(She/Her) PhD Student at Karolinska Institutet || Psych, Psychiatric Genetics, & Machine Learning || Co-organizer for @RLadiesSthlm
Stockholm, Sweden
Joined January 2018
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In the largest, most thorough #borderlinepersonalitydisorder study to date (12,000 diagnosed / 2 million total), we found that BPD was associated with nearly all analyzed psych disorders, physical illnesses, trauma, and adverse behaviors, e.g. self-harm
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We also looked at sex differences and the estimates for their full siblings. Results were consistent between males & females. Broadly, full siblings had increased associations w/ everything but physical illnesses
I'm graduating this month! To celebrate I'm collecting donations for the LGBT suicide and crisis line @TrevorProject
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Although it's aimed at geneticists, this article has useful reminders about the best practices and limitations of ML
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Hot Take: neural network is actually the worst ML technique and people only use it because it has a cool name
My latest publication is out! In this study we examined ~4 million individuals across Sweden and Denmark and found that patients with #type1diabetes have double the risk of being diagnosed with an eating disorder
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but we did not find evidence of familial coaggregation, i.e. there wasn't an increased risk of family members of T1D patients being diagnosed with an eating disorder. Diabetes clinicians should monitor patients for eating disorder symptoms
If you or a loved one is struggling with an eating disorder visit the NEDA website for more information on symptoms and recovery: nationaleatingdisorders.org/
My name change is finally official! Use Tate in lieu of my previous last name for the correct email address.
Research law #5: anytime you think to yourself that you’ve made great progress on a study, you will immediately find a coding error that means you have to restart your analyses from scratch 😭
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Statistical terms: what they really mean
Multicolinearity— they all look the same
Heteroscedasticity— the variation varies
Attenuation— being too modest
Overfitting— too good to be true
Confounding— nothing is what it seems
P-value— it’s complicated
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Cool soundbites about genetics can confuse more than they clarify. An illustration. "You share 98.8% of your genes with a chimpanzee!" Is this true? What does it actually mean? Let's unpack this often quoted pearl of wisdom in a thread all about sharing...1/13
As a native rural Texan the phrase “wrangling data” always brings to mind wrangling cattle
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Bidirectional associations between COVID-19 and psychiatric disorder: retrospective cohort studies of 62 354 COVID-19 cases in the USA
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It's a hard, annoying part of the job, but people who work in quantitative fields—whose work then becomes the subject of public attention—need to look carefully at how their work is being defined by others, and push back against incorrect framings where they can.
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bringing this gif back so maybe I will remember it this time #rstats
Anyone can experience suicidal thoughts. And that experience does not make you unloveable nor a burden. Please reach out to a loved one, national hotline, or mental health professional if you feel unsafe
What's in a smile? To someone thinking about suicide, it can be the first step towards life.
#WorldSuicidePreventionDay is September 10. Look around and #StepCloser.