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Mental Health Platform @mhplatform.bsky.social · Jul 30

Are you an ECR in mental health research?
Ready to take the next step in your career?

Join our ECR Workshop
🗓️ 9 Oct 2025 | 📍 Edinburgh | 💷 £25
Hosted by @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social & @datamind.bsky.social in partnership with MHP

👉 rebrand.ly/ecr-workshop

#ECR #MentalHealthResearch #MHPSummit2025

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Mental Health Platform @mhplatform.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚨 Final day to submit your EOI tomorrow!

It’s short, it’s key, it’s your start to a £300k Fellowship

👉 bit.ly/expression-i...

ECR Fellowships Expression of Interest | Mental health platform

We invite Expressions of Interest from Early Career Researchers (ECRs) who are considering applying to the next round of UKRI Mental Health Platform ECR funding.

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Mental Health Platform @mhplatform.bsky.social · Jun 18

Work in Digital Data & AI, Lifestyle & Wellbeing, or Pharma & BioTech?

Join The Alliance: seeking industry partners to transform research into real-world impact for severe mental illness.

Apply here: www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/resources-industry

In partnership with @datamind.bsky.social

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Mental Health Platform @mhplatform.bsky.social · Jun 17

📢The MHP Industry Alliance is open for new members from Industry to join.

The next Industry Alliance Forum with @datamind.bsky.social will focus on Digital, Data & AI.

Join the Alliance to stay updated: www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/resources-industry

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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · May 16

Partnerships between researchers, clinicians, patients & local communities are essential for producing research that is useful in the real world.

It’s #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and the theme this year is COMMUNITY.

🧵 THREAD

#MentalHealthResearch #Collaboration

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2aW...

Funding mental health research collaborations across sectors and communities

YouTube video by Mental Elf

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Mental Health Platform @mhplatform.bsky.social · Apr 29

What is social health - and why does it matter?

Our Hub lead Prof. Jennifer Lau co-authored an article on why social health should stand alongside physical & mental health - especially to improve lives for people with severe mental illness.

Read more 👉 rebrand.ly/third-pillar

Social Health: third pillar of health | Mental health platform

One of our Hub leads, Prof Jennifer Lau, co-authored an article this year describing how social health should be considered alongside physical health and mental health, and how this could help to…

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Andrew McIntosh @mcintosh2001.bsky.social · Apr 29

📣 New Preprint: Protocol for Depression Genetics in Africa (DepGenAfrica), supported by @wellcometrust.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/os...

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Mental Health Platform @mhplatform.bsky.social · Mar 21

The Industry Alliance Forum meeting will unite the UKRI Mental Health Platform with key industry partners to shape the future of mental healthcare.

To be invited to this influential event as an industry member, you need to first Join the Alliance:
www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/resources-in...

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Mental Health Platform @mhplatform.bsky.social · Mar 17

One week left for Industry partners to Join the Alliance!

Do you work in:
🟣 Pharma & BioTech
🟣 Digital Health
🟣 Lifestyle & Wellbeing,

And are interested in turning research findings into impact for people with severe mental illness?

Apply now:

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Andrew McIntosh @mcintosh2001.bsky.social · Mar 3

Congratulations!

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Andrew McIntosh @mcintosh2001.bsky.social · Feb 24

Work led by Ella Davyson as part of her PhD

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Andrew McIntosh @mcintosh2001.bsky.social · Feb 24

Many thanks to all of the collaborators and funders (esp
@wellcometrust.bsky.social & @ukri.org) who made this DNA methylome-wide study of antidepressant exposure possible www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Insights from a methylome-wide association study of antidepressant exposure - Nature Communications

The mechanism of currently prescribed antidepressants is incompletely understood. Here, the study identifies associations between antidepressant use and DNA methylation, highlighting shared signals ac...

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Mark James Adams @markjamesadams.bsky.social · Jan 27

You might forget how much you drink… but your body remembers.

Prediction of alcohol consumption using blood-based DNA methylation (correlates better with brain health self report!)

clinicalepigeneticsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Blood-based epigenome-wide association study and prediction of alcohol consumption - Clinical Epigenetics

Alcohol consumption is an important risk factor for multiple diseases. It is typically assessed via self-report, which is open to measurement error through recall bias. Instead, molecular data such as...

clinicalepigeneticsjournal.biomedcentral.com

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Mental Health Platform @mhplatform.bsky.social · Feb 18

🌟 ECRs – Funding Alert! 🌟

Our UKRI MHP ECR Fellowship Awards open 1st March 2025!
💡 <£300K, 1–3 years
🤝 Collaborate with MHP Hubs
📚 Access training, resources & PPIE support

📅 Apply by 30th April 2025
🔗 Learn more: https://buff.ly/42Qn3UZ

#MentalHealth #ECR #Fellowship

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Mental Health Platform @mhplatform.bsky.social · Feb 17

🔬 What is Immuno-metabolic Depression?

"Recognizing immune-metabolic mechanisms could be a relevant treatment target for part of the depressed population opens the doors to personalised psychiatry.”

Read more: 🔗 https://buff.ly/3WRwYpK

#MentalHealthResearch #DepressionResearch

Understanding immuno-metabolic depression | Mental health platform

Researchers from ImmunoMIND recently published a review of the research about a form of depression called immuno-metabolic depression.

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Andrew McIntosh @mcintosh2001.bsky.social · Feb 13

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Andrew McIntosh @mcintosh2001.bsky.social · Feb 13

🔊The launch of "Depression Genetics in Africa" in Ethiopia - suported by @wellcometrust.bsky.social

DepGenAfrica is recruiting in Malawi & shortly in Nigeria
Incredibly exciting to be a part of this project

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Mental Health Platform @mhplatform.bsky.social · Feb 5

🧠 Piece of Mind blog: Meet Jodie Gill, research coordinator for the Brain & Genomics Hub!

Learn about her collaborative work with the professional PPIE group, and the future of SMI research.

Read more: 👉👀https://buff.ly/42FRYn2

#mentalhealthresearch

@braingenhub.bsky.social

Meet our Brain and Genomics research co-ordinator | Mental health platform

Jodie Gill is a registered mental health nurse and worked in clinical practice for almost 10 years. She’s now the research co-ordinator for the Brain and Genomics Hub and works in close collaboration…

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Mental Health Platform @mhplatform.bsky.social · Feb 3

📢 Announcing the MHP Industry Alliance 📢

We are seeking leading industry experts from pharma and biotech to turn research findings into real-world positive impacts for people with SMI.

👉Find out more: https://buff.ly/3WG1PW7
⏳ Apply by: 24th March 2025

#Biotech #Pharma

Resources for industry | Mental health platform

We want to work with trusted industry partners to turn research findings into real-world positive impacts for people with SMI.

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Jehannine (J9) Austin @j9austin.bsky.social · Jan 24

Please welcome the International Society for Psychiatric Genetics to Bluesky! Please follow them!

AND if you are a member, join us next week for this community discussion about the happenings at NIH..
@mcintosh2001.bsky.social @jettyraventos.bsky.social @jorsmo.bsky.social @michelnivard.bsky.social

International Society of Psychiatric Genetics @ispg.bsky.social · Jan 24

Unsure how recent changes in U.S. policy regarding the NIH will impact the psychiatric genetics world? You're not alone. Join ISPG for a Member’s Meetup for community discussion and support:

📅 Wednesday, January 29
🕗 3 PM EST
📍 Pre-Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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International Society of Psychiatric Genetics @ispg.bsky.social · Jan 24

Unsure how recent changes in U.S. policy regarding the NIH will impact the psychiatric genetics world? You're not alone. Join ISPG for a Member’s Meetup for community discussion and support:

📅 Wednesday, January 29
🕗 3 PM EST
📍 Pre-Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Mark James Adams @markjamesadams.bsky.social · Jan 14

New study from the @pgcgenetics.bsky.social:

Multi-ancestry GWAS of MDD in over half a million cases and 4 million controls.

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Trans-ancestry genome-wide study of depression identifies 697 associations implicating cell types and pharmacotherapies

Trans-ancestry GWAS of major depression identifies 697 genetic variants and 308 genes, implicating neural and molecular mechanisms and drug repurposing opportunities.

www.cell.com

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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · Jan 12

2/2 I suppose that rigorous rebuttals which demonstrate the flaws in a piece of research are just not considered interesting by @thetimes.com journalists.
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@sameerjauhar.bsky.social @jfhayes.bsky.social @profrobhoward.bsky.social @dranniehickox.bsky.social @carminepariante.bsky.social

A leaky umbrella has little value: evidence clearly indicates the serotonin system is implicated in depression

Molecular Psychiatry - A recent “umbrella” review examined various biomarkers relating to the serotonin system, and concluded there was no consistent evidence implicating serotonin in...

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Tania Gergel @drtgergel.bsky.social · Jan 12

1/2 V. disappointed to see this article making headlines yet again, with no mention of its deep methodological flaws and the vilification of its opponents.

www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...

Do antidepressants work? This British professor says they don’t

Joanna Moncrieff is a professor and NHS psychiatrist who dared to argue that depression is not a physical illness. As a result she has been abused by peers — and championed by Tucker Carlson. Is her t...

www.thetimes.com

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Mental Health Platform @mhplatform.bsky.social · Jan 8

✨ Proud of 2024, excited for 2025! ✨

Last year we:
🚀 Launched MHP
🤝 Met our brilliant Hub leaders & PPIE reps
🌐 Went live with our website

Check out our 2024 Review 👉 https://buff.ly/4gkEh0B

Here’s to an exciting 2025! 💪 #MentalHealthResearch

Reflecting on 2024, Ready for 2025 | Mental health platform

We’re proud of everything the MHP has achieved so far – take a look at some highlights and find out what we’ve got planned for next year...

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