How do nature, nurture, and their interplay drive inequality? 🧬🧠💰 New PhD position in social science genetics at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social and @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. Your supervisors will be: Titus Galama, Aysu Okbay, and me. Apply by 21 July: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph... Please share!

Excited to share our new review article on polygenic scores in psychiatric research and clinical practice! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... with @davifri.bsky.social, Markus Nöthen & Andreas Forstner

Copenhagen sociologists are sooo interested in between/within variance, that they've set up a whole theatre for discussing the intraclass correlation!

The last paper started during my PhD is now finally officially published! 🥳 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

No evidence of parental mental health influencing children’s academic achievement: a within-family study - European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Children of parents with psychopathology generally perform less well in school than their peers. Parental symptoms might not, however, account for their lower achievement, as other familial factors mi...

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(7/8) We then integrated the PA-FGRS with a within-family genetic design. This generally supported core assumptions of the PA-FGRS as a between-family index of risk, though indicated potential influence of non-direct genetic effects for drug use disorder.

Family history has been recognised as a risk factor for psychiatric disorders since the late 18th century. In this new preprint, we leverage family history of psych and neurodev diagnoses to estimate family-genetic risk scores (PA-FGRSs) in the Norwegian population🧵 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

In part two of the #ACAMHLearn Learning Series ‘Writing & Publishing: Reflections from JCPP Advances Editors’, @giorgiamichelini.bsky.social @eivindy.bsky.social & @alessiobellato.bsky.social highlight the balance between precision, planning, & creativity in research writing. https://bit.ly/4niZLPV

Another episode with @dr-appie.bsky.social because who else brings a laptop to a deserted island?

ESSGN@essgn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Big news! @dr-appie.bsky.social returns to Born and Raised this week, and besides talking about how social inequality and genetic structure affect each other, he also has a cool surprise for us! Can you guess what it is?

Big news! @dr-appie.bsky.social returns to Born and Raised this week, and besides talking about how social inequality and genetic structure affect each other, he also has a cool surprise for us! Can you guess what it is?

I committed a podcast!

ESSGN@essgn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Are you mostly noise? This week Born and Raised went to talk to @eivindy.bsky.social about the genetics of personality, the "gloomy prospect", and about Eivind's possible weird mutation!

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 🎧!

Are your genes picking your partner? Hans Fredrik Sunde on all things assortative mating

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ESSGN@essgn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What's up with partner choice and genetics? In this episode of Born and Raised, @hfsunde.bsky.social talks all things assortative mating!

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...

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Research (297591) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Research (297591), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, May 4, 2026

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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...

Multidomain predictors of long-term work disability in late survivorship after head and neck cancer - Supportive Care in Cancer

Purpose To estimate the prevalence of long-term work disability (LTD) among head and neck cancer (HNC) survivors more than five years posttreatment, compare profiles of employed, retired, and LTD grou...

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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...

JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library

Background The extent to which children's psychological traits influence their educational performance is thought to depend on the fit between the individual and their developmental context. However...

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📢 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!

ESSGN@essgn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New episode of Born and Raised out now, with @sjoerdalten.bsky.social, covering where economics and modern genetic methods meet. Don't miss!

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

Researcher in Post-Pandemic Youth Mental Health  (294258) | University of Oslo

Job title: Researcher in Post-Pandemic Youth Mental Health  (294258), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, March 5, 2026

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📢🧬 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!

Pietro Biroli@pietrobiroli.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📢🧬 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

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

<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library

Background From a functionalist perspective, parenting behaviors have adaptive functions and are partly expressions of genetic variation. Maternal genes that have effects on children are often refer...

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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...

Why Wealth Inequality Matters: A Symposium - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Join us for a series of interdisciplinary discussions on wealth inequality – its origins and political philosophy, its national and global contexts, and its connections…

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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 🎥👇

The 21st Century Resurgence of Eugenics

YouTube video by The British Academy

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

Embryo selection company Herasight goes all in on eugenics

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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)