Danielle Admiraal
@danielleadmiraal.bsky.social
PhD candidate Language & Genetics department | MPI for Psycholinguistics
Genetics of language, social interaction and well-being
Genetics of language, social interaction and well-being
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🚀 New paper & press release! 🧬📖 🧮 Our large-scale study (20,000 children) shows that #ADHD, #dyslexia, and #dyscalculia often co-occur due to shared genetic risk—not because one condition causes the other.
doi.org/10.1177/0956... (1/5)
doi.org/10.1177/0956... (1/5)
Genetics reveal: Children with ADHD at greater risk for learning difficulties - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
De erfelijke aanleg voor ADHD overlapt met aanleg voor dyslexie en dyscalculie, blijkt uit onderzoek van de VU en UvA.
vu.nl
March 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
🚀 New paper & press release! 🧬📖 🧮 Our large-scale study (20,000 children) shows that #ADHD, #dyslexia, and #dyscalculia often co-occur due to shared genetic risk—not because one condition causes the other.
doi.org/10.1177/0956... (1/5)
doi.org/10.1177/0956... (1/5)
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Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n
May 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n
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A hypothalamic circuit underlying the dynamic control of social homeostasis rdcu.be/ei6To - the neuroscience of loneliness... (in mice) 🐭😥
A hypothalamic circuit underlying the dynamic control of social homeostasis
Nature - New data on brain-wide circuits centred around two interconnected hypothalamic neuron populations provide significant mechanistic insights into the emergence of social need during social...
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April 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
A hypothalamic circuit underlying the dynamic control of social homeostasis rdcu.be/ei6To - the neuroscience of loneliness... (in mice) 🐭😥
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Excited to share our latest preprint -and the last chapter of my PhD thesis 🥳- on chimpanzee brain transcriptomics! We present the first-ever spatial transcriptomics data from a great ape brain. Thanks to everyone who made this possible! @profsimonfisher.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Spatial and single-nucleus transcriptomic profile of a chimpanzee frontal pole
Chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, share a vast amount of our genetic code, with the majority of differences found in non-coding regions of the genome. Functional and gene regulatory differenc...
www.biorxiv.org
February 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Excited to share our latest preprint -and the last chapter of my PhD thesis 🥳- on chimpanzee brain transcriptomics! We present the first-ever spatial transcriptomics data from a great ape brain. Thanks to everyone who made this possible! @profsimonfisher.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Could evolution have started before life?🧪
Sounds blasphemous, but lab studies suggest it's possible. Before survival of the fittest, "survival of the stable" could have driven the universe toward complexity — and maybe life.
Me for @newscientist.com:
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Sounds blasphemous, but lab studies suggest it's possible. Before survival of the fittest, "survival of the stable" could have driven the universe toward complexity — and maybe life.
Me for @newscientist.com:
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Can a strange state of matter explain what life is – and how it began?
Laboratory experiments have coaxed simple molecules into states that naturally become more complex, hinting at the origins of evolution itself
www.newscientist.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Could evolution have started before life?🧪
Sounds blasphemous, but lab studies suggest it's possible. Before survival of the fittest, "survival of the stable" could have driven the universe toward complexity — and maybe life.
Me for @newscientist.com:
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Sounds blasphemous, but lab studies suggest it's possible. Before survival of the fittest, "survival of the stable" could have driven the universe toward complexity — and maybe life.
Me for @newscientist.com:
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
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Our study is now out in @naturecomms.bsky.social! Here, we integrate large-scale registry musicality data from twins to investigate the genetics of music enjoyment 🧬🎶🧑🤝🧑
“What an odd thing“ wrote Oliver Sacks “to see an entire species playing with listening to meaningless tonal patterns, preoccupied for much of their time by what they call ‘music’...“. Our new paper, led by ace student @giacomobignardi.bsky.social, unpacks this puzzle from a genetic perspective. 🧪
Twin modelling reveals partly distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment - Nature Communications
Here, Bignardi et al. report on a study of over 9,000 Swedish twins that indicates the ability to enjoy music is influenced by multiple partly distinct genetic factors.
www.nature.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Our study is now out in @naturecomms.bsky.social! Here, we integrate large-scale registry musicality data from twins to investigate the genetics of music enjoyment 🧬🎶🧑🤝🧑
Really enjoyed and inspired by the Future of the Mind symposium on cognitive technological development and the translation into society 🙏🙏 many thanks to Donders institute and speakers 🥳 aaaand can we please invite a live cartoonist at every event???
April 25, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Really enjoyed and inspired by the Future of the Mind symposium on cognitive technological development and the translation into society 🙏🙏 many thanks to Donders institute and speakers 🥳 aaaand can we please invite a live cartoonist at every event???
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What makes us so susceptible to the power of music?
Our new pre-printed work suggests that genetic variation, primarily dissociated from other relevant perceptual-affective processes, also seems to be at play.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
But the story does not end here ...
Our new pre-printed work suggests that genetic variation, primarily dissociated from other relevant perceptual-affective processes, also seems to be at play.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
But the story does not end here ...
Distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
April 5, 2024 at 10:06 AM
What makes us so susceptible to the power of music?
Our new pre-printed work suggests that genetic variation, primarily dissociated from other relevant perceptual-affective processes, also seems to be at play.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
But the story does not end here ...
Our new pre-printed work suggests that genetic variation, primarily dissociated from other relevant perceptual-affective processes, also seems to be at play.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
But the story does not end here ...
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A paper in Nature shows that heat flows through thin, crack-like geo-compartments purify previously mixed compounds and enhance their reactivity, providing a selective mechanism for separating molecules relevant to the chemical origins of life. go.nature.com/4amp648 🧪
April 3, 2024 at 6:13 PM
A paper in Nature shows that heat flows through thin, crack-like geo-compartments purify previously mixed compounds and enhance their reactivity, providing a selective mechanism for separating molecules relevant to the chemical origins of life. go.nature.com/4amp648 🧪
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Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent
Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent
Isolated for six months one winter, a group of scientists changed how they spoke.
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February 25, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent