Our study is now out in molecularpsychiatry using a combination of complementary #causalinference #epidemiological #methods to investigate the role of prepubertal body image dissatisfaction in the relationship between body size and disordered eating & self-harm pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39138355/

NEW open letter to the General Medical Council challenging the suspension of Diana Warner and Sarah Benn for nonviolent climate activism. Please sign & share. docs.google.com/document/d/1LD… Health for XR sr_science_rebels Extinction Rebellion UK 🌍 Just Stop Oil Insulate Britain UK Health Alliance on Climate Change GMC

Two Public Lectures by the mighty George Davey Smith in Oxford! We're hosting george davey smith to do two talks at Jesus College Oxford on Sept 30th: a wide ranging public lecture at 5pm, and a tough technical one on MR at lunchtime. COME! bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/08/c…

Looking forward to my two-day visit to the great team Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science where I'm sure I'll be learning a lot

CPD I'd like to be able to get to

Really nice articles on leveraging GxE within Mendelian Randomization frameworks to *correct* for pleiotropic effects (including a method that does not require the interaction to be observed). 👇

I'm desperate to maintain the high standards of the journal of FULLJOURNALTITLE. If you receive these sorts of MR papers to review for essentially predatory Elsevier News etc journals here are some suggestions academic.oup.com/jcem/article/1… & pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38048796/ I get many a day :(

Medicine Medicine LWW launched in 1922; a respectable journal it published many important papers. It is now a cash-cow publishing much paper-mill trash for large fees paid to the supposedly respectable Lippincott publishers. Read the abstract below & weep pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38306546/

This is wonderful, appears the first author of the meaningless paper I tweeted about is “the most educated person in the world” x.com/mendel_random/…

1. Our paper on lithium in drinking water and suicides in Switzerland was just accepted for publication. It is to our knowledge the first pre-registered study on this topic. We found a near perfect null-result.

Great to see a photo of some of the 1,176 letter co-signatories calling on MPs to back the #CANBill in this week’s private members’ bill ballot, outside parliament. Science-led legislation is beyond urgent Ed Miliband Steve Reed MP zerohour.uk/scientist_lett…

Another incisive long read by Sasha Gusev on how the genetics of intelligence & education differ from the genetics of height, packed with important points lucidly laid out theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/no-intellige…

Day after my year’s sabbatical ended celebrated with @IEUmusic ⁦Paul Yousefi⁩ ⁦Exchange Bristol⁩, just perfect

🚨Job Alert🚨 Please repost. We are recruiting two postdocs / SRAs in genetic epidemiology MRC IEU University of Bristol PhD students finishing soon eligible to apply. Closing 29 Sept. bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/

I should have said the band is Snooper - if you are lucky enough to get chance to see them, go!