New paper out in PNAS! We show that becoming a grandparent substantially reduces employment and earnings, especially for women. At the same time, grandparents go more to the doctor for respiratory infections, but less for mental health conditions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The cost of caring: Gendered health and labor market effects of grandparenthood | PNAS

While the effects of the transition to parenthood are well researched, less is known about how the transition to grandparenthood affects health and...

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1/ Research funders cap budgets. They rarely cap the supply of proposals. That is becoming a serious problem. In a new Nature Correspondence, David Bann, Jean-Baptiste Pingault, Matt Keller, Marcus Munafò and I argue that grant funding systems face a tragedy of the commons. rdcu.be/fl0Vv

New preprint (and shameless rhetorical question use) in collab with @neilmdavies.bsky.social Commentary on attributable fractions that approach 100%, with lessons for epidemiologists, statistical genetics, etc. More context in thread... #episky zenodo.org/records/2034...

Our in-person Mendelian randomisation course is back at University College London this autumn! Join us in Bloomsbury, 15th-17th Sept 2026 Tutors: @emmylooroll.bsky.social, me & @neilmdavies.bsky.social Guest lecturer: Eleanor Sanderson, U.Bristol Sign up: onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...

We have a new paper outlining the latest challenges and future directions for Mendelian randomization. We used AI to review 10,126 abstracts from studies using Mendelian randomization. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Challenges and future directions for Mendelian randomization - Nature Genetics

Mendelian randomization is widely used but relies on specific assumptions that are rarely systematically assessed. This Perspective argues that researchers should rigorously test these assumptions thr...

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We have an exciting postdoctoral fellowship opportunity in the PsychGen Centre. We are seeking to a quantitative researcher who wants to use genetically-informed designs to investigate the intergenerational transmission of mental health. More info: 945000.webcruiter.no/Main/Recruit...

Do you want to contribute to cutting-edge research on mental health?

We are seeking to appoint a quantitative researcher to work on an ambitious research project using genetically-informed designs to investigate the intergenerational transmissi...

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❗We are recruiting a Post-Doctoral Research Associate❗ The PDRA will be based in the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics at Cardiff University and will investigate the #molecular and #cellular changes in #schizophrenia. Please see link 👇 tinyurl.com/32u753js

Molecular Epidemiology Short Course (UCL, 18-21 May 2026) This 4-day, in-person course is for PhDs and researchers seeking a practical introduction to analysing genetic & molecular data in population studies. www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

Molecular Epidemiology Short Course

This in-person course provides an applied introduction to molecular epidemiology, covering genetic and molecular data, quality control, GWAS, polygenic scores, and functional interpretation.

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I have an opening for a staff scientist or bioinformatician in my group at the Sanger Institute (closing date 24 March). Our current projects focus on disentangling rare and common variant contributions to rare neurodevelopmental conditions and to neurodevelopmental and perinatal traits. 1/2

🔍 We’re looking for a Research Officer to support the scientific foundation, development, and coordination of our study. 💷 £35,000–£40,000 📅 Closing: 8 March 2026 jobs.theguardian.com/job/10032147... #Hiring #Research #Jobs #Careers #HealthResearch

When does associational language make sense and when does it not? Katrina Kezios and I cover this in "How and when to use causal and associational language" with 3 suggestions for which concepts require causal language and which can be described in associational language.

How and when to use causal and associational language

Deciding which concepts should be described in causal language and which should not Research questions fall into one of three categories: descriptive, predictive, or causal.1 The past decade has seen...

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𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 (𝗨𝗖𝗟, 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲) Molecular genetic data are now widely used in clinical, epidemiological, and population health research. Using them well and interpreting results appropriately requires careful attention to study design, data quality, and population structure.

Out now!! www.nature.com/articles/s44... Intro to this paper pictured below Huge thanks to collaborators @neilmdavies.bsky.social, @emmylooroll.bsky.social at @uclbrainscience.bsky.social & Sami Heikkinen and Mikko Hiltunen at @uniuef.bsky.social ... #endalz #episky #medsky

Do daylight saving time clock changes affect our health? 🕰️ Our new study, published today in @bmj.com, using GP and hospital data for England, found that the autumn clock change may be beneficial for our health. #BMJChristmas bmjgroup.com/autumn-clock...

Autumn clock change linked to reduction in certain health conditions - BMJ Group

Study contributes to ongoing debate about England’s clock change policy The week after the autumn clock change is associated with a reduction in demand for NHS services for sleep disorders, cardiovasc...

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Do daylight saving time clock changes affect our health? 🕰️ Our new study, published today in @bmj_latest, found that the autumn clock change may be beneficial for our health. Led by the brilliant, and recently a Dr, @meldelange.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Acute effects of daylight saving time clock changes on mental and physical health in England: population based retrospective cohort study

Objective To explore the acute effects of daylight saving time clock changes on mental and physical health events in primary and secondary care in England. Design Population based retrospective cohor...

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"Understanding apolipoprotein E as a predominant cause of Alzheimer’s disease" Preprint: zenodo.org/records/1796... Key takeaways below Thx to coauthors @emmylooroll.bsky.social @neilmdavies.bsky.social & N.Mukadam at DOP @ucl.ac.uk Funding @alzheimersresearchuk.org #endalz #episky #medsky

Who wants to join us in Oslo to study how health influences educational underperformance? We are hiring PhDs postdocs candidates for our funded project. We will follow children from birth to emerging adulthood, using behavioural genetic methods and large datasets 945000.webcruiter.no/Main/Recruit...

Two positions as either PhD or postdoctoral fellow on health determinants of education

Do you want to research how health influences school performance and leads to intergenerational inequality? We have two vacant 3-year positions as a PhD fellow or postdoctoral research fellow in the p...

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New preprint📈📉 What happens to health and work when people become grandparents? Using Norwegian register data on all individuals born 1950-1960, we use event-study models comparing grandparents to not-yet grandparents to track changes in health and labour supply. 🔗 www.ssrn.com/abstract=571...

Upcoming seminar: Gibran Hemani and Andrew Elmore (UoB) on The Human Genotype-Phenotype Map – a resource to map pleiotropy and improve causal inference. Billions of associations, open data, better causal inference. Tues 2 Dec 2025, 1 pm, UCL 149 Tottenham Court Rd. www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

The Human Genotype-Phenotype Map: A resource to map pleiotropy and improve causal inference

Girban Hemani and Andrew Elmore will talk at this additional Epidemiology and Applied Clinical Research Seminar, in collaboration with UCL Human Genomics, Centre for Longitudinal Studies and PALS

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📢 Registration is open for Causal Inference in Practice — a 3-day short course at UCL 🗓️ 18–20 February 2026 Taught by me, @kdiazordaz.bsky.social & Peter Martin. Learn to estimate causal effects from observational data. 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... #CausalInference #Epidemiology #DataScience

Causal Inference in Practice Short Course

This course covers the latest developments in causal inference methods and provides practical explanations for applying them to real research questions.

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Our data resource profile paper outlining the imputed & QC'd genomewide genetic data in 5 British cohort studies is now out in IJE. Data are free to access and the cohorts are deeply phenotyped... huge opportunities for amazing cross-cohort longitudinal research academic.oup.com/ije/article/...

Data Resource Profile: Genomic data in multiple British birth cohorts (1946–2001)—linkage with health, social, and environmental data from birth to old age

Birth cohort studies have a rich history of contributing to science within and between disciplinary fields, notably health and social sciences [1–4]. Here,

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⏰Post-doctoral #qualitative job alert! (closes 14/9/25). @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social is recruiting for a #Qualitative Post‑Doctoral Research Associate to join our #suicide & #selfharm research team on a @nihr.bsky.social grant investigating acceptability of close obs www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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We're hiring! Join us on the incredible Adolescent Health Study — we're looking for two brilliant researchers to help shape and grow this exciting project. Deadline: 28 August. Questions? Get in touch. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOB253/s...

(Senior) Research Officer (x2 posts) at Adolescent Health Study (AHS)

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

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1/ Parents with higher BMI tend to have kids with higher BMI—but why? Is it the genes they pass on, or the environment they create? Or both? We used trio data from MCS to help answer this longstanding question. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

The association between parental BMI and offspring adiposity: A genetically informed analysis of trios

Author summary Children with obesity are more likely to have parents with obesity, too. This may be explained by environmental factors, such as prenatal conditions in utero or postnatal parental behav...

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I’m hiring- info in the link below, or get in touch if interested 📣 JOB OPPORTUNITY! 💻 Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in Population Health/Data Science/Genetic Epidemiology Developing a new Wellcome-funded ALSPAC Olink Explore HT resource Deadline 15/08/25 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Engagement and Involvement Lead at Adolescent Health Study (AHS)

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Fabulous work by Phazha Bothongo! 2 years and several near mental breakdowns for us both in the making! 🧠 Causes and consequences of vascular dementia across the life course: Evidence from a UK Biobank phenome-wide and Mendelian randomization study 🧠 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Causes and consequences of vascular dementia across the life course: Evidence from a UK Biobank phenome-wide and Mendelian randomization study

Background Vascular dementia (VaD) is the second most common cause of dementia, yet its risk factors and biological mechanisms remain poorly understood. Objective To identify causes and consequences ...

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Our in-person Mendelian randomisation course is back at University College London this autumn. Join us in Bloomsbury, 16th-18th September 2025. Tutors: Emma Anderson, Dylan Williams, Neil Davies Guest lecturer: Eleanor Sanderson onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...

Are you looking to learn how to conduct and interpret Mendelian randomization studies? You can register now for our in-person short course at UCL. With @emmylooroll.bsky.social and @dylwil.bsky.social 16th-18th September 2025. Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

Mendelian randomization short course

This course covers the fundamental developments in Mendelian randomization and gives practical explanations about how to apply MR to applied research questions.

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Looking for your next research position? We're recruiting two genetic epidemiologists to work on two projects at the Division of Psychiatry at UCL, part of the growing UCL Human Genomics group.