KidneyGen Africa 1st workshop, here we are! 🛬 www.kidneygenafrica.org/workshops #kidney #genetics #africa #ckd

Incredibly important story that everyone should read. These are not disorganized lone actors, but well-funded and powerful networks to be treated as serious threats. They are using our work to push a eugenicist and racist agenda that is scientifically invalid and morally reprehensible.

We’re recruiting a data science programme lead to help develop and deliver a bold data science and AI strategy that will position us at the forefront of innovation. For the full job description and to apply, click here: https://bit.ly/4rrsEKL

This looks interesting: Rscript -> .qmd

Tutorial in Biostatistics Mendelian Randomization Methods for Causal Inference: Estimands, Identification and Inference. Minhao Yao, Anqi Wang, Xihao Li, Zhonghua Liu. Statistics in Medicine. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Methods Series @ki.se is back! @epiellie.bsky.social kicks off the 2026 speaker lineup next Tuesday, "How do we actually draw a causal graph? A proposal for evidence-based best practices." 📆 Jan 27, 2026 ⏰ 15.00 CET/9.00 EST 📍 Online Register to attend 👇 stats.sender.net/forms/e7JD1d...

📣 🧬🦠 New article out on genetic susceptibility to infection with Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2. In this international GWAS meta-analysis, we identified loci not found for earlier variants of the virus. The findings point to a central role of glycosylation. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really honored that our kidney volume genetics paper is accompanied by an editorial commentary in the Feb issue of @kidneyint.bsky.social. Many thanks to @cpattaro.bsky.social & Belen Ponte for the thoughtful perspective, and to all collaborators who made this work possible #CKD #DeepLearning #GWAS

In the new issue of @kidneyint.bsky.social you can find a little commentary that I had the pleasure to coauthor with Belen Ponte: "Genomics of kidney volumes: one size does not fit all" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

to him we probably owe the first definition of uniform distribution #statssky

🚀 Introducing the "HT Seminars: Connecting Discoveries"! A new series bringing leading international researchers to Milan to explore what’s next in life sciences. Across disciplines, perspectives and technologies. Calendar & Registrations 👉 humantechnopole.it/en/training/... #HTseminars

New paper "Variant selection to maximize variance explained in cis-Mendelian randomization" led by @AngZhou3 and published at @HGGAdvances: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41548043/, with contribution from @vkarhune.bsky.social, Haodong, Janne, Ash, and Eric. Brief thread:

Causal Genotype–Phenotype Relationships from Population-Sampled Parent–Child Trios: TMT and TDT onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #statgen

Just finished reading 'Epidemiology: An Introduction' (3rd ed.) by KJ Rothman, KF Huybrechts and EJ Murray (@epiellie.bsky.social). What an excellent book. I especially loved those little boxes explaining, for instance, why p-values in the Table 1 of RCTs make no sense. Congrats for the great work!

Reports said the trial was halted. HHS says it will proceed. The revised protocol remains unethical. Scrutiny must continue until participants are no longer placed in harm’s way. I read the revised protocol and wrote a follow-up. bktitanji.substack.com/p/lipstick-o...

Very proud that Eurac Research has joined the Scholars at Risk network! www.scholarsatrisk.org #EuracResearch

Excited to share our new preprint from the @arbelharpak.bsky.social Lab! How do recruitment into genetic studies and study characteristics impact what we infer about the genetic bases of traits, and what are the consequences? (1/21) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Good intentions for 2026: new website! Let's see for how long I could keep it up to date 😅 cristianpattaro.quarto.pub/cp/

If you are interested in the past, present, and future of Mendelian Randomisation, join us later this month for a Causal Inference Interest Group seminar on MR with none other than @mendelrandom.bsky.social Zoom registration link: ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

In 2021 @janewit-thekidgene.bsky.social joined our lab & decided to define the prevalence & clinical correlates of known genetic forms of nephrotic syndrome among an unselected group of adults. 5 yrs later, we're excited to share what he found; a 🧵 kidney-international.org/article/S008...

scientific integrity - leading by example 👏

👀 New blog post! 👀 Ever made a *spaghetti* line chart and wondered how you can make it more accessible and more aesthetically pleasing at the same time? 📈 Read this blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/accessi... #DataViz #RStats

cCREs - fantastic 🧵 from a fantastic paper #genomics

If you like larger sample sizes, then do check out our reprocessed and fine mapped cis-eQTLs and cis-sQTLs (leafCutter and MAJIQ!) from the INTERVAL cohort (whole blood, n up to 4,729)! zenodo.org/records/1795... These will be on the eQTL Catalogue FTP soon as well. cc @yosephbarash.bsky.social

reposting for the Monday crowd— This week in my newsletter I discussed the “Have your best baby” campaign by Nucleus Genomics as an example of what @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social and @arnovanhootegem.bsky.social have called “commodification on steroids” open.substack.com/pub/kathrynp...

When is a funding application not worth it? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why should scientists write op-eds? It's tempting to say the facts ought to speak for themselves. But the facts are largely whispering among themselves in the scientific literature. They need us to give them a voice. How? Advice in my latest @natchem.nature.com Thesis rdcu.be/eJlGL #chemsky 1/3

Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories. I hope it helps your transition off US tech!

This change of perspective is amazing #CKD From progression to remission: a new paradigm for success in chronic kidney disease - Kidney International www.kidney-international.org/article/S008...

Helpful, new paper on the I^2 statistic #rstat #StatsSky

A thread of my 2025 blog posts - including 14 posts about #RStats, #TidyTuesday, #QuartoPub and more! January 2025: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/colours...

Today the Swiss announced they don't have an agreement with Springer Nature -- swissuniversity tried to secure a deal and failed in the face of the extreme rise in publishing fees. When the game is rigged, it's better to stop playing. 🧵 to understand the drain of scientific publishing👇

Apologies if you see this again but I am still looking for postdoc positions in psychiatric genetics! I am currently a postdoc at Mount Sinai, I have a PhD in genetic epi from King’s, and have experience in psychosis, ADHD, and autism, including postpartum psychosis!

This year's CSAMA Biological Data Science Summer School in Brixen takes place 24-29 May 2026. Topics: single-cell and spatial omics, statistics, multi-omics, ML/AI, all very hands-on using R / Bioconductor! More info: csama2026.bioconductor.eu Registration: 1 Feb 2026! @bioconductor.bsky.social

Great sharing part of my scientific path w students today @unipd.bsky.social Stats Dept

CSAMA 2026 - Biological Data Science Summer School Bressanone-Brixen, South Tyrol / Italy 24-29 May 2026 csama2026.bioconductor.eu Statistical & computational methods for single cell and spatial omics, with lectures and hands-on exercises in R/Bioconductor.

I'll forever be reminded of this blog post blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-your-ra...

Causal inference is hard, and advanced statistical analysis is not enough. Timothy Feeney, Paul N Zivich. BMJ. www.bmj.com/content/391/...

my workshop is available here: jorainer.github.io/xcms4gnps2/ - with contribution from @philouail.bsky.social

Foundations of Bayesian Statistics for Data Scientists: With R and Python. Alan Agresti, Maria Kateri, Ranjini Grove, Antonietta Mira. Chapman & Hall 2026, 456 Pages. www.routledge.com/Foundations-...

A #SystematicReview Evaluating Estimated #GFR Performance in #SouthAsian Populations #VisualAbstract by @DrPSVali https://www.kireports.org/article/S2468-0249(25)00678-3/fulltext

Abstract submission for #eshg2026 is open! The Scientific Programme Committee invites abstracts to be submitted for inclusion in the programme as posters or oral presentations until 12th February 2026. More information found on the conference website: 2026.eshg.org/abstracts/

I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.

GWAS has been an incredible discovery tool for human genetics: it regularly identifies *causal* links from 1000s of SNPs to any given trait. But mechanistic interpretation is usually difficult. Our latest work on causal models for this is out yesterday: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short🧵:

still possible to apply 👇

Looking forward to talking to students tomorrow, at my alma mater in #Padova @ Stats Dept @ #Unipd www.linkedin.com/posts/dipart...

Six new members join the ERC Scientific Council: 🔸Michel Campillo 🔸Emmanuelle Charpentier 🔸Kateřina Králová 🔸Susana Narotzky 🔸Karin Roelofs 🔸Eleftheria Zeggini Read more: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Thank you Alex! Excited to see our paper published in @nature.com ! Huge thanks to @jeffspence.github.io , @tkyzeng.bsky.social , @emmamarydann.bsky.social, @nikhilmilind.dev, @marsonlab.bsky.social, @jkpritch.bsky.social, and all the members of the Pritchard and Marson labs for your enormous help!