With our wonderful Head of Library retiring after years of commitment to the Institute, we are excited to welcome a new colleague who will lead the library into its next chapter. More information & application: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

I'd love to see this level of detail across monozygotic twins - has anyone done it?

Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

What makes an artwork beautiful, and can your brain's response decode such hidden dimensions of aesthetic appeal? We built a framework to find out 🎨 🧠 @natcomms.nature.com @cognizelab.bsky.social First author: @neocosmliang.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroaesthetics #DefaultMode

Very excited about this preprint that we just posted. It introduces the Genomic-Relatedness Matched Association (GRMA) study. It’s an extension to family-based GWAS that uses extended relatives beyond only siblings in diverse-ancestry data with very little bias. (Link below.)

go and work w @alpar.bsky.social in copenhagen for a 2y postdoc on comparing llms and humans on metaphor processing (including eye-tracking fun stuff): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

I’m delighted to share our work leveraging homozygous deletions to discover rare disease diagnoses and novel disease genes - see the preprint here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Here are my four GWAS lectures of ~20 minutes each for the International Statistical Genetics Workshop 2026. They're part of the broader workshop curriculum but also work as standalone lectures covering the basics of GWAS from the ground up. Videos are below 👇🏽

We are offering Postdoc & PhD positions 🥼 If you are interested in the intersection of X chromosome inactivation, epigenetics, aging, sex-biased disease, and allele-specific multi-omics, feel free to reach out or share this with interested candidates. More info: portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

🧬 New preprint! We present an All by All analysis in All of Us: common and rare variant association testing across 392,030 whole genomes and 3,602 phenotypes. 1.337 trillion tests, ~50k significant signals, all publicly browseable. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint—A critical review on what we know about beat perception (and why that matters 🙂) w/ Gábor Háden. See doi.org/10.31234/osf...

“...there is no effective substitute for the subtle interplay of words and from time to time one becomes wearied by the exact formulations of science and longs for a poetry which speaks to one’s bones.”

Beautiful piece by Awais. Money quote below. My one concern is that many psychiatrists do not in fact mean what Awais means when they say "you have ADHD". They mean it in exactly the same way one says "you have liver cancer". And it's very harmful for mental health science and practice.

(2) This is true, and we also try to make this clear in the abstract and discussion. However, the central point of our analysis is that for 77.2% of the voxels reported in the published paper, no inference about concordance can really be made.

The Musicality Genomics Consortium #MusicGens has #fellowships available to attend the 2026 Iceland meeting (pending funding availability). These fellowships are intended to support early career researchers who are from the #GlobalSouth See for more information : musicgens.org | lnkd.in/efgT65tW

This is the May cover of NN but it has already been debunked on biorxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Such a clear statement about the ridiculous pace of publishing (not just NN).

The new, updated and thoroughly revised 10th anniversary edition of @adamrutherford.bsky.social’s brilliant book. Written with such clarity, insight and brio!

I am hiring a PhD student to join our group in Lund, Sweden working on an ERC-funded project to untangle color and polarization vision in some amazing crustaceans – minute water fleas and pugnacious mantis shrimp! Please forward this to promising students. Apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

🚨New in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... Genetic principal components (PCs) are commonly used to adjust for population stratification in genetic studies. In this paper, we quantify how much direct genetic signal is lost when using these “catch-all” adjustments. 🧵

[2016] A French literature Prof was celebrated by the French national assembly, Nobel prize winners, former government ministers, MPs, decorated scientists and academics for winning award ... [2026] ... that he now appears to have made up. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Super excited to see this out! Fantastic collaboration with Luke O'Connor and trainees Amber Shen and Xinran Wang. Thread with details will come soon, but linear ARG provide a HIGHLY efficient representation of genotype data that can be treated as a linear operator www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper 🚨 "Cultural evolution – of the arts". Together with @masonyoungblood.bsky.social we wrote a short paper – half essay, half bibliometric analysis – aiming to describe this emerging research area (1/3) doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

Been training for this moment my whole life.

Literally every major revision.

I know a lot of you folks just love lavaan, so here’s the lavaan job you’ve all been waiting for!

Only a couple of days left to apply ...

This reviewer is a perfect illustration of a person with good intentions, who I probably agree with on a ton of things, who starts from the premise that "it is bad if things are partially heritable, so they cannot be" and then works from there. Acknowledging genetics is not endorsing eugenics!

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

My experience with any GWAS is that causal meaning is added to observational results, by people imposing those causal assumptions, a GWAS with 50 authors has at least ~30 (implicit) causal models layered on top of the results.

My group at the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics now has a name: Cultural Evolution of the Arts! You can read a bit more about the idea behind the group at the group's web page: www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/research/... And here's the obligatory door nameplate :)

There was a lot of laughter during this conversation and a few secret confessions... But we also had some great discussions about musicality, genetics, Beethoven and public outreach, mental health, and music genres... Thank you @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social and @aysuo.bsky.social for having me! 🎶

I should really not have a discretionary budget

It’s actually very funny that there is solid modern evidence that genes do in fact interact with childhood trauma to affect depression, just not this gene at all, and tha other candidate gen’s did work out well. 1/?

#OTD in 1858, Max Planck was born. This is what Einstein wrote about him 108 years ago

Dutch film-maker Jan van IJken condensed 4 weeks of development in a salamander embryo (Mesotriton alpestris) into a 6 minute video, presented here sped up to 1 minute. You can see gastrulation at ~the 10s mark, forming the gut, then limbs & in a moment, the heart just *begins* beating.

I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The largest and most diverse collection of Indigenous American genomes 👉🏻 “The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans” @macscastro.bsky.social @hunemeier.bsky.social @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social @jrockdrigo.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Me agreeing to a new project knowing full well it’s gonna add stress 🇲🇽

Enjoyed diving into the fascinating work by @loganjames.bsky.social et al. on shared preferences between human and non-human animals Liked it so much, we wrote an eLetter, now posted in Science 😅 Our take? There's another side to acoustic preferences worth exploring: idiosyncratic taste

In 'Within 15 Minutes', Alma Haser captures fragments of uniqueness in 'identical'. www.haser.org/within-15-mi...

Very good @natneuro.nature.com review by @janetsong.bsky.social M. Greenberg D. Reich & C. Walsh, capturing progress made by genomic approaches to understand the evolution of the human brain 🧪🧬🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why does music exist, and why does it move us so deeply? Beyond being a universal source of emotion, music reveals something fundamental about how the brain works: we are constantly predicting. Check this @nature.com review www.nature.com/articles/s41... @manlius.bsky.social @gemmadlc.bsky.social

“Science shares things that we can’t face but have to face. We still undergo the same emotions today. Science can haunt and depress. But it can also expand and excite”

Enjoyed diving into the fascinating work by @loganjames.bsky.social et al. on shared preferences between human and non-human animals Liked it so much, we wrote an eLetter, now posted in Science 😅 Our take? There's another side to acoustic preferences worth exploring: idiosyncratic taste

“ERFZONDE” now out in Dutch translation! I’m particularly excited about this edition because of the outsized role that Dutch scientists have played & still play in the genomics revolution. To all my Netherlands BG colleagues, this is a love letter to your work www.debezigebij.nl/boek/erfzonde/

We are excited to announce the winners of the 2026 IAEA Awards 🏆 Anjan Chatterjee - Fechner Award Edward A. Vessel - Washburn Award Aenne Brielmann - Baumgarten Award Katherine Cotter - Baumgarten Award Congratulations! 🎉 Award winners will be honored at IAEA2026 in Jena and deliver an address

I'm very excited to announce that I've been selected as the recipient of the IAEA 2026 Mid-Career Award. Thanks so much to the IAEA Awards committee for this honor, and congrats to the other winners!

Coming soon! Did you register yet? www.colorado.edu/ibg/workshop...