Tom Metherell

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/ˈmɛðərəl/. He/him. PhD candidate in Mental Health Science @clscohorts.bsky.social, @sriucl.bsky.social. Social media + mental health 📱🧠🏳️‍🌈 tommetherell.com

Graph entitled "Could digital media be affecting birth rates?" which contains numerous lines (meaning unspecified) showing a steep decline in total fertility rate following an event entitled "smartphones take off".
The header of our article "Associations between early-life mental health and abnormal sleep duration in midlife: findings from a prospective cohort study in Great Britain" on the European Journal of Epidemiology website.
A postbox with me inserting an envelope into it
Me presenting the paper "Characterising the longitudinal relationship between social media use and psychiatric diagnoses in secondary care in adolescents in England" at the SLLS 2025 conference in Fribourg, Switzerland.
Me (in a blue jumper and at a lectern labelled "Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre) presenting at the 30th International Population Conference.
The keynote session at SIPS 2025
View of the "cinema space" at the Innovation Lab today
The meme in which a man skates down a stair railing on a rake, but ultimately ends up standing on it so it hits him in the face anyway. In the bottom left corner the words "word limit: 3000" appear. Along the man's path down the railing, the words "concise introduction", "briefly lay out limitations" and "additional results in the supplementary" appear. Finally, as he is hit in the face, the caption reads "1700-word methods section.
Key entry showing that the blue colour in my previous image refers to "outdated"
The pipeline dependency graph from a {targets} project in R. It has more nodes than I can count. And lines all over the place.
Protest sign reading "private string Gender NOT public const bool Gender". The trans flag appears coloured in the background.
A conference hall setting. On the stage, the words "AI UK" are projected and there is purple lighting.
Me (captured in a very strange pose, looking a bit conspiratorial) presenting my poster (entitled "Relationship between social media use and mental health service use in adolescents in the UK Millennium Cohort Study" and most of which is occupied by a large directed acyclic graph) at the Data Science meeting
A meme parodying Vladimir Putin's interview with Tucker Carlson in February 2024. In the meme, Carlson asks Putin "Mr Putin, is smoking associated with poor mental health in middle-aged people?". Putin begins his response with "When they are infants, some people are breastfed and others are not."