🚩PhD opportunity at Mental Health at the University of Edinburgh🚩

Come and do a PhD examining the causes and consequences of different depression sub-types with Andrew McIntosh Heather Whalley Mark James Adams Rona Strawbridge (Glasgow) Lu Yi (Karolinska) & myself.

Happy to discuss informally

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Humpty dumpty sat on a wall. Eating some snacks and reading a book. Oh, this was a different day. We shouldn't be defined by our worst moment.

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Traveling through Twitter as through a galaxy in which thought-fragments & snatches of poetry reverberate with a startling intimacy....

....we are astonished to discover in the thoughts of others our own thoughts & in the passions & playfulness of others, our own...

Twitter makes of loneliness something rich & unexpected. But you must choose your travel-companions with care.

You can find me on Pownce… I mean Posterous… I mean …

OK, you can actually still find me on Tumblr…if you dare.

Might as well retweet my first tweet before the lights go out. 'txd' was the TextDrive Status webhost where I had my website, which was running from the same infrastructure that served the original Twitter (run by Joyent)

Out today in Science Magazine, our paper on cross-trait assortative mating and why estimates of genetic correlations (i.e. shared genetic effects on phenotypes) are likely inflated. See this thread from the preprint for an overview of the idea and results

How do neurons across the brain control behavior & how is this impacted by an animal’s state? We built probabilistic model w/ C.elegans neurons—yielding an atlas of how its well-defined neurons encode behavior🧵From Flavell lab MIT Picower Institute MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Sure, Mastodon is a bit clunky, but have you seen the IT systems academics use on the regular? mastodon.online/@markjamesadams

The canary in the emerald mine.