Saime ka Eesti meedias isiksuse GWASist ja käitumisgeneetikast natuke juttu puhuda 🎙️🍎📰 @ukuvainik.bsky.social
Kerli Ilves
@kerliilv.bsky.social
Junior research fellow in health behaviour genetics • Project manager in applied social sciences research • Behavioural scientist 🧠🏃🏼♀️🧬🎧📊👩🏼🎓🥕👩💻 University of Tartu • National Institute for Health Development
The day is here! @michelnivard.bsky.social sums up the huge collaborative effort behind our personality genetics paper in this thread, finally out in Nature. I learned so much from this incredible team along the way. Sõge! 🧬🎭
Michel Nivard@michelnivard.bsky.social · last mo.🚨& 🧵 Our new Nature paper is out! Across 46 cohorts and up to 1.14M people per Big Five trait, we do GWAS and ask how robust, generalizable and consequential the genetic signals underlying personality really are. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Throwback to #ECP22 in Edinburgh: four days of great science, old & new friends, and being back in the city where I did my Master’s! Also got to experience two very different kinds of stage fright: presenting my research by day and DJing the conference closing party by night 🌓🎧
Social determinants of health and epigenetic clocks: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 140 studies
Social determinants of health and epigenetic clocks: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 140 studies
Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02477-6This meta-analysis of 140 studies (~66,000 participants) finds that social inequality is associated with faster biological ageing, with stronger associations observed for newer DNA methylation epigenetic clocks than earlier generations.
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Research Briefing: An investigation of the Estonian Biobank and the UK Biobank has identified more than 88,000 associations between more than 8,000 genomic regions and metabolic traits. go.nature.com/42UHeA9
Biobank analysis reveals more than 88,000 genetic associations with metabolic traits
The study has enabled the discovery of associations with genetic variants present in only 1 in 10,000 individuals.
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Ever wondered whether we could map personality profiles as we do with genetic or brain data? We applied a similar method to explore similarities and differences of NEO PI profiles in our fresh-out paper. Here’s what we found 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Unity and Diversity of NEO-PI Personality Profiles of 162 Phenotypes - Kerli Ilves, Yueh en Wang, Kenn Konstabel, Ants Adamson, Kersten Kõrge, Aire Raidvee, Alain Dagher, René Mõttus, Uku Vainik, 2025
For over 30 years, detailed personality-phenotype association profiles based on the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI) have been published, yet the phenotype pr...
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Vahetasin Med24 intervjuus mõtteid ses osas, et miks pelgalt teadmine sellest, kuidas oleks tervislik käituda tihti tegeliku käitumise muutuseni ei vii.. med24.ee/uudised/kuid...
Kuidas isiksus tervisekäitumist kujundab? Doktorant Kerli Ilves selgitab geeni- ja käitumisteaduse piiril toimuvat
Kuigi teame krooniliste haiguste riskitegurite ja elustiili seoste kohta iga päevaga üha enam, seisavad arstid igapäevaselt silmitsi küsimusega: miks ei vii teadmised muutuseni? Tartu Ülikooli doktora...
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⏰ 🎤 Eile sain panna proovile oma teaduskommunikatsiooni oskused - kell läks käima ja mul oli 3 minutit, et selgitada, mida ja miks ma oma doktorantuuris uurin. Väärt kogemus & II koht! 🥈 #3MT Kui tahaksid ka 3 minutiga teada, millega tegelen, siis👇 uttv.ee/naita?id=38498
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Honoured to have had the chance to contribute to this massive effort with such an inspiring team! Let's take genetics x personality to the next level ⚡
Ted Schwaba@tedmond.bsky.social · last yr.Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Very excited to give a virtual talk as part of the @eshg.bsky.social webinar series tomorrow at 4pm (CEST). If you want to listen in, register here: wma.eventsair.com/eshg-webinar... I will talk about all the exciting things we can learn from GWAS summary statistics...
This issue is packed with interesting stuff (and not saying that because I have a v short commentary in it!). There's papers on how food environments are changing, food policy and UPFs, the role of corporations etc. Unfortunately, few papers are open access ☹️...
Nature Food@natfood.nature.com · 2y agoMarch issue: food environments and human health in focus www.nature.com/collections/...
Neat breakdown of the complex nuances in SESxGenetics! Another proof that interdisciplinary skills&knowledge are essential to make sense of this world. Thank you @dr-appie.bsky.social and co!
Abdel Abdellaoui@dr-appie.bsky.social · 2y agoIn every civilization, people end up sorted into levels of socio-economic status (SES). We explore the history, present, and future of scientific research on the complicated relationship between SES and DNA in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social💰🧬🎓 Link: rdcu.be/efacK Thread below 👇🏽
I had waited for about a year for this Estonian folktronic bliss to be released, thank you NOËP 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWU-...
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More often than not I'm not excited to hit the the gym for my calisthenics and resistance band workouts, but reminders like this help to keep me committed! 💪
Elena Shekhova@lumipie.com · 2y ago🧪#SciComm Muscle loss is associated with various health issues and accelerated during aging. The good news is that resistance training can offset muscle loss. Simple tools like resistance bands make this type of exercise accessible. 🔗 https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/EP091937
📢You are interested in social-science genetics, equality of opportunity, social mobility, and skill formation? 🚨Join us for the 4th ESSGN conference! 👉When? May 22-23, 2025 👉Where? Bristol! 👉More info? essgn.org/essgn-confer... 👉Submissions? cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ESSGN2025/
ESSGN Conference IV
Bristol, May 22-23, 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce the 4th conference of the European Social Science Genetics Network. This conference aims to improve our understanding of how gene…
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Sel nädalal tähistame nii Naised Teaduses päeva kui sõbrapäeva, mis on mõlemad mu arust väga vinged asjad, mida tähistada! Selle puhul jagasime suurepärase @klehto.bsky.social ja genoomika instituudiga mõne mõtte sõbralikkusest geenides ja keskkonnas 💝
TÜ genoomika instituut
𝟯 𝗺𝗼̃𝘁𝗲𝘁 | 𝗞𝘂𝗶 𝗽𝗮𝗹𝗷𝘂 𝘀𝗼̃𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗯 𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗼̃𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗸𝘂𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁? 🧬🩷 🩷𝗜𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗮𝗯 𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗸𝘂𝗷𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗱𝗮 𝘀𝗼̃𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗸𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗸𝘀. Tervisekäitumise geneetika nooremteaduri Kerli Ilvese sõnul on oma isiksuse muutmine...
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🧪🍎📃 #medsky While many know that restrictive diets can cause nutrient deficiencies, not everyone is aware that overeating can too. This study showed that overweight & obese children and young adults have a higher risk of iron deficiency (but not zinc or vitamin A deficiency). 🔗 shorturl.at/kS7ac
The same in science communication
Technology Connections@techconnectify.bsky.social · 2y agoThe most important thing I can tell everyone that I've learned from being a YouTuber who explains how stuff works is that each and every time I thought "this is common knowledge and doesn't need to be explained" I was wrong.
🧠 Microplastics in your bloodstream New research reveals that microplastics can block brain capillaries, reduce blood flow, and cause neurological changes in mice. A concerning link between pollution and health. 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #Microplastics #Health #SciComm 🧪
Microplastics in the bloodstream can induce cerebral thrombosis by causing cell obstruction and lead to neurobehavioral abnormalities
Microplastics get in the blood and are eaten by immune cells, leading to cell obstruction and cerebral thrombosis.
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Why do most nutrition labels still seem like riddles in tiny font? Making healthier and/or more informed choices while grocery shopping shouldn't feel like solving a puzzle. Clearer labels could be a small but important step towards changing that.
Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH)@adphuk.bsky.social · 2y agoOur President @felly500.bsky.social tells @bmj.com why providing calorie info – a policy backed by the the public – can help tackle obesity but is just one of a range of measures needed. Read ➡️ bit.ly/3PMxT6A
Last two days were full of insights into last year efforts of our 🧬 institute! I got to present my research on health behaviour x personality x genetics and @katerynap.bsky.social introduced some curious discoveries on microbiome 💡
Kateryna Pantiukh@kpantiukh.bsky.social · 2y agoToday is the day! Our PhD conference has officially begun!
Benefits of increasing taxes on animal based food and decreasing taxes on plant based food www.nature.com/articles/s43...
A reform of value-added taxes on foods can have health, environmental and economic benefits in Europe - Nature Food
Fiscal incentives on consumption can encourage dietary changes towards healthier and more sustainable foods. Integrated modelling reveals the potential health, environmental and economic impacts of al...
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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
The ingredients for these infernos in the Los Angeles area — near-hurricane strength winds and mid-winter drought — foretell an emerging era of compound events that overwhelm our ability to respond. My first piece for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded
Conditions for a January firestorm in Los Angeles like this have not existed before now, writes a meteorologist and climate journalist
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Interesting natural experiment unfolding around health (behaviour), the food and pharma industries, and profits. www.economist.com/business/202...
Can big food adapt to healthier diets?
It must contend with weight-loss drugs and concerns about processed foods
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