New expert-led guidance clarifies terminology for pathogenic CACNA1C variants, defining Timothy Syndrome and introducing CACNA1C-Related Disorders (CRDs). Read the preprint: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8... #CACNA1C #TimothySyndrome #RareDisease

“The Experience of Itch in Autistic Adults: An Online Survey” by Tackley et al (2025) finds that autistic adults report greater itch severity and itch-related impact on their daily life than non-autistic adults. FREE until 20th June www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

doi.org/10.1089/aut.... We asked autistic and non-autisitc people if they suffered from itch. Autistic people reported more itch, at a greater severity, and with a far greater impact. #autism #sensory

3 elections in as many weeks. Centre left parties in two of them take on populist right and win, in 3rd they emulate populists and lose. Could there be a lesson here? And is there even a remote chance U.K. Labour might see it?

When you were asked to return the corrected page proofs within 48 hours but four months later your paper is still not available online.

"We established four-part assembloids from human pluripotent stem cells, integrating somatosensory, spinal, thalamic & cortical organoids [...to...] accelerate understanding of sensory circuits & facilitate therapeutic development." Elegant work by the @sergiuppasca.bsky.social lab in @nature.com. 🧪

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

🧵 1/11 📚 Our new rapid systematic review, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social in @bmj.com examines the role of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthetic associates (AAs) in the UK. This is a crucially important question in light of the Leng Review

Starmer: "You are very, very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom. We will stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take." Proud to be British tonight. #SlavaUkrainii 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

🚨 This will become a curated list of awesome tools for complex trait genetics, **add yours**! it may become a review in which case those who contribute are invited as co-authors.

My first post on Bluesky :) We’re hiring! We’re looking for a postdoc research associate, to come work with us in our national population mental health consortium. If you’re into psych epi, public health & tackling mental health inequities take a look ⏬ www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/mini...

Our 2024 CSHL conference on human brain development and stem cell models is in full swing, with over 300 participants! This year’s event features exciting new discoveries and dynamic discussions, driven largely by the energy & insights of trainees #Assembloids #Organoids #Brain #CSHL2024Brain

A lot of people will tell you we're a Roman Palace. We are in fact a moon-sized super-weapon capable of destroying a planet. (Better with sound).

"Why should our entire built environment be optimized to amuse a sliver of one percent of the population, even granting that it amuses them very effectively?" www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-revie...

Looking forward to the biggest shakeup of the NHS since the last one…

RCPsych needs to move from Twitter to Bluesky! It’s a mental health imperative. Peers are already here.

“thanks so much for the feedback”

Disappointing to see a reviewer use a book review to so push his own ideological view of mental illness and mental health services. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

I am still obsessing over this bone development paper showing bone replacing cartilage and thinking about how this mirrors the evolutionary innovation of a bony skeleton replacing a cartilage body plan. Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My latest post on what to expect for the NHS this winter open.substack.com/pub/christin... TLDR: looks likely we'll avoid a repeat of disastrous 2022/23 winter, but only by luck 1/6

Me seeing all the healthcare/psych/MH types appear as followers/mutuals when ~80% of what I post is either unserious/fun or otherwise unrelated to the day job

Latest paper in Nature this week: an atlas integrating 36 single-cell datasets spanning 26 protocols for making neural #organoids Effort led by B. Treutlein, @fabiantheis.bsky.social and @graycamplab.bsky.social

This is the live tracker map of Scottish gritter lorries, each with their own hilarious name, like "Grittin' on wae it", "Sled Zepplin" and "Snow bother". You can find the map here: experience.arcgis.com/experience/9...

I did a version about psychiatry papers back then 😆

The Voltage-Gated #Calcium Channel Collective - a #CACNA1A, #CACNA1B, #CACNA1C, #CACNA1D, #CACNA1E, #CACNA1F, #CACNA1G, #CACNA1H, #CACNA1I & #CACNA1S collaboration alongside researchers and clinicians raising awareness, accelerating knowledge, signposting and empowering our communities. #IonChannels

I have a Fellowship open in my division for 2025/2026 for an early career psychologist interested in Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. Message me for info.

Got an email that a paper of mine had been cited. Citation is a dross manuscript in a predatory journal; so far, so dull. BUT, the article also included copyrighted media from the charity I work with. No attribution or prior authorisation. Article so bad it would damage the charity rep. Options?

If you're new to Bluesky: welcome! You made it! For any lovers of museums or the arts, we made a Starter Pack containing many museums, galleries and libraries that you can follow and enjoy in a single click. Have any suggestions of accounts we should include? Let us know! bsky.app/starter-pack...

look at this absolute unit

Got a PhD in bioinformatics or quantiative/CS degree? Want to work with AI on real world health care data, using some of the biggest and most complete datasets in the world? Want to live in Cambridge UK and work in European EMBL? This job in my research group is for you! www.embl.org/jobs/positio...

In the spirit of academic openness: I got a manuscript rejection today. Big-ish paper and journal, and it had been through a round of review and edits. 3 years of work (and counting). Stings, but we get back on the horse.

one of the reasons bluesky works differently is because early users waged a successful fight to get the devs to prioritize safety features to protect communities at risk as a result bluesky now has a suite of controls that i think are unmatched on social media here’s the list, lmk what i’ve missed

For all things psychiatry, psychology and mental health. Message below if you’d like to be added to the starter pack! go.bsky.app/C36fgiD

New here? or logged back in recently? Find your old friends in statistical and psychiatric genetics in this starter pack, ill try to update frequently, let me know if you want to be added: go.bsky.app/9643dwo

This one is my favorite

The 1st national survey of play in preschool-aged children in Britain has found that from the age of two, girls play outside in nature less than boys. The research was by researchers at the Universities of Cambridge & Exeter. Read - https://buff.ly/3YbzNS3

New preprint from the group! New exome seq data and novel rare variant associations. Led by the brilliant Sophie Chick www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Why is The Rest Is Politics so popular? Because it harks back to an earlier age of broadcasting: less cynical, less combative, and in which the BBC's John Freeman asked questions like : “Are you on the whole more interested in ideas or in people?” www.economist.com/britain/2024...

Ok friends! I made a starter pack of psychiatric genetics people! Please let me know if you want to be added and share widely on other platforms to get our community here go.bsky.app/SkkmtMG

🩺 FDA approves M1/M4 muscarinic agonist KarXT for schizophrenia 🧠🩺 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hello all, another refugee finding my way here. I'm an academic forensic psychiatry SpR interested in all things psychiatric genetics, particularly neurodevelopmental conditions and rare genetic disorders. Also posting about consciousness, AI, sci-fi & economics/politics. Will disagree agreeably.

Please repost this so I can find all my followers and mutuals. Follow me for a follow back. I need to rebuild my network here. Thanks 🙏🏽