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)🥳!

📢🧬 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

“Education should adapt to children’s strengths and needs, not the other way round.” @rosacheesman.bsky.social explores how children’s genetic dispositions interact with their environments to shape their mental health and learning. Annie Brookman-Byrne finds out more. boldscience.org/the-genetici...

The geneticist looking beyond genes to help all children thrive

Rosa Cheesman is exploring which environments help different children

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🚨🚨🚨 "At least 63 times since 2007, data from some of the 28 human genomic repositories that the N.I.H. controls was improperly released to researchers, used for unapproved purposes or made vulnerable to theft..." (Gift Link) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

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1/11 New @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social led by @ESSGNetwork PhD student @qiyuanpeng.bsky.social : Parental influence on children’s educational achievement using Trio-GCTA. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Parental Influence on Children’s Educational Achievements: Analysing Direct and Indirect Genetic Effects through Trio-GCTA

Educational achievement is a key predictor of later-life outcomes, including financial security, social mobility, health, and mortality. Knowing its familial determinants, such as genetic predispositi...

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Exploring educational sorting using genetics Great big picture commentary by @robbeewedow.bsky.social on our recent paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exploring educational field sorting using genetics - Nature Genetics

Creative use of informed statistical genetics methods combined with large-scale genomic data has delivered insights about sorting into educational fields. This study has wide-ranging implications for ...

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New article w @cearadau.bsky.social Connecting feminist theory with technology studies, our lens - technosocial reproduction - explains how tech interventions should replenish rather than deplete the overlooked work people already do to sustain life. www.eflux.com/architecture...

Humanitarianism - Margie Cheesman et al. - Technosocial Reproduction and Humanitarian Reason

A white van rolled through the gates of a refugee camp in mainland Greece, its driver unloading a stack of pre-packaged lunches.

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"Offering genetic predictions for embryos to improve health outcomes latches onto a privatization logic that does exactly the opposite and hence erodes a system based on social equality and solidarity." Thank you @arnovanhootegem.bsky.social @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social for such an important piece!

Arno Van Hootegem 🌱@arnovanhootegem.bsky.social · 9mo ago

There’s a new kid in town! Companies are now selling IVF and embryo selection based on genetic testing for traits related to health and even intelligence. We outline methodological and ethical concerns, and warn against risks for social inequality. With the fantastic @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social

I’ll be leading a new project uniting biomedical and social sciences to learn why neurodevelopmental conditions are rising and how to better support people. We’re hiring soon! @astridsandsor.bsky.social Hedvig Nordeng Krister Fjermestad Alexandra Havdahl Nicolai Borgen www.uio.no/english/rese...

Eight new convergence environments will address major societal challenges in life sciences - UiO:Life Science

The application process initiated a year ago has concluded, eight interdisciplinary research projects have been selected to address major societal challenges in the life sciences at the University of ...

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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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Better schools can compensate for dispositions

Rosa Cheesman@rosacheesman.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on: 🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences 🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added

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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Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on: 🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences 🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added

A few thoughts on Herasight, the new embryo selection company. First, their whitepaper (drive.google.com/file/d/1EpFi...) implies that competitors like Nucleus have been marketing and selling grossly erroneous risk estimates. This is shocking if true! 🧵

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...

New paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen 📝 Causal evidence for gene-environment interaction based on: 🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences 🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added

CESifo@cesifo.org · last yr.

New Working Paper! 😀📢 "The Genetic Lottery Goes to School: Better Schools Compensate for the Effects of Students’ Genetic Differences" 🧬 🎓 by @rosacheesman.bsky.social‬ Nicolai T. Borgen, Astrid M. J. Sandsør @paulhufe.net Read the full paper here: 📝 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

Our gene discovery project on age at onset of walking is out today! Find the paper here www.nature.com/articles/s41... Huge thanks to the cohorts, collaborators & coauthors, in particular first author Dr Anna Gui 1/n

Genome-wide association meta-analysis of age at onset of walking in over 70,000 infants of European ancestry - Nature Human Behaviour

A genome-wide association study of age at onset of walking in over 70,000 infants found 11 significant loci. Age at onset of walking showed SNP heritability of 24%, a reliable polygenic score and gene...

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New preprint! We find no evidence that parental mental health influences children's academic achievement when comparing families in the Norwegian MoBa study. osf.io/preprints/ps... Quick thread 👇

So happy to finally see this paper out in @natcomms.nature.com. rdcu.be/ehQsd “Correcting for volunteer bias in GWAS increases SNP effect sizes and heritability estimates”. A thread on our findings!

Correcting for volunteer bias in GWAS increases SNP effect sizes and heritability estimates

Nature Communications - Genetic studies may be biased due to volunteer-based biobanks. Using UK Biobank, the authors apply inverse probability weighting based on UK Census data, finding that...

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Fallende skoleprestasjoner og økt fravær avdekker et skrikende behov for kunnskap for å møte vår tids utfordringer. Til det trenger vi registre fra skoler og barnehager. www.altinget.no/lovebakken/a...

Vi har et skrikende behov for kunnskap om barn - Altinget

Fallende skoleprestasjoner og økt fravær avdekker et skrikende behov for kunnskap for å møte vår tids utfordringer. Til det trenger vi registre fra skoler og barnehager, skriver Martin Flatø, Fartein ...

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Exciting postdoc opportunity in Oslo to study pathways to marginalisation with the brilliant Nicolai Borgen Includes interdisciplinary social science genetics approaches🧬 ⭐ www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Fellow - SEGOP (277092) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow - SEGOP (277092), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, April 15, 2025

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New paper by the MoBa PsychGen team on 'direct and indirect genetic effects on early neurodevelopmental traits', led by Laura Hegemann. Now published in JCPP @acamh.bsky.social with @rosacheesman.bsky.social, @ludvigdb.bsky.social, @bstpourcain.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...

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

Background Neurodevelopmental conditions are highly heritable. Recent studies have shown that genomic heritability estimates can be confounded by genetic effects mediated via the environment (indire.....

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Super happy to see this great paper by @rutheva.bsky.social, @rosacheesman.bsky.social , Ole Andreassen and myself out now! Typical sociodemographic research on partnership dissolution has seldom considered individual differences. In this paper, we show with genomic data that they do matter.

Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: Ruth Eva Jørgensen, Rosa Cheesman, Ole A. Andreassen, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad , "The Genetics of Partnership Dissolution."

NEW: Ruth Eva Jørgensen, Rosa Cheesman, Ole A. Andreassen, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad , "The Genetics of Partnership Dissolution."

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Want to get out of Dodge? Do a postdoc @uio.no! You will be using the MoBa study and registers to study intergenerational transmission and GxE for #MentalHealth and #education using @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social and @pgcgenetics.bsky.social approaches. Please share! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Research (272560) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Research (272560), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 24, 2025

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(1/10) Check out our new paper in Nature Communications! “Non-random mating patterns within and across education and mental and somatic health”. In the paper, we study partner similarities before they (were likely to have) met. www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54966-9

Non-random mating patterns within and across education and mental and somatic health - Nature Communications

By analyzing 187,926 Norwegian first-time parents, researchers found that partners are more similar in mental than physical health, with mental health similarity increasing over time. Educational simi...

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Check out our new paper on genetic links with 10 fields of education in >460k ppl. We found overlapping genetic influences on different fields, summarised by 2 key tendencies: Technical v Social and Creative v Conformist osf.io/preprints/ps...