Epidural in labour can reduce risk of serious complications by 35%, study finds - great new research by colleagues in University of Glasgow and IEU's Deborah Lawlor theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/a…

Join our team at University of Bristol and MRC IEU
using genetic data to explore the causal relationships between eczema/acne and mental health/neurodevelopmental outcomes. Search ACAD107548, closing 10th June.

Debut The Mental Elf blog by the MRC IEU's Nick Donnelly is out now 🎉

Nick discusses the possible causal role of shorter #sleep and later onset of #depression in adulthood. Full blog available here ➡️ nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/…

george davey smith Representing University of Bristol and MRC IEU at BAHNO Head & Neck giving the Blair Hesketh Lecture. Great to see Causal Epidemiology front and centre here at bahno

A warning about the proliferation of bad Mendelian randomziation papers and what authors, reviews and editors should do about it, from 2016 academic.oup.com/ije/article/45… The figure shows the number of MR papers per year; the 2015 annual total of papers is now appearing every week

Impressive pre-print and 🧵 below by Ella Davyson on the DNA methylation signature of antidepressant exposure in UK populations where we contributed validation in Children of the 90s population data as part of the NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) & MRC IEU

Do you want to work with us & research teams worldwide as part of MRC-funded Diverse Epigenetic Epidemiology Partnership (DEEP) study? New role for an enthusiastic postdoctoral researcher with experience in genetic/molecular epidemiology. Apply by 30 May bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/deta…

🥽 #VR could be used as part of eating disorders treatment.
Dr Helen Bould Mari-Rose Kennedy Dr Lisa May Thomas (she/her) Lucy Biddle et al. interviewed people with lived experience + clinicians
Read their new paper published in JMIR XR and Spatial Computing
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Paper tinyurl.com/ms8f86h9

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**Come and work with us on the Diverse Epigenetic Epidemiology Partnership Study!**

We are recruiting a Senior Research Associate post, funded until 2028, to be based in Bristol, UK.

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Adiposity in childhood affects the risk of breast cancer by changing breast tissue composition, study suggests - press release sharing highlights of the latest research by Marina Vabistsevits et al ICEP ieureka.blogs.bris.ac.uk/2024/05/14/adi…

Pleased to share that our paper showing that mammographic breast density mediates the protective effect of early-life body size on breast cancer risk is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s4146… MRC IEU ICEP

Check out my latest #IEUREKA ! blog with MRC IEU on our recent project exploring a novel measure of interleukin 6 activity/bioavailability in depression 🔎

Blog 👉 ieureka.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/05/09/a-n…
Article 👉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Golam Khandaker Chloe Slaney Muzaffer Kaser et al.

New blog post about a novel measure of inflammation in depression, by Éimear M. Foley ieureka.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/05/09/a-n…

Can we use GP records to study insomnia prevalence? Our new paper, out today in BMJ_Open, compared self-reporting of insomnia symptoms in 160,000 UK Biobank participants to their linked GP records.
bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…

Honoured to be giving the Ipsen-Olsen lecture “Triangulation of evidence in aetiological epidemiology: principles, prospects, limitations” named after two great Danish epidemiologists dent.au.dk/en/display/art… on 23rd May at 13.00 (UK time). On-line link aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/66668105414

Two 4 year PhD opportunities MRC IEU with the legendary Tom Gaunt, closing date 20th May
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1/4 Excited to share our latest preprint where we used observational and Mendelian randomization methods to explore the role of metabolites as intermediates between adiposity and endometrial cancer using data from UK Biobank (UK Biobank). medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

📢Paper alert!
Read about ROBINS-E, a new tool for assessing risk of bias in observational studies of exposures. Paper by Prof Julian PT Higgins, Jonathan Sterne + rest of international team published in Environment International
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Paper tinyurl.com/35f5ehcm