Prof of Neurogenetics & Genomics @St Andrews and Bonn; interested in cognition, neurodevelopment, dyslexia and handedness. Co-Chair of the @sldnetwork.bsky.social. Made in Italy.
https://neurogenetics.st-andrews.ac.uk/
Silvia Paracchini
"Beatings to continue until morale improves" etc.
Super chuffed to see our latest preprint is out: Polygenic risk of cardiovascular disease manifests in cardiac structure and function 👉 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
A collaborative study led by exceptional PhD student Benedetta Felici!
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This really makes me sad. I discovered Marjane Satrapi's brilliance quite late and wish I had read her extraordinary books earlier.
Read what happened after my St Andrews colleague was detained in Israeli prisons. If this was inflicted on western citizens, imagine what Palestinians have been suffering
📢I'm setting up a new team at the @humantechnopole in Milan. We have several openings in AI applied to nationwide health data, biobank-scale -omics.
Milan is a beautiful city and at @humantechnopole is top notch.
You can find post-doc positions here: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Postdoc/...
Not that we need more evidence of genocidal intent to recognise what we are seeing. But deliberately shooting children? That's about as clear as it gets. #Gaza www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
Andrew Coogan
Wonderful to see the fantastic work on sleep by my colleague Emma Gale being highlighted here!
Hiking weekend around Aberfeldy 🏴 Apart from the scenery, they got the most amazing coffee ☕ over there (even better than in Italy and I am quite specific about it).
Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, ...
'The university has adopted the position that boycotting staff are in "breach of contract", will receive no pay, and are therefore not expected to work at all, leading to what some have described as a "lockout".' 1/3
Biochemical Society
Silvia Paracchini
Staff at Edinburgh University have been told that they must cover for their boycotting colleagues or go without pay themselves.
🔴 URGENT - L'artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, autrice de "Persepolis", est morte (entourage)
In a Courier interview, Dr Antonis Vradis says he was beaten, threatened and held in harsh conditions during five days of Israeli detention after a Gaza-bound aid flotilla was intercepted at sea. Israel strongly rejects the allegations.
La célèbre autrice de bande dessinée et réalisatrice franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi est morte, annonce son entourage à l'AFP.
In a Courier interview, Dr Antonis Vradis says he was beaten, threatened and held in harsh conditions during five days of Israeli detention after a Gaza-bound aid flotilla was intercepted at sea. Israel strongly rejects the allegations.
The @uniofstandrews.bsky.social is working with local authorities and the World Sleep Society to improve sleep education, which is essential to the wellbeing, health and learning of children.
