Why do schizophrenia GWAS signals look so flat across the genome? In our recent preprint, we explored why psychiatric disorders — and, more broadly, brain-related traits involving the central nervous system — appear to have unusual genetic architectures. 🧵1/n

A generous donation from The Karlsson Játiva Charitable Foundation will fund 3 5yr fellowships in Brain Health and Multimorbidity at the Institute for Neuroscience & Cardiovascular Research: 2 x KJCF Quest Research Fellows and 1 x KJCF Quest CLINICAL Research Fellow. edin.ac/4bZDPE9

Just kids. From loving families. Bombed to bits in their school. Read their parents’ stories. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

At least some good news

Superb resource to study human brain development, out in @nature.com 🧪🧠 An atlas showing how patterns of functional connectivity between brain regions change from birth to old age “Functional hierarchy of the human neocortex across the lifespan” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy and honored to receive the 2026 ESHG award! Many thanks to past and present lab members and collaborators; it’s our work together that is recognized here. See you at the @eshg.bsky.social meeting in Gothenburg 🇸🇪 in June!

We are now recruiting for new philanthropically funded fellowships in Brain Health and Multimorbidity at the University of Edinburgh, in INCR and @edinunineuro.bsky.social 🎉 There are two non-clinical posts and one clinical elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please repost!

An argument against the bill is that it is better to invest resources in palliative care. My dad had exceptionally good palliative care in Italy, yet he used his remaining energy to commit suicide in a painful and traumatic way for him and for us. I wish we had a better option.

MSPs vote against Scotland's assisted dying bill. I am hugely disappointed with this outcome.

Our new article: The modified fighting hypothesis of handedness: Evidence from sharp force injuries and further considerations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #oa #evolution #laterality

Very nice new preprint by @bogglerapture.bsky.social & colleagues, offering new genetic insights on the mechanisms of human cortical folding, looking at the effects of both rare and common variants 🧪🧠🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says a total of 14 health workers have been killed in attacks in southern Lebanon over the past 24 hours. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/u9tuem

Chi Onwurah is not pulling any punches on UKRI science funding.

39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.

Interesting: Laterality invites short commentaries (5–10 pages) addressing empirical, theoretical, methodological, and philosophical implications of expanding the concept of handedness. Submission deadline is 10th July 2026. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Right I know this is shocking, but guess what? The Oxford Congestion Charge is seeing LESS congestion and MORE people taking the bus. Try this one simple trick etc etc. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/more-people-...

IGC is looking for two Postdoctoral Research Fellows in Molecular Epidemiology for the MRC-funded grant 'Blood-and saliva-based DNA methylation biomarkers of disease' which will explore epigenetic biomarkers of organ ageing, proteins & disease. More info & apply here by 20 March 👉 edin.ac/4aYx7Pt

A thoughtful response from @dermotcasey.bsky.social to an interview with @utafrith.bsky.social about the expansion of the diagnostic category of "autism"

Black women in the UK are entering menopause severely under informed, under supported, and often dismissed by healthcare professionals, according to new research from @profjoyceharper.bsky.social (UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health). Learn more here: bit.ly/4rEVK9K

Sempre più blu #ITAvENG

Can anyone think of an example of government spend of this magnitude and speed (excluding covid)?? 4 weeks from call announcement to submission (no advance warning) and within that only 2 weeks to flag your intention to submit. £40M total - individual awards £9.4M www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

We cannot wait to host @kuludwig.bsky.social in St Andrews and hear all about this exciting study. Come along on Wednesday 11th March, 1pm, BMS building @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

We cannot wait to host @kuludwig.bsky.social in St Andrews and hear all about this exciting study. Come along on Wednesday 11th March, 1pm, BMS building @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

I'm sure we'll all agree that everything is now super clear 😵‍💫 High res version here: committees.parliament.uk/publications...

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

After a US-Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, rescuers dug through the rubble for survivors. The death toll is still rising, with more than 80 confirmed dead so far.

OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c Now it's over to users! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...

Agentic AI and the rise of in silico team science in biomedical research - @moorejh.bsky.social go.nature.com/3ZRlP9v

Are Architects More Likely to Be Left-Handed Than Other People? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

🖨️ Hot off the press 🍾 : I am super excited to share that our article on the host control of persistent EBV infection has just been published in Nature Magazine, in an accelerated article preview version: rdcu.be/e4Lg8

This is happening "because the currency of scholarship—publication—is becoming increasingly detached from the notion that publication is meant to add to the sum of human knowledge. In other words, publication has increasingly become an end in itself."

Nice to see our paper debunking claims of a link between autism and the microbiome among Neuron's "Most Read" articles... 😊 www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

⏳ Final call for abstracts! The extended deadline to submit your abstract for #eshg2026 is tomorrow (no exceptions possible). Don’t miss the opportunity to showcase your research and be part of the programme. Submit now and find all details on the ESHG website: 2026.eshg.org/abstracts/

Please tell friends & colleagues about our unique course “Genetics & Neurobiology of Language” July 27-Aug 3 2026. Expert tutors, interactive talks, panel discussions, all in a beautiful setting. Scholarships available: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx... @cshlnews.bsky.social @cshlbanbury.bsky.social

Individual, interpersonal and sociocultural contributors to maths anxiety in children www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Myth of the Genetic Blueprint - Life isn’t constructed along pre-drawn plans. It grows. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ge... - Super article by the always on-point @elisecutts.bsky.social

BREAKING: government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action under terrorism law ruled UNLAWFUL This matters for everyone. For years, the right to protest has been under sustained and deliberate attack. Thousands of people have been arrested for something that should have never been a crime.

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court! A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest. A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

✨ A new star allele was born! Excited to share our first in vivo pharmacokinetic recall study involving 114 participants from @ESTbiobank with previously uncharacterised variants in CYP2C19 and CYP2D6: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Pharmacogenomics @pharmvar.org @clinpgx.org

Our paper on the human brain networks sensitive to geometric shape is now final in @elife.bsky.social, with nice videos by Mathias Sablé-Meyer explaining each figure! A geometric shape regularity effect in the human brain elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Ma il cielo è sempre più blu #ITAvSCO

I'm delighted to share this interesting work, a wonderful collaboration with colleagues based in the Canary Islands. ☀️ Acta Psychol. 2026 [https://lnkd.in/e3Q_xQ-H]. #MathAnxiety #MathEd #MathTeacher #CogSci #Edusky #DevPsy @mclstrainee.bsky.social @mcls-official.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social

"We expect to open our funding opportunities in the summer, with completion of the wider UKRI transition expected by the start of the 2027 to 2028 financial year."

AlphaGenome is out in @nature.com today along with model weights! 🧬 📄 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💻 Weights: github.com/google-deepm... Getting here wasn’t a straight path. We discussed the story behind the model, paper & API in the following roundtable: youtu.be/V8lhUqKqzUc

Chapman said there were plans to talk about the decisions UKRI has made with stakeholders, but: "We were not able to do that because of information leaks outside the organisation and so we ended up having to rush comms out when we hadn’t done that engagement, for which I am very sorry"

📝 The PsychGen Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Mental Health is hosting a two-day, in-person workshop for early-career researchers on family-based genomic analyses. The workshop takes place in Oslo, Norway, on 9-10 April 2026 and registration is now open: shorturl.at/etXCN

It's a "cost reduction" - not a cut - apparently

Watch live NOW: The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee discusses UKRI changes parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...