International Workshop on Reading and Developmental Dyslexia is in San Sebastián, 7-9th October 2026, www.bcbl.eu/events/iword... Scientific and Practical Days, see you there!

Stephen Fry launches campaign to boost reading for pleasure

Some of us from the UK's Specific Learning Difficulties Network @sldnetwork.bsky.social have shared our views on the new Delphi definition of dyslexia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/..., special thanks to Kinga Morsanyi @kmorsanyi.bsky.social for pulling it together so nicely!

This is great - a clear overview of key principles in data visualisation, written in a super-accessible and interest way, with great examples throughout.

Want to echo Abdel and encourage reading this excellent commentary he put together!

How did DNA changes that alter protein structures impact evolution on the branch that led to modern humans? As we demonstrate today in Science Advances, biobanking initiatives offer ways to directly assess biological effects of rare archaic variants in living people, & (re)evaluate their roles. 🧬🧪

Photographer Martin Parr just passed. If you don't know his work, the Guardian has a really nice introduction here. h/t @wvschaik.bsky.social

Nominations for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026 have opened! Named after @deevybee.bsky.social, the prize, first awarded in 2022, celebrates the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement. Nominations close 18 January 2026. #AcademicSky #Research

This was a super fun project to do my small part on. @roshnipatel.bsky.social really helped me understand what we're doing when we're trying to "control for genetics" when assessing associations between interventions and outcomes, and how a lot of the standard ways to do so are simply inadequate.

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.

Consider submitting an abstract for an invited talk or poster at STATGEN 2026 by December 15th! Amazing keynote speakers and statistical leaders in #genetics and #genomics! 👏 Hope to see you there! statgen26.emory.edu 🧪 🧬 🖥️ 🧠 #statssky #imaging #SingleCell #spatial #omics #DigitalPathology

Come work with me! Feel free to contact me via email, if you have questions : )

🔍 Want to get the most out of the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets? We offer free online webinars with a tailored introduction and live demo to help you navigate the platform and make the most of its features. 📩 Interested? Email us to schedule a session: [email protected]

Advances in genomics are giving exciting new perspectives on biology of speech, language & reading. My latest peer-reviewed paper is a tutorial, guiding readers from different backgrounds through the history of the field, current state-of-the-art, & where we’re heading. A taster in this thread.🧪 1/n

Pickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!

#PhD opportunity: Join us in St Andrews to study brain health and healthy aging with data driven approaches in collaboration with brainsciences.scot as part of the EASTBIO DTP www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Solidarity in action on the picket line at George Square! @ucuscotland.bsky.social

🎓 Two PhD defences this month @ MPI for Psycholinguistics! - Gökberk Alagöz: Human brain evolution from genomics & transcriptomics (12 Nov, 14:30) - Sara Mazzini: Brain synchrony in dialogue (18 Nov, 10:30) Open to all join us! More info here: www.mpi.nl/events #PhDdefence #MPI

theconversation.com/the-uks-weal...?

Two great scholars doing work on moral (@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social) & personality (@tedmond.bsky.social) development & change are recruiting PhD students this year @msupsychology.bsky.social! Your grad office could be across the hall from my office!* *not necessarily a selling point, just a fact

A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!

Science is intertwined with eugenics; eugenic ideologies continue to negatively impact #Indigenous communities to this day. In the October issue of #GENETICS, @jazlynmooney.bsky.social and colleagues offer a timely and important reminder on the perils of eugenics. buff.ly/1Q5r3XF

PRSformer: Disease Prediction from Million-Scale Individual Genotypes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.26.684578v1

Pleasure to showcase all the hard work from the PGC Outreach Committee at #WCPG2025 last week @pgcgenetics.bsky.social Ft. our new group photo that looks more like an album cover... @abiterkuile.bsky.social @drniamhryan.bsky.social @karmelchoi.bsky.social (& many more not yet on Bluesky) 💙

Excited to share this preprint from first author Jon Rosen, a postdoctoral fellow in the @klmohlke.bsky.social lab and my lab. We examine eQTL study sample size and how this affects signal discovery and rates of colocalization with GWAS. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Researchers of this #OpenAccess study review findings from the Cleveland Family Speech and Reading Study, a 25-year longitudinal study of speech sound disorders. https://on.asha.org/3LepoSS

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

Comedy Wildlife Awards 2025 – in pictures

Come join us for a 4-year PhD on effects of rare gene disruptions involved in speech disorder, investigated in human neuronal models (via gene-editing, tissue culture, brain organoids, high-res microscopy, transcriptomics, epigenomics). More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs 🧬🧪

🐥 Early-bird announcement The abstract deadline for BGA 2026 will be February 15, 2026. BGA will take place June 23-26, in beautiful Amsterdam. Time to start thinking about the cool findings you want to share with your international colleagues at our annual meeting!

The Estonian Biobank is an awesome resource (and @klehto.bsky.social is similarly awesome) — a fantastic opportunity to do some great science!

DEBATE: "Is AI the future of health and social science?" For those in London on 15 Dec 2025, don't miss this fun in person debate between me and David Bann sponsored by @ncrm.ac.uk! Will the arguments change anyone's mind? 🤔 Sign up to attend IN PERSON: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/is-ai-the-...

New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le... #autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic

MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire philanthropist, donated $40 million on Wednesday to the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, which preserves significant sites of Black culture and history. The gift is her second contribution to the fund.

Attending #ASHG25? Learn how @prsmethods.bsky.social investigators are improving polygenic risk prediction in diverse populations by visiting these talks and posters docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

For those interested in #Indigenous #Genomics and #ASHG25 in Boston, here are some interested posters/talks/events coming out of the Tsosie Lab, @nativebio.bsky.social, and @d4itdr.bsky.social. For those looking for Friday plans, attend our Ancillary Event, debuting a #Tribal #data repository!

Proud that the third GWAS for Alzheimer's dementia from the PGC-ALZ working group was just posted online! Huge amounts of work, and what a great collaboration! Check out our exciting findings below 👇 @pgcgenetics.bsky.social #ctglab #alzheimer #dementia #GWAS

DLD is a lifelong condition and it does make lots of things more challenging. BUT once a person's needs are identified and they are supported they can thrive. This is why we need far more awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)! www.naplic.org.uk/developmenta... #DevLangDis #DLDday

New blog post! Let's say you have two measures meant to capture the same confounder. They're highly correlated. Can you still proceed with your regression analysis? (I admit, the title is a bit of a spoiler) www.the100.ci/2025/10/13/i...

New from @ent3c.bsky.social in The Atlantic -- 7 years (!) after Charles Murray made a bet with us that we'd "understand IQ genetically" by 2025, Eric describes how far we still are--and might always be--from that goal www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Our newest preprint is now available, using Mendelian randomisation to investigate the causal relationship between Frailty and Alzheimer's disease. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Awesome work from our visiting PhD student Jonny Flint #NGDgroup

Not to be missed!

📣 New preprint from the Braga Lab! 📣 The ventral visual stream for reading converges on the transmodal language network Congrats to Dr. Joe Salvo for this epic set of results Big Q: What brain systems support the translation of writing to concepts and meaning? Thread 🧵 ⬇️

A nice report on some of our recent dyslexia GWAS results. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09...

Just back from holiday and pleased to see work led by a past Honours student, Diana Bicona, now published: rdcu.be/eH32N. We don't find any interaction between common genetic variant effects and broad measures of SES, but both main effects are signficant for reading achievement.

The Open Targets Platform autumn release is out! 🍂 We have ingested the full dataset of over 13 million enhancer-gene regulatory interactions in the human genome across 1,458 DNase-seq experiments covering 369 cell types and tissues from the ENCODE-rE2G model blog.opentargets.org/open-targets...

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Submissions are now open for the next European Conference on Personality (ECP22, Edinburgh, July 2026)! We welcome talks, posters and symposia. Also, keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops are now listed. www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission

Oh man, thank you CNN. It's been a heck of a day and I really needed the laugh.