Adi Palguna
@adipalguna.bsky.social
Research Officer at Monash University. Championing child and youth mental health.
Views and opinions are mine.
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Adi Palguna
@adipalguna.bsky.social
· Jun 21
Kita Bersama (We Are Together): Reducing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Impact Induced Mental Health Issues in Indonesian Youth
Kita Bersama (We Are Together) is a youth-led and youth-centred project that aims to prevent and reduce the mental health impacts of ACEs of peer and family violence among Indonesian youth.
www.monash.edu
Excited to share that my colleagues and I at Monash University, Indonesia have launched a new youth mental health project! This initiative is the result of a shared commitment to addressing youth mental health issues in Indonesia. Click the link below to learn more about the project.
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How is air pollution in childhood linked to mental ill-health later in life?
We’ve supported recent research suggesting that policies to reduce children’s exposure to air pollution may help reduce depression in early adulthood.
Read the full publication here: mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
We’ve supported recent research suggesting that policies to reduce children’s exposure to air pollution may help reduce depression in early adulthood.
Read the full publication here: mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
Childhood exposure to particulate matter and nitrogen oxides and associations with mental health disorders in early adulthood: testing mediation by cognition in a UK longitudinal cohort study
Background Little is known about the mechanisms underlying associations between air pollution exposure in childhood and mental health disorders in adulthood.Objective To examine the prospective associ...
mentalhealth.bmj.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
How is air pollution in childhood linked to mental ill-health later in life?
We’ve supported recent research suggesting that policies to reduce children’s exposure to air pollution may help reduce depression in early adulthood.
Read the full publication here: mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
We’ve supported recent research suggesting that policies to reduce children’s exposure to air pollution may help reduce depression in early adulthood.
Read the full publication here: mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
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Join the EXPAND research team for a seminar exploring how we can better support ethnic minority young people and their parents to access healthcare support for neurodevelopmental disorders
📅9th December 12:30-13:30
💻Online via Teams
🎟️Free
More info: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/db3571...
📅9th December 12:30-13:30
💻Online via Teams
🎟️Free
More info: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/db3571...
November 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Join the EXPAND research team for a seminar exploring how we can better support ethnic minority young people and their parents to access healthcare support for neurodevelopmental disorders
📅9th December 12:30-13:30
💻Online via Teams
🎟️Free
More info: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/db3571...
📅9th December 12:30-13:30
💻Online via Teams
🎟️Free
More info: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/db3571...
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📢 Research Opportunity!
Are you:
➡️ A parent/carer of a neurodivergent young adult aged 18-25?
➡️ A mental health professional working with neurodivergent young adults?
We’re studying depression in neurodivergent young adults from diverse racial backgrounds.
📩 e.hayashibara@qmul.ac.uk
🔽 More info
Are you:
➡️ A parent/carer of a neurodivergent young adult aged 18-25?
➡️ A mental health professional working with neurodivergent young adults?
We’re studying depression in neurodivergent young adults from diverse racial backgrounds.
📩 e.hayashibara@qmul.ac.uk
🔽 More info
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📢 Research Opportunity!
Are you:
➡️ A parent/carer of a neurodivergent young adult aged 18-25?
➡️ A mental health professional working with neurodivergent young adults?
We’re studying depression in neurodivergent young adults from diverse racial backgrounds.
📩 e.hayashibara@qmul.ac.uk
🔽 More info
Are you:
➡️ A parent/carer of a neurodivergent young adult aged 18-25?
➡️ A mental health professional working with neurodivergent young adults?
We’re studying depression in neurodivergent young adults from diverse racial backgrounds.
📩 e.hayashibara@qmul.ac.uk
🔽 More info
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Co-production – an increasingly common indicator of good and relevantly informed research. However, it should be more than a buzzword thrown around to ensure the right box is ticked🚨✔ – a belief both ReThink and ReSET strongly hold.
Speaking Across Lines: Young People Shaping Mental Health Research
I am a current PhD student at UCL and Research Fellow with the UK Trauma Council. I was previously a Research Assistant working on the Adolescence Mental Health and the Developing Mind (AMHDM)…
eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Co-production – an increasingly common indicator of good and relevantly informed research. However, it should be more than a buzzword thrown around to ensure the right box is ticked🚨✔ – a belief both ReThink and ReSET strongly hold.
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📢 New paper alert
Our new study in JAACAP Open explores how adolescents’ executive function relates to their mental health and wellbeing over time: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
Our new study in JAACAP Open explores how adolescents’ executive function relates to their mental health and wellbeing over time: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
📢 New paper alert
Our new study in JAACAP Open explores how adolescents’ executive function relates to their mental health and wellbeing over time: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
Our new study in JAACAP Open explores how adolescents’ executive function relates to their mental health and wellbeing over time: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
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Don't miss our upcoming webinar on Youth Priorities in Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention Research — exploring key priorities, gaps, and opportunities to shape future youth prevention research.
📅 12 Nov, 20:00 NZDT (UTC+13)
🔗 https://bit.ly/43B9IQ0
📅 12 Nov, 20:00 NZDT (UTC+13)
🔗 https://bit.ly/43B9IQ0
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Don't miss our upcoming webinar on Youth Priorities in Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention Research — exploring key priorities, gaps, and opportunities to shape future youth prevention research.
📅 12 Nov, 20:00 NZDT (UTC+13)
🔗 https://bit.ly/43B9IQ0
📅 12 Nov, 20:00 NZDT (UTC+13)
🔗 https://bit.ly/43B9IQ0
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It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
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> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
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Teen social hierarchies aren’t just playground politics – they can shape mental health and may even be linked to self-harm.
Understanding these networks could help us better support young people.
Read more from Holly Crudgington ⬇️
Understanding these networks could help us better support young people.
Read more from Holly Crudgington ⬇️
How teen friendships may predict self harm
It isn’t just social isolation that’s a risk factor for self harm.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Teen social hierarchies aren’t just playground politics – they can shape mental health and may even be linked to self-harm.
Understanding these networks could help us better support young people.
Read more from Holly Crudgington ⬇️
Understanding these networks could help us better support young people.
Read more from Holly Crudgington ⬇️
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Here’s why people with mental illness die, on average, 11 years earlier than other Australians
theconversation.com/heres-why-pe...
Great work from @justinjchapman.bsky.social with Russell Roberts & Victoria Erskine in @theconversation.com 👏 @griffith.edu.au
theconversation.com/heres-why-pe...
Great work from @justinjchapman.bsky.social with Russell Roberts & Victoria Erskine in @theconversation.com 👏 @griffith.edu.au
Here’s why people with mental illness die, on average, 11 years earlier than other Australians
The life expectancy gap is due largely to preventable health issues, not suicide.
theconversation.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Here’s why people with mental illness die, on average, 11 years earlier than other Australians
theconversation.com/heres-why-pe...
Great work from @justinjchapman.bsky.social with Russell Roberts & Victoria Erskine in @theconversation.com 👏 @griffith.edu.au
theconversation.com/heres-why-pe...
Great work from @justinjchapman.bsky.social with Russell Roberts & Victoria Erskine in @theconversation.com 👏 @griffith.edu.au
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🎻 Do hobbies protect against adolescent substance misuse?
A new study says yes – but are we mistaking correlation for causation?
Before we start fiddling with interventions, let’s look closer…
#YouthMentalHealth #SubstanceMisuse #Arts #Culture #Music #Prevention #Epidemiology
🧵 THREAD
A new study says yes – but are we mistaking correlation for causation?
Before we start fiddling with interventions, let’s look closer…
#YouthMentalHealth #SubstanceMisuse #Arts #Culture #Music #Prevention #Epidemiology
🧵 THREAD
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
🎻 Do hobbies protect against adolescent substance misuse?
A new study says yes – but are we mistaking correlation for causation?
Before we start fiddling with interventions, let’s look closer…
#YouthMentalHealth #SubstanceMisuse #Arts #Culture #Music #Prevention #Epidemiology
🧵 THREAD
A new study says yes – but are we mistaking correlation for causation?
Before we start fiddling with interventions, let’s look closer…
#YouthMentalHealth #SubstanceMisuse #Arts #Culture #Music #Prevention #Epidemiology
🧵 THREAD
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🚨 Calling #statisticians #trialists and those working in #healthdata & #PublicHealth
Join our two-day conference on the latest and most important developments in cluster randomised trials & stepped-wedge designs
🗓️ 18-19 November
📍 Birmingham | Online
Sign up 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Join our two-day conference on the latest and most important developments in cluster randomised trials & stepped-wedge designs
🗓️ 18-19 November
📍 Birmingham | Online
Sign up 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Current developments in cluster randomised trials and stepped-wedge designs
This two-day event will comprise of a series of short presentations on key developments in the methodology of cluster and stepped-wedge randomised trials, as well as examples of applications and
www.lshtm.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
🚨 Calling #statisticians #trialists and those working in #healthdata & #PublicHealth
Join our two-day conference on the latest and most important developments in cluster randomised trials & stepped-wedge designs
🗓️ 18-19 November
📍 Birmingham | Online
Sign up 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Join our two-day conference on the latest and most important developments in cluster randomised trials & stepped-wedge designs
🗓️ 18-19 November
📍 Birmingham | Online
Sign up 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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🌈 Do you know anyone passionate about researching LGBTQ+ suicide, suicide prevention and suicide bereavement, experienced in qualitative methods, and looking for work?
Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Research Fellow (Rain within the Rainbow)
Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Rain Within the Rainbow) working on the Rain Within the Rainbow: Understanding LGBTQ+ suicide and suicide prevention in the UK through the life course project using qual...
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🌈 Do you know anyone passionate about researching LGBTQ+ suicide, suicide prevention and suicide bereavement, experienced in qualitative methods, and looking for work?
Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow!
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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This article made me think. Well penned, Josh.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m a teenager who was lured into the manosphere. Here’s how to reach young men like me | Josh Sargent
Masculinity is almost always presented as toxic on my feed – but we need constructive alternatives to give hope to those who feel lost, says Josh Sargent
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This article made me think. Well penned, Josh.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The life expectancy gap is due largely to preventable health issues, not suicide.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/heres-w...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/heres-w...
November 3, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The life expectancy gap is due largely to preventable health issues, not suicide.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/heres-w...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/heres-w...
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🌱 From pills to people: the rise of social prescribing.
Who’s being referred to walking groups, arts classes and community activities, and who’s missing out?
Two major 2025 studies explore referral trends and inequalities.
🧵 THREAD
#SocialPrescribing #PrimaryCare #HealthInequalities #MentalHealth
Who’s being referred to walking groups, arts classes and community activities, and who’s missing out?
Two major 2025 studies explore referral trends and inequalities.
🧵 THREAD
#SocialPrescribing #PrimaryCare #HealthInequalities #MentalHealth
October 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🌱 From pills to people: the rise of social prescribing.
Who’s being referred to walking groups, arts classes and community activities, and who’s missing out?
Two major 2025 studies explore referral trends and inequalities.
🧵 THREAD
#SocialPrescribing #PrimaryCare #HealthInequalities #MentalHealth
Who’s being referred to walking groups, arts classes and community activities, and who’s missing out?
Two major 2025 studies explore referral trends and inequalities.
🧵 THREAD
#SocialPrescribing #PrimaryCare #HealthInequalities #MentalHealth
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Low participation in medical trials puts millions of young people at risk
Wendy Macdowall tells The Guardian about underrepresented groups in #research & need to understand how experiences of interventions differ
#PublicHealth
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Wendy Macdowall tells The Guardian about underrepresented groups in #research & need to understand how experiences of interventions differ
#PublicHealth
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Low participation in medical trials puts millions of young people at risk
Exclusive: Data shows gen Z could miss out on new treatments because so few sign up for trials and studies in England
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Low participation in medical trials puts millions of young people at risk
Wendy Macdowall tells The Guardian about underrepresented groups in #research & need to understand how experiences of interventions differ
#PublicHealth
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Wendy Macdowall tells The Guardian about underrepresented groups in #research & need to understand how experiences of interventions differ
#PublicHealth
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Do you have a question about genomic testing in mental health?
New open access resource for mental health clinicians, developed by colleagues in UCL Division of Psychiatry @uclbrainscience.bsky.social is now available on NHS England #WorldMentalHealthDay
www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
New open access resource for mental health clinicians, developed by colleagues in UCL Division of Psychiatry @uclbrainscience.bsky.social is now available on NHS England #WorldMentalHealthDay
www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
Do you have a question about genomic testing in mental health?
New open access resource for mental health clinicians, developed by colleagues in UCL Division of Psychiatry, is now available on NHS England.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Do you have a question about genomic testing in mental health?
New open access resource for mental health clinicians, developed by colleagues in UCL Division of Psychiatry @uclbrainscience.bsky.social is now available on NHS England #WorldMentalHealthDay
www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
New open access resource for mental health clinicians, developed by colleagues in UCL Division of Psychiatry @uclbrainscience.bsky.social is now available on NHS England #WorldMentalHealthDay
www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
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Three Research Schools' Online Seminar | What should emotionally safe coproduced research with lived experience researchers on sensitive topics look like?, 22 October 2025, 12 - 1pm: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/events/emoti...
#MentalHealth #Research
@ashmore1973.bsky.social
@georginaspcr.bsky.social
#MentalHealth #Research
@ashmore1973.bsky.social
@georginaspcr.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Three Research Schools' Online Seminar | What should emotionally safe coproduced research with lived experience researchers on sensitive topics look like?, 22 October 2025, 12 - 1pm: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/events/emoti...
#MentalHealth #Research
@ashmore1973.bsky.social
@georginaspcr.bsky.social
#MentalHealth #Research
@ashmore1973.bsky.social
@georginaspcr.bsky.social
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Understand suicidal suffering, identify person specific drivers of distress, sources of support, and co-produce plans for future safety: plans that are age appropriate, culturally appropriate, gender appropriate to reduce the onset or worsening of distress. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org
October 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Understand suicidal suffering, identify person specific drivers of distress, sources of support, and co-produce plans for future safety: plans that are age appropriate, culturally appropriate, gender appropriate to reduce the onset or worsening of distress. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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New preprint from the @resetproject.bsky.social! Here we identify profiles of socio-affective functioning in adolescents at heightened risk for mental health problems 👇
Transdiagnostic Profiles of Socio-Affective Functioning in Adolescents At-Risk of Poor Mental Health: https://osf.io/839nr
October 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
New preprint from the @resetproject.bsky.social! Here we identify profiles of socio-affective functioning in adolescents at heightened risk for mental health problems 👇
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Leading research funder @wellcometrust.bsky.social commissioned CEI, our partners the Global Mental Health Peer Network, Lived Experience & academic experts to investigate how, why & under what conditions lived experience collaborations have impact in mental health research
Read more: bit.ly/42si2Be
Read more: bit.ly/42si2Be
October 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Leading research funder @wellcometrust.bsky.social commissioned CEI, our partners the Global Mental Health Peer Network, Lived Experience & academic experts to investigate how, why & under what conditions lived experience collaborations have impact in mental health research
Read more: bit.ly/42si2Be
Read more: bit.ly/42si2Be
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📢 Join us for a vital webinar on improving childhood admissions to mental health units!
🗓️ 4 Nov 2025 | 🕛 12 - 1pm
Featuring new resources to support young people, families & healthcare professionals.
Full story: tinyurl.com/yv838w92
Register here: tinyurl.com/sddh48n2
🗓️ 4 Nov 2025 | 🕛 12 - 1pm
Featuring new resources to support young people, families & healthcare professionals.
Full story: tinyurl.com/yv838w92
Register here: tinyurl.com/sddh48n2
October 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
📢 Join us for a vital webinar on improving childhood admissions to mental health units!
🗓️ 4 Nov 2025 | 🕛 12 - 1pm
Featuring new resources to support young people, families & healthcare professionals.
Full story: tinyurl.com/yv838w92
Register here: tinyurl.com/sddh48n2
🗓️ 4 Nov 2025 | 🕛 12 - 1pm
Featuring new resources to support young people, families & healthcare professionals.
Full story: tinyurl.com/yv838w92
Register here: tinyurl.com/sddh48n2
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suPAR step forward? 🧠
A new ALSPAC study finds that trauma in late childhood is most strongly linked to chronic inflammation in adulthood—especially elevated suPAR.
Not all childhood trauma has the same biological impact.
🧪 THREAD
#ChildhoodTrauma #Inflammation #suPAR #MentalHealth
A new ALSPAC study finds that trauma in late childhood is most strongly linked to chronic inflammation in adulthood—especially elevated suPAR.
Not all childhood trauma has the same biological impact.
🧪 THREAD
#ChildhoodTrauma #Inflammation #suPAR #MentalHealth
October 9, 2025 at 6:41 AM
suPAR step forward? 🧠
A new ALSPAC study finds that trauma in late childhood is most strongly linked to chronic inflammation in adulthood—especially elevated suPAR.
Not all childhood trauma has the same biological impact.
🧪 THREAD
#ChildhoodTrauma #Inflammation #suPAR #MentalHealth
A new ALSPAC study finds that trauma in late childhood is most strongly linked to chronic inflammation in adulthood—especially elevated suPAR.
Not all childhood trauma has the same biological impact.
🧪 THREAD
#ChildhoodTrauma #Inflammation #suPAR #MentalHealth
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The relationship between UPFs and the environment is miles more complicated than this. UPFs are a hugely diverse category, but this article pretends they are all like M&Ms. What about plant-based meat and dairy alternatives?
The hidden cost of ultra-processed foods on the environment: ‘The whole industry should pay’
Industrially made foods involve several ingredients and processes to put together, making it difficult to examine their true cost
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The relationship between UPFs and the environment is miles more complicated than this. UPFs are a hugely diverse category, but this article pretends they are all like M&Ms. What about plant-based meat and dairy alternatives?