Yep, you can count on us.

Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · last wk.

Gen X to the rescue (Gift link) www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ge...

Any time I read a story like this, I immediately scroll down to see if my favourite true crime trope - the absurdly incriminating search history - gets featured. I can confirm that this one does not disappoint.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about coping with grief after her husband’s death has been convicted of aggravated murder in his death

Ruibao's first paper from the lab is out in @nature.com . www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Collab with @multicellgenome.bsky.social & @jennahed.bsky.social. How did cells stick together and form the first animals? The protist Ministeria suggests cellular aggregation had a role. @iuqcb.bsky.social

A unicellular relative links aggregative multicellularity to animal origins - Nature

Aggregative multicellularity was key to the evolution of the multicellular animal genetic toolkit.

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@larspenke.bsky.social following from our conversation about EEG :)

Casper Kerrén@ckerren.bsky.social · 2w ago

For me, the broader idea is that memory retrieval isn't simply replay. Instead, hippocampal output may initiate a transformation that expands compressed memory traces into rich cortical representations capable of supporting conscious recollection. I'd love to hear what people think.

Is there a connection between language difficulties and mathematical performance? Anne Mari Høgetveit breaks down the latest research in this video abstract. Essential viewing for educators and clinicians. https://bit.ly/4uNeMMV

Mathematical Skills in Children with Developmental Language Disorder:...

Can developmental language disorder predict mathematical difficulties in children, and which specific maths skills are most affected? Anne Mari Høgetveit in a video abstract of her JCPP Research Review paper.

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I'm collecting together my prior Bluesky threads addressing popular misconceptions about genetics. A thread of threads, beginning with this brief guide to heritability: 🧬🧵🧪

Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · last yr.

Heritability = one of the most commonly confused concepts in public (mis)understanding of genetics. Let’s break it down. Imagine studying a cohort of people in a specific set of environmental circumstances. You assess everyone for an observable trait & find it varies from one person to another. 🧪1/5

For more than a decade, Stephen Colbert has been one of the top voices of late night—making us laugh and, even more importantly, reminding us who we are and what America stands for. Michelle and I enjoyed being Stephen’s guests—even when the games were rigged—and we’re grateful to call him a friend.

Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study now has reading and language phenotypes to use alongside its other rich data including omics: bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/2/... @genscot.bsky.social Our protocol paper led by @hayleymountford.bsky.social

Very excited about this preprint that we just posted. It introduces the Genomic-Relatedness Matched Association (GRMA) study. It’s an extension to family-based GWAS that uses extended relatives beyond only siblings in diverse-ancestry data with very little bias. (Link below.)

MIT has lost 500 international grad students relative to last year. Caused directly by the White House. Closing America's doors to the very best, most brilliant people on the planet is like dropping a bomb directly on America's capacity to innovate. On the prosperity of our children's future.

A message from MIT President Sally Kornbluth

YouTube video by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Stuttering is one of the most recognizable—and stigmatized—communication disorders. In recognition of National Stuttering Awareness Week, we’re highlighting resources that you can use in your work. https://academy.pubs.asha.org/2026/05/national-stuttering-awareness-week-new-and-trending-resources/

National Stuttering Awareness Week: New and Trending Resources - ASHA Journals Academy

Stuttering is one of the most recognizable—and stigmatized—communication disorders to the general public. In recognition of National Stuttering Awareness Week, we’re highlighting resources that you ca...

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A report from Speech & Language UK highlights the action needed to ensure the specific needs of children with DLD are not overlooked in the proposed reforms to the SEND system. You can read Speech and Language UK’s report here speechandlanguage.org.uk/wp-content/u...

For any early career researchers working on wellbeing, this mentoring programme (European mentors) might be of interest: site.unibo.it/una-europa/e...

INSPIRE Mentoring Programme

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Exam prep for a research and statistics exam in 2026! sachaepskamp.com/PL2132_games...

After 150 years of boring wooden Galton boards, I finally fixed it! Now with lasers, bazookas, bombs, pinball bumpers, and extremely serious sci-fi hamsters. 🎯 EXTREME GALTON 👇 sachaepskamp.com/extreme_galton

It feels like yesterday that online-engineers-of-a-certain-age were saying that heavy freight could never be electrified. To quote William Gibson, "The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet." Fossil fuel interests want to keep it that way.

Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In China battery electric trucks and hybrid trucks now outsell diesel trucks for the first time.

Behold the rosy veincap! This species, which is considered inedible, is the only fungus in its taxon. It has a wide range & can be spotted worldwide, including in parts of N. America, Africa, Europe, & Asia. Have you ever seen one? Photo: Dan Molter, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Mental image of Boaty McBoatface putting on hat, fake mustache, and sunglasses as he approaches Strait of Hormuz www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/w...

Ship ‘Spoofing’ in Strait of Hormuz May Compound Confusion

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🚨New Paper in PNAS: "Refugee Labor Market Integration at Scale: Evidence from Germany’s Fast-Track Employment Program" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Ungated preprint osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/px9ew_v3 w/ J Hainmueller, D Hangartner, @niklas-harder.bsky.social & E Vallizadeh #econtwitter #econsky

Refugee labor market integration at scale: Evidence from Germany’s fast-track employment program | PNAS

Governments face persistent challenges in integrating refugees into the local labor market, and many past interventions have shown limited impact. ...

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I've been coming across so many great open science initiatives in other fields that I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the efforts happening in the Education Sciences. New blog post! 💡 cghlewis.com/blog/ed_open...

Today we launch The Australian DNA Bridge, a study focused on individuals with mixed ancestries to help us make genetic discoveries that are more accurate, inclusive, and equitable across all populations. Want to learn more? Follow the link. [https://australiandnabridgestudy.org/]

You were (very likely) born because your parents mated 😅 Title and sub-heading aside, great piece by @kristenfrench.bsky.social on the genetics of individual differences in sensitivity to music and art

Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Here's an engaging & accessible introduction to our studies of individual differences in how people respond to poetry, art, & music. @kristenfrench.bsky.social interviewed @giacomobignardi.bsky.social about the research he's leading to decipher the mysteries of “aesthetic chills”. @nautil.us 🎶🎨🧬🧪

‘I’ve been swept up by the autism spectrum idea, and it’s only in the past 10 years that I have felt things have gone too far. Very slowly, I have come to say, “No, this is not right”’: Autism expert professor Uta Frith talks to @helen-amass.bsky.social

Uta Frith: ‘Autism is not a spectrum’

The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in the classroom, researcher Uta Frith tells Helen Amass

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📖5th #iWORDD this October: 2 days of reading & dyslexia research, 1 on real-world impact! Join our outstanding keynote line-up + share your work here by April 15: shorturl.at/lSlBI @jyeatman.bsky.social @gaablab.bsky.social @drmluciano.bsky.social @standehaene.bsky.social @cassandrapw.bsky.social

GWAS Catalog API v1 retires in May 2026 🧬 Migrating to v2? It's faster, more stable, and gives you better query control. Docs 👉 www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/rest/api/v2/docs Ref 👉 www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/rest/api/v2/docs/reference 3 months to go #genomics

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Mendelian Randomization is powerful but often debated. We benchmarked it against the "ground truth" of human metabolic pathways to see how often it gets it right. 🧬 Result: MR is robust! It matches known metabolism in 43% of cases and identifies valid drug targets. www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...

@clydefrancks.bsky.social found what is potentially (likey?!) the first fully hallucinated GWAS paper, of “left handedness”… the Manhattan plot has the wrong number of chromosomes, and genes labels with one wrong chromosome placed in a second wrong chromosome… wild…

Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) of LeftHandedness Across Global Populations

Left-handedness, a prominent phenotype affecting approximately 10% of the global population, has long been hypothesized to possess a polygenic basis influenced by complex gene-environment interactions...

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Dyslexia isn’t just about reading and writing. Prof Maggie Snowling explains how reading disorders originate in the language system, and why many children also struggle with oral language. Read the full blog to learn more. https://bit.ly/4qr5SlY

Professor Maggie Snowling on rethinking reading disorders

We caught up with the presenter -  Prof. Maggie Snowling, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Oxford and Research Fellow at St John's College - about her career, the topic, and her h...

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The department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University is proud to present a lecture series on the topic of eugenics. As philosophers and ethicists, we are concerned about the revival and normalization of eugenic discourse. humanitiesacademie.ugent.be/eugenics