Job opportunity! 📢 The Faculty of Science and FIMM @helsinki.fi are recruiting a Research Fellow / University Researcher in AI for Population Health and Genomics for a fixed-term appointment of maximum 4 years. Apply by July 31: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... @andganna.bsky.social

How do nature, nurture, and their interplay drive inequality? 🧬🧠💰 New PhD position in social science genetics at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social and @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. Your supervisors will be: Titus Galama, Aysu Okbay, and me. Apply by 21 July: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph... Please share!

NIH All of Us has just released a massive multi-omics dataset, including: • 535K WGS (120K+ added; now larger than UKB) • ~10K proteomics + RNAseq + long-read • ML-curated clinical notes • 68K with Fitbit data Kudos to this great initiative and to the participants for advancing science

@shuntarooo3.bsky.social, Prof. Kosuke Inoue (may not be here Bluesky), and I, translated "Epidemiology by Design" written by @epidbydesign.bsky.social into Japanese 🇯🇵 Hopefully, this book will contribute to studying epidemiology in Japan.

Very curious about "SLOW EPI" written by @epidbydesign.bsky.social 👀

Society for Epidemiologic Research@societyforepi.bsky.social · last mo.

New for this year! @epidbydesign.bsky.social has been circulating some 'teeny tiny methods zines'! A limited supply were avaliable for a few minutes, before being snaffled up. Look out for more tomorrow! #SER2026

📌Open Postdoc position in biostats @ Eurac Research Institute for Biomedicine 🕓Call open until 16/7/2026 🔭We look for researchers passionate of #Statgen #CausalInference in molecular biol #MendelianRandomization #GeneNetworks #Triangulation #BigData Applications to be sent through the website below

Cristian Pattaro@cpattaro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 We are hiring! ✴️ We're looking for a PostDoctoral Researcher who would like to develop causal inference models for molecular traits in large datasets ✴️The position is for nearly 3 yrs in the ❤️ of the beautiful Dolomites with a fantastic group of colleagues! eurac.onboard.org/jobs/KmZ2WEm...

Our preprint is out! Does having a "monogenic" diabetes variant mean a 100% risk of developing diabetes? ➙NO. ・In ~375,000 people from All of Us, ~1 in 1,013 individuals carried a pathogenic variant, with similar prevalence among European and African ancestries www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

📢 We are hiring! ✴️ We're looking for a PostDoctoral Researcher who would like to develop causal inference models for molecular traits in large datasets ✴️The position is for nearly 3 yrs in the ❤️ of the beautiful Dolomites with a fantastic group of colleagues! eurac.onboard.org/jobs/KmZ2WEm...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Multi-Omics and Causal inference

Eurac Research · Bozen/Bolzano

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New paper from the group! Relation between dietary patterns and kidney health using reduced rank regression. Again, congrats to our former student Giulia Barbieri 👏 below her story on the RRR trilogy #CKD www.linkedin.com/posts/giulia...

DASH diet, Reduced Rank Regression Dietary Patterns and relations with kidney function in the CHRIS general population study - BMC Nephrology | Giulia Barbieri

I’m happy to share our latest publication in BMC Nephrology 🎉 🏆 This work closes the "RRR trilogy" we built during my PhD, three studies exploring how reduced rank regression can complement tradition...

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Genomic data are subject to multiple types of bias. Here is a very much needed and helpful review to help realize distortions in applied models 👇 #statgen Data biases in genomics: Trends in Genetics www.cell.com/trends/genet...

Data biases in genomics

Machine learning (ML) is developing into an inherent part of genomic research due to the ever-increasing amounts of genomic data. However, data-driven algorithms are strongly dependent on good quality...

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Scientific figures can strongly influence how research findings are interpreted. This ‘How to’ Comment article in Nature Human Behaviour outlines a practical strategy for creating figures that communicate clearly across audiences and scientific contexts. go.nature.com/3R00b1t #Academicsky 🧪

Scientific figures can strongly influence how research findings are interpreted. This ‘How to’ Comment article in Nature Human Behaviour outlines a practical strategy for creating figures that communicate clearly across audiences and scientific contexts. go.nature.com/3R00b1t #Academicsky 🧪

We consider 12,871 parent–offspring trios, which is quite unique data. Strikingly, paternal education-PGI predicts offspring income more strongly than the offspring’s own education-PGI. This pattern applies only to paternal PGI, not maternal PGI!

Upcoming seminar 😀 This Friday, at Uni Milano Bicocca, I am looking forward to talking about molecular target 🎯 identification for treatment & prevention, triangulating evidence from population-based studies. See below for connecting www.dismeq.unimib.it/it/eventi/bi...

Bicocca Seminars Series in Biostatistics: Dr.Cristian Pattaro

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Only a couple of days left to apply ...

Abdel Abdellaoui@dr-appie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Me & @aysuo.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc to study gene–environment interplay in health & social inequalities 🧬 You'll analyze genomic data as part of a collaboration with Uppsala & Oslo at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social (NL) werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures... Please RT for karma points ♥️

How to design effective scientific figures

How to design effective scientific figures

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 01 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02466-9Scientific figures strongly influence how research findings are interpreted, yet guidance on figure design has largely focused on technical aspects of visualization. In this ‘How to’ Comment, I outline a practical strategy for creating figures that communicate clearly across audiences and scientific contexts.

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How to design effective scientific figures

Nature Human Behaviour - Scientific figures strongly influence how research findings are interpreted, yet guidance on figure design has largely focused on technical aspects of visualization. In...

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Ryosuke Fujii (Ryo)@ryo-epi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New commentary "How to design effective scientific figures" is out from Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com !! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New commentary "How to design effective scientific figures" is out from Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com !! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How to design effective scientific figures - Nature Human Behaviour

Scientific figures strongly influence how research findings are interpreted, yet guidance on figure design has largely focused on technical aspects of visualization. In this ‘How to’ Comment, I outlin...

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📣 𝐖𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬! 🌍📈🧬 If you’re finishing a PhD (or know someone who is) and want to work on complex trait biology + 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙-𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑡, read on 👇

🗓️ Join @prsmethods.bsky.social investigators on May 13 to discuss integrating Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) and polygenic risk scores 👀 Event information: bit.ly/4chGKtr 🔖 Publication: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41785862/

American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)@geneticssociety.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The authors take the mic. In this upcoming May 13 Journal Club Webinar, @ajhgnews.bsky.social’s paper authors Sara J Cromer, MD, MS, and David Conti, PhD, unpack what it takes to integrate PRS and SDoH across genetically and socially varied populations—LIVE: https://bit.ly/4chGKtr #ASHG

bought a new lid for my @frame.work notebook - now I have to start over again adding #stickers 😊 - and to decide what to do with the old one (on top).

Our review "Integrating genetic data with biological insight: A practical guide to cis-Mendelian randomization" is now published at @ajhgnews.bsky.social - led by @vkarhune.bsky.social and Benji Woolf with critical insight from Dipender Gill and Pallav Bhatnagar. Thread follows:

The American Journal of Human Genetics@ajhgnews.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📣New Review! 📄Integrating genetic data with biological insight: A practical guide to cis-Mendelian randomization 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 @vkarhune.bsky.social @stevesphd.bsky.social & co 👉 bit.ly/4tKkY7r

So, kids are seen as obstacles to career. More for women. But men are not safe either. And if it is so in academia, is it worse for other jobs? Much to fix in our systems.

Nature@nature.com · 4mo ago

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

PGI Repository v2.0 preprint out! A 🧵 on the main results and updates @robel-alemu.bsky.social @paturley.bsky.social @alextisyoung.bsky.social

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · last yr.

An Updated Polygenic Index Repository: Expanded Phenotypes, New Cohorts, and Improved Causal Inference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.14.653986v1

New paper alert 🚨 Our talented PhD student, Hiroshi Okumiyama, reported that blood pressure (BP) polygenic score may identify the hidden risk layer, even thier BP is successfully controlled. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Related contents ⬇️

Integration of polygenic risk score with measured blood pressure reveals hidden risks of cardiovascular disease mortality: A Japanese prospective cohort study - Hypertension Research

Hypertension Research - Integration of polygenic risk score with measured blood pressure reveals hidden risks of cardiovascular disease mortality: A Japanese prospective cohort study

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Looking forward to this year's Behavior Genetics Association (BGA) conference, in my hometown of Amsterdam! Deadline for abstracts is next week, February 16th: bga.org/content.aspx...

🚨Eurac MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship scouting has started - get in touch if you'd like to submit a proposal with me 📝 www.eurac.edu/en/research-... #MSCA

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#kidneygenafrica #ckdresearch #africangenomics #nephrology #genetics #capacitybuilding #scientifictraining #publichealth #researchinafrica | Peace Bassey Osim, PhD

Day 1 | KidneyGen Africa Workshop 🇿🇦🧬🩺 Grateful to be part of an inspiring first day at the KidneyGenAfrica Workshop, focused on CKD phenotypes and the epidemiology of chronic kidney disease in Afric...

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Thrilled to announce that my 1st single authored book is released today (Jan 26 2026) 🔥 This book focuses on how beautiful graphs are made regardless of types of programming languages. Hopefully available for many researchers not only in Japanese speakers. amzn.asia/d/7H8giCm

@fctropf.bsky.social and I are running a 2-day short course in London on 20/21 April that will provide an introduction to polygenic scores. The course will cover creation of polygenic scores, their strengths and limitations, and ethical issues around their use. Further info at shorturl.at/8gUcu.