Our new #preprint on @researchsquare: A nonrandomised feasibility evaluation of a home‑based intervention for parents of adolescents with learning disabilities, with or without autism www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8... @kingslsm.bsky.social

Our new #preprint on @researchsquare: A nonrandomised feasibility evaluation of a home‑based intervention for parents of adolescents with learning disabilities, with or without autism www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8... @kingslsm.bsky.social

Let’s make care better for gender diverse young people – your voice matters. 🔗Take the survey: buff.ly/Or9cup9 📣Please help us get as many voices heard as possible and share this post.

The other aspect of this story is, academics and NHS staff could and would have done this better and essentially for free if they were given the same data access as Faculty, but they are not allowed it. Government policy is deliberately to frustrate pro bono / non-profit health data research.

Please share the Youth Gender Diversity PSP survey with your colleagues, patients, and their carers so their questions about gender dysphoria/incongruence are heard and represented in the future. Survey now open: buff.ly/CRZUinI

Amid fierce criticism, I spoke to critics & triallists about the puberty blocker trial, putting methodological & ethical concerns to researchers & Hilary Cass for @bmj.com. They describe clinical context, challenge criticism & say studies are necessary. (open access) www.bmj.com/content/391/...

🎤NEW✍🏽 James Lind Alliance Survey Help pick top 10 research questions for children & young people (upto 25 years old) with gender incongruence/dysphoria 2 versions: Young People/parents app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/jla/youth-... Public & Professionals app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/jla/youth-...

A special collection of 6 papers on cohort studies in China is just out in @bmj.com www.bmj.com/collections/... with an editorial on the collection and the current publication climate www.bmj.com/collections/...

No one understands the issues related to gender diversity better than those with lived experience, their parents/carers and the professionals who work with them. Share your views to help ensure that research focuses on what matters most: buff.ly/lGw3Zp8

Please RT/ share.. the core purpose of our PSP is better care for children and young adults with gender dysphoria/incongruence and we want to hear from people with a range of experiences/ views.

Please RT/ share.. the core purpose of our PSP is better care for children and young adults with gender dysphoria/incongruence and we want to hear from people with a range of experiences/ views.

🎤NEW✍🏽 James Lind Alliance Survey Help pick top 10 research questions for children & young people (upto 25 years old) with gender incongruence/dysphoria 2 versions: Young People/parents app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/jla/youth-... Public & Professionals app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/jla/youth-...

Dr Michael Absoud, @kingslsm.bsky.social, tells Wired avoiding paracetamol could have adverse consequences for pregnant women: www.wired.com/story/trumps...

Opinion: The more 'expert' you become, the more you think you ought to know, and the more you fear your credibility will suffer if you ever admit otherwise. on.ft.com/4mh4ujK

Socio-Demographic and Health Data of Adolescents Identifying as Transgender or Gender Diverse in the Born in Bradford’s Age of Wonder Cohort., wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-...

Closing on 14th September: parent / carer voice member of the CYP Gender Research Oversight Board www.england.nhs.uk/get-involved...

Gathering autistic adults’ visual experiences to inform adaptations: a qualitative interview study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I thought this was a great article outlining the changes to the Covid-19 vaccination program in the USA Bringing it more in line with current practice elsewhere in the world www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Great new study by on behavioural aspects of ventilation in hospitality venues. Many monitored venues had poor ventilation, but hosts list many barriers to improve - tho some venues attempt to improve following info campaign. let's see why it's not always simple to ⬆️ ventilation:

or a new study shows that either, or a combination of: ▪️reduced viral emission (bcos air cleaner added several days later from initial readings) ▪️changes to window ventilation ▪️presence of an air cleaner see below for fag packet calc to show it can't all be due to air cleaner...

Hello Bluesky! 👋 We’re the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. We represent over 24,000 paediatricians in the UK and internationally. Follow us to hear about our work to support #Paediatricians and transform #ChildHealth.

The mind/body revolution: how the division between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ illness fails us all www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

NEW Research Associate post to be based in Warrington www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/mini...

Said this re the grooming gangs and we’re back to the same thing. Unclear what *exactly* failed in social services/how, bc they’ve been scant with info. But Britain does expect children’s services to be a firewall vs threats it’s appalled by, while entirely deprioritising them the rest of the time

EXCELLENT piece: many scientists and even some clinicians are advocating for potentially harmful treatments with certainty and ignoring mind-body connections. Especially in vulnerable populations academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

EXCELLENT piece: many scientists and even some clinicians are advocating for potentially harmful treatments with certainty and ignoring mind-body connections. Especially in vulnerable populations academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

EXCELLENT piece in the @financialtimes.com today on integration of physical and mental health.. too long ignored after impact of pandemic, and neglecting mental health aspects of physical presentations www.ft.com/content/6ec5...

THIS is definitely real on the ground for developmental services- particularly for reception/ year 1 group with concerns around communication/ social interaction/ play/ learning Overdoing restrictions on kids during pandemic with *STILL* no plan for recovery www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...

The long Covid ‘treatments’ to avoid. inews.co.uk/news/health/... People with long Covid are resorting to a range of unproven remedies, from supplements to stem cells, but simple rehabilitation techniques are proving the best medicine

A healthy diet is unaffordable for the poorest families in the UK on.ft.com/4gLAycA

Nice piece on that"self reflective" iSAGE piece in Nature Protocols-- bristoliver.substack.com/p/a-journal-... Big Journals have a responsibility of regaining trust in science, and pieces which dress up politics as science need calling out

NEW post - Consultant in Paediatric Neurodisability: Movement disorders, neuro-rehabilitation and long-term outpatient care to children with complex disabling neurological disorders www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/current-vaca...

Democrats must not abandon the moral high ground https://www.ft.com/content/dc8e7e08-1913-4f5a-be57-1c3c62f46d41

"The UK Labour government has promised to provide free breakfasts to all primary school pupils, but there is a huge need to expand provision to secondary level." www.ft.com/content/3398...

Joe Biden pardons son Hunter over gun and tax charges https://www.ft.com/content/615e4db0-0f3d-44fc-8af7-9d7f61c409cb

G'ah! on.ft.com/3OwGTMx

I find when people claim “science is political”, it’s often to excuse partisan rhetoric masked with scientific justification This is different from accepting the unavoidable evil that science gets influenced by politics by necessity, but that we should be minimising this as much as humanly possible

The website vs app split for Bluesky vs Threads captures the difference in user base and usage patterns beautifully. Bluesky = knowledge sector workers who have it open all day in a tab next to their emails. “Wait what was I doing again?” Threads = normies watching recipe videos on the commute.

If you missed our @bennettoxford.bsky.social Annual Lecture, the mighty George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social we've posted it - and the hardcore technical daytime one - here! Mendelian Randomisation! Integrating conflicting evidence from diverse sources! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/10...

I'd like to be on a social media site where people with different viewpoints, values, and backgrounds engage each other respectfully and politely. Blocklists seem to move in the opposite direction. (Nothing I can do about it, but I'm not about to celebrate them, and I shed a tear when others do)

#Oliverscampaign In the past, we have had different types of #SEND schools to meet individual children's needs. They were all closed down, and what was left open were clumped together Schools are struggling to meet the needs of some complex #SEND children www.bbc.com/news/article...

We are recruiting 15 to 18 year olds who struggle with low mood and their parents- do get in touch [email protected] and more information below

approaching 19 millions users on Bluesky.. bsky-users.theo.io cool counter by @theo.io