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/...

Post just up: Is multiple imputation making up information? tldr: no. Includes a cheeky simulation study to demonstrate the point. open.substack.com/pub/tpmorris...

1/🧵 Even more nature-nurture for school performance in @pnas.org! Nikolai Eftedal examined family resemblance in school performance in nearly 1 million students across their Norwegian relatives. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Excited about our new preprint: 1st successful genome-wide study of >61,000 panic attack and 29,000 panic disorder cases. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... We find 17 associations & evidence that peripheral neurons in eye, lungs and heart are involved in panic & other psychiatric disorders 1/n

Thanks @eivindy.bsky.social! My first foray into the mysterious world of #SelectionBias. Very happy to receive feedback, and to discuss opportunities for improving/expanding this work!

Last week, our new paper on indirect assortative mating was published.🍾 Let’s take a closer look at what this means, why it matters, and what we found (🧵/32): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧵 THREAD: Preprint from @chrisrayner.bsky.social reveals how to fix selection bias in the Norwegian #MoBa study using population-wide registry data! For the first time, we can quantify and adjust for selection bias in this major epidemiological resource. Spread the good news! osf.io/preprints/os...

🧵 THREAD: New wine on socioeconomic status! Joakim Coleman Ebeltoft shipped a new tap in @NatureComms - a large study on the genetic and environmental factors behind socioeconomic status in Norway 🇳🇴 1/11 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

In Oslo? We still have some seats left for our conference on Social Science and Genetics on the 12-13th June! More info and registration: www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/... @uio.no

1/13 New preprint out! We developed methods to test a key assumption in family-based genetic studies: that siblings don’t genetically influence each other’s traits. Spoiler: mostly they don’t, but there’s a twist with ADHD ratings at age 3 👶 osf.io/preprints/ps...

#ctglab is hiring! We have #vacancies! 2 PhD & 2 postdoc positions, in #statistical #genetics and/or #bioinformatics - if you like GWAS, method development and linking with biology - check these out 👇 werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/tw... werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/po... werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/po...

You will have seen this post by @tedmond.bsky.social‬ on our new GWAS of Personality. He says you should read the paper (you should), I want to write a thread to entice you. Because social media has shredded your attention as it has mine, I promise there is JUICE & BEEF in this thread!

And that’s already a wrap for me, thank you all for coming to my poster! @essgn.bsky.social #ESSGN2025

🧵New paper out: “Beyond Time: Unveiling the Invisible Burden of Mental Load” with Barigozzi, Monfardini, Montinari, @elenapisanelli.bsky.social @svevav.bsky.social 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.11426 /1

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...

Siblings are not always 50% genetically similar! The difference may vary from 40 to 60%! Our preprint uses this difference via sibling regression to estimate "assumption-free heritability" of socio-cognitive traits /1 @eivindy.bsky.social @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social @renemottus.bsky.social

Some really interesting contrasts in our new "assumption-free heritability" preprint: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Excited to share our new article in the Journal of Sex Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social on how masturbation habits change from young adulthood to midlife. We found some interesting patterns. Read more: doi.org/10.1080/0022... #JSexResearch #Sexuality #Research #AcademicSky

New preprint! We find no evidence that parental mental health influences children's academic achievement when comparing families in the Norwegian MoBa study. osf.io/preprints/ps... Quick thread 👇

Want to opt out of the next 3 years? Do a postdoc in Oslo! PATHWAY will study mental health in persons with autism using #MoBa and Nordic registers. It's a collaboration between #Ahus, @uio.no and @ki.se Please share! Apply here: 2411.webcruiter.no/Main2/Recrui...

It's through!! I can finally start hiring people to join the project in Germany - stay tuned for some vacancies 🤩🥳

How popular are cosmetic surgeries nowadays? A new study from Ingela Kvalem @dr-ilk.bsky.social and Bodis lab at @uio.no surveyed 3000 Norwegian women and found that one in six had one or more cosmetic surgeries. Breast surgery is the most common one. Read more here: tidsskriftet.no/en/2025/01/o...

We have a new preprint out examining how different types of childhood maltreatment experiences and genetic liability predict (main and interaction effects) five different eating disorder diagnostic outcomes in up to 63,989 individuals: osf.io/preprints/ps...

The BGA meeting in Atlanta will now have a hybrid option! 🌍🎥 We've also reopened abstract submissions for 2 weeks, with a hard deadline of March 14, 2025. Join us in person or virtually for a fantastic meeting! Register here: auth.oxfordabstracts.com?redirect=/st... #BGA2025

There are currently three open faculty positions (all levels) in my department (Psychology) Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...

🚨 Excited to share our latest work with @perlinedemange.bsky.social, Felix Elwert, Nicolai Borgen, @eivindy.bsky.social, and Henrik Zachrisson. Does more schooling increase earnings? We revisit this classic question using multiple genetically informed designs 📚🎓🧬 💰 osf.io/preprints/so...

📢You are interested in social-science genetics, equality of opportunity, social mobility, and skill formation? 🚨Join us for the 4th ESSGN conference! 👉When? May 22-23, 2025 👉Where? Bristol! 👉More info? essgn.org/essgn-confer... 👉Submissions? cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ESSGN2025/

📢 Call for Abstracts – INVEST Conference 2025! ✨ Submit yours by 10 Feb. #sociology #socialpolicy #socialwork #statistics #economics #politicaleconomy #politicalscience #psychology #childpsychiatry #demography #epidemiology #socialpharmacy #AcaddemicSky @janierola.net 🔗 utu.fi/invest-conference

Hello world!

**Call for Papers** The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series (TAGC) May 14-16, 2025 UW-Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2025 Funding available for presenters Keynotes: Kelly Bakulski and Dan Belsky isg.wisc.edu/events/the-a...

Singing off the #PROMENTA conference @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social @uio.no www.sv.uio.no/promenta/eng...

We're still seeking candidates interested in causal inference and/or survival analysis for a postdoc position in Oslo. Deadline January 31. Please apply or forward this to anyone who might be interested! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Interested in the link between social media and mental health? Come work at NIPH (Oslo, Norway) as a PhD student! It’s a paid PhD position, you’ll have access to really good data, and a very nice work environment. #SocSky #EpiSky #PublicHealth 🧪

Want to get out of Dodge? Do a postdoc @uio.no! You will be using the MoBa study and registers to study intergenerational transmission and GxE for #MentalHealth and #education using @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social and @pgcgenetics.bsky.social approaches. Please share! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

📣 New Research! It took 6 years but we got there! The STADIA trial reports… What we did: Large multi-centre #RCT with 1225 children and young people with emotional difficulties referred to #CAMHS across England, followed-up for 18 months. 6 Headline findings… see below… (1/7)

BETA TESTERS wanted! in 2 weeks I'll beta launch resolve. A full blown text editor for ipynb (and quarto) documents, with direct GitHub integration, track changes, comments, invite colab through a link etc. Where the document stays in quarto/ipynb spec. If you want to test drive comment/DM.