Population-scale repeat expansions elucidate disease risk and brain atrophy - Nature Decreased brain volumes and increased NfL levels can be observed earlier than disease diagnosis in short-tandem-repeat-associated neurological diseases.

Population-scale repeat expansions elucidate disease risk and brain atrophy www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨BREAKING: 75 MPs now back my Parliamentary motion for widespread sanctions on Israel.

As well as genocide in Gaza and war crimes in Lebanon, Israel is deepening its occupation of the West Bank.

There's just a week left to back this sanctions call. Ask your MP to do so below.

Having hugely enjoyed The Genetic Lottery, I already know I won't be disappointed by the science, ideas and storytelling of @kph3k.bsky.social in her new book.

Channel 4 News reported from the site of an airstrike in Lebanon that struck near a hospital shortly after paramedics had attended the funeral of a colleague in Nabatieh.

This comes as a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, announced by President Trump, has now gone into effect.

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With this bridge struck, how will people still living south of the Litani continue to get access to aid, food, & medicine? How will hospitals replenish their medical supplies?

The bridge was described to us as a lifeline by local officials and health workers

An unfolding humanitarian catastrophe

Sign here to ask for the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

Sign here to ask for the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

Sign the Petition Help Me Save My Father’s Life: Grant Him an Urgent Medical Visa to the UK

One of our members is seeking to get medical visa for his father, who is currently in Gaza. Please sign the petition here www.change.org/p/help-me-sa...?
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How can anybody define US and Israel as "surgical"? Anyone making such claim must be part of the propaganda

Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral Wrapped in bloodied bandages, Aline Saeed, 7, barely survived an Israeli strike on her home. She was there to bury her father when a new strike killed her infant sister and other relatives.

“Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father’s funeral” — headline that tells you all you need to know about Israel’s war on Lebanon

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Question for you…

700+ killed by Israel in Gaza during “ceasefire”

250+ killed by Israel in Lebanon during “ceasefire”

Would any other country enjoy the “ceasefire” label while massacring this many people?

…we all know the answer by now.

I use the map inside the book 😅

When daughter asked why I was carrying a book, I realised that I was the only one still going around with one of these

LIVE: Artemis II Launch Day Updates - NASA Live updates for launch of NASA's Artemis II test flight will be published on this page. NASA’s launch broadcast coverage is airing on NASA+, Amazon Prime,

If you'd like to follow along with the #Artemis II launch, NASA has a live blog here: www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
and you can watch the official broadcast on the NASA site here:
plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi...
or on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

Our Puffins are back as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

Systematic analysis of snRNA genes reveals frequent RNU2-2 variants in dominant and recessive developmental and epileptic encephalopathies - Nature Genetics Analyses of snRNA genes in a French cohort of people with rare disorders, with validation through international collaboration, identify monoallelic and biallelic variants in RNU2-2 as frequent causes…

🧬Three papers newly published in Nature Genetics spotlight RNU2-2 as a major cause of recessive developmental and epileptic encephalopathies.
Congratulations to all three teams!

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why do schizophrenia GWAS signals look so flat across the genome?

In our recent preprint, we explored why psychiatric disorders — and, more broadly, brain-related traits involving the central nervous system — appear to have unusual genetic architectures.

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A generous donation from The Karlsson Játiva Charitable Foundation will fund 3 5yr fellowships in Brain Health and Multimorbidity at the Institute for Neuroscience & Cardiovascular Research:

2 x KJCF Quest Research Fellows and 1 x KJCF Quest CLINICAL Research Fellow.

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Thank you - just what I needed!

‘It didn’t matter whose child I rescued’: parents of Iran school bombing victims describe their worst day Hours before the world learned that a US missile had hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school, parents were already searching the rubble for their sons and daughters. In this exclusive report, four families descr...

Just kids. From loving families. Bombed to bits in their school. Read their parents’ stories.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

At least some good news

Functional hierarchy of the human neocortex across the lifespan - Nature fMRI data from individuals of a wide range of ages (from a few days to 100 years old) are used to map the key organizational axes of functional connectivity in the human cortex throughout the lifespan...

Superb resource to study human brain development, out in @nature.com
🧪🧠
An atlas showing how patterns of functional connectivity between brain regions change from birth to old age
“Functional hierarchy of the human neocortex across the lifespan”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy and honored to receive the 2026 ESHG award! Many thanks to past and present lab members and collaborators; it’s our work together that is recognized here.

See you at the @eshg.bsky.social meeting in Gothenburg 🇸🇪 in June!

We are now recruiting for new philanthropically funded fellowships in Brain Health and Multimorbidity at the University of Edinburgh, in INCR and @edinunineuro.bsky.social 🎉

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An argument against the bill is that it is better to invest resources in palliative care. My dad had exceptionally good palliative care in Italy, yet he used his remaining energy to commit suicide in a painful and traumatic way for him and for us. I wish we had a better option.

MSPs vote against Scotland's assisted dying bill. I am hugely disappointed with this outcome.