New preprint from the lab - using variance QTLs to identify GxE interactions in genetically-identical twins
@kingslsm.bsky.social
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

New preprint by Xiaopu Zhang!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@jordanatbell.bsky.social @ntrbiopsy.bsky.social

I’m recruiting: 4-year BBSRC-funded PhD studentship in computational genomics of human skin, nutrition & ageing at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social in collaboration w Unilever; co-supervised by @kerrinsmall.bsky.social

Fully funded stipend & tuition fees

Deadline 13 July 2025

tinyurl.com/2edmve5p

Excited to see this trial published & related BBC feature
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I was very peripherally involved, but it could be huge for antimicrobial resistance

Amazing work ‪Blair Merrick & Simon Goldenberg @gstt-nhs.bsky.social @kingslsm.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Want to use UK Biobank data to study ME/CFS? Can't decide which of the 5,354 UKB participants with evidence of ME/CFS to choose as cases? In this preprint, we consider what case/control definitions to apply. openresearch.nihr.ac.uk/articles/5-3... #pwME #mecfs

A spotted trunkfish goes SKKRRTTT in slow motion #spottedtrunkfish #swimminghandbag #trunkfish #boxfish #skkrrttt #slowmotion #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis #coralcityfoundation #ccf #kbcf

Congratulations Graham!

The European brown hare is the only mammal with confirmed 'SUPERFETATION': multiple fetuses at different developmental stages, showing they're getting pregnant while ALREADY pregnant, which is separate from the more common phenomenon, multiple pregnancies in the same cycle, 'superfecundation'.

Interesting to see what happens when you include having kids as a covariate? I’m sure child related sleep deprivation likely contributes to this result!

#epigenomics25 up next @chiaraherzog.bsky.social talking about non-invasive breast cancer detection

#epigenomics25 now we have Sarah Hoelzl from TUM on epigenetics underlying sex bias in cardiovascular disease

#epigenomics25 now @danbelsky.bsky.social speaking about biological ageing

#epigenomics25 now @tuuliel.bsky.social speaking about functional interpretation of genetic variation

#epigenomics25 now Matt Silver from @lshtm.bsky.social talking about epigenetic silencing of a transposable element linked to Type 1 diabetes

#epigenomics25 Alexander Meissner from @molgen.mpg.de delivers the opening keynote on non canonical DNAm in development and tumours

It’s my birthday! It should be a happy day, but I can’t stop thinking about the personal domino effects that are likely to happen as a direct result of the drastic changes happening in our government. 1/n

A new generation of cancer-preventing vaccines could wipe out tumors before they form.

Learn more on #WorldCancerDay: https://scim.ag/4gk8Qmo

A new resource rating >50,000 foods from 3 grocery stores
(Walmart, Target, and Whole Foods) for degree of processing and breakdown of ingredients
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Website for consumers www.truefood.tech

Share your #epigenetics research at #Epigenomics25!

⏰Submit an abstract by 14 January

Participate in a global showcase of #epigenomic approaches for the study of common #HumanDiseases.

Present to global experts including @jordanatbell.bsky.social

Info➡️bit.ly/41tL5Vj

#PhDchat #AcademicChatter

Why don’t new memories overwrite old ones? It appears that this is because the brain processes new and old memories in separate phases of sleep, which might prevent mixing between the two.

Full details in this nature paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Most smokers realise that smoking could shorten their life but not the impact of each cigarette they smoke.

The price of a cigarette: 20 minutes of life: 17 for men and 22 for women.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

My first #job ad here! We are looking for a res assistant in #bioinformatics to analyse #single-cell and #spatial #transcriptomics data in #skin inflammation. Job based at King's College London, with opportunity to spend time at @ubcmedicine.bsky.social in beautiful Vancouver tinyurl.com/4xd9n5n7

Microplastics in the human body

"Twenty years of microplastic pollution research—what have we learned?"

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...