🚨 New publication: How to improve conceptual clarity in psychological science?

Thrilled to see this article with @ruimata.bsky.social out. We discuss how LLMs can be leveraged to map, clarify, and generate psychological measures and constructs.

Open access article: doi.org/10.1177/0963...

Our new preprint is out: "Immune Markers Mediate Genetic Relationships between Immune Diseases and Psychiatric Disorders"! 🧬🦠

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Immune Markers Mediate Genetic Relationships between Immune Diseases and Psychiatric Disorders https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.17.25338241v1

🎉 New preprint out!

"Removing genetic effects on plasma proteins enhances their utility as disease biomarkers"

We show that adjusting plasma proteins for genetic effects can make them stronger predictors of disease

👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Our project, looking at the genetic relationships between immune diseases and psychiatric disorders, has finally been published! Now with gene expression analyses as well as additional sensitivity analyses, thanks to reviewers. Find the full article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out this new work from IBG graduate student @breunigsophie.bsky.social that applies Genomic SEM to examine the relationship between genomic factors for immune-mediated diseases and psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) and other autoimmune diseases often co-occur in families. Leveraging data from 12.6K genotyped trios in @finngen.bsky.social, our work - online today in Cell Genomics - studied the transmission of parental autoimmune diseases on T1D in offspring.

www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

Integrating HiTOP and RDoC Frameworks Part II: Shared and Distinct Biological Mechanisms of Externalizing and Internalizing Psychopathology https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.05.25321732v1

One of my talented graduate students (@breunigsophie.bsky.social) is putting together an immune-psychiatric focused symposium submission for the Behavior Genetics Association 2025 meeting in Atlanta. She needs one more talk to fill the symposium; if interested send me a message!

🚨 This will become a curated list of awesome tools for complex trait genetics, **add yours**! it may become a review in which case those who contribute are invited as co-authors.

You've heard of DNA, but what about GNA? Very excited about this preprint with @jgthorp.bsky.social and others that introduces Genomic Network Analysis (GNA), an open-source multivariate tool for performing network analysis using GWAS summary statistics as input. 1/2
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

With @kph3k.bsky.social (Paige Harden) I have a comment on an execrable paper by Rindermann et al, about the IQs of recent immigrants to Germany. Blog post and link to article below. More to come.

ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/immigratio...

journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/4/2/...

As an editor, I help people say what they mean--and not say what they don’t mean. Here are some common not-quite-right words or expressions that I often see. This is not to embarrass anybody--I've made many of these mistakes myself. Please share your favorite fixes at the end of the thread. (1/n)

Come join our lab! 🧬

I’ve seen the best minds of my generation ruined by Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz

I am recruiting a PhD student, co-supervised with George Davey-Smith, Gareth Hawkes and Laura Corbin to study trait residualized for known genetic influences, please Apply! gw4biomed.ac.uk/shining-a-li...

New preprint just dropped! 🧬🦠
For this project, we looked at the genetic relationships between psychiatric disorders and immune-mediated diseases.

Check out the full paper here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Examining the Genetic Links between Clusters of Immune-mediated Diseases and Psychiatric Disorders https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.18.24310651v1

On 4th- 8th March 2024 we’ll organize the International Statistical Genetics (ISG) in Boulder, Colorado. There are still some spots open and there is financial aid available for those who meet certain criteria: www.colorado.edu/ibg/workshop