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A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · Sep 17

Definitely D. Almost all of middle, south, and Eastern Asia is in there. Even southern Italy!

Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · Sep 16

For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?

For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · Sep 16

For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?

For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...

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A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · Aug 6

Those three principles are 1. Modeling disorders as polygenic. 2. Including control for population stratification. 3. Awareness of environmental context. Now out on pubmed!

A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · Aug 6

We lay out three consensuses from the field of psychiatric genetics that should be considered before approving genetic tests for psychiatric disorders. The letter was signed by 140 experts in psychiatric genetics and published in Lancet Psychiatry. Now on Pubmed: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Concerns About Genetic Risk Testing for Opioid Use Disorder

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A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · Aug 6

For those that read their papers on bluesky, those three principles are 1. Modeling disorders as polygenic. 2. Including control for population stratification. 3. Awareness of environmental context.

A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · Jul 31

That’s honestly a breathtaking and needed effort

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A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · Jul 15

Then let me tell you about Jean Baudrillard.

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A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · Jul 15

You gotta play “smells like teen spirit” if it’s an adolescent psychiatry conference.

A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · Jun 2

I feel this in my bones.

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A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · May 16

Sample size, discovery power, and effect size of lead SNPs were the strongest determinants of enrichment, as opposed to biological function. I hope it serves as a demonstration of the practical benefit of scientific discovery. I'd like to thank my Coauthors.

A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · May 16

Those disorders with larger sample sizes in their GWAS discovery set were significantly enriched for current treatments for those disorders. Those were, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, MDD, and SUDs. Those disorders with smaller samples were not (yet!) enriched.

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A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · May 16

Collecting large genome-wide samples may de-risk reinvestment in psychopharmaceuticals. Expanding on past work that lumped all psychiatric disorders together, we conducted a test of the utility of GWAS for specific psychiatric indications. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Psychiatric genome-wide association study enrichment shows promise for future psychopharmaceutical discoveries - Communications Medicine

Hatoum et al. undertake exploratory analysis of genome-wide association studies of specific psychiatric disorders to find existing medications that treat those disorders and genetic pathways that may ...

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A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · May 8

Casey Means? Sounds pretty average to me *nudge*.

A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · May 4

My mandalorian friend asked me which protein powder I use and I told him “this is the whey”. Happy #MayTheFourth

A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · Apr 18

Let’s say a person from the US wanted to apply and move to Europe. Is there somewhere with step by step advice? Would we need to find a collaborator. Asking for a friend…..

A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · Apr 18

There are articles out there on lesions in deep neural networks in many applications. LLMs can do it in multiple ways, one is attention mapping (as @michelnivard.bsky.social pointed out). Do you know what they used the lesion to test? Was it attention or something else? It would help me find it.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · Apr 3

“Er, my question is really in two parts…”

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · Mar 31

If you think our academia is unstable, wait until you see our industry!

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Brian Trainor @briantrainor.bsky.social · Mar 21

Getting the message out on how science funding benefits our society @abepalmer.bsky.social in the SD Tribune www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/03/09/g...

Guest Commentary: Medical research saves lives and helps our community. It deserves the funding it gets

Abraham Palmer, a La Jolla resident and psychiatry professor at UC San Diego, objects to cuts in funding for work that fights diseases

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David Baranger @davidbaranger.bsky.social · Mar 20

The BEAR Lab will be opening it's doors in July at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and we are looking for our first Research Tech! This position will help with funded MRI studies looking at the brain and alcohol use. More info: bearlab.science/contact/ #neuroscience #psychology #sciencejobs

Contact

We are actively recruiting a Research Technologist! (start date ~7/1/25) Job ad is coming soon. This position will primarily assist with funded studies examining brain function in people who drink …

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A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · Mar 16

Thanks for sharing this thread and your thoughts. I’ve been thinking along the same lines recently.

A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · Mar 15

So where does the AI race end? Space race was the moon. AI..also the moon?

A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · Mar 15

Np. Reddit accounts are good for this kind of thing. I know it’s got a lot of bad too, but people there are much better at this than I am.

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A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · Mar 15

I’m not familiar with that plant species, but generally what I would do since I can’t tell if it’s fungal or bacterial.

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A.S.H. @alexanderhatoum.bsky.social · Mar 15

Yellowing could also be bacterial.

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