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Jack Andrews
@jackandrews.bsky.social
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Wellcome Trust Fellow | University of Oxford | Social influence, mental health & adolescence
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thementalelf.bsky.social
👋 Good morning everyone, and a very warm Mental Elf welcome to the @resetproject.bsky.social conference in London.

You can follow along all day at
🌟 #ReSETMentalHealth 🌟

We are going to be talking about Relationships, Emotions & Adolescent Wellbeing.

I'm André - hello!

🧵 THREAD
November 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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mhrincubator.bsky.social
Fellowship Application Day 2025 run online by @nihr-rss.bsky.social on 17 Sept - a REALLY important opportunity for anyone wanting to go for an NIHR Doctoral or Postdoctoral Award... and *free!* Not to be missed! 😀

mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/rss-fellowsh...
RSS Fellowship application day 2025! – 17 September – Mental Health Research
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk
July 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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sjblakemore.bsky.social
Deadline for this funded PhD to work with me and @duncanastle.bsky.social is soon! 26 July.

The student must be a woman (because it’s based at Newnham College) and eligible for UK home fees.
campsydept.bsky.social Cambridge Psychology Department @campsydept.bsky.social · Jun 27
🚨 Funded PhD @mrccbu.bsky.social!

Work with top minds — @duncanastle.bsky.social & @sjblakemore.bsky.social on the impact of #developmental differences on #education!🧠📚

A month to apply ⏰
For details see👇
🔗 drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
Newnham-based 👩‍🎓💅
#psychology #cambridge #research
drive.google.com
July 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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lucyfoulkes.bsky.social
My book Coming Of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us is out in paperback now

www.penguin.co.uk/books/451093...
Cover of Coming Of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us by Lucy Foulkes. Out now in paperback
July 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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duncanastle.bsky.social
Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
Funded PhD opportunity.pdf
drive.google.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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emmasoneson.bsky.social
Are adolescents sensitive about sensitive data?

In our new @oxwell.bsky.social publication, we explore students' concerns about taking part in research including sensitive topics such as mental health & maltreatment.

Headlines below, w/ substantial implications for research design & analysis ⬇️
Are Adolescents Sensitive About Sensitive Data? Exploring Student Concerns About Privacy, Confidentiality, and Data Use in Health Research
We quantitively explored adolescents' concerns about privacy, confidentiality, and data use in health research and their potential impact on the accur…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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rebeccalacey.bsky.social
I am hiring for a new researchers on my @nuffieldfoundation.org young carers project.
Closes 4thJune. After someone with strong quant longitudinal skills, passion for communicating research beyond academia & wants to work with people w lived experience/other sectors
jobs.sgul.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at St George's University of London: Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology
The Research Fellow will investigate young carers and health inequalities using advanced longitudinal quantitative methods. Responsibilities include data analysis, literature reviews, publishing findi...
jobs.sgul.ac.uk
May 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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invest-flagship.bsky.social
We’re hiring 1–4 researchers for ERC-funded projects on #bullying, #PeerRelations & #MentalHealth

💡 DWELL, (PI @sarahtmalamut.bsky.social) &
💡 SHADES (PI @tiinaturu.bsky.social )

🗓 Apply by 5 May 4 pm (Finnish time)
🔗 ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi...

#OpenVacancies #AcademicJobs #Psychology
Senior Researcher or Project Researcher (1-4 positions)
The Faculty of Social Sciences, INVEST Flagship Research Centre at the University of Turku invites applications for 1-4 contract-based, fixed term Project researcher or Senior Researcher position from...
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April 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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ladyzoia.bsky.social
The second paper of my PhD is now out in the world! It is a longitudinal study exploring if intolerance of uncertainty predicts generalised anxiety. Thanks to
@profhelendodd.bsky.social, @jmorriss.bsky.social, @hollyrayson.bsky.social for all your support doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2025.103004
Redirecting
doi.org
March 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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dralexlloyd.bsky.social
Join our team at an exciting point for the
@resetproject.bsky.social as we disseminate the findings from our school-based, preventative mental health intervention for adolescents!
resetproject.bsky.social ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · Mar 14
📢 We're hiring! Join our team at UCL as a Research Assistant 🎓
A great opportunity for ECRs to gain experience with adolescent participants in academic settings and contribute to project dissemination.

🔗 Apply now!

📅 Deadline: 28th March
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
March 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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divyangana.bsky.social
🚨 HIRING 🚨 a Postdoctoal Associate in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social. My group's research aims to understand how social and physical environments impact brain and behaviour development.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX655/p...

Accepting applications until the 15th of March!
Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at King's College London
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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lucyfoulkes.bsky.social
Important new evidence published today: large-scale DofE trial (N=12,166) found that two universal MH awareness interventions, in secondary schools, led to an *increase* in emotional symptoms at long term (9-12 month) follow up

tinyurl.com/4ffday8y

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Department for Education. Effectiveness of school mental health awareness interventions Universal approaches in English secondary schools February 2025
February 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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olademk.bsky.social
We talk a lot about why adolescent girls report more low mood and anxiety, and why this might be getting worse.

But what do girls themselves think might explain this? As you might have guessed, we don’t really know.

So, we asked them: doi.org/10.1186/s129...

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Adolescent girls’ explanations of high rates of low mood and anxiety in their population: a co-produced qualitative study - BMC Women's Health
Background From early adolescence, girls face greater risk of experiencing low mood and anxiety relative to boys, with recent evidence that this may be worsening. There is a paucity of mental health r...
doi.org
February 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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louisemewton.bsky.social
First post on Bluesky! Here @rvisontay.bsky.social and I present the case for cancer warning labels on alcoholic drinks in Australia:

theconversation.com/should-austr...
Should Australia mandate cancer warnings for alcoholic drinks?
“Drink responsibly” messages have not stopped risky drinking. Some say we need cancer warnings on wine bottles and beer cans like we do on cigarette packs.
theconversation.com
February 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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bignardi.bsky.social
New paper! Adolescents more susceptible to anti-social influence on an experimental task reported lower compliance with future COVID social distancing rules. Prosociality also predicted future compliance, but less clear associations for other factors. OA Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.he...
January 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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psychmag.bsky.social
How do you change the behaviour of the world?

Psychology found its way into Covid policy in several ways. But did it work? @jackandrews.bsky.social looked at the research…

www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
www.bps.org.uk
January 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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emmasoneson.bsky.social
*Networks of care for the modern adolescent* 🫶🌻

In our new paper, we combine a #network approach + applied research lens to explore where #youngpeople are accessing #mentalhealth support & how helpful they find it.

w/ Simon R White & @minafazeloxford.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
[Figure 2 from the publication]: shows a network diagram of 18 different types of mental health support young people report accessing in the last year, alongside perceived helpfulness.
December 19, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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bignardi.bsky.social
Signed! Could not imagine a better place to do a PhD than the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.
mggaskell.bsky.social Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · Dec 18
MRC Units across the UK have led the scientific world for generations, but are due to be closed with little consultation, for reasons that are largely unknown. Please sign this letter if you would like the MRC to reconsider. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open letter to Sir Patrick Vallance
To sign the letter, please complete the form here: https://forms.gle/eRydV6VpMQVFPtdF7 Please forward a link to this letter to any colleagues who you think may be interested in signing – we would li...
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December 18, 2024 at 12:59 PM
jackandrews.bsky.social
Great to see this paper out led by the brilliant @drjillhalladay.bsky.social (see 🧵 below):

⭐️ Emotional problems predicted later alcohol use more-so than the reverse in adolescence

⭐ Depression-focused measures yielded more consistent associations with alcohol use than anxiety-focused measures
December 18, 2024 at 11:26 AM
jackandrews.bsky.social
Fascinating study showing that people randomised to a self-kindness condition ended up reporting worse m/health. Those tasked with caring for others ended up with better m/h.

'These findings [...] suggest that self-kindness might not be as positive as it feels.'

psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
APA PsycNet
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December 12, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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marialoades.bsky.social
Interested in mental health/young people's mental health? We have got post doc jobs out to advert now! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... - this is part of the NIHR award to Bath, and the post doc opportunities are very exciting. Working potentially across work packages and getting training too!
CH12270 Research Associate - Jobs at Bath
Research Associate
www.bath.ac.uk
December 11, 2024 at 3:03 PM
jackandrews.bsky.social
New paper out now in Proceedings of the Royal Society B:

'A human working memory advantage for social network information'.

w/Karina Grunewald & Susanne Schweizer

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A human working memory advantage for social network information | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
As a social species, humans live in complexly bounded social groups. In order to navigate these networks, humans rely on a set of social–cognitive processes, including social working memory. Here, we ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
December 11, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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emmaefarrell.bsky.social
“universal school-based [mental health] prevention is less effective than targeted approaches, often leads to null or unsustained positive effects, has the potential to elicit negative effects and is not well liked by young people.”

acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Child and Adolescent Mental Health</em> | ACAMH Journal | Wiley Online Library
There is an urgent need to improve mental health outcomes among young people. One approach taken to address this problem has been the design and delivery of universal school-based prevention, based o...
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 10, 2024 at 8:58 AM
jackandrews.bsky.social
Where to next for universal school-based mental health interventions?

In our @acamh.bsky.social
debate piece, @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social and I argue that it's time to move towards more effective alternatives.

acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Child and Adolescent Mental Health</em> | ACAMH Journal | Wiley Online Library
There is an urgent need to improve mental health outcomes among young people. One approach taken to address this problem has been the design and delivery of universal school-based prevention, based o...
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 9, 2024 at 2:14 PM