Apologies if you see this again but I am still looking for postdoc positions in psychiatric genetics! I am currently a postdoc at Mount Sinai, I have a PhD in genetic epi from King’s, and have experience in psychosis, ADHD, and autism, including postpartum psychosis!

I have seen many people say that no academic needs to use LLMs for writing, because of course we are all already excellent at writing. I fear that risks exacerbating imposter syndrome in early career researchers. I therefore want to raise my hand and say while I enjoy writing, I find it hard.

The number 1 movie when you were ten years old will define your 2026. Looking good!

I'm guest-editing a collection on "Enhancer-promoter interactions" at Genome Biology. Please send us your exciting stories! link.springer.com/collections/...

So stats is now interpretable AI? Rebranding as the solution to the AI challenge.

MI6 Chief gives speech. Speech may contain words that are interesting. But because MI6 Chief is a woman @telegraph.co.uk prints an article about her appearance, with no mention of the speech’s content.

I was very pleased to be able to make it to Paul Fine's retirement lecture last week. He was an amazing PhD supervisor to me, and the lecture highlighted how impactful his work had been, from polio to leprosy, and Malawi to the @johnsnowsociety.bsky.social.

Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.

Football: a game of four quarters, now.

What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again? Perl one liners. (Master-ish)

Working with tableGrob seems awfully low level. 6 lines of code just to add a line below the column names, or creating a whole new grob to name the columns. Has no one written a nice interface? There are so many for plotting, but I can't find one for tables. #rstats

Tomorrow! www.varianteffect.org/seminar-seri...

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

How does fever work? Our new Science paper shows how elevated body temperature can protect against severe influenza and that avian-origin viruses escape this defence. This is likely one reason why bird flus and some pandemic influenzas can be so severe.🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion. This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more! www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Passive voice should be avoided.

Today I learned that one French translation of virtual is dématérialisé. The image in my mind of watching paper forms dematerialise as they become virtual apps is quite compelling!

Amazing how the numbers vary between years and how the variability seems country specific. Almost as if there's something in their home country that they are trying to get away from, rather than something in the UK pulling them here. The latter would produce similar effects across countries.

Grant applications be like "justify this and that and everything for each item" but also "in 300 words" 🤯🤯🤯

Great thread by @pwgtennant.bsky.social about PPI in methodological research. In my view, people are too hung up on what the 'PP' stands for. Yes, Patients and/or the Public are often the end users of research ... but sometimes they're not! Were it called 'End-User Involvement' it'd be much better.

Hot tip. Calling me eminent and/or esteemed in an unsolicited email makes me less likely, not more, to want to accept your conference invite. It is possible this may be a British thing.

This! Fancy web interfaces let you explore the data, but they are not the same as sharing the data. You can do both!

New: GWAS of serurm antibody levels. Interesting findings include genetically correlated traits with hard-to-find shared causal variants, and apparently genetically uncorrelated traits sharing causal variants that operate in inconsistent directions www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is a perennial issue with grant applications. They want to support blue sky, ground breaking research, but do not want to maintain the useful tools that result from such research. Science cannot build and grow without sustaining our foundations.

You never know which straw will break the camel's back. This, it turns out, is mine. The Tory shadow home sec gives a frankly racist statement about deporting people here legally in order that we have a mostly "culturally homogeneous" population. Just horrific. /1

Given Lam's appalling comments, the UK government needs to make it free for those with permanent leave to remain to obtain British citizenship, to promote people making the change, and to make it quicker. They need to do that to remove understandable anxiety.

I'm very excited to be attending my first #ASHG25 this week! Come find me at poster board 1090F to talk about flexible and efficient eQTL mapping with quasar!

The PhD opportunities in our group and in many others at @mrc-lms.bsky.social are now open! lms.mrc.ac.uk/work-and-stu...

📣Preprint alert - a tricky one, as there are no significant results (and we all know null-results are hard to publish) Do PCSK9 levels affect survival in breast cancer patients? We tried to replicate findings in cell lines and mouse model using 3 Mendelian Randomization approaches, but failed.

This type of thread is so important to those preparing to leave school and trying to decide what university courses to consider. We could do something similar for #maths! /1

Many recent cyber attacks on business suggest digitised systems lack security and resilience. In a parallel world, AI is going to increase efficiency. Surely further increases in digitisation and joined up systems are required for AI to attempt this. How does that square with security & resilience?

You’re right, Ms Mahmood - I don’t. Because the slippery slope we’ve been going down has been spine chilling. It started with “illegal migrants.” That was the “reasonable concern” Just the law, nothing more. Politicians said, “people aren’t anti-immigration, they just want the rules respected.”

Dear parents - Yes you can give your sick child paracetamol if they’re >3 months old. It’s an excellent painkiller. It brings down a high temperature. It’s one of the safest drugs available. You are right to want to soothe your child’s distress. Evidence supports your good parenting. Be confident.

When you have to draw up schematic diagrams, what do you use? I vary between tikz, R, and PowerPoint, but they all have different advantages. None ever seems fully satisfactory.

There are just too many interesting papers and too little time...

In modern datasets, very large sample sizes combined with slight differences in information across SNPs (eg die to imputation) can mislead fine mapping algorithms, and in turn colocalisation.

NHS guidelines stand In the UK, paracetamol (acetaminophen in USA) is the first choice of painkiller if you're pregnant. It's commonly taken during pregnancy and does not harm your baby www.nhs.uk/medicines/pa...

New MPhil course starting @UniversityofCambridge. Exciting opportunity for Translational Medical Research in 🔬 Translational immunology 🌍 Pandemic preparedness ❤️ Cardiovascular and respiratory biomedical research 🏥 Acute and emergency care Apply here www.med.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-...

Really looking forward to this

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The exports the UK doesn't want... www.ft.com/content/758b...

👇👇👇 deadline for applying to this awesome opportunity is coming up on Friday Sept 12th! www.baker.edu.au/career/head-...

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Our paper is now out in #Statistics and Computing 🥳 With Paul Kirk & @chr1sw.bsky.social, we propose OG-SSLB, a biclustering method that integrates disease outcomes into the clustering process, improving interpretability & accuracy. Read: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11222-025-10709-4

Excited to see our (w/ @chr1sw.bsky.social) work published in @natcomputsci.nature.com! We developed a new framework, surrogate functional false discovery rate (sffdr), that integrates summary statistics of related traits to improve power in GWASs. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Universities make a loss on home teaching. They make a loss on state-sponsored research. Now they will make a loss on international students. So there will be no activities at all that even break even. In those circs you cannot continue: the end. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/deficit...