Rafael Ahlskog
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Researcher, Uppsala university. Political behavior. Social science genetics.
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Michal Grahn
2 days ago
A fun way to start the wknd: We have received the reviews of ”Rallied by thy neighbor: how minority spatial concentration increases voter turnout." […] I am delighted to conditionally accept your article for publication in The Journal of Politics.
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@turnbulldugarte.com
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Arno Van Hootegem 🌱
4 days ago
There’s a new kid in town! Companies are now selling IVF and embryo selection based on genetic testing for traits related to health and even intelligence. We outline methodological and ethical concerns, and warn against risks for social inequality. With the fantastic
@gaiaghirardi.bsky.social
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Embryo selection based on polygenic prediction risks reinforcing social inequality
The rise of companies offering embryo selection based on genetic testing has triggered heated debate about ethical acceptability, as well as the accuracy and scientific validity of these techniques. W...
https://www.fertstert.org/news-do/embryo-selection-based-polygenic-prediction-risks-reinforcing-social-inequality
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This right here is a REALLY cool paper. Must read!
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5 days ago
Second thesis article now out in Political Behavior! Using PGIs for ~10 000 full-pair fraternal twins in STR, combined with rich, geo-coded register data, I highlight the compensatory interaction between genetics and family + neighbourhood factors, with regards to voting. 🗳️
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Department of Government, Uppsala University
10 days ago
In this
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piece,
@rafaelahlskog.bsky.social
examines the causality between education and voter-turnout, finding that education does not affect voter turnout in Swedish elections but does matter for the
#Europeanelections
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Education and voter turnout revisited: Evidence from a Swedish twin sample with validated turnout data
The association between education and voter turnout is well-established in almost a century of research. The causal status of this correlation, howeve…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026137942030069X?via%3Dihub
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Political Science Research
10 days ago
🧬Check out this recent article, “Extraversion Probably Does Not Cause Political Participation. Evidence from Two Genetically Informed Designs,” published in
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by Rafael Ahlskog👇
doi.org/10.1111/pops...
#polisky
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Extraversion Probably Does Not Cause Political Participation. Evidence from Two Genetically Informed Designs
A substantial literature in political psychology has emphasized the importance of personality traits for understanding differences in political participation. One such trait is extraversion. However,...
https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12901
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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad
20 days ago
I have donated to Wikipedia occasionally, and will do it again in the future. Support free and factual information on the internet!
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EPSS
24 days ago
📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out:
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
This we’’ll feature the last two sections today: 🔝 This week: Comparative Politics of Development & Political Representation 🧵
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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
https://epssnet.org/belfast-2026/call-for-papers/
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Linus Larsson
28 days ago
Vittnesmål om hur det är att vara reporter på Epoch Times (amerikanska).
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
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Emanuel Maiberg
about 1 month ago
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/
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about 1 month ago
1/7 New BMI GWAS out! Using Estonian Biobank (n=204,747) and replication in FinnGen, we show that even in Europe you can still find region-specific biology if you zoom into population-tailored sumstats. Big thanks to co-author
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Mikael Persson
about 1 month ago
The 5th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop in Trondheim!
@lchristensen.bsky.social
@rdassonneville.bsky.social
@finseraas.bsky.social
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Paul Hünermund
about 2 months ago
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
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https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/wp-call/2026/wp_horizon-erc-2026_en.pdf
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Ted Schwaba
3 months ago
I'm looking for a PhD student to do some trailblazing at the frontier of personality genomics and lifespan gene-environment transactions (start Fall 2026)! If you want to work with me:
psychology.msu.edu/graduatestud...
(PS
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is taking a student too, in moral psych/dev!)
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Julia Sero
3 months ago
I like how the QWERTY keyboard mirrors evolution. Proteins and pathways adapted to a situation persist, even when the situation changes. So we end up with mysteriously complex Rube Goldberg machines across biology that only make sense if you know about clashing type bars in Victorian machines.
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Per Engzell
3 months ago
PhD position in Economics with a specialization in AI and the Future of Taxes at Uppsala University
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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PhD position in Economics with a specialization in AI and the Future of Taxes
The Department of Economics is one of the largest departments within the Faculty of Social Sciences, with approximately 100 employees from a dozen countries. Each year, around 1,000 students participa
https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:850450/
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Tim Morris
3 months ago
Call for abstracts: genetics, economic & social issues. We're hosting a 1-day workshop on using genetic data to examine economic & social issues on 12th December at UCL’s Social Research Institute. More info & submission at link below
#genetics
#socialscience
#economics
#cohort
bit.ly/41EnPmu
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http://bit.ly/41EnPmu
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EPSS
4 months ago
The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026 📍 ICC Belfast 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵
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Sasha Gusev
4 months ago
A few thoughts on Herasight, the new embryo selection company. First, their whitepaper (
drive.google.com/file/d/1EpFi...
) implies that competitors like Nucleus have been marketing and selling grossly erroneous risk estimates. This is shocking if true! 🧵
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This is cool!
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Just got stung by a wasp for the first time since I was kid. I'm genuinely surprised by how much it hurts!
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UppsalaPeaceConflict
4 months ago
In a recent episode of a podcast about the Lundin Oil war crimes trial, our Associate Professor Johan Brosché and historian Douglas H. Johnson discuss the evidence that systematic war crimes were committed to support the oil industry. 🎧
unpaiddebt.org/e19-question...
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E19: Questioning History: A Lundin Defence Tactic
The defence lawyers for Ian Lundin and Alex Schneiter deny that any war crimes were committed during Lundin’s operations in South Sudan. They have spent considerable time in court attempting to discre...
https://unpaiddebt.org/e19-questioning-history-a-lundin-defence-tactic/
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At long last, this paper is now published. Does wealth (causally!) confer an advantage in terms of political participation?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Do the rich ditch politics? Evidence from Sweden
The world has seen a massive increase in wealth and wealth inequality over the last decades. Given the skew in policy making towards the preferences o…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379425000721
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Deniz Fraemke
4 months ago
🚨📜 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
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It's 2025, and I still got a desk reject because of null results today. Anyway, how's your publication bias going?
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Laurel Raffington
5 months ago
Humbled to receive the BGA's early career award ☺️ Thank you to my brilliant team
#MPRGBiosocial
, the
@maxplanck.de
for investing in early career researchers,
@mpib-berlin.bsky.social
for the excellent environment, and my many mentors incl
@kph3k.bsky.social
@tuckerdrob.bsky.social
#ScienceTeamSport
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The sheer stupidity of this
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Jordan
5 months ago
86 fucking years old.
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Oskar Pettersson
5 months ago
Wrapping up the semester with two presentations at EPSA 2025: 1️⃣POLECO Thur. 15:00 - Effects of genetic explanations for socioeconomic outcomes on citizens’ perceptions of inequality 2️⃣POLMET Fri. 13:10 - Effects of education field on economic and social ideology within twin pairs Come chat!
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Reposting this as a commitment device (I've decided not to travel to the US for the foreseeable future).
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Clément de Chaisemartin
5 months ago
🧵1/4 🚨 We have finalized our DID textbook! You’ve run out of excuses for sketchy pre-trends and mysterious TWFE coefficients. 📘 Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments By Chaisemartin & D’Haultfœuille.
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Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments
<div> The purpose of this book is to introduce applied researchers to </div> <div> modern Differences-in-Differences (DID) estimators, tailored to potentially
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4487202
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George Takei
5 months ago
If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
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I once ran into Michael Parenti in a supermarket in Berkeley. We had a very nice, brief conversation about the nature of political science.
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Peter
5 months ago
there are so many thoroughly antisocial behaviors that would shock and disturb you coming from any other human being but are completely standard for cops
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C. Clarke, but also me after one day of antibiotics.
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Department of Government, Uppsala University
6 months ago
Sophie Mainz has been awarded the John Sullivan Award for the best paper by a graduate student presented at any of the panels organized by the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section at last year’s APSA conference. Congratulations to
@sophiemainz.bsky.social
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Alicia Martin
6 months ago
Now published! Congrats Yon Ho on this huge lift conducting dozens of GWAS in Korea and performing meta-analyses with other Asian biobanks reaching a sample size comparable to UK Biobank. The fine-mapping, novel loci, and ancestry-enriched discoveries are very cool.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Genome-wide association studies in a large Korean cohort identify quantitative trait loci for 36 traits and illuminate their genetic architectures - Nature Communications
Here the authors identify hundreds of genetic loci linked to 36 traits in East Asians, revealing population-specific associations and emphasizing the importance of diverse ancestry groups in genome-wi...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59950-5
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Today, my fantastic PhD student
@fqinya.bsky.social
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Rosa Cheesman
6 months ago
New paper with
@paulhufe.net
Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen 📝 Causal evidence for gene-environment interaction based on: 🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences 🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added
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ESSGN
6 months ago
Today marks the start of the fourth annual ESSGN conference, this year hosted in a lovely and sunny Bristol! Follow along!
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Ted Schwaba
6 months ago
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.
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No other way to put it: this is a monumental contribution and service to the social science genetics community.
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Julia M. Rohrer
6 months ago
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:>
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Stan Oklobdzija
6 months ago
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
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Michal Grahn
6 months ago
🧵 What kind of POPE do AMERICANS want?📸 Before the Conclave,
@sophiemainz.bsky.social
and I asked 1,500 U.S. adults to choose among hypothetical papal candidates. Results: Americans prefer a liberal and *non-political* Pope. The latter might be challenging for Leo XIV. Results ⬇️ Polisky Datasky
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OSC Uppsala
6 months ago
OSCU's next talk: Friday May 9th 16:15-17:00 at Stadsbiblioteket by Rafael Ahlskog: 'Working with pre-registrations when using register data'
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Some really interesting contrasts in our new "assumption-free heritability" preprint:
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Nature, nurture, and socioeconomic outcomes: New evidence from sib pairs and molecular genetic data
A consequence of Mendel's First Law is that siblings' genetic relatedness varies randomly (with a mean of 50% and a standard deviation of ~4%). We use molecular
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5225447
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UppsalaPeaceConflict
7 months ago
The attack on American universities by the Trump administration points to the need to protect the freedom of research in Sweden as well. Professor Hanne Fjelde's article in Forskning & Framsteg highlights 3 vulnerabilities for Swedish humanities and social science research. 👇
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Vi behöver stå upp för forskningens frihet även i Sverige | Forskning & Framsteg
De senaste veckorna har vi med stor oro i realtid kunnat följa hur den akademiska friheten i USA monterats ner. De långtgående attackerna mot det …
https://fof.se/artikel/vi-behover-sta-upp-for-forskningens-frihet-aven-i-sverige/
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Yeah. I've canceled all of my intended US plans for the foreseeable future. So should you.
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