Smokers and ex-smokers please help! Bristol University researchers are developing short messages to support smokers who are trying to quit. If you were trying to quit and were really craving a cigarette OR having a bad day, what one message might help you keep going? #stopsmoking

Special Issue Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry #OpenAccess Paper 'Examining the bidirectional association between emotion recognition and social #autistic traits using observational & #genetic analyses' by Zoe Reed et al. #autism #AutismAcceptanceWeek Wiley Psychology bit.ly/3BHkTFT

Academia has a free labour problem... My rambling thoughts for ResearchProfessionalNews researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-vie…

New research opportunity! Please retweet

Very happy to announce the publication of my recent paper "How to estimate heritability: a guide for genetic epidemiologists" in IJE, now available here 🥳doi.org/10.1093/ije/dy…

Find out how seed funding enabled three researchers to develop their projects by including the ideas and experience of patients and the public: bristol.ac.uk/blackwell/news… (contributions from researchers including Amy Campbell Dr Jasmine Khouja Zoe Reed #psychology

** New #phd studentship opportunity ** Exploring the relationship between #alcohol and #selfharm using #epidemiology and #experimental methods - 4 years of funding - Apply by: Fri March 24 - Start: Oct 2023 - Join our team Suicide and Self-Harm Research, Bristol & TARG Bristol bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/news/bristol-b…

Interested in the potential health effects of vaping? Come and do a PhD with us in TARG Bristol and the MRC IEU w Zoe Reed and Dr Jasmine Khouja ! findaphd.com/phds/project/d…

Wanted: Healthcare and education professionals in England & Wales with experience of referring people for autism assessments. We want to know how to better support you! Please complete this survey for the chance to win a £50 gift voucher. tinyurl.com/6rdrfns2

Retweeting to get another push on this - please do share with education and healthcare professionals in England and Wales!

Are genetic variants *really* proxying your exposure in Mendelian randomisation analyses? A cautionary tale by ⁦Zoe Reed⁩ ⁦TARG Bristol⁩ ⁦MRC IEU⁩ medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Do loneliness and social isolation make us ill? There's plenty of correlational evidence to suggest that they do, however, causal evidence is lacking.

Nice write up of our trial of making alcohol-free beer available on draught, feat. TARG Bristol’s Angela Attwood - tl;dr alcoholic beer ⬇️ alcohol-free beer ⬆️ no overall change in takings 👍 news.sky.com/story/alcohol-…

This #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek we caught up with a researcher we supported to find out the latest with their work looking into developing an emotion recognition toolkit for autistic children. See 🧵below 1/8

Does smoking really *cause* us to like cabbage? Or are genetic variants associated with smoking initiation capturing something else? Implications for Mendelian randomisation studies, by Zoe Reed in TARG Bristol and others... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ge…

How do loneliness and social isolation affect health? Nesta, University of Bristol, and Amsterdam UMC have just published our report which contributes to the literature attempting to answer this question. 1/n 🧵

Check out our work conducted with Nesta looking at the impact of loneliness and social isolation on health Marcus Munafò Robyn Wootton @margotvdweijer Hannah Sallis Padraig Dixon Rebecca Richmond MRC IEU TARG Bristol

Opportunity to join our team for a GW4 funded epidemiology PhD project: gw4biomed.ac.uk/using-diverse-… TARG Bristol MRC IEU Marcus Munafò Dr Jasmine Khouja Luciana Torquati

Interested in the application of genetic methods for studying the effects of tobacco use on health? 🧬 Register at the link below to join us on Tuesday 19th for a series of talks which cover current challenges and future directions!