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Mirela

@iammirela.bsky.social
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poverty & health inequalities researcher also: stats, open science, neurodiversity, and access. (cover photo from my home town reads "no more poverty")

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Mirela @iammirela.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
It's that time (once in a blue moon) where I come back on bluesky because (yes, you guessed), we have a new paper out! What do we know about hunger's impacts on young people's mental health? Some insights from our multiverse exploration, out in JCPP: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology. Brief summary follows below. Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth
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Mental Disorders as Homeostatic Property Clusters
This narrative review explores the idea of understanding mental disorders according to homeostatic property clusters rather than through typical classification systems.
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Peter Rodgers @drpeterrodgers.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Feature Article in @elife.bsky.social about four women whose pioneering contributions to science have been largely overlooked. elifesciences.org/articles/110... (1/6)
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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Four women whose pioneering contributions to science have been largely overlooked
Ethel Browne Harvey, Hilde Pröscholdt Mangold, Ida Henrietta Hyde and Marthe Gautier all made important contributions to developmental biology, but their names are largely absent from histories of sci...
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
📢 NEWS: The University of Oxford has received a £1.5 million gift from Bukhman Philanthropies to support research into young people’s mental health. This gift will enable the creation of OxWell School Compass, which builds on the work of @oxwell.bsky.social Student Survey 👇 lnkd.in/eBdwAKMv
An image if Professor Mina Fazel sitting around a table with several pupils at a school.
Text reads: Oxwell School Compass 
Platform to provide schools with personalised strategies and interventions to support students’ mental health

The project will track student responses over time, aiming to build a clearer picture of student wellbeing and needs, generating learning that can benefit the schools taking part, but also the wider education sector in the UK and internationally.
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Brian Christian @brianchristian.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Reward models (RMs) are supposed to represent human values. But RMs are NOT blank slates – they inherit measurable biases from their base models that stubbornly persist through preference training. #ICLR2026 🧵
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Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her) @helenahartmann.com · 03/12/2025
It has been a while since @flavioazevedo.bsky.social asked me to take over the Reversals project at @forrt.bsky.social... It has since evolved beyond my wildest dreams, mostly thanks to @aufdroeseler.bsky.social & @lukaswallrich.bsky.social. We are very proud of the Replication Hub & Database ♥️
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Mirela @iammirela.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Check our preprint out for some specific recommendations and examples on neurodiversity-affirming language for ADHD 🎉 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Kai Ruggeri @ruggeri.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Results from study of mental health in 92 countries (n>53,000): People are not doing well. - U-shape for age is gone: Young adults lowest health, highest illness - Education still matters (a lot) - 45% of older people live alone - Hybrid work > 100% remote or in-person Preprint: osf.io/3jyda_v1
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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
New paper from my group, led by Carolina Guzman Holst This is a secondary analysis of data from the high-quality MYRIAD trial, a universal school-based mindfulness intervention Summary below (🧵) acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Adolescents' trajectories of mental health in the MYRIAD trialAbstract
Background
This study explored adolescent's mental health trajectories over the course of a school-based mindfulness-based intervention trial (MYRIAD). It examined whether intervention condition (mindfulness vs. teaching-as-usual), individual-level and contextual-level factors were associated with different trajectories.

Methods
This pre-registered study used data from 11- to 14-year-olds who participated in the MYRIAD trial. We used growth mixture models to examine distinct trajectories in risk for depression, social-emotional-behavioural functioning, and wellbeing (co-primary outcomes), and anxiety (secondary outcome), across pre-intervention, post-intervention and 12-month follow up (ns = 7198–7727). We then used multinomial and binomial logistic regression models to examine factors associated with individual trajectory membership.Results
Distinct trajectories emerged for each outcome: A five-trajectory model best explained the changes in risk for depression, whilst four-trajectory models best explained changes in social-emotional-behavioural functioning, wellbeing, and anxiety. While 69%–80% of adolescents followed stable low-problem trajectories for each outcome, 11%–23% experienced stable high-problem trajectories, 2%–16% experienced increasing-problem trajectories and 1%–5% experienced decreasing-problem trajectories. Receiving the mindfulness intervention was not associated with any mental health trajectory in models adjusted for confounders. Several individual-level factors, including executive functioning difficulties and risk of mental health problems at baseline, and school-level factors, such as school climate, predicted adolescents' classification into different trajectories, but they did not vary according to intervention group.

Conclusions
Individual differences in mental health trajectories emerged over the course of a 1-year mindfulness-based intervention, with most adolescents experiencing low-stable problem trajectories for each outcome. However, the intervention itself had no impact on individual trajectory membership, mirroring null results found in the main trial. Our findings suggest that universal interventions may not be sensitive enough to address the diverse needs of all students, however, tailoring interventions to address a range of different individual and contextual factors might maximise their impact.
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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
NEW: Mood, "Equalization through Deterioration: The Shrinking Gender Gap in Swedish School Grades" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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Mirela @iammirela.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
My pick!
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 01/10/2025
A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸 How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data. www.science.org/content/arti...
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AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings
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Mirela @iammirela.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Come work on a super cool project with a super cool team, led by the fanstastic @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & @drhollybear.bsky.social
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Mirela @iammirela.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
1 in 20 people who discontinue contraception while still needing it – whether for pregnancy prevention or safer sex – do so because they perceive negative impacts on their sex lives. Our new paper is out now at the journal of Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/...
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The Sex Effect: the prevalence of sex life reasons for contraceptive discontinuation. A systematic review and meta-analysis.: Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters: Vol 0, No ja
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AmplifyChange @amplifychange.org · 26/09/2025
AmplifyChange proudly supports orgs improving access to #SRHR incl. #contraception in their communities. Read a new report that shows that #pleasure drives people’s decision-making around contraceptive use: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.108… #WorldContraceptionDay
An illustration of a puzzle with the title 'What's the Missing Piece of Contraception Discontinuation?'
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Mirela @iammirela.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Come to our webinar on the 26th where we'll present results from our latest systematic review on contraceptive discontinuation! W/ colleagues from WHO, Pleasure Project, Young and Alive. events.humanitix.com/sex-satisfac...
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Sex, Satisfaction, and Switching: The Questions Contraceptive Research and Implementation Forgot to Ask
Launching a systematic review by the World Health Organization and The Pleasure Project on contraception use and sexual pleasure.
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Mirela @iammirela.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
a wonderful few days at a writing retreat with @mhrincubator.bsky.social got lots of writing done & met some great colleagues 📝🔬 do check out for future retreat dates and other events mentalhealthresearch.org.uk
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Mirela @iammirela.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
"The character of a growing share of psychological research is determined not by a method-neutral commitment to the best ideas and techniques, but in large part by the capabilities, proclivities and biases of the AI systems driving research activity."
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Mirela @iammirela.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Thrilled our work received a SIPS Commendation Prize 🥳
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Mirela @iammirela.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Reward models steer LLM behavior but we’ve never looked this closely at them. This deep analysis reveals big inconsistencies, surprising biases, and base-model effects. Insightful work. Catch @brianchristian.bsky.social & @tsvetomira.bsky.social at #FACCT2025
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Mental Health Research Incubator @mhrincubator.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Applications for our 2025 Paper Writing Retreat are open! Trying to find the time, space & energy to work on that #mentalhealth and/or #addiction #research paper? Apply for our fully-funded retreat with dedicated writing time, tasty food & the chance to network!👇 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/pwr25/
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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 ⬇️
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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…
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Ben Goodair @bengoodair.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
New paper out today reveals scale of inequalities in social care! 💰 Care homes are better rated with more self-funded residents 👔 But inequalities in care only exist in the for-profit sector 📈 Outsourcing to for-profit sector accelerates inequalities of two-tier care Link: doi.org/10.1093/agei...
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
DON'T MISS: "Moving through the fog: considering #causality in health inequalities research" The next Alan Turing Institute Causal Inference Interest Group seminar with @mkellyirving.bsky.social on 12th May 2025 at 3pm BST! Register at: turing-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #CIIG #EpiSky #CausalSky
Advert for the next causal inference interest group seminar with Michelle Kelly-Irving
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Updating the HDI is a key function of this report, and the picture is sobering: We have yet to recover from pandemic-era setbacks; and inequality is increasing. Development pathways through manufacturing and exports are narrowing, as conflicts and crises abound.
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Journal of Robustness Reports @robustnessreports.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We are live! Introducing the "Journal of Robustness Reports" – a Diamond Open-Access journal dedicated to publishing short reanalyses of empirical findings. Check out our website and blog post about the journal: 🌐 scipost.org/JRobustRep 📄 www.bayesianspectacles.org/introducing-...
[Editorial: Introducing the Journal of Robustness Reports]
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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Daniel Kahneman died by assisted suicide in Switzerland. I think it's really wrong that most liberal countries don't permit this. It's an extremely severe restriction of individual liberty not to allow people to decide over their own death in this way. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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Essay | The Last Decision by the World’s Leading Thinker on Decisions
Shortly before Daniel Kahneman died last March, he emailed friends a message: He was choosing to end his own life in Switzerland. Some are still struggling with his choice.
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Mirela @iammirela.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Really interesting and important work, relevant to all working with questionnaires / survey data.
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Emily Friedel @ejfriedel.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Do you prefer ‘a person with ADHD’ or ‘an ADHDer’? If you have ADHD (and you are 18+ years), we would like to know what you think as part of our research on disability language preferences. To have your say, you can complete a 10 – 15 minute survey deakin.au/4iqPuOi #ADHD #ADHDAwareness
Advertisement for a research opportunity: Language preference in disbaility. Person with ADHD or ADHDer. Do you have ADHD? We are interested in your language preferences! Would you rather be referred to as a person with ADHD or an ADHDer? If you have ADHD and are 18 years or older, you can complete our survey about disability language preferences (it takes about 10 - 15 minutes). Have your say! Scan the code or click this link. This study has received Deakin University ethics approval (reference number 2025/HE000002)
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Mirela @iammirela.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
📖 Excited to share our new article, out now in @elife.bsky.social: elifesciences.org/articles/102... Our annotated readling list on neurodiversity is a result of the collaborative efforts of a fantastic, multidisciplinary & neurodiverse team
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Point of View: An annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversity
A collaboratively developed annotated reading list expands upon core themes in neurodiversity, aiming to enhance understanding and to promote rigorous, destigmatizing, and inclusive practices in resea...
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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.
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Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
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TechTonic Justice @techtonicjustice.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Our Inescapable AI report (www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...) comprehensively explains + quantifies AI use in the lives of the 92 million low-income people in the U.S. Essentially all face AI use in at least one key life aspect: housing, work, schooling, public benefits, or family stability.
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Mirela @iammirela.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
What do we mean when we talk about socioeconomic status (SES)? We (@tsvetomira.bsky.social, @aaronreeves.bsky.social, Lucy Bowes) offer a critical review of the concept of SES + measurement recommendations in our new paper: gpsych.bmj.com/content/37/6... A 🧵 with some highlights...
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Mirela @iammirela.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
do you find moral philosophy dry? do you just hate reading about statistical theory? if that’s the case, do I have a paper for you… 🌞 New work out! "Analytical Decisions Pose Moral Questions" 🌞 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Today is #InternationalDayOfTheGirl Seems like a good time to reshare this piece from Praveetha Patalay and I questioning pervasive disinterest in the gender gap in common mental health difficulties #MentalHealth #PsychSciSky #DevPsychSky #ClinPsychSky doi.org/10.1111/camh...
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<em>Child and Adolescent Mental Health</em> | ACAMH Journal | Wiley Online Library
There is a substantial gender gap in common mental health difficulties such as depression and anxiety, and evidence on drivers of this gap is sparse. Yet, the current tendency in the field is to trea....
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