Kesson Magid

Anthropologist interested in human reproductive ecology, hormones, migration and health, also cultural variation in social cognition. @QMULBartsTheLon @QMULWHRI

[Korbonits Lab @KorbonitsL]

Happy 900th birthday @BartsHospital you don't look a day over 899! Marta joining in on the #Barts900 celebrations today, congratulating our august institution for 900 years of Transforming Healthcare https://t.co/ITGuzupWJE

[Kesson Magid @kesson]

Was just informed on #outlook that “The #comingsoon feature will be going away shortly” as a reminder of the existential dread all software buttons, indeed all of us, must face.

[Kesson Magid @kesson]

Hope when tempted towards hopelessness. A friend in Moscow, inside a police van, arrested last weekend for protesting the war. She and these other brave women are taking a stand, using their voices and an inspiration on #InternationalWomensDay #НетВойне https://t.co/HgbtI7Z4oO

[Kesson Magid @kesson]

Love this accessible @Soc_Endo #podcast on (not-so) tall tales of height, growth, and hormones. #growthhormone #acromegaly #endocrinology

[Korbonits Lab @KorbonitsL]

Superb @Soc_Endo podcast on how hormones affect our height destinies, and what that has to do with the legend of the Irish giants. Featuring @QMULWHRI Profs Márta Korbonits & Helen Storr https://t.co/7srmTQxPDH

[Kesson Magid @kesson]

Super pleased to see ever resourceful #qmul colleague and @KorbonitsL alumnus @vinaya_sn into the finals of 3 Minute Thesis competition. Go Vinaya! #3MT #vitae20

[Barts Cancer Institute (Queen Mary) @QMBCI]

On 16th September, Clinical Research Fellow @vinaya_sn will be taking part in the final of the 2020 Vitae Three Minute Thesis #3MT competition. Find out more about Vinaya's research and the competition here: https://t.co/qqTmnAJjB5 #vitae20

[Kesson Magid @kesson]

Extraordinarily well presented discourse on #genomics and #race that is soundly grounded in science. Recommended listening to anyone containing genes. https://t.co/LriGWmgWUH

[Kesson Magid @kesson]

Unexpected moment when extraction of metadata from an #Excel file confounds entirely yet describes exquisitely. #splayedmycerebralpeduncles #datacleaning #datamigration

[Kesson Magid @kesson]

Good piece on condition that’s much more common than I knew before joining @KorbonitsL and gets limited media coverage. #XXY #DSD #klinefelter “Klinefelter syndrome: many men have an extra X chromosome – but it is rarely diagnosed”
https://t.co/EJnlI3Lyzg

[Kesson Magid @kesson]

In which I'm quoted twice, once with my name even spelled correctly. Obsession w/ "boosting your levels" of #testosterone pointless, but OK if prompts reg. exercise, improved diet. https://t.co/PxvnQQJT4C via @Telegraph

[Kesson Magid @kesson]

Excellent perspective by Alun Williams from @ManMetUni on how #testosterone is “fetishised” by science and sport in the appalling ham-fisted ruling on #CasterSemenya covered by ⁦@BBCRadio4⁩ Inside Science https://t.co/Z5WwKzMvFP

[Kesson Magid @kesson]

Pleased to see academic rigour from @LottyBrand22 and @amesoudi with #openscience #preregistration and testing of hypotheses in real-world groups. Also, nobody accords extra prestige to #pubquiz knowitalls #Jealousy

[Lotty Brand @LottyBrand]

We did a science! Like most papers, it's not going to change the world. Unlike most papers, it's preregistered, open access, open data/analysis, no P-values, non-student sample +findings communicated to participants first #bethechange Thanks to @amesoudi https://t.co/GDepHRnQ6l

[Kesson Magid @kesson]

@maaf_owen @RebeccaSear I’d included two alternative perspectives on male muscularity as a factor in mate choice. The latter illustrated by #tom_of_finland

[Kesson Magid @kesson]

I love it when someone announces exactly the thing I was wishing for! The fab #SoftwareSustainability folk @SoftwareSaved teaming with @HDR_UK to address the digital skills shortage in #HealthDataScience through short training courses https://t.co/WtLGjRmGfR

[Kesson Magid @kesson]

Word of the day: #sesquizygotic And that's not even the most mindbending aspect of this case. I think it means these are #chimeric genetically #hermaphroditic siblings? And then there's the word score it would generate playing #Scrabble

[Korbonits Lab @KorbonitsL]

Really interesting!
Scientists stunned by discovery of 'semi-identical' twins https://t.co/D5VCsfWiIw

[Kesson Magid @kesson]

Is #sexualselection in the eye of the beholder? How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution via @NYTimes https://t.co/6pxqrKjJ9G

[Kesson Magid @kesson]

@barnowlcj @GKountourides @OxfordBioAnth @Oxford_HumSci @oxford_anthro In fairness, I didn’t measure muscularity of women in my study so lack my own measures of dimorphism. Focussed on comparative variation between men in lean muscle wrt testosterone, and anabolic properties of this hormone as potential explanation of inter-population variation

[Kesson Magid @kesson]

@barnowlcj @GKountourides @OxfordBioAnth @Oxford_HumSci @oxford_anthro While I'd be surprised to see higher levels of muscularity in women than men within a population, can imagine conditions where the sexual dimorphism in muscularity would be quite low.

[Kesson Magid @kesson]

@barnowlcj @GKountourides @OxfordBioAnth @Oxford_HumSci @oxford_anthro Obviously also great intrasexual variation in muscle mass in humans as illustrated in the pic!

[Kesson Magid @kesson]

@barnowlcj @GKountourides @OxfordBioAnth @Oxford_HumSci @oxford_anthro Linked Lassek & Gaulin 2009 paper attributes 70% of variance in muscle mass and upper body strength in humans to sex differences, upper-body muscle mass "similar in magnitude to gorillas, the most sexually dimorphic primate (Zihlman & McFarland, 2000)" https://t.co/GY5ftaqpx0