🚨New paper alert!🚨 The bipolar disorder (BD) meta epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) by Tesfaye & colleagues is Out now in eBioMedicine 🔗bit.ly/4sGX9O6 🧵1/5

🚨Our SECOND new paper alert for today 🚨 ✨Check out the new large OCD-case control EWAS published by @kirahoeffler.bsky.social & colleagues ✨ 🔗bit.ly/4x9c5qx 1/5 🧵

#HappyPride from Bergen, Norway 🏳️‍🌈

POV Du bist das Bundesforschungsministerium & schaffst es nach fast 5 Jahren #IchBinHanna, im Referentenentwurf fürs #WissZeitVG die Postdoc-Phase noch schlechter zu regeln als die Ampel, indem Du einfach alles so erwiesenermaßen schlecht lässt wie bisher. Aber Hauptsache Raketen-Memes mit Doro! 🚀👍

Been training for this moment my whole life.

What does accelerated biological aging actually mean for children? Can we measure it with algorithms only trained in adults? And do different biomarkers of aging measure the same thing? Find out at my #SOBP2026 talk tomorrow afternoon 🧬🧠

Ahhh, I’m super excited to see this one out in the press!

new #preprint: our epigenetic study on psychotherapy response in OCD is available on medRxiv - includes longitudinal analyses and integration with genetic data. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Writing your PhD thesis in a windowless office with no daylight is not for the weak.

I had the opportunity to present my PhD research at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo today :)

Out earlier this week in @natgenet.nature.com: GWAS of major anxiety disorders in 122,341 European-ancestry cases identifying 58 loci (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) Awesome work, and great news for the anx genetics community — each @pgcgenetics.bsky.social paper seeds 100s more papers!

Happy and thankful for this award!☺️

The #ECNP Roadmap Meeting on #PrecisionPsychiatry wrapped up yesterday ✨ Experts across science, clinical practice, regulation, industry & patient advocacy explored how to move #biomarkers from research to real‑world impact 🔍 Inspiring discussions and clear next steps 🚀 www.ecnp.eu/roadmap-meeting

🥁🎇✨ ... first up is KIRA HÖFFLER @kirahoeffler.bsky.social from the #UniversityofBergen in Norway and #McLeanHospital in Boston ! So tell us, Kira, what do you do in #functionalgenomics and @pgc_fg ?🤔 Any #funfacts #genetics 🐝❓ 🧵3/3

The human brain goes through distinct phases in life, with turning points at ages 9, 32, 66 & 83, scientists have revealed. ~4,000 people up to the age of 90 had scans to reveal the connections between their brain cells. We "peak" in our early 30s ... 🧪🧠 #neuroskyence www.bbc.com/news/article...

✨Hello folks!✨ We're back in your feed with an amazing paper spotlight by @kirahoeffler.bsky.social & colleagues📰🔦 "Optimizing genetic ancestry adjustment in DNA methylation studies: a comparative analysis of approaches" 🔗http://bit.ly/49syndi Read our overview below! 🧵1/6

New method for DNA methylation studies 🧬: EpiAnceR+ improves ancestry adjustment without requiring genotyping data, while removing technical and biological noise. Easy to use in existing R pipelines. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Curious whether response to psychotherapy in OCD can be predicted using clinical and DNA methylation data? Come see Poster 1️⃣ at #WCPG2025. I’ll be presenting our first machine learning findings!

Back at my favourite conference #WCPG2025 - this time in a slightly different setting (an all-inclusive beach hotel) #cancun #mexico @ispg.bsky.social

The Biological Psychiatry family of journals is now officially on Bluesky! Follow us for the latest research in psychiatric neuroscience, cognitive neuroimaging, and global open science from our three leading journals.

Inspiring AI Cures Conference at MIT with stunning views of beautiful Boston.

I find it somewhat disappointing that medRxiv does not accommodate the use of the "ö" in my surname and instead only allows the internationalized spelling.

Dieses Spiel werden die Beteiligten und Fans vorm Fernseher so schnell nicht vergessen. Drei Stunden komplett aufreibender Fußball. #FRAGER

After more than 7 years working on it, I’ve just submitted the manuscript for Discovering Statistics using R second edition. Tonnes more work on website/package and so on, but getting to this stage is monumental psychologically. It’s the book I feared I’d never finish.

Und ich dachte bislang immer, #CSD und #Regenbogenfahnen stünden für die demokratische Tradition der Kämpfe um Anerkennung jener Rechte, die letztlich das Grundgesetz allen verspricht: Freiheit und Gleichheit und Unantastbarkeit der Würde.

I got to meet Jacinda Ardern, my favourite politician and former Prime Minister of New Zealand, today. Just for that, moving to Boston was worth it. 😊

Women make up only 16% of corresponding authors who submit to Nature, a new Springer Nature analysis revealed. This is not enough - there are 30-40% #womeninSTEM We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Another breakthrough made possible by federal funding The result “is a triumph for the American peoples’ investment in biomedical research” Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

Check out our new OCD GWAS (53,660 cases and 2,044,417 controls) in @natgenet.nature.com 🧬🧠 Genetic risk was associated with excitatory neurons in the cortex and hippocampus. There was much genetic overlap with anxiety, depression, and anorexia. Open access: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Margot Friedländer. So eine große Persönlichkeit. Bin traurig.

Big news for health data research and population diversity: The Mexico City Prospective Study data are now available securely to approved researchers worldwide. www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/news/latin-a... Cohort description: www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/research/pro...

One sentence that stayed with me from the #SOBP2025 fireside chat: 'Science cannot help society if it does not reflect society.'

just deactivated my #X /Twitter account - feels great. honestly, I should’ve done it a while ago

Bioconductor 3.21 released with 72 new software packages, for a total of 2341 software packages, 432 experiment data packages, 928 annotation packages, 30 workflows and 5 books bioconductor.org/news/bioc_3_... 🧬🖥️🧪 #Rstats

How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect epigenetic aging? Find out at poster S23! #SOBP2025

Do adult blood-trained epigenetic measures generalize to child saliva? What does this mean for psychiatric epigenetics? Come find out and talk to me at poster S193 - now with new cross-tissue epigenome-wide results! #SOBP2025

#SOBP2025 Stop by poster 206 if you're interested in epigenetic markers for psychotherapy response - or just want to chat.

One thing I did not expect to find in the US: better #bike infrastructure than in most European cities.

Starting an exciting new chapter—I'll be spending all of 2025 in Boston as a visiting graduate student in the labs of Kerry Ressler and Torsten Klengel at McLean Hospital.

work lunch with a view #Bergen

With some help from @raduzabet.bsky.social, I've created a starter pack of researchers working on #Epigenetics, Chromatin and Gene Regulation who are active on here: go.bsky.app/TKp9YAn I've likely missed many people so let me know if you want to be added. Similarly if you would like to be removed.

Thanks to everyone who visited my poster at #Epigenomics23. It was a great conference, I really enjoyed it! #epigenetics #psychotherapy #OCD #DNAmethylation

Evaluation of the new Illumina EPIC version 2: epicom.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... We used this array to measure DNA methylation in my PhD project.

Very grateful for their research! just got the XBB.1.5 update yesterday💉 #nobel #nobelprize