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Kerli Ilves @kerliilv.bsky.social · 9d

Aitäh asjaliku kokkuvõtte eest sel teemal! 🙏
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Kerli Ilves @kerliilv.bsky.social · May 27

Honoured to have had the chance to contribute to this massive effort with such an inspiring team! Let's take genetics x personality to the next level ⚡

Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · May 20

Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Kerli Ilves @kerliilv.bsky.social · May 26

Potential break-through in measures of UPF in diet!

Nature @nature.com · May 25

Molecules in urine and blood can reveal how much of a person’s diet comes from ultra-processed foods

https://go.nature.com/3YUfWIt

How much ultra-processed food do you eat? Blood and urine record it

Nature - Samples could provide an objective measure of diets and help to unravel their contribution to disease.

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Zoltán Kutalik @zkutalik.bsky.social · Apr 29

Very excited to give a virtual talk as part of the
@eshg.bsky.social
webinar series tomorrow at 4pm (CEST). If you want to listen in, register here: wma.eventsair.com/eshg-webinar... I will talk about all the exciting things we can learn from GWAS summary statistics...

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Kerli Ilves @kerliilv.bsky.social · Apr 17

Jah, palun! www.err.ee/1609666886/t...

mitte_tallinn: vaikne ja roheline Pariis. "Parem linn" – Edasi - Innustav ja hariv ajakiri

Linnaruumiaktivist mitte_tallinn toob eeskujuks Pariisi, mis on pööranud rohelise ja vaikse linna radadele. Ilmselt on iga lugeja kuulnud […]

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Martin White @martinwhite33.bsky.social · Mar 29

This issue is packed with interesting stuff (and not saying that because I have a v short commentary in it!). There's papers on how food environments are changing, food policy and UPFs, the role of corporations etc. Unfortunately, few papers are open access ☹️...

Nature Food @natfood.nature.com · Mar 26

March issue: food environments and human health in focus
www.nature.com/collections/...

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Kerli Ilves @kerliilv.bsky.social · Mar 26

Neat breakdown of the complex nuances in SESxGenetics! Another proof that interdisciplinary skills&knowledge are essential to make sense of this world. Thank you @dr-appie.bsky.social and co!

Abdel Abdellaoui @dr-appie.bsky.social · Mar 26

In every civilization, people end up sorted into levels of socio-economic status (SES). We explore the history, present, and future of scientific research on the complicated relationship between SES and DNA in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social💰🧬🎓

Link: rdcu.be/efacK

Thread below 👇🏽

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Kerli Ilves @kerliilv.bsky.social · Mar 22

I had waited for about a year for this Estonian folktronic bliss to be released, thank you NOËP 🎶
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWU-...

Kodu poole

YouTube video by NOËP - Topic

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Kerli Ilves @kerliilv.bsky.social · Mar 21

Highly recommended for yet another day of Rgrind! 😌

Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · Mar 20

Finishing up a backlog of committee work by listening to an eight hour set of music to refine to (I hope this does not take me eight hours to finish) youtu.be/JRnDYB28bL8?...

Severance — Music To Refine To feat. ODESZA | Apple TV+

YouTube video by Apple TV

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Kerli Ilves @kerliilv.bsky.social · Feb 23

More often than not I'm not excited to hit the the gym for my calisthenics and resistance band workouts, but reminders like this help to keep me committed! 💪

Elena Shekhova, PhD @lumipie.com · Feb 23

🧪#SciComm

Muscle loss is associated with various health issues and accelerated during aging.

The good news is that resistance training can offset muscle loss. Simple tools like resistance bands make this type of exercise accessible.
🔗 https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/EP091937

Experimental Physiology, Volume: 109, Issue: 10, Pages: 1650-1662, First published: 06 August 2024, DOI: (10.1113/EP091937)
Schematic representation of exercise training modalities following a period of muscle disuse to recover skeletal muscle mass, strength and function (e.g., gait speed) in older individuals (Bamman et al., 1998; Schroeder et al., 2019; Villareal et al., 2017; Willis et al., 2012). Created with BioRender.com.

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Paul Hufe @paulhufe.net · Feb 3

📢You are interested in social-science genetics, equality of opportunity, social mobility, and skill formation?

🚨Join us for the 4th ESSGN conference!

👉When? May 22-23, 2025

👉Where? Bristol!

👉More info? essgn.org/essgn-confer...

👉Submissions? cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ESSGN2025/

ESSGN Conference IV

Bristol, May 22-23, 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce the 4th conference of the European Social Science Genetics Network. This conference aims to improve our understanding of how gene…

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Kerli Ilves @kerliilv.bsky.social · Feb 14

Sel nädalal tähistame nii Naised Teaduses päeva kui sõbrapäeva, mis on mõlemad mu arust väga vinged asjad, mida tähistada! Selle puhul jagasime suurepärase @klehto.bsky.social ja genoomika instituudiga mõne mõtte sõbralikkusest geenides ja keskkonnas 💝

TÜ genoomika instituut

𝟯 𝗺𝗼̃𝘁𝗲𝘁 | 𝗞𝘂𝗶 𝗽𝗮𝗹𝗷𝘂 𝘀𝗼̃𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗯 𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗼̃𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗸𝘂𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁? 🧬🩷 🩷𝗜𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗮𝗯 𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗸𝘂𝗷𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗱𝗮 𝘀𝗼̃𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗸𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗸𝘀. Tervisekäitumise geneetika nooremteaduri Kerli Ilvese sõnul on oma isiksuse muutmine...

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Elena Shekhova, PhD @lumipie.com · Feb 10

🧪🍎📃 #medsky

While many know that restrictive diets can cause nutrient deficiencies, not everyone is aware that overeating can too.

This study showed that overweight & obese children and young adults have a higher risk of iron deficiency (but not zinc or vitamin A deficiency).

🔗 shorturl.at/kS7ac

Image from the preprint "Overnutrition is a risk factor for iron deficiency in children and young people: a systematic review and meta-analysis of micronutrient deficiencies and the double burden of malnutrition". It shows the forest plot of reported associations between overnutrition and odds of iron deficiency. REML: Random effects restricted maximum likelihood; CI: confidence interval. The odds are higher for obese and overweight

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · Jan 26

We addressed the classic 🐔or the🥚question:

Do children who read more become better readers, or do better readers simply choose to read more? Our findings revealed that reading proficiency primarily drove the amount of reading in children rather than the other way around.

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<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library

The purpose of this study was to test the directionality of influence between reading comprehension (RC) and print exposure (PE), thereby estimating genetic and environmental effects of this relation...

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Arko Olesk @arkoolesk.bsky.social · Feb 4

The same in science communication

Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · Feb 3

The most important thing I can tell everyone that I've learned from being a YouTuber who explains how stuff works is that each and every time I thought "this is common knowledge and doesn't need to be explained" I was wrong.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · Jan 25

🧠 Microplastics in your bloodstream

New research reveals that microplastics can block brain capillaries, reduce blood flow, and cause neurological changes in mice. A concerning link between pollution and health.

🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#Microplastics #Health #SciComm 🧪

Microplastics in the bloodstream can induce cerebral thrombosis by causing cell obstruction and lead to neurobehavioral abnormalities

Microplastics get in the blood and are eaten by immune cells, leading to cell obstruction and cerebral thrombosis.

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Kerli Ilves @kerliilv.bsky.social · Jan 21

Why do most nutrition labels still seem like riddles in tiny font? Making healthier and/or more informed choices while grocery shopping shouldn't feel like solving a puzzle. Clearer labels could be a small but important step towards changing that.

Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) @adphuk.bsky.social · Jan 20

Our President @felly500.bsky.social tells @bmj.com why providing calorie info – a policy backed by the the public – can help tackle obesity but is just one of a range of measures needed.

Read ➡️ bit.ly/3PMxT6A

Calorie labelling has “modest” effect on food choice, Cochrane review finds

Providing calorie information labels on menus and food products has a small but important effect at a population level on the choices that people make, a large Cochrane review has concluded.1 UK rese...

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Kerli Ilves @kerliilv.bsky.social · Jan 17

Last two days were full of insights into last year efforts of our 🧬 institute! I got to present my research on health behaviour x personality x genetics and @katerynap.bsky.social introduced some curious discoveries on microbiome 💡

Kateryna Pantiukh @kpantiukh.bsky.social · Jan 16

Today is the day! Our PhD conference has officially begun!

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Chris Hopwood @chopwood.bsky.social · Jan 12

Benefits of increasing taxes on animal based food and decreasing taxes on plant based food

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

A reform of value-added taxes on foods can have health, environmental and economic benefits in Europe - Nature Food

Fiscal incentives on consumption can encourage dietary changes towards healthier and more sustainable foods. Integrated modelling reveals the potential health, environmental and economic impacts of al...

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · Jan 8

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · Jan 9

The ingredients for these infernos in the Los Angeles area — near-hurricane strength winds and mid-winter drought — foretell an emerging era of compound events that overwhelm our ability to respond.

My first piece for @theguardian.com:

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded

Conditions for a January firestorm in Los Angeles like this have not existed before now, writes a meteorologist and climate journalist

www.theguardian.com

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Kerli Ilves @kerliilv.bsky.social · Jan 1

Interesting natural experiment unfolding around health (behaviour), the food and pharma industries, and profits.
www.economist.com/business/202...

Can big food adapt to healthier diets?

It must contend with weight-loss drugs and concerns about processed foods

www.economist.com

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Kerli Ilves @kerliilv.bsky.social · Dec 30

Lauristin mõtlemise, värskuse, loovuse, vaimsuse ja keerukate asjade vastu huvi tundmise tähtsusest:
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INTERVJUU | Marju Lauristin: peost suhu elamine ohustab kultuuri püsimist

Ühel detsembriõhtul sai emeriitprofessor Marju Lauristiniga tehtud pikem usutlus, mis on rohkem vestluse kui intervjuu moodi. Teravad mõttekäigud viisid kultuuri juurest poliitikasse ja loovusest ajak...

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Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social · Dec 24

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Kerli Ilves @kerliilv.bsky.social · Dec 20

Important to consider and to deal with 😬

Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Dec 19

“Our findings highlight that both self-report accuracy and selective participation are competing biases and sources of poor reproducibility for biobank-scale research” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The impact of self-report inaccuracy in the UK Biobank and its interplay with selective participation - Nature Human Behaviour

Biobank data are extensively used. Schoeler and colleagues show that self-report inaccuracy and selective participation are sources of poor reproducibility for biobank-scale research.

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