Dylan Kneale
@dylankneale.bsky.social
#UCL #EPPI-Centre researcher
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/33741
Researching evidence informed policy-making; evidence synthesis; social exclusion; public health; social gerontology; LGBTQ health.
Cymro, E17 taffia, Tiger keeper, He/Him
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/33741
Researching evidence informed policy-making; evidence synthesis; social exclusion; public health; social gerontology; LGBTQ health.
Cymro, E17 taffia, Tiger keeper, He/Him
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Blog from me and my wonderful colleague Dr Charis Bridger Staatz!
💥New: “Dancing in the Rain” – How to better recognise the impact of longitudinal studies and research infrastructure
✍️ Charis Bridger Staatz & @evietabor.bsky.social
#ResearchImpact #LongitudinalData #SocialScience @clscohorts.bsky.social
✍️ Charis Bridger Staatz & @evietabor.bsky.social
#ResearchImpact #LongitudinalData #SocialScience @clscohorts.bsky.social
“Dancing in the Rain” – How to better recognise the impact of longitudinal studies and research infrastructure - Impact of Social Sciences
How can the impact of longitudinal datasets that are developed over the course of decades be better recognised?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Blog from me and my wonderful colleague Dr Charis Bridger Staatz!
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This work from my PhD is now out in the world! With @dylankneale.bsky.social and Prof Praveetha Patalay, I looked at asthma disparities in UK LGBTQ+ people
New @ioe.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk research finds that sexual minority adults in the UK are more likely to be diagnosed with asthma than their heterosexual peers, with health disparities between them worsening across life.
Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/466Hopc
Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/466Hopc
LGBTQ+ adults at greater risk of asthma | CLS
Sexual minority women and bisexual adults are at the greatest risk of asthma, with disparities between them and their heterosexual counterparts worsening across life.
bit.ly
September 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This work from my PhD is now out in the world! With @dylankneale.bsky.social and Prof Praveetha Patalay, I looked at asthma disparities in UK LGBTQ+ people
Congratulations Dr Lester - you did a brilliant job - well done on your achievements and lots more to come in the future!
Six years, a pandemic, a baby (who's now four!), a move of country later - here's my actually finished, completed thesis: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10.... Totally overwhelmed thinking about all the people who made this seemingly insurmountable endeavour possible!
Becoming research-active in the social determinants of health: a study of intelligent accountability in local government
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UCL Discovery
UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.
discovery.ucl.ac.uk
August 29, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Congratulations Dr Lester - you did a brilliant job - well done on your achievements and lots more to come in the future!
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Congrats to Prof. Anna Gilmore, Dr Rachel Barry & Dr Alice Fabbri for the publication of their new paper in the latest edition of @futurehealthj.bsky.social. This special edition focusses on #commercialdeterminants and #conflictsofinterest in #PublicHealth & Policy.
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.fh...
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July 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Congrats to Prof. Anna Gilmore, Dr Rachel Barry & Dr Alice Fabbri for the publication of their new paper in the latest edition of @futurehealthj.bsky.social. This special edition focusses on #commercialdeterminants and #conflictsofinterest in #PublicHealth & Policy.
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.fh...
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.fh...
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Want to know more about Intervention Component Analysis in #systematicreviews #evidencesynthesis and how it can help us understand how interventions work? New paper by @katysutcliffe.bsky.social and me 🔥hot🔥 off the press today in IJNS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @eppicentre.bsky.social
Identifying critical intervention, contextual and implementation features in systematic reviews: intervention component analysis ten years on
It is now widely recognised that in addition to providing robust evidence about intervention effectiveness, systematic reviews need to provide decisio…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Want to know more about Intervention Component Analysis in #systematicreviews #evidencesynthesis and how it can help us understand how interventions work? New paper by @katysutcliffe.bsky.social and me 🔥hot🔥 off the press today in IJNS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @eppicentre.bsky.social
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FPH welcomes this report on the Minimum Income Guarantee: www.gov.scot/publications...
The report is in line with FPH’s Call to Action for the next Scottish Government, which recommends that all families have at least minimum income sufficient for healthy living: www.fph.org.uk/news/faculty...
The report is in line with FPH’s Call to Action for the next Scottish Government, which recommends that all families have at least minimum income sufficient for healthy living: www.fph.org.uk/news/faculty...
Faculty of Public Health publishes call to action ahead of Scottish Parliament election
The Committee of the Faculty of Public Health in Scotland has published a call to action ahead of the May 2026 Scottish Parliamentary election. This publication calls on all political parties in Scotl...
www.fph.org.uk
June 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
FPH welcomes this report on the Minimum Income Guarantee: www.gov.scot/publications...
The report is in line with FPH’s Call to Action for the next Scottish Government, which recommends that all families have at least minimum income sufficient for healthy living: www.fph.org.uk/news/faculty...
The report is in line with FPH’s Call to Action for the next Scottish Government, which recommends that all families have at least minimum income sufficient for healthy living: www.fph.org.uk/news/faculty...
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📢 Job opportunity! 📢
I am recruiting a 2-year postdoc to join me at @clscohorts.bsky.social to work on a SUPER exciting project on the quantitative study of intersectional inequalities in youth mental health across time and place!
See www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... for more info and how to apply!
I am recruiting a 2-year postdoc to join me at @clscohorts.bsky.social to work on a SUPER exciting project on the quantitative study of intersectional inequalities in youth mental health across time and place!
See www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... for more info and how to apply!
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
June 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
📢 Job opportunity! 📢
I am recruiting a 2-year postdoc to join me at @clscohorts.bsky.social to work on a SUPER exciting project on the quantitative study of intersectional inequalities in youth mental health across time and place!
See www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... for more info and how to apply!
I am recruiting a 2-year postdoc to join me at @clscohorts.bsky.social to work on a SUPER exciting project on the quantitative study of intersectional inequalities in youth mental health across time and place!
See www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... for more info and how to apply!
Want to know more about Intervention Component Analysis in #systematicreviews #evidencesynthesis and how it can help us understand how interventions work? New paper by @katysutcliffe.bsky.social and me 🔥hot🔥 off the press today in IJNS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @eppicentre.bsky.social
Identifying critical intervention, contextual and implementation features in systematic reviews: intervention component analysis ten years on
It is now widely recognised that in addition to providing robust evidence about intervention effectiveness, systematic reviews need to provide decisio…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Want to know more about Intervention Component Analysis in #systematicreviews #evidencesynthesis and how it can help us understand how interventions work? New paper by @katysutcliffe.bsky.social and me 🔥hot🔥 off the press today in IJNS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @eppicentre.bsky.social
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Sigh. LLMs don't lie, because they don't know anything. What all LLMs do, including the latest models, is produce statistically plausible outputs that sometimes resemble the truth and sometimes resemble falsehoods. That's all the tech *can* do www.ft.com/content/2b3c...
‘Godfather’ of AI Yoshua Bengio says latest models lie to users
Turing Award winner warns recent models display dangerous characteristics as he launches LawZero non-profit for safer AI
www.ft.com
June 3, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Sigh. LLMs don't lie, because they don't know anything. What all LLMs do, including the latest models, is produce statistically plausible outputs that sometimes resemble the truth and sometimes resemble falsehoods. That's all the tech *can* do www.ft.com/content/2b3c...
We started a debate! Our paper on measuring the impact of longitudinal studies by Charis Bridger Staatz and @evietabor.bsky.social and me here from @clscohorts.bsky.social and @eppicentre.bsky.social and responses led by @mukdarut.bsky.social, Meredith O'Connor and Raj Patel doi.org/10.1332/1757...
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
We started a debate! Our paper on measuring the impact of longitudinal studies by Charis Bridger Staatz and @evietabor.bsky.social and me here from @clscohorts.bsky.social and @eppicentre.bsky.social and responses led by @mukdarut.bsky.social, Meredith O'Connor and Raj Patel doi.org/10.1332/1757...
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We also had three brilliant responses from colleagues at the @eppicentre.bsky.social, @usociety.bsky.social and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia reflecting on challenges and approaches in their own contexts
June 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
We also had three brilliant responses from colleagues at the @eppicentre.bsky.social, @usociety.bsky.social and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia reflecting on challenges and approaches in their own contexts
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New comment from Dr Charis Bridger Staatz, @dylankneale.bsky.social and me on measuring and evaluating research impact from longitudinal studies in @sllshome.bsky.social journal
doi.org/10.1332/1757...
doi.org/10.1332/1757...
June 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
New comment from Dr Charis Bridger Staatz, @dylankneale.bsky.social and me on measuring and evaluating research impact from longitudinal studies in @sllshome.bsky.social journal
doi.org/10.1332/1757...
doi.org/10.1332/1757...
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This Pride Month, catch up with some of the SRI's latest LGBTQ+ research! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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June 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This Pride Month, catch up with some of the SRI's latest LGBTQ+ research! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds
www.theguardian.com
May 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
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This is so exciting! The German National Library of Medicine @zbmed.bsky.social just had its first open meeting on the plan for an open & independent PubMed safety net. Here's my write-up @plos.org on the meeting & how institutions & others can help absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/g...
#MedLibs
#MedLibs
Germany's Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety Net - Absolutely Maybe
A few months ago, I wrote about reasons to be concerned about the reliability of PubMed under the new regime at the…
absolutelymaybe.plos.org
May 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is so exciting! The German National Library of Medicine @zbmed.bsky.social just had its first open meeting on the plan for an open & independent PubMed safety net. Here's my write-up @plos.org on the meeting & how institutions & others can help absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/g...
#MedLibs
#MedLibs
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New blog post by my colleague @jakeanders.uk describing how the effects of the pandemic are still impacting young people’s lives.
This has serious implications for these young people as they go through life, including via increased risks of mental health challenges.
This has serious implications for these young people as they go through life, including via increased risks of mental health challenges.
May 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
New blog post by my colleague @jakeanders.uk describing how the effects of the pandemic are still impacting young people’s lives.
This has serious implications for these young people as they go through life, including via increased risks of mental health challenges.
This has serious implications for these young people as they go through life, including via increased risks of mental health challenges.
Happy Friday! If you're interested in #embeddedresearcher posts in local government, take a look at our briefings to help commissioning/designing embedded researcher posts: eppi.ioe.ac.uk/CMS/Portals/.... More resources also on the @eppicentre.bsky.social website here: eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default....
What are embedded researchers and what influence do they have in public health settings?
eppi.ioe.ac.uk
May 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Happy Friday! If you're interested in #embeddedresearcher posts in local government, take a look at our briefings to help commissioning/designing embedded researcher posts: eppi.ioe.ac.uk/CMS/Portals/.... More resources also on the @eppicentre.bsky.social website here: eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default....
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🌍 Want to help shape health research?
Join #ThePeoplesReview – a systematic review, powered by the public
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✅Make a difference in health research
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Join #ThePeoplesReview – a systematic review, powered by the public
✅Open to people worldwide
✅Everything takes place online
✅Make a difference in health research
✅Learn about systematic reviews
Join now👉 www.thepeoplesreview.ie/join-now
Join Now | The People's Review
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April 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
🌍 Want to help shape health research?
Join #ThePeoplesReview – a systematic review, powered by the public
✅Open to people worldwide
✅Everything takes place online
✅Make a difference in health research
✅Learn about systematic reviews
Join now👉 www.thepeoplesreview.ie/join-now
Join #ThePeoplesReview – a systematic review, powered by the public
✅Open to people worldwide
✅Everything takes place online
✅Make a difference in health research
✅Learn about systematic reviews
Join now👉 www.thepeoplesreview.ie/join-now
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🔊 New in Social Science & Medicine - 'Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions'
Available here (£0):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Summary 🧵 follows 👇
#BehSci #Nudge
Available here (£0):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Summary 🧵 follows 👇
#BehSci #Nudge
Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions
Changing behaviour across populations is key to improving population health and achieving net zero by 2050, including changing diets. We examine the e…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🔊 New in Social Science & Medicine - 'Do nudges need a regulatory push? Comparing the effectiveness and implementation of exemplar nudge (size-based) and non-nudge (price-based) dietary interventions'
Available here (£0):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Summary 🧵 follows 👇
#BehSci #Nudge
Available here (£0):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Summary 🧵 follows 👇
#BehSci #Nudge
Hmmm. Wonder when the researchregistry.com will be back online... can't see a bluesky account to tag them....
researchregistry.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Hmmm. Wonder when the researchregistry.com will be back online... can't see a bluesky account to tag them....
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
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Recommendations for future research exploring e-cigarette use and later cigarette smoking in young people: Results from a consultation exercise buff.ly/vzelU0v
March 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Recommendations for future research exploring e-cigarette use and later cigarette smoking in young people: Results from a consultation exercise buff.ly/vzelU0v
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Public Involvement in Complex Theorising: A coproduced logic model of the role of context in shaping child health https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.10.25323571v1
March 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Public Involvement in Complex Theorising: A coproduced logic model of the role of context in shaping child health https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.10.25323571v1
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March 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Get a preview of results from Evie Tabor examining inequalities in respiratory health between sexual minority and heterosexual people based on pooling evidence from 5 cohorts - much needed research addressing a gap in the UK evidence base #LGBTQHealth #publichealth @clscohorts.bsky.social
Preprint of one of my PhD papers is out! We looked at asthma and lung function in LGBTQ+ people in the UK #lgbthealth
Sexuality and respiratory outcomes in the UK: disparities, development and mediators in multiple longitudinal studies https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.07.25321888v1
March 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Get a preview of results from Evie Tabor examining inequalities in respiratory health between sexual minority and heterosexual people based on pooling evidence from 5 cohorts - much needed research addressing a gap in the UK evidence base #LGBTQHealth #publichealth @clscohorts.bsky.social