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Today, we’re going to play a game I’m calling “IT’S JUST A LINEAR MODEL” (IJALM). It works like this: I name a model for a quantitative response Y, and then you guess whether or not IJALM. 1/

Beautiful work Chloe, congratulations

"Robust evidence that endothelial loss may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease. Replicated associations of schizophrenia/less oligodendrocytes, autism/more microglia"

There's been amazing coverage of our new paper nature nature.com/articles/s4158… but I wanted to put together a walk-through (and make this accessible as possible). It's a bit long so get a cup of tea! The full version is open access so pls do have a read if you are interested...

Exciting news from our latest research! We've developed a plasmalogen score (Pls Score), a new biomarker that could change how we assess metabolic health. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S23… Habtamu B Beyene Baker Institute

🔥 Finally! Just launched the R color palette finder 🚀 🎨 Explore 2500+ palettes, see them in action, get the ggplot2 code. ➡️ r-graph-gallery.com/color-palette-… 🙏 Joseph and Emil Hvitfeldt for the paletteer package! Useful? Bug? Feature request? Let me know!

This is the report of a novel autoimmune disorder, that causes specific deficiency of vitamin B12 in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) It's caused by autoantibodies against a B12 receptor, CD320, which transports B12 from the blood into the CSF What this means is that B12 levels

New Oxford-Aarhus-Copenhagen collaboration - not yet launched - 2 postdocs, 2 senior postdocs and postdoc coordinator in Oxford. Jobs 173031-3 at jobs.ox.ac.uk Methods-focussed in group Holmes, Visscher, Evans, Nicholson, Christopher Yau, てん etc, Denmark ads soon

Really enjoyed contributing to Ruairi Robertson's Biomes podcast together with one of my all-time favourite scientists, Alan Walker Alan Walker. It’s also one of my favourite topics: Prevailing myths in the microbiome world and why it is important to combat them.

Not many people will read your PhD thesis, but if you completed your doctoral research at the ANU College of Science, then Tabitha Carvan has probably read one small part of it – the acknowledgements. What she found is a kind of poetry in the science. science.anu.edu.au/news-events/ne…

*Ten* 3-year post-doc/assistant prof jobs advertised for our Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed - address key questions in common complex diseases through development of new stat/comp tools & software. A new Denmark-Oxford collaboration. Critical mass! smartbiomed.dk/join-the-centr…

One additional job: 50% science coordinator, 50% research. My right hand person in organising SMARTbiomed activities - summer school, workshops, journal clubs, student liason. Variety. Needs content knowledge and organisation skills. Could be fun!

NEW PAPER 📢 New study indicates that the new recombinant shingles vaccine could reduce the risk of #dementia compared to a previous vaccine. Led by Maxime Taquet & funded by National Institute for Health and Care Research Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre the paper is published in Nature Medicine. 👇👇👇 tinyurl.com/39sp6vxb

Happy to share that our work applying precision mapping to individuals with depression sampled longitudinally over an extended period has been published this week in @nature. Brief recap of the main findings and their potential implications below. nature.com/articles/s4158…

FDA approves first schizophrenia drug with a new mechanism of action since the 1950s tinyurl.com/34ceshw4 Karuna/Bristol Myers Squibb’s KarXT (Cobenfy), which acts on M1/M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, expands the treatment landscape beyond dopamine-targeted drugs

The Qld Centre has launched! Watch below for my slightly-too-emotional launch speech…Thank you to all for their support! @QCIDD @3DN_UNSW UQ Medicine Down Syndrome Aus Queensland Health CID Queenslanders with Disability Network QCMHR

📣Big news! Our tag-team effort on common variants in rare neurodevelopmental conditions is now out in nature! 📣 Co-first authoring with the brilliant Qinqin Huang🌟—proof that teamwork does make the dream work. 💪 nature.com/articles/s4158…

My lab and that of Jian Zeng are recruiting postocs to work on various stat gen projects. There are 3 positions advertised. Please check them out and share within your networks. Thanks! nature.com/naturecareers/… Closing Date is Feb 28, 2025.

We are recruiting 1-2 new PhD students! If you know someone that might be interested in doing a PhD in psychiatric genetics in sunny Brisbane please tell them to get in touch 🙂

🚨Research Assistant job at Oxford Psychiatry with Naomi Wray and myself to start! Ideal opportunity to gain experience in Psychiatric Genomics working on clinically impactful projects 👉lnkd.in/gKq3TgvQ Please repost!