It made me think of other key pubs for DNA research - the Paxton Arms, behind the Department of chemistry where Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman had their idea about single molecule sequencing by synthesis - those ideas led to Solexa, which >>

Mendelian Randomisation (MR) is going to hell in a handcart, with an exponential weekly increase of papers with Mendelian Randomisation in the title, most of them nonsense. 25th April 4.30pm online or in person UCL I'll talk about what should be done forms.office.com/pages/response…

…and there are common traps to avoid (below). In addition, focus on areas where you will have a competitive advantage from your expertise, access to data, or love of a problem and exuberance for solving it (this will help you dig deeper than others). 10/53

Your career = a finite number of weeks. Most would agree that time is precious & should be used for maximum impact, but acknowledging this and practicing it are two different things. Especially important when choosing a problem, which can impact time allocation for years. 2/53

How to pick a problem. Today in Cell. 1/53
cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Major news on the use of polygenic scores to optimise healthcare in the US 👇👇👇

Very important that the arrangement respects participant privacy (excerpt from Mass Mutual press release) massmutual.com/about-us/news-…

🗣️'If funders want to make work they fund freely accessible, mandating preprints is a simple and easy way to achieve that goal: this is Plan U.'

#ScholComm #ResearchFunding Richard Sever wp.me/p4m9em-cXn

Would you believe me if I told you that a single variant in a non-coding RNA explains ~0.5% of all undiagnosed individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) in Genomics England ???

I didn’t initially either, but here is the story of RNU4-2 🧵1/9

Replacing the 2+ year old hepa in the kids bedroom. New filter at left in both images; Old filter pre-external dust removal (left image; we do this every few months) & after dust removal (right image).

As this shows, indoor air is not clean unless you make it so, often…

What smartphone and #wearable data should we collect for #cardiovascular research? The BHFDataScience Centre worked with researchers, healthcare professionals and the public to find out. Read our report 👇zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/ze…

Postdoc position to join my new group Oxford Psychiatry and Big Data Institute. UKRI funded 'CHECKPOINT: Finding immune & metabolic pathways to SMI' led by Ed Bullmore, direct supervision from Mary-Ellen Lynall collaborating with Andrew McIntosh . my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Very much looking forward to going back to Oxford Statistics 6 years after studying there to deliver the Inaugural Green Lecture 🌱🌱 Come say hi if you’re around!

The Faraday Discovery Fellowships are long-term awards designed to support emerging research leaders in undertaking high-quality, original research. Find out more about the scheme on our website, and register for updates to be the first to hear more: royalsociety.org/grants/faraday…

Week 2 of trying something new! Assembling a reading list of interesting papers/preprints that caught our attention this past week in the field of microbiome, microbial/pathogen ecology and other.
Hopefully useful to some! 🙂
mericlab.com/2024/04/05/not…

Less than 1% of UK professors are black (160 out of 22,855 professors in 2020/21 data).

I am incredibly delighted to share that I have accepted an offer to be a full Professor and Chair of Genomic Diversity at the prestigious Queen Mary University of London

1/8

qmul.ac.uk/media/news/202…

Taiwan Biobank: A rich biomedical research database of the Taiwanese population
Top cited paper from Cell Genomics - 17 citations
hubs.ly/Q02m-NVf0
Anne Feng Yen-Feng Lin

Heads up! The #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 call opens in April. 🔍 Start your journey early by exploring potential host organisations now and gear up to craft the perfect proposal! 🌟 🎓🔬

More info and opportunities this way ➡️ europa.eu/!KJ8XY7

Discovery of gut microbiome constituents that lower cholesterol levels that may be used to reduce risk for heart disease
cell.com/cell/abstract/… Chenhao Li Xavier Lab Broad Institute Cell

Learning how to “read” the genome is a basic skill for all biologists. As an introduction, here’s a 🧵 about using the genome browser to make a discovery about how we lost our tails. All you need is your 'thinking eye'! (1/13)

Very happy that HAPPY is published at Nature Communications!

nature.com/articles/s4146…

HAPPY is an AI pipeline for cell and micro-anatomical tissue analysis in placenta histology. The placenta has seen relatively little attention in AI for digital pathology and it’s time we change that 🧵