Dr Ruby Tsang 🇦🇺🇭🇰

These findings suggest there may be distinct mechanisms underlying different depression trajectories, and highlight opportunities for preventing/reducing adverse cardiometabolic health in subgroups of young people with depression. 5/5

In particular, the adulthood-onset group showed widespread classical immunometabolic changes, including ones known to predict cardiometabolic disease, whereas the adolescent-persistent group had higher BMI both in childhood and adulthood with few immunometabolic changes. 4/5

Pleased to share our new paper in Molecular Psychiatry: "Immunometabolic blood biomarkers of developmental trajectories of depressive symptoms: findings from the ALSPAC birth cohort." nature.com/articles/s4138… 1/5

@LiangRhea Not enough resources for earlier detection of anything - many women I know have gone to the GP with some symptoms (not necessarily of breast cancer), and was told either they can't/won't do anything about it unless it needs to be treated immediately or it's all in their head.

Surprised to find only 21% of #BreastCancer in the UK is diagnosed via screening. The majority are diagnosed via symptoms and referral to '2 week clinic'. The figure in Australia is 46%. Shouldn't the UK invest more in earlier (asymptomatic) detection? 🤔

Officially out today! EHRs are challenging to analyse but hope we can build something to streamline the processes… 🦖 Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsg… @cathrynlewis @KingsIoPPN @uk_biobank @genscot @wellcometrust

Received my ballot papers in the mail this week, but suddenly realised I’ll be in London next week, so I’m now really tempted to go and vote at Australia House just for the experience… I wonder if the queues would be long in the middle of the day on a weekday

Received an email today about historical underpayment from a uni that I worked at 7 years ago… Opened the email to find that they are now trying to pay me ~4 AUD + interest + super 😂

Bad data... theguardian.com/australia-news…

On the over diagnosis of #MentalHealth conditions President @DrLadeSmith said: “People can experience mental ill-health for a variety of reasons and a professional assessment can help distinguish between everyday distress and a mental illness.” Read more: rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-featu…

It was a pleasure to work with @Mental_Elf. In this blog post, I discuss findings from a study by @EdPalmer5 and colleagues looking at associations between inflammation trajectories in childhood and health in adulthood using data from @CO90s

@British_Airways It seems like you’ve completely missed the point. It’s not the wait that’s the problem - an error was made with the payment, and now customer relations is refusing to take responsibility, fix the issue or engage further.

@rubietsang I understand your frustrated at being kept waiting, but there is nothing we can to quicken the process or expedite it any faster for you. I can only apologise for the inconvenience this has caused you. Neil

Why is @British_Airways customer service so terrible? On a work trip last year, they left my suitcase in LHR, and I only got it back on the 3rd day of my trip. I made a claim, and they said they were happy to pay X amount in GBP to cover my expenses.

@British_Airways I have, and we have been going in circles with them stating that since they’ve already paid into my account, there is nothing more they can do. You can’t agree to reimburse an amount and then only just pay part of it, and refuse to admit your error.

@rubietsang Sorry to hear that, Ruby. Our Customer Relations team will be in touch if you've raised a claim for this. Si

Are they going to start just paying everyone £1 for their claims then since that counts as having paid something too...?

Then they only transferred about half the amount into my account (they paid the GBP equivalent of X in the foreign currency). When I tried to follow up, it took them around two months to respond, just to tell me the case is closed as they have already paid.

Word of the day is 'spuddle' (19th century): to be extremely busy whilst achieving absolutely nothing.

The largest-ever internet-based trial to improve #cognition is here. 🌍 Led by Professor Henry Brodaty AO and published in @Nature, the innovative #MaintainYourBrain trial is a game-changer in the fight to prevent #dementia. 🔗bit.ly/4hxdDSC

I imagine I won’t hear anything until they’ve processed everyone’s rebooking 😮‍💨

So the flight got cancelled, and after waiting around for ages I was let back out to landside, then more waiting before I managed to change the rebooking from the 17:20 flight tomorrow to the 06:00. Now waiting again for them to sort out a hotel room…

Looks like my first work trip of the year isn’t going so well… First, 2 airport buses didn’t turn up so I waited 40mins for the next one. Then the luggage carousel was broken at BRS and so had to wait in a long queue to bag drop at the oversize luggage counter.