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Kira Höffler

@kirahoeffler.bsky.social
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PhD research fellow @ University of Bergen 🇳🇴 | epigenetics in psychiatry 🧠🧬 | she/her

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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don’t think you can go from PhD defence (Fri) to conference (Mon) any faster than that 😄 ##WCPG26
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#PhDone 🎉🎉🎉
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
very happy about this one 😊
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The #WCPG26 countdown hits a little different this year, as I’m defending my PhD just 3 days before flying to the conference Two weeks until WCPG26 = a little less than two weeks until my defence! 😱 @ispg.bsky.social
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Berlin 💔🏳️‍🌈
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PGC Functional Genomics @fg-pgc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
🚨New paper alert!🚨 The bipolar disorder (BD) meta epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) by Tesfaye & colleagues is Out now in eBioMedicine 🔗bit.ly/4sGX9O6 🧵1/5
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PGC Functional Genomics @fg-pgc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
🚨Our SECOND new paper alert for today 🚨 ✨Check out the new large OCD-case control EWAS published by @kirahoeffler.bsky.social & colleagues ✨ 🔗bit.ly/4x9c5qx 1/5 🧵
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
#HappyPride from Bergen, Norway 🏳️‍🌈
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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
POV Du bist das Bundesforschungsministerium & schaffst es nach fast 5 Jahren #IchBinHanna, im Referentenentwurf fürs #WissZeitVG die Postdoc-Phase noch schlechter zu regeln als die Ampel, indem Du einfach alles so erwiesenermaßen schlecht lässt wie bisher. Aber Hauptsache Raketen-Memes mit Doro! 🚀👍
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Been training for this moment my whole life.
A 3x3 CAPTCHA grid showing different stock images of DNA, several of which have unusual left-handed double-helices, rather than the right-handed structure most typically seen in nature. To prove that the user is not a robot, they simply need to click on "all DNA stock images with messed-up chirality".
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Vera Karlbauer @vera-karlbauer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
What does accelerated biological aging actually mean for children? Can we measure it with algorithms only trained in adults? And do different biomarkers of aging measure the same thing? Find out at my #SOBP2026 talk tomorrow afternoon 🧬🧠
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Ahhh, I’m super excited to see this one out in the press!
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
new #preprint: our epigenetic study on psychotherapy response in OCD is available on medRxiv - includes longitudinal analyses and integration with genetic data. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Epigenetic Markers of Response to Psychotherapy in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Background Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a widely used treatment for mental disorders, yet the biological mechanisms underlying its effects, and the factors contributing to response, remain po...
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Writing your PhD thesis in a windowless office with no daylight is not for the weak.
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I had the opportunity to present my PhD research at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo today :)
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Joni Coleman @jonicoleman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Out earlier this week in @natgenet.nature.com: GWAS of major anxiety disorders in 122,341 European-ancestry cases identifying 58 loci (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) Awesome work, and great news for the anx genetics community — each @pgcgenetics.bsky.social paper seeds 100s more papers!
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Genome-wide association study of major anxiety disorders in 122,341 European-ancestry cases identifies 58 loci and highlights GABAergic signaling - Nature Genetics
Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 58 independent risk loci for major anxiety disorders among individuals of European ancestry and implicates GABAergic signaling as a potential mechanism...
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Happy and thankful for this award!☺️
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ECNP @ecnp.eu · 21/01/2026
The #ECNP Roadmap Meeting on #PrecisionPsychiatry wrapped up yesterday ✨ Experts across science, clinical practice, regulation, industry & patient advocacy explored how to move #biomarkers from research to real‑world impact 🔍 Inspiring discussions and clear next steps 🚀 www.ecnp.eu/roadmap-meeting
ECNP Roadmap Meeting on Precision Psychiatry 2026
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Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) @pgcgenetics.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🥁🎇✨ ... first up is KIRA HÖFFLER @kirahoeffler.bsky.social from the #UniversityofBergen in Norway and #McLeanHospital in Boston ! So tell us, Kira, what do you do in #functionalgenomics and @pgc_fg ?🤔 Any #funfacts #genetics 🐝❓ 🧵3/3
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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The human brain goes through distinct phases in life, with turning points at ages 9, 32, 66 & 83, scientists have revealed. ~4,000 people up to the age of 90 had scans to reveal the connections between their brain cells. We "peak" in our early 30s ... 🧪🧠 #neuroskyence www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Four pivotal ages in your brain's development revealed in new scientific study
Brain scans on thousands of people reveal the dramatic shifts the brain goes through between birth and death.
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PGC Functional Genomics @fg-pgc.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
✨Hello folks!✨ We're back in your feed with an amazing paper spotlight by @kirahoeffler.bsky.social & colleagues📰🔦 "Optimizing genetic ancestry adjustment in DNA methylation studies: a comparative analysis of approaches" 🔗http://bit.ly/49syndi Read our overview below! 🧵1/6
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
New method for DNA methylation studies 🧬: EpiAnceR+ improves ancestry adjustment without requiring genotyping data, while removing technical and biological noise. Easy to use in existing R pipelines. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Optimizing genetic ancestry adjustment in DNA methylation studies: a comparative analysis of approaches - Epigenetics & Chromatin
Background Genetic ancestry is an important factor to account for in DNA methylation studies because genetic variation influences DNA methylation patterns. One approach uses principal components (PCs)...
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Curious whether response to psychotherapy in OCD can be predicted using clinical and DNA methylation data? Come see Poster 1️⃣ at #WCPG2025. I’ll be presenting our first machine learning findings!
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Back at my favourite conference #WCPG2025 - this time in a slightly different setting (an all-inclusive beach hotel) #cancun #mexico @ispg.bsky.social
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Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The Biological Psychiatry family of journals is now officially on Bluesky! Follow us for the latest research in psychiatric neuroscience, cognitive neuroimaging, and global open science from our three leading journals.
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Inspiring AI Cures Conference at MIT with stunning views of beautiful Boston.
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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A methylome-wide association study of major depression with out-of-sample case–control classification and trans-ancestry comparison - Nature Mental Health
The authors report a meta-analysis of methylome-wide association studies, identifying 15 significant CpG sites linked to major depression, revealing associations with inflammatory markers and suggesti...
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I find it somewhat disappointing that medRxiv does not accommodate the use of the "ö" in my surname and instead only allows the internationalized spelling.
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Maximilian Rieger @mjrieger.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Dieses Spiel werden die Beteiligten und Fans vorm Fernseher so schnell nicht vergessen. Drei Stunden komplett aufreibender Fußball. #FRAGER
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Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · 04/07/2025
After more than 7 years working on it, I’ve just submitted the manuscript for Discovering Statistics using R second edition. Tonnes more work on website/package and so on, but getting to this stage is monumental psychologically. It’s the book I feared I’d never finish.
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Carolin Emcke @emcke.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Und ich dachte bislang immer, #CSD und #Regenbogenfahnen stünden für die demokratische Tradition der Kämpfe um Anerkennung jener Rechte, die letztlich das Grundgesetz allen verspricht: Freiheit und Gleichheit und Unantastbarkeit der Würde.
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I got to meet Jacinda Ardern, my favourite politician and former Prime Minister of New Zealand, today. Just for that, moving to Boston was worth it. 😊
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Women make up only 16% of corresponding authors who submit to Nature, a new Springer Nature analysis revealed. This is not enough - there are 30-40% #womeninSTEM We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gender equality in research publishing is a responsibility for everyone
A concerted effort is needed to support women in their choice of journal when submitting their manuscript.
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Jordan Smoller @jorsmo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Another breakthrough made possible by federal funding The result “is a triumph for the American peoples’ investment in biomedical research” Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
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Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment
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Abdel Abdellaoui @dr-appie.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Check out our new OCD GWAS (53,660 cases and 2,044,417 controls) in @natgenet.nature.com 🧬🧠 Genetic risk was associated with excitatory neurons in the cortex and hippocampus. There was much genetic overlap with anxiety, depression, and anorexia. Open access: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Marietta Slomka @mariettaslomka.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Margot Friedländer. So eine große Persönlichkeit. Bin traurig.
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Big news for health data research and population diversity: The Mexico City Prospective Study data are now available securely to approved researchers worldwide. www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/news/latin-a... Cohort description: www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/research/pro...
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Latin-American genetic data available securely to approved researchers worldwide/Datos genéticos latinoamericanos disponibles para investigadores de todo el mundo
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
One sentence that stayed with me from the #SOBP2025 fireside chat: 'Science cannot help society if it does not reflect society.'
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
just deactivated my #X /Twitter account - feels great. honestly, I should’ve done it a while ago
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 16/04/2025
Bioconductor 3.21 released with 72 new software packages, for a total of 2341 software packages, 432 experiment data packages, 928 annotation packages, 30 workflows and 5 books bioconductor.org/news/bioc_3_... 🧬🖥️🧪 #Rstats
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Bioconductor - Bioconductor 3.21 Released
The Bioconductor project aims to develop and share open source software for precise and repeatable analysis of biological data. We foster an inclusive and collaborative community of developers and…
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Alicia Schowe @aliciaschowe.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect epigenetic aging? Find out at poster S23! #SOBP2025
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Vera Karlbauer @vera-karlbauer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Do adult blood-trained epigenetic measures generalize to child saliva? What does this mean for psychiatric epigenetics? Come find out and talk to me at poster S193 - now with new cross-tissue epigenome-wide results! #SOBP2025
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
#SOBP2025 Stop by poster 206 if you're interested in epigenetic markers for psychotherapy response - or just want to chat.
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
One thing I did not expect to find in the US: better #bike infrastructure than in most European cities.
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Starting an exciting new chapter—I'll be spending all of 2025 in Boston as a visiting graduate student in the labs of Kerry Ressler and Torsten Klengel at McLean Hospital.
Boston's skyline
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
work lunch with a view #Bergen
The image shows a modern dining or meeting room with a wooden table and chairs. The room has large floor-to-ceiling windows offering a panoramic view of a snowy mountainous landscape. The ceiling features a slatted wood design with embedded warm lighting.This picture captures a scenic view of snow-covered mountains through a large window with a cross-frame structure.
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Duncan Sproul @sproullab.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
With some help from @raduzabet.bsky.social, I've created a starter pack of researchers working on #Epigenetics, Chromatin and Gene Regulation who are active on here: go.bsky.app/TKp9YAn I've likely missed many people so let me know if you want to be added. Similarly if you would like to be removed.
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Thanks to everyone who visited my poster at #Epigenomics23. It was a great conference, I really enjoyed it! #epigenetics #psychotherapy #OCD #DNAmethylation
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Kira Höffler @kirahoeffler.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Evaluation of the new Illumina EPIC version 2: epicom.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... We used this array to measure DNA methylation in my PhD project.
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Comprehensive evaluation of the Infinium human MethylationEPIC v2 BeadChip - Epigenetics Communicati...
Infinium Methylation BeadChips are widely used to profile DNA cytosine modifications in large cohort studies for reasons of cost-effectiveness, accurate quantification, and user-friendly data analysis...
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