Anneke Lucassen @alucassen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026What a spectacular tour de force this lecture was. Thankyou Trish for interesting and entertaining lecture highlighting how personalised medicine and personalised care must be considered together and that technologies are only useful if we retain context around data 1/2 123
Reposted by Anneke LucassenRachel Horton @rachel-horton.bsky.social · 26/03/2026This is such a brilliant and creative entry, I love the concept of people trying to see each other through layers of data 032
Reposted by Anneke LucassenCentre for Personalised Medicine @cpmoxford.bsky.social · 02/04/2026A huge well done to Nyah! And thank you to everyone who entered and supported the competition this year. You can check out all of the finalists here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/centre-for-p...cpm.ox.ac.ukCentre for Personalised Medicine Art Competition 2025-26 - cpmEarlier this year, the CPM ran an art competition asking UK students in Years 7 to 9 (approx. 11 to 14 years old) to send in art exploring the meaning of ‘personalised medicine’ and showing us what it... 011
Reposted by Anneke LucassenCentre for Personalised Medicine @cpmoxford.bsky.social · 13/04/2026We're pleased to invite you to our 2026 Research Showcase - 'New Frontiers in Personalised Medicine' 🗓️ Wednesday 3rd June 2026 📍 St Anne's College, University of Oxford Find out more and register here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/resear... 102
Reposted by Anneke LucassenCentre for Personalised Medicine @cpmoxford.bsky.social · 23/04/2026A huge well done to Ottilie! And thank you to everyone who entered and supported the competition this year. You can check out all of the finalists here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/centre-for-p...cpm.ox.ac.ukCentre for Personalised Medicine Art Competition 2025-26 - cpmEarlier this year, the CPM ran an art competition asking UK students in Years 7 to 9 (approx. 11 to 14 years old) to send in art exploring the meaning of ‘personalised medicine’ and showing us what it... 001
Reposted by Anneke LucassenTHIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute) @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk · 19/01/2026There needs to be more clarity about what the #NHS10YearPlan offers for patients and what “good enough” looks like in terms of access, along with careful co-design and evaluation of the detail of each of the three shifts. Full paper: ths.im/4b6oPWp THIS Summary: ths.im/49oDU4k 002
Reposted by Anneke LucassenHeidi MacDonald @ SPX @comixace.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Maybe we should stick to a message this simple. 52186485
Reposted by Anneke LucassenCentre for Personalised Medicine @cpmoxford.bsky.social · 19/01/2026We’re delighted to announce that Professor Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social will deliver this year’s CPM Annual Lecture, 'Personalised Medicine: A Primary Care Perspective' 🗓 28 April 2026 | 📍 Maths Institute, Oxford Find out more and register here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/cpm-an... 0339
Anneke Lucassen @alucassen.bsky.social · 14/01/2026@emmylooroll.bsky.social said "Gene editing is absolutely a possibility, as is modifying downstream pathways. Genes aren’t all doom & gloom!🧬" 100
Anneke Lucassen @alucassen.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Yes for most of the population it will be modest, looking at the extremes of risk for a population doesnt tell you what the shift in probability would be with intervention for most. 000
Anneke Lucassen @alucassen.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Gene therapy in ~95% of the population is the naive concept here: manipulating the genomes of most people for only a modest shift in prob. This why, in public discussion, it is more appropriate to talk about genes as modifying risk alongside other factors, not singular “causes” to be edited away. 220
Anneke Lucassen @alucassen.bsky.social · 13/01/2026yep and as I said, fine in that setting- it was the press release I was responding to-'most alzheimer's cases linked to single gene' we lose the nuance that for 95% population carrying E3/E4, modifiable lifestyle factors remain the dominant lever for prevention. 111
Anneke Lucassen @alucassen.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Calling the most common human variant a 'risk allele' is methodologically correct but nosologically problematic—it redefines disease categorisation in a way that obscures rather than clarifies the distinction between genetic susceptibility and modifiable risk pathways. 110
Reposted by Anneke LucassenCentre for Personalised Medicine @cpmoxford.bsky.social · 02/12/2025🧬 How well do ethnicity labels actually work in genomic medicine? Our new blog explores the challenges - and the pathways to more inclusive, meaningful data. ➡️ cpm.ox.ac.uk/thinking-out... #Genomics #HealthEquity #DiversityInResearch 052
Reposted by Anneke LucassenCentre for Personalised Medicine @cpmoxford.bsky.social · 05/01/2026You can find out more about the competition and enjoy the amazing winning entries from previous years here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/art-and-scie...cpm.ox.ac.ukArts & science connection - cpmCentre for Personalised Medicine Art Competition Every year, we plan to ask young people to create art that looks at the great things and the challenging things about personalised medicine. This year,... 001
Reposted by Anneke LucassenCentre for Personalised Medicine @cpmoxford.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Our 2024–25 Annual Report is now live! Reflecting on a year of collaboration, engagement, and impact at the CPM. Explore our flagship events, annual lectures, and creative outreach. ➡️ Read more here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/u... 001
Anneke Lucassen @alucassen.bsky.social · 13/01/2026I think we're talking difference between "cause" in epidemiology and what pple understand in everyday speech. IMO "cause" misleads into thinking gene more deterministic than it is. for single dominant risk like smoking, "cause" is fine, but for multifactorial conditions "modifies risk" is better 211
Anneke Lucassen @alucassen.bsky.social · 13/01/2026I'm really looking forward to this. @CPM we have been fortunate to have absolutely stellar annual lecturers- see here for recordings of the last few years: cpm.ox.ac.uk/series/cpm-a... and @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social will be no exceptioncpm.ox.ac.ukCPM Annual Lecture Series Archives - cpm 121
Reposted by Anneke LucassenTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 13/01/2026I'll be giving the Annual Guest Lecture for the Oxford Centre for Personalised Medicine. On 28th April 2026 at 5.30 pm. ‘Personalised Medicine, a Primary Care Perspective’. Open to all. cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/cpm-an...cpm.ox.ac.ukCPM Annual Lecture 2026 - cpmWe are delighted that the 2026 CPM Annual Lecture will be given by Professor Trish Greenhalgh; Personalised Medicine: A Primary Care Perspective. This will take place at the Maths Institute on Tuesday... 14422
Anneke Lucassen @alucassen.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Thanks for waking me out of bluesky inactivity! Presume this on the back of my SMC quote? My point was that if >95% population have a genotype, it is pretty meaningless to talk about it being causative of disease. Quite happy with apoE alleles *modifying risk* of Alzheimer’s 111
Anneke Lucassen @alucassen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Brilliant! I did not know this paper so thanks from infrequent bluesky user for this nugget reposted. 000
Reposted by Anneke LucassenHank Greely @hankgreely.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Have you got a patent application in? Have you been to Sandhill Road in Palo Alto for funding? Why not??? BTW add the strong prediction that the kid will drink milk! 011
Reposted by Anneke LucassenNatalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025We get the politics the few pay for. #democracy - it would be a good idea www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comBillionaire Tory donor gives £200,000 to Reform UKJCB chair Lord Bamford hands equal amount to Tories and Reform to support parties he says ‘believe in small business’ 911360
Reposted by Anneke LucassenBylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 10/11/2025Worried that using ChatGPT harms the planet? A new analysis shows each query uses less energy than a Google search – and far less than lighting a bulb or streaming TV. @eastangliabylines.co.ukeastangliabylines.co.ukHow much energy does ChatGPT really use?You shouldn’t really worry about your energy use when using domestic AI, it’s probably no worse than watching your favourite soap 14138
Reposted by Anneke LucassenMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/11/2025“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is” 671627207
Anneke Lucassen @alucassen.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Sounds very appealing: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comShe left her desk job and walked 3,541 miles from Mexico to Canada: ‘Give yourself permission’Jessica Guo hiked 30 miles a day, becoming the first woman to continuously hike two historic US trails in a calendar year 020
Reposted by Anneke LucassenKriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 06/11/2025#BBCNews - Holocaust survivor and educator Manfred Goldberg dies aged 95 www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comHolocaust survivor and educator Manfred Goldberg dies aged 95The German Jewish boy who saw his school closed by the Nazis dedicated his life to educating young people. 235
Reposted by Anneke LucassenPaul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/11/2025A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵 23462932853
Reposted by Anneke LucassenMax Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Over the last months, we’ve entirely rebuilt search on Our World in Data — we just launched it: ourworldindata.org/introducing-... Let me know what you think. Does it work for you?ourworldindata.orgIntroducing our new, more powerful searchFinding what you’re looking for, or discovering something new, has never been easier. 69331
Reposted by Anneke LucassenLabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social · 06/11/2025BBC vandalism, in an Age of Science to destroy the one science news programme left, after trivializing Science Now. These two programmes were once consecutive & complemented each other, treating listeners as adults. 1247
Reposted by Anneke LucassenChristophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Sharing this 🎯 post from @barryhunt008.bsky.social over here: "Wow 🤩 Public Health messaging 100 years ago 👏👏👏" 0139
Reposted by Anneke LucassenElizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Sometimes I see a pre-print and pray to the science communication gods that it isn’t reported in the news as though it is a peer reviewed study. 032
Reposted by Anneke LucassenTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm. 14874831920
Reposted by Anneke LucassenBylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 06/11/2025Talent is everywhere, opportunity isn’t. In this letter to the editor, a former teacher reflects on her pupils’ hopes, and the barriers some will face ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.ukeastangliabylines.co.ukLetter to the editor: Every child’s ambition matters – whatever their backgroundA former teacher fears children’s dreams could be limited by prejudice and urges us to protect their potential 12210
Reposted by Anneke LucassenBenjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 06/11/2025"LLMs are common-sense repositories. Yes, they can remix and recycle our knowledge in interesting ways. But they are trapped in the vocabularies we’ve encoded in our data and trained them upon. Large-language models are dead-metaphor machines." buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/there-is-n...buildcognitiveresonance.substack.comThere is no Artificial IronyLarge-language models are dead-metaphor machines 061
Reposted by Anneke LucassenIMS Epidemiology, University of Cambridge @imsepidemiology.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Join our rescheduled online Bradford Hill Seminar with @alucassen.bsky.social, discussing: Diagnostic and predictive journeys: Finding the right balance in genomic medicine 📅 Wed 26 November, 1 PM (UK) Register buff.ly/U06QZ9N @dphpc.bsky.social @mrc-bsu.bsky.social @phgfoundation.bsky.social 024
Reposted by Anneke LucassenDoug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Plastic is often seen as a cheap material but scientists in The Lancet argue it is expensive when including damage to health One estimate of the health damage from just three plastic chemicals – PBDE, BPA and DEHP – in 38 countries was $1.5tn a year. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comWorld in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warnsPlastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet 5192107
Reposted by Anneke LucassenChris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Sheep are destroying precious British habitats – and we taxpayers are footing the bill to the tune of millions in a climate and biodiversity emergency - it’s bad and bonkers ! Me for The Guardian . . . @wildjustice.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comSheep are destroying precious British habitats – and we taxpayers are footing the bill | Chris PackhamLarge parts of Dartmoor have been denuded of wildlife, harmed by farming and a mess of government schemes that are costly in every way, says naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham 14352101
Anneke Lucassen @alucassen.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Agreed, Brit soc genetic Medicine wrote a briefing on this: bsgm.org.uk/media/12702/...bsgm.org.uk 142
Reposted by Anneke LucassenHelen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 19/07/2025This this this Washing hands and wiping down surfaces will not do much to protect children from a deadly, highly infectious, airborne virus. Vaccinate and ventilate. 213173
Reposted by Anneke LucassenScientista @scientistas.bsky.social · 18/07/2025In a world of polarized headlines, Katharine Hayhoe is cutting through the noise. She’s not just a top climate scientist — she’s showing how to talk about climate in ways that build trust, not division. 📰 Read more on Scientista:scientista.substack.comKatharine Hayhoe: Climate Communication that WorksThe key to climate communication? Talk about what people already care about. 110022
Reposted by Anneke LucassenShane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Love this. Meanwhile can someone please hunt down whoever "Kiroe" is, and make it manifestly clear to them that their graffiti tag sucks and they're never to deface Belfast/Newtownabbey/Carrick ever again... 041
Reposted by Anneke LucassenTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Greatly enjoying this book by a physicist turned sociologist explaining why you need more than the laws of physics to explain societal problems. 28813
Reposted by Anneke LucassenSasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 19/07/2025People often intuitively interpret genetic ancestry PCA plots as simple genetic distances, but this is not always the case. Below are random pairs of individuals that are far apart in PCA space (lines) but actually have fewer total variant differences (numbers). 24511
Reposted by Anneke LucassenPenncat @pennicat.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Email Yvette Cooper and tell her that the right to protest is part of any functioning democracy and if she wants to even pretend we’re that, she needs to stop preventing pretty much all protest the government doesn’t like. action.greenpeace.org.uk/e/854853/4lP...action.greenpeace.org.ukYvette Cooper: Stop attacking the right to protest.Tell the Home Secretary to repeal extreme anti-protest laws and protect our right to protest. 17547
Reposted by Anneke Lucassenhannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...telegraph.co.ukI should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in GazaHome Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone 5385345
Reposted by Anneke LucassenHealthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Good but remember more terminally ill die at home. So hospice at home services also need support. www.gov.uk/government/n...gov.uk£75 Million boost for hospices to transform end-of-life care£75 million to modernise facilities and deliver upgrades to hospices across England including specially adapted beds, rooms, and technology. 031
Reposted by Anneke Lucassenwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/07/2025'Moonshine' by contemporary UK printmaker Janis Goodman #WomensArt 01865250
Reposted by Anneke LucassenPaul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 04/07/2025AI is going to revolutionize everything 1216543