Interested in how mental health develops? If your background is in psychology, biosciences, or a related field, our MSc in Developmental Psychology & Psychopathology at @kingsioppn.bsky.social could be your next step: www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr... Join us in September – reach out to learn more!

Are you seeking a PhD in genomics or the application of AI to healthcare and therapeutics? Check out KCL's new PhD programme in Genome Data Science for Therapeutic Target Discovery! Apply by Saturday 28th February 2026, 23:59 GMT Details and projects: www.kcl.ac.uk/research/tar...

Minor rebrand – we don't study Colemans anymore...

New, brief theoretical piece out in World Psychiatry: The Causal Structure of Mental Illness and Why It Matters. Not about genetics, I pursue one of my longest standing concerns, about relations between classification and reduction. Link is to whole issue; my piece starts on Page 3.

What a breakthrough! Such a puzzle for 30 years, this is real progress! I wonder how general this mechanism of repression is for other systems where highly-selective expression is needed. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨NEW PREPRINT ALERT!🚨 Jacob Knyspel investigated the moderating impact of exposure to different traumas on genetic risk for PTSD, using data from @ukbiobank.bsky.social, @gladstudy.bsky.social, @edgiuk.bsky.social and @nihrbioresource.bsky.social 1/3 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...

Pleased to have been able to contribute in a small way to this excellent review from Katrina Davis, outlining the value, limitations, and future of @ukbiobank.bsky.social for mental health research www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Fantastic to see Maria Koromina's great work out in @natneuro.nature.com! 1. A deep look at potential "causal" genetic signals in bipolar disorder 2. A systematic exploration of the analytical choices involved in fine-mapping meta-analysis 1/4 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can't post this without the acknowledgement: "We dedicate this paper to Robert Keers, a wonderful friend, colleague, mentor and scientist, whom we lost too soon. This project continued in his absence, with contributions from many colleagues who helped to complete the work that he started." 2/2

Very pleased to see this paper out in @nathumbehav.nature.com – a useful approach to understanding the role of genetics in sensitising people to their environments (and a sobering example of the sample sizes needed...!) Fantastic work by lead Elham Assary! 1/2 rdcu.be/eqmvJ

Thursday 19th June (14:00-16:00) with Emily Petherick, Loughborough University and Anthony Khawaja, UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Webinar registration link events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0f859b.... 4/4

Monday 16th June (10:00-12:00) with Catherine John, University of Leicester and Daniel Smith, University of Edinburgh Webinar registration link: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/da8085.... 3/4

Tuesday 10th June (12.00-14.00) with Robert Maidstone, University of Manchester Webinar registration link - events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4364bc... 2/4

I'm fortunate enough to be a Research Scholar with OurFutureHealth, the UK’s largest health research programme. They are hosting webinars for researchers to share the exciting opportunities this unique resource can offer your research. 1/4

Very pleased to see our paper describing the @ukbiobank.bsky.social second online mental health questionnaire has now been published in @plosone.org! This describes the origin of the resource as well as the data. Fantastic work by Katrina Davis in leading this 👏👏👏 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

🚨 NEW PREPRINT ALERT! 🚨 Very pleased to have the latest @pgcgenetics.bsky.social eating disorders GWAS now out on medrxiv! Featuring one first author from our group (Sang Hyuck) and one senior author (Joni), alongside 168 others! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join Jean Campbell & Foundation-funded Dr @jonicoleman.bsky.social (@kingsioppn.bsky.social) for a thought-provoking conversation about #depression: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFeA... This is part of our new collaboration with 'I'm Fine' podcast, exploring overlooked areas of medical research. #MedSky

📬New job 📬 Postdoc role on the AMBER project, to undertake genetic analyses of antidepressant response. Join us! Important science, rich data, nice people. Please repost. @kingsioppn.bsky.social #depression #statistics #genetics #pharmacogenetics #antidepressants my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

A much needed article by @peiferlabunc.bsky.social on the need for eugenics pseudoscience as a topic in genetics teaching- sadly not just for historic reasons. Also courageous in the current climate, even though it shouldn't have to be. Lots for my own teaching in @geneticscam.bsky.social

Another week, another major contribution from the @pgcgenetics.bsky.social ! This time, new GWAS of bipolar disorder. Threads to follow. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just out — great work from Lachlan Gilchrist investigating the genetic relationship between depression and Alzheimer's. Pleased to have been able to contribute a little to this one. Open access, so read all about it below! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

V. pleased to see this work out — huge effort from 10s of analysts, 100s of scientists, 1000000s of participants. 🤞 a key resource in future MDD research. 🤲 to @markjamesadams.bsky.social, @mcintosh2001.bsky.social and @cathrynlewis.bsky.social for leading. Read all about it below.

New study from the @pgcgenetics.bsky.social: Multi-ancestry GWAS of MDD in over half a million cases and 4 million controls. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

You wanted starter packs to be searchable. Our engineers are busy keeping us online, so in the meantime, an independent developer built a new searchable library of starter packs. This is the beauty of building in the open 🦋

Our paper describing the creation and data from the UK Biobank 2022 online Mental Health Phenotyping is now up on Medrxiv (doi.org/10.1101/2024...) All feedbak welcome! 1/3