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Mark McCarthy

@markmccarthy985.bsky.social

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Bluesky newbie. Twitter exile. Previously Professor of Diabetes in Oxford, now heading human genetics at Genentech. Living the California dream. Views my own. #YNWA

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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · Apr 29

Spending tonight with everyone’s favorite Glaswegians, Mogwai

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Jason / Method One @method1.bsky.social · Apr 29

MOGWAI - San Francisco, April 28, 2025

Because sometimes you just want to atomize yourself in a wave of guitar feedback

Mogwai performing at the Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, 4/28/25

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Mark McCarthy @markmccarthy985.bsky.social · Apr 29

It’s never a bad day when Mogwai shows up in town. First saw them in 1999. Love them more than ever…..

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Mark McCarthy @markmccarthy985.bsky.social · Jan 15

Exactly! Continues to amaze/frustrate me to find so many still place confidence in the value of differential expression/proteomics/methylation analyses of case control samples as a basis for causal inference.

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Giacomo Bartolucci (he) @gbart.bsky.social · Jan 4

1/n Some time ago my colleague, excellent cook, and friend Ivan told me: "Cacio e pepe is the recipe that I screw up more often. Let's make a project studying systematically the physics of that sauce".

Prepare to get cheesy, I'm glad to share the Cacio e paper preprint:

arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536

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Kimmo Aro @kihear.bsky.social · Dec 4

Long awaited peer review finally completed!! Our paper comparing quantitative metabolomics disease risk prediction with PGS is accepted in Nature Comms!! 🥳🥳
@nightingalehealth.com #riskprediction #metabolomics #nmr #genomics #polygenicscore

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Metabolomic and genomic prediction of common diseases in 700,217 participants in three national biobanks - Nature Communications

Identifying individuals at high risk for chronic diseases can improve prevention. Here, the authors show that blood metabolomics scores effectively stratify disease risk and compare favorably to genet...

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Nov 28

A wonderful paper from @tonyzador.bsky.social and colleagues: Encoding innate ability through a genomic bottleneck www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Encoding innate ability through a genomic bottleneck | PNAS

Animals are born with extensive innate behavioral capabilities, which arise from neural circuits encoded in the genome. However, the information ca...

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Ruairi Robertson @ruairirobertson.bsky.social · Nov 22

Inspiring talk by @christian_happi from @acegid on scaling up genomics infrastructure on the African continent for combatting infectious diseases, from malaria to COVID @QMULBartsTheLon #WHD21

Mark McCarthy @markmccarthy985.bsky.social · Nov 25

Love this

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Alexis Battle @alexisbattle.bsky.social · Nov 14

Check out our new work led by @ashton_omdahl discussing matrix factorization across GWAS, accounting for sample overlap. Factors with varying polygenicity, enrichment for cell type / developmental stage... Ashton is speaking at #biodata24 today! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sparse matrix factorization of GWAS summary statistics robust to sample sharing improves detection and interpretation of factors with diverse genetic architectures

Complex trait-associated genetic variation is highly pleiotropic. This extensive pleiotropy implies that multi-phenotype analyses are informative for characterizing genetic variation, as they facilita...

www.biorxiv.org

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Nov 23

Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.

Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky

The blue bird is dead. Long live the blue sky.

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Mark McCarthy @markmccarthy985.bsky.social · Nov 18

It’s fantastic to find so many friends already here. As others have noted, this feels like the early days of science twitter (RIP).

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