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Michelle Luciano

@drmluciano.bsky.social

Behaviour Geneticist @University of Edinburgh researching cognitive abilities and personality | Balboa Dancer | Aspiring Roller Dancer | Prince Fan

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06.10.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“£ New preprint from the Braga Lab! πŸ“£

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?

Thread 🧡 ⬇️

07.10.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Largest genetic study to date identifies 13 new DNA regions linked to dyslexia Dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental condition estimated to affect between 5–10% of people living in most countries, irrespective of their educational and cultural background. Dyslexic individuals experie...

A nice report on some of our recent dyslexia GWAS results. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09...

07.10.2025 04:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Dyslexia Polygenic Index and Socio-Economic Status Interaction Effects on Reading Skills in Australia and the United Kingdom

Just 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€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Open Targets Platform 25.09 has been released! The September 25 release includes enhancer-gene data predicted by ENCODE-rE2G, molQTL credible sets for targets, new options for the variant structural viewer, and a number of data updates from GWAS C...

The Open Targets Platform autumn release is out! πŸ‚

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...

18.09.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

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 doesn’t like.

18.09.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 62264    πŸ” 19857    πŸ’¬ 2044    πŸ“Œ 932
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Submission | Submit Your Work β€” ECP22 Prepare to submit symposia, papers, and posters for ECP22 Edinburgh 2026. Each delegate can present one paper or poster and be co-author on multiple submissions.

Submissions 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

17.09.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh man, thank you CNN.

It's been a heck of a day and I really needed the laugh.

15.09.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 218    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 0
Doctoral Training | Department of Public Health and Primary Care (PHPC) Course Code – MDPU22 A doctorate from the University of Cambridge is primarily a research degree based on a research programme developed in conjunction with a supervisor.

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

27.08.2025 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think it’s a bit unfair to blame the snails.

16.09.2025 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Obscene.

15.09.2025 04:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Paper led by Lucas Perry and using a multi-ancestry sample from the Born in Bradford cohort study.

12.09.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Direct effect of genetic ancestry on complex traits in a Mexican population Human populations differ in disease prevalences and in average values of phenotypes, but the extent to which differences are caused by genetic or environmental factors is unknown for most complex trai...

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...

11.09.2025 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I'm hardly surprised.

11.09.2025 05:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

my money is on the teenagers, bro πŸ˜„

10.09.2025 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Follow @clscohorts.bsky.social to keep up-to-date on this super important new birth cohort!

10.09.2025 07:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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#StopTheCuts UCU Edinburgh strikes highlighted in today’s Scotsman @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #SaveHE ✊

09.09.2025 06:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Love Letter to Social Science Genetics Some people call social science genetics a minefield. Others call it dangerous, even irresponsible. I call it the most promising field in life sciences.

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...

08.09.2025 05:55 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 6

and the music video was just perfect.

04.09.2025 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Any 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€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It depends, are you currently moonlighting.

01.09.2025 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You can always depend on nurses πŸ’™

01.09.2025 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just another marker of entitlement.

29.08.2025 06:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
This is figure 2, which shows an example case of the interactions across social threat concepts and their contribution to anxiety and depression in youth.

This 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 πŸ§ͺ

26.08.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Israel’s killing of journalists follows a pattern of silencing Palestinian media that stretches back to 1967 Since October 2023, Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed nearly 200 journalists. But the targeting of media predates the current conflict.

Israel says it β€œvalues the work of journalists.” But 192 have been killed in #Gaza since 2023 (according to @pressfreedom.bsky.social)

It’s ”part of a longer history of Israeli attempts to silence Palestinian journalists” writes @maha-nassar.bsky.social:

27.08.2025 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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€” πŸ‘ 213    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4

Timeline cleanser.

0:53 to 1:38 is pure, undiluted joy.

26.08.2025 02:51 β€” πŸ‘ 233    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0

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€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The three stages of religious decline around the world - Nature Communications Religious decline is happening around the world. Here, the authors show that countries are at different stages of a common global sequence of decline in religious participation, personal importance of religion, and religious belonging.

New 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

19.08.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

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