Luke Jostins-Dean

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That's true in Oxford, but if you are in London I think you can get them reliably from Borough or Camden market all season. But then you pay Borough market prices...

In fact Bradley at Oxford City Farm is a good person to ask about mexican ingredients in general, he is American and has shared mexican recipes you can make with OCF ingredients before

They grew tomatillos at Oxford City Farm in the poly tunnels last summer and they were great (but I have never had Mexican ones so they may be different).

Does that work? You get west country fresh green tomatillos in specialist veg shops in the summer, if those can't substitute for Mexican ones in your recipes it's probably a climate thing and growing your own might not work either.

Such a strange annual ritual

Join UK Biobank for a webinar on Nightingale Health metabolomic data from all half a million participants. Our Principal Scientist, @lukejostins.bsky.social, will co-host the webinar.

🗓️ 21 January 2026, 3:00PM - 4:00PM GMT
🔔 Register: events.ringcentral.com/events/webin...

A photo of me that is about 10 years old, and details on the webinar: "Inside the world's largest metabolomics study: Insights from UK Biobank, 21st January 2026, 3pm (GMP), Register now".

We have a webinar next week with @ukbiobank.bsky.social on the Nightingale metabolomics data. We did a table read today, and it is shaping up really nicely. Please do come! 300 people have registered already and there are only np.inf spaces left!

www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/use-our-data...

Grew up in London in a family from East Anglia and Midlands, wife's family from North West, they all call it stuffing even if cooked in a tray.

The stars are dead. The animals will not look.
We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and
History to the defeated
May say alas but cannot help or pardon.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

This is an island and therefore
Unreal. And the steadfast affections of its dead may be bought
By those whose dreams accuse them of being
Spitefully alive

Seekers after happiness, all who follow
The convolutions of your simple wish,
It is later than you think

A lot of Auden, mostly

Our webinar “Multiomic insights into human disease” by @lukejostins.bsky.social is tomorrow!

Join us on 3 December at 3 p.m. CET for an exploration of how integrating proteomics and metabolomics can deepen our understanding of human health and disease.

Sign up: www.lyyti.fi/reg/webinar-...

🚨 New preprint from the lab!
We’re excited to share “Improving population-scale disease prediction through multi-omics integration” by Ng et al. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

A histogram of Z scores from clinical trial papers. It is centred on Z=0 but had long tails oh both sides of Z scores out to +- 10.

@zaminiqbal.bsky.social it'd be more like a bell curve (or at least unimodal) if people published the results of all tests they ran, right? The Gelman article shows the nice counter-example of clinical trial primary endpoints, which do tend to publish most results, not just positive ones.

Yes. That is why it is funny.

Yeah ok, sorry I got that wrong. I just think it's funny that this image is a bit of a Deep Meme (a joke parody of a real Hellebore cover) and none of the articles have gone into the weeds of what it actually is.

The Guardian article seems to think it is a real Hellebore cover, but it's a riff on this real cover

Sad that the news articles didn't communicate that this was a Wind In The Willows-based parody of a Folk Horror magazine cover. Neo-pagan meme culture breaking containment.

It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."

I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

This project is in close collaboration with the amazing @lukejostins.bsky.social, and the student will benefit from a multi-disciplinary team! 🌟🧬🧠

Filtering parquet files with dplyr GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Parquet works really well with R as well. I use it all the time to work with GWAS summary statistics that won't fit into memory (our latest metabolite GWAS tested 95M+ variants in UKBB). Here's a minimal example of how to filter data on the fly while reading into R: gist.github.com/kauralasoo/f...

🎓 New PhD opportunity in our lab @kiroxford.bsky.social @oxforduni.bsky.social We're exploring host–microbiome genetic interactions in IBD using population-scale data 🧬🦠
🔗 kennedy.ox.ac.uk/.../deciphering-host2013microbiome-genetic-interactions-in-inflammatory-bowel-disease #PhD #Genetics

TIHYLTTW is just too perfect a name to give up, even if it makes it less marketable. One of my all-time favourite book titles.

Novartis & Roche collaborated w/ Oxford researchers at the Big Data Institute 2 develop AI model using largest collection of clinical trial data (Novartis-Oxford MS dataset) from >8000 ppl living w/ multiple sclerosis (MS) to reclassify the progression of MS www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/news/using-a... #biosky

Significant after correcting for 0.98 tests

Both of these guys talk very directly to my heart