❤️🎄🇵🇸 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐂𝐊: Buy “Lullaby” by Together for Palestine for £1.98 *right now* to make it the UK Christmas # 1. All profits go to Palestinian-led aid orgs. Together for Palestine are: Nai Barghouti, Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry, Celeste, Mabel & more. Please buy it & repost this! xx linktr.ee/T4Plive

Actual Good News: Labour has launched its fair funding formula for local councils. The aim is to push more cash towards deprived communities like Middlesbrough and Birmingham. And less for wealthier areas such as Kensington and the Home Counties. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Stop scrolling and look at my cats

Do consider buying and/or repeatedly streaming Lullaby by Together for Palestine to make it number 1 this Christmas, and to raise money for charity 💔 togetherforpalestine.org

FYI for UK disabled people… If you are in hospital for over 28 days, PIP usually stops until discharge. But there are circumstances which mean some can still receive the benefit payments. These include terminal illnesses or life limiting conditions. Under DWP guidance… 1/2

I just found out that this exists! A visualisation tool to see whereabouts specific trait-associated genetic variants are expressed in the body in fine detail (mouse embryo) and it's incredible! yanglab.westlake.edu.cn/gsmap/visual... e.g. sensitivity to environmental stress

I'm old enough to remember when "armed agents of the federal government raiding churches on Christmas" was not, in fact, a cornerstone of the Republican Party's agenda.

Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

Thank you Zack Polanski for saying what needs to be said ‘This is extreme. This is inhumane. This is government of cowards. ‘I am furious - so many people are furious’ 👏

There's a new documentary today called "Hitler's DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator" - but DNA is not a blueprint! See below.

A reminder that there are things we can do. I give to War Child / Save the Children / etc near my late Mum's birthday, because it's what she would have done 💔❤️‍🩹 Donate here: www.warchild.org.uk/donate-today...

Farage: epic grifter

As MSP sang: "prejudice burns brighter when it's all we have to burn"

Stop calling it a "war" when one side is committing genocide against the other (who doesn't have a military) #FFS

Can we all just shout about how despicable it is to scapegoat migrants for everything? Can we just stop being too polite or shy about it? Can we condemn it at work, with friends, family, on SM, everywhere? Can we just not keep calm & carry on until it’s too late? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Here are some random exploratory plots for you - looks like women report better social support from family and friends than men regardless of marital status, while partnered men report better partner support than partnered women do

Not candidate gene studies being cited in a 2025 neuroscience course 😖

It was great to contribute to this study for @usociety.bsky.social on the epigenetic correlates of major depression, and to be listed alongside such incredible co-authors! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

Wake me up when someone with a shred of decency and leadership is running the UK

I had a great time at the British Society for Population Studies @bspsuk.bsky.social conference this week. I've written a blog post about what I learned - check it out at the link below! peoplescienceuk.wordpress.com/2025/09/05/w... #BSPS2025

Judge us by our critics. subscribe.bylinetimes.com

BBC: "We're just reporting what the Israeli Defence Forces have said..." Exactly.

BREAKING: At least 71 Palestinians, including 24 aid seekers, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the latest 24-hour reporting period, says Gaza’s Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/r3s7v3

Latest processing of UK Biobank brain imaging data - now with 82,000 usable first-scan datasets. Correlating brain IDPs with 13,000 non-imaging variables gives a rich manhattan-stye plot. 324,000 Bonferroni-significant associations.

“We’re here to talk about A levels” “Free Palestine the BBC is complicit” 💀💀

I read the word "endpoint" in the context of EWAS disease phenotypes today, and I think it's important to frame diseases in this way because it reminds you to think about everything upstream!

Genetic "optimization" of embryos appears to be becoming mainstream. The narrative currently is largely controlled by startups that range across the spectrum from hardcore snake-oil to well-intentioned & occasionally strong domain expertise. But these are not neutral parties. 1/

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

Googling "how to create a tarball" *every single time* because I have an MSc in Bioinformatics, with distinction... 😑

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes? American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

Digitising old photos 🥲

I was lucky enough to visit the Jenny Saville exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery yesterday, along with the Portrait Award entries which are always amazing, plus the icon of epidemiology: Broad Street Pump, and the place my parents met: Somerset House

27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws. Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide. This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.

I completed Differential Expression Analysis with limma in R by DataCamp www.datacamp.com/completed/st...

One benefit to having a husband with Generalized Anxiety Disorder is that he knows what to do if we get nuked (also his myriad personal qualities and handsomeness).

25 Palestinians killed seeking aid this morning. 146 wounded. 62 in critical condition. Under no circumstances should the UK follow these genocidaires into their illegal war.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

When you were considering being offended at being called a nerd last week ……but you’ve spent the weekend at a #Lego fayre & find yourself excited to take your Dr Hibbert (& his little x-ray! 🩻) to the hospital to show your friends 🏥 🩺 …..& realise its true 🤓😆 #NerdsAreCool 😎

Your genome is not a blueprint. A thread about misleading metaphors in science communication. 🧬🧪 1/n

Last week I had a great time at the Soc-B student workshop at University of Essex. Loved listening to everyone's presentations and talking about my research. A great bunch of passionate students and supportive professors. I also enjoyed the Wivenhoe trail walk and campus tree walk 🥰

I've launched a personal blog: People Science! In it, I write about scientific topics which interest me, for an interested lay audience. My new post recaps what I learned at the IBANGS Genes, Brain & Behavior meeting in Fiji. Feel free to check it out! peoplescienceuk.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/w...

Troops gun down starving crowds, capping deadly first week of operations for controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

It was great to contribute to this study discovering the genetic basis of the devastating condition "long covid", on behalf of @usociety.bsky.social. The study coordinators were fantastic and gave me a lot of support through my first GWAS. www.nature.com/articles/s41...