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Michelle Luciano

@drmluciano.bsky.social
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Behaviour Geneticist @University of Edinburgh researching cognitive abilities and personality | Balboa Dancer | Aspiring Roller Dancer | Prince Fan

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Michelle Luciano @drmluciano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Straya 😂
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Michelle Luciano @drmluciano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm sure there will be some uncontrolled confounding in here, but this seems like a big finding.
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Silvia Paracchini @silparacchini.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Many thanks to all who came along in Edinburgh and attended live. We are grateful for so many insightful questions and the lively discussion. The impact of SpLDs on mental health deserves more attention. Cath-up with the recording here www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCs7...
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Dyslexia as a mental health story | Curious festival 2026
YouTube video by The Royal Society of Edinburgh
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Help spread the word about the fully funded 4-yr PhD places available at the Max Planck School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for research & advance the understanding of cognition, mentored by a network of world renowned scientists. @maxplanck.de @mps-cognition.bsky.social More info & how to apply:
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Application
Application; application procedure; FAQs; handbook
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Michelle Luciano @drmluciano.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Really excited to be speaking at and attending this workshop on reading and developmental dyslexia!
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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
One week to go until I'll be reviewing the applications - can't wait! I've now added information on the top-up funds I have available too. Please spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested in doing a PhD in quantitative psychopathology :) miriamkforbes.academic.ws
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Miriam K. Forbes, PhD
I am an Associate Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University. I was awarded my PhD in Psychology in 2014, and went on to do po...
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Chris Gunter 🧬 @girlscientist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Our lab is hiring a postdoc! You would work with clinical partners and the All of Us study to implement our genetic literacy measure, studying how people understand genetics and use it daily. Help us do social and behavioral research at the forefront of genomics: careers.ashg.org/jobs/22449118
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One moment...
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Joni Coleman @jonicoleman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Super excited to see this out! If you want to savour the full paper for later, the excellent @helenadavies.bsky.social and I wrote an accompanying Briefing to this paper, which you can find here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Binge-eating behavior and anorexia nervosa have shared and distinct genetic components - Nature Mental Health
Genome-wide association studies of individuals with binge-eating behavior, anorexia nervosa or neither identify distinct genetic associations with each phenotype. Although both eating disorder phenoty...
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Agwamba et al. identify the western Iberian Peninsula as the primary source of American populations of house mice; divergence dates are consistent with post-15th-century European maritime expansion and settlement in the Americas 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #evolution #genome
GBE | New Country for Old Mice: The Recent Colonization History of Mus musculus domesticus in the Americas
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 14/08/2026
As part of our guidance for the upcoming changes to OSF Projects, we developed a help guide on choosing a repository and a list of repository options to help researchers identify potential places to store their research outputs. ℹ️ Guidance on choosing a repository:
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Where should I share my Data, Materials, Code now? - OSF Support
This Article Is Licensed Under CCO For Maximum Reuse. The following is a Table of Contents that links directly to specific sections within the guide: Table of R
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Irene Gallego Romero @ee-reh-neh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Old lady in first author paper shocker! 🧪🧬🖥️ (ok but seriously I worked very hard on this and I am proud of it. Taught myself some neat new tricks while doing it, too!) www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
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Reporting and representation of population descriptors in public RNA-seq databases
By combining repository metadata, genotype-inferred ancestry, and manual curation of publications, Gallego Romero et al. demonstrate that public RNA-seq datasets are dominated by samples from high-inc...
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Michelle Luciano @drmluciano.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I would be a co-supervisor on this but don't let that deter you! Happy to receive any questions about project/PhD programme, too.
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Hope Sparks @hope-sparks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
To any doctoral students out there in #DevLangDis or #dyslexia or related areas, Boys Town National Research Hospital has an open cycle postdoctoral T32 grant. Check it out! www.boystownresearch.org/careers-and-...
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Postdoctoral Training | Boys Town Research
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Silvia Paracchini @silparacchini.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We can finally reveal that we will present and discuss new data revealing the impact of dyslexia and other SpLDs at the RSE Curious Festival. Come along to be part of the conversation rse.org.uk/event/dyslex...
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Dyslexia as a mental health story
Exploring the relationship between dyslexia, dyscalculia and mental health.
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Michelle Luciano @drmluciano.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Yep, you can count on us.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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.
The internet search history from Richins’ phone included “what is a lethal.dose.of.fetanayl (sic),” “luxury prisons for the rich America” and “if someone is poisned (sic) what does it go down on the death certificate as,” a digital forensic analyst testified.
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jpgerdt.bsky.social @jpgerdt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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
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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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Michelle Luciano @drmluciano.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
@larspenke.bsky.social following from our conversation about EEG :)
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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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. bit.ly/4uNeMMV
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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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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I'm collecting together my prior Bluesky threads addressing popular misconceptions about genetics. A thread of threads, beginning with this brief guide to heritability: 🧬🧵🧪
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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.
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Michelle Luciano @drmluciano.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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
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Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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.)
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 15/05/2026
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.
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A message from MIT President Sally Kornbluth
YouTube video by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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. academy.pubs.asha.org/2026/05/natio…
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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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AFASIC @afasic.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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...
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Michelle Luciano @drmluciano.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
For any early career researchers working on wellbeing, this mentoring programme (European mentors) might be of interest: site.unibo.it/una-europa/e...
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INSPIRE Mentoring Programme
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Sacha Epskamp @sachaepskamp.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Exam prep for a research and statistics exam in 2026! sachaepskamp.com/PL2132_games...
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Sacha Epskamp @sachaepskamp.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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.
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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 20/04/2026
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
A photo of a rosy veincap growing from a mossy log. The mushroom’s cap is pink with a wrinkled texture. It has a drop of blood red liquid at its base.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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...
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Ship ‘Spoofing’ in Strait of Hormuz May Compound Confusion
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Moritz Marbach @moritz-marbach.com · 15/04/2026
🚨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
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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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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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...
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Grassroots Efforts to Bring Open Science to the Field of Education Research | Crystal Lewis
A brief history of efforts by various individuals, groups, and organizations to bring open science to the field of education and developmental science. Image from Open Social Work.
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loic-yengo.bsky.social @loic-yengo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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. [australiandnabridgestudy.org]
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Giacomo Bignardi @giacomobignardi.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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
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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
‘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
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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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Educational Neuroscience and Developmental Disorders (ENDD) @enddbcbl.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
📖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
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GWAS Catalog @gwascatalog.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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
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Adriaan @adriaan-vd-graaf.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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...
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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
@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…
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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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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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. bit.ly/4qr5SlY
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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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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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
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Eugenics: Critical Perspectives on a Creeping Concept Between Science and Ideology | Humanities Academie
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Population Research UK (PRUK) @popres-uk.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🚀The UK’s longitudinal research sector is about to get a major upgrade in training. CLOSER, supported by Population Research UK, is creating a strategic, UK-wide training resource for LPS. Find out what’s coming: shorturl.at/guRbh
Copy reads: "We’re building a central hub for LPS training - strategic, inclusive & responsive to evolving needs. Neil Kaye, CLOSER Head of Education and Training." Left side: black text on white background. Right side: Neil Kaye headshot. Population Research UK logo at the top left.
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Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Same DNA, different cells, different stories 🧬 Some genetic changes arise during life, creating genetic ‘mosaics’ in the body. Here, we explain what somatic mutations are and how we are exploring them. sangerinstitute.blog/2026/01/15/wha…
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iakuznetsov.bsky.social @iakuznetsov.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Remember the famous UKB migration paper? We found that internal migration also shapes population structure in Estonia. Key patterns replicate within families. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Thanks for sharing - we're looking forward to it!
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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Clever use of proteomic data to stress-test TWAS and QTL colocalization methods, revealing a high false sign rate. This hypothesis about high-LD and cross-tissue confounding is particularly interesting:
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Michelle Luciano @drmluciano.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This looks really cool, but where are the brain-related phenotypes @nbaya.bsky.social? N.B. I haven't read the paper, only the abstract and this glorious figure :)
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