Michel Nivard
@michelnivard.bsky.social
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Bristol at: [email protected]
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 🤣🤣
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"...
South Wales at 8am
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
South Wales at 8am
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…
This little guy/gall won’t quit…
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This little guy/gall won’t quit…
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..
Last warm sunset, last swim in the sea for 4/5 months… ❤️💕
November 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Last warm sunset, last swim in the sea for 4/5 months… ❤️💕
So are selection and missingness…. 🤔
October 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
So are selection and missingness…. 🤔
This is probably cope/"pathological gratitude" but one massive upside of northern fall/winter is that laggards like me who hit the road at 8am get to experience the Dutch gloomy/roudy/"gold & steel" sunrise. (Painting Ludolf Bakhuis, 1667, National Gallery in D.C.)
October 23, 2025 at 6:38 AM
This is probably cope/"pathological gratitude" but one massive upside of northern fall/winter is that laggards like me who hit the road at 8am get to experience the Dutch gloomy/roudy/"gold & steel" sunrise. (Painting Ludolf Bakhuis, 1667, National Gallery in D.C.)
Eifel National Park ❤️💕
October 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Eifel National Park ❤️💕
I had (without any further evidence) assume it was an alternate term for tidal bore where in a physical funnel (narrow passage) can get quite treacherous when the tide rolls in, there is one that rolls up the Bristol channel…
October 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I had (without any further evidence) assume it was an alternate term for tidal bore where in a physical funnel (narrow passage) can get quite treacherous when the tide rolls in, there is one that rolls up the Bristol channel…
I saw a post by an AI researcher conclude smaller models (to the left) benefit more from Reinforcement Learning then larger model, to me it mostly looks like AI curriculum shld cover testing/Item Response Theory/Logistic link functions…
October 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I saw a post by an AI researcher conclude smaller models (to the left) benefit more from Reinforcement Learning then larger model, to me it mostly looks like AI curriculum shld cover testing/Item Response Theory/Logistic link functions…
Given the transparency of polymarket you can peak at the big holders, for some this was their first and only prediction (orthe only one they ran against this account) and they walked away with a solid pay day....
October 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Given the transparency of polymarket you can peak at the big holders, for some this was their first and only prediction (orthe only one they ran against this account) and they walked away with a solid pay day....
Synthetic non-parametric UKB phenotypes straight from an R package. It pulls all the required summary data from the UKB website.. Somewhat tempted to go totally overboad and have it simulate synthetic genomes, with plausible SNP h2's and "real" top hits (which i'd pull from GWAS cat & nealelab)..
October 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Synthetic non-parametric UKB phenotypes straight from an R package. It pulls all the required summary data from the UKB website.. Somewhat tempted to go totally overboad and have it simulate synthetic genomes, with plausible SNP h2's and "real" top hits (which i'd pull from GWAS cat & nealelab)..
QUESTION 🚨: I wrote code that uses methods of moments too generate realistic synthetic data for a UKB trait from the showcase page. I might be able too add corelation between traits (have to find a source) to allow multivariate synth data, is this usefull enough to wrap in an R package??
October 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
QUESTION 🚨: I wrote code that uses methods of moments too generate realistic synthetic data for a UKB trait from the showcase page. I might be able too add corelation between traits (have to find a source) to allow multivariate synth data, is this usefull enough to wrap in an R package??
There is a Dutch museum about all religions, they also cover post religious pseudo religious play, including Warhammer (?) (cc @lastpositivist.bsky.social warhammer as post religion cosplay, could be a thesis is all I am saying..)
October 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
There is a Dutch museum about all religions, they also cover post religious pseudo religious play, including Warhammer (?) (cc @lastpositivist.bsky.social warhammer as post religion cosplay, could be a thesis is all I am saying..)
I carry gen-Z in me... (meant to write mild..)
October 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I carry gen-Z in me... (meant to write mild..)
Clear we just need to intervene on U instead of trying to manipulate X and bring in all this extra dag nonsense…
October 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Clear we just need to intervene on U instead of trying to manipulate X and bring in all this extra dag nonsense…
I really perfected the “exhausted Wookie father of two” look…
September 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I really perfected the “exhausted Wookie father of two” look…
14c (57f in autocratic temps), low sun, windy, first leaves turning, no more endless sunlit mornings and evenings, still time to catch some final rays before winter
September 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
14c (57f in autocratic temps), low sun, windy, first leaves turning, no more endless sunlit mornings and evenings, still time to catch some final rays before winter