Independent SAGE as an example of effective public dialogue on scientific research.

The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020 and then a pandemic on 11 March 2020. In early 2020, a group of UK scientists volunteered to provide the public with up-to-date and transparent scientific information. The group formed the Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Independent SAGE) and provided live weekly briefings to the public via YouTube.

The BSSO Foundry: A community of practice for ontologies in the behavioural and social sciences.

There has been a rapid expansion in the quantity and complexity of data, information and knowledge created in the behavioural and social sciences, yet the field is not advancing understanding, practice or policy to the extent that the insights warrant. One challenge is that research often progresses in disciplinary silos and is reported using inconsistent and ambiguous terminology. This makes it difficult to integrate and aggregate findings to produce cumulative bodies of knowledge that can be translated to applied settings.

Mucosal Addressin Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 Mediates T Cell Migration into Pancreas-Draining Lymph Nodes for Initiation of the Autoimmune Response in Type 1 Diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease that is caused by autoreactive T cell-mediated destruction of insulin-producing β cells in the pancreatic islets. Although naive autoreactive T cells are initially primed by islet antigens in pancreas-draining lymph nodes (pan-LNs), the adhesion molecules that recruit T cells into pan-LNs are unknown. We show that high endothelial venules in pan-LNs of young nonobese diabetic mice have a unique adhesion molecule profile that includes strong expression of mucosal addressin cell adhesion molecule-1 (MAdCAM-1).

Translating the Behaviour Change Technique Taxonomy v.1 to other languages: the approach used in European Portuguese (BCTTv1-PT).

Background: The Behaviour Change Techniques Taxonomy v1 (BCTTv1) is the most widely used classification of behaviour change techniques (BCTs), contributing to the accurate report and evaluation of behaviour change interventions and accumulation of evidence. This study reports a structured approach to adapt the BCTTv1 into European Portuguese (BCTTv1-PT).

Methods: A collaborative and iterative approach was used.

The changing nature of worry about COVID-19 among the English public: a secondary analysis of 73 national, cross-sectional surveys, January 2020 to April 2022.

Objectives: To investigate worry about COVID-19 during the pandemic, and whether worry was associated with phase of the pandemic, COVID-19 death and incidence rates, Government interventions (including lockdown and advertising), age, being clinically at-risk, ethnicity, thinking that the Government had put the right measures in place, perceived risk of COVID-19 to self and the UK, and perceived severity of COVID-19.

Design: Secondary analysis of a series of cross-sectional surveys.

Setting: 73 online surveys conducted for the English Department of Health and Social Care between 28 January 2020 and 13 April 2022.