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What's it like to be a Data Impact Fellow?
Michaela Pawley wrote down her thoughts in her first blog post as a UK Data Service Impact Fellow. She reflects on her clinical and academic background, current PhD research, and future plans to expand her impact beyond academia.
Read more here: UK Data Service Data Impact Fellows 2025: Michaela Pawley – Data Impact blogLink opens in a new window
What counts as a good night’s sleep? A NPR radio interview
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Professor Nicole Tang about sleep quality and why it's difficult to define and measure.
Prof Tang talks to the New Scientist
"Highlight: We often obsess about nighttime routines for good sleep, but mounting evidence shows that what we do during our waking hours is also important – a more holistic view that could ease the modern pressure to create a perfect environment for when our heads hit the pillow"
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26535272-800-why-sleep-quality-is-so-important-and-so-difficult-to-measure/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26535273-000-what-nine-sleep-researchers-do-to-get-their-best-nights-rest/
New paper on mental defeat as a predictor of future suicide risk
New paper on self-compassion and chronic pain
Hot off the press. A new paper - brilliantly led by @jennalgillett.bsky.social and Arman Rakhimov - validates the use of the Self-Compassion Scale Short-Form in chronic pain and exploring its initial relationships with pain outcomes.
🧪Open access: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20494637241312070
