“Genes Linked to Educational Attainment & Adult SES Across Birth Cohorts”: @hdobewall.bsky.social, @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social et al. examine whether genetic endowment for high education is assoc. with subsequent socioeconomic outcomes. @invest-flagship.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
We answer research questions like: Do education linked genes still matter beyond academic credentials for socioeconomic attainment? Did the Comprehensive School reform of the 1970s change this association? What is the role of family background? Open access, so free food for the brain.
Finally out in Demography! Our study combines INVEST register data and Young Finns Study to study socioeconomic research questions in Finland. @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social @pbockerman.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Thinking about this more, the 2 and 3 year bans are real career killers… who’d hire a tenure track candidate, or an (associate) professor that has one of those hanging around their necks?
What does the MSCA application process really look like in practice?
Mar Facchini and Mijail Figueroa González share their own experiences of applying for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions funding, from first ideas to funded projects at INVEST.
#researchfunding
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#Estonia surpassed South Korea by nominal GDP per capita while Lithuania surpassed Japan. Latvia is also trying #Baltics
GDP is a bad way to measure wealth, and it doesn't take a lot into account, including happiness or nature. An example if GB would join US is would be the poorest state by a margin. But on results on things that matter are different class. What would you prefer?
This is correct.
The @wellcometrust.bsky.social has opened a new funding opportunity for UK-based research teams to evaluate the mental health impacts of potential digital technology and social media restriction policies for children and young people. Check it out here: wellcome.org/mental-healt... 🧵1/2
I love me an article that pushes back on low fertility panic by talking to demographers like @karenguzzo.bsky.social and @philipncohen.com.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
Some slides from a recent talk on missing heritability.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kvogj...
More good news: #solar #PV is winning the #energy race.
I used to be VERY concerned about energy & #climate change. Wrote books and demonstrated in favour of #nuclear power.
I'm still concerned about #climate change, but believe the energy problem will be solved.
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after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
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)
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Small data in a link. Super cool idea.
Just ordered it! To be prepared for her keynote at the @invest-flagship.bsky.social conference in Turku this May :-).
If you're working on health topics and are into mobile sensing -- the non-profit data4life supports early-career researchers with access to their GDPR-compliant data collection platform, mentorship, open-access coverage and travel support!
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Yep. It needs only 3-4 data points to identify a person. While there is actually zero need for a researcher to see more than 10-100 example cases of a variable (in most cases). Or code cold be written blind on synthetic data.
Good read on consequences of AI. It describes,likely accurately,how to role of a coder (type9-5 vs activist type)will change in the next couple of months to year(s). AI will have,however,very different consequences for other professions like artists. Researchers are somewhat in the middle, i guess.
We have posted our AI policy
An introduction: socopen.org/2026/03/09/s...
And the policy:
socopen.org/ai-policy/
Eine Ode auf die deutsche Sprache. In english something like socioeconomic intergenerational inequalities
🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy?
Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016
So it seems there has never been a d.e.i keyword list of banned terms...
Finally, this verify you are human box is making sense :-)
Many people had the early idea to make a digital copy of oneself based on published work, failed applications,code, etc. To fine-tune llm's but as we are just a drop of water in the data used to train them i would not worry too much about this digital gadget. Legally and ethically different story.
Api cost per token, self hosting is possible but you need to cover server costs. My take is that 6 month old models are still good enough for most tasks, so with a little spirit (similar to creating your own webpage) more independence at reasonable cost and performance should work out already.
Mistral AI does not currently offer a built-in “agent mode” like some other platforms, but you can build agentic workflows using Mistral’s API in combination with tools like LangChain or custom code. Many developers use Mistral models as the “brain” for their agents
Mistral AI’s models, including the one powering Le Chat, are highly competitive on standard benchmarks like MMLU, MT-Bench, and HumanEval, often outperforming many open-source and some closed-source models in efficiency, reasoning, and multilingual capabilities.
This is a very good overview on recent developments of AI and its consequences for social sciences. Outdated, of course, as of yesterday. Social scientists were always terribly bad at predicting the future, but good at shaping it through policy. And, we are used to find and define our niche.
A real problem, especially for data providers, is "system/model colapse": AI is trained on the systematic errors of AI, resulting in a situation were we are stuck in 2024/5 when knowledge was still produced by human trial and error. If i am stuck in some century then please in one with better music.