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I worked for a year at Bilgi MBA while studying at Boğaziçi uni. Both universities are devastated and Bilgi now closed by presidential decree. All the same time the country says they want to attract back talented Turkish students and academics. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...

Landmark systematic review of the British birth cohorts, providing further evidence of Generational Health Drift. Led by the fantastic Laura Gimeno with superstar team: @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social @martindanka.bsky.social @yiling1015.bsky.social Alice Goisis & @drjenndowd.bsky.social

Mental health difficulties among young adults in England have doubled in past decade, finds a new @ucl.ac.uk study by CLS researchers @dominicpkelly.bsky.social & @emlafitzsimons.bsky.social Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/4v4QZrx

Our mascot Cohort MemBear was delighted to make a trip to the beautiful city of Belfast for our latest consultation on the Age 27 Sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study. Join us (and MemBear) for our final consultation event or submit your ideas online: bit.ly/4nxJre7

🎂💐 Happy 80th birthday to Professor Heather Joshi, former director of @clscohorts.bsky.social, founding director of the Millennium Cohort Study, and a key figure in the development of Generation New Era. Thank you for your enormous contribution to longitudinal and women’s studies!

Excited to deliver the keynote at the UCL “200 Years of Health and Wellbeing” symposium 🎉 I’ll present evidence on Generational Health Drift, its impact on economic activity, and argue that the recent decline in Healthy Life Expectancy reflects both mental and physical health. @sriucl.bsky.social

This fascinating new research examines important predictors of non-response from a pool of ~ 20,000 variables from 9 sweeps in 18,037 individuals. Find out more in the thread below 👇

Being out of work and education in early adulthood has a 'scarring effect' into midlife, according to a new report by @ucl.ac.uk @ioe.bsky.social researchers, Alina Pelikh, Sam Parsons, and Claire Crawford. Read more on the CLS website - bit.ly/4eNFHCS

👉Our paper on addressing missing data in the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) has been published in BMC Medical Research Methodology link.springer.com/article/10.1... @rjsilverwood.bsky.social @georgeploubidis.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social Martina Narayanan, Brian Dodgeon 1/8

💥 Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) Age 27 sweep open consultation. 👉 Attend a consultation event in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff or Belfast or join us online. What questions should we ask and what measures should we use? Your input is needed! Find out more: buff.ly/yMGpXuM

Our preprint is now out! 📄 We looked at whether five flexible IPTW / propensity score weighting approaches can be used for count exposures, and whether they can be combined with multiple imputation. We also illustrate the methods using BCS70 data. Link: doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.23726

📢 New @ucl.ac.uk research using data from the latest sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study finds one in seven young people (14%) across the UK are not in education, employment or training (NEET) at age 23. Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/4uYft6C

📢Our takeover of the @ioe.bsky.social podcast series, Research for the Real World continues this week as Dr Sam Parsons discusses what our long-running birth cohort studies can reveal about people’s lives as they approach retirement. Find out more and listen to the podcast - bit.ly/4rVa7pZ

A heart-warming science news story for difficult times. The world’s longest continuously running birth cohort study turns 80 this week - a milestone. tinyurl.com/3wy8n4ah It was a privilege writing about it in my book The Life Project. Happy birthday NSHD! @clscohorts.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

🎂 A very happy birthday to the cohort study that started it all! 👇

If you missed this seminar, you can: 📹 watch the recording here: youtu.be/n5HHg4RJQns?... 📖 read the (brand new!) paper here: doi.org/10.23889/ijp... cc @rjsilverwood.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social

How data from cohort studies can improve causal inference in analyses using administrative data resources 👇🏻

♀️ Celebrate women by looking at datasets from across the world, focused on women at all stages of life! Explore the #AtlasLongitudinalDatasets & #CatalogueMHM to find rich data about women's health and wellbeing! 🔗 atlaslongitudinaldatasets.ac.uk 🔗 www.cataloguementalhealth.ac.uk #IWD2026

We are the focus of the new season of @ioe.bsky.social podcast, Research for the Real World. In the first episode, Dr Gergo Baranyi discusses his research examining links between people’s housing and neighbourhood and their health and education. Listen - www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...

📢 New @ucl.ac.uk research finds people who experience mental health difficulties in childhood at ages 5-16 are more likely to have irregular sleep patterns at ages 46-48, with more reported to sleep less than six hours every night. Read more on the CLS website 👉 buff.ly/4TdWrN0

1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography

Happy 80th Birthday Medical Research Council (MRC) National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) - the world's longest running birth cohort study

Pensions and economic status among the 1958 birth cohort prior to reaching State Pension age New research report for the Department for Work and Pensions 👇🏻

More than a quarter of British adults in their early 50s are ‘just getting by’ or ‘finding it quite’ or ‘very difficult’ financially, while two-thirds worry about how much money they will have to live on in retirement. Read more - bit.ly/3N2ISLA

The latest in this must-attend series is essential for anyone interested in analyses of administrative data (and our Millennium Cohort Study!). Register your place 👇 @rjsilverwood.bsky.social

Exciting research from @tommetherell.com 👇

Delighted to share that our paper "Associations between early-life mental health and abnormal sleep duration in midlife: findings from a prospective cohort study in Great Britain" is now published in @springernature.com European Journal of Epidemiology! rdcu.be/e5rAK 👇

🔎New research using data from the Age 23 Sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study shows gen Z are more likely to live with their parents in their early 20s than previous generations. Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/4tSafZh

What an amazing night 🌟We're so happy to be part of the #UCL200 celebrations

👉We are running a 3-day in-person course "Causal Inference Using Cohort Data" Dates: 20-22 Apr 2026 Presenters: Dr M Katsoulis (Associate Professor in Biomedical Statistics) & Dr L Wright (Lecturer in Statistics and Survey Methodology) check here for more details www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...

Today, UCL turns 200. 🎉 For two centuries, our community has opened doors, challenged convention and pushed the boundaries of knowledge across every discipline. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of the UCL story, here’s to the next century. ✨ #UCL200 #LoveUCL

📢 The CLS conference 2026, 22 – 23 September, London, will bring together researchers from across disciplines, institutions, sectors and career stages to showcase outstanding research using CLS cohort data. Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 8 April. Further information: bit.ly/45SP3rO

Check our article in @uk.theconversation.com on our recent study on the long-term trajectories of mental ill-health in the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts and long-term inequalities in these @clscohorts.bsky.social @georgeploubidis.bsky.social @jdasmunshi.bsky.social @kingscsmh.bsky.social

🌟Interested in mode effects? We're excited to see CLS colleagues @georgiatomova.bsky.social, @rjsilverwood.bsky.social and Liam Wright's work with @pwgtennant.bsky.social in this new paper on avoiding bias in survey data 👇

UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies Conference invites submissions from all researchers using @clscohorts.bsky.social data. Conference: 22–23 September. Submissions by: 8 April. cls.ucl.ac.uk/events/cls-c...

📣 Announcing the CLS Conference 2026, celebrating 80 years of the UK’s cohort studies. Our call for papers is now open. All researchers using CLS cohort data are invited to submit and join us this September in London. Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 8 April. More details: bit.ly/45SP3rO

📰 Hold the front page! CLS' @dominicpkelly.bsky.social is to join Longitudinal and Life Course Studies as section editor, with Larissa Pople and Liam Wright as associate editors – big news for CLS colleagues! @sllshome.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social Find out more: bit.ly/49RmEDQ

New #NextStepsStudy research shows millennials who faced family financial hardship, parents’ separation or violence in the home during childhood are more likely to have mental health difficulties in their early 30s. Read more on the CLS website - cls.ucl.ac.uk/childhood-ad...

📢8 days to apply to this 2-year postdoc!📢 Join @jdasmunshi.bsky.social + @georgeploubidis.bsky.social + me to do research using data from @clscohorts.bsky.social and beyond, as well as linkages to health and administrative data, to examine population mental health inequalities over the life course!

🚨Job alert!🚨 We are looking for a 🧮 quant postdoc researcher to join the AMAZING Jay Das-Munshi @jdasmunshi.bsky.social George Ploubidis @georgeploubidis.bsky.social & myself at @kingscsmh.bsky.social in collab with @clscohorts.bsky.social All info: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru... Closes 18 Nov!

🚨 NEW DATA! Data from the Age 9-10 Months Sweep of the Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study are now available to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social. Find out more on the CLS website: buff.ly/PPgvUTq

Date for the diary! Join us online next Thursday at 13:00 (UK time) to learn more about Growing Up in Digital Europe & feed into plans for the UK pilot. This new Europe-wide study will collect internationally comparable data on children’s wellbeing. More info: bit.ly/4pl4YHs @drlisac.bsky.social

Women who were the first in their family to attend university are 40% more likely to have no children by age 46 than other women in their generation, finds new #1970BritishCohortStudy research led by @sriucl.bsky.social's @adameczanna.bsky.social Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/3H6OmlB

And don’t miss the recording of last week’s webinar, which takes you through the key highlights of the data. Watch here: bit.ly/4lG6UrP

🎉 News from the 1958 National Child Development Study! Data from the Age 62 Sweep are now available to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social. This is the most comprehensive data collection of the cohort’s adult lives. Find out more: bit.ly/4lIwpJa

We had our farewell to @aksoyundan.bsky.social at UCL yesterday! Ozan has been such a big part of our journey, from building our Quant Sociology group to being an incredible mentor and collaborator along the way. We’ll miss his presence & humour a lot, but we’re excited to see what he does next 👀

When we say global reach, we mean it. Including Brisbane. Especially Brisbane.

Today I presented my work on data from the @unicefinnocenti.bsky.social Disrupting Harm survey at #IPC2025 in Brisbane! It was a great opportunity to engage with other researchers interested in investigating youth mental health in the population. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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