I was on a podcast! I had great fun talking about my favorite social science genetics topic (partner similarity!) with @aysuo.bsky.social and @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social. If you want to learn more about assortative mating and why it is so interesting, give it a listen 🎧!

Do a postdoc in Social Science Genetics at @uio.no! You will be part of a postdoc team in Uppsala and Amsterdam funded by @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social Please share! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Me & @aysuo.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc to study gene–environment interplay in health & social inequalities 🧬 You'll analyze genomic data as part of a collaboration with Uppsala & Oslo at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social (NL) werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures... Please RT for karma points ♥️

We're hiring! Are you a social scientist with experience working with genetic data? Join us as a postdoc and work on gene-environment interplay - with amazing data - in a collaborative project between Uppsala, Oslo and Amsterdam!

In 2024, 4.9 million children under five died. But even one is too many. We need: - Stronger primary health care. - Resources directed to where children are most at risk. - Governments honoring the commitments they've already made. Child survival cannot wait 🔗 bit.ly/3PbJak9

I’m pleased to share our new article, “Multidomain predictors of long-term work disability in late survivorship after head and neck cancer,” published in Supportive Care in Cancer. Read it Open access: doi.org/10.1007/s005...

Curious about how psychological theories are built, tested, and refined in practice? This summer, the Theory Methods Society is launching the very first edition of the summer school Theory Building in Psychology at the University of Amsterdam (July 6–10, 2026). theorymethodssociety.org

Article alert: Qi Qin has a new paper in JCPP Advances @acamh.bsky.social : #schools matter most for how children's traits translate into #education; high-performing contexts buffer challenges. Key milestone for @erc.europa.eu CoG project #GeoGen #MoBa @uio.no doi.org/10.1002/jcv2...

📢 LEARN! seminar in Amsterdam Genetics meets environment: twin studies & polygenic scores in learning and neurodiversity. 📅 12 Feb | 📍 VU Amsterdam | 🍷 drinks afterwards All are very welcome! This marks me starting as Programme Leader Educational Neuroscience at LEARN! @geneamsterdam.bsky.social

Me and @aysuo.bsky.social talk to @sjoerdalten.bsky.social about economics and genetics. And we get some book recommendations. Neat!

I'm hiring #PROMENTA @uio.no: Researcher (PhD) in post-pandemic youth mental health (#NordForsk consortium SISU/PRISM). #MoBa #genetics + registry data -> gene-environment interactions. Please share! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... @ki.se @haskolinn.bsky.social @thlorg.bsky.social

📢🧬 Call for Papers — 5th ESSGN Conference 📍 Bologna, May 21–22, 2026 I’ll be co-organising the 5th ESSGN conference in Bologna together with Nicola Barban, Stephanie von Hinke, Paul Hufe, and Niels Rietveld @essgn.bsky.social 📄 Submit here: forms.gle/fmVDUrQqQYju... 🗓 Deadline: 1 March 2026

Ahoy! Call for papers now open for this year's amazing ESSGN conference - returning to the beautiful Bologna. Have anything to present at the intersection of the social sciences and genetics? Don't miss!

Article alert!🚨 1/11 Parents matter - and we can quantify part of that influence genetically. Our new JCPP paper on multivariate indirect maternal genetic effects across internalizing and externalizing symptoms. doi.org/10.1111/jcpp... #jcpp @uio.no @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social @unioslo-uv.bsky.social

In What We Inherit, Sam Trejo and @daphmarts.bsky.social debate the use of genomic tools and their societal impact. Now available (31 March UK pub). Learn more about this fascinating book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Biology #ReadUP

On 27 January, MIT's new Stone Center will host a symposium (hybrid) on Why Wealth Inequality Matters. See the agenda and register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/why-w...

Longitudinal modelling reveals widespread non-additive genetic effects underlying developmental plasticity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.19.695443v1

1/ In a recent @britishacademy.bsky.social video @rebeccasear.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social takes a clear-eyed look at the 21st‑century rise of eugenics - an ideology that should have been left behind, yet is now re‑emerging in a number of troubling ways ⚠️🧬 🧪 Watch the full talk here 🎥👇

I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.

In the summer of 2024, we arrived in Oslo as a family for a sabbatical year. This summer, we returned to Amsterdam. I’m only reflecting now, because reflection takes time, and last week working in Oslo brought everything back. If you live somewhere for exactly 1 year, every season counts. (1/5)

1/11 New @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social led by @ESSGNetwork PhD student @qiyuanpeng.bsky.social : Parental influence on children’s educational achievement using Trio-GCTA. doi.org/10.64898/202...

I'm hiring a researcher to work on several ongoing funded projects at the University of Oslo! Details below: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

I’ll be leading a new project uniting biomedical and social sciences to learn why neurodevelopmental conditions are rising and how to better support people. We’re hiring soon! @astridsandsor.bsky.social Hedvig Nordeng Krister Fjermestad Alexandra Havdahl Nicolai Borgen www.uio.no/english/rese...

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...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Macs have a GPU to do fast matrix operations. Statistics involves lots of matrix operations. R is a language for statistics... hughjonesd.github.io/Rmlx #Rstats #mlx @rstats.bsky.social

Looking to recruit a postdoctoral researcher in human population genetics nature.com/naturecareer... - come and discover Brest, France!

uh, that’s not “reimagining” the novel. that’s…the novel.

how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people

🐥 Early-bird announcement The abstract deadline for BGA 2026 will be February 15, 2026. BGA will take place June 23-26, in beautiful Amsterdam. Time to start thinking about the cool findings you want to share with your international colleagues at our annual meeting!

Ordinal semiparametric cumulative probability models have an amazing variety of statistical methods as special cases, including proportional odds and proportional hazards models - hbiostat.org/rmsc/ordsurv... #Statistics #StatsSky

Want tools to help children talk about & manage emotions in daily life? Join Alessio Bellato for a research-informed webinar on supporting #EmotionRegulation through simple, everyday strategies. 📅 21 October 2025 1pm UK. Book now! https://bit.ly/433e6HK

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈 You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

Two birds of a gene - catch Matt Keller's webinar at @uio.no on October 15th. Please share www.sv.uio.no/promenta/eng... @ispg.bsky.social @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social @essgn.bsky.social @ibg.colorado.edu

So many policies meant to improve conditions for ECRs end up with a penalty for the ECR. My university makes us do this too, issue open calls for projects designed by a PhD or postdoc candidate even when named in grant 🤦‍♀️ Best case scenario is wasted time for candidate & other ECRs who apply 🤬

Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Look forward to US zoom meetings until January 2029

Massive sibling regression study finds that human traits are largely environmentally driven (average heritability = 0.3)

See you Edinburgh next summer!

I tried making a figure explaining how the sum of variances law can be understood as the diagonal of a bivariate normal, and how a correlation between the two antecedent variables — such as under assortative mating — will result in greater variance and more cases above a threshold.

Some people call it a minefield. Others call it dangerous, even irresponsible. I call it the most promising field in life sciences. My love letter to social science genetics: communities.springernature.com/posts/a-love...

Reminds me of how sometimes people make a technical argument when there is a much more fundamental conceptual point.

The 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 (𝐈𝐒𝐁𝐀) was founded in 1992 to promote the development and application of Bayesian analysis. 𝘐𝘚𝘉𝘈 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘉𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴. Find us across the web: linktr.ee/ISBAbayesian

A Revived Focus on an Unproven Link Between Tylenol and Autism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/h...

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 @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social is taking a student too, in moral psych/dev!)

What can *genetic insensitivity to opioids* teach us about endogenous opioid function in humans? Fully funded position in Oslo (PhD student or postdoc) Interested in pain, mu/kappa opioids, behavioural genetics, RCTs, or related? Apply here: 2411.webcruiter.no/Main2/Recrui... Please RT for reach

Get an award and come visit Oslo www.uv.uio.no/create/engli...

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

Read all Elements in The Philosophy of Biology series for FREE during the ISHPSSB conference 20 - 25 July. You can find all of these Elements free to download and read here: cup.org/4kEgivL

Genetic sequencing dates the split between Siberian and Norwegian lemmings at around 35,000 years ago, shortly before the Last Glacial Maximum—making Norwegian lemmings among the planet’s youngest mammal species. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...