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Jessica Agnew-Blais

@agnewblais.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology @ Queen Mary University London @QMUL | Psychiatric epidemiologist studying ADHD and mental health across the life course and ADHD in girls and women

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Jessica Agnew-Blais @agnewblais.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Are you a UK-based clinician working w/ women who may present with ADHD symptoms during the menopausal transition? Pls consider taking part in our online focus groups on understanding barriers and facilitators to care. You can register your interest here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/x8Gr6XwxZQ
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Jessica Agnew-Blais @agnewblais.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Please consider participating in our study in hot flushes and sleep! #perimenopause
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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"Given just how little experience we have with this virus, any certainty is hubris. Thankfully, despite the flawed messaging, the system is broadly working...But what happens next depends on how well we communicate what precautions people should be taking." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Close, Prolonged Contact Myth
Knowing how a virus spreads is essential to public health, but people keep getting it wrong.
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UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
📰 The UK's largest ever real-world study into RSV vaccination has confirmed that babies born to vaccinated mothers are up to 85% less likely to end up in hospital with an RSV chest infection. Thanks to all the NHS health professionals who deliver this vital programme 👏
Woman holding a baby close against her shoulder. Text states that the maternal RSV vaccine can reduce baby hospital admissions by up to 85%, based on a large real‑world study in EnglandBaby sleeping on their side next to a soft toy. Text explains this is the largest study of maternal RSV vaccination, covering 90% of births in England between September 2024 and March 2025Adult gently kissing a baby’s cheek in an outdoor setting. Text explains that babies born to mothers vaccinated against RSV during pregnancy were up to 85% less likely to be hospitalised with an RSV chest infection, especially when born at least four weeks after vaccination.Close-up of a baby sleeping in a hospital cot. Text highlights research showing high protection for premature babies when there is at least a two‑week gap between maternal vaccination and birth
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CoDE Lab Science @codelabresearch.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
@marghmalanchini.bsky.social from QMUL discusses the stability and malleability of cognitive test scores in childhood and reviews to what extent scientific evidence supports using a single test taken in primary school to inform fundamental educational decisions. theconversation.com/the-truth-ab...
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The truth about child IQ: research shows it fluctuates and may be an unreliable predictor of future success
Research has shown that children who are emotionally stable, motivated and capable of controlling their impulses do better at school.
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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
International Fellowships 2026
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
Funding status
Open for applications
Career stage
Early-career
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Gemma Sharp @gemmasharp.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I have become mightily interested in the causal effect of “forever chemicals” and plastics on gynecological health. I want to make sure our new menstruation data in ALSPAC and Born in Bradford can be used to research this. Anyone know who’s big in (causal) epidemiology of this sort of exposure?
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Darío Moreno-Agostino @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
📢 Post-doctoral opportunity! 📢 Join me and the fantastic #BridgingDivides team to do research on the causes of the #gender gap in #YouthMentalHealth using existing data from longitudinal population studies! More info and how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Closes on 1 December! 📅
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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).
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Jessie Baldwin @jessiebaldwin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I'm hiring! ✨ Looking for a Research Fellow to study environmental factors that mitigate intergenerational transmission of mental health. 3-year post at UCL @uclbrainscience.bsky.social with great opportunities for training, collaboration & exciting science! 🔗 Apply: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ633/r...
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Research Fellow in Mental Health at UCL
Apply for the Research Fellow in Mental Health role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Centre for Brain and Behaviour, QMUL @queenmarycbb.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!
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Rebecca Long @bexlong.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I'm angry all the time these days, but it's actually unfathomable to me that one person has the power to halt scientific progress, doing *generational* damage. For literally all of our sakes, someone needs to do something. Get this man out of the government.
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
SAVE THE DATE: The 2026 IEA European Congress of Epidemiology and 70th @socsocmed.bsky.social Annual Conference will take place in London, UK on 8th-11th September 2026! #EpiSky #EuroEpi2026
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Jessica Agnew-Blais @agnewblais.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Thank you @drjengunter.bsky.social for highlighting this important topic on your always interesting and very informative Substack!
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Mathew Kiang @mathewkiang.com · 25/06/2025
Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...
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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions
Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...
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Darío Moreno-Agostino @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
📢 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!
ucl.ac.uk
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).
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Greg Veramendi @greg-veramendi.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I am happy to share a 3-year postdoc opening. My fantastic colleagues @kailirimfeld.bsky.social and Dan Anderberg recently won a grant to work on youth mental health at the intersection of psychology, genetics, and education. It is open to economics PhDs, among other fields. #EconSky #econ_ra
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Youth Mental Health at Royal Holloway, University of London
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Youth Mental Health at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Since the 1940s, the engine driving U.S. economic and military competitiveness has been federal support of research universities. Now Trump is sabotaging a research and development pipeline that is the envy of the world.
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Alexander Harris @dralexharris.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
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Opinion | I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.
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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Absolutely no one should die from measles. Not one single solitary person. Why is this even a debate
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Jessica Agnew-Blais @agnewblais.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Interested in a #postdoc in London investigating hormones and women w/ ADHD? @adhdlifecourselab.bsky.social Happy to supervise Marie Curie postdocs ✅ eligibility marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... Open to any nationality (📢 to fellow 🇺🇸 looking abroad but open to all!)
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.
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Rebecca Charlton @goldage.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I'll be guest editor on a special issue in the journal Women's Health on "Understanding reproductive health experiences and transitions for neurodivergent people" Please consider submitting papers about #autism #ADHD other #neurodivergent conditions and #menstruation #menopause etc
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Alexander Harris @dralexharris.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
It’s a real shame that folks with mental illness have to fight not only their symptoms but also concerted efforts to undermine their treatment. 😢 The @nytimes.com mag published a long piece entitled “rethinking adhd”. Here is a 🧵 highlighting its factual & logical errors 1/n
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rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Want to work with us on our cutting edge longitudinal neuroimaging study of adolescent development? Cardiff & the team are a fantastic place to be bsky.app/profile/deek...
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Dr Gavin R. Stewart @gavrobstew.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Attending #INSAR this year? Interested in #AutRes, ageing, midlife and older age? Me and @claireklein.bsky.social are hosting a special interest group on Wednesday 30th April, 2:30-4pm Seattle local time. Do join us! Do email if you can’t attend and want to be included in post-INSAR activities.
A flier, with Gavin and Claire’s pictures. The text reads:

INSAR SPECIAL INTEREST
GROUP 

Collaborative Efforts for
Autism Research in Midlife
and Older Age

Led by Dr. Gavin Stewart
and Claire Klein

Wednesday, April 30
2:30 - 4:00 PM

CONTACT US
gavin.stewart@kcl.ac.uk
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Rebecca Charlton @goldage.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
If you'd like to help us decide priorities for #menopause research then please get in touch. We're interested in hearing from people from lots of different backgrounds including #neurodivergent people
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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Tell Congress to protect crucial medical research funding #saveNIHresearch ucal.us/saveNIHresearch @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Booker: Strom Thurmond’s record always kind of just really irked me. That the longest speech on our great Senate floor was from someone who was trying to stop people like me from being in the Senate. So to surpass that became more important to me.
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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The benefits of higher education don’t redound just to students; they also buoy local economies across America --> The University of Iowa is the number-two employer in Iowa --> In Kentucky, Nebraska, and other states, university health systems are the top employer newrepublic.com/article/1932...
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Trump’s Atrocious War on Higher Ed Demands an Aggressive Response
America’s colleges and universities enrich everyone in ways that aren’t often acknowledged. It’s high time to remind Americans of them.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.
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Jasmin Wertz @jasminwer.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab this autumn, to study how vulnerable young people navigate the transition to adulthood: www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/... Jointly supervised with Skills Development Scotland, so lots of scope to translate findings into impact and policy!
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Vulnerable young people’s experiences during the transition to adulthood: A longitudinal investigation in a Scottish birth cohort. - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science
The transition to adulthood is a significant developmental period, not only for young people and their families, but also for policymaking. This is due to the importance of young people’s post-school ...
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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
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Jessica Agnew-Blais @agnewblais.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
You know why we see measles "hitting very young kids these days"? Because people like rfk jr have made people think they don't need to vaccinate their children. And now these children are dying from completely preventable causes. Absolutely enraging.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Holy cow. This is VERY well done. This is what Team Fight looks like.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 11/03/2025
"If someone legally in the United States can be grabbed from his home for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a drastically different country from the one we inhabited before," writes our columnist Michelle Goldberg.
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Opinion | This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare
Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is a frightening sign of an authoritarian slide.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
August 4, 2024
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ProtectVoting @protectvoting.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Love the sign, hate the reality. Thank you, @mostlymammoths.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social @jpflores.bsky.social @samschuelstein.bsky.social sky.social @leslie-bern.bsky.social @emmalovesscience.bsky.social
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Karla Holmboe @karlaholmboe.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I currently have two fully-funded PhD opportunities in my lab - both providing a chance to work on the incredible LEAF data set that we have been collecting the last couple of years (220 children followed longitudinally from 10-30 months on measures of attention and early EF). Please share!
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Jessica Agnew-Blais @agnewblais.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Proud of my home state
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Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Diane Simeone, who directs UC San Diego’s cancer center, should the pause continue for just a few more weeks, dozens of clinical trials for cancer patients—sometimes “a patient’s best chance for cure, and long-term survival,” she told me—could be at risk of shutting down. This is about ALL OF US
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 22/02/2025
For any women out there who experienced/are experiencing (sending 💜) severe nausea/vomiting in pregnancy pls consider filling in this anonymised survey for a research project led by Dr Melanie Nana. She is the clinical academic making real change re. HG here in the uk forms.gle/u6GNNAhX5WqS...
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Establishing the cost of Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy (NVP) and Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) Survey
Calling all women who are currently suffering with NVP or HG, or who have previously suffered with NVP or HG. We would like to invite you to take part in this survey about your experiences of Nausea...
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Rick Huganir @rhuganir.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is what NIH-funded research leads to. Cures for disease.
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Rebecca Charlton @goldage.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
If you are interested in helping us decide next steps for our menopause research, then please complete the form here lnkd.in/e8Eg58PU or DM me. QR link also below.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 10/02/2025
The hardest part about public health is that when we succeed, there's no crisis, no epidemic. People carry on with daily life, unaware of a near-miss. We may never know how bad it could have been - because our public health workforce is always taking action to avoid, prevent, and control threats.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
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Direct Economic Contributions
NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.
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