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georgiatomova.bsky.social
Elite level: Add them all up and create the Biological Ageing Lifecourse Determinants (BALD) index
pwgtennant.bsky.social Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 2d
Shall we brainstorm some alternative 'biomarkers' for aging?

How about:

* Proportion of days you wake up with random pain after no injury
* Proportion of times you make an audible sound (either joint clicks, grunts, or sighs) when standing or sitting
* Font size of your phone
ppaxisa.bsky.social Pierre-Paul Axisa @ppaxisa.bsky.social · 2d
I have a proposal: the number of hours it takes to recover from a hangover
November 7, 2026 at 6:28 PM
tenuretracker.bsky.social
University of Glasgow (@glasgow.ac.uk) is hiring:
Research Associate in Work, Health, and Lifecourse Studies

#postdoc #publichealth
November 7, 2026 at 12:03 PM
ardc.edu.au
We're launching the LifeCourse Cohort Explorer in partnership with MCRI! Discover and connect with Australia’s leading cohort studies in one searchable platform.
📅Join the online launch: 3 Dec, 12pm AEDT.
Register: https://ow.ly/plny5103cTL

#ResearchData #HealthResearch #OpenScience
LifeCourse Cohort Explorer Launch | ARDC
Join the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and ARDC for the launch of the new national LifeCourse Cohort Explorer.
ow.ly
November 4, 2026 at 10:15 PM
sociusjournal.bsky.social
Is it time to move?

@jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social & B. Entwisle’s new article in #Socius distinguishes between the impact of #lifecourse #events and #roles on young adults’ migration, emphasizing the #temporality and spatial #embeddedness of events and roles.

Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
November 4, 2026 at 10:19 PM
embl.org
At the heart of the Lifecourse project is a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach, bringing together expertise to tackle complex biological questions.

Meet Mathieu Schulz, discover his role in this exciting new EMBL initiative, and learn what inspires him beyond the lab.
November 2, 2026 at 10:21 AM
tenuretracker.bsky.social
Job ID: 211953
Extract: Research Associate role in work, health, and lifecourse studies at the University of Glasgow. Fixed-term, part-time (28h/week) for up to 10 months. PhD required.
November 7, 2026 at 12:03 PM
equalise.bsky.social
How does childhood disadvantage shape health later in life?

🎥 Watch our recent Equalise seminar with Yiling Guo to find out: youtu.be/IMvH_Ekkak4

#HealthEquity #Lifecourse #HealthInequalities #ResearchImpact #HealthyAgeing #LongitudinalResearch
Life-course socioeconomic position and health in older adulthood: Equalise seminar with Yiling Guo
YouTube video by Equalise: ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity
youtu.be
November 3, 2026 at 1:35 PM
timead.bsky.social
We’re excited to highlight Paola Gilsanz at #AAICAdvancements! Paola is on the Scientific Program Committee and also a moderator for Session 5, “Examining Brain Health Factors and Interventions Across the Lifecourse.” 🧠
October 29, 2026 at 2:19 PM
kconnor.bsky.social
2day we asked women in Djidja 🇧🇯 at what points in one’s lifecourse was good nutrition most important?

They said
“from day one [of life] - children learn in the womb!”
👏🏿👏🏿

Around the 🌍 women know the influence of early developmental windows

We must do all we can to support them & future generations
October 27, 2026 at 9:44 PM
equalise.bsky.social
How can we improve disability representation in datasets while protecting individual privacy?

Find out more in our latest Equalise seminar with speaker Dr Jamie Danemayer: youtu.be/wd-FA8TMOU8

#HealthEquity #DataScience #Disability #HealthInequalities #Inclusion #SyntheticData
Rectifying disability misrepresentation in synthetic data: Equalise seminar with Jamie Danemayer
YouTube video by Equalise: ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity
youtu.be
October 26, 2026 at 1:11 PM
sexworkhistorian.bsky.social
(4/5) "...Sociology of Children and Families; Sociology of Diversity; Sociology of Health Professions; SSSP Agendas for Social Justice; Ageing in a Global Context; Ageing and the Lifecourse; The New Dynamics of Ageing; Rethinking Work, Ageing and Retirement;..."
October 21, 2026 at 6:43 PM
ubcaging.bsky.social
🧠📱 How does social media shape brain health?

Join UBC's Dr. Julie Robillard for our virtual Leong Centres Lifecourse seminar on online health information and ethical research.

📅 Nov 19 | 11 AM PCT

🔗 healthyaging.med.ubc.ca/events/event...
October 16, 2026 at 8:28 PM
sllshome.bsky.social
📢 SLLS Webinar Series 2026 - Register for Session 8!

The Relationship Between Transitions of Unpaid Caregiving and Health Behaviours Across the Lifecourse in the UK
Presenter: Enrico Pfeifer, Research Fellow, UCL

Thursday 26 November 2026
15:00 - 16:00 (UK, GMT)

www.slls.org.uk/events/slls-...
October 6, 2026 at 12:13 PM
dryobbo.bsky.social
It’s almost definitely a highlight of their lives. There’s a long running lifecourse study here following a cohort of people born in the early 70s and it’s a matter of pride that they all stay in and come back for the recall appointments, retention is in the mid 90% range which is unheard of
October 3, 2026 at 7:18 AM
thecenterholds.bsky.social
American evangelical fundamentalist views on the human lifecourse:
1) Embryos are saintly; God's work, and must be cared for.
2) Children are prone to the Devil's work and must be subject to harsh discipline.
3) An adults life is not worth a damn unless they say they accept Jesus.
October 1, 2026 at 5:56 PM
antisanitygirl.bsky.social
Reclaiming transsexual responds to the changing political arrangement of gender and sex and the reversal of gender’s relationship with the patriarchial order. Sex, not gender, is the site upon which the patriarchal order is fortifying itself. Transsexual attacks that retrenchment. from my essay:
is presupposed that, without gender, sex would collapse, for gender realizes and (re)institutes over the lifecourse what medical knowledge-power states at one's earliest moments. Gender is the reiterative performance one assumes to maintain one's sex assignment and to behave in accordance with the societal imaginaries, fantasies, dreams, and wishes implied by that sex. Gender operates, at least normatively, to materialize the patriarchal order's power to determine the identity of the subjects it governs, with the hope also of determining how they exist socially, politically, and economically. However, gender also implies doing gender differently: abolishing gender came to mean, instead, flouting sex/gender's asserted determinism rather than ending it completely as a cultural relation and embodiment. Feminist, queer, and trans politics and cultural life over the last three decades generally followed the premise that not all ways of doing gender reinstate patriarchal power: just as not all ways of doing femininity instate subjugation, not all ways of doing masculinity instate dominance. Challenging the idea that gender or sex is destiny, and instead treating it as the raw material for agency, desire, and self-determination, was a central precept of this rearticulated politics. The power to chart the course of gender became invested with contested meanings, not only as social power but also as the capacity to incite liberation. This capacity emerges through eroticizing gendered and sexual life. From this premise, gender proliferated beyond patriarchy's capacity to regulate and fix it, and, rather than maintaining masculinist authority through prescriptions of conduct, it turned around to become patriarchy's greatest threat through its deployment as a reconstituting technology of the self. While gender became fragile, contested, an open field of meanings, embodiments, and possibilities, forces invested in the patriarchal order retrenched and built their fortifications o…
October 1, 2026 at 6:46 PM
antisanitygirl.bsky.social
reclaiming transsexual responds to the changing political arrangement of gender and sex and the reversal of gender’s relationship with the patriarchial order. sex, not gender, is the site upon which the patriarchal order is fortifying itself. transsexual attacks that retrenchment. from an essay:
It is presupposed that, without gender, sex would collapse, for gender realizes and (re)institutes over the lifecourse what medical knowledge-power states at one's earliest moments. Gender is the reiterative performance one assumes to maintain one's sex assignment and to behave in accordance with the societal imaginaries, fantasies, dreams, and wishes implied by that sex. Gender operates, at least normatively, to materialize the patriarchal order's power to determine the identity of the subjects it governs, with the hope also of determining how they exist socially, politically, and economically. However, gender also implies doing gender differently: abolishing gender came to mean, instead, flouting sex/gender's asserted determinism rather than ending it completely as a cultural relation and embodiment. Feminist, queer, and trans politics and cultural life over the last three decades generally followed the premise that not all ways of doing gender reinstate patriarchal power: just as not all ways of doing femininity instate subjugation, not all ways of doing masculinity instate dominance. Challenging the idea that gender or sex is destiny, and instead treating it as the raw material for agency, desire, and self-determination, was a central precept of this rearticulated politics. The power to chart the course of gender became invested with contested meanings, not only as social power but also as the capacity to incite liberation. This capacity emerges through eroticizing gendered and sexual life. From this premise, gender proliferated beyond patriarchy's capacity to regulate and fix it, and, rather than maintaining masculinist authority through prescriptions of conduct, it turned around to become patriarchy's greatest threat through its deployment as a reconstituting technology of the self. While gender became fragile, contested, an open field of meanings, embodiments, and possibilities, forces invested in the patriarchal order retrenched and built their fortification…
October 1, 2026 at 5:11 AM
anastasiasmihaili.bsky.social
In just under 14 days @ahascience.bsky.social #Hypertension26 starts!

Looking fwd to many 🔥 @CouncilonHTN @KidneyInCVD sessions❣️

One of ++ highlights for me will be Clinical Track Session on:

Early Life Origins & Lifecourse Tracking of #BloodPressure

Congrats @jordybc.bsky.social & team👏
September 24, 2026 at 11:47 AM
deptpopmed.bsky.social
Project Viva is a groundbreaking longitudinal research study of women and children that began in 1999 at @deptpopmed.bsky.social. More than 20 year later, it continues to help researchers better understand the factors that influence health across the lifecourse.
September 24, 2026 at 7:59 PM
bigearthdata.ai
Genome-wide analysis of social behaviour across social domains, reporters and developmental stages: a meta-regression approach
->Nature | More on "Genetic basis of social behavior" at BigEarthData.ai
Genome-wide analysis of social behaviour across social domains, reporters and developmental stages: a meta-regression approach
We conducted a GWA study (GWAS) meta-analysis of social behaviour by integrating 491,246 repeated measures from 73,321 individuals of European ancestry across 25 independent cohorts (effective sample size Neff = 122,239; Fig. 1, Extended Data Table 1, Supplementary Table 1 and Supplementary Note 1), embedded within the Early Genetics and Lifecourse Epidemiology (EAGLE) Consortium23. This effort resulted in 195 sets of GWAS summary statistics, for which we recorded information on social context, including social domains, informant and age (Fig. 1c and Supplementary Table 1). The majority of cohorts consisted of unrelated individuals; for family-based cohorts, relatedness was accounted for in cohort-level GWAS analyses (Methods). Social behaviour was predominantly measured with standardized instruments (Supplementary Table 2), such as the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)4 or the Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL)24. To harmonize measures across instruments, we aligned individual questionnaire items to categories of the World Health Organization (WHO) International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health25 (ICF; Children and Youth version), a biopsychosocial framework and classification system for describing and organizing information on human functioning and disability (Fig. 1b, Extended Data Fig. 1, Supplementary Table 3, Supplementary Note 2 and Methods). To model differences in genetic effects due to variation in social...
www.nature.com
September 21, 2026 at 6:49 PM
antisanitygirl.bsky.social
"The New Politics of Gender: Responding to Judith Butler’s 'Who’s Afraid of Gender?”

start of a new essay!
A revolutionary shift is at work and has, in many ways, already passed. For a generation of feminist thinkers and activists, gender was a social system encoded with patriarchal norms or one that itself materialized the patriarchal order. Thus, an era of queer and feminist political resistance launched the “troubling” of gender. In this new era, at least in what we call the West, women and sexual minorities began to enjoy new freedoms. In 2015, same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide in the US after a decade of mounting public visibility and battles over sexuality. Women, while still not achieving full equity in political representation and economic outcomes, attended college at higher rates than their male counterparts and significantly advanced across a wide range of economic, political, and social domains. We now speak of men being left behind socially and educationally as women become more free agents. Queer people, and even a subset of trans people, are freer to live and breathe and move in society. Notwithstanding recent backsliding, public acceptance of queerness has skyrocketed over the last 20 years, rising from under 30% to a high of 71% in 2023, according to Gallup. More and more people are living openly as queer and trans, tripling from 3.5% in 2012 to 9% of the general population. Among young people, the percentage far exceeds older groups, with nearly a quarter identifying as LGBTQ. Increasingly, women are discarding the need for male recognition, approval, and endorsement in their social, family, sexual, and romantic lives, driving the so-called “male loneliness epidemic.” Before the reactionary intensification over the last few years, gender, through historical movements, became a source of agency and empowerment for women and sexual and gender minorities, a site for possibilities; for them, it increasingly came to mean something positive or an asset. For many cis men, and those invested in the patriarchal order, gender became a liability, a threat… It is presupposed that, without gender, sex would collapse, for gender realizes and (re)institutes over the lifecourse what medical knowledge-power states at one’s earliest moments. Gender is the reiterative performance one assumes to maintain one’s sex assignment and to behave in accordance with the societal imaginaries, fantasies, dreams, and wishes implied by that sex. Gender operates, at least normatively, to materialize the patriarchal order’s power to determine the identity of the subjects it governs, with the hope also of determining how they exist socially, politically, and economically. However, gender also implies doing gender differently: abolishing gender came to mean, instead, flouting sex/gender’s asserted determinism rather than ending it completely as a cultural relation and embodiment. Feminist, queer, and trans politics and cultural life over the last three decades generally followed the premise that not all ways of doing gender reinstate patriarchal power: just as not all ways of doing femininity instate subjugation, not all ways of doing masculinity instate dominance. Challenging the idea that gender or sex is destiny, and instead treating it as the raw material for agency, desire, and self-determination, was a central precept of this rearticulated politics. The power to chart the course of gender became invested with contested meanings, not only as social power but also as the capacity to incite liberation. This capacity emerges through eroticizing gendered and sexual life. From this premise, gender proliferated beyond patriarchy’s capacity to regulate and fix it, and, rather than maintaining masculinist authority through prescriptions of conduct, it turned around to become patriarchy’s greatest threat through its deployment as a reconstituting technology of the self.
September 16, 2026 at 7:54 PM
gerrymccartney1.bsky.social
6/ This creates differential vulnerability and experience over the lifecourse to the social determinants of health (including income, wealth, work, education, housing, physical environment, service access, behaviours and consumption).
September 16, 2026 at 8:55 AM
ises-epi.bsky.social
Dr. Lacey is a Reader in Social and Lifecourse Epidemiology at City St George's, University of London and Deputy Director of the ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity.

Her work explores social drivers of health inequalities in children and young people.
September 8, 2026 at 2:54 AM
ises-epi.bsky.social
Q: Which issue in social epidemiology is currently of particular interest to you?

A: I am particularly interested in how caring responsibilities influence health across the lifecourse but particularly for children and young people.
September 8, 2026 at 2:54 AM
sophiemhistory.bsky.social
(My funder was the Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP, covering around 450 studentships during its lifecourse. Not all of those students have completed yet but its not an insignificant number of new theses)
September 6, 2026 at 11:57 AM