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1/🧵 Even more nature-nurture for school performance in
@pnas.org! Nikolai Eftedal examined family resemblance in school performance in nearly 1 million students across their Norwegian relatives. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

The genetic and environmental composition of socioeconomic status in Norway - Nature Communications The authors examine the genetic and environmental contributions to socioeconomic status (SES) in Norway using a large, population-wide dataset and four different heritability estimation methods. They ...

🧵 THREAD: New wine on socioeconomic status!
Joakim Coleman Ebeltoft shipped a new tap in
@NatureComms
- a large study on the genetic and environmental factors behind socioeconomic status in Norway 🇳🇴
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doi.org/10.1038/s414...

So happy that this conference has gotten to the 4th iteration.

Loved to be there and see the faces and ideas of a growing community of responsible social science genetic researchers

Love.

Thank you @essgn.bsky.social and everyone at ESSGN this year for a brilliant conference! I was grateful to be there and learnt so much.

Very grateful that I got to present at the ESSGN past Friday. In the study I presented, we looked at intergenerational transmission of education in a sample of the Norwegian population register. We used a Children-of-Twins model to look at GPA at age 16 and educational attainment in the parents.

Ending the conference with a panel about Mendelian Randomization with @mendelrandom.bsky.social Alice Carter and Dalton Conley. My main take-away: use negative controls!
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Final plenary discussion about mendelian randomization with George Davey Smith, Dalton Conley and Alice Carter.

Titus Galama on the Economics and Econometrics of GxE

Sonia Petrini on reconciling Scarr-Rowe and compensatory advantage

Asta Breinholt is presenting a novel theoretical typology of GxE

Independent contributions to externalizing and internalizing symptoms from common and rare variants shown by @olivia-wootton.bsky.social in MCS and Alspac.
Also always nice to see that the NonCog PGI association is not mediated by cognitive skills 🤞
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Tim Morris presents the variety of British cohort studies and their genomic uses

Rafael Geurgas on using machine learning with genetic data to predict depression

Aysu Okbay is talking about the interaction between a Colombian cash transfer RCT and genetic factors

Very thorough investigation of the impact of low dose ionization due to nuclear incident in the UK. By Rossella da Sabbato @essgn.bsky.social I’m learning a lot here!

“Social science genetics will continue as a field but your publications will stay” @libertyruth.bsky.social told us her wishes and advice as an NHB editor.
-> Talk about your limitations, use correlation terminology when not testing causation, document your ethical considerations, write FAQs

Using having two first children of same sex as an IV, Dalton Conley disproves the Trivers-Willard hypothesis: it appears having a girl is taking a bigger toll on parents’ epigenetic clocks. @essgn.bsky.social

Rosa Cheesman on GxE and childcare use

Dilnoza Muslimova on Genetic Inequalities and Public Policy

@michelnivard.bsky.social gave a very enthusiastic big 5 GWAS overview. I hope we'll see a lot more personality research at @essgn.bsky.social next year!

Bennet McIntosh on precisely how social categories are geneticized

Tim Wienand on Nature-Nurture Beliefs and Parenting

Oskar Pettersson on how genetic explanations affect perceived fairness of socioeconomic differences

Now trying to wrap my head around measuring ancestry-based assortative mating. Interesting methods being used by @luyinz.bsky.social. @essgn.bsky.social

Jane Greve on how BMI genetics impacts educational outcomes

Associations between psychopathologies PGIs and cognition are the same when controlling for P factor. Within- and between-family association pattern is different depending on the psychopathology and associations with verbal and nonverbal IQ as well. @essgn.bsky.social by Wangjingyi Liao

Kicking off #ESSGN2025 @essgn.bsky.social with @michellemeyer.bsky.social advocating for scatter plots vs bar plots in social science genetics. Everyone (scientists and public) is better at interpreting effect sizes with scatter plots.

Weilong Zhang's talk about Genetic Endowments and Lifetime Earnings

Associations between cognition genetics and economic preferences, controlling for parental SES variables and PCs

"Genes, Cognitive skills and Preferences", by Tanaporn Maneein