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Cristian Pattaro

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Biostatistics. Genetics. Epidemiology. Group leader of Biostats & Epi @ Eurac Research cristianpattaro.quarto.pub/cp

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding
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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Double your money back if this is not the most uplifting, heartwarming thing you read today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/s...
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The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice
Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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I have been spending my sabbatical at Eurac Research in Bolzano, Italy doing what I love doing most (finding patterns in data), and that too in a beautiful place surrounded by the Dolomites! Thanks… |...
I have been spending my sabbatical at Eurac Research in Bolzano, Italy doing what I love doing most (finding patterns in data), and that too in a beautiful place surrounded by the Dolomites! Thanks to...
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What a honour having Prof. Mousumi Banerjee joining our group of #Biostats & #Epidemiology this year, thanks to the mobility grants from the Autonomous Province of Bolzano. It's being an enormous professional and personal enrichment for all of us! www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...
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A curved path
Some careers unfold in straight lines. Professor Mousumi Banerjee’s did not...
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Funny quick read with nice ideas on improving lab life Twenty-two easy ways to power up your lab meetings www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Twenty-two easy ways to power up your lab meetings
Scientists share help and advice on how they got their research discussions flowing.
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
neologism: #Mendelianization - Concentrating Polygenic Signal Into a Single Causal Locus #statgen onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Mendelianization: Concentrating Polygenic Signal Into a Single Causal Locus
Complex disorders such as depression and alcohol use involve numerous genetic variants, and implicated loci continue to grow with sample size. This proliferation hampers interpretability, as the mech...
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Nature @nature.com · 14/08/2026
Largest study of its kind finds that neighbourhoods with a rise in the number of undocumented migrants did not show a rise in violent crime rates go.nature.com/4gvBVyq
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Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds
Largest study of its kind finds that neighbourhoods with a rise in the number of undocumented migrants did not show a rise in violent crime rates.
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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Must-know numbers in human genetics -- As many of you know, I'm writing a free online textbook in human genetics. In this blog post I cover a key skill for genome scientists from that book: how to use mental math to figure out key genome properties. jkpritchard.substack.com/p/on-fermi-p...
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On Fermi Problems in Human Genetics
and some very useful numbers about human genomes to get you started!
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
interesting: Allele frequency trajectories across age groups reveal ongoing natural selection shaping disease susceptibility: The American Journal of Human Genetics www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...
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Allele frequency trajectories across age groups reveal ongoing natural selection shaping disease susceptibility
Analysis of age-dependent allele frequency trajectories reveals 168 candidate variants under ongoing natural selection in Han Taiwanese individuals. Many are associated with disease susceptibility and...
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"Which question are you asking?" #stats #regression
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
unrelated to anything I do, but some pieces are just worth sharing The Before and The After | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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The Before and The After | NEJM
When patients who have become homeless show a physician photos of themselves in better times, they are, in part, asking to be treated fairly, like they are people who might still turn their lives a...
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
📌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
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Is Change Possible?: ITT Episode 2.7: New England Journal of Medicine: Vol 394, No 23 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Is Change Possible? | NEJM
The use of race in medicine is harming patients. What is being done to move away from these practices and to change a culture of medicine based on the false premise that race is biological?
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Review from the lab just out in Cell Genomics: Translating genome-wide association studies at multiple scales: Drug target prioritization, cellular architectures, and organ imaging www.cell.com/cell-genomic... Co-led by fab PhD students Benedetta Felici and Siyuan Chen!
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Translating genome-wide association studies at multiple scales: Drug target prioritization, cellular architectures, and organ imaging
This review covers how the results of genome-wide association studies are now utilized at multiple scales, informing our etiological understanding at the levels of molecules, cells, and organs. It cov...
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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026
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The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
📢 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...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Multi-Omics and Causal inference
Eurac Research · Bozen/Bolzano
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Pilar Cacheiro @pilarcacheiro.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
W Oliveros Diez: The Developmental Genotype-Tissue Expression (dGTex) project pilot data. Importantly many of these genes are downregulated over time so largely missed in adult cohorts. Excited abut this new dataset. #eshg2026
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Structural equation modeling dominating the scene of #statgen at #eshg2026
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European Society of Human Genetics @eshg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Let's celebrate the diversity at #eshg2026. Show us your country's hidden gem! Reply with a photo of your favourite place, food, or anything you are proud of. Look at the map below to see where participants this year are from.
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
At #eshg2026 @silvidm.bsky.social and I presented the #EKIDNA project for the 1st time. Funded by #Interreg EKIDNA will bring together researchers and high-school students in #Tyrol, #SouthTyrol and #FVG to advance knowledge in #CKD genomics. It was to talk to many interested scientists
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Italy is the 2nd top contributor of abstracts to #eshg2026 🙂👏
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European Society of Human Genetics @eshg.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Attend the Leena Peltonen Award lecture now at #eshg2026 with Nicola Whiffin from Oxford University and learn About her recent discovieries in rare diseases and the broader inclusion of non-coding variants in clinical genetic testing that led to the Leena Peltonen Award. Congratulations!
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Illuminating discussion on the #ethics of control group treatment in #RCTs. Scroll down to find many possible examples in #nephrology - like a textbook IRBs to keep eyes open
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Jeremy Labrecque @jeremylabrecque.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Interested in doing a PhD with me in epidemiology on causal inference and triangulation? In beautiful Rotterdam no less. www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/1... Pro tip: if you get to the interview stage, there WILL be a question about ice hockey
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Vacature: PhD student in epidemiology to develop and apply causal triangulation
Many key questions in epidemiology are fundamentally causal. Yet, we often have to rely on assumptions that cannot be directly verified to judge whether an observed association truly reflects causalit...
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
#CKD genomics @ #eshg2026? Don't miss #CKDGen & #KidneyGen-Africa talks by *** Pascal Schlosser C22.1 on #eGFR genomics *** Sahar Ghasemi P16.062.B / LTB1.5 on #UACR genomics *** Oyesola Ojewunmi C08.6 on African ancestry #GWAS see you there! @sfb1453.bsky.social @sfatumo.bsky.social
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Attending #eshg2026? I'll be happy to introduce you to #EKIDNA, a new citizen-science project that will assess #CKD genomics w high school students. See you there! @silvidm.bsky.social will be there as well!
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
#finerenone effect in DM-free patients with - eGFR of 25-60 ml/min x 1.73 m^2 & UACR of 200-500 mg/g or - eGFR of 25-90 ml/min x 1.73 m^2 & UACR of 500-3500 mg/g #CKD Finerenone in Persons with Chronic Kidney Disease without Diabetes | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Finerenone in Persons with Chronic Kidney Disease without Diabetes | NEJM
In randomized trials, finerenone, a nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, improved kidney and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD)...
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
more on the issue of race-related equations in medicine from the #NEJM - reflections on #genetics www.podbean.com/ep/pb-zprkr-...
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The Myth of Race and Genetics | Intention to Treat
We now know that humans are more than 99.9% genetically alike. So why does medicine still link certain diseases to race? And what do genetics actually tell us about race, ancestry, and disease? A full...
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#esaxerenone #DKD non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor blocker esaxerenone reduces glomerular hyperfiltration and albuminuria academic.oup.com/ndt/article/...
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The non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor blocker esaxerenone reduces glomerular hyperfiltration and albuminuria
ABSTRACTBackground. Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is a major cause of chronic kidney disease, with glomerular hyperfiltration contributing to its progressi
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jdelafuente.bsky.social @jdelafuente.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
1/9 🚨 BREAKING OUT OF STEALTH MODE 🚨 Multivariate GWAS in Genomic SEM now runs on a laptop! New preprint + package update: a closed-form analytic solution makes multivariate GWAS ~800× faster, cutting runtimes from hours on HPC clusters to minutes on a personal computer.
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The Predator Emerges
ALT: The Predator Emerges
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
mGFR vs eGFR in Swedish adults #CKD
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 05/06/2026
We commend Steven Kahn, MBChB, Aaron Kelly, PhD, Desmond Schatz, MD, Justin Ryder, PhD, and Irl Hirsch, MD for Standing Up for Science at the ADA meeting. They were forcibly removed by police for handing out the following editorial. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
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Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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Thomas Renault @thomasrenault.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🚨 A few months ago, a paper published in Science reported that “LLM adoption is associated with a large increase in researchers’ scientific output.” In a comment released today, we show that the reported effects are driven by a methodological issue in the empirical design. arxiv.org/abs/2605.17979
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Polygenic score ≠ genetic predisposition A provocative reflection... and time to change our communication #statgen #gwas #prs #pgs www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Polygenic risk scores are not genetic predispositions
Nature Human Behaviour - Polygenic risk scores are not genetic predispositions
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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...
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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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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Reflections on being a research supervisor www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Poor supervision is pushing young researchers out of academia
A survey finds that academic supervisors can have a huge impact on their students’ mental health.
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Andrea Ganna @andganna.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
📢I'm setting up a new team at the @humantechnopole in Milan. We have several openings in AI applied to nationwide health data, biobank-scale -omics. Milan is a beautiful city and at @humantechnopole is top notch. You can find post-doc positions here: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Postdoc/...
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Again! Another amazing investigation on the genetic basis of #T2D by Eli Zeggini lab #gwas #MendelianRandomization www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Unravelling the molecular mechanisms causal to type 2 diabetes across global populations and disease-relevant tissues - Nature Metabolism
Analysing the causal links of gene expression and protein abundance on type 2 diabetes risk in blood and seven tissues related to the disease from individuals of four ancestries, the authors advance o...
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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...
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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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Joao Pedro Magalhaes @jpsenescence.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Gene expression can be used to predict age and mortality 🚨 Impressive study on transcriptomic clocks across mammalian species and tissues to predict age, lifespan and mortality. Link to original paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... My thoughts on the study: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Universal transcriptomic hallmarks of mammalian ageing and mortality - Nature
Integration of gene expression data from multiple tissues across four mammalian species reveals conserved transcriptomic signatures of mammalian ageing and mortality and uncovers the modular...
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
News from the group! We just started a new EU-funded project called EKIDNA, which stands for "An integrated citizen-scientist platform to Enhance Knowledge In DNA research for human health: the EKIDNA project In the field of biomedicine" www.linkedin.com/posts/instit...
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#ckd #citizenscience | Institute for Biomedicine – Eurac Research
🚀 A new journey has just started: all partners are on board, and EKIDNA is now in motion! Today we held the EKIDNA project Kickoff Meeting at our institute, marking the official start of a cross-bor...
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Lili Milani @lilimilani.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🧬 Join us at the 25th International Gene Forum – with stellar speakers from around the world (again)! Register now to secure your spot! 📅 August 25–26, 2026 📍 Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia 🌐 Information & registration: www.geneforum.ee #Geneforum2026 #Geneforum
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
#statistics is not an abstract discipline. Its misuse can have very real, tragic consequences
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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...
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Bicocca Seminars Series in Biostatistics: Dr.Cristian Pattaro
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Alicia Martin @genetisaur.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
📣 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 👇
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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Grant writing tips from a grumpy reviewer ploughing through grants. 1. Often your reviewers are going to come from a broad range disciplines adjacent but *not actually in* in your field. Help us get orientated in the summary with an analogy/sketch and go back to analogy / sketch throughout.
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Daniel E. Weeks @statgendan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Mike Boehnke is retiring and here is information on his symposium: Boehnke Symposium Building Modern Statistical Genetics and Shaping its Future May 14–15, 2026 | Michigan League | Ann Arbor, MI #StatGen #StatisticalGenetics #Genetics sites.google.com/umich.edu/bo...
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Boehnke Symposium
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I've recently made some changes to the gallery of all my data visualisations 📊 Most examples now have links to the underlying source code! If you see something you like, you can see how it was made 🤩 #DataViz #RStats
Screenshot of data visualisation gallery
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
14 things our PhD supervisors got right and why it mattered www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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14 things our PhD supervisors got right and why it mattered
PhD students reflect on how their supervisors made a meaningful difference — from quiet acts of kindness to career-shaping guidance.
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Stephen Burgess @stevesphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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:
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