Andrew McIntosh

Are you an ECR in mental health research?
Ready to take the next step in your career?

Join our ECR Workshop
🗓️ 9 Oct 2025 | 📍 Edinburgh | 💷 £25
Hosted by @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social & @datamind.bsky.social in partnership with MHP

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#ECR #MentalHealthResearch #MHPSummit2025

ECR Fellowships Expression of Interest | Mental health platform We invite Expressions of Interest from Early Career Researchers (ECRs) who are considering applying to the next round of UKRI Mental Health Platform ECR funding.

🚨 Final day to submit your EOI tomorrow!

It’s short, it’s key, it’s your start to a £300k Fellowship

👉 bit.ly/expression-i...

Work in Digital Data & AI, Lifestyle & Wellbeing, or Pharma & BioTech?

Join The Alliance: seeking industry partners to transform research into real-world impact for severe mental illness.

Apply here: www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/resources-industry

In partnership with @datamind.bsky.social

📢The MHP Industry Alliance is open for new members from Industry to join.

The next Industry Alliance Forum with @datamind.bsky.social will focus on Digital, Data & AI.

Join the Alliance to stay updated: www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/resources-industry

YouTube video by Mental Elf Funding mental health research collaborations across sectors and communities

Partnerships between researchers, clinicians, patients & local communities are essential for producing research that is useful in the real world.

It’s #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and the theme this year is COMMUNITY.

🧵 THREAD

#MentalHealthResearch #Collaboration

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2aW...

Social Health: third pillar of health | Mental health platform One of our Hub leads, Prof Jennifer Lau, co-authored an article this year describing how social health should be considered alongside physical health and mental health, and how this could help to…

What is social health - and why does it matter?

Our Hub lead Prof. Jennifer Lau co-authored an article on why social health should stand alongside physical & mental health - especially to improve lives for people with severe mental illness.

Read more 👉 rebrand.ly/third-pillar

📣 New Preprint: Protocol for Depression Genetics in Africa (DepGenAfrica), supported by @wellcometrust.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/os...

The Industry Alliance Forum meeting will unite the UKRI Mental Health Platform with key industry partners to shape the future of mental healthcare.

To be invited to this influential event as an industry member, you need to first Join the Alliance:
www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk/resources-in...

One week left for Industry partners to Join the Alliance!

Do you work in:
🟣 Pharma & BioTech
🟣 Digital Health
🟣 Lifestyle & Wellbeing,

And are interested in turning research findings into impact for people with severe mental illness?

Apply now:

Congratulations!

Work led by Ella Davyson as part of her PhD

Insights from a methylome-wide association study of antidepressant exposure - Nature Communications The mechanism of currently prescribed antidepressants is incompletely understood. Here, the study identifies associations between antidepressant use and DNA methylation, highlighting shared signals ac...

Many thanks to all of the collaborators and funders (esp
@wellcometrust.bsky.social & @ukri.org) who made this DNA methylome-wide study of antidepressant exposure possible www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Blood-based epigenome-wide association study and prediction of alcohol consumption - Clinical Epigenetics Alcohol consumption is an important risk factor for multiple diseases. It is typically assessed via self-report, which is open to measurement error through recall bias. Instead, molecular data such as...

You might forget how much you drink… but your body remembers.

Prediction of alcohol consumption using blood-based DNA methylation (correlates better with brain health self report!)

clinicalepigeneticsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

🌟 ECRs – Funding Alert! 🌟

Our UKRI MHP ECR Fellowship Awards open 1st March 2025!
💡 <£300K, 1–3 years
🤝 Collaborate with MHP Hubs
📚 Access training, resources & PPIE support

📅 Apply by 30th April 2025
🔗 Learn more: https://buff.ly/42Qn3UZ

#MentalHealth #ECR #Fellowship

Understanding immuno-metabolic depression | Mental health platform Researchers from ImmunoMIND recently published a review of the research about a form of depression called immuno-metabolic depression.

🔬 What is Immuno-metabolic Depression?

"Recognizing immune-metabolic mechanisms could be a relevant treatment target for part of the depressed population opens the doors to personalised psychiatry.”

Read more: 🔗 https://buff.ly/3WRwYpK

#MentalHealthResearch #DepressionResearch

🔊The launch of "Depression Genetics in Africa" in Ethiopia - suported by @wellcometrust.bsky.social

DepGenAfrica is recruiting in Malawi & shortly in Nigeria
Incredibly exciting to be a part of this project

Meet our Brain and Genomics research co-ordinator | Mental health platform Jodie Gill is a registered mental health nurse and worked in clinical practice for almost 10 years. She’s now the research co-ordinator for the Brain and Genomics Hub and works in close collaboration…

🧠 Piece of Mind blog: Meet Jodie Gill, research coordinator for the Brain & Genomics Hub!

Learn about her collaborative work with the professional PPIE group, and the future of SMI research.

Read more: 👉👀https://buff.ly/42FRYn2

#mentalhealthresearch

@braingenhub.bsky.social

Resources for industry | Mental health platform We want to work with trusted industry partners to turn research findings into real-world positive impacts for people with SMI.

📢 Announcing the MHP Industry Alliance 📢

We are seeking leading industry experts from pharma and biotech to turn research findings into real-world positive impacts for people with SMI.

👉Find out more: https://buff.ly/3WG1PW7
⏳ Apply by: 24th March 2025

#Biotech #Pharma

Please welcome the International Society for Psychiatric Genetics to Bluesky! Please follow them!

AND if you are a member, join us next week for this community discussion about the happenings at NIH..
@mcintosh2001.bsky.social @jettyraventos.bsky.social @jorsmo.bsky.social @michelnivard.bsky.social

Unsure how recent changes in U.S. policy regarding the NIH will impact the psychiatric genetics world? You're not alone. Join ISPG for a Member’s Meetup for community discussion and support:

📅 Wednesday, January 29
🕗 3 PM EST
📍 Pre-Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Trans-ancestry genome-wide study of depression identifies 697 associations implicating cell types and pharmacotherapies Trans-ancestry GWAS of major depression identifies 697 genetic variants and 308 genes, implicating neural and molecular mechanisms and drug repurposing opportunities.

New study from the @pgcgenetics.bsky.social:

Multi-ancestry GWAS of MDD in over half a million cases and 4 million controls.

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

2/2 I suppose that rigorous rebuttals which demonstrate the flaws in a piece of research are just not considered interesting by @thetimes.com journalists.
rdcu.be/d50Xp
@sameerjauhar.bsky.social @jfhayes.bsky.social @profrobhoward.bsky.social @dranniehickox.bsky.social @carminepariante.bsky.social

Do antidepressants work? This British professor says they don’t Joanna Moncrieff is a professor and NHS psychiatrist who dared to argue that depression is not a physical illness. As a result she has been abused by peers — and championed by Tucker Carlson. Is her t...

1/2 V. disappointed to see this article making headlines yet again, with no mention of its deep methodological flaws and the vilification of its opponents.

www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...

Reflecting on 2024, Ready for 2025 | Mental health platform We’re proud of everything the MHP has achieved so far – take a look at some highlights and find out what we’ve got planned for next year...

✨ Proud of 2024, excited for 2025! ✨

Last year we:
🚀 Launched MHP
🤝 Met our brilliant Hub leaders & PPIE reps
🌐 Went live with our website

Check out our 2024 Review 👉 https://buff.ly/4gkEh0B

Here’s to an exciting 2025! 💪 #MentalHealthResearch

Reflecting on 2024, Ready for 2025 | Mental health platform We’re proud of everything the MHP has achieved so far – take a look at some highlights and find out what we’ve got planned for next year...

As 2024 ends, we’re reflecting on the journey since launching the MHP in September. Thank you for your support so far – we’re excited for 2025, including our first conference and new funding opportunities.

Read more: https://buff.ly/4gkEh0B

#MentalHealthResearch

New @ukri.org Mental Health Platform Bluesky page: bsky.app/profile/mhpl...

Terrific visit from Yanni Zeng today - a past PhD student now working in Oxford until next year, and at Sun Yat-sen University in China

Early start for the second face-to-face @ukri.org Mental Health Platform meeting today

Positive association between Internet use and mental health among adults aged ≥50 years in 23 countries - Nature Human Behaviour Luo et al. examine data from adults aged ≥50 years across 23 countries and find that Internet use is associated with reduced depressive symptoms, higher life satisfaction and better self-reported heal...

Positive association between internet use and mental health in the over 50s www.nature.com/articles/s41...