Newborn Loses Faith In Humanity After Record 6 Days https://theonion.com/newborn-loses-faith-in-humanity-after-record-6-days-1819573929/

My only regret is that we didn't go with the title "One buffer to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them", although "Squeaky clean staining" was a pretty good options too!

Beautiful and clear results showing that temporal difference error calculation is hardwired in the dopamine/striatum mircocircuits: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... from @malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social and @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social

I'm near speechless. @awaisaftab.bsky.social heard was I was trying to say (and added his own insights). Thank you for engaging with Elusive Cures so thoughtfully, Awais. I'm so appreciative.

Fantastic piece in Nature Reviews Neuro by @nicolecrust.bsky.social on the importance of science communication. My take? Everything matters - just do something. It will make a difference for how science is valued and trusted, how community understands. Let's get out there and communicate! 👏

Apply to do a PhD with me, Laura Corbin, Gareth Hawkes and George Davey Smith ( @mendelrandom.bsky.social) in Bristol on identifying rare effects on health using new and innovative methods. Amazing team, great educational environment, lovely city. Forward to your undergrads wrapping up!

2025 NHS England Competition ratios for postgraduate medical training by specialty. Medsky 🩺https://medical.hee.nhs.uk/medical-training-recruitment/medical-specialty-training/competition-ratios/2025-competition-ratios

I have fallen in love with sleepy lizards (Tiliqua rugosa). They're slow-moving omnivores, so they tend to eat slow-moving food. When available, they love a good flower snack, slurping up daisies with their blue tongues. (📷: Rhys Moult, rhysatwork on IG)

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed and validated ‘Ovatools’, a new clinical tool that could help GPs detect ovarian cancer earlier and improve outcomes cost-effectively: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/new-per... #SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research @qmulprimarycare.bsky.social

A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions. Lots of updates from the preprint!

My latest blog... a call to action for #MHNursing ... setting the global priorities for mental health nursing. Mental health nursing leaders invited to summit in Barcelona 21-22November 2025 drrhondawilson.com/blog/f/call-...

SCN2A loss is strongly linked to neurodevelopmental delays and, at times, seizure. In an amazing collaboration with @nadavahituv.bsky.social, led by Serena Tamura, Andrew Nelson, and Perry Spratt, we leveraged CRISPR activator approaches to rescue this loss. rdcu.be/eGU0W

We have a new name, the Cambridge centre for Precision Psychiatry and Data Science – or CPPDS, and a new website: www.cppds.org.uk Led by @gkmurray.bsky.social and myself, we focus on #datascience, #psychiatry, #genomics, and #translational medicine, at @psychiatry-ucam.bsky.social 1/2

Incredible news for building leadership and capacity in the UK which is so needed in addiction research! The best time for action was yesterday, the next best time is now. 💪

Register now for a webinar discussion by Enago Academy for #PeerReviewWeek, on 17 September, with * Daniel Ucko @danielucko.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social * Patrick Starke - ImageTwinAI * Elliot Lumb @research-signals.bsky.social * Mary Miskin - EnagoAcademy * and me enago.com/our-events/a...

🧠✨ Women in Neuroscience History: The Pioneers Who Changed Everything Incredible stories of 11 women who revolutionized brain science, often against impossible odds. Meet trailblazers of sleep research, memory science, neuroplasticity, and neurosurgery — from Maria Manasseina to May-Britt Moser 🧠

Glad to share our new article out in Cognitive Neuropsychiatry! We assessed relationships between symptoms and sentiment in speech during picture descriptions from people with psychosis across 2 cohorts and 2 timepoints... 1/4 doi.org/10.1080/1354...

Very grateful to be among an inspiring group of @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellows for the next 4-7 years. We will infuse brain anatomy into AI to study shared principles and important differences in cognition across species. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...

It turns out, metacognition is all you need. But you can’t afford it.

"Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD: A Survival Guide" has been out for 3 years. I don't do "proud" very often, but I am proud of the people I've helped through writing it. Thank you to everyone who's supported me with it and convinced me that writing it was a good idea.

I'm on @nature.com's podcast talking to @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social about the role that journalists can play in combating research misconduct. Honored to appear alongside @jamesheathers.bsky.social, @abalkina.bsky.social, @richvn.bsky.social and many others: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Just uploaded the updated `discovr_19` R tutorial, which covers logistic regression. This one is almost unrecognizable from the old version, changed to match the chapter of the forthcoming textbook. github.com/profandyfiel...

Fear not, if you liked the old version of `discovr_19` that matches my lecture at youtu.be/yniFrp8vQLQ?... then `discovr_19_xmas, which is the Christmas version, has you covered:) github.com/profandyfiel...

Thrilled to be heading to Almería, Spain for #EBPS2025, where I’ll share the first results from our precision fMRI study on semaglutide and interoception, in a symposium organized by @sirileknes.bsky.social. Looking forward to sun, science, and pharmacology!

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Intriguing (and confusing) that we use the term "depression" to refer to both to a symptom and a condition. Unlike "schizophrenia" (eg symptom "psychosis"). The term "depression" began to appear in medical dictionaries mid-1800s. Before that, "melancholia". pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3074848/

Latest preprint from our lab - pilot open label study of songmaking for psychosis: paranoia improves!

I've been following the field of biosensors for nearly 2 decades. This may well turn out to be the most important advance yet erictopol.substack.com/p/biosensors...

National mental health director Claire Murdoch resigns with immediate effect claiming political pressure for a new person...her resignation letter....👀

EXCITING NEWS! @addiction-ssa.org has been selected to deliver the Govmt’s new flagship addiction leadership scheme, developing the next generation of researchers www.gov.uk/government/n...

The UK Government has announced £10 million in funding to support the next generation of leaders in addiction research. Find out more about the Addiction Healthcare Goals Research Leadership Programme: tinyurl.com/2sveeum8

Excited to present our new tool "PEStimate", an online app for predicting risk reductions after Polygenic Embryo Screening (PES). Find the app here: polygenicembryo.shinyapps.io/pestimate/ Preprint: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Brilliant paper by Visscher et al. Populations differ in traits/disease burden. Are these differences due to genetics? Comparing single variants or polygenic scores between populations is biased due to environmental confounders correlated with the variants. 1/3 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧵 1/4 We’ve published updates of our schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder patient information resources, and a brand new resource on psychosis. These resources were written with the valuable input of individuals with lived experience. Please see the thread below for all resources.

New Postdoc Opportunity @ KCL! 🧬 Explore X-inactivation, methylation, and sex differences in depression 🧠 Work with a brilliant team at the SGDP Centre 📍 Denmark Hill, London 🗓️ Deadline: 26 Sept 🔗 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/124665-... #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #Genetics #MentalHealth

Hear Dr Axel Laurell @axellaurell.bsky.social share the latest news from the PREVENT General Assembly. With so much potential in the programme- we can't wait to see what happens next!

RFK Jr has promised to release a report on the causes of autism in September. To prepare, it's a good idea to make sure we know what the common types of observational research biases are. First up: confounding by indication. Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

Are electronic health records (EHR) more predictive of disease onset than polygenic scores? Can we transfer EHR-based prediction models between countries? Our study on these questions using 3 biobank-based studies with N>845K, is out in @natgenet.nature.com today: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The MRC are looking for a computational neuroscientist to join their Neuroscience & Mental Health Board, to replace me as I step down next year. Drop me a line if you want to know more Deadline September 14th www.ukri.org/who-we-are/w....

Grant Writing Workshop (WCPG-PGC) Mon 20 Oct 2025 17:00 90-minute workshop Attendance by application/invitation only. A ticket shows that your application has been received. It doesn't guarantee you'll be successful in being awarded a place at the event www.eventbrite.com/e/grant-writ...

Fun write up of Imagination/perception work from @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social and others: www.scientificamerican.com/article/newf... I was just live on Canadian Breakfast radio chatting about it. Bad pun, but this work really has captured the public imagination!

🏆 August’s #AltmetricChampion is here! Most discussed paper this month: ‘Utilisation of subsidised genetic and genomic testing in a publicly funded healthcare system, 2014–2023’ 🧬 Read in #EJHG ⬇️

Extremely exciting!

Working with Lisa and young people at Voice Collective to create this animation as well as co-write a book chapter based on it, has been incredible - a real bonus that the animation is being played at a film festival! If this sparks any interest, check out www.voicecollective.co.uk

New preprint from stellar IRTG PhD student Amelie Rauland + team on white matter bundle reconstruction! Shows that WM bundles can be reliably extracted from simple 32-direction dMRI & features predict cognition - huge potential for legacy and clinical data. Thread 👇 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Some people call it a minefield. Others call it dangerous, even irresponsible. I call it the most promising field in life sciences. My love letter to social science genetics: communities.springernature.com/posts/a-love...

Thoughtful piece by Abdel on social science genetics - I am definitely taken by “one person’s confounder is another person’s signal”. Also humble about dark histories here and his own perspective

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Following Farage’s announcement that he plans to make “serious cuts to the welfare budgets” if he wins the next election, I’ve seen this claim being repeated from last year’s headlines again. So let’s take a look at the the reality rather than the weaponised version 🧵 1/21

How the Brain Tells Imagination from Reality