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Reihaneh Farzinnia
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PhD researcher at The University of Manchester; exploring adolescent mental health through quantitative methods.
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Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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New report on understanding the drivers of declining youth mental health

To effectively respond to worsening mental health, we need to understand not just what is happening, but *why*

We used an evidence-based approach to unpack common explanations

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youthfuturesfoundation.org/publication/...
Understanding drivers of recent trends in young people’s mental health - Youth Futures Foundation
Research report exploring the reasons for the recent decline in mental health among 14 to 24-year-olds in England
youthfuturesfoundation.org
July 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Closing Rreflection. This June, I chaired #SIPS2025 in Budapest 🇭🇺, celebrating 10y of @improvingpsych.org. It was a vibrant & inspiring meeting. We hosted workshops, hackathons, lightning talks, & unconferences on topics from AI & theory building to radical transparency, detecting data fabrication.
June 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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🚨Israeli Strikes Across Iran Kill at Least 406, Wound 654 — Rights Group

A Washington-based group, Human Rights Activists, says Israeli airstrikes in Iran have killed 406 people and injured 654, based on verified local sources (via AP).
June 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Why is the media coverage of Israel vs Iran so skewed? Why is Israel always presented as the victim, even when it is the aggressor? And what about Israel's actual nukes?

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social breaks down the mainstream media's biased coverage.

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June 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Network theory, is that you?!
March 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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New #beewell open access registered report on the longitudinal links between sleep, physical activity and wellbeing in adolescence: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Longitudinal relationships across sleep, physical activity, and mental wellbeing in early-to-mid-adolescence: a developmental cascades investigation - Quality of Life Research
Purpose Sleep (SL), physical activity (PA), and wellbeing (WB) are three factors linked to positive development in adolescence. Despite theoretical support and some empirical evidence of developmental...
link.springer.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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For anyone working in adolescent mental health: I *really* recommend reading this important paper about the most commonly used questionnaires (inc SDQ)

In short: most of them have poor psychometric properties, so do we even know what they are measuring?

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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December 5, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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What scale development and cognitive interview prep looks like. From a critical reading of Normal People's chapter on responding to a depression measure, to lunch at the best place on campus. @jadedavies.bsky.social @reihaneh-farzinnia.bsky.social
October 11, 2024 at 1:31 PM