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At yesterday's #UKDSHealth23 conference, Maddi Bunker from The University of Edinburgh shared her work on how to better characterise potential bios and information gaps present in single-reporter data and accommodate divergent perspectives in children’s mental health assessments.

New Paper Alert! #FoodIndustry Docs reveal influence of nutritional reqmt around TVP products: 'Captive school markets, industry self-regulation, & public-private partnerships: Narratives shaping the development of alternative proteins in the US...' doi.org/10.1016/j.food…

Excellent event by the Scottish cluster of the The British Academy Early Career Researcher Network Nice presentations working with Independent Research Organisations and chat about impact. Join the UK wide network here: thebritishacademyecrn.com

There has been too much negative focus and regulation on bazookas, when most harms are associated with a core of irresponsible bazooka users who engage in problem bazookaing. It's about the user, not the product. Failure to appreciate this serves no-one. #CDoH 🧵

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Useful for S5/S6 pupils. CHS Social Subjects THS Social Subjects @stgemodst Miss Mitchell Balwearie Modern Studies MrsJacksonAHS Modern Studies Association (MSA) Leith Modern Studies GHS Modern Studies BHS Modern Studies St Thomas of Aquins Maths st thomas of aquins Broughton High Liberton High School Holy Rood RC HS

I'm yet to see a positive interpretation of 'taking back control' #BrexitBritain theguardian.com/environment/20…

👋Come along next week to hear Zain Kurdi talk about her PhD research on adverse childhood experiences using Millennium Cohort Study data School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh SGSSS

Aquatic exercise for falls prevention anyone?

Excited to share new work published doi.org/10.1108/NFS-11…… on secondary school food policy! Thanks to great team Gurpinder Lalli Professor Greta Defeyter Professor Greta Defeyter Jayne @linguist1980 Valeria Skafida Kelly Morgan Second published paper! 🙌 🎉

Looking for Participants: New Aquatic Exercise Programme for Balance and Strength for Older Adults! Do you sometimes feel unstable/unsteady, or have poor gait or balance? Do you have a history of falling, or are at risk of falling? Then 'AQUA STEPS' may be great for you! 🧵1/3

Re Shamima Begum: 1) Using the concept of 'travelling voluntarily' to deny 'trafficking' ignores what we know about grooming & coercion 2) Decent people should be horrified by a 2-tier legal system whereby British nationals with immigrant parents can have citizenship revoked

New paper out on the #needs of children and young people bereaved by #intimatepartnerhomicide in the #UK and #Ireland with John Devaney and colleagues eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Our epic study is finally out! Low-income families received food ingredients and recipes to prepare healthy meals for a period of 3 months. This resulted in a long-term decrease in children’s body mass index (but no change for parents!). journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.10…

Ten years in the making, but this research paper is finally out!

Goodbye what used to be twitter! You can find me on Valeria Skafida.bsky.social.