Finally got around to updating my website to highlight my amazing team members, students, and partners: justinyang.me/people/

What do we think? 😊

I don’t know what you mean, Daniel 😇

"We thank the reviewer for their comment. We would like to clarify to the reviewer that this structure is, in fact, the result of artisanal, handcrafted mid-tier writing free from generative AI." (with tongue firmly planted in cheek)

Despite having had an early and healthy start to the day with some exercise, I've reached the early afternoon without having much to show in the way of work. Answering emails, coding, writing -- everything seems to feel like it's going slower and less productively than I'd like. 😔

This is wonderful! Can't wait to hear more about the work you'll be leading.

I'm comforted by knowing that I was considered fundable and, thankfully, I'm already funded for the next few years (so this was a bonus, not a make-or-break). Academia is in a really tough space right now, so I'm keeping perspective on things.

I’m permitting myself a little bit of saltiness over a funding rejection despite scoring in the 8-8.9 range. Looks like I had the misfortune of having one of the marginal applications where the cards didn’t quite fall my way. What can you do? I’ll shelve the idea for now and rework it maybe.

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How words discredit: A taxonomy of stigmatizing language in the electronic health record Language in electronic health records (EHRs) can transmit stigma, discrediting patients in ways that undermine the clinician-patient relationship and …

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I feel very privileged to work with amazing, caring, and clever people to hopefully improve things for people living with serious and long-term needs. Sometimes, the work can feel slow and marginal, but purpose and intention is behind of all my work. I feel enormously thankful and hopeful today.

I am trapped in what can only be described as a Kafkaesque situation in which one organisation refuses to set up a purchase order until they receive an invoice and another refuses to invoice until a purchase order is set up. All this needs to be resolved by the end of the fiscal year or catastrophe.

Deeply humbled at how old I must seem to students whenever I teach (and I only teach postgraduates!). Doomed to age into a living fossil whilst my students remain perpetually young.

A career in research is already especially precarious and this is exacerbated by having uncertainty around work visas, etc. I feel very privileged to be able to move forward with at least one fewer worry on my mind. :)

Received the very happy news today that my application for settlement (indefinite leave to remain) under the long residence pathway was successful. It’s sometimes strange to think I have lived here now for over 10 years but thankful for the stability to continue in this chapter of my life.

If you missed this seminar, you can:

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📖 read the (brand new!) paper here: doi.org/10.23889/ijp...

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Complex Emotions Hub - Launching The Complex Emotions Hub In late February 2026 we brought together researchers, lived experience partners and collaborators to mark the launch of the Complex Emotions Hub. While much of the work has already been developing be...

Our new blog captures highlights from the launch of the Complex Emotions Hub — from research updates to big conversations about how we understand complex emotions.

A great day of collaboration and ideas.

www.complexemotionshub.co.uk/explore/blog...

Really happy to share that I've been presenting some results and everyone is super supportive and helpful? Like...I'm not solving world hunger or curing cancer, but I'm doing good science and adding to the evidence base. And...that's good enough? I need to sit with this over the weekend.

This is often paired with my keen interest in everyone else’s work but my own 😅

Does anyone else suffer from the “water is wet” problem as a researcher? I try to do rigorous and good research but findings ca sometimes be intuitive or commonsensical such that I dismiss them as “water is wet” findings. Am I too close to the data and analysis? How do I regain perspective?

Though I have become so totally immune to rejection that I could consider it a superpower. Didn’t get funding for which I applied? Manuscript not even considered? Onto my 20th peer referee invitation? Like water off a duck’s back, easy peasy

While I feel pretty darn lucky to get to work with some of the smartest, kindest, most passionate people in my line of work, I am working myself at such an unsustainable pace that I fear I am going to burn out and crash out soon…like one bad email away from disaster. :(

Despite increasing use of observational data in public health, researchers are still hesitant to use strong causal language (for fear of overpromising).

New paper and comment in @bmj.com sets out new guidance on appropriate use/misuse of causal language

www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Research Octopus - Research Professional News Ivory Tower: as everyone’s favourite impact-tracker heads into the sunset, we reveal its many-tentacled successor

Researchfish is dead! Long live..Research Octopus?

Our regular Ivory Tower comedy column reveals the many-tentacled successor to the often unpopular impact-tracking service.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

👏Mega achievements and well done on the deadlift PB! 💪

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Absolutely buzzing with ideas following a very successful @complexemotionshub.bsky.social meeting! Thank you for allowing me to join as a @mhplatform.bsky.social fellow. Really excited to build and support connections across hubs during my fellowship. Hope everyone enjoyed the Chelsea buns! 😊

Good luck!

So, it's happened: I was turned down for a funding scheme for being "highly established" and "too senior." When did I enter the early-mid career researcher liminal zone and how do I get out of here. :(

Peer review right now is bonkers. I’m delighted that the manuscript I’m handling got 2 reviewers out of the 12 invitations I’ve sent (this is an excellent rate of return, I know) and I am flabbergasted to have received 6 invitations to review in the last week. What is going on?

MRC funding update An update on MRC funding during UKRI’s transition, what’s changing, and the next steps for paused opportunities and reopening timelines.

Finally an official update from #MRC regarding grant application funding and severe cuts to funded research in rounds currently under review:
www.ukri.org/blog/mrc-fun...

Not that it gives any reassurance or details beyond a comprehensive list of what is suspended.

#UKsciencefunding