Family research often looks at effects of parents on children, but it's a two-way street! Check out our new paper in @pnas.org on evocative effects on family demographic outcomes in MoBa. Kids with much ADHD genes influence their parents' dissolution risk. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/x

When children shape their families: Evocative effects analysis of 40,000 trios from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study | PNAS

Family demographic behavior is often studied as a response to structural conditions or parental characteristics, yet children may themselves shape ...

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#ECP22 Hungry for more on personality polygenic indices after @tuckerdrob.bsky.social’s brilliant keynote? Come to our symposium tomorrow at 16:45! virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75621/...

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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Je suis actuellement à la conférence de la Behavior Genetics Association: bga.org/content.aspx... C'est fascinant de voir le dynamisme et le foisonnement actuel de la génétique comportementale, et le contraste entre la qualité des présentations (et des publications qui en découlent), et l'ignorance

starting another review and praying to Saint Lavigne (the Patron of Reviewers) for a good manuscript

First conference experience for Mia Tabori today, presenting our poster at Life History Research Society 2026. 🎉 Thanks to everyone who stopped by and chatted, lots of food for thought as we turn her master's thesis into a scientific paper.

1/9 🚨 BREAKING OUT OF STEALTH MODE 🚨 Multivariate GWAS in Genomic SEM now runs on a laptop! New preprint + package update: a closed-form analytic solution makes multivariate GWAS ~800× faster, cutting runtimes from hours on HPC clusters to minutes on a personal computer.

The Predator Emerges

ALT: The Predator Emerges

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Last slot before the conference dinner at #LHRS2026 — wish us luck :) We'll talk about parenting, genes, and child outcomes: how family background shapes behaviour, personality, and school achievement, and how we can disentangle genetic and environmental pathways 16:45–18:15, GS Auditorium 1, Oslo

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 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!

Me and @aysuo.bsky.social went to Norway to talk to @perlinedemange.bsky.social. Some really cool stuff about the relationship between genetics of cognitive vs non-cognitive skills and mental health disorders here!

ESSGN@essgn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This week, Born and Raised went to talk to @perlinedemange.bsky.social about cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and their shared genetics with education and psychopathology. Also: christmas elves! Don't miss.

My first podcast! Thank you very much @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social and @aysuo.bsky.social for having me on!

ESSGN@essgn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This week, Born and Raised went to talk to @perlinedemange.bsky.social about cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and their shared genetics with education and psychopathology. Also: christmas elves! Don't miss.

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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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!

We have an exciting postdoctoral fellowship opportunity in the PsychGen Centre. We are seeking to a quantitative researcher who wants to use genetically-informed designs to investigate the intergenerational transmission of mental health. More info: 945000.webcruiter.no/Main/Recruit...

Do you want to contribute to cutting-edge research on mental health?

We are seeking to appoint a quantitative researcher to work on an ambitious research project using genetically-informed designs to investigate the intergenerational transmissi...

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Triple sociogenomics postdoc opportunities coming up! Here's the Amsterdam one.

Abdel Abdellaoui@dr-appie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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 ♥️

Today we launch The Australian DNA Bridge, a study focused on individuals with mixed ancestries to help us make genetic discoveries that are more accurate, inclusive, and equitable across all populations. Want to learn more? Follow the link. [https://australiandnabridgestudy.org/]

If you're looking to build or deepen your knowledge in statistical genetics, the ISG Workshop (June 1–11) covers the full range: biometrics, GWAS, polygenic scores, causal inference, and more. Open to all levels, virtual, and international: www.colorado.edu/ibg/workshop... Retweets appreciated 🙏

In celebration of #InternationalWomensDay this Sunday, 8th of March, we wanted to highlight some of our early and mid-career #WomenInSTEM here at the PGC🎉! Stay tuned to find out what some of these✨awesome✨ scientists are doing and what being a woman in STEM means to them!

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 · 5mo ago

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

Yes. I am working on this in coaching. Sadly, managing this kind of interaction is an important aspect of being an academic department head.

Simon Usherwood@simonusherwood.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Feeling like this might be a useful one to re-post today, for lots of different groups of people

🔗 boldscience.org/the-genetici... #Evidence #LearningVariability

The geneticist looking beyond genes to help all children thrive

Rosa Cheesman is exploring which environments help different children

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Looking forward to this year's Behavior Genetics Association (BGA) conference, in my hometown of Amsterdam! Deadline for abstracts is next week, February 16th: bga.org/content.aspx...

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

I’m regularly annoyed that I can’t read the peer review reports for published papers. Does anyone know the current state of the debate on this? Are there still good reasons not to openly publish reviewer reports?

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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I’m regularly annoyed that I can’t read the peer review reports for published papers. Does anyone know the current state of the debate on this? Are there still good reasons not to openly publish reviewer reports?

Jacobs CIFAR Research Fellow Dr Margherita Malanchini is examining how school, family, and peer environments interact with genetic risk to shape educational outcomes – a crucial step toward better, targeted interventions. 🎥 Watch the video and learn more about her work: bit.ly/3MlXuFu #Research

📝 The PsychGen Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Mental Health is hosting a two-day, in-person workshop for early-career researchers on family-based genomic analyses. The workshop takes place in Oslo, Norway, on 9-10 April 2026 and registration is now open: shorturl.at/etXCN

Workshop for Early-Career Researchers on Family-Based Genomic Analyses

Join us for a two-day workshop for Early-Career Researchers on Family-Based Genomic Analyses. The workshop is hosted by the PsychGen Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Mental Health, Oslo – 09.04.202...

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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