Check out my latest #IEUREKA ! blog with MRC IEU on our recent project exploring a novel measure of interleukin 6 activity/bioavailability in depression 🔎

Blog 👉 ieureka.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/05/09/a-n…
Article 👉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Golam Khandaker Chloe Slaney Muzaffer Kaser 💙 et al.

New blog post about a novel measure of inflammation in depression, by Éimear M. Foley ieureka.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/05/09/a-n…

Can we use GP records to study insomnia prevalence? Our new paper, out today in BMJ_Open, compared self-reporting of insomnia symptoms in 160,000 UK Biobank participants to their linked GP records.
bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…

Honoured to be giving the Ipsen-Olsen lecture “Triangulation of evidence in aetiological epidemiology: principles, prospects, limitations” named after two great Danish epidemiologists dent.au.dk/en/display/art… on 23rd May at 13.00 (UK time). On-line link aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/66668105414

Two 4 year PhD opportunities MRC IEU with the legendary Tom Gaunt, closing date 20th May
findaphd.com/phds/project/d… findaphd.com/phds/project/i…

1/4 Excited to share our latest preprint where we used observational and Mendelian randomization methods to explore the role of metabolites as intermediates between adiposity and endometrial cancer using data from UK Biobank (UK Biobank). medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

📢Paper alert!
Read about ROBINS-E, a new tool for assessing risk of bias in observational studies of exposures. Paper by Prof Julian PT Higgins, Jonathan Sterne + rest of international team published in Environment International
News tinyurl.com/29ac5sja
Paper tinyurl.com/35f5ehcm

Our next bake sale is this Thursday in the Staff Room between 10 and 11:30, raising money to support specialist treatment for a local little boy.

“Genetic & non-genetic analyses provide consistent evidence for an association between CRP & negative affect”

Check out our study from Lifelines cohort on inflammation, affect related outcomes & cognition👇

Well done Chloe Slaney & Naoise Mac Giollabhui

#ImmunoPsychiatry MRC IEU

Results from our new preprint on the role of #Inflammation in #depression , #anxiety , affect, and #cognitive functioning in the Lifelines Cohort.

🔍👉doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Golam Khandaker Naoise Mac Giollabhui george davey smith Éimear M. Foley University of Bristol BRistol Medical School (BRMS) Research MRC IEU

It was an honour to present my work at ISPE’s 2024 Mid-Year Meeting in Orlando, Florida - thank you International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology for the opportunity & the scholarship that facilitated my trip across the pond!

Great to make new connections & engage with so much inspiring pharmacoepi work ☀️

🚨 Interested in causal inference?

Come join us for the Mendelian Randomisation conference, 19-21 June, MRC IEU

This years themes include MR methods, drug target MR, mental health, disease progression & more!

Register, submit your abstract 👇

mendelianrandomization.org.uk

Mendelian Randomisation (MR) is going to hell in a handcart, with an exponential weekly increase of papers with Mendelian Randomisation in the title, most of them nonsense. 25th April 4.30pm online or in person UCL I'll talk about what should be done forms.office.com/pages/response…

Don't forget that today at 17:00 BST is the deadline for submitting an abstract for the 6th International Mendelian Randomization Conference . If you are interested in presenting your work as a short talk or poster, please visit
mendelianrandomization.org.uk

The deadline for abstract submission for the 6th International Mendelian Randomization Conference is 8 April 2024 at 17:00 BST. If you are interested in presenting your work as a short talk or poster, please visit mendelianrandomization.org.uk

The conference is 19 to 21 June 2024.

We are looking at ways to reduce the environmental impact of our research. In this blog post Chin Yang Shapland and Hayley Wragg🏳️‍🌈 discuss some of the things we are thinking about as we work to make our computing processes more sustainable. ieureka.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/04/03/env…

PopResUK - 🚨🚨With this exciting new development are new opportunities till open – two new roles in the hub team #OperationalLead and #SeniorAdministrator (with a communications manager to follow). Check out -bit.ly/3ITWt26 and -bit.ly/3xaQ7J7 for details 🚨🚨

PopResUK - We are delighted to announce the start of the Population Research UK (PRUK) co-ordination hub, supported by Medical Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council via strategic investment from the #UKRI_Infrastructure_Fund .

🚬Cigarettes and e-cigarettes have some similar effects on DNA methylation that have been reported to lead to cancer.

lifespan.io/news/the-epige…
by Josh Conway
#epigenetics #Smoking #LungCancer #aging
Dr Chiara Herzog Rebecca Richmond MRC IEU UCL UCLnews