Shuo Zhang
shuo-zhang.bsky.social
Shuo Zhang
@shuo-zhang.bsky.social
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Trainee| Wellcome Trust Doctoral Fellow @KingsIoPPN.bsky.social investigating inequalities @camhsdlab.bsky.social |Nature Matters co-lead at RCPsychGreen| (s/h)
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“Even if significant foreign aid can reach Gaza in the coming months to reverse the tide, scientists say that the long-term health consequences will be felt for decades.”
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Jul 31
Experts say Gaza’s malnutrition crisis has progressed to a newer, deadlier phase, and the World Health Organization believes one in five children in Gaza are acutely malnourished, with the health effects potentially lasting for generations.
The Grave Long-Term Effects of the Gaza Malnutrition Crisis
The WHO believes one in five children in Gaza are acutely malnourished, with the health effects potentially lasting for generations.
www.wired.com
July 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Sharing the hidden work/ woes behind qualitative analysis.

This week I chucked all my theme summaries from a master excel spreadsheet into a word file under structured headings.

I had somehow managed to squirrel away >9500 words!!

-> next stage of synthesis and refinement 💪
July 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Starting the Research Academy with getting to know each other. All fellows are presenting themselves and their research. Very interesting to get insights into their work from all across Europe!

#ESCAP2025
@paul-klauser.bsky.social @andrea-danese.bsky.social @shuo-zhang.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
This diagram is from Gregory Bateson’s 1970 testimony on ´the roots of the ecological crisis.’ 😢
May 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Our paper on the sociodemographic and psychosocial factors of fatigue and chronic fatigue symptoms in South East London is out!

📈 fatigue symptoms are highly prevalent- 23.5 %

🔗 associated with reporting greater impact on function & less social support

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sociodemographic and psychosocial correlates of fatigue and chronic fatigue: A cross-sectional study from a South East London community survey
A better understanding of fatigue and chronic fatigue symptoms in the community may lead to better targeted preventative interventions. This study aim…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Short but insightful overview of the short history of CAMHS

In the 1970s, 1% of children and young people were receiving care in the precursor of CAMHS. It was estimated that between 7-20% may have had a “ definite functionally disabling psychiatric disorder”.

assets.cambridge.org/97819046/711...
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May 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Thanks to the kind man at London Bridge that helped with my 🚲 on the escalator when I was trying to rush for a 🚊 that never arrived.

Should have taken the 🛗!

But nice to know that strangers do help when you make questionable life choices!
May 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This 1950 Winnicott essay on “Some thoughts on the Meaning of the word ‘Democracy’” is an important reminder that we need to nurture the building blocks of society.

“The innate democratic factor in a community derives from the workings of the ordinary good home”

www.docdroid.net/i6OTOGZ/winn...
Winnicott - Some thoughts on the word democracy - written 1950.pdf
Some Thoughts on the Meaning of the Word ‘Democracy’ Written for Human Relations, June. First of all let me say that I realize I am offering comments on a subject that is outside my own speciality. So...
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May 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Dr. Carolina Guzman Holst discusses her most recent paper in this episode of 'Psychology in the Classroom'. She explores the rising #mentalhealth issues among #youngpeople in schools, and the effects of universal interventions like #CBT.

Listen below🎧
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Psychology in the Classroom: First do no harm: Universal Mental Health Interventions in Schools
Summary In this episode is a NIHR Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, discusses her recent paper titled   Where the authors ‘examine three areas: the types of potential harms and advers...
changingstatesofmind.libsyn.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This is such an interesting visual analysis of stark realities of prison over crowding by the Guardian and reminds me of the visual methods used by Forensic Architecture in showing people real and physical impacts of policies/events on individuals and communities.
May 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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The big science story this week was that the shingles vaccine appears to lower dementia risk

But they're not sure why

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I wish that #Psych was more open to publishing findings that are important, even if we don't know the mechanism (yet)

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky
A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature
Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...
www.nature.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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NEW 🧵

The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.

Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
April 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Nature-based solutions harness the power of natural systems to help people and the planet thrive.

They offer cost-effective ways to tackle #ClimateChange, biodiversity loss, and pollution. www.unep.org/unep-and-nat...
April 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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📚😅🎉

Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!

Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.

Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com

#RStats #PyData
April 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It’s always useful to step back sometimes to think about how you think!

I suspect I am also using in other spheres this
“modeling process that can be described as qualitative, constitutive diagnostic modeling. That is augmented by pattern matching and other inferential processes.”
April 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Freiburg, Germany, Central Station Bookshop (right @the center of the shop‘s entryway):
“This is a selection of books which are banned at schools in the US“.
#UniteAgainstBookBans
#FreedomToRead
@ala-pla.bsky.social
@librarypolicy.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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What are data spaces and what do they do? In this article, we will lay out what data spaces are, the function they perform, and how our work at the ODI on data stewardship and governance can contribute to how data spaces might realise their intended potential.
#Data #DataSpaces
What are data spaces and what do they do?
Learn more about data spaces: what they are, what they do and what’s next.
theodi.org
March 31, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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FT is reporting that the Cabinet Office permanent secretary has been asked to come up with options to fix the ONS's number problems

This is what I wrote earlier this month: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/offi...
March 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
It was so incredible to hear this new song live yesterday.

Does anyone know when the album will be out/ the lyrics will be out as an anthology?
BBC Radio 6 Music
6 Music Festival

Now Playing
Kae Tempest
Diagnoses (6 Music Festival 2025)
March 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Many used textiles are sent to the Global South, where poor waste infrastructure leads to pollution and health risks.

The solution? Better policies, responsible reuse & circular fashion to #BeatWastePollution.

#ZeroWasteDay info: www.unep.org/events/un-da...
March 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Proposed cuts to foreign aid could result in millions of HIV deaths and soaring rates of global HIV infections, new modelling study in The Lancet HIV estimates.

Explore the data 👉 tinyurl.com/5hud9dxm #MedSky
March 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Congratulations RCGP and @victoriatb.bsky.social for producing a great resource on greener prescribing www.rcgp.org.uk/getmedia/f50...
@greenerpractice.bsky.social @ukhealthclimate.bsky.social
www.rcgp.org.uk
March 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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People from working class backgrounds are heavily underrepresented in the medical profession.

Hear about the barriers that our alum, Yasmin, faced on her journey to qualifying as a doctor ⬇️
Defying the odds: Yasmin’s journey to becoming a doctor - The Sutton Trust
We spoke to our alum, Yasmin, about her pursuit of a career in medicine.
www.suttontrust.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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🧡 To make our online resources more accessible to everyone, we got a shiny new translation tool on our website! Providing information in 15 languages spoken in Lambeth, including Arabian, Persian, Portuguese, Polish, Somali, Spanish, Yoruba and more...🧡

Check it out! at lambethlarder.org
March 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM