Calling All Youth Mental Health Colleagues We are reporting live from the AMHDM Showcase in London on 11-12 February. Don’t miss it!!

🌟 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED 🌟
🌳🍄#YouthMentalHealth🍄🌳
📍Showcase Event, 11-12 Feb📍

Celebrating 6 years of the Adolescence, Mental Health & Developing Mind programme.

£35 million invested
33 research projects

One goal: understanding & improving young people's mental health.

👉🏽 #AMHDMshowcase 👈🏽

Join us! 🧵

It’s been a while since I’ve been on BlueSky - here’s another
🚨New Paper🚨

First paper from my post @publichealthscot.bsky.social in collab with @unicef.org and the WHO

We looked at how #COVID-19 has impacted early childhood development.

Read the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A photo of a small male child looking longingly out a window onto an urban setting. Text overlayed reads: Urgent call to tackle child poverty in the UK

We’ve issued a statement with @fphuk.bsky.social, @rsph.bsky.social ‬and Scottish Directors of Public Health, highlighting the urgent need to address child poverty in the UK.

It calls for an ambitious UK-wide strategy with prevention as a key focus 🔽

publichealthscotland.scot/news/2025/ju...

Pleased to share this work I was lucky to contribute to, led by brilliant colleagues @uofgshw.bsky.social

Paper highlights the types of #relationships and #SocialNetworks that foster #MentalHealth discussions in #rural areas

Also discussions around Mental Health #stigma

Read more below 👇🏻

Improving Paternity Leave Provisions Could Boost The Economy By £2.6bn Expanding the statutory level of paternity leave for fathers could deliver £2.6bn of long-term growth to the UK economy, according to new research.

The UK currently has the worst paternity leave offer in Europe.

Our latest modelling showed that increasing statutory paternity leave to six weeks at 90 per cent of pay could boost the UK economy per year by £2.6bn in the near term. 📈

Read more: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

For anyone interested, also some great work on poverty stigma (from lovely colleagues) here: www.mentalhealth.org.uk/our-work/res...

and here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Well this is disturbing, if not expected.

Dangerous and sad move.

elmo says building stuff in front of a fire ALT: elmo says building stuff in front of a fire

Any followers have experience of building evidence toolkits?

Would love to chat or hear top tips if so!

#EvidenceToolkit #PublicHealth #Research #Academia #intervention

Over 80 staff are at risk of redundancy at the MRC / CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

I worked there for 4+ years so know the value of the research being done that will have to stop. I’ve signed the petition. Please share.

speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/stop-the-red...

Several mainstream public health experts are normalizing Trump's dangerous health picks in the media in naive hope that they can limit the damage by finding common ground. This is an example of obeying in advance. Rather than reducing harm, it legitimizes deadly policies and paves the way for worse.

I cried on the first day of nursery and questioned my life choices 😅

Hope it’s a lovely day for her.

Doing a review relating to #COVID and early years.

The amount of pandemic papers published in predatory journals (👀) is wild. Presumably a quick publication turnaround

We really were in a rush to publish a ‘COVID paper’ at the expense of good science weren’t we?*

*We = not us cool scientists

Australian social media ban on under-16s approved by Senate The ban aims to reduce "harms" on children and will take at least a year to implement, the PM says.

Any thoughts from my youth mental health team on Bluesky?

“Australian Senate approves social media ban on under-16s”

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Our child and adolescent mental health starter pack is full!

Click through to find 149 great accounts, plus me.

Want to join? Think I’ve missed someone? Let me know and I’ll get going on a start a second pack!

go.bsky.app/KSGUBYg

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We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:

docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

I’m in a starter pack (with some excellent company)! Ideal for anyone who’s new to Bluesky and interested in child and adolescent #MentalHealth

University of Glasgow professors' square with red and green autumn leaves in October 2024

Hello, Bluesky, from the beautifully autumnal University of Glasgow! Any #TeamUofG on here already? 👋

✋✋ let's come together ✋✋

We want to connect with as many public health and inequalities people and organisations as possible.

Like and repost if that is you, and we will follow back! #PublicHealth #Scotland #Inequalities

I've shared this before on the *other sites* but I realise I haven't shared it here yet!
Do you know any young people aged 12-16 years who would like to take part in research? We are running an online study at UCL looking at how young people think and behave, and would like them to take part. 1/2

It’s a lovely change! Looking forward to seeing some cool research in a friendly network ☺️

Thanks for the welcome Ola! ☺️
Really lovely to see so many youth mental health folks here.
Feels like when Twitter used to be good for sharing research! 😅

Hi Bluesky 👋🏻
I’m a #PublicHealth researcher who’s just made the move from #academia to public sector.
I’ve published on youth public mental health including: #loneliness, mental health literacy & #stigma.
Now working in Early Years and Young People’s #EYYP public health.
Feel free to follow!

Working on social and economic determinants of health in Scotland?

Some excellent resources from
the team at the Scotland Health Inequalities Research Unit - led by Emma Congreve and @profkatsmith.bsky.social

⬇️ ⬇️

scothealthequity.org/resources/