Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social Official account for the Biological Psychiatry family of journals.
Publishing cutting-edge research in psychiatric neuroscience, cognitive neuroimaging, and global open science.
🎙️The Biological Psychiatry Podcast now live!
PIXIE Lab @pixielabkcl.bsky.social Psychoimmunometabolix and Interaction with the Environment (PIXIE) lab led by Prof Valeria Mondelli - research in biological & environmental factors in mental health
Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social Bioinformatics Scientist / Next Generation Sequencing, Single Cell and Spatial Biology, Next Generation Proteomics, Liquid Biopsy, SynBio, AI/ML in biotech // http://albertvilella.substack.com
Dr Danny Penman @drdannypenman.bsky.social Author of the bestsellers 'Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World' & 'Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World.' www.franticworld.com @DrDannyPenman
Caroline Martin @carolinemartin.bsky.social Clinical Psychology PhD Student @ UToledo BeFed Lab | eating disorders & body image research | she/her/hers
Edoardo Pappaianni @epapp.bsky.social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscientist | Postdoc researcher at @cedar-research.bsky.social
Marcello Solinas @msolinas.bsky.social CNRS Researcher at the University of Poitiers, Inserm, Neuroscience of Addiction, Brain
Zoltán Kutalik @zkutalik.bsky.social Statistical Geneticist, Group leader at University of Lausanne/Unisante, father, climber, runner
Mihaly Badonyi @mbadonyi.bsky.social postdoc @mpi-cbg.de
computational biology | disease genetics
Jen Forsyth, PhD @jenforsyth.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. Studying serious mental illness, genetics, & the 🧠 | She/her 🇨🇦🇺🇸
https://sites.uw.edu/forsythlab/
Chloe Fawns-Ritchie @cfawnsritchie.bsky.social Psychology Lecturer, University of Edinburgh. Research: Cognitive Ageing | Chronic Pain | Psychological Predictors of Health
Loes Olde Loohuis @loldeloo.bsky.social Associate professor of Psychiatry, Human Genetics, and Computational Medicine at UCLA
Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social Professor/Director @uofleatlab; #EatingDisorder Researcher & Therapist, creating new treatments for eating disorders, mom of 3 girls, fighting back against #weightstigma to save lives
Silvia Elisabetta Portis Bruzzone @bruzzone-sep.bsky.social Postdoc at Fordham University.
Former MSCA PhD student of Serotonin and Beyond (ESR13) at NRU, Copenhagen.
Interested in the interaction between epigenetics and sex-steroid hormones and their implications for mental health.
Martin Tesli @martintesli.bsky.social Professor in psychiatry at University of Oslo
Author of exentric novels
Michelle Bowman (she/her) 🌈🧬🌏 @shelie.bsky.social Cancer genetic counsellor and general geek (🇿🇦 via 🇬🇧 to 🇦🇺) living and working on the land of the Darug Nation: Always Was, Always Will Be. I pay my respects to elders past and present.
Opinions herein are mine alone.
Tasha Wainstein 🇿🇦🇨🇦 @tashawainstein.bsky.social Postdoctoral research fellow, PhD genetic counsellor, researcher interested in adolescents with genetic conditions, qualitative research methods, ethics, bibliophile, mother of hounds, neurodivergent, polysyllabic pontificator
Oleguer Plana-Ripoll @planaripoll.bsky.social Associate Professor at Aarhus University (Denmark) | Psychiatric Epidemiology | Social Epidemiology | Biostatistics | Health metrics
Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social Senior researcher & data scientist developing methods in statistical human genetics (Aarhus, Denmark)
#rstats user & developer
Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com CSO Nucleus Genomics
Genetics, polygenic risk scores. Previously at impute.me and Genome Center Denmark
Dr. Glaucomflecken @glaucomflecken.bsky.social Ophthalmologist. Comedian. Speaker. Jonathan.
Arjun Bhattacharya @arjunbhattac.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Epidemiology at MD Anderson. Molecular epi and statistical genomics to understand cancer and human development
https://bhattacharya-lab.com/
Dr William Reay @drwilliamreay.bsky.social Statistical geneticist. Interested in using genomics to improve the lives of people living with complex diseases. Views are my own
https://discover.utas.edu.au/William.Reay
Kristján Moore (Kris)🔸 @kristjanmoore.bsky.social Research at Amgen/deCODE genetics: genomic ancestry, population data, ancient DNA, and whatever else needs doing. Trying to have true beliefs. Views expressed are my own. 🇬🇧🇮🇸
Anders Jespersen @jespersen.bsky.social Postdoc in ecology (eDNA, biomonitoring)
Former neuroscientist
All round nature-nerd
SciComm enthusiast, runner, and baker
Born at 354.8 ppm
He/him
Erin Hill-Burns, PhD @erinhillburns.bsky.social Analyst studying genetics and genomics of complex human traits (currently cardiometabolic disease traits). #metabolomics, #snRNAseq, #GWAS. Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan. She/her.
Steve Buyske @stevebuyske.bsky.social Professor of Statistics at Rutgers University; mostly work in human genetics. https://statweb.rutgers.edu/buyske/
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8539-5416
Graham Murray @gkmurray.bsky.social Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Cambridge University and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Trust. Interested in early intervention and personalised medicine.
Jukka-Pekka Verta @jpverta.bsky.social Functional & evolutionary genomics • Associate Professor Nord University 🇳🇴 • Fish aficionado • Living above the Arctic Circle
FEG lab: https://feg-lab.github.io
Struan Grant @struangrant.bsky.social Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics, UPenn/CHOP🧬. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2025-5302. Views my own. 🏴🇺🇸
Dr Agnes Ayton @agnesayton.bsky.social Eating disorder Psychiatrist. IMG in Oxford. Democratically elected vice chair of the Faculty of Eating Disorders at RCPsych. Keen to learn, interested in science and evolution
Maarten van Smeden @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social statistician • associate prof • team lead health data science and head methods research program at julius center • director ai methods lab, umc utrecht, netherlands • views and opinions my own
Lianne de Vries @liannedevries.bsky.social dr. / Assistant Professor / Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / Wellbeing / Resilience / Mental health / Experience Sampling
Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at the University of Oslo | Behavioral neuroendocrinology, psychophysiology, and meta-science 🇦🇺🇨🇴🇳🇴
Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social Professor of Mental Health & Data Science at Leiden University. Studying mental health problems as systems (http://eiko-fried.com). Building an early warning system for depression (http://WARN-D.com).
Leonard Frach @leofrach.bsky.social Postdoc in psychiatric genetics and clinical psychologist at University Hospital Bonn | PhD @ucl.ac.uk | Within-family analyses, statistical genetics, polygenic scores, behaviour genetics, epigenetics | he/him
Dirk Pelt @dirkpelt.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Biological Psychology, VU Amsterdam.
individual differences, wellbeing, personality, social desirability, psychometrics, behavior genetics
Jack Kosmicki @jakphd.bsky.social Statistical geneticist @ Regeneron
tweets are my own | he/him/his
Alexander Neumann @alexander-neumann.bsky.social Epidemiologist studying the (epi-)genetics of child psychiatric problems and child development.
Assistant professor at Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6653-3203
Chris Rayner @chrisrayner.bsky.social Currently: Clinical Genomics @ BioMarin
Previously: Psychiatric Genetics @ SGDP Centre, KCL. Research interests in genomics, epidemiology, psychiatry, psychology… and now musculoskeletal disorders!
Jessye Maxwell @jmmax.bsky.social Postdoc at King’s College London, School of Basic & Medical Biosciences | complex trait genetics 🧬 | statistical genetics (she/her)
The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social 🌤️ Hello, I’m the Mental Elf!
🌳 Follow me to keep up to date with the latest reliable #MentalHealthResearch.
🍄 Do you need some #ElfHelp? https://elfi.sh/help
🔗 https://linktr.ee/thementalelf
Prof Rosa Hoekstra @rosahoekstra.bsky.social Professor of developmental disabilities @KingsIoPPN. Co-leads https://www.thesparkproject.net/, editor of @journalautism.bsky.social
Migrant. Loves London, loves travel
Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
Uku Vainik @ukuvainik.bsky.social Professor of behavioral genetics with my own twins. I mix behaviour and genetics at Tartu & McGill to understand obesity. I also mix global music as a DJ.
Daniel Howrigan @danhowrigan.bsky.social Group leader in the Neale lab > ATGU > Stanley Center > CGM > Broad Institute > Mass General Hospital.
Genomics. Evolution. Complex disease.
Stuart MacGregor @stuartmacgreg.bsky.social Head of Statistical Genetics lab at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia. Views are my own.
Marie Sadler @smarie-smarie.bsky.social Statistical geneticist, PhD | Basel, Switzerland ⛰️🇨🇭 | genetics 🧬 | omics 🟠🔺🟩 | drug targets 🎯| pharmacogenetics 💊
Jessie Baldwin @jessiebaldwin.bsky.social Associate Professor & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at UCL | Interested in early adversity, mental health, causal inference & open science
@sherimadigan @sherimadigan.bsky.social Clinical Psych Prof @UCalgary, Tier I Canada Research Chair studying mental health, screens, adversity & resilience | firstgen | settler | mum
www.madiganlab.org | www.ACEsHub.org | www.copewithtrauma.org
Alexey Tolchinsky @tolchinsky.bsky.social Clinical psychologist and researcher
https://alexeytolchinsky.com/
Viktor H. Ahlqvist @ahlqvistviktor.bsky.social Epidemiology @Aarhus & @Karolinska
Jolien Rietkerk @jolienrietkerk.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher in Cross-Population Psychiatric Genetics at the POP-GEM lab with Dr. Roseann Peterson and Prof. Dr. Hanna van Loo
Stephen Pritchard @scpritch.bsky.social consumer renewable energy, cognitive science
Elleke Tissink @eptissink.bsky.social Researcher at University of Oslo
Likes to be where population neuroimaging and psychiatric genetics meet
Kelli Lehto @klehto.bsky.social Assoc. Professor in neuropsychiatric genetics
https://genomics.ut.ee/en/research-group-neuropsychiatric-genomics
Mental health | genomics | Estonian Biobank | University of Tartu
Roelof Smit @roelofajsmit.bsky.social (genetic) epi enthousiast @ Univ of Copenhagen & Mount Sinai
Mischa Lundberg @mischalundberg.bsky.social Scientist | Postdoc at the Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Roskilde | 👨💻Bioinformatics, statistical genetics, GWAS, MR, TEs | 🚵♂️🧗♂️🏕
Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research (CEDaR) @cedar-research.bsky.social Multidisciplinary research center at Psykiatrisk Centre Ballerup, Copenhagen 🧠 Epidemiology | Neuroimaging | Genetics | Psychotherapy | Lived experience
Marios Georgakis @mariosgeorgakis.bsky.social Physician-scientist leading a lab @lmu.de visiting scientist @broadinstitute.org | Writing about genetics, omics, deep phenotyping, precision medicine
https://www.deepvasc.com/
Dana Lapato @dlapato.bsky.social Assistant professor interested in psychiatric and behavioral genetics, open science initiatives, and dinosaurs.
Charles Driver @charlesdriver.bsky.social Asst Prof UZH Psychology - quant methods, dynamic systems, human development, psychology. @CharlesDriverAU
Shea Andrews @sjfandrews.bsky.social Genetic epidemiologist studying Alzheimer's disease at UCSF.
The Genetic Links to Anxiety and Depression Study @gladstudy.bsky.social Join the world’s largest study on #anxiety and #depression today: gladstudy.org.uk
Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social Neurogeneticist interested in the relations between genes, brains, and minds. Author of INNATE (2018) and FREE AGENTS (2023)
LianyunHuang @lianyunhuang.bsky.social
Wonuola Akingbuwa @wonuola.bsky.social Assistant professor at VU Amsterdam
Psychiatric genetics
George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social Time expired epidemiologist
Joanne Isbister-Smith @jisbister.bsky.social Mental Health Genetic Counsellor | Melbourne, Australia
Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social Director, Institute for Mental Health, and Chair in Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health, University of Birmingham. Interested in psychosis, youth mental health, neuroscience, philosophy, phenomenology. NHS Psychiatrist in Early Intervention in Psychosis
Statistical, Translational, and Analytic Genetics Group (KCL) @coleman-group-kcl.bsky.social Announcements/updates from @jonicoleman.bsky.social 's group at KCL, interested in using statistical genetics to understand the biology of psychiatric disorders
Thibaud Boutin 🧬💻 🧀 @tsboutin.bsky.social Statistical Geneticist
NIHR BioResource - University of Cambridge
Views are my own
Sarah Vergult @svergult.bsky.social PI of the Functional Genomics lab (https://fungenlab-ugent.be/) at Ghent University.
Elucidating the genetics of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Special interest in the role of the non-coding genome during neurodevelopment.
Emilie Wigdor @emiliewigdor.bsky.social Postdoc at Oxford in neurogenetics 🧬 Previously PhD at Sanger/Cambridge, ACB at Broad. Harvard cognitive neuro 🧠
Cathy Abbott @cathyabbott.bsky.social Professor, eEF1A2/neurological disorders. Mostly talks about research, EDI (tries hard to be a good ally) but sometimes veers off into crafts and photos of Scotland. She/her, views own.
David Ashbrook @davidashbrook.bsky.social Baszucki Foundation Chancellor’s Fellow edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/david-ashbrook
Associate Prof in Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics @UTHSC
Genomes, environments, their interactions, behaviour, and disease.
PhD Manchester 🇬🇧 Postdoc Toronto 🇨🇦
Olav Smeland @olavsmeland.bsky.social Consultant psychiatrist and researcher in psychiatric genetics at Oslo University Hospital/University of Oslo
https://www.med.uio.no/klinmed/english/people/aca/olavbsm/index.html
Jonathan Frazer @jonnyfrazer.bsky.social Probabilistic machine learning to address questions in evolution and health #EvolutionaryMedicine. PI at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, co-leading a group with Mafalda Dias. Previously Harvard.
Ian Dworkin @idworkin.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist in love with morphology, especially size & shape. Drosophila Quantitative/Statistical geneticist. Dabbler in Development. Occasional genomicist.
Thinking about variation in cell size a lot lately.
https://dworkinlab.github.io
Harold Pimentel @hjp.bsky.social Assistant prof at UCLA using the Bayes for the genomes https://pimentellab.com
Mike Schatz @mikeschatz.bsky.social Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University. http://schatz-lab.org
Damien C-C @dccc-phd.bsky.social Human geneticist 🧬, bioinformagician 🧙🏻♂️, choral musician 🎼, and unrepentant city slicker 🏙️. Amplifying interesting signals (like #ScienceWin)! [he/him]
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3466-1846
Michael Love @mikelove.bsky.social Genetics, bioinformatics, comp bio, statistics, data science, open source, open science!
Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social Professor of Algorithmic and Microbial Genomics at the University of Bath (UK). Pangenomes, drug resistance (esp TB), data structures for DNA search, plasmid evolution, global microbial surveillance. Open Data, reproducibility. https://zam-iqbal-lab.org/
John Neddermeyer @johnneddermeyer.bsky.social Postdoctoral Scholar Northern Arizona University using genomic tools to study phenotypic evolution in squamates and host responses to infectious disease.
Chris Gunter 🧬 @girlscientist.bsky.social Genetics/genomics. Here in my personal capacity. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=A0oDqUQAAAAJ&hl=en
tanmoy das lala 🏳️🌈 @tanmoydaslala.bsky.social MD-PhD student in New York City. He/him.
Duncan Palmer @astheeggeggs.bsky.social Senior statistical geneticist at the Big Data Institute in Oxford, in the centre for SMARTbiomed
Bogdan Pasaniuc @bpasaniuc.bsky.social Computational and statistical genetics. Excited about all things science. Professor of genetics at UPenn. Views my own.
https://www.med.upenn.edu/bogdan-group/
Anne Landvreugd @alandvreugd.bsky.social PhD candidate in Behavioral Genetics. Interested in light exposure, genetics and wellbeing. Passionate about science communication @NTRscience @VUamsterdam
Institute for Genome Sciences @genomescience.bsky.social Leading-edge research in all-things 'omics, including #microbiomes, #neurogenomics, #genomics, #fungi, #parasites, #cancer, and more. Visit us: igs.umaryland.edu & our sister site Maryland Genomics: marylandgenomics.org for #sequencing & #bioinformatics.
Alexandra Gillett @alex-gillett.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher, KCL. Biostatistician researching mental heath, cardiometabolic traits and genetics. Particularly interested in longitudinal data analysis.
Meike Bartels @meikebartels.bsky.social Full Professor in Genetics and Wellbeing | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Boardmember Xplorit, the foundation for wellbeing and human potential
Erin Dunn, ScD, MPH @drerindunn.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. The Science Tooth Fairy.
Using social behavior and (epi)genetics to understand and predict depression.
Satoshi Yoshiji, MD, PhD @satoshiyoshiji.bsky.social Assistant Prof & PI at McGill University (@mcgill.ca) using human genetics & multi-omics for drug discovery | Endocrinologist | PhD at McGill & KyotoU | Visiting Scholar at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard & MGH
Twitter: https://x.com/satoshiyoshiji
Coleman Lab @colemanlab.bsky.social Doing great science by putting people first Neuroscience group protecting axons sciencewithoutanguish.com
Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge
Coach supporting scientists to get more clarity on their goals and move toward them
Sarah Harris @saraheharris99.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @edinunilbc.bsky.social. Interested in the genomics, proteomics and metabolomics of cognitive ageing and dementia.
Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz @janitzamontalvo.bsky.social
POP-GEM Lab @popgemlab.bsky.social Population #Genomics & Environment in #Mentalhealth | studying #psychiatricgenetics #behaviorgenetics | directed by Roseann Peterson| SUNY Downstate | VCU_VIPBG
https://www.pop-gem-lab.com/