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06.10.2025 16:52 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0@drmluciano.bsky.social
Behaviour Geneticist @University of Edinburgh researching cognitive abilities and personality | Balboa Dancer | Aspiring Roller Dancer | Prince Fan
Not to be missed!
06.10.2025 16:52 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0π£ New preprint from the Braga Lab! π£
The ventral visual stream for reading converges on the transmodal language network
Congrats to Dr. Joe Salvo for this epic set of results
Big Q: What brain systems support the translation of writing to concepts and meaning?
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A nice report on some of our recent dyslexia GWAS results. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09...
07.10.2025 04:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just back from holiday and pleased to see work led by a past Honours student, Diana Bicona, now published: rdcu.be/eH32N. We don't find any interaction between common genetic variant effects and broad measures of SES, but both main effects are signficant for reading achievement.
07.10.2025 02:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Open Targets Platform autumn release is out! π
We have ingested the full dataset of over 13 million enhancer-gene regulatory interactions in the human genome across 1,458 DNase-seq experiments covering 369 cell types and tissues from the ENCODE-rE2G model
blog.opentargets.org/open-targets...
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesnβt like.
18.09.2025 14:10 β π 62264 π 19857 π¬ 2044 π 932Submissions are now open for the next European Conference on Personality (ECP22, Edinburgh, July 2026)! We welcome talks, posters and symposia. Also, keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops are now listed.
www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission
Oh man, thank you CNN.
It's been a heck of a day and I really needed the laugh.
Sept is approaching & I can already hear initial chats/enquiries for potential PhD studies happening!
If you're interested in a PhD, check out our department @cam.ac.uk www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/education-an...
We've a super interdisciplinary faculty spanning primary care, data science, epidemiology etc
I think itβs a bit unfair to blame the snails.
16.09.2025 01:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Obscene.
15.09.2025 04:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Paper led by Lucas Perry and using a multi-ancestry sample from the Born in Bradford cohort study.
12.09.2025 01:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Brilliant 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...
I'm hardly surprised.
11.09.2025 05:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0my money is on the teenagers, bro π
10.09.2025 07:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Follow @clscohorts.bsky.social to keep up-to-date on this super important new birth cohort!
10.09.2025 07:43 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1#StopTheCuts UCU Edinburgh strikes highlighted in todayβs Scotsman @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #SaveHE β
09.09.2025 06:44 β π 4 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Some 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...
and the music video was just perfect.
04.09.2025 00:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Any PhD students up for trailblazing should definitely get in touch with Ted, the project sounds even cooler than the Avalanches' Frontier Psychiatrist.
03.09.2025 04:43 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It depends, are you currently moonlighting.
01.09.2025 04:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You can always depend on nurses π
01.09.2025 04:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just another marker of entitlement.
29.08.2025 06:18 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is figure 2, which shows an example case of the interactions across social threat concepts and their contribution to anxiety and depression in youth.
A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology provides an overview of key behavioural, emotional and cognitive mechanisms that might link social threat to risk for anxiety and depression in youth. go.nature.com/47T4BgS π§ͺ
26.08.2025 22:54 β π 14 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0Israel says it βvalues the work of journalists.β But 192 have been killed in #Gaza since 2023 (according to @pressfreedom.bsky.social)
Itβs βpart of a longer history of Israeli attempts to silence Palestinian journalistsβ writes @maha-nassar.bsky.social:
If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...
25.08.2025 04:54 β π 213 π 68 π¬ 4 π 4Timeline cleanser.
0:53 to 1:38 is pure, undiluted joy.
Actually, I'm a big fan of the logo, I like that the name is contained in a barrel rather than a kidney bean :)
21.08.2025 01:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New study in Nature Communications (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62452-z): "3 stages of religious decline around the world."
We find a secular transition begins at different times in different places. Over generations, drops in religious:
1. Participation
2. Importance
3. Belonging