Are You Mostly Noise? Eivind Ystrøm on the Genetics of Personality YouTube video by Born and Raised

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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 🎧!

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You will be doing @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social and @pgcgenetics.bsky.social methods. @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social

You will be working in a team using #Norwegian #registries and #MoBa #Genetics. Collaborators at @uu.se is Svenn Oskarsson and @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social and @aysuo.bsky.social and @dr-appie.bsky.social at Amsterdam Medical Center @essgn.bsky.social .

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Research (297591) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Research (297591), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, May 4, 2026

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!
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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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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!

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In 2024, 4.9 million children under five died.
But even one is too many.

We need:
- Stronger primary health care.
- Resources directed to where children are most at risk.
- Governments honoring the commitments they've already made.

Child survival cannot wait 🔗 bit.ly/3PbJak9

Multidomain predictors of long-term work disability in late survivorship after head and neck cancer - Supportive Care in Cancer Purpose To estimate the prevalence of long-term work disability (LTD) among head and neck cancer (HNC) survivors more than five years posttreatment, compare profiles of employed, retired, and LTD grou...

I’m pleased to share our new article, “Multidomain predictors of long-term work disability in late survivorship after head and neck cancer,” published in Supportive Care in Cancer.

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Curious about how psychological theories are built, tested, and refined in practice? This summer, the Theory Methods Society is launching the very first edition of the summer school Theory Building in Psychology at the University of Amsterdam (July 6–10, 2026).

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JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library Background The extent to which children's psychological traits influence their educational performance is thought to depend on the fit between the individual and their developmental context. However...

Article alert: Qi Qin has a new paper in JCPP Advances @acamh.bsky.social : #schools matter most for how children's traits translate into #education; high-performing contexts buffer challenges. Key milestone for @erc.europa.eu CoG project #GeoGen #MoBa @uio.no doi.org/10.1002/jcv2...

📢 LEARN! seminar in Amsterdam
Genetics meets environment: twin studies & polygenic scores in learning and neurodiversity.

📅 12 Feb | 📍 VU Amsterdam | 🍷 drinks afterwards

All are very welcome! This marks me starting as Programme Leader Educational Neuroscience at LEARN!
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Me and @aysuo.bsky.social talk to @sjoerdalten.bsky.social about economics and genetics. And we get some book recommendations. Neat!

Researcher in Post-Pandemic Youth Mental Health  (294258) | University of Oslo Job title: Researcher in Post-Pandemic Youth Mental Health  (294258), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, March 5, 2026

I'm hiring #PROMENTA @uio.no: Researcher (PhD) in post-pandemic youth mental health (#NordForsk consortium SISU/PRISM).
#MoBa #genetics + registry data -> gene-environment interactions. Please share!
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📢🧬 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

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🗓 Deadline: 1 March 2026

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!

Thanks! Yes, yhere is more promise to also do paternal IGEs using the register data with adoptions, half siblings, and other disruptions of rGE. Just need some hands to do it.

and @essgn.bsky.social, @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social, @pgcgenetics.bsky.social, #jcpp

11/11 Big thanks to Espen Eilertsen, Nikolai Eftedal, @rosacheesman.bsky.social , @ziadaayorech.bsky.social, Joakim Ebeltoft, @hfsunde.bsky.social, Anneli Tandberg and @torvik.bsky.social ! Also all MoBa participants!

10/11 Caveats: outcomes were maternally reported (possible rater bias). We focused on maternal effects; paternal effects may also matter. Indirect genetic effects are probabilistic and don't identify the specific parenting behaviors to target.

9/11 Take-home: substantial maternal (parenting-related) contribution across the spectrum; largely one shared dimension; accounting for it matters for interpreting "heritability" and genetic correlations.

8/11 Example: for oppositional defiant/hyperactivity/inattention, direct genetic variance was ~50-61% when maternal effects were omitted, but ~30-31% when maternal effects were modelled - highlighting confounding potential.

7/11 Those maternal effects were mostly general: a single underlying maternal factor accounted for most of the maternal influence across both internalizing and externalizing symptoms.

6/11 Main result: indirect maternal genetic effects explained ~7-18% of variance across these symptom measures.

5/11 We (i.e. Espen) modeled 7 symptom scales at age 8 (maternal ratings): conduct, oppositional defiant, hyperactivity, inattention, neuroticism, depression, anxiety - plus household effects to separate "family environment" from maternal effects.

4/11 Data: 42,423 children and 37,418 mothers from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), combining pedigree links with genotype-based relatedness.

3/11 Why it matters: if we ignore indirect parental effects, we risk attributing too much to children's direct genetics (and mischaracterizing the structure of genetic risk).