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michelnivard.bsky.social
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Bristol at: [email protected]
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Excited about our new preprint: 1st successful genome-wide study of >61,000 panic attack and 29,000 panic disorder cases. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... We find 17 associations & evidence that peripheral neurons in eye, lungs and heart are involved in panic & other psychiatric disorders 1/n

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First time in toga!

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The island I live on with @renskeblom.bsky.social and the kids❤️

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The island I live on with @renskeblom.bsky.social and the kids❤️

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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

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The ppl developing ethical (as in their use is legal for this purpose), open, datasets for language models can’t get those funded currently… (so if you do know interested funders…)

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an offhand remark by a psychiatrist acquaintance has me tripping (cognitively!!) hard on mind-body dualism… in a physical sense it’s obv rejected. but I feel scientists private theories about the relation mind and brain (let alone body) drive their research agenda’s blindly Descartes never left

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With response rates what they are globally, evidence based policy is going to be “vibes based” pretty soon… unless you’d have national registers which in many places will never happen given mistrust of govt…

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Finally found out why I keep being anoyed with Python vs R, so many ppl write Python packages but they don’t expose any functions, it’s just a command line tool… so unlike R I can’t just changing stuff together in one Python session without hacking…

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This study uncovered several genetic associations linked to environmental sensitivity in psychiatric and neurodevelopmental traits, using data from over 21,000 MZ twins @munroepb.bsky.social @thaliaeley.bsky.social @neilmdavies.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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I use the NYTimes for my global hard news, maybe time to spend that money elsewhere, what could I replace it with? Guardian? (Hate some of their healthcare coverage, hard news seems okay?) other Ideas?

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Maybe people writing concern troll pieces about Bluesky can branch out to other topics. "Patrons sure seem to like this Italian restaurant, where they can order all the delicious pasta and pizza dishes they want. But, as I glanced in the window, I noticed it doesn't offer gas station sushi."

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Last week, our new paper on indirect assortative mating was published.🍾 Let’s take a closer look at what this means, why it matters, and what we found (🧵/32): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Danes go 100% Penguin 🐧

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I did that thing where you run a 20 hours job on 16 GPUs but forget to copy the results back, again... 🤦‍♂️

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External link live! Please share widely :-) WE ARE RECRUITING! 🥳 Are you an epidemiologist with strong quantitative skills and an interest in contributing to exciting research into the genetic architecture of vascular dementia? Come join our friendly and productive team at UCL! shorturl.at/aZ5Ua

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