Michelle Luciano
@drmluciano.bsky.social
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Behaviour Geneticist @University of Edinburgh researching cognitive abilities and personality | Balboa Dancer | Aspiring Roller Dancer | Prince Fan
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ukuvainik.bsky.social
Not to be missed!
dingdingpeng.the100.ci
Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...
Causal inference interest group, supported by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies

Seminar series
20th October 2025, 3pm BST (UTC+1)

"Making rigorous causal inference more mainstream"
Julia Rohrer, Leipzig University

Sign up to attend at tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRohrer
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rodbraga.bsky.social
📣 New preprint from the Braga Lab! 📣

The ventral visual stream for reading converges on the transmodal language network

Congrats to Dr. Joe Salvo for this epic set of results

Big Q: What brain systems support the translation of writing to concepts and meaning?

Thread 🧵 ⬇️
drmluciano.bsky.social
Just back from holiday and pleased to see work led by a past Honours student, Diana Bicona, now published: rdcu.be/eH32N. We don't find any interaction between common genetic variant effects and broad measures of SES, but both main effects are signficant for reading achievement.
Dyslexia Polygenic Index and Socio-Economic Status Interaction Effects on Reading Skills in Australia and the United Kingdom
rdcu.be
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opentargets.org
The Open Targets Platform autumn release is out! 🍂

We have ingested the full dataset of over 13 million enhancer-gene regulatory interactions in the human genome across 1,458 DNase-seq experiments covering 369 cell types and tissues from the ENCODE-rE2G model

blog.opentargets.org/open-targets...
Open Targets Platform 25.09 has been released!
The September 25 release includes enhancer-gene data predicted by ENCODE-rE2G, molQTL credible sets for targets, new options for the variant structural viewer, and a number of data updates from GWAS C...
blog.opentargets.org
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barackobama.bsky.social
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
drmluciano.bsky.social
Submissions are now open for the next European Conference on Personality (ECP22, Edinburgh, July 2026)! We welcome talks, posters and symposia. Also, keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops are now listed.
www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission
Submission | Submit Your Work — ECP22
Prepare to submit symposia, papers, and posters for ECP22 Edinburgh 2026. Each delegate can present one paper or poster and be co-author on multiple submissions.
www.ecp22edinburgh.org
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carlbergstrom.com
Oh man, thank you CNN.

It's been a heck of a day and I really needed the laugh.
cnn.com
CNN @cnn.com · 24d
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to those who do use the tech: https://cnn.it/47L2Y5a
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mikeinouye.bsky.social
Sept is approaching & I can already hear initial chats/enquiries for potential PhD studies happening!

If you're interested in a PhD, check out our department @cam.ac.uk www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/education-an...

We've a super interdisciplinary faculty spanning primary care, data science, epidemiology etc
Doctoral Training | Department of Public Health and Primary Care (PHPC)
Course Code – MDPU22 A doctorate from the University of Cambridge is primarily a research degree based on a research programme developed in conjunction with a supervisor.
www.phpc.cam.ac.uk
drmluciano.bsky.social
I think it’s a bit unfair to blame the snails.
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shaicarmi.bsky.social
Brilliant paper by Visscher et al.

Populations differ in traits/disease burden. Are these differences due to genetics?

Comparing single variants or polygenic scores between populations is biased due to environmental confounders correlated with the variants.

1/3

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Direct effect of genetic ancestry on complex traits in a Mexican population
Human populations differ in disease prevalences and in average values of phenotypes, but the extent to which differences are caused by genetic or environmental factors is unknown for most complex trai...
www.medrxiv.org
drmluciano.bsky.social
I'm hardly surprised.
minzlicht.bsky.social
Major new paper by finds implicit measures like the IAT are no better than asking people directly about their biases. After decades of avoiding self-reports, turns out our sophisticated replacement tools work no better than what we abandoned. New post!
The Great Implicit Bias Bamboozle
Where were you when you first learned about implicit bias?
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drmluciano.bsky.social
Follow @clscohorts.bsky.social to keep up-to-date on this super important new birth cohort!
ukri.org
Announcing Generation New Era: the first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years.

It will study 30,000 children born in 2026 across the four nations of the UK.

Watch out for upcoming opportunities for researchers and other stakeholders to engage with the study team via @clscohorts.bsky.social
UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years
A ground-breaking UK-wide scientific study will help improve the lives of future generations by studying 30,000 children born in 2026.
www.ukri.org
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ucuscotland.bsky.social
#StopTheCuts UCU Edinburgh strikes highlighted in today’s Scotsman @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #SaveHE
drmluciano.bsky.social
and the music video was just perfect.
drmluciano.bsky.social
Any PhD students up for trailblazing should definitely get in touch with Ted, the project sounds even cooler than the Avalanches' Frontier Psychiatrist.
tedmond.bsky.social
I'm looking for a PhD student to do some trailblazing at the frontier of personality genomics and lifespan gene-environment transactions (start Fall 2026)! If you want to work with me: psychology.msu.edu/graduatestud...
(PS @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social is taking a student too, in moral psych/dev!)
drmluciano.bsky.social
It depends, are you currently moonlighting.