One of my hardest and longest PhD challenges is coming to a close (well, almost). Very happy to finally share the preprint to our updated Gsens method! Major updates include the extension to multiple exposure scenarios, along with using raw data, estimating mediation effects and many more.

medRxivpreprint@medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 3w ago

Genetic sensitivity analysis: estimating genetic confounding and environmentally mediated genetic effects using multiple exposures https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.16.26358236v1

One of my hardest and longest PhD challenges is coming to a close (well, almost). Very happy to finally share the preprint to our updated Gsens method! Major updates include the extension to multiple exposure scenarios, along with using raw data, estimating mediation effects and many more.

medRxivpreprint@medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 3w ago

Genetic sensitivity analysis: estimating genetic confounding and environmentally mediated genetic effects using multiple exposures https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.16.26358236v1

Genetic sensitivity analysis: estimating genetic confounding and environmentally mediated genetic effects using multiple exposures https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.16.26358236v1

It took 11 minutes to change my driver's licence on the DVLA website, and so far, 94 minutes to CANCEL my Virgin broadband account.

🆕 New pre-print! osf.io/preprints/ps... Are you satisfied with your life because you are satisfied with your friends, health, job, etc.? Or is it actually the other way around: are some people generally satisfied with their life and, because of this, satisfied with their friends, health, job, etc.?

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

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

Been saying this for years: Don't submit to Frontiers. Don't peer-review for Frontiers. It's long been considered a predatory publisher by many in the field, including many who have worked as editor there.

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This paper fills me with joy and hope. After a muted response to the ethical challenges facing the field (e.g., embryo selection), juniors are the ones stepping up. Thank you to the PhD candidates who wrote this commentary calling this out and offering solutions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Early-career-researcher-led best practices for social science and behavioural genetics - Nature Human Behaviour

An emerging market promotes embryo selection for behavioural traits including IQ, but the response of the social and behavioural genetic research community remains muted. We call for unified best prac...

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Are we still posting our raw datasets now that they're being farmed for genAI-written papers? I'm starting to feel differently now sharing data before I'm totally done with my own research questions...

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 have a fully-funded PhD scholarship (UCL/Birkbeck) starting October 2026 to look at how genetic, family, and social factors shape children’s language and literacy development. **Deadline 29th March**. Further details at bit.ly/40B2Wrx, please do get in touch if you are interested!

Untangling genetic and environmental pathways to language and reading development: Integrating social and genetic data from longitudinal cohort studies

Principal Supervisor: Dr Tim Morris (UCL) Co-Supervisors: Dr Emma Meaburn (Birkbeck); Professor Bonamy Oliver (UCL) Project Description Language and reading skills are key drivers of educational su…

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We have a new preprint online describing the molecular genetic and epigenetic data in the German TwinLife Study (TwinSNPs and TECS samples). Together with shared first authors @charlottepahnke.bsky.social & @aliciaschowe.bsky.social More detailed thread coming soon! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We have a new preprint online describing the molecular genetic and epigenetic data in the German TwinLife Study (TwinSNPs and TECS samples). Together with shared first authors @charlottepahnke.bsky.social & @aliciaschowe.bsky.social More detailed thread coming soon! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🖨️ Hot off the press 🍾 : I am super excited to share that our article on the host control of persistent EBV infection has just been published in Nature Magazine, in an accelerated article preview version: rdcu.be/e4Lg8

Just posted a new preprint! We uncovered reproducible symptom‑based subtypes of depression. Findings include: • melancholic, atypical & psychomotor subtypes • links between insomnia + weight gain clusters and asthma • psychomotor clusters associated with Parkinson’s disease 🔗 doi.org/10.64898/202...

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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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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I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...

1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mapping the genetic landscape across 14 psychiatric disorders - Nature

Genomic analyses applied to 14 childhood- and adult-onset psychiatric disorders identifies five underlying genomic factors that explain the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders...

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🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

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...

Genetic associations with educational fields - Nature Genetics

Genome-wide analyses of 10 educational fields identify 17 associated loci. Analysis of genetic clustering across specializations identifies two key dimensions that show genetic overlap with personalit...

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We currently have multiple job openings (post-doc/assistant prof/associate prof) listed on our website, see thread below if you don't want to miss out! bga.org/content.aspx...

We have an open postdoc position in Social Science Genomics in Berlin! Includes gene-environment interplay within German population cohorts & experimental online survey studies to probe public perceptions of potential DNA biomarker applications 🔗 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2196134/2025...

Postdoctoral Position in Social Science Genomics | Max Planck Research Group Biosocial

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Looking for an *amazing* postdoc supervisor? 👀 Excellent opportunity with the one and only @jessiebaldwin.bsky.social

Jessie Baldwin@jessiebaldwin.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I'm hiring! ✨ Looking for a Research Fellow to study environmental factors that mitigate intergenerational transmission of mental health. 3-year post at UCL @uclbrainscience.bsky.social with great opportunities for training, collaboration & exciting science! 🔗 Apply: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ633/r...

I'm hiring! ✨ Looking for a Research Fellow to study environmental factors that mitigate intergenerational transmission of mental health. 3-year post at UCL @uclbrainscience.bsky.social with great opportunities for training, collaboration & exciting science! 🔗 Apply: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ633/r...

Research Fellow in Mental Health at UCL

Apply for the Research Fellow in Mental Health role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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New paper out at the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! We examined unconditional & event-related changes in pathological vs normal-range personality using 4 metrics to compare their developmental links, how these vary with life events, and whether unique effects emerge across metrics

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!)