I wonder if Meta seeks advice from independent (unpaid, non-conflicted) experts on children's brain/mind development and mental health.

Many 13 year olds (and younger) are already using whatsapp. Age limits are currently theoretical and the real problem is lack of regulation

any trainee psychiatrists out there who'd like to come and work in my group for the next 3 years? Exciting job opportunity below!👇

Good summary of the Cass review (published today) of the evidence around gender dysphoria in children and young people and interventions using hormone treatment and puberty suppression👇

Here's the advert for the 3-year clinical fellow post to work on the Wellcome funded LIFE trial on exercise and depression with me, Glyn Lewis Oliver Howes Mark Hamer Emily Hird and our wonderful team. Email me with any qs, PT PhD possible too! jobs.ac.uk/job/DHA174/cli…

💡Negative self-referential processing may play a role in the relationship between puberty, mental health & emotion regulation difficulties in adolescent girls

Read more in our new paper, joint first authored with Saz Ahmed 🤝🫶

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/de…

📣 New paper! 📣

We found that girls in later stages of puberty are more likely to have mental health problems & emotion regulation difficulties, with increased negative self-schemas playing a role in this

Huge thanks to joint first author Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer ⭐️ doi.org/10.1111/desc.1…

Interesting article on loneliness, featuring research by Livia Tomova on how loneliness affects the brain and mind

nature.com/articles/d4158…

'Social media' and 'mental health' and 'teenagers in the US' are not monoliths and it's not helpful to discuss them as if they are. Those who understand this are less likely to contribute to online discourse, because social media affordances discourage nuanced discussion.

Do you know any young people aged 12-16 years who would like to take part in research? We are running a new online study at UCL looking at how young people think and behave, and would like them to take part. 1/2

New PhD studentship in adolescent mental health UCL Psychiatry

Does the mental health inequality between LGBTQ+ and cis/het adolescents vary between schools and, if so, why?

Using four large population-based datasets (epidemiology & statistics), quali & PPI

Apply here 👇

Agree!

Today I took the day off work … so I could get lots of work done. Sound familiar?

We're hiring again! This time we are looking for a Quantitative Sociologist with expertise in longitudinal analysis to help us with our #coastalyouth research in England. Please apply or share with suitable candidates👉. ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Last June was the warmest on record,
last July too,
last August too,
last September too,
last October too,
last November too,
last December too,
last January too,
and last February too.
ourworldindata.org/temperature-an…

Long time, no tweet! I guess I have been in denial that my PhD has come to an end. This is an appreciation post for my wonderful supervisor Jon Roiser 🟣, who I have had the pleasure of working with for over 7 years (😱).

Men’s mental health

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Coming Thursday, we will hear from Prof Iroise Dumontheil about her work on: The development of metacognition during late childhood and adolescence: implications for education.

See you there!

psychologicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/research/hubs/…

RIP, Frans de Waal. His beautiful work taught me about the deep seated sense of fairness in monkeys. Now, whenever the young primates in my family fight over silly things, I am no longer annoyed but filled with wonder.

youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6T…

The The Guardian has published a letter from leading academics in youth public health calling on MPs to act to save young lives. #YoungDriverSafety #ProgressiveLicensing amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.thegua… dr ian greenwood Tim Nutbeam Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore TRL Swansea University

I support this call for the introduction of graduated driving licenses in the UK on the basis of evidence of the risks of newly qualified young drivers and data from other nations suggesting that it would save lives of young people and others on the road

theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…