Are you mostly noise? This week Born and Raised went to talk to @eivindy.bsky.social about the genetics of personality, the "gloomy prospect", and about Eivind's possible weird mutation!

Thanks for the anxiety, this is one case that had not crossed my mind yet... 😭

Do you have an open access link? 😇

Me and @aysuo.bsky.social went to Norway to talk to @perlinedemange.bsky.social. Some really cool stuff about the relationship between genetics of cognitive vs non-cognitive skills and mental health disorders here!

Last week I came across the perfect illustration for the podcast in @tomgauld.bsky.social's "Department of Mind-Blowing Theories" 🤭

My first podcast! Thank you very much @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social and @aysuo.bsky.social for having me on!

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!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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 you want to contribute to cutting-edge research on mental health? We are seeking to appoint a quantitative researcher to work on an ambitious research project using genetically-informed designs to investigate the intergenerational transmissi...

We have an exciting postdoctoral fellowship opportunity in the PsychGen Centre.

We are seeking to a quantitative researcher who wants to use genetically-informed designs to investigate the intergenerational transmission of mental health.

More info:

945000.webcruiter.no/Main/Recruit...

Triple sociogenomics postdoc opportunities coming up! Here's the Amsterdam one.

Today we launch The Australian DNA Bridge, a study focused on individuals with mixed ancestries to help us make genetic discoveries that are more accurate, inclusive, and equitable across all populations.

Want to learn more? Follow the link.
[https://australiandnabridgestudy.org/]

If you're looking to build or deepen your knowledge in statistical genetics, the ISG Workshop (June 1–11) 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 🙏

In celebration of #InternationalWomensDay this Sunday, 8th of March, we wanted to highlight some of our early and mid-career #WomenInSTEM here at the PGC🎉!

Stay tuned to find out what some of these✨awesome✨ scientists are doing and what being a woman in STEM means to them!

Is being a woman in STEM still so strange we need to ask what it means? Sorry not-sorry that I chose to talk about the anger and not the gratitude this year. #IWD #WomenInSTEM

I had been recommended Lou Malnati’s and it was nice (but that’s the only one I ever had so can’t compare). Stop by Doughnut Vault next by, this I can def recommend :)

Yes. I am working on this in coaching. Sadly, managing this kind of interaction is an important aspect of being an academic department head.

The geneticist looking beyond genes to help all children thrive Rosa Cheesman is exploring which environments help different children

🔗 boldscience.org/the-genetici...

#Evidence #LearningVariability

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...

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

I’m regularly annoyed that I can’t read the peer review reports for published papers. Does anyone know the current state of the debate on this? Are there still good reasons not to openly publish reviewer reports?

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!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... @ki.se @haskolinn.bsky.social @thlorg.bsky.social

I’m regularly annoyed that I can’t read the peer review reports for published papers. Does anyone know the current state of the debate on this? Are there still good reasons not to openly publish reviewer reports?

Working on an MR paper (might have fell right after...)

Jacobs CIFAR Research Fellow Dr Margherita Malanchini is examining how school, family, and peer environments interact with genetic risk to shape educational outcomes – a crucial step toward better, targeted interventions.

🎥 Watch the video and learn more about her work: bit.ly/3MlXuFu

#Research

Workshop for Early-Career Researchers on Family-Based Genomic Analyses Join us for a two-day workshop for Early-Career Researchers on Family-Based Genomic Analyses. The workshop is hosted by the PsychGen Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Mental Health, Oslo – 09.04.202...

📝 The PsychGen Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Mental Health is hosting a two-day, in-person workshop for early-career researchers on family-based genomic analyses. The workshop takes place in Oslo, Norway, on 9-10 April 2026 and registration is now open:
shorturl.at/etXCN

📢🧬 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

Indeed. If you make a google news search, you'll see it is popping up every 2-3 years. I talked about this last week with my Bsc students, and I am sure every Behaviour Genetics course has a similar slide with the same example 🥲

I am getting ads for AI software that make literature reviews on TikTok, especially targeting PhD candidates 😩

« And the message can’t be what it has always been: your science is welcome, but your humanity is conditional. »

The updated version of this paper is now online: rdcu.be/eX8ck. We wrote this paper as part of the behavior genetics special issue 'Behavioral Genetics as a Public Science: Impacts and Implications' -excited to see it out! @evangiangrande.bsky.social @lucasjmatthews.bsky.social @appelbap.bsky.social