1 year ECR job opportunity & training fellowships @ Bristol IEU. Multiple projects including ours led by the fab @garethjgriffith.bsky.social "Quantifying bias due to confounding via geography in large-scale biobanks". Full project list: bit.ly/4cAG174. Apply at bit.ly/4b2GfCN Closes 19 March

Interested in using polygenic scores (PGS) in social science or health research? We are running a 2-day intensive short course @stats_UCL with @timtmorris.bsky.social (20–21 April 2026): tinyurl.com/5n6hwyxy. Ideal for all quantitative researcher across Social and Health Sciences! Get started!

🚨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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Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (LLCS), the journal of @sllshome.bsky.social and published by @bupjournals.bsky.social, invites applications for the role of Section Editor, Health and Population Sciences. Closing date: 30th April. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

📢🧬 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

@fctropf.bsky.social and I are running a 2-day short course in London on 20/21 April that will provide an introduction to polygenic scores. The course will cover creation of polygenic scores, their strengths and limitations, and ethical issues around their use. Further info at shorturl.at/8gUcu.

Come join us @sriucl.bsky.social on December 12 for our workshop on the use of genetic data in birth cohorts to examine social and economic questions. Register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Using genetic data to address economic and social issues with birth cohort data

Join this one-day workshop on using genetic data to examine economic and social issues with birth cohort data.

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Behavioral, social and health scientists: if you’d like to combine social and genetic data, this is for you: shorturl.at/8gUcu. This course in London features all aspects from data collection to model estimation in our local cohort data - and the incredible @timtmorris.bsky.social as instructor.

Introduction to genetic data analysis in the social, behavioural, and health sciences

This 4-day course will provide social scientists with the knowledge and skills needed to analyse genetic data, critically interpret results, and integrate genetics into their research.

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📺 Missed our latest free training webinar? We’ve got you covered. Visit the CLS training YouTube channel to catch up on the latest recording: find out about the range of freely available polygenic scores in CLS cohorts and explore the unique research opportunities they offer. Watch: buff.ly/XXpmjf9

Want to learn more? Why not join our free upcoming training webinar: Introducing polygenic scores in four national cohort studies on 30 September, from 12–1pm. Book now 👉 buff.ly/ahenpiR @timtmorris.bsky.social

Our data resource profile paper outlining the imputed & QC'd genomewide genetic data in 5 British cohort studies is now out in IJE. Data are free to access and the cohorts are deeply phenotyped... huge opportunities for amazing cross-cohort longitudinal research academic.oup.com/ije/article/...

Data Resource Profile: Genomic data in multiple British birth cohorts (1946–2001)—linkage with health, social, and environmental data from birth to old age

Birth cohort studies have a rich history of contributing to science within and between disciplinary fields, notably health and social sciences [1–4]. Here,

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Want a job in quantitative social science? We have two permanent lectureships in our Social Research Institute. Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... @sriucl.bsky.social

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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We’re about to release polygenic scores in 4 very well sampled and deeply phenotyped longitudinal British cohorts (born 58,70,90,01). Come along to our webinar on 30th Sept to find out more! #genetics #cohorts #data

UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies@clscohorts.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🧬 What are polygenic scores in CLS cohort studies and how can they be used in genetically informed social science research? Find out in our upcoming free training webinar on Tuesday, 30 September from 12–1pm UK time. Book now 👉 buff.ly/CJl9s77

I thought the claims of LLM’s now being PhD level were far fetched, b read this and tell me that Gemini is not mid way through its PhD

Jack Lynch@jacklynch000.bsky.social · 12mo ago

If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇

Notes from Beethoven’s genome

Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.

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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

1/ Parents with higher BMI tend to have kids with higher BMI—but why? Is it the genes they pass on, or the environment they create? Or both? We used trio data from MCS to help answer this longstanding question. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

The association between parental BMI and offspring adiposity: A genetically informed analysis of trios

Author summary Children with obesity are more likely to have parents with obesity, too. This may be explained by environmental factors, such as prenatal conditions in utero or postnatal parental behav...

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Very excited to be speaking about cross-cohort data and research alongside some fantastic researchers at Oslo's 2025 Conference on Social Science and Genetics next week. Registration is free and there are still some seats left. #genetics #data #cohort

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In Oslo? We still have some seats left for our conference on Social Science and Genetics on the 12-13th June! More info and registration: www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/... @uio.no

God forbid you dare to branch out your science, lest you score lower on a metric

Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · last yr.

The further a scientist moves away from the topic of their previous work, the fewer citations their new work will receive, according to an analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents published in Nature. go.nature.com/43i9dKX #Academicsky 🧪

📣New report! Our summary report sets out the key #ethical themes and practical considerations identified during our workshop exploring the use of #genomic data in #education. 🔗 bit.ly/genomics-edu...

Nuffield Council on Bioethics raises ethical concerns about the use of polygenic indices as predictors in education - Nuffield Council on Bioethics

A new report from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) urges caution over the use of polygenic indices (PGI) data to inform educational policy and practice. We suggest next steps for policymakers ...

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