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Anna Dearman @annadearman.bsky.social · Feb 3

New paper! What's going on in our bodies when we experience poor #MentalHealth ?
Explainer: www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
#ICYMI #proteomics #psychology #PopulationHealth #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #BioSocial #BioPsychoSocial #biomarkers

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Anna Dearman @annadearman.bsky.social · 2d

Give this legend a follow and treat yourself or a loved one!
www.instagram.com/purr.havoc/

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 8d

Can we all just shout about how despicable it is to scapegoat migrants for everything? Can we just stop being too polite or shy about it? Can we condemn it at work, with friends, family, on SM, everywhere? Can we just not keep calm & carry on until it’s too late?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary

A letter warns Shabana Mahmood that ‘targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle’ problems with housing and the NHS

www.theguardian.com

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Anna Dearman @annadearman.bsky.social · 15d

Here are some random exploratory plots for you - looks like women report better social support from family and friends than men regardless of marital status, while partnered men report better partner support than partnered women do

Anna Dearman @annadearman.bsky.social · 16d

Not candidate gene studies being cited in a 2025 neuroscience course 😖

Anna Dearman @annadearman.bsky.social · 22d

It was great to contribute to this study for @usociety.bsky.social on the epigenetic correlates of major depression, and to be listed alongside such incredible co-authors!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A methylome-wide association study of major depression with out-of-sample case–control classification and trans-ancestry comparison - Nature Mental Health

The authors report a meta-analysis of methylome-wide association studies, identifying 15 significant CpG sites linked to major depression, revealing associations with inflammatory markers and suggesti...

www.nature.com

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Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · 28d

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.

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Anna Dearman @annadearman.bsky.social · 28d

Wake me up when someone with a shred of decency and leadership is running the UK

reheissergaspard.bsky.social @reheissergaspard.bsky.social · 28d

Thousands join an emergency protest to demand the UK government to arrest Israeli President Issac Herzog when he lands in Britain today.

Anna Dearman @annadearman.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hi Kevin,
What do you make of brain connectivity (white matter and brain activity) GWAS results that are enriched for terms associated with the immune response to infections? Noise or potentially interesting?
Thanks!
www.nature.com/articles/s41... (Fig 3h)
www.nature.com/articles/s44... (S. Fig 7)

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Anna Dearman @annadearman.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Anna Dearman @annadearman.bsky.social · Sep 5

I had a great time at the British Society for Population Studies @bspsuk.bsky.social conference this week. I've written a blog post about what I learned - check it out at the link below!

peoplescienceuk.wordpress.com/2025/09/05/w...

#BSPS2025

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Sep 5

Judge us by our critics.

subscribe.bylinetimes.com

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Aug 27

BBC: "We're just reporting what the Israeli Defence Forces have said..."

Exactly.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 22

BREAKING: At least 71 Palestinians, including 24 aid seekers, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the latest 24-hour reporting period, says Gaza’s Health Ministry.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/r3s7v3

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · Aug 22

Latest processing of UK Biobank brain imaging data - now with 82,000 usable first-scan datasets. Correlating brain IDPs with 13,000 non-imaging variables gives a rich manhattan-stye plot. 324,000 Bonferroni-significant associations.

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Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · Aug 14

“We’re here to talk about A levels”

“Free Palestine the BBC is complicit” 💀💀

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Anna Dearman @annadearman.bsky.social · Aug 6

I read the word "endpoint" in the context of EWAS disease phenotypes today, and I think it's important to frame diseases in this way because it reminds you to think about everything upstream!

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Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · Jul 31

Genetic "optimization" of embryos appears to be becoming mainstream. The narrative currently is largely controlled by startups that range across the spectrum from hardcore snake-oil to well-intentioned & occasionally strong domain expertise. But these are not neutral parties. 1/

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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · Jul 30

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong".

Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

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Anna Dearman @annadearman.bsky.social · Jul 29

Googling "how to create a tarball" *every single time* because I have an MSc in Bioinformatics, with distinction... 😑

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · Jul 28

We don't have to push children into poverty.

We don't have to make life harder for the sick and disabled.

We don't have to aid and abet genocide.

For too long, people have been denied a real political choice. Not anymore.

Join us at yourparty.uk

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jul 28

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?

American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

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Anna Dearman @annadearman.bsky.social · Jul 28

Digitising old photos 🥲

Anna Dearman @annadearman.bsky.social · Jul 21

I was lucky enough to visit the Jenny Saville exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery yesterday, along with the Portrait Award entries which are always amazing, plus the icon of epidemiology: Broad Street Pump, and the place my parents met: Somerset House

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Jul 5

27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws.

Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide.

This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.

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