James Thomas (@james_m_thomas) 's Twitter Profile
James Thomas

@james_m_thomas

Prof Social Research & Policy at EPPI-Centre, Social Research Institute, Institute of Ed, University College London; specialist in research synthesis methods

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Claire Stansfield (@clairestansf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New job for Information Scientist/Research Fellow designing searches, evaluating and developing methods in automation for living reviews and other review products EPPI Centre UCL Social Research Institute (SRI)

James Thomas (@james_m_thomas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Do you know an early career researcher who is doing great research to help ensure that historically marginalised and under-represented voices are heard? Please do consider nominating them! campbellcollaboration.org/news-and-event…

Cochrane Equity (@cochraneequity) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Introducing the new Cochrane Equity Thematic Group: Supporting Cochrane's social responsibility of improving health equity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ce…

byron wallace (@byron_c_wallace) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How do domain experts qualitatively view the potential utility and risks of LLMs for helping to produce medical systematic reviews? Hye Sun Yun asked them 👇

James Thomas (@james_m_thomas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Completely agree! I still don't know why they wanted to share our data with Capita in the first place, and given they are demonstrably untrustworthy, the first thing to do would be to stop sharing our data with them!

Anne-Marie Bagnall (@drabagnall) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Still a few days left to apply for our 3 year postdoc research assistant role - come and join our wonderful team! Deadline now 29th May

GALENOS (@galenos_global) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 Great opportunity - join OxfordPPL and GALENOS in a program of living evidence synthesis funded by Wellcome - please RT and tag anyone you think may be interested! ✨⬇✨

Niall Boyce (@niallpboyce) 's Twitter Profile Photo

GALENOS will create and maintain a free and open-access global resource for everyone concerned with #mentalhealth, seeking new insights that accelerate progress.” New BMJ Mental Health Perspective on this innovative Wellcome-funded project. mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/26/1/e…

BMJ Mental Health (@bmjmentalhealth) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Read our latest Perspective on GALENOS, a new living evidence resource of human and non-human studies for early intervention and research prioritisation in #anxiety, #depression and #psychosis ➡️ bit.ly/3NkBAQz

Dylan Kneale (@dylankneale) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Are you a researcher interested in working at the policy/practice interface? Tell us how #embeddedresearcher #secondment #placements should be set up - what would work for you and what should be avoided. Link here: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_7Z… EPPI Centre IOE Research UCL Social Research Institute (SRI)

Lesley Stewart (@lesleycrd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Join the CRD team delivering research to inform decision-making and contribute to public good - closes Friday jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/resear…

Michael Otsuka (@mikeotsuka) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🧵unpacking UCU's response👇to @ussemployers Universities UK's apparent attempt to secure a large cut in pensions contributions (down by a third, from 31.4% to 20.6% of salaries) which will probably be sustainable only if benefits are cut at the next valuation. 1/

Invest in Open Infrastructure (@investinopen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Questions remain about the extractive nature of many of these [open access] business models, what constitutes “reasonable cost” for making publicly funded research available as intended, and who should bear that cost." - Kaitlin Thaney buff.ly/3O7EhV8

Euan Adie (@stew) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tuning in to International Public Policy Observatory 's "New Digital Tools For Linking Evidence To Action" webinar - some interesting looking talks about generative AI & data science in the context of evidence based policy eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-digital-…

Mark Petticrew (@petticrewmark) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1/2 Our new CODES guidance on doing systematic reviews from a Commercial Determinants perspective is now out: …maticreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

1/2 Our new CODES guidance on doing systematic reviews from a Commercial Determinants perspective is now out: …maticreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…