Sharing on behalf of my brilliant partner @MaryFrancesHal1 🤩🏳️‍⚧️ Excited to announce recruitment for a new study on the experiences of PMS symptoms in AMAB trans & gender-diverse individuals on estrogen hormone therapy!

Had the most fascinating day talking to other @4mhealth members and hearing about their research. So interesting to hear about how other disciplines approach researching menstruation and menopause and think about how we can work together.

Stell dir vor du hast z.B. eine Depression, kriegst eine Liste von TherapeutInnen, schreibst E-Mails und das ist alles, was du zurückbekommst:

PLEASE RETWEET. Looking for artists around Bristol to work with us to produce artistic outputs from our research about women's health. All types of artistic styles welcome. Paid opportunity! Message me here for more info. @Siobhan_Dance @DrKateAsh @GW4Alliance

Lots of former ⁦@BristolTARG⁩ PhD students graduating today 🍾

Our new study’s out 🎉 We showed that genetic and environmental factors shared between siblings explained the association of childhood infections with later depression and suicide. It highlights the importance of adjusting for familial confounders!
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Congratulations to @BristolTARG / @mrc_ieu's @LauraSchellhas for passing her PhD viva 🎉 And thanks to her examiners - @BeckyRichmond90 @thaliaeley!

Interested in finding out how mental health is affected by Covid-19 using data (incl PRS and medical records) from the internationally renowned #MoBa study? Come do a PhD with our friendly team at the Norwegian
Institute of Public Health. Please retweet! 945000.webcruiter.no/Main/Recruit/P…

Atlas of genetic effects on DNA methylation out in @NatureGenet representing an enormous international collaborative effort. bristol.ac.uk/news/2021/sept… via @BristolUni

⏰for a🧶 to gather #anxiety #gwas studies to date in one place.. In recent years GWAS have begun to reach adequate sample sizes to drive the discovery of novel genetic variants associated with anxiety and anxiety disorders. (1/9)

Our very own @JennFerrar and @Garethjgriffith have been featured in UoB News today! News story here: bristol.ac.uk/news/2021/june… Associated paper here: jmir.org/2021/6/e26004

Strong words from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (@BPAS1968) on the draft World Health Organisation alcohol action plan that says all women of childbearing age should be prevented from drinking...

1. Really excited to see our Perspective piece out today in Molecular Psychiatry! @hannah_sallis, @HannahJaJo and I discuss the use of Mendelian randomisation for psychiatry: doi.org/10.1038/s41380…

New #OpenAccess paper published using @CO90s data: Maternal and child #geneticliability for #smoking and #CaffeineConsumption and #ChildMentalHealth @LauraSchellhas @Luisa_Zu @capice_project @BristolTARG @MarcusMunafo published in @AddictionJrnl bit.ly/PaperC2510

Interested in the effects of maternal smoking and caffeine consumption on offspring mental health? Then check out our genetic risk score analysis that has now been published🥳 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33891774/ @KayEasey @RobynWootton @hannah_sallis @ammegandchips @Luisa_Zu @MarcusMunafo

This week, we have our annual meeting - virtually of course and spread across 4 days. We had a great session yesterday with @charles_breeze, Sara Sammallahti and Giulietta Monasso, looking forward to today's 3 talks by @SamanthaLWilson, @LauraSchellhas and Jolien Rijlaarsdam!

Ready for a throwback? Some children of the 90s are learning how they’ve made a difference to society 🧒

30 years on from the most groundbreaking scientific study of children’s health, #BBCBreakfast speaks to families involved from the beginning 👨‍👩‍👧

bbc.in/2R89ihx

I’m looking for cohorts with e-cigarette data and genetic data (particular youth cohorts of smoking age). Any suggestions?

Last week for #InternationalWomensDay @BristolTARG decided to celebrate women who inspire us to be the best people and scientists we can be. We thought we'd share some of the kind words!