Congratulations DATAMIND

Check out the fantastic outputs of 19 funded orgs who were supported to implement the #UKHealthDataResearchAlliance Transparency Standards and improve #TransparentDataAccess through a variety of means, from animations to website updates.

Published in International Journal of Population Data Science.

Take a look! 👇

Including our work on improving transparency in our data access process.

GS is at the Alliance Transparency Showcase today, talking about our new data access program.

We're delighted to launch three new animations to help explain data topics!

Supported by funding from Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and Medical Research Council to implement the #UKHealthDataResearchAlliance Transparency Standards.

Watch the videos now 👇🧵
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The new PGC Consortium Functional Genomics Group has a *new* twitter/X feed here. Please cosider following and liking them x.com/pgc_fg

We are pleased to announce that CLOSER's funding from @UKRI_news Economic and Social Research Council has been extended until September 2028, enabling us to continue increasing the visibility, use, and impact of social and biomedical longitudinal population studies, data, and research. closer.ac.uk/funding-2028

We have a lovely little seed fund thanks to Mental Health at the University of Edinburgh to work alongside young people aged 12-18 to explore how we could grow a #mentalhealth youth forum together to help research. If you’re interested or know young people who might be, feel free to pass on my details ☀️🌱

Made deep in your bone marrow, immune cells are pretty amazing. They move through your body's blood and tissue, patrolling for bacteria, parasites, and viruses. And now...they just might be able to be combined with treatments to combat #Alzheimers . 🧠🔬
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New paper:

Copy-number variants and polygenic risk for intelligence confer risk for autism spectrum disorder irrespective of their effects on cognitive ability Generation Scotland Caroline Hayward Heather Whalley

Read more here: doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.…

My latest PhD Project is now up on medRxiv: medrxiv.org/content/10.110… ! Here, we looked at the association between antidepressant exposure and DNA methylation🧬in 16,536 individuals in Generation Scotland. A 🧵 of our main findings:

What one thing would you change about the health of young people?

Volunteer Tyler shares his thoughts and talks about why he joined Generation Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Help us improve #MentalHealth for both current and future generations: gen.scot 🧑‍🔬

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So proud of all the work Sarah Robertson & co are doing on the Loneliness in the Digital World project 🙌

Check it out if you or someone you know is a young person living in Scotland aged 12-15: gslonelinessteens.com

🔍 It’s #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek . Did you know about the Feelings Monsters? Available in #GlowScot via the Microsoft Reflect tool – these monsters are a way to encourage children and young people to acknowledge and share their feelings. ow.ly/Cl9B50RA8T5 #glowspotlight