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/...

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