Just a gentle reminder that relationships play a bigger role in our well-being than we often think 😍 It’s great to see this study published in JoP, thanks to the work of good friends and colleagues from Bielefeld, Greifswald, and @warwickpsych.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Mapping Life Satisfaction Over the First Years of Cohabitation Among Former Singles Living Alone in UK and Germany

Objective As social norms and relationship dynamics evolve, it is important to examine how transitions from singlehood to partnership, cohabitation, and marriage relate to well-being. Method Using...

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To all my fellow coffee lovers out there — yes, it makes you happier, especially in the morning! Our new paper with Justin Hachenberger, Yu-Mei Li, & Sakari Lemola just out in Scientific Reports, www.nature.com/articles/s41... @warwickpsych.bsky.social

Hot off the press! Our new open access paper with @serkandeveci.bsky.social validates brief tools for assessing employee well-being at work, particularly in multinational corporate settings 🌎 📄 Just out in Psychological Test Adaptation and Development (4 August 2025) @warwickpsych.bsky.social

Personality GWAS finally done well! Massive worldwide collaboration, including @estbiobank.bsky.social personality team: @renemottus.bsky.social @arealo.bsky.social @urmovosa.bsky.social. Special guest star @kerliilv.bsky.social who ran the causal models between personality and health!

Ted Schwaba@tedmond.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

Cognitive slowness and disjointedness that often come with aging might be better seen as a symptom of a brain full of 'cluttered' wisdom rather than a sign of decline. Thanks so much @thomhills.bsky.social at @warwickpsych.bsky.social for giving us all some hope that it's not all lost as we age! 😊

Not sure how I feel about this, or the Swedes

📣Please share the word! We’re recruiting 4 fully funded PhD students and 3 postdocs—a unique opportunity to join our @sustainera.bsky.social interdisciplinary research team led by @arealo.bsky.social and Kai Pata! Apply by 16th April and be part of shaping a more sustainable future 🌏

When it comes to well-being, having kids clearly pays off later in life - @ess-survey.bsky.social

Life sure is a risky business

Population projections for Scandinavia and the Baltics for 2100, with two scenarios: one with migration and one without. Among EU countries, only Latvia and Lithuania (as well as Romania) would see little impact from closed borders, as they have experienced a net outflow of people

Estonia in 2025 vs 1937: Still interesting, but no longer inexpensive

Tartu—kõigi maade neurootikud ühinege

It actually works just as well in Estonian too

The statistics in the youngest age groups are staggering

Even calling it a 'historic disaster' might be something of an understatement

Eesti konteksti tõlgituna: Arnold Sinisalu otsib Urmas Viilmaale mantlipärijat

In praise of dissidence—a must read from the Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

A Mindset for the Trump Era

With authoritarianism rising everywhere, don’t forget about what the dissidents have to teach us.

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📣It's official now! I’m both excited and a little apprehensive about this amazing opportunity and challenge. The workload will be split 50-50 between Warwick and Tallinn, so I’ll be spending a bit more time in Estonia than I have over the past ten years. www.tlu.ee/en/hti/news/...

Kakistocracy [the rule of the worst]—will add this to my vocab!

Birds without borders

This is as monumental as the abolition of the death penalty and the legalisation of same-sex marriage