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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 1

Dream job for anyone who’s worked with cohort surveys

UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · Jul 31

A fantastic opportunity in our amazing department! Come and join us as Director of our Centre for Longitudinal Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Dr Ellen J Thompson @ejthompson.bsky.social · Jul 10

4️⃣: A huge congratulations and thank you to the leads of this project: Amelia Edmondson-Stait & Alex Kwong and all those who contributed: Eileen Xu, Ahmed Elhakeem, Liana Romaniuk, Rebecca Pearson, @thaliaeley.bsky.social, @mcintosh2001.bsky.social, Heather Sibley

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Dr Ellen J Thompson @ejthompson.bsky.social · Jul 10

3️⃣: Many thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for funding this project as part of the Wellcome Mental Health Data Prize, the participants from our studies (Children of the 90s (ALSPAC) and @clscohorts.bsky.social)

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Dr Ellen J Thompson @ejthompson.bsky.social · Jul 10

2️⃣: TIDAL is a free R package + web tool to analyse, visualise & interpret longitudinal trajectories.
Try it: tidal.shinyapps.io/tidalapp/
More: tidal-modelling.github.io

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Tool to Implement Developmental Analyses of Longitudinal Data

tidal-modelling.github.io

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Dr Ellen J Thompson @ejthompson.bsky.social · Jul 10

1️⃣: Our paper: TIDAL - Tool to Implement Developmental Analysis of Longitudinal data has just been published in the International Journal of Epidemiology: academic.oup.com/ije/article/... 🎉🎉🎉

Software Application Profile: TIDAL—Tool to Implement Developmental Analysis of Longitudinal data

Growth-curve modelling uses repeatedly measured data from the same individuals to estimate trajectories that describe how variables change over time and id

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · Jul 1

📚 AI, peer review and the human activity of science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI, peer review and the human activity of science

When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.

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Gerome Breen @psychgenomics.bsky.social · Jun 17

Excited about our new preprint: 1st successful genome-wide study of >61,000 panic attack and 29,000 panic disorder cases. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... We find 17 associations & evidence that peripheral neurons in eye, lungs and heart are involved in panic & other psychiatric disorders 1/n

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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · Jun 10

Researchers have found #genetic factors that may make people more or less sensitive to the environments they experience.

It is the largest genetics study of identical #twins to date.

🔗 kcl.ac.uk/news/largest...

@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @qmulfmd.bsky.social

"Differences in individuals’ sensitivity to life experiences can explain why the same negative or positive experiences may have varying effects on people’s mental health, depending on their genetic make-up. Our findings suggest that specific genetic variants influence how environmental exposures impact psychiatric and neurodevelopmental symptoms." Dr Elham Assary, Postdoctoral Researcher at King’s College London

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Dr Ellen J Thompson @ejthompson.bsky.social · May 29

I love how many of us *accidentally* became epidemiologists 🫣. It’s the best club!

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Dr Ellen J Thompson @ejthompson.bsky.social · May 28

@profjohndrury.bsky.social know anyone?

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Dylan Williams @dylwil.bsky.social · Apr 14

One year later ... a major update to our manuscript showing that most Alzheimer's disease is attributable to the gene APOE. We expanded it to analyses of four studies, now with data on about 460,000 people in total.....
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Alzheimers #Dementia #Epidemiology #EpiSky

The proportion of Alzheimer's disease attributable to apolipoprotein E

Objective To estimate the proportions of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and all-cause dementia burden attributable to the common risk alleles ε3 and ε4 in the APOE gene Design Genetic association analyses i...

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · May 21

Adolescence, “a time of ideas, reimagination, revolution, and a creation of new approaches—exactly what we all need for a better future and the survival of our planet.”

Lancet editors on the 2nd Commission on adolescent health & wellbeing. Read 👉 bit.ly/4jadJQj

Editorial: A wake-up call: the second Commission on adolescent health

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · May 18

Politicians During Mental Health Awareness Month

4 panel comic

Panel 1: Politician on podium saying “Wooo! Let’s talk about mental health awareness!

Panel 2: Audience member with raised hand says “And also funding for mental health services?”

Panel 3: Politician presses button that triggers two rockets to pop out the sides of the podium

Panel 4: Politician makes a swift exit through the skylight above, mercifully avoiding any tricky questions about actually providing substantial care for people with metal health issues.

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Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social · May 16

I am hiring for a new researchers on my @nuffieldfoundation.org young carers project.
Closes 4thJune. After someone with strong quant longitudinal skills, passion for communicating research beyond academia & wants to work with people w lived experience/other sectors
jobs.sgul.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at St George's University of London: Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology

The Research Fellow will investigate young carers and health inequalities using advanced longitudinal quantitative methods. Responsibilities include data analysis, literature reviews, publishing findi...

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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · May 12

The application of polygenic risk scores (PRS) in clinical practice has advanced but also received criticism. In this Perspective by Saskia Sanderson & @mikeinouye.bsky.social, major psychological and behavioural arguments against PRS applications have been assessed.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Psychological and behavioural considerations for integrating polygenic risk scores for disease into clinical practice - Nature Human Behaviour

The application of polygenic risk scores (PRSs) in clinical practice has advanced but also received criticism. In this Perspective, major psychological and behavioural arguments against PRS applicatio...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · May 11

Thanks to everybody who chimed in!

I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.

So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

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Luisa Fassi @fassiluisa.bsky.social · May 6

After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com!

We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions - Nature Human Behaviour

Using a nationally representative UK sample of adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms, this Registered Report examined differences in social media use. The results suggest that adolesc...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Apr 30

Remember the good times when the main threat to the scientific endeavor was conditioning on a collider

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Dr Ellen J Thompson @ejthompson.bsky.social · Apr 29

@mebozena.bsky.social

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Claire Niedzwiedz @drcenz.bsky.social · Apr 8

📢 New publication out today in BMJ Mental Health.

We looked at whether climate change worry is associated with an increased risk of future depression, anxiety and sleep disturbance across European countries, using data from the European Social Survey.

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Climate change worry and the association with future depression and anxiety: cross-national analysis of 11 European countries

Background Climate change affects people’s mental health directly and indirectly. Climate anxiety, characterised by persistent worry and distress about environmental changes, is increasingly recognise...

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Andrea Allegrini @andrealle.bsky.social · Mar 20

Our work on intergenerational transmission of psychiatric risk is now out!! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturecomms.bsky.social with thanks to my super coauthors @leofrach.bsky.social @jessiebaldwin.bsky.social and several others who made this possible

Intergenerational transmission of polygenic predisposition for neuropsychiatric traits on emotional and behavioural difficulties in childhood - Nature Communications

Parental neuropsychiatric traits relate to children’s emotions and behaviours beyond genetic transmission alone. Here the author's findings suggest potential environmental risk factors that can act on...

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Dr Ellen J Thompson @ejthompson.bsky.social · Apr 4

Trying really really hard this year to not ramp up my work load before the spring break in order to “get things off my desk”.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but you’re allowed a break without your work load doubling before or after your leave!

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Dr Zeynep Nas @zeynepnas.bsky.social · Apr 1

First post will be a plug for our national fellowship network ➡️ We have an exciting new session focused on NIHR fellowships! 💡

Come along to this brilliant event and do spread the word for the network led by @flosheen.bsky.social @alice-kininmonth.bsky.social and myself 👇

Dr. Florence Sheen @flosheen.bsky.social · Apr 1

📣Interested in learning more about NIHR fellowships?

Join our session featuring NIHR advanced fellows + an expert from the Research Support Service to:

🪜learn about the application & interview
🌟boost your confidence
🙋ask questions

Scan QR ⬇️ to join the group + get a link to this & future events!

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Dr Ellen J Thompson @ejthompson.bsky.social · Mar 21

Need to start using CC-BY-NC (if funders permit)

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Mar 20

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words!

If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance.

www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

Reviewer notes: That’s a very nice mediation analysis you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.

Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...

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