@sjoerdalten.bsky.social on Parent's externalizing behavior and children's human capital

💼 Job opening for a postdoctoral researcher specialising in gene-environment interplay at Amsterdam UMC to work with @aysuo.bsky.social and @dr-appie.bsky.social werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...

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!

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!

Check out our new study in Nature Genetics! In this paper we study the genetic factors that are associated with field of study.

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

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...

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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Proud to share our new @nber working paper on how genetics shape the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status in the Netherlands. 🧵(1/8) www.nber.org/papers/w34208

A Chip Off the Old Block? Genetics and the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Genetics play a role on the persistence of socioeconomic across generations: one generation's genetics significantly impacts the education, income, and wealth of the next, from Sjoerd van Alten, Silvia H. Barcellos, Leandro Carvalho, Titus J. Galama, and Marina ... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34208

Call for abstracts: genetics, economic & social issues. We're hosting a 1-day workshop on using genetic data to examine economic & social issues on 12th December at UCL’s Social Research Institute. More info & submission at link below #genetics #socialscience #economics #cohort bit.ly/41EnPmu

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...

📣 I’m delighted to share a new working paper that’s been years in the making: 🧬 “ #Gene × #Environment Interactions: Polygenic Scores and the Impact of an Early Childhood Intervention in Colombia” 👉🏻 Available here as @hceconomics.bsky.social WP: humcap.uchicago.edu/RePEc/hka/wp...

I am recruiting a quantitative/computational postdoc to my group at UCLA. This is a great opportunity to work on foundational theory, methods, and software in statistical genetics. Link to apply: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10275. Please repost!

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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Our study is now out in @naturecomms.bsky.social! Here, we integrate large-scale registry musicality data from twins to investigate the genetics of music enjoyment 🧬🎶🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · last yr.

“What an odd thing“ wrote Oliver Sacks “to see an entire species playing with listening to meaningless tonal patterns, preoccupied for much of their time by what they call ‘music’...“. Our new paper, led by ace student @giacomobignardi.bsky.social, unpacks this puzzle from a genetic perspective. 🧪

We are looking for a scientist passionate about developmental psychology, sociogenomics, and DNA methylation in a cash gift RCT postdocprogram.mpg.de/node/692! 3.5+ yr position in Berlin (until April 30, 2029) integrated into a new Max Planck postdoc program www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #MPRGBiosocial

I encourage all interested in Social Science Genetics to apply for this Gordon Research Conference "Leveraging Genetic Analysis Tools to Understand Wealth, Education, and Social Inequality". A great lineup of speakers and plenty space for discussion. June 1-6 near Boston www.grc.org/genes-behavi...

Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡 Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.

@herrison2000.bsky.social · last yr.

About to talk to medical affairs colleagues, with the news that Bluesky is carrying more posts about new journal publications than X #bluesky #altmetrics #x #xparrot

If one person gives a euro to Ukraine, the result is €1. If two people give 2 each, it is €4. If 3,000 give 3,000 each, it is 9 million. Let’s coordinate, here 👇 and please re-post to spread the word. yourcontributionsquared.eu/en/

We streamlined six new DID-like estimators and created this tutorial for implementation in R. yiqingxu.org/packages/fec... Hope you no longer need to spend months figuring out what these estimators are and how to use them.

I am very excited to share this latest preprint! We figured out how to study a latent index driving partner choice without measuring it directly. The genetic correlates that we uncover with this latent index can be used to study the process of partner choice and correct GWAS for assortative mating.

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · last yr.

Genetic basis of partner choice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.03.636375v1

Genetic basis of partner choice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.03.636375v1

"the company’s elevated stock price becomes increasingly dependent on the belief that Musk the magician can deliver wildly creative new products. That image is fading." @davidzipper.bsky.social why boycotting Telsa could make Elon hurt

Don’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help.

Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.

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Yesterday, I succesfully defended my PhD-dissertation: Genetics, Human Capital Formation, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status, cum laude at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. I look back with gratitude to all that I learned, and look forward to the new knowledge that lies ahead.

I cannot remember the last time I have been more enthusiastic about a working paper. Access to housing through lottery allocation dramatically boosts fertility outcomes in Brazil. Among 20-24 year olds, total lifetime fertility doubles after receiving housing. www.bcb.gov.br/content/publ...

Ik sprak gisteren met NRC over mijn proefschriftonderzoek over welke rol genen spelen in socio-economische ongelijkheid. Erg leuk, maar wel erg moeilijk om zo'n complex onderwerp in zo'n kort stukje samen te vatten. (1/2)

NRC@nrc.nl · 2y ago

Kinderen van welvarende ouders zijn zelf vaak ook welvarend. Komt dat door de genen of door de omgeving? Dat is een vals onderscheid, zegt econoom Sjoerd van Alten. https://buff.ly/4fHfoLG

🔊Next conference of the European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN) in Bristol, 22-23 May. ✅Keynote by @michellemeyer.bsky.social ✅Panel on the current frontier of MR w/ George Davey-Smith (Bristol), Dalton Conley (Princeton), and Alice Carter (Novo-Nordisk). essgn.org/essgn-confer...

ESSGN Conference IV

Bristol, May 22-23, 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce the 4th conference of the European Social Science Genetics Network. This conference aims to improve our understanding of how gene…

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Man I cannot endorse this abstract more

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · 2y ago

Just now seeing this paper reanalyzing the "Many Teams" paper on racial bias in soccer (29 teams analyze the same RQ with the same data, find different results). This reanalysis finds that variation in findings results from theoretical / interpretive differences. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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...

Come to the Boulder workshop on statistical genetics, you’ll get a Beanie, it’ll keep you warm some random day months later!

Are you looking for a PhD position? Come join our wonderful group here at VU Amsterdam to work on social science genetics and geno-economics. werkenbij.vu.nl/ad/phd-posit... #EconSky