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

In 25 days time..... #2025PumphandleLecture Find out more:

📢 Applications are now open for our new MPhil in Translational Medical Research! Get hands-on experience from world leaders in immunology, pandemic preparedness, cardiovascular & respiratory biomedicine, and acute & emergency care. 👉 buff.ly/gH9tRV7 @cam.ac.uk

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-...

I can

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...

Expressions of Interest OPEN for #BattenDisease Grant Round. The top priority research lines are so inspiring: best gene-targeted #therapy? which valid, reliable #biomarkers? Can disease progression be halted or reversed? Apply here: bdsrafoundation.org/wp-content/u...

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

No, Microsoft, YOU need to sign in again

The "assertion - evidence slide". Now I have a name for my favourite kind of slide. 100% agree on it's effectiveness for structuring a talk.

Are you looking for a statistics/ML postdoc? Come to work with @antonis02.bsky.social and me in the NEMO study, an international collaboration aiming to detect ovarian cancer earlier through cutting-edge multi-omics, funded by the Alliance for Cancer Early Detection. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

ChatGPT 5 boasts it can function at PhD level, “ask me anything”. Spouse inputs the title of his own PhD, says please write me a PhD on this topic. ChatGPT5 immediately crashes. Recovers, then produces a page of articulate garbage citing plausible-sounding but incorrect sources.

This is how you can save intermediate stages of #tidyplots by using `save_plot()` in the middle of a pipeline 💡 #rstats #dataviz #phd

This will be a great lecture from a brilliant and impactful epidemiologist

Tip for presentations: avoid saying "I don't think this audience needs an introduction to X". Try instead giving a v brief introduction tailored to the key points you will reference in the rest of the talk. So often people assume I have knowledge I don't, and this hurts my ability to follow.

“Give people their flowers while they’re alive.”

What do people use for references in Google docs/word? Coming from latex where referencing was solid, have been stung a couple of times by Google docs/zotero losing or messing up which paper each reference number points to. This is too painful to go through again. What are the alternatives?

This summer, we are privileged to have a fantastic group of interns with us for eight weeks. They are each working with our researchers on projects and experiencing life at our Unit. It's great to have you all with us 😀

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

🚨 Job alert! We're hiring a Computational Biologist/Data Scientist within the Cambridge-GSK Translational Immunology Collaboration (CG-TIC). Join us to help translate discoveries into impact on chronic kidney and respiratory disease. Apply by 20 August: buff.ly/FFuvIx2 @cam.ac.uk

Devastating

An entire day on one plot. And I don't even love it...

Very excited to share new work from my PhD on a new software package for eQTL mapping: quasar. The quasar software package is a C++ program designed to provide a flexible and efficient eQTL mapping. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Booking is now open for the MRC #Biostatistics Unit's 22nd Armitage Day! Keynote from Matthew Stephens: “The menagerie of matrix factorization methods” Plus talks by @manuelazucknick.bsky.social, Gibran Hemani and (as yet unnamed!) BSU researchers. onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-...

🎉Congratulations to Professor Ziad Mallat for winning the 2025 Louis & Artur Lucian Award for his groundbreaking work in cardiovascular immunology! Read more⬇️ @vpd-hlri.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk @mcgill.ca

Just sometimes, when you write an email to an unknown scientist hoping they might share some data that you are not completely sure they even hold, you get a simple "yes, happy to share and discuss the context of the data with you" in response. Happy day #openscience #sharingiscaring

‘MMR vaccination uptake rate for children by the age of five in Liverpool is just 73% ... The World Health Organisation says a threshold of 95% is needed to achieve herd immunity’ Please protect child by allowing them to be vaccinated. If you are worried, talk to your doctor. Misinformation kills.

Totally this today

🚨New preprint just dropped 🚨 medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.24.25330216 The main output from my PhD is finally public and we’re SUPER excited about the findings! If you’re interested in what we learnt about IBD with a massive 700+ sample sc-eQTL dataset of the gut, read on!

Is anyone aware of PhD students having access to #allofus data? We are being told it's impossible. Which seems... impractical... given that students do so much of the research in many places. Please reskeet even if you don't know the answer? Would really like to resolve this barrier for my student.

Is anyone aware of PhD students having access to #allofus data? We are being told it's impossible. Which seems... impractical... given that students do so much of the research in many places. Please reskeet even if you don't know the answer? Would really like to resolve this barrier for my student.

Our @pedicordlab.bsky.social are using their Global Grant for Gut Health to study gut fungi in neurodegenerative diseases, which may open up new possibilities for early diagnosis and early treatments. Find out more: www.nature.com/articles/d42... @natureportfolio.nature.com #Yakult

Preprint out today! A team led by @tobioinformatics.bsky.social and Bradley Harris in @carlanderson.bsky.social ‘s lab has created the largest single-cell atlas of IBD tissues to date www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Job alert: Join us for a postdoc in AI in genetics at @EMBL Heidelberg! Great collaboration with @Adrian Cortes @GSK, aiming to develop new tools to elucidate genetic effects using population-scale cohorts and single-cell readouts. Please share! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/de-DE/EMBL/d...

The Simon-Mandelbrot dispute. Here is how it was done in the old days when scholarly disputes were handled slowly (over 8 years!) and in peer reviewed journals (with exciting titles), rather than in snappy and rude online forums.

Testing causal links between all imaginable phenotypes with MR in UKB is easy! But inferring causality still requires that the MR assumptions are valid (notably: genetic instruments must act on outcome only via exposure) See also from @mendelrandom.bsky.social pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Congratulations to our Emeritus Professor Gordon Dougan on receiving a CBE for services to Vaccines and to Global Health in this year's King's Birthday Honours 👏 Read more about their research and impact 👉

Here's a 'tool-kit' to support #academic #science #writing - papers, presentations, talks, posters. Can be daunting but we are sharing advice, tips and checklists. Authored by my team @crick.ac.uk but we hope useful to many others... so please share, use & send feedback. 🧪 doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Visited Durham yesterday. Really beautiful, lovely river, amazing cathedral. But the abiding impression is physical, etched into my legs with every step. How can one town have so much hill?

Good Science xkcd.com/3101/

You would think if you book a train in advance, they would alert you when the first train you are taking gets cancelled so you can make plans to leave earlier to make the next connection. I mean, the app is now telling me the train is cancelled. It lives on my phone. Easy enough to alert me. But no.

📢 📢Job alert!📢📢 We have an exciting opportunity for a 4 year post-doc in my lab at @crick.ac.uk‬. This project will take a similar approach to our recent ETS2 paper, published in Nature, to better understand the mechanisms that contribute to IBD tinyurl.com/yx43upnk