The Akbari/Reich ancient-DNA paper is consistent with our argument that selection intensified after the agricultural transition and rise of civilizations, as growing social stratification influenced heritable traits via mortality, fertility, migration, and non-random mating ๐๐ฝ
Coming soon! Did you register yet?
www.colorado.edu/ibg/workshop...
We schreven voor Medisch Contact een artikel over polygene embryoselectie ๐งฌ๐ถ๐ฝ
Hierin leggen we uit wat deze technologie wel en niet kan, waarom de voorspellende waarde beperkt is, welke onbedoelde neveneffecten er kunnen zijn, en welke ethische en maatschappelijke vragen dit oproept.
๐ผ Three postdoc positions: Genomics and life paths (Uppsala, Amsterdam and Oslo)
bga.org/content.aspx...
๐ผ 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...
Political Science and Genetics, odd bed fellows? Not necessarily! Listen in on this weeks episode of Born and Raised, with Sven Oskarsson, professor of political science at Uppsala university.
What's up with partner choice and genetics? In this episode of Born and Raised, @hfsunde.bsky.social talks all things assortative mating!
...and the Oslo one!
...and here is the postdoc in Uppsala!
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!
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...
Come work with me and @dr-appie.bsky.social in Amsterdam!
This looks like the most fantastic postdoc position ever ๐๐
Apply now!
I was on a podcast! I had great fun talking about my favorite social science genetics topic (partner similarity!) with @aysuo.bsky.social and @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social. If you want to learn more about assortative mating and why it is so interesting, give it a listen ๐ง!
Triple sociogenomics postdoc opportunities coming up! Here's the Amsterdam one.
I never studied molecular biology, but have found epigenetics to be an exciting substrate to probe evo-devo theories (lifespan plasticity, developmental origins of health and disease, life history, gene X social inequality). Cheers to reuniting the divorcรฉes "social science" and "life science" ๐
In this week's episode of Born and Raised, we met Laurel Raffington at MPIB to talk all things epigenetics, the history and ethics of doing sociogenomic research in Germany, and the importance of lifting weights. Don't miss!
Me and @aysuo.bsky.social went to Oslo a couple of weeks ago. This conversation with @hfsunde.bsky.social was really, really exciting!
Me & @aysuo.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc to study geneโenvironment interplay in health & social inequalities ๐งฌ
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 โฅ๏ธ
โ Two important announcements โ
1. Due to a large number of abstract submissions, the notifications of acceptance and travel funding, the ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก 30.
If you're looking to build or deepen your knowledge in statistical genetics, the ISG Workshop (June 1โ11) 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 ๐
GWAS author list meeting
The deadline has been extended till the end of this week, hurry! :)
Follow up on the genetics of chills from art and poetry. This time, including chills from music too ๐งต โฌ๏ธ
A particular moment in my favourite Radiohead song always gives me goosebumps every time I play it. Turns out susceptibility to such โchillsโ (induced by music, poetry, art) varies between people & that genetic differences play a part. Check out our new paper, led by @giacomobignardi.bsky.social. ๐๐งช
Over the course of 2025, UKB researchers were forced to move all of their data analysis to the cloud rather than working with local copies. What was the effect of this move on scientific output? Here is a simple first pass at answering that question.
Have you ever wondered about nonlinearity in bivariate genetic associations? Or wondered whether global estimators like genetic correlations tell the full story about the relationship between two phenotypes, then check out @michelnivard.bsky.social thread on some work weโve been doing to model this.
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...
Ahoy! Call for papers now open for this year's amazing ESSGN conference - returning to the beautiful Bologna. Have anything to present at the intersection of the social sciences and genetics? Don't miss!
