'Everyone has had the experience of waking up either physically sick or mentally down, and the idea of getting out of bed seems both impossible and unappealing. Now imagine waking up and thinking that no one in the world cares about our presence in it.' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We met someone special today at #DOA! 🥰

What better way to start the week than learning about the importance of social health?🧑‍🤝‍🧑 For further information, see pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38349646/

Is #loneliness just a 'fault' of individuals? We argue no. Check out our new paper OA in Political Psychology, with the esteemed Manuela Barreto and Pam Qualter, framing loneliness as a social justice issue in need of sociopolitical and structural solutions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

👏This paper, by the authors of our Loneliness Inequalities evidence review, draws on the review to argue that loneliness should be tackled as a social justice issue ⏬

While it is great to see #loneliness continue to garner high-profile coverage, pieces such as this one nature often perpetuate the individualized narrative that my colleagues and I, among others, have critiqued: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…. Let’s think about structural solutions!

If you have not seen Margot’s work already I strongly recommend checking it out. Very proud to have her working in our group as a ‘post’doc (soon officially post).

I am very honored that our project on adverse childhood experiences among trans youth seeking medical care in NL was selected for funding by NWO Funding. Looking forward to working with Annelou de Vries and Skye Stanwich on this along with a researcher to be recruited for the project.

The work of ⁦David Matthew Doyle⁩ making it to ⁦Forbes⁩ in this article by ⁦William Haseltine⁩ 🤩🥳 forbes.com/sites/williamh…

Interested in how trans specific healthcare differs across Europe? You can read more about this in our newly published paper, the results of which have also been summarised in an infographic: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We investigated microaggressions (e.g., using incorrect pronouns) and mental health in trans people with nightly surveys for 10 days. Microaggressions were common, occurring at least once every other day, and increased dysphoria, anxiety, and depression. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

NEW PREPRINT! 🥳 I’m very excited about our new preprint, in which we report on changes in affect variability in transgender people starting gender-affirming hormones: medrxiv.org/content/10.110… A short thread on our study setup and results below 🧵:

Such a cool study 🤩