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Dylan Kneale

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#UCL #EPPI-Centre researcher https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/33741 Researching evidence informed policy-making; evidence synthesis; social exclusion; public health; social gerontology; LGBTQ health. Cymro, E17 taffia, Tiger keeper, He/Him .. more

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 23d

💥New: “Dancing in the Rain” – How to better recognise the impact of longitudinal studies and research infrastructure

✍️ Charis Bridger Staatz & @evietabor.bsky.social

#ResearchImpact #LongitudinalData #SocialScience @clscohorts.bsky.social

“Dancing in the Rain” – How to better recognise the impact of longitudinal studies and research infrastructure - Impact of Social Sciences

How can the impact of longitudinal datasets that are developed over the course of decades be better recognised?

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · Sep 4

New @ioe.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk research finds that sexual minority adults in the UK are more likely to be diagnosed with asthma than their heterosexual peers, with health disparities between them worsening across life.

Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/466Hopc

LGBTQ+ adults at greater risk of asthma | CLS

Sexual minority women and bisexual adults are at the greatest risk of asthma, with disparities between them and their heterosexual counterparts worsening across life.

Dylan Kneale @dylankneale.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

Sarah Lester @sarahlester.bsky.social · Aug 25

Six years, a pandemic, a baby (who's now four!), a move of country later - here's my actually finished, completed thesis: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10.... Totally overwhelmed thinking about all the people who made this seemingly insurmountable endeavour possible!

Becoming research-active in the social determinants of health: a study of intelligent accountability in local government - UCL Discovery

UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.

discovery.ucl.ac.uk

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Sarah Lester @sarahlester.bsky.social · Aug 25

Six years, a pandemic, a baby (who's now four!), a move of country later - here's my actually finished, completed thesis: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10.... Totally overwhelmed thinking about all the people who made this seemingly insurmountable endeavour possible!

Becoming research-active in the social determinants of health: a study of intelligent accountability in local government - UCL Discovery

UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.

discovery.ucl.ac.uk

Reposted by Mark Petticrew, Dylan Kneale

Tobacco Control Research Group @tcrgbath.bsky.social · Jul 2

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...

“The same conflicts of interest that have been addressed over decades in tobacco exist in other areas of public health involving corporate interests, including food and obesity, alcohol, gambling, climate and the environment, and pharmaceuticals.”

Dylan Kneale @dylankneale.bsky.social · Jun 19

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

Identifying critical intervention, contextual and implementation features in systematic reviews: intervention component analysis ten years on

It is now widely recognised that in addition to providing robust evidence about intervention effectiveness, systematic reviews need to provide decisio…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Faculty of Public Health @fphuk.bsky.social · Jun 19

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...

Faculty of Public Health publishes call to action ahead of Scottish Parliament election

The Committee of the Faculty of Public Health in Scotland has published a call to action ahead of the May 2026 Scottish Parliamentary election. This publication calls on all political parties in Scotl...

Dylan Kneale @dylankneale.bsky.social · Jun 18

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...

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Darío Moreno-Agostino @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social · Jun 18

📢 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!

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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Evie Tabor @evietabor.bsky.social · Jun 17

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

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Evie Tabor @evietabor.bsky.social · Jun 17

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...

Screenshot of article pdf reading: COMMENTARY
Re-considering ‘impact’ for longitudinal
social science research: towards more scientific
approaches to theorising and measuring the
influence of cohort studies
Charis Bridger Staatz, charis.staatz.17@ucl.ac.uk
Evangeline Tabor, evangeline.tabor.18@ucl.ac.uk
Dylan Kneale, d.kneale@ucl.ac.uk
University College London, UK

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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · Jun 11

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

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Reposted by Paul Glasziou, Dylan Kneale

Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · Jun 3

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...

‘Godfather’ of AI Yoshua Bengio says latest models lie to users

Turing Award winner warns recent models display dangerous characteristics as he launches LawZero non-profit for safer AI

Reposted by Sascha O. Becker, Dylan Kneale, Jon R. Stone

The Guardian @theguardian.com · May 17

My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen

My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen

The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Jeremy Grimshaw, Ruairidh Milne, Dylan Kneale , and 1 more Jeremy Grimshaw, Ruairidh Milne, Dylan Kneale, John Hilton

Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social · May 14

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

Germany's Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety Net - Absolutely Maybe

A few months ago, I wrote about reasons to be concerned about the reliability of PubMed under the new regime at the…

absolutelymaybe.plos.org

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Gill Wyness @gillwyness.bsky.social · May 14

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.

Dylan Kneale @dylankneale.bsky.social · May 9

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....

What are embedded researchers and what influence do they have in public health settings?

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Sinéad Hynes (she/her) @sineadhynes.bsky.social · Apr 22

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Gareth Hollands @gjhollands.bsky.social · Mar 31

🔊 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

Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions

Changing behaviour across populations is key to improving population health and achieving net zero by 2050, including changing diets. We examine the e…

www.sciencedirect.com

Dylan Kneale @dylankneale.bsky.social · Mar 20

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

researchregistry.com

Reposted by Jeremy Grimshaw, Christopher D. Manning, Owen K. Atkin , and 6 more Jeremy Grimshaw, Christopher D. Manning, Owen K. Atkin, Liz Beddoe, David G. Stewart, Carsten Reinemann, Dylan Kneale, Tim Fish, Holly Hassel

Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · Mar 15

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

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · Mar 15

Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.

He's a eugenicist.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Dylan Kneale, Caitlin Notley

Addiction journal @addictionjournal.bsky.social · Mar 13

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

Reposted by Dylan Kneale

medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · Mar 13

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

Dylan Kneale @dylankneale.bsky.social · Mar 5

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

Evie Tabor @evietabor.bsky.social · Feb 11

Preprint of one of my PhD papers is out! We looked at asthma and lung function in LGBTQ+ people in the UK #lgbthealth

medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · Feb 10

Sexuality and respiratory outcomes in the UK: disparities, development and mediators in multiple longitudinal studies https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.07.25321888v1

Reposted by Dylan Kneale

The Campbell Collaboration @campbellreviews.bsky.social · Mar 4

Excited to be here on bluesky

#evidencesynthesis

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Evie Tabor @evietabor.bsky.social · Feb 11

Preprint of one of my PhD papers is out! We looked at asthma and lung function in LGBTQ+ people in the UK #lgbthealth

medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · Feb 10

Sexuality and respiratory outcomes in the UK: disparities, development and mediators in multiple longitudinal studies https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.07.25321888v1

Reposted by Dylan Kneale, Jim McManus, Francis Ruiz

Altmetric @altmetric.com · Feb 6

One more: Here's a view in the Explorer that shows both side by side. Bluesky is around one third of Twitter's volume. When we started, it was at a quarter.

On certain days Bluesky hits 50% of Twitter's volume.

Bluesky volume against Twitter volume

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Lion Shahab @lionshahab.bsky.social · Jan 31

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.

Electronic cigarettes and subsequent cigarette smoking in young people: A systematic review

Aims To assess the evidence for a relationship between the use of e-cigarettes and subsequent smoking in young people (≤29 years), and whether this differs by demographic characteristics. Methods ...

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Monserrat Conde @monserratconde.bsky.social · Jan 30

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/...

Electronic cigarettes and subsequent cigarette smoking in young people: A systematic review

Aims To assess the evidence for a relationship between the use of e-cigarettes and subsequent smoking in young people (≤29 years), and whether this differs by demographic characteristics. Methods ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Roger Kline @rogerkline.bsky.social · Jan 28

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

2024 Health Policy Year In 12 Charts | The King's Fund

Siva Anandaciva and Danielle Jefferies look back on the health and care trends, key figures, news stories and policy changes that happened in 2024.

www.kingsfund.org.uk