Michel Nivard
@michelnivard.bsky.social
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Bristol at: [email protected]
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Michel Nivard
@michelnivard.bsky.social
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🚨 I’ll be joining Psychological Science as an Associate Editor starting next month. People at, or near, my intersection of psych genetics, clinical psych, psychological Epidemiology should consider the journal for your best work! (read the EiCs editorial on the journal policies/goals below)
Kids playing Mario Kart with friends triggers a sound health warning 🤣🤣
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Kids playing Mario Kart with friends triggers a sound health warning 🤣🤣
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sometimes I observe a mutual being an asshole to another mutual for no apparent reason and my heart sinks. we can surely do better by each other. I think in the current state of the world, maybe we even should. it'll carry a lot of weight. when there are so many nazis and pedos deserving our ire...
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
sometimes I observe a mutual being an asshole to another mutual for no apparent reason and my heart sinks. we can surely do better by each other. I think in the current state of the world, maybe we even should. it'll carry a lot of weight. when there are so many nazis and pedos deserving our ire...
🚨UK Biobank has ADHD + ASD + Emotionality questionnaires in an older population now! Huge potential to study ppl born a little early to have been recognized/diagnosed. Especially Women (who are still less likely to be observed to have symptoms and be referred): biobank.ndph.ox.ac.uk/showcase/lab...
: Category 517
biobank.ndph.ox.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🚨UK Biobank has ADHD + ASD + Emotionality questionnaires in an older population now! Huge potential to study ppl born a little early to have been recognized/diagnosed. Especially Women (who are still less likely to be observed to have symptoms and be referred): biobank.ndph.ox.ac.uk/showcase/lab...
I just offloaded half of my kids generic bank run high-yield fund (28% tech) into "high" interest savings accounts, just to de-risk if the AI bubble pops, which IDK this feels very "pets.com"...
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I just offloaded half of my kids generic bank run high-yield fund (28% tech) into "high" interest savings accounts, just to de-risk if the AI bubble pops, which IDK this feels very "pets.com"...
Interesting analysis, higher “development velocity” but more static analysis warnings and higher code complexity… It sound a little me when I get kinda hyped/disinhibited when working on a new idea, massive progress, to little sleep, unread emails and poorly documented code I need to re-write/fix..
Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver? A Difference-in-Differences Study of Cursor's Impact on Software Projects arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427
Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver? A Difference-in-Differences Study of Cursor's Impact on Software Projects
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the promise to revolutionize the field of software engineering. Among other things, LLM agents are rapidly gaining momentum in their application to…
arxiv.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Interesting analysis, higher “development velocity” but more static analysis warnings and higher code complexity… It sound a little me when I get kinda hyped/disinhibited when working on a new idea, massive progress, to little sleep, unread emails and poorly documented code I need to re-write/fix..
Reposted by Michel Nivard
Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver? A Difference-in-Differences Study of Cursor's Impact on Software Projects arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427
Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver? A Difference-in-Differences Study of Cursor's Impact on Software Projects
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the promise to revolutionize the field of software engineering. Among other things, LLM agents are rapidly gaining momentum in their application to…
arxiv.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver? A Difference-in-Differences Study of Cursor's Impact on Software Projects arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427
Reposted by Michel Nivard
South Wales at 8am
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
South Wales at 8am
South Wales at 8am
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
South Wales at 8am
Reposted by Michel Nivard
📣 Digital Research Community!
The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include.
Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include.
Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Adolescent Health Survey - Digital Media
Expert guidance shaping digital media questions in upcoming Adolescent Health Study.
cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
📣 Digital Research Community!
The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include.
Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include.
Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
That one day of the year my Scandinavian rain coat provides camouflage…
November 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
That one day of the year my Scandinavian rain coat provides camouflage…
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Honoured to receive the 25th Anniversary MRC Millenium Medal. My mid-1980s epidemiological apprenticeship was at the MRC Epidemiology Unit in Cardiff in the mid-1980s, and my senescence with the MRC IEU, closing in March 2028
🙏 MRC!
@ukri.org @uob-ieu.bsky.social
www.ukri.org/news/mrc-mil...
🙏 MRC!
@ukri.org @uob-ieu.bsky.social
www.ukri.org/news/mrc-mil...
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Honoured to receive the 25th Anniversary MRC Millenium Medal. My mid-1980s epidemiological apprenticeship was at the MRC Epidemiology Unit in Cardiff in the mid-1980s, and my senescence with the MRC IEU, closing in March 2028
🙏 MRC!
@ukri.org @uob-ieu.bsky.social
www.ukri.org/news/mrc-mil...
🙏 MRC!
@ukri.org @uob-ieu.bsky.social
www.ukri.org/news/mrc-mil...
Just found the Reddit thread where other academics waiting for the same grant result announcement are freaking out anonymously and it’s comforting….
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Just found the Reddit thread where other academics waiting for the same grant result announcement are freaking out anonymously and it’s comforting….
Next week and the week after we host a 6 day short course on Genetic epidemiology form the amazing faculty of the Bristol Medical school. We have some spots left, come bootramp your (students) human genetics skills!
Genetic Epidemiology | Bristol Medical School | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Next week and the week after we host a 6 day short course on Genetic epidemiology form the amazing faculty of the Bristol Medical school. We have some spots left, come bootramp your (students) human genetics skills!
Google colab IN vscode is pretty cool… gotta try if it works in #positron developers.googleblog.com/en/google-co...
Google Colab is Coming to VS Code- Google Developers Blog
Connect your VS Code notebooks to Colab's powerful runtimes with the new Google Colab extension, bringing the best of both platforms together.
developers.googleblog.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Google colab IN vscode is pretty cool… gotta try if it works in #positron developers.googleblog.com/en/google-co...
Reposted by Michel Nivard
First time on Bsky and first big announcement!
I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature.
Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature.
Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Estimation and mapping of the missing heritability of human phenotypes - Nature
WGS data were used from 347,630 individuals with European ancestry in the UK Biobank to obtain high-precision estimates of coding and non-coding rare variant heritability for 34 co...
www.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
First time on Bsky and first big announcement!
I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature.
Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature.
Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
This little guy/gall won’t quit…
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This little guy/gall won’t quit…
Yes but if people are multi-lingual, Md aging, does that moderate or mediate the effect of binging on education?
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Yes but if people are multi-lingual, Md aging, does that moderate or mediate the effect of binging on education?
In a doctors appointment (sort of routine nothing crazy going on) the doc could pull up a 2013, then a 2011 CT and scroll it extremely fast, no lag.. I know those are ~0.5-5Gb files, is hospital IT actually getting good?
November 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
In a doctors appointment (sort of routine nothing crazy going on) the doc could pull up a 2013, then a 2011 CT and scroll it extremely fast, no lag.. I know those are ~0.5-5Gb files, is hospital IT actually getting good?
Reposted by Michel Nivard
Eric Turkheimer (@ent3c.bsky.social) and I consider the paradoxical life of James Watson for @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
(nonpaywalled link to come)
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
(nonpaywalled link to come)
The Paradox of James Watson
The discovery of DNA was evidence of how deeply interconnected humans are, but the late scientist saw only difference.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Eric Turkheimer (@ent3c.bsky.social) and I consider the paradoxical life of James Watson for @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
(nonpaywalled link to come)
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
(nonpaywalled link to come)
The one unlikely galactic occurence I feverishly hope will occure in my lifetime...
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The one unlikely galactic occurence I feverishly hope will occure in my lifetime...
I would LOVE to do a policy X SCN2 gene (cyrcadian rhythm) mutations interaction. 6am is early and if it’s not some weird timezone quirk it could selectively harm night owls..
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I would LOVE to do a policy X SCN2 gene (cyrcadian rhythm) mutations interaction. 6am is early and if it’s not some weird timezone quirk it could selectively harm night owls..
Just starting a “House of Guinness” binge, please tell me there is a Student’s T-test plot line?
November 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Just starting a “House of Guinness” binge, please tell me there is a Student’s T-test plot line?
“AI scientist” is like human scientits in that it also does not really prioritize or value clear estimands: “Kosmos has a tendency to invent unorthodox
quantitative metrics in its analyses that, while often statistically sound, can be conceptually obscure and difficult
to interpret.”
quantitative metrics in its analyses that, while often statistically sound, can be conceptually obscure and difficult
to interpret.”
Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery
Today, we are announcing Kosmos, our next-generation AI Scientist. Kosmos is a major upgrade on Robin, our previous AI Scientist. You can read about it in our technical report, here. Kosmos is availab...
edisonscientific.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
“AI scientist” is like human scientits in that it also does not really prioritize or value clear estimands: “Kosmos has a tendency to invent unorthodox
quantitative metrics in its analyses that, while often statistically sound, can be conceptually obscure and difficult
to interpret.”
quantitative metrics in its analyses that, while often statistically sound, can be conceptually obscure and difficult
to interpret.”
Reposted by Michel Nivard
Reposted by Michel Nivard
I’ll be leading a new project uniting biomedical and social sciences to learn why neurodevelopmental conditions are rising and how to better support people. We’re hiring soon! @astridsandsor.bsky.social Hedvig Nordeng Krister Fjermestad Alexandra Havdahl Nicolai Borgen www.uio.no/english/rese...
Eight new convergence environments will address major societal challenges in life sciences
- UiO:Life Science
The application process initiated a year ago has concluded, eight interdisciplinary research projects have been selected to address major societal challenges in the life sciences at the University of ...
www.uio.no
November 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I’ll be leading a new project uniting biomedical and social sciences to learn why neurodevelopmental conditions are rising and how to better support people. We’re hiring soon! @astridsandsor.bsky.social Hedvig Nordeng Krister Fjermestad Alexandra Havdahl Nicolai Borgen www.uio.no/english/rese...