A highlight from yesterday: The public science committee organized a plenary symposium 'From data to discourse: Behavioral Genetics as a Public Science' chaired by @evangiangrande.bsky.social . During the symposium, we heard from:

Kicking off BGA 2026 in an unexpectedly warm Amsterdam! Looking forward to three days of amazing science with fantastic people in our lovely city ❌❌❌

Behavior Genetics Association@behaviorgenetic.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The local hosts are doing some last prep before welcoming all of you at the opening reception, see you soon🎉

You can find all of the videos of the rest of the curriculum here: www.colorado.edu/ibg/workshop... I hope to see many of you at the workshop in a couple of weeks!

Here are my four GWAS lectures of ~20 minutes each for the International Statistical Genetics Workshop 2026. They're part of the broader workshop curriculum but also work as standalone lectures covering the basics of GWAS from the ground up. Videos are below 👇🏽

Is being a woman in STEM still so strange we need to ask what it means? Sorry not-sorry that I chose to talk about the anger and not the gratitude this year. #IWD #WomenInSTEM

Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC)@pgcgenetics.bsky.social · 6mo ago

And last, but definitely not least, we want to highlight Perline Aline Delle Demange (University of Oslo)🥳!

Goodreads, but for academic papers🤩: www.papertrailshq.com

The updated version of this paper is now online: rdcu.be/eX8ck. We wrote this paper as part of the behavior genetics special issue 'Behavioral Genetics as a Public Science: Impacts and Implications' -excited to see it out! @evangiangrande.bsky.social @lucasjmatthews.bsky.social @appelbap.bsky.social

Imputing Parental Genotypes Through Mendelian Imputation: Ethical and Legal Considerations - Behavior Genetics

Mendelian imputation is a promising method for imputing missing parental genotypes and estimating direct and indirect genetic effects. While the method has clear scientific benefits, so far there has ...

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Margot van de Weijer@margotvdweijer.bsky.social · last yr.

New pre-print online: Imputing parental genotypes through Mendelian Imputation: Ethical and Legal Considerations osf.io/preprints/ps...

Aboard the HMS Hardy-Wijnberg with @dr-appie.bsky.social and @margotvdweijer.bsky.social

How much do people know and understand what their administrative and health data is used for? Another story of consent for genetic data use this week.

Andrea Ganna@andganna.bsky.social · last yr.

The iPSYCH study represents a unique example to understand the ethical and legal challenges of using existing samples/data for health research. A thread 🧵 www.science.org/content/arti...

New pre-print online: Imputing parental genotypes through Mendelian Imputation: Ethical and Legal Considerations osf.io/preprints/ps...

The BGA Public Science committee has published its second statement, 'BGA Statement on Polygenic Embryo Selection'. Read more on the BGA website: bga.org/content.aspx...

New paper out in psychological medicine where we explore the brain volume reductions as a potential mechanism underlying effects of smoking on psychiatric disease liability! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our public science committee published its first statement, 'against misuse of behavioral genetics research' on the website. Read it now on the website ⬇️ bga.org/content.aspx...

ICYMI: decision to cut 5 international bachelor psychology programs in NL poses serious threat to psych science nationally & internationally, given how much research conducted here has historically punched above its weight in terms of per-capita output. eiko-fried.com/nl-psycholog...

Cutting international bachelor programs threatens psychological science » Eiko Fried

Dutch universities decided to throw international bachelor programs under the bus to appease the government. This is a terrible idea.

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No posts yet but this is a grassroots network of Amsterdam geneticists, crosses disciplines, institutions & career stage. All run out of passion on a shoestring budget. Great way to strike up collaborations!