What happens when you put 7 academics in a photobooth 👌

We had a fabulous time hearing about all the amazing MRC-funded projects happening around Youth Mental Health and Loneliness at our check-in meeting today. So many inspiring people sharing top tips + supporting each other 🥰

#MentalHealthAwareness Week2024 #MentalHealthAwareness

In response to Florida's social media ban for young people & Haidt's new book, Margarita Panayiotou and I wrote a blog summarizing the scientific evidence of social media bans. We also discuss initiatives that would actually tackle youth mental health issues.

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Participate in research and get vouchers! We are looking for young people 13-17 to take part in our study exploring young people's social media use & wellbeing📲📷 Find out more 📷so-me-study.org/experiencestudy Please RT!

Absolutely loved working with Emma Thornton and Margarita Panayiotou on this paper about bullying issues among young people in our #BeeWell project. It’s open access so fill your boots!

New open access paper using #beewell data Neil Humphrey Margarita Panayiotou - prevalence and inequalities in bullying exposure, and relationships between bullying exposure and mental health are sensitive to how bullying exposure is measured

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I think I'll have a lot to say about this paper nature.com/articles/s4427…
For now, I'll just say, this isn't true. Metascience has convinced me that instrument immortality is one of the biggest challenges we face. Everyone knows examples of outdated/poor measure use (pls share).

In this new blog, I write about:
1. All that's wrong in academia—including bad papers, broken peer-review, the publishing industry, and precarious contracts.
2. How important it is *not* to become a cynic.
3. And my personal antidotes to cynicism creep.

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Kicking off the week with a milestone! Just submitted an exciting application with amazing colleagues. Feeling very lucky to work within a supportive and thriving group and to work closely with Margarita Panayiotou to do things that (hopefully) help us all to do what we do.

BREAKING FROM ATHENS: We have same sex marriage in Greece! 🇬🇷🏳️‍🌈👨‍❤️‍👨👩‍❤️‍👩

A great piece of work by Devi Khanna 🙌

1/4 FRED is online, our free open source software to provide feedback to participants in EMA studies.
We (led by Aljoscha Rimpler) programmed the software to provide feedback at scale to our ~2000 WARN-D participants. Hope it will be useful to researchers & clinicians alike!

Nearly three-quarters of tested psychological scales failed the test of measurement invariance needed for meaningful group comparisons
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This year I embroidered something to represent every single day. I have never kept a journal or diary, and I have been surprised to learn from the process what joy there is to be found in noticing each day, whether that day is wonderful or terrible or mundane 1/

One final work Tweet of 2023. Please enjoy our new open access #beewell paper focusing on protective factors for resilience in adolescence 😎capmh.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Haven't drawn in a long time, but this is an old one I submitted as a journal cover for this paper doi.org/10.1038/s44220…

We are hiring a Research Associate to join our team in developing an instrument to measure emotional well-being over primary-secondary school transitions. 3 year contract. Please RT and share in your networks Margarita Panayiotou दिव्या जिंदल स्नेप Prof Divya Jindal Snape Manchester Institute of Education (MIE) jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

Brief reminder that folks in Leuven have written an open, free handbook on #EcologicalMomentaryAssessment you can download here:

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We submitted our report on landscaping longitudinal datasets worldwide to Wellcome! Thank you to wonderful partners MQ Open Data Institute DATAMIND - HDR UK Hub for Mental Health Research and Centre for GMH, and a fabulous team Bridget Bryan Daniel Yu Malaika O Elena Triantafillopoulou @Alice_Stephens. Watch this space...

Delighted to attend the SEED PGR Conference PGRConfSEED this week and present an overview of my first year PhD research with Margarita Panayiotou Neil Humphrey and Joao Santos to other SEED colleagues ☺️ Postgraduate Research at SEED The University of Manchester Manchester Institute of Education (MIE)