"Body Image Scale – Gender Spectrum (BIS-GS) (a horrific tool that asks children to assess how much they hate all their body parts); the ALSPAC Romantic Relations (which in spite of its name asks totally irrelevant and intrusive questions about the sex life of those aged 12-17).
November 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"Body Image Scale – Gender Spectrum (BIS-GS) (a horrific tool that asks children to assess how much they hate all their body parts); the ALSPAC Romantic Relations (which in spite of its name asks totally irrelevant and intrusive questions about the sex life of those aged 12-17).
Fake news fake newsing
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Large study provides scientists with deeper insight into long COVID symptoms
NIH-funded research effort identifies most common symptoms, potential subgroups, and initial symptom-based scoring system – with aim of improving future diagnostics and treatment.
www.nih.gov
August 2, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Linking childhood allostatic load, early adversity and the emergence of mental health symptoms in early adulthood: Analysis of the ALSPAC Longitudinal Birth Cohort www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Linking childhood allostatic load, early adversity and the emergence of mental health symptoms in early adulthood: Analysis of the ALSPAC Longitudinal Birth Cohort
It has been well-established that the allostatic load (AL) index, a cumulative score of multi-system dysregulation in response to chronic stress, is s…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Linking childhood allostatic load, early adversity and the emergence of mental health symptoms in early adulthood: Analysis of the ALSPAC Longitudinal Birth Cohort www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Delighted to share our new paper detailing how to create synthetic data to help promote open-science practices (specifically within longitudinal population-based studies) using #ALSPAC as an example
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February 19, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Delighted to share our new paper detailing how to create synthetic data to help promote open-science practices (specifically within longitudinal population-based studies) using #ALSPAC as an example
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Amazing study. A simple but important question affecting up to 50% of the population yet previously understudied . And an exemplar in the power of multi-modal data linkage. www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/news/...
2025: Periods and GCSE results | Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
August 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Amazing study. A simple but important question affecting up to 50% of the population yet previously understudied . And an exemplar in the power of multi-modal data linkage. www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/news/...
The children in the study are children of the Children of the 90s cohort (aka ALSPAC), making this a unique intergenerational study and eventually leading to a data resource on early childhood development for the research community to benefit from.
April 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM
The children in the study are children of the Children of the 90s cohort (aka ALSPAC), making this a unique intergenerational study and eventually leading to a data resource on early childhood development for the research community to benefit from.
16/1 Wichtige Primärstudien:
• Khandaker et al. (2014), ALSPAC-Kohorte:
Untersuchte Blutserum-Antikörper (anti-VCA IgG) bei 4-jährigen Kindern und verfolgte psychotische Erfahrungen im Alter von 13 Jahren. Kinder mit EBV-Exposition hatten ein signifikant erhöhtes Risiko für
• Khandaker et al. (2014), ALSPAC-Kohorte:
Untersuchte Blutserum-Antikörper (anti-VCA IgG) bei 4-jährigen Kindern und verfolgte psychotische Erfahrungen im Alter von 13 Jahren. Kinder mit EBV-Exposition hatten ein signifikant erhöhtes Risiko für
July 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
16/1 Wichtige Primärstudien:
• Khandaker et al. (2014), ALSPAC-Kohorte:
Untersuchte Blutserum-Antikörper (anti-VCA IgG) bei 4-jährigen Kindern und verfolgte psychotische Erfahrungen im Alter von 13 Jahren. Kinder mit EBV-Exposition hatten ein signifikant erhöhtes Risiko für
• Khandaker et al. (2014), ALSPAC-Kohorte:
Untersuchte Blutserum-Antikörper (anti-VCA IgG) bei 4-jährigen Kindern und verfolgte psychotische Erfahrungen im Alter von 13 Jahren. Kinder mit EBV-Exposition hatten ein signifikant erhöhtes Risiko für
What the hell is this
![b) Revised Children's Anxiety and Depression
Scale (RCADS)
c) Body Image Scale - Gender Spectrum (BIS-GS)
d) Parental Attitudes of Gender Expansiveness
Scale for Youth (PAGES-Y)
e) CoFF questionnaire
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f) Sexual attraction questionnaire
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g) ALSPAC measure
h) Gender identity question
i) Adolescent Primary Care Traumatic Stress
Screen (APCTSS)
j KIDSCREEN-52
k) Height (cm) and weight (kg)
1) Physical health diagnoses](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pipsd3tlfy2fvzrg6rjedqgn/bafkreif25qzwuzgnjeijiifecrmgyciunizfr5tbornniv6olzhldvxlcm)
November 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
What the hell is this
Can religious beliefs shape peoples' attitudes and behaviours regarding climate change?
We explored this using data from a large-scale UK cohort study (ALSPAC)
In short: Perhaps, but it's complicated. Answer depends on generation, religiosity measure and climate question
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We explored this using data from a large-scale UK cohort study (ALSPAC)
In short: Perhaps, but it's complicated. Answer depends on generation, religiosity measure and climate question
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Associations between religiosity and climate change beliefs and behaviours in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)
Individual actions are crucial to mitigating the impact of anthropogenic climate change. Understanding the factors shaping individuals’ climate beliefs and behaviours is therefore essential to help en...
doi.org
April 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Can religious beliefs shape peoples' attitudes and behaviours regarding climate change?
We explored this using data from a large-scale UK cohort study (ALSPAC)
In short: Perhaps, but it's complicated. Answer depends on generation, religiosity measure and climate question
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We explored this using data from a large-scale UK cohort study (ALSPAC)
In short: Perhaps, but it's complicated. Answer depends on generation, religiosity measure and climate question
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Independent contributions to externalizing and internalizing symptoms from common and rare variants shown by @olivia-wootton.bsky.social in MCS and Alspac.
Also always nice to see that the NonCog PGI association is not mediated by cognitive skills 🤞
@essgn.bsky.social
Also always nice to see that the NonCog PGI association is not mediated by cognitive skills 🤞
@essgn.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Independent contributions to externalizing and internalizing symptoms from common and rare variants shown by @olivia-wootton.bsky.social in MCS and Alspac.
Also always nice to see that the NonCog PGI association is not mediated by cognitive skills 🤞
@essgn.bsky.social
Also always nice to see that the NonCog PGI association is not mediated by cognitive skills 🤞
@essgn.bsky.social
Pleased to share our new paper, out open-access in Psychological Medicine. In this work we looked at the relationship between childhood trauma, autism/ autistic traits and depression over a 28 year follow-up in the ALSPAC birth cohort.
Childhood trauma as a mediator between autistic traits and depression: Evidence from the ALSPAC birth cohort | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Childhood trauma as a mediator between autistic traits and depression: Evidence from the ALSPAC birth cohort - Volume 56
www.cambridge.org
June 30, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Pleased to share our new paper, out open-access in Psychological Medicine. In this work we looked at the relationship between childhood trauma, autism/ autistic traits and depression over a 28 year follow-up in the ALSPAC birth cohort.
🍽️ About 1 in 4 children in the ALSPAC cohort experienced food insecurity in early childhood.
Even when it resolved by age 5, elevated risk of binge eating and compensatory behaviours remained in adolescence.
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#FoodInsecurity #EatingDisorders #ChildHealth
Even when it resolved by age 5, elevated risk of binge eating and compensatory behaviours remained in adolescence.
buff.ly/w5N7iZ0
#FoodInsecurity #EatingDisorders #ChildHealth
March 12, 2026 at 7:41 AM
🍽️ About 1 in 4 children in the ALSPAC cohort experienced food insecurity in early childhood.
Even when it resolved by age 5, elevated risk of binge eating and compensatory behaviours remained in adolescence.
buff.ly/w5N7iZ0
#FoodInsecurity #EatingDisorders #ChildHealth
Even when it resolved by age 5, elevated risk of binge eating and compensatory behaviours remained in adolescence.
buff.ly/w5N7iZ0
#FoodInsecurity #EatingDisorders #ChildHealth
Poster Tour 1
💳Laura Fryer (&Huw Day): Visualisation tool for Enhancing Public Engagement Using Loyalty Card Data
📊Neo Poon: Impact of Pain on Workplace Attendance
🌎Romana Burgess: Socioeconomic factors on attitudes and behaviours regarding shopping data donation in ALSPAC
#digitalfootprints25
💳Laura Fryer (&Huw Day): Visualisation tool for Enhancing Public Engagement Using Loyalty Card Data
📊Neo Poon: Impact of Pain on Workplace Attendance
🌎Romana Burgess: Socioeconomic factors on attitudes and behaviours regarding shopping data donation in ALSPAC
#digitalfootprints25
May 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Poster Tour 1
💳Laura Fryer (&Huw Day): Visualisation tool for Enhancing Public Engagement Using Loyalty Card Data
📊Neo Poon: Impact of Pain on Workplace Attendance
🌎Romana Burgess: Socioeconomic factors on attitudes and behaviours regarding shopping data donation in ALSPAC
#digitalfootprints25
💳Laura Fryer (&Huw Day): Visualisation tool for Enhancing Public Engagement Using Loyalty Card Data
📊Neo Poon: Impact of Pain on Workplace Attendance
🌎Romana Burgess: Socioeconomic factors on attitudes and behaviours regarding shopping data donation in ALSPAC
#digitalfootprints25
Malgré toutes les inquiétudes légitimes que l'on peut avoir sur la santé mentale des étudiants, cette nouvelle étude basée sur la cohorte anglaise ALSPAC suggère qu'être étudiant dans l'enseignement supérieur est associé à une incidence de troubles psychologiques 2 à 3 fois moins élevée, et ce 🧵
May 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Malgré toutes les inquiétudes légitimes que l'on peut avoir sur la santé mentale des étudiants, cette nouvelle étude basée sur la cohorte anglaise ALSPAC suggère qu'être étudiant dans l'enseignement supérieur est associé à une incidence de troubles psychologiques 2 à 3 fois moins élevée, et ce 🧵
We have just published our paper on the multi-system impacts of long COVID
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A great team effort.
#ALSPAC #TWINSUK #NIHR #UKRI #LongCovid #UCL
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A great team effort.
#ALSPAC #TWINSUK #NIHR #UKRI #LongCovid #UCL
www.sciencedirect.com
July 23, 2026 at 10:34 AM
We have just published our paper on the multi-system impacts of long COVID
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A great team effort.
#ALSPAC #TWINSUK #NIHR #UKRI #LongCovid #UCL
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A great team effort.
#ALSPAC #TWINSUK #NIHR #UKRI #LongCovid #UCL
Now published in PCJ, 1st article in the new #psychology section: Exploring potential bidirectional causality between psychotic experiences and religiosity in a UK longitudinal cohort study (ALSPAC).https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.654/
Exploring potential bidirectional causality between psychotic experiences and religiosity in a UK longitudinal cohort study (ALSPAC)
Obo, Grace1 ; Golding, Jean1 ; Zammit, Stanley2, 3, 4 ; Jones, Hannah J2, 4 ; Halstead, Isaac1 ; Major-Smith, Daniel1, 5 1 Centre for Academic Child Health, Population Health Sciences, Bristol…
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December 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Now published in PCJ, 1st article in the new #psychology section: Exploring potential bidirectional causality between psychotic experiences and religiosity in a UK longitudinal cohort study (ALSPAC).https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.654/
Academic pressure at 15 was linked to more depressive symptoms and slightly higher odds of self-harm years later, in nearly 5,000 ALSPAC participants.
Observational, so causation is not established.
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#MentalHealth #YoungPeople
Observational, so causation is not established.
📚 buff.ly/HEKdYwB
#MentalHealth #YoungPeople
August 31, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Academic pressure at 15 was linked to more depressive symptoms and slightly higher odds of self-harm years later, in nearly 5,000 ALSPAC participants.
Observational, so causation is not established.
📚 buff.ly/HEKdYwB
#MentalHealth #YoungPeople
Observational, so causation is not established.
📚 buff.ly/HEKdYwB
#MentalHealth #YoungPeople
Looking forward to my trip to Birkbeck today! I'll be presenting our work using ALSPAC data to understand the bigger picture for children with comprehension difficulties 📚🎓🧪➕💼😶
🚀 Join us for this week's School of Psychological Science Seminar with Dr. Emma James!
🗓️ Wednesday, 14th May
🕐 1 PM
📍 Room 612 or on Teams
@birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
🗓️ Wednesday, 14th May
🕐 1 PM
📍 Room 612 or on Teams
@birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Looking forward to my trip to Birkbeck today! I'll be presenting our work using ALSPAC data to understand the bigger picture for children with comprehension difficulties 📚🎓🧪➕💼😶
Pleased to share our new paper in Molecular Psychiatry: "Immunometabolic blood biomarkers of developmental trajectories of depressive symptoms: findings from the ALSPAC birth cohort."
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/5
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/5
Immunometabolic blood biomarkers of developmental trajectories of depressive symptoms: findings from the ALSPAC birth cohort - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Immunometabolic blood biomarkers of developmental trajectories of depressive symptoms: findings from the ALSPAC birth cohort
www.nature.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Pleased to share our new paper in Molecular Psychiatry: "Immunometabolic blood biomarkers of developmental trajectories of depressive symptoms: findings from the ALSPAC birth cohort."
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/5
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/5
Genetic risk interacts with environment to shape risk of dysglycaemia early in life, underlining the importance of targeted early prevention #ALSPAC #T2D #Genetics #Children link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🔓
Nature vs nurture of glucose homeostasis trajectories in children from the ALSPAC study - Diabetologia
Aims/hypothesis Dysglycaemia in youth results from complex interactions between genetic and environmental factors, yet their individual and combined contributions remain unclear. We aimed to: (1) eval...
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April 20, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Genetic risk interacts with environment to shape risk of dysglycaemia early in life, underlining the importance of targeted early prevention #ALSPAC #T2D #Genetics #Children link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🔓
See below for an fully funded PhD studentship with Jasmine Hearne & team at MMU to examine the associations between maternal genetic risk for endometriosis on mental health outcomes in mothers with endometriosis and their children. Deadline 14/3/25. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
The health impact of having a parent with endometriosis: A mixed-methods study of the implications for child development and mental health using the ALSPAC cohort dataset at Manchester Metropolitan Un...
PhD Project - The health impact of having a parent with endometriosis: A mixed-methods study of the implications for child development and mental health using the ALSPAC cohort dataset at Manchester M...
www.findaphd.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
See below for an fully funded PhD studentship with Jasmine Hearne & team at MMU to examine the associations between maternal genetic risk for endometriosis on mental health outcomes in mothers with endometriosis and their children. Deadline 14/3/25. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Future partners include: ALSPAC, China Kadoorie, DanRaV, deCODE genetics, Qatar Genome, and Viking Genes. 🇨🇳🇩🇰🇮🇸🇶🇦🏴
August 19, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Future partners include: ALSPAC, China Kadoorie, DanRaV, deCODE genetics, Qatar Genome, and Viking Genes. 🇨🇳🇩🇰🇮🇸🇶🇦🏴
New paper day 🎉 In this secondary data registered report with ALSPAC data, we looked at preschool predictors of comprehension weaknesses at age 9 📚https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.70048
Language and Beyond: A Registered Report Examining Single and Multiple Risk Models of Later Reading Comprehension Weaknesses
Children with poor reading comprehension tend to have oral language weaknesses, suggesting that poor language in the early years is a proximal cause of later reading comprehension difficulties. Yet,...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
New paper day 🎉 In this secondary data registered report with ALSPAC data, we looked at preschool predictors of comprehension weaknesses at age 9 📚https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.70048