Polygenic scores explained in two slides 🧬

New Pioneer Centre, SMARTbiomed, will become a significant international partner for data-driven medical research. Made possible by DKK 250 M funding from @Lundbeckfonden, @Novonordiskfond, @Villumfonden, Carlsbergfondet and Danmarks Grundforskningsfond. More here: bss.au.dk/en/aarhus-bss-…

Super-excited to be leading this new initiative with Preben Bo Mortensen Bjarni Vilhjalmsson Erin E Gabriel Cecilia Lindgren Chris Holmes Peter Visscher. Many 🙏to the Danish foundations for the funding vision. 10+ jobs advertised - work with leaders in stats, causal inference & machine learning

The Royal Society of Medicine is celebrating the life of Karl Friston, one of the most celebrated psychiatrists and neuroscientists of our time and a pioneer in Neuroimaging. It would be a great opportunity to hear him speak about this life and work rsm.ac.uk/events/hypnosi…

Aaron Palotie (FinnGen) explains how 10% of the Finnish population (520,000 Finns) has had genome wide genotyping. In Nordic countries there are national health registries that record all hospital visits, meds, ICD-10 diagnoses, for the last 50 years, and can be linked with the

Geoff Ginsburg (AllOfUs) describes the enrollment, since 2018, of almost a million US participants who also shared their medical records; modeled on the Framingham Heart Study which began in 1948 and helped discover many risk factors for heart disease and stroke; surveys for 400k

New Pioneer Centre, SMARTbiomed, will be advancing applications in medicine and is a research collaboration between University of Oxford, Københavns Uni and Aarhus Universitet, anchored at Aarhus BSS. You can join the research team. See more at smartbiomed.dk.

Two Public Lectures by the mighty George Davey Smith in Oxford! We're hosting george davey smith to do two talks at Jesus College Oxford on Sept 30th: a wide ranging public lecture at 5pm, and a tough technical one on MR at lunchtime. COME! bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/08/c…

Still time to apply for the SMARTbiomed postdoc/assistant prof jobs based in Aarhus, Copenhagen and Oxford - causal inference, risk prediction, machine learning in applications for any common complex disease. At Oxford work with any group leader Big Data Institute, Oxford Statistics .

We have an opportunity for a permanent #ResearchAssistant to join our Mental Health Evaluation Research team. For more info & to apply 👉 smartjobs.qld.gov.au/jobs/QLD-WM585… #MentalHealth

Huge congratulations to the entire #ACMS team & our staff involved, Prof James Scott, A/Prof Holly Erskine and Dr Dr Divna Haslam (She/her). So well deserved!

#ANNOUNCEMENT We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve received $3 million from NHMRC to fund the PREMISE Next Generation! PREMISE will build capacity, drive policy & practice reforms that address emerging trends in mental health & substance use, identified by young people.

Congratulations #CJCADR Director Juergen Goetz and team 👏

Professor John McGrath is a key figure in global mental health research. His work explores critical questions about what goes wrong in the brain, when it happens, and how we might prevent it. Listen: bit.ly/4g6fuOe

We were deeply saddened to learn of Professor Sir David Goldberg's passing this week. He was a titan of social psychiatry, & designed the Clinical Interview Schedule & General Health Questionnaire, two vital measures of mental wellbeing, amongst many other achievements

Professor Maree Teesson from University of Sydney has dedicated her career to improving the outlook for young people, establishing a unified response to youth substance use and mental disorders. And she isn’t finished yet. Read more on in #10oftheBest 15th Edition: ow.ly/H5N750T0O6q

Happy birthday, Otto F. Kernberg. 96 years young today.

📢 New preprint by Kevin S. O'Connell reveals major findings in bipolar disorder genetics! Analyzing 158K+ BD cases & 2.8M controls, the study identified 298 genome-wide significant loci—a 4x increase from prior research. 🧬🧠 #BipolarDisorder #Genetics #MentalHealth

New manuscript "Addressing the credibility crisis in Mendelian randomization" is out at BMC Medicine: bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…. We discuss the explosion in MR studies, and what can be done by authors and editors/reviewers to improve the quality of published MR research. Thread:

We move on to Sandra Diminic (QCMHR) showing the much higher levels of psychological distress in indigenous groups in Australia.