Lovely trip to the Other Bennet Sister exhibition at Duffryn Gardens today. Turns out they’re filming there now and we bumped into Ella Bruccoleri in costume in the cafe!

No, not Jodrell Bank! This is my favourite place 😢 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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📢 Early Intervention Mission Milestone! The study has now recruited over 700 people with psychosis!

If you are considering a Marie Curie for the September deadline that fits in the lab (depression, measurement, time-series, complex systems, history of psychiatry), please don't hesitate to send me an email if you'd like to work with me :).

The dream team is back. George Kirov and I are presenting on ethical aspects of genetics research at the Cardiff University Brain Disorders Research Summer School.

Awwww England. I was rooting for you.

Learn more about the study here: eim.digitrial.com [eim.digitrial.com] #MentalHealthResearch #Psychosis #EarlyInterventionMission @cpft-nhs.bsky.social @cambridgebrc.bsky.social @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social @cpftresearch.bsky.social @gkmurray.bsky.social @em-os.bsky.social @drkkendall.bsky.social

A huge thank you to Dr Stuart Wholmsley, Clinical Psychologist, for presenting at the Mental Health Mission Psychosis Network Grand Round on working with individuals with psychosis and what he has learnt so far. @em-os.bsky.social @gkmurray.bsky.social

Common and rare genetic variant associations with cognitive performance across development in British birth cohorts

Common and rare genetic variant associations with cognitive performance across development in British birth cohorts

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 10 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02491-8Associations between polygenic indices and cognitive ability in children increase with age while rare damaging variant associations attenuate, with differential effects across the cognitive ability distribution.

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Over the past month, research teams across England have continued recruiting participants, with sites contributing to the growing national cohort (see map below). Every participant brings us one step closer to developing better treatments and improving care.

July Early Intervention Mission Update 🧠 The Early Intervention Mission (EIM) Cohort Study is creating a national research infrastructure to support inclusive psychosis research, accelerate clinical trials, and improve outcomes for people experiencing psychosis.

Today I went to a brilliant session run by Sarah Carter-Bell (Knowledge Exchange Lead at POST, UK Parliament) on engaging with parliament. There are so many ways to engage with parliament and make an impact. This session really helped to demystify the process and gave lots of practical advice.

JOB ALERT! I'm hiring two postdocs in Computational Genomics to join our lab in beautiful Gothenburg, Sweden. Please share and repost! CGRLab.github.io/research/

Excited to share a paper recently accepted at Nature Mental Health! 😄 For decades, we've assumed that covariance among psychopathology informs comorbidity. What if we’ve been wrong?

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 4w ago

Covariation among higher-order psychopathology dimensions is driven by nomorbidity, not comorbidity: https://osf.io/3t2cm

We have a couple of papers now from a public deliberation we did last year where we explored what an informed public thought about implementing pharmacogenetic testing for depression. Here’s one (other to follow): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧪 1/2

Guidance from an informed public on collecting and sharing PGx test results for major depressive disorder: “It’s no different from your blood type”

Many people with major depressive disorder (MDD) undergo a lengthy process of trial-and-error before finding a medication that works well for them. Pharmacogenomic (PGx) testing for MDD can help fi...

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Awww Bonnie. What a superstar. Total Eclipse of the Heart was a song of my childhood - absolute banger of a song. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 4w ago

Lovely obituary of Bonnie Tyler, this:

Yay! We've completed 4 qualitative interviews for the Investigating patient experiences of genetic counselling and testing in psychiatry (INSIGHT) study at the All Wales Psychiatric Genomics Service. Thank you to our participants so far. Keeping on going until we're finished! @j9austin.bsky.social

🚨 Fabulous job alert 🚨 The Mental Health Goals Omics Psychosis team is looking for a Psychology Assistant to join our Wales recruitment team. We're a friendly and motivated bunch, and there will be plenty of opportunities for learning and development. cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/48...

Psychology Assistant in Hadyn Ellis Building | Internal & External Website

View details and apply for this Psychology Assistant vacancy in Hadyn Ellis Building. Psychology Assistant Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences School of Medicine Colle...

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This is a super-interesting paper. It also fits with the idea that lower severity (and earlier expression of psychopathology) is more overlapping. Progression is associated with crystalising conditions, as proposed by clinical staging

Ashley Watts@ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 4w ago

Excited to share a paper recently accepted at Nature Mental Health! 😄 For decades, we've assumed that covariance among psychopathology informs comorbidity. What if we’ve been wrong?

Like most Britons, I am an elite all-you-can-eat buffet athlete – with an unbeatable approach | Emma Brockes

Like most Britons, I am an elite all-you-can-eat buffet athlete – with an unbeatable approach | Emma Brockes

As the all-inclusive holiday is having a revival, I am reminded of honing my buffet skills at the Pizza Hut salad bar in the 1980s – an invaluable experience, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

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We will have a 23 month research associate role opening to support our work on mammal fossils from the Isle of Skye. Open to candidates with substantial CT-segmentation experience with Masters or PhD qualifications. Advert should be out next week - will post soon but do get in touch if of interest.

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So it’s Trump 1, Belgium 4 – and the world rejoices. Nothing like failed chicanery to bring us together, is there? | Marina Hyde

Joy is unbounded and when it dies down perhaps the guilty will be held to account for cheating and facilitation: perhaps they won’t. Still, enjoy the moment, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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We at the Mental Health Goals Omics Psychosis Project are looking for a Communications Officer to join us on this very exciting project. Find more info here: cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/45... @gkmurray.bsky.social @em-os.bsky.social

All journalists should be required to take a 2-week course exclusively devoted to identifying whether a research study is establishing causation and then practicing how to write accurate sentences describing its results.

Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

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🧠 We're recruiting: Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry (FY3/CT level) 📍Cambridgeshire and Peterborough 📅 Closing date: 14 July 2026 🔗 Find out more about EIM: eim.digitrial.com 🔗 Apply here: beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jo... #Psychiatry #NHSJobs @gkmurray.bsky.social @em-os.bsky.social

@adakepinska.bsky.social “Cardiff University soon”? What’s this? Sounds like we’re to get excited. PS Hope all is good with you.

Thought I'd give this place a go again. I'm Kim. I'm a psychiatrist who does research on genetics and proteomics. I also do a lot of recruitment of people with psychosis for research studies. My clinical work is in a psychiatric genetics clinic in Cardiff.