. needs action not rhetoric!

Where Your SES Takes a Vow of Silence 🆕📝 "No Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality among Catholic Monks: A Quasi-Experiment Providing Evidence for the Fundamental Cause Theory" out in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior with Patrick Lazarevič and Marc Luy. #socsky #demography #MonkMode

Last week, it was great to present my research during two presentations at #EPH2024 in Lisbon. Social Inequalities in Mental Health Service Use in 111 countries bit.ly/3OeK8bx Using Machine Learning to identify the social determinants of the mid-life decline in mental health bit.ly/3OfZjkK

At European public health conference in Lisbon this week. Let me know if you are around.

It cetainly is. And the recent discovery of obvious #ChatGPT text in published papers (i.e., “Certainly, …”) was only the worst offenders. #AcademicSky www.chronicle.com/article/its-...

Pleasure to join a symposium on "Tackling Mental Health" Inequalities alongside Daina Kosite, Maria Gueltzow and chaired by Dr Marielle Beenackers at the #UrbanMentalHealth Conference 2024 in Amsterdam. We discussed socioeconomic, gender and housing disparities in mental health. 📎🔎 t.co/HlqWxOGSeO