Time to write my first MR study to justify reading this super interesting editorial :-)

Early and late diagnosed autism are quite different, also genetically www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have an open postdoc position in Social Science Genomics in Berlin! Includes gene-environment interplay within German population cohorts & experimental online survey studies to probe public perceptions of potential DNA biomarker applications 🔗 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2196134/2025...

The UNED inequality and social demography seminar is back, with @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social @l-sage.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @nicolettabalbo and @danieloesch If you are Madrid, come along! 👇the program for this academic year

@edzitron.com Anyone could be forgiven for thinking AI is a load of wank! abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...

🚨Postdoc! Join us to develop #AI (#LLM) tools for research, governance & lawmaking. 📅 Apply by Oct 21, 16.15 (Finnish time) ⏳ fixed-term 2026–2028 🔗 valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/seni... @thlfi.bsky.social #openpositions #Hiring #ResearchJob #AcademicJob #AIResearch #Postdoc #ResearchCareers

Next RC28 Spring Meeting will be 20-22 May in Seville. Submissions until 10 Dec here: eventos.upo.es/137585/detai... If you're wondering if this is your conference, have a look at what we publish in our journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...

Even though the call text is in Finnish, I don't think that this post doc on AI utilization in health and welfare state research requires any other language skills but Stata, R, and Pyhton :-) Join a team of great people to work with at INVEST & THL

@thlfi.bsky.social hakee post doc -tutkijaa osaksi @invest-flagship.bsky.social Komiteatyön AI-arviointi -hanketta. Hankkeessa tutkitaan, miten tekoäly voi vahvistaa lainvalmistelun, parlamentaarisen työn ja sosiaaliturvauudistusten arviointia ja tutkimusta. 👉 Lisää: valtiolle.fi/fi/tyopaikat...

The European Research Council offers up to €2M additional funding for PIs relocating to the EU or a Horizon Europe Associated Country from non-associated third countries under Starting, Consolidator or Advanced Grants. @erc.europa.eu ec.europa.eu/info/funding...

Mind the heat. Wonder how many have tried already to simulate text that fits their hypothesis.

Would you let AI (LLMs) cheat for you? New work out in @nature.com shows that people are indeed willing to instruct AI in ways that will benefit themselves, despite not being totally honest. Great work by @nckobis.bsky.social and @iyadrahwan.bsky.social et al 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The u-shape was never culturally universally true and a profuct of age period and cohort effects. But that unrealistic optimism of young people could turned into misery i did not see comming.

Important research by our very own @alexbryson.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

Cool work from @ewanbirney.bsky.social Moritz Gerstung, Tom Fitzgerald about modeling health trajectories with generative AI! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Like reading my own thoughts...Thanks Abdel!

📣 Call for Papers is open! In_equality Conference 2026 | 15–17 April | Konstanz We invite papers on the political causes & consequences of #inequality Submit Aug 8–Oct 5 ➡️ inequality-conference.de @uni-konstanz.de

Here's a list of colleges and universities that have been forced to cut back on faculty and staff, thanks in large part to Tr•mp's War on Knowledge and Education. It's a bloody slaughter. #Edusky #WarOnEducation #Kakistocracy bryanalexander.org/horizon-scan...

📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n) www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

100 milj. € lisäleikkaukset ajaisivat alas esim. Kehitysvammaisten Tukiliitton, Kehitysvammaliiton, FDUV:n ja Autismiliiton ohjauksen, neuvonnan, vertaistuen ja oikeuksien puolustamisen kehitys- ja puhevammaisille ja autismikirjon ihmisille ja heidän perheilleen. www.tukiliitto.fi/ajankohtaist...

Dear community, last time you helped us reach lots of new BlueSky followers. Now that we see that there is an exodus on X, it is important that these people can also find us on BlueSky for all necessary updates about Ukraine. Would you like to share this message, preferably with a quote? Thanks!

Are you a clinician and you want to understand how an evolutionary framework can be applied in psychotherapy? 🧬🧠 Here's a good news for you! A new workshop will be held in the beautiful city of Erice, Sicily, in April 2026! centromajorana.it/evopsychothe...

Judging by my personal experience, talking to a PhD level expert is not what people usually enjoy the most :-)

🧵1/ 🚨 New article out! How robust is the psychology of social class? Together with Nicolas Sommet and ‪@frederiqueautin.bsky.social‬, we conducted large-scale replications of 35 hypotheses across four countries. Published in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨📜 Debut publication alert! Do genetics influence education differently across state borders? 🧬📚 We tested differences in genetic associations with education in East and West 🇩🇪 around reunification! Out now in Psychological Science 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0956... #Sociogenomics #MPRGBiosocial #MPIB A🧵

Two weeks ago we had an amazing Social Science and Genetics conference in Oslo! Now that I had time to recover, I wanted to recall and reflect on some of the *ethical and social impacts* discussed during the conference. 🧵 /13

Happy midsummer. Preprint of our paper under review www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

Midsummer reading. This or Elizabeth Strout, Sally Rooney or Richard Powers? A fine outcome of @sustageable.fi @strateginen.bsky.social project with a great team.

The proportion of p-values between .01 and .05 declined in psychology over the last decade, a strengthening of credibility. Papers with fewer fragile p-values are cited more. Higher ranked journals assoc. with > improvement, but not higher ranked universities. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I recently defended my PhD thesis on education & health inequalities! To help prevent misuse of sociogenomic findings, here is a graphic version of my thesis conclusion: → Family socioeconomic environment interacts with genetic propensities, reproducing social inequalities in education and health.

Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our study from @vallhebron.com in collaboration with @sjdhospitalbarcelona.org shows that air pollution and green spaces influence emotional and behavioural disorders in children. 🚗🌱🧠👦👧 acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

P_5977_1C was selected to be born with lower diabetes risk...

Reiterating that Paper Skygest is a terrific custom feed! #EconSky #AcademicSky

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

⚡ Open calls for 2 PhD students and 1 postdoc in computational social science / environmental / sustainable transitions studies It's an ERC Consolidator project led by Laur Kanger in the University of Tartu; please share, it's a great place! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/search?keys=...

"Increasing diversity of participants in studies increases geneticists’ chances of finding variants that are important to health, & lessens likelihood of drawing spurious conclusions about genetic or other factors driving disease..." Key statement for human genetics community to endorse & spread.👇🧪

📢@invest-flagship.bsky.social will become a permanent department at the University of Turku after 2026 securing the long-term future of world-class research on inequality, interventions, and the welfare state 🤝A joint effort by @utu.fi & @thlfi.bsky.social since 2019. invest.utu.fi/news/invest-...

Very well said! I could not agree more.

Happy to see my first thesis article out in Behavior Genetics! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Genes, money, status... and comics New substack: I helped write @dr-appie.bsky.social's new paper about nature and nurture, genes and socio-economic status. We think it’s important and deserves a broad audience, so here it is in graphic novel format. arutherford.substack.com/p/genes-mone...

In every civilization, people end up sorted into levels of socio-economic status (SES). We explore the history, present, and future of scientific research on the complicated relationship between SES and DNA in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social💰🧬🎓 Link: rdcu.be/efacK Thread below 👇🏽

META (the Facebook company) seems to have used 22 of my papers from priate bay to train their LLM. Well, publishers stole all research papers already from the public by putting them behind pay walls. Still, I don't like business model and attitude of AI companies www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Ukraine needs support from Europe now more than ever before. This is out way of maintaining that. Pass on the word!

Requesting permission to train next gen llm's with copyrighted data is like that those who own almost everything already, are asking for permission to steal also that what they didn't yet manage to get their fingers on.

“Finland’s oldest metropolis is now intent on carving out a unique place in the modern world too: as the greenest city anywhere.” Turku’s secret? “How this was achieved is an example not only of the town’s collective effort and innovation but of the determination of the women who run the city…”

#academics try this pin. It really makes this app more useful for discovering papers shared within your network

More good work to appear soon. In the train to Turku for our first SoSe project meeting in Turku.