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.

Sept is approaching & I can already hear initial chats/enquiries for potential PhD studies happening! If you're interested in a PhD, check out our department @cam.ac.uk www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/education-an... We've a super interdisciplinary faculty spanning primary care, data science, epidemiology etc

Obscene.

Paper led by Lucas Perry and using a multi-ancestry sample from the Born in Bradford cohort study.

Brilliant paper by Visscher et al. Populations differ in traits/disease burden. Are these differences due to genetics? Comparing single variants or polygenic scores between populations is biased due to environmental confounders correlated with the variants. 1/3 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm hardly surprised.

my money is on the teenagers, bro 😄

Follow @clscohorts.bsky.social to keep up-to-date on this super important new birth cohort!

#StopTheCuts UCU Edinburgh strikes highlighted in today’s Scotsman @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #SaveHE ✊

Some people call it a minefield. Others call it dangerous, even irresponsible. I call it the most promising field in life sciences. My love letter to social science genetics: communities.springernature.com/posts/a-love...

Any PhD students up for trailblazing should definitely get in touch with Ted, the project sounds even cooler than the Avalanches' Frontier Psychiatrist.

You can always depend on nurses 💙

Just another marker of entitlement.

A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology provides an overview of key behavioural, emotional and cognitive mechanisms that might link social threat to risk for anxiety and depression in youth. go.nature.com/47T4BgS 🧪

Israel says it “values the work of journalists.” But 192 have been killed in #Gaza since 2023 (according to @pressfreedom.bsky.social) It’s ”part of a longer history of Israeli attempts to silence Palestinian journalists” writes @maha-nassar.bsky.social:

If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

Timeline cleanser. 0:53 to 1:38 is pure, undiluted joy.

New study in Nature Communications (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62452-z): "3 stages of religious decline around the world." We find a secular transition begins at different times in different places. Over generations, drops in religious: 1. Participation 2. Importance 3. Belonging

Delighted to see work led by Hayley Mountford @hayleymountford.bsky.social published today. rdcu.be/eA8G0 We used MTAG to increase gene discovery for dyslexia: 36 new regions; ~30 new genes from gene-based tests; several sig biological pathways @profsimonfisher.bsky.social @schoolofppls.bsky.social

If you aren't already in a trade union, I hope this article convinces you to join ASAP!

Just going to reiterate that in 2016 Trump inherited the lowest murder rate of any president in 50 years. He set reality aside, gave his “American Carnage” inaugural address, and was then the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher murder rate than when he started.

Do you analyse #polygenic scores across ancestry groups? See Oliver Pain's extension to the GenoPred pipeline, with recommendations for good practice and efficient analysis. @oliverpain.bsky.social 🔗 Paper: lnkd.in/evJ9daBF 🔗 GenoPred pipeline: lnkd.in/eKwFr9kQ www.linkedin.com/posts/oliver...

#JSLHR researchers studied whether there is a bilingual advantage in implicit and explicit phonetic imitation. This study found no evidence. on.asha.org/3HnwFy8 @sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social

This study with @ukbiobank.bsky.social will deepen our understanding of the human genome, support the development of more effective treatments, and pave the way for precision medicine 🧬 Learn more about our journey with UK Biobank here: sangerinstitute.blog/2022/09/26/o...

Here's what frailty looks like when we consider genetic relations at the symptom level. Some important insights from this new research for anyone interested in ageing!

We lay out three consensuses from the field of psychiatric genetics that should be considered before approving genetic tests for psychiatric disorders. The letter was signed by 140 experts in psychiatric genetics and published in Lancet Psychiatry. Now on Pubmed: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

This looks like an awesome paper (methods and findings). For anyone short on time, the research briefing is really helpful!

Our new paper is out today! 🎉 In it, we use administrative register data to document how psychiatric disorders are strongly linked to parental income, from childhood far into adulthood. Furthermore, we attempt to separate causation and selection using kinship-based models. doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...

just been camping for the first time in my life and i have some valuable camping advice: take everything with you. Everything in your house. Take your whole house with you and live in it. Live inside your house, at home. Stay at home, living in your house with everything in your house.

Great work from Lucas Perry!

Needed for British Dyslexia Association research: Dyslexic young people aged 13-17 and their parents to take part in this survey together Dyslexic young people aged 18 to take part in the survey on their own survey.euro.confirmit.com/wix/7/p65075...

I'm postitive this will be a good read!

Take-home msg from Lucas Perry's new paper: "While PGS are a promising method...., in their current state they don't replicate findings of other genetically informed studies of Executive Function. Caution...when employing...to study genetic confounding in EF." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dear universities, I am begging you to stop requiring letters of recommendation for master's programmes. You and I both know you don't read them, so stop asking for them. Instead, have applicants list a name and get in touch if it's a borderline case. Signed, Everyone.

Very pleased to say we have an Assistant Professor job opening (tenure track) in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! 😀 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA399/a... - deadline is August 19th! Please repost!

Really excited to share our new PRS method, developed with @aprilkim.bsky.social and @alexisbattle.bsky.social ! Our approach is to use a lot of recently developed functional annotations to better estimate the weights of the SNPs. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled that our paper on the mechanisms underlying social learning strategies is out! First big paper from my @erc.europa.eu & @kawresearch.bsky.social funded group. More to come! I'm currently looking to recruit two post docs, get in touch if you find this line of research interesting.

BMXs, boomboxes and black eyes: growing up on Peckham housing estates in the 80s – in pictures

Come join us! We have an exciting PhD opportunity in statistical genetics at the University of Oxford. More info here: bit.ly/biomedDPhil 🗓️ App deadline: June 30th 2025. Please share!

Great to see these nuanced and subtle views about psychiatric genetics being presented and discussed like this. 👏

If you didn't see the thread on the first paper, don't forget to check it out bsky.app/profile/did:...

🚨📜 Debut publication alert! Do genetics influence education differently across state borders? 🧬📚 We tested differences in genetic associations with education in East and West 🇩🇪 around reunification! Out now in Psychological Science 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0956... #Sociogenomics #MPRGBiosocial #MPIB A🧵

Study aimed to develop, evaluate the initial reliability & validity evidence of the dynamic assessment (DA) of early reading & language as a 2nd-stage screener in kindergarten. The DA has appropriate reliability & validity as a supplemental screener! on.asha.org/44yjDqA @sigperspectives.bsky.social

Half of the people living in Africa haven't yet had a 20th birthday. In Europe, more than half of the population has already turned 40.

Welcome to post-growth Europe – can anyone accept this new political reality? theconversation.com/welcome-to-p...