Newsletter up. Rant incoming. Pop sci mostly reaches educated, left-leaning, wealthy readers — including, of course, scientists and science writers. I increasingly believe the gap between the real general audience and what's called "general audience" in scicomm is huge and worth talking about: 🧪

1/ 🚨New paper in Nature Genetics Genetic factors are associated with the educational fields people study, from arts to engineering. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... FAQ: www.thehastingscenter.org/genomic-find...

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...

Non-paywalled link to my commentary on @vw1234.bsky.social and colleagues new paper in @nature.com rdcu.be/eI2NG

A deep and thought-provoking lecture that is definitely worth watching all the way through.

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...

Out today, our method for comparing multivariate genetic architecture across groups of people, called Genomic Structural Invariance: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (feat: @tuckerdrob.bsky.social @michelnivard.bsky.social @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social @mijke.bsky.social @jorsmo.bsky.social et al.)

Are mental disorders extreme manifestations of continuous traits or genetically distinct entities? We present Genomic Taxometric Analysis of Continuous and Case-Control data (GTACCC) for evaluating genetic continuity and differentiation of traits across the severity spectrum. Tweetorial coming soon.

🚨 New paper! In this review, we explore factor indeterminacy and outline how we can use genetic data to test the validity of latent factors. tinyurl.com/5n75446y With @tedmond.bsky.social , @tuckerdrob.bsky.social , @kph3k.bsky.social , @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social , and @michelnivard.bsky.social