Dayyanah Sumodhee
dsumodhee.bsky.social
Dayyanah Sumodhee
@dsumodhee.bsky.social
• Health Psychologist
• Senior Research Fellow @UCL
• Associate Fellow @BPSOfficial
• ORCID: 0000-0001-7274-6088
• Tweet in English and French
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What is genetic counselling and how can it help you? Elena Schiff, a genetic counsellor at @moorfields.bsky.social , joins our My Macular and Me webinar tonight at 7pm to explain her role, the different genetic tests available, and what the results might mean. Register now: bit.ly/4kE5qwQ
August 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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It's so easy to add. Simply click "Alt" after you've uploaded your image, write a description and post.
August 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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A new report from the Smallwood Trust, the Women's Budget Group and @ce-lawcentre.bsky.social looks at the structural barriers trapping women in poverty—like unaffordable childcare, harsh welfare rules and insecure employment. (1/2)
July 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Are you an early-career researcher (or someone hoping to help ECRs) working in #openscience or #metascience? The @reproducibilitea.org podcast is looking for guests for our next season of episodes! We'd love to feature ECR voices foremost – the next generation of scientists should be heard the most!
July 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Congrats to this year’s Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement Award winners!

Winner: @dsumodhee.bsky.social
Runner up: @anarod7.bsky.social

The award, recognising excellence in #PPIE was presented by Dr Helen Baker, our BRC PPIE Lead, at the @ucleye.bsky.social Annual Award Lecture.
June 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
New paper out❗
Our commentary paper discusses the activities and lessons learned from the work of a PPIE group with researchers to design a tool to help patients better understand their hospital letters by explaining the medical and complex terms(Explain.Health).

Link to full article rdcu.be/ed7vM
A commentary on ophthalmic patients co-designing a new tool to better understand their hospital letters
rdcu.be
March 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris is hiring two tenured researchers to work on population issues. Positions are permanent, with opportunities for leadership and research training. Apply by January 29. www.ined.fr/en/institute...
January 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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📣 The Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at the Sciences Po, Paris, is hiring an Assistant Professor focussing on digital inequalities (application by 15 March).

Feel free to get in touch if you have questions.

www.sciencespo.fr/osc/en/conte...
January 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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If you're just coming over from X, use:

1. SkyFollowerBridge to find your X follows
2. BlueArk to move your posts over
3. BlueSkyDirectory to find starter packs on topics you like
4. All my starter packs to find more follows
5. The feeds @graocat.bsky.social created for each of my starter packs
December 15, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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Do you know any early career researchers in the UK who have contributed something special to improve research practices?

The call for the 2025 Dorothy Bishop award is open now! Nominations close on 26 January 2025.

www.ukrn.org/2024/12/12/t...
December 13, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Our latest paper "Patient-Reported Experience Measurements From Individuals With Inherited Retinal Disorders Involved in Observational Research" is now published in @tvst

tvst.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
Patient-Reported Experience Measurements From Individuals With Inherited Retinal Disorders Involved in Observational Research | TVST | ARVO Journals
tvst.arvojournals.org
December 9, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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A cool feature of Bluesky is that you can self-verify if you own a website domain!

🔗We have now verified @thepeoplesreview.ie
We are verified on Bluesky - follow us here @thepeoplesreview.ie for updates on #ThePeoplesReview - a systematic review powered by the public!
November 22, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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Academics wanting to 'verify' their Bluesky profile as genuine might give an ORCID identifier in their profile and link back to their Bluesky profile from ORCID.

#AcademicSky
November 21, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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Our recent work with Directors of Public Health shows how important the expertise of local public health was in reaching disadvantaged populations to offer Covid-19 vaccinations.
Strong decentralised public health infastructure is a critical resilliance factor
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 19, 2024 at 7:30 AM
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Here are some great Psychology starter packs on Bluesky.

Developmental
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Neuroscience
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Social
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Diversity
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Personality
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Health
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November 15, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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Starter packs seem to be the new thing here, so I created a Health Psychology Researchers started pack for everyone who would like to connect with fellow academics or learn about our research. #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #digitalhealth
go.bsky.app/9Xfk7Wo
November 10, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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Hi everyone, the NCSCT is ready to go, on Bluesky! X was just too toxic
Please help us build up our following by sharing this!
November 14, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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Thread for those new to BlueSky. First of all, welcome. It feels like a safer space, doesn’t it? But also perhaps a bit disorienting initially? Here’s some tips for getting your bearings.
November 13, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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For all things psychiatry, psychology and mental health. Message below if you’d like to be added to the starter pack! go.bsky.app/C36fgiD
November 8, 2024 at 5:57 AM
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Come and work with us! Postdoc post, 50% teaching, 50% research (autism-related projects). Hybrid - would need to be in Manchester for teaching/meetings.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/Job...
Research and Teaching Associate:Manchester
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
October 25, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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This list is growing fast! If you're interested in #PublicInvolvement #PPI #PPIE #Coproduction & #ParticipatoryResearch in health & care and new to BlueSky - lots of great people to follow on here.
If you'd like to be added, or know people or orgs who you think should be included just let me know
Couldn't find a starter pack for #PublicInvolvement #PPI #Coproduction & participatory health and care research so I started one.
If you're not on this and would like to be and/or have suggestions of others to add let me know.
Or indeed if you know of a starter pack I've missed

go.bsky.app/PWEAnFR
October 22, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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If you want to go into or come out of this qualitative social research/er starter pack, get in touch go.bsky.app/7YAhtdD
September 18, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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UCL have announced targeted funding for a particularly under-represented group. Increasingly we're seeing this targeted intervention.

"Exclusively for BAME applicants, we're offering 7 scholarships to exceptional applicants to pursue MPhil and PhDs at UCL!"
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
Research Excellence Scholarship
UCL’s Research Excellence Scholarship (UCL-RES) is our new prestigious scholarship which aims to attract outstanding scholars to undertake doctoral research at UCL.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 9, 2024 at 8:53 AM
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Our long term public contributor Louise Ting is the brains behind the wildly successful diagram outlining how patient and public involvement can be woven into every stage of the research cycle. In this blog she describes how it's taken on a life of its own.
#PatientInvolvement #PPI
bit.ly/3MBj2KV
My PPI diagram a year on and 51k views later… - ARC West
Louise Ting is a long-term public contributor at ARC West. She’s also the brains behind the wildly successful diagram outlining how patient and public involvement (PPI) can be woven into every stage o...
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September 5, 2024 at 8:27 AM