George Davey Smith

mendelrandom.bsky.social

25 August 2026 16:11

16/16 Paper here: medrxiv.org/content/10.6... Real team effort from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Standford Uni @uob-ieu.bsky.social @princeton.edu @ukdri.ac.uk and many others I didn't tag. I present the data here: youtube.com/watch?v=qlTnnQ

George Davey Smith

mendelrandom.bsky.social

25 August 2026 16:11

Does the (live) shingles vaccine protect against dementia? Fergus Hamilton and colleagues provide important evidence in a new preprint using hospital data from the whole of England in a regression discontinuity design from which we *don't* show evidence of a meaningful protective effect /cont

Amanda (Mandy) Hughes

ammhughes.bsky.social

24 June 2026 10:19

Our new paper in BMJ Public Health finds being bullied at work predicts long-term weight gain. Adds to evidence that workplace bullying harms health and strengthens the case for regulatory measures to tackle it. With @domignon.bsky.social @uob-ieu.bsky.social bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/2/...

merthyrscience.bsky.social

20 May 2026 16:51

We would like to tell you about another one of our exhibitors. Dr Hannah Jones and her team from the University of Bristol will be there using really fun and interactive activities to help explain mental health, health science & epidemiology. @uob-ieu.bsky.social

George Davey Smith

mendelrandom.bsky.social

19 March 2026 14:23

A comprehensive new tool for exploring how genetic variation influences outcomes, of relevance to everything driven by phenotypes, which encapsulates many domains, from how drugs work to how natural selection works ... / cont