Find out how Birkbeck BabyLab & ToddlerLab researchers’ work on the #brain activity of #sleepingbabies featured in CBBC Operation Ouch bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbeck2…

Nice piece by Hannah Boland about our oversubscribed funding round. Major US life sciences VCs Foresite Capital (Jim Tananbaum) and F-Prime Capital increasing their stakes in @Genomicsplc Oxford start-up using DNA tech to map health risks raises $30m telegraph.co.uk/technology/202…

Please share far and wide! UK #parents and #youngpeople (11-16yo) needed for an online study of #parenting, #mentalhealth and #wellbeing. Contact Pınar Acet

Great piece by Rhys Blakely The Times and The Sunday Times about our pilot in #NHS to use the power of genomics to improve risk prediction for cardiovascular disease. #Genomicprevention @Genomicsplc thetimes.co.uk/article/dna-te…

Important work by GDonati on the developmental relationships between #executivefunction and #internalising and #externalising in #adolescence 🧠

Okay, I did it. Behavior genetics edition.

Curious about how differences in our #DNA impact how we think, feel and behave? I’m excited to be giving a #ScienceSaturday lecture on 15th May on this topic 🧬 The talk is family friendly, free and live-streamed on Birkbeck's YouTube channel. Join us! bbk.ac.uk/news/science-s…

Pls share! #ScienceSaturdays Free short talks live each Saturday in May 10:30am (GMT) Birkbeck, University of London in collaboration w/Me, Human & National Saturday Club. 22 May Dr Green chats about culture & biology of psychiatric conditions & @UteLiersch discusses #resilience🧠🧠 youtube.com/watch?v=694TK8…

Join us tonight at 7pm UK time, BYO pint! pintofscience.co.uk/event/please-b… Pint of Science UK Queen Mary University of London 🍻

Next talk of the #ScienceSaturday series is tomorrow 10.30am - steamed live on Birkbeck’s YouTube channel and available to watch after (should you lucky people have weekend plans 💃)

Come join us for the last of Birkbeck’s #ScienceSaturday series of talks. Gilly Forrester and natasha kirkham will share insights from their research to inspire and inform (and provide fun facts for you to amaze your friends with!)

We had a strong hypothesis, we found an interesting result (see ⬇️) and we shared it on JAMA Pediatrics! HUGE THANKS to #BASIS #STAARS #families AIMS-2-TRIALS & Emma Meaburn Emily Jones Charlotte Tye Tony Charman Birkbeck BabyLab & ToddlerLab doi.org/10.1001/jamape… 1/4

Our SAFRI-funded work examining the link between polygenic liability and infant brain response to faces is out now in JAMA Pediatrics. Heroic effort by anna gui to get this out the door during a pandemic!

I hope our JAMA Pediatrics findings reach the children & parents who participated in #BASIS -while donating saliva to help science you shared with me your hopes this would be useful to advance our knowledge about #autism; see, we are working on it! Emily Jones Emma Meaburn

We have a fully funded GTA position available in our Dept. to anyone interested in combining PhD research (with any willing supervisor in the Dept.) with teaching seminars/practicals. Application deadline 31st July. cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/gradua… Birkbeck, Faculty of Science

Obituary in The Guardian of Professor Sir Michael Rutter, father of modern child psychiatry, and first director of SGDP Centre KCL Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience - written by Professor Peter McGuffin, the scond director of SGDP Centre KCL theguardian.com/society/2021/n…

I couldn't be happier for or prouder of Dr. @AgaGidziela, what a wonderful PhD! ⭐️ Thank you Emma Meaburn and Helena Zavos for being excellent, thought provoking examiners and, of course, Dr. Kaili Rimfeld and Robert Plomin for co-supervising. Congratulations, Aga, you are a star!